The New York Herald Newspaper, August 6, 1875, Page 8

~ POLICE TRIALS. How Panel Thieves Were Pro-| tected in the Eighth Ward. | THE “CROOKED” POLICE BUSINESS EXPLAINED, | Testimony of Sergeant Groo Before the Police Commissioners. A VERY BLIND DETECTIVE. ‘The testimony eilcited wy the Assembly Investt- gating Committee retative tothe torruption exist- ing in the Police Department Bas been the cau: of an activity at the Central Office seldom, if ever | before Witnessed, Yesterday was atypical day of this activity, From ten o’clock in tue morning until six in the afternoon the Board of Commis- sioners (with the exception of General Smita, who pleaded other business) sat in the court room try- ing cases, The most important one on the docket Was that of Captain Williams, of the Fourtn pre- cinct, which occupied the greater part of the | time. Yet it showed at the adjournment very lit. te progress, and from present prospects two or | Shree (urther sessions must elapse before the | guilt or innocence of the defendant on the dam- | aging charges preferred is estabiisbed. | Shortly after ten o’elock the case was called. | Counsellor McLean answered ‘or the prosecution, | and Captaim Williams, fortified behind a dozen | large volumes of police blotters, announced bis | intention to personally conduct the defence, The following charges and specifications, based ‘Upon the testimony given before the Legisiative Committee on Crime, were then read, to which | the defendant entered a plea of “Not guilty.’ I hereby charge Captain Alexander 8, Williams, of the Fourth precinct, with conduct unbecoming an oflicer:— | SPECIFICATIONS. | In this, to wit:—First, that in and during the years | 4873 and 1874 the said’ Alexander 5. Williams was Cap. | tu command ot the police torce of the ct, aud during the sa time patrolman | 01 rwilliger was, on the recommendation and Procurementot the said slexander S; Williams, detaried speciaiduty in said precinct, and comonly called | Fecinct detective, and Was continued im said service uring the year last aforesaid. That said Alexander S. Wiliams gaye orders to the | officers under his command that complaints aad reporis of robberies comuitied in panel houses and of the ex- istence of panel houses in the precimet should be re- Ported to the said Josiah C. Terwilliger, and to no other officers, and directed that such cases should not be en- tered ob the blotter. That during the years last abov med HUMeroUs reports of panel houses in the preci d of robberies committed therein were made to an tthe station house, amd among them the following, to | Noveuner 29, 1873—Report of two young men from | Philadeiphia robbed of $7) each in # panel house at No. 7% Greene street. Case rederred \o said Terwilliger. ho arrests were made. 4 Feskvary 7, 1874—Report of panel honse opened at No. 348 Mercer street: that $50 was given to said Terwiluger the frst nicht. No arrests were made. Fengvany 19, 1874—Report of man robbed of $30 in | anel house No. 1is Mercer sireet. Case given to Terwal er. No arrests were made. BRUARY 21, 18/4—Report of a man robbed of $140 in a pene! house, No. 143 Mercer street. Case given to said lerwilliger. Nu arrests weie made. | | ai wi Fepevary 2%, 1874—Revort of 4 man robbed of $510 in a ne! house, No. 143 Mercer strect. Case given to said | erwilpger. No arrests were made. | Fusnvary 28, 1874.—Keport of a man robbed of a watcn and chain in | house No. 143 Mercer street, Case re- porledto Terwilliger. No arrests made. MARCH 2, 1874.—Report of Frederick Bayard, of No. 428 Broadway, robbed of $190 in pane! house No. 143 Mercer street: said Bayard was willigg to appear and make compiaint against the parties i! arrested, but the Case was given to ferwulliger to Work up aad uo arrests ‘were made, Marcu 5, 1874.—Report by a man who declined to give his name that he was robbed of $70 in panel house No. 143 Mercer street. Case was given to Terwilliger and no arresis made. Mancu 13, 1874—Report of a man robbed of $35 in panel house No. 143 Mercer street. Case given to Ter. | Williger. No arrests were made. Makom 11, i874—Report of a man from Cleveland, Ohio, robbed of $1,400 in @ pane! house at No. 75 Greene é Case was ‘given to Ter er, who arra: with the man to go home and $/W0 would be sent im by express. No arrests were made, ance 19, 1574—Report that Franklin Lewis, of Worcester, Mass. was robbed of $140 in a panel house at No.) D 08 Wooster street Case given to Terwilliger. a map from Chicago who | t No. 10 Wooster Niger, No arrests made. + 8. Williams was intormed of each and every of the felonies above enumerated, and of the unlawful acts and omission of duty by saia “Terwilliger im not waking arrests of the guilty parties, and, evading his own auty inthe premises, dic not preter charges against or take other measures to discipline and punish said Terwilliger. ‘Second—That the said Alexander S. Williams during the years lust aforesaid had full knowledge and in- | formation that several different nouses and premises in eth precinct, to wit, premises No. 75 Green ‘coster street and No. 143 Mercer strees, ‘were Kept and used for many months during those | years by lewd women for the purpose of robbery, and | that numerous robberies occurred In each of these, yet An gross neglect and disregard of his dnty in the premises | did not cause complaints or arrests to be made. or take Quy proceedings whatever to punish the offending parties. or to break up and close the disreputable and €riminal establishinents aforesaid. GEORGE W. WALLING, Superintendent The first witness called was Sergeant Jon R. Groo, of the Seventh precinct, who testiflea— I was formerly a sergeant in the Eighth precinct, | under Captain Williams; received positive orders rom Captain Williams to always refer all reports | of robberies in pane! honses and ali reports of the | existence of panel houses in the precinct either | to the Captain or to bevective Terwilliger; unless | countenanced, Deuses of tnis character could not | exist twenly-iour hours in the precinct before they would be broken up; the places named in | the specications were not included tm the list of | sorderly houses sudmitied to Heaaquarters in 1873; whey Were not entered on the blotter at the Statiun house because of the Captain's imperative | orders to the contrary; bave no positive know!- | edge that money was ever paid by she keepers of | these places to either Wililaws or Terwilliger, vut j have understood so. The witness then recited the places Mentioned as the ones of which no re Ppa made by Rim, under tue Captain’s tmstruc- | ons. Groo continued:—One night, while on patro} @uty, was accosted by Mr. Corkrans, a Police Headquarters newspaper reporter, who informed me that aman nad been roobed of a watch and chain in the panel house No. 143 Mereer street; immediately afterward he potnted ont to me the Victim; Waiked up Breaaway with Mr. Corkrane, Bud he pointed out the gir) who committed the robvery also; a few days afterward Captain Wil- Nams asked me about the case, and in strong lan- guage told me that ne was Captain of tne pre- einct, and Wanted me to atrend to my own busi- Bess; | asked the Captain what coarse [ should pursue in cases where I was informed of panei robberies; ae replied thet ke dia not Want to break up panei bouses just then. Captaia Willams here undertook the cress-ex- amination, taking up each inaiviaual case men- teued im the specifications and closely pressing the witness asto the dates, circumstances, &c., King iNeach case similar anestions, and show- ig Dy the Station house biotters that the witness ‘Was incorrect as regards the dates, ‘Tne aMdavit Made by Groo sets forth that on November 20, 1878, several men were sent up irom the station in civilians’ clothing to arrest street waiking fe- males, and that many persons were arrested, Toe Diewer showed that on the day in question but One arrest Bad Leen made and (uat was Jor intox- ication. Each case was taken up and the entri son the Diotters examined, by Whict it appeared that fu ery instance Where Serzeant Groo stated that he had received information of panei reoveries, while at the desk, he had stated incorrectly. The Sergeant explained the discrepancy by say- ing that be was not positive as to the correctness Of the dates, He might have received the informa tion in each case while om patro! duty or while on Feserve, but he was sure as to the material facts. The witness admitted 1m each instance to au Violated the rulesof the Gepartment, which re- quired cutries of robberies to be made on tue Diotter, and pleaded as als justifeation the direct orders 6! tus superio: apbain Wliliams, police business of ams’ captaincy as He (Groo) had iaued to » Gare not do it. For the 4 woreport the dotags of ft ntendent or any of the Inspectors. ive that he re- ported to Captais Wiiiiams every case of robbery came to his Know.eige, The memoranda of the es made at the time ae was compelled to admit | the Kight@ precine “crooked” throu Go wis duty because eas0n be had ia ain Willams to were 1uCorrect, as the wiutter was tae best evi- dence. Had he Known at the time (pat all tne | facts would be made known im the future as they Bave been he would have been accur: tue Gates and accompanying circumstances. At she close Of tue cross-cxsmination, whien Jasted until Ralf-past dye P. M., Captain Willlame | sexed permission oF \ Board to go imto the @haracter of the witness, which was granted. in answer te numerous questions on this point Sergeant Groo stated that ve had deen dismissed from the army, Waich he had entered ta the early art of the war as First Liv Mant in the 140d New York Volunteers, but that tis dismissal was the result of @ stake, (that was ‘werd rectified, He bad been wounded Bad icave of absence from bis regime oo ration he ende t wrn command, whic 6 4n Georgis, Dut on reaching Nashy culmmunication With tue Soutm ovt en; with numerous other officers and pitoilariy situated, were them enrolied tn a spe division under Major General Stedman. to bastie; while thus engaged he was for notreportumg 40.218 regimen*; when the were explained MOWes Promoted to 4 brevet acts p- ney. “Capt ja then ende. by to blacken the owing that to evade the Juiy riot JOBVG OF wLSERCC, Var Des | warning, | lective Wariow are under the resolution of the | | by heavy implements such as axes. NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1875.— geant Groo refuted this msinuation by explaming that he bad received a teiegram from bis wile, in Sullivan county, informing him o} the dying con- dition of their only child, in bg wis to which despaten the Superintendent of Police granted him @ three aays’ furiough. The case Was here adjourned until half-past ten A. M,, August 11, | TRIAL OF DETECTIVE WARLOW ‘The Board of Poiice Commissioners vemporarily suspended the proceedings im Caprain Wiliams’ trial yesterda: dispose of two other ca: Which the deiendants were aiso superior ollicers, im order to accommodate a large number ef wit- nesses who aad subjected themselves to much personal inconvenience by attending. Tne first of these cases tried was that of Roundsman Wariow, of the Central Oiice detec- The cuarges and specifications are as | | THE SPECIFICATIONS. by charge Jacob B. Warlow, of the detective On the 20th of as instructed Theodore Aub reuises of whieh the said Warlow nad no knowledge, bat which were to be pointed out te him by the said Aub in the | evening of that day ‘That be. the said Warlow, did accompany saia Aub. and said Aub did point out to said Wariow premise wit, No, 102 East Thirteenth street—in which he, Aub, alleged that persons were gambling; and Warlow, not regarding his duty in the premises, tailed | tor uate and proper measures to arrest any per- id not on that evening arrest any Dersous Who d_ thereby tailed to ight and ought GEO, j, Superintendent. THR EXAMINATION. The first witness examined was Mr. Aub, assist- | ant counsel to tae Assembly Commitice on Crime, | Who testided :— On the alternoon of July 20 Mr. Townsend and myself had a conversation with Superintendent Wallin, which Mr. Townsend iniormed the Superintend- ent that he knew of @ gambling house in active operation, and woula act as a guide to any officers detailed te break it up, Detective Warlow was called and tntrusted with the case; arrangements were then made that the efeers under Mr. Wariow, of whom taere were five, should meet me at ten o’clock that nignt ata hotel in Eleventh street, | when | would show them the gambling house; they came ana | conducted Wariow to No. 102 Bast Thirteentn street; here we distinctly heard the raatie of chips, but could not see the mem playing; Tinyited Warlow to put his head m through a win- dow, Where he could catch sight of the gamblers; | vwhis he declined to do, givimg LO reason, and no raid Was made that evening. During Mr. Awo’s examination several passages at arms took place between himself and the counsel to ‘ne Board, Mr. McLean, the former reiusing to answer several questions put by the counsel, on the ground that he had already answered them “torty times.” The witness also insisted on or- dering the stenographer im many instances, to | which Mr. McLean took exceptions, claiming taat he Was exceeding his privileges as @ witness, FOR THE DEFENCE, Superintendent Walling took the stand and swore that be had given the usual imstructions for | descents on gambling houses to Detective Warlow on the evening in question; they were to the effect that he should make the descent if be could see the gambling going on or get evidence of its going OB that would hoid good in court, otherwise not 10 attempt it: mot to force an en- trance unless satisfied of obtaining such evidence. The Supermtendent ther testifiea:— The next day, hearing tb the contem- latea raid not been made, I sent for Warlow, and quesijoned him. He stated that the only entrance was through a window so fastened by tron bars (hat a raid was impossibie, He did sot insert his bead in the window upon seeing the fortified position of the gamblers, be- se he knew they woula detect him and escape alt ther. Lat once directed bim to detail ofi- cers to make AN EXAMINATION OF THE PREMISES and find a way of entering without giving an | The next day they reported tu me that | alarm. only one way by Which a descent could be made exisied, Which Was tarough a barroom into a | closet, [rom thence to a haliway; 1 then ordered & posse of men to avail themselves of this discoy- ery aud raid the place; they were successiul; I aiterward made a thorough investigation, and lam satisfied beyoaod doubt that Detective Warlow actea judiciously and honestly im doing as he did, | as 1b Was Impossible to effect 4n entrance into the | piace im the manner indicated by.Mr. Aub ex- | cept by breaking down the heavy tron bars with | axes, & proceeding which would be very un- wise if Success Was desired as the noise caused could be heard @ Ddiock away, and tae charges | preierred against De- Board. dir@ung me to prefer ekarges against ali oflicers against whose conduct any are mace by a reputable authority, and not because | ve- | leved ba guilty of any wrong; the testimony bevore the Assembiy Investigating Committee was the reason of my charges. | Mr. Valentine, the carpenter who nad put up | the iron bars IN THE GAMBLING HOUSE, testified they could not have been broken except There was no | other Way of entrance to the place except threugh the barroom, closet and haliway. | of the detectives who | participated in the descent, fully corroborated the | Thomas W. Adams, one Lestimuny as 10 the entrance. The defendant swore that he was famtlar with the surest way to make a successtul raid trom twenty-five years of police experience. it would have been af entire failure had he attempted to baiver down the entrance poiuted out by Mr. Aud ‘st night. ‘ne latter Knew of no other na he Was, thereiore, compelled to tem- porarily abandon the raid. In twenty-five vears of servicé in the department the witmeas bad never bad @ complaint preferred against him. TRIAL OF CAPTAIN ULMAN. Captain Ulwan, of the Tenth precinct, was ar- raigned before tue Commissioners, chargea with legally dispersing # quiet and peaceabie assem- | Diage 1 Jewish citizeus, Woo were enjoying taem- selves in @ lawful manner in @ masic hail at No, 101 Hester street on the evening of July 23. The prosecution produced four witmesses who testified to piace, bus the case received a severe shock when several fespeetable citizens residing in the neigh- bornood swore in emphatic language to the con- trary. One old gentieman, who Bad been a sea captain for a nuinber oj years, created much mer- Timent by nis indignation at the @umoyance re- ceived nightly from frequenters of “When I heard it was broken up,”’ he said, *‘I ex- ciaimed, ‘Thank God we have one policeman in toe Tete ward that does his duty.’ THE ALLEGED POLICE OUTRAGE. CONTINUATION OF THE EXAMINATION—TRYING TO INDUCE MAGGIE 1GOK TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY—MUL) CY DISCHARGED. The adjourned examination in the case of om- cers Finnerty and Mulvey of the First precinct for assaulting Maggie Igoe at the Battery on last Friday night was resumed yesterday. Assistant District Attorney D: appeared for tue people. The court room was full. 5 e Igoe, the complaintant, was recalied and testidea—Remember the day | first came to this Court to make @ charge against Finnerty and Mulvey; then pointed out tne prisoners and teid | my story te the Judge; i recognized Finnerty and Muivey; did not then tel! the Captain that Fin- nerty was the first man I met on Friday night; this was the Captain’s office on Monday morning; Gia pot tell tne Captain that Mulvey was the first officer 1 met; am ascertain of this as of anything else I have stated; when | was placed in the room at the hotel the door was locked on me; the other girl tried the coor; the man kept the key in bis | for it, but he refused to | hand and J asked him give it to me; there Was a bolt on the inside of the coor; when | lett the hotel I met an officer ana f asked lor tae station house, but did not teil hit the complaint | bad to make at tne station house ; at the station mouse I inquired for t geant Who Was nat twelve o'clock the night belore ; Was told thas he was asieep and woula be ip at one o'clock; | wanted at the corner, and at one Pat be Sergeant had gone; when [ left the ho- teil metJane (the otber girl); she told me sbe Was going to get her breakiast; after one o'clock | Went again to the station house, but THE SERGEANT WAS OUT; Lealied there again at tour o'cieck, but did not eicher Capvain or reant; had made no t up to this time; asked iff could wait in the Captain’s 2; Was Loid | could; them @ man came and raised the window and called me by name, saying my friend was outside warting for me went Out; came back to the sta- tion house aga:D on Sunday, and saw tue Sergeant and made my complaint; did not gee the Captain until next morning, when i told him my story; never made such a cuarge as this agsinst any man before in my on Saturday Moraing an officer advised me na see tie aptain ai sens at the time; @ bar; it Was not far i saw t from the ‘was on @ corner; did not go ae t liquor store; could tell the man if] saw him who advised me to go to the Captain; don’t Know his nawe; heard 1s Mentioned, aud think it was Duggan; he was A NICE GENTLEMAN; the other two had no appearance of being gentie- men; the nice gentleman took me down to the Station nouse; the policeman was here in court yesterday; 1 slept at the station house on sunday hight; two of the gentiemen | had been speaking to told me It Was no use making any compiaiot, @ stout gentleman Came to me as I Was crying in the street, and J toid him my ssory. Assistant District Attorney Dana bere desired to show that money and other inducements bad been offered the complainant to go outof the city. counsei for the deience, said be wou f me not object if it could be shown atthe same © parties accused bad anything to do with tae Matter, Witness resumed:—I saw § man named Keily atthe t ow Keily Was in the court room aid Witness ported nim ont); Kelly called me to him and said my end, the otmer girl, was out. side; { went Oui and saw @ mam gamed William Westfall, bnt cid not see the girl (witness here pointed out Westfall, wuo laugued) ; KELLY KNEW ALL abe THR OUTRAGES Thad tod aiue about st: ape of these mon ofered in his office at Headquarters, during | the | gamblers would have concealed the parapnernalia | of the gem> and escapea with ease at sucn a | the geperai good character or the | the piace. | '! me money to go away; don’t know how much; he offered me money to go home to my father and motber in Ireland; he offered also to buy mea hat and a dress; Kelly made me these proposi- tions, and he and Westiall took me to @ botel; 1 don't Know where the hotel 1s. Counsel for the deience moved to strike out this testimony 8 to offers of money or other tnauce- ments to leave the country, 4nd as there was no proot that either of (he accused was present at the time they were made, Mr, Dana argued that offering of these tnduce- Ments Was @ link tn the chain Of evidence, sh. w- ing tat It Was probable that the offence charged Was commitied, as otherwise Shere could be no motive for (he making of suck offers. Justice Otterbourg said that at the present stage of tne proceedings he could BOs allow the admis- sion of Buch testimony. Mr. Dane said he desired to show that Keily and Wesitai, under presence of taking the compMinant to find her friend, took her to @ hotel andthen to Coney. Island, where they tried to get her drunk, Their actions exeited the atvention of two ladiea, WO put her on ner guard, and she left them; the ladies then took eomplain- ant im charge and subsequently brought ner ve- fore Captain Petty. Ab this period Justice Otterbourg called up Mul- vey ana sald, “Mulvey, upon the evidence in this cane, Which oes not show that you were acces- gory to the alleged crime, | am obliged to dis- charge you, and you are discharged, | am sorry to say, Irom tae linpressien 1 have got after hear- | tng toils girl’s testimony, that 1 cannot honerably | discharge you, Tne further examination was set down for thts morning. Mulvey and Finnerty Were then paid their last month’ pay by Captain Petty. Charges Will o@ made against the officers belore tue Com- mussiouers in a iew days, POLICE STATISTICS. | THE NUMBER OF CRIMINALS ARRESTED IN THREE MONTHS—NATULE OF THE CRIMES CHARGED—NEARLY THIRTY THOUSAND MEN AND EIGHTEEN THOUSAND WOMEN LODGED. The usual quarterly report of the Police Depart- ment gives an array of statistics which is almost bewilaering, entering, as 1t does, upon the organ- ization of the force, the number of arrests and the causes thereof; the age, nationality and sociay condition of the prisoners, &c. The Ogures are given as follows:— The total police force numbers 2,644, of whom 2,298 are patrolmea, ARRESTS. ‘The number of persons arrested for offences by the police force during the quarter was.........., Or whieh bumber there were :— MIRE Basco = totes te Femaies. Total,. The natiouslities of the persons arrested were as fullows:— United States, including 583 blacks... All others... Total... THE CRIMES CHAR Number arrested tor burglary Number arrested tor grand larceny Numberarrested for highway robbery | | Number arrested for receiving stolen good | Number arrested for arson... | Number arrested for homicide... Total... . att eeeeees - 602 Of whom there were convicted 210, discharged 208; \ue remainver are cases pending. The ag- eregate term of sentences to imprisonment im- | Posed upon the 210 persons convicted amounts to 669% years. This does uet include four sent to the Cataolic Protectory and ten te the House of Reiuge. | LODGERS AND CHILDREN FOUND. During tue quarier vo less than 47,830 persons were furnished with lodgings 1n tle station houses, of whom 18,019 were iemaics, The degrading 1n- fluence arising from suca wholesale and olten pro- miscuous associations as are here suggessed re- quires no comment. ‘fhe anxieties Of parents who lost their chlidren were relieved by the restoration of 2,273 wan- dcrers through the instrumentality of tue police. GUARDING PUBLIC PROPERTY, 654 scores jound open in the night time (iudi- | cauing @ singular indifference to the value of | property, either this or culpable negligence), | While 248 dwellings were found similarly insecure. | ‘rhe umber of innocent persons comgnitied to and detained im the House of Detention of Wit- esses during the quarter was 154. DISCIPLINE OF THE FORCE. of oree, and filed The num’ bers of the in tne office of tue | Chief Clerk, during the quarter ending June 30, 1875, was 711, and the disposition of the cases was as follows:— Dismissgis Fines... Reprimands Complaints dismissed | No disposition... aud ‘withdrawn. THE STREET CLEANING BUREAU, In the Street Cleaning Bureau there were 324,247 loads of ashes, garbage, &c., removed, ana the The police snowed their usefulness by closing |, arges preierred against mem- | expenses are pat down at $226,590. The ex- | | pense accouat for the police proper amounts to $827,977. ‘A Standing grievance on the part of taxpayers as concerns this street cleaning business is that | Nothing practical is accomplisaed toward utiliz- ing the reiuse of the city, thereby reimoursing, to some extent, the enurmous necessary expen- ature. —————-__ CRISPINS’ STRIKE. ITS CAUSE, AS DIFFERENTLY TOLD BY ‘‘BOSSES | AND “STRIKERS.” The strike of the followers of St. Crispin dally assumes amore alarming form, and ft is aiffieult to say when the end will be. fhe cutters from Burt's establishment sull hold out, and the “bor- tomers,” formerly employed by the Weil Brothers, of No, 80 Warren street, maintain a like attitude. THE | At Burt’s shop, yesterday, the genera business | Was transacted a3 usual, the “forms’ of tne strik- | Was te city’s guest tally Justi ing cutters being filied by non-society men. Mr. F. Burt, Jr., said that at firss they thought their oid mien would reconsider their action in leaving | | Work and return, but, as they chose to act on the | ' offensive, their forms’? were quickly filled, and now the business is carried on to the satisfaction | of the firm. Another visit was then patd to the men at No, | 92 Chambers street. These men ciaim that Mr. | | Bart has not acted fairly toward them, and wants | | to break up their society. former employer. | ont of the eighteen cutters on strike but foarteea remain WAITING THE ISSUR | of taetr contest. Tne men also claim that the new employés at Burt’s shop do not turn out one- baif the amount 0: work that they could, so thas tue firm is still losing. A meeting of tue men was beld yesterday, but Lo definite action was taken beyond the determination to “hold out”? until tae “posses” succumb, ‘The treasurer of the socteiy was around ail da nd paid out the weekly al- lowance to ach man en strike. THE “BOTTOMBRS’ ” STRIKE. | The strike of the ““votcomers” ana stock fitters employed by Well Brothers on Wednesday was a | new topic of conversation among tne Urispins yesterday. Mr. Weil injermed a esaLp reporver They are determined | to hold out, and do not want to return to their | Another letter was receivéd | yesterday asking for two more good cutters to go | to Utica, which was responded v0 at once, so that | THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN, A Lively Meeting of the City Fathers Yesterday. THE LABOR QUESTION AGAIN. The Republicans and the Democrats Exchange Some Handsome Compliments. The Board of Aldermen held a reguiar meeting yesterday afternoon, Prestdent Lewis in the chair. Aldermen Morris, Deane, Southworth and Simon- son and Vance (republicans) were present. BEDS FOR FIREMEN. Aresolution was passed allowing the second floor of the building southwest corner of Centre and Chambers sireets to be used as a sleeping apartment fer che firemen attached to the com- panies who now occupy the ground floor. Also a resolution to have the carriageway on Seventh avenue, between Fourteenth and Fiftf-ninin atreets, repaired under the direction of the Com- missioner of Public Works. MORE CARS WANTED, Complaint having been made that the Sixth Ave- nue Car Company does nos furnish cars enough to accommodate the travelling public between the nours of five and seven tn the morning a resolu- tion was passed instructing the Railroad Commit tee to inquire Into the matter, THE CATHOLIC PROTECTORY. A resolution was passed that the Board pay tts annual visit to the Catholic Reformatory on Sat- urday (to-morrow). THK LATE BX-PRESIDENT. The special committee appointed to prepare and present to this Board resolutions expressive of the profound sorrow experienced by the people and government of this city at the death of ex- President Jounson, and to take measures to mani- fest respect for the memory of the illustrious deceased, respectfully submit the following pre- amble ard resolutions :— Whereas it has pieased the Creator of the universe, by one of his inscrutable and immutable decrees, to remove by death from his usefulness, while in the full vigor et his intellect and in the possession of his usual physical powers ‘Andrew Johnson, ex-President of the ited States and Unifved States Senator for the State ef Tennessee ; and Whereas in view of this sad event this Common Council, as the representativ the people of this city, and, im common with the people of tis Repubhe, are ‘caliéd upon to mourn the loss of one who in every relation of lite and inevery position he filled—and they were more Varied and diverse, perhaps, than those of any other public man this country has produced, his immediate prececs secs, in the Presidency not exceptea— ‘was pre-eminent for his sterling honesty, great admiuis- trative capacity and the most determined devoyon to duty, typityiag more clearly than almost auy otheg pub- jie Man in the lustory of the country the genius of our democratic and republican form of government, as he demonstrated that it Is in the power of the lowliest and huimbiest crtizen to raise hi if to the highest orgaity and honor and to the first place m tue affections of the opie; and PeWhereas his death 1s « public loss, and we may look in vain for one to fill his place who possesses equally his experience in the governmental affairs of this country, and Will, with the same Independence of thought ani Action, firmness of purpose, determination of will an pure disinterestedness, use such attainments ashe did Solely for the beneft of the beople; and, Whereas it is therctore eminently proper that thts Common Council should give expression to their gor- row and the sorrow of the people of this city for the death of 6x-President Andrew Jonson, that they should place on record im the archives of the city government the expression of their appreciation of the many vir- fuos he possessed and the valnable services he rendered to his country, and that action be taken to Day an appro- priate tribute of respect to his memory; therefore be it Resolved. That the Common Council, for themselves and on behalt ot the people of the city of New York, Whom they represent, do sincerely lament and deplore the deata of ex-President Audrew Johnson, considering his loss a great political calamity at this peculiar jun ture in the affairs of our government, wien to tew othe! Of equal experience could our people look ap for, counsel and guidance with the same certainty that honesty, candor, disinterestedness and truth would dictate bis advice ad govera his directions; and be it further Resolved, That in order to perpetuate the sentiments of sorrow experienced for the death of ex-lresident Andrew Johnson, and to pay a tribute of respect to bis memory, it is hereby ordered that this report, with the reamble and resolutions herewith submitted, be en- Yered at leneth on the journal of this Bord ahd pub: lisbed in the (wy Record. and thataduly certified copy thereo! be engrossed and transmitted to the family of the deceased. In moving the adoption of the resolutions Alder. man Purr oy made a few remarks culogistic of the deceased ex-President. Alderman Gross alse speke concerning the statesmansnip ef the ex- Senator, and aliudea apr | to the time, twenty- iy ther of the Mome- jtead bill,’ marded as the ex-Presi- denv’s proudest tl! or Of the bil irom the steps of the rotunda of the City Hall THE KING KALAKAUA BILL was again a bone of contention tn tae Board, The total amount of whe hotel bill is $6,058 91, and the carriage bill $80. It will be remembered that some Of the ttems of the bill, as published Im the HERALD ever two Months ago, are ratuer surpris- lug, the one for liquor alone being over $1,500, and the use of a dining room for eight days being enarged for at the rate of $1004 day. Alderman Gross said that the Committee on Finance bad done its best to get some light thrown upen the hotel bill, and had invited those membere Of the Board of Aldermen o! last year who knew anything about the expenses incurred in entertaiming the King to come Jorward and tell 1 they knew avout the matter, but not one had appeared before the committee. The committee believed the bill to be exiravagant as first ren- dered, and he believed the as it stood at extravagant. rig denounced tne present in the general orders Aldermen Reilly id M charge of $1004 for the use of a dinuy as “outrageous,” and the former move that item suould be stricken out of the bill, Alderman Blessing remarkea that the liquor bill of $1,500 was rather asteep charge, but proper 1uvestigation might result im the discovery thas the King’s fondness for American drinks waile he she larg amount charged by the hotel Keeper: Alderman Vance said that it was the duty of the Board to ascertain just what the city really did owe the hotel keepers, and, the amount once ascertained, to pay it promptly. If the bill was extravagant as 1+ stood the items should be care- fully scadned, and what was considerea an over- charge cut out of the bill. 1t was certain the city owed someting, and what It did owe should be handed over to those parties who had been com- Ppelled to wait so long fer their money. Alaerman Gilon said that he stood im the un- fortunate position of an Alderman who had b @ member of the ast Board, and upon whom devolved much of the work of the chairman of the committee appoinied to provide ior King Kata- Kaua’s ontertainment. He believed that the bill rendered by the hotel keepers was a proper one and that they had earned what they charged, Aiter considerabie desultory talk concerning tae merits of the bill 1t was referred to the Com- mittee on Advertising and Printing—Aldermen | Shandiey, Power ana Simonson. yesterday thas about jorty men were on strike im | his shop. He bad beea paying eignty cents per pair for men’s shoes and sixty-seven cents per pair jor boys’ shor The busigess bas not been gooa for some time. He Bad heard tiat the men employed by Hanoann & Radish, in Warren street, | near Church, had consented to ® reduction in | price, ana be Was willing \@ pay the same wages they had agreed to take, His men consented with- outa murmer, and last week be paid them ata reduction of ten per cent, as 1ollow! eventy-two cents ber pair ior men’s shoes ana sixty cenis per pait for boys’shoes, Ail bis sea accepted toeir pay, and everything Went om as ustal until T ay, wih he Was called apon by tne “councl” of the society and asked 16 sign some paper, fe reiused, andthe men “struck.” He cannot say Why bis men did suis, a8 he Was pay- ing tae prices as agreed to by tue men. THE STATEMENT 18 a8 follows nang & Radish pro- cured @ redaction of ten per cent irom ther men, Weil Brothers heard of it, and ask t same, After due delibe ed us for conceded ion we € reduction, and the ne eek Well demanded 4 further reduction ©! six Der cent, Tis was atked because Well Brotuers, on account of our firs: concession, imagimed our society to be very weak. We have $10,000 im the bank and we can hold out just aa long as we choose. The paper we asked Mr. Wel) vo sign was simply & Promise that he should kgep @ square St. Crispin’s shop and aiiow no outeiWers to work for sim, and the ap Who presented it Was Rota swindier WhO t had ootamed a lot of stock, but # goed member of the society, wno purchased a lot 0/ goods irom Mr. Weil and pajd for ali but the last order—a bul amounting 0 $96—waen he Went iuto pa | ruptey. The transaction, lore this was a legitimate business The strike was solely om accounts of the proposed six per cens extra reauction, Our organization stands on & firm basis, and we can fylt it out. When we work we never average over $16 or $17 per week. | Mr. Well denies shat he ever ast reanetion He ls other than the one which tne ranted the same pr . Some mera’ Society met las Ward Hotel, and it was deteriy | sapport the men now on atrike at Weil Brothe No. 80 Warren stree TMG Strike ip dally & » ig & More Alarming Shave. ls hed to | | | | ‘3, | $2 4 day for eight boar: THE CROTON MAIN ORDINANCE. Alderman Purroy again called up the gene! order directing the Commissioner of Public Wor! to lay such waler pipes as may be ordered by mmon Council to be laid, to extend lgna enlarge tne distribution of Crotom through tne eity, Inciuding the two new wards. ‘This is the same general o! against the passage of which the republican Aldermen have persistently voted. In moving Passage the Alderman said that the laying of the pipes was demanded by the wants of the people in the newly annexed district, where, in some in- stances, the suffering was very great for tue want of a sufiicient supply of water. He said that if any member of the Board was bent upon voting against the passage O/ tae general order it was his duty to state the reasons for bis opposition, Alderman Deane said that he was opposed to the passage Of the resolution, because it w: is firm conviction that the Department of Public Works, a8 at present constitated, was not capa- bie of doing the werk contemplated by the resolu- on. Sotderman Purroy said that his fellow Alderman was not very definite im giving his reasous jor ope posing the resolution. ‘Alderman Deane replied by stating that he did not believe Fitz Jobn Porter knew as yet enough about the Croton water system to undertake the ing of the pipes directed by the general or- der under consideration, The only in his opinion, who knew enough about the laying of the pipes properly was te Cnet Engineer, and he was now confined to his bed by sickness that pre- vented him iroui attending to his duties. Alderman McCarthy said that for the informa. tion of Alderman Deane ne would say that the man who always saw to the work of laying the Croton pipes was Assistant Engineer Campbell, who was yet connected With tue Department of Pabiic Work: A vote Was then taken on tne pas- sage of the ceneral order, when all the ae rats yoted solidly for 16 amd all the republicans ati, © bse A LIVELY FIGHT, Shortly after the disposition of this matter the eneral order providing that Eigniieth street, rom the easterly line of avenue A to the Kast Raver, ve regulated and graged, under the direc- tion of the Department of Public Works, was ta- up. Ketderman Deane offered an amendment that the men employed on the work be paid $2 day, This motion made the LM stamp their feet and clap oir hands in higa glee. “Riderman Parroy inumated that Mr, Deane’s motion was simple claptrap, and that if he really meant to venedt the laborers he and bis repuoll- can colleagues should vote for the geueral order relacing to the now Croton mains, which would tye work to @ iarge umber Of men and lor @ wong time, Alderman Retlly moved to amend the amend. ment, that al! laborers employed by the Depart. ment of Public Works soould be paid at the rave of work. Alderinan Deane’s amendment and Alderman Reuly’s amendment to the amendment were then TRIPLE SHEET. adopted, but when the vote was taken om the of the pense order itself, ax amended, twas defeated by tue votes ol Aldermen Morris, Simonson, Southworts and Vance, ald republe cans, When the vote was taken on the amena- ment Alderman Morris voted against it, when Al- derman Blessing exclaimed, ‘I would like to know who Alderman Morris represents in voting as does—whether ne resents the ‘Boss’ down at the Custom Honse oF his own convictions of what is right.” Alderman Morris grinned broadi; nd replied not. During the debate on tho general order Alderman McUartny referred to Fitz Jonn Porter as the most honest Commissioner of Puolic Works the Oe had eyer had. “No one,” exclaimed Alderman Morris, “tm- bony Nr jonesty, I belies nim 10, be ag BOR+ rehy. ” anid armen McCarthy, “that Alderman Morris ig at least as honest as Mr, Van Nort was wi ite ivorkn . ‘hen he was Commissioner of Pub ‘Bitz John Porter ts @ tool of others,” retor- ted Mr. Morris, *he ts Lik oma ry ipo i e the figurehead om the “The ly time,” said Ald f Firs Jonn Porter was a tool was, whew wer was ine duced vy three republican heads of departments to join them in reductn; mich he will soon recy. t iu that was a mistake Every one concedes that General Porter is most competent Commissioner of Public Works | the city has ever had and the people aave the ut- most confidence in him.”? Alderman Seery said thatthe democratic mem- bers of the Board were all in favor of giving the laborer $24 It good democratic princi- pie tmat the laborer was worthy of his hire, Alter the transaction of other business of Uttle public importance the Board adjourned. MUNICIPAL BONDS. The following 18 @ list of proposals received by Comptroller Green yesterday for $361,000 six per cet stocks and ponds of vhe city of New York:— DOCK BONDS. Name. 4 Hata, ¥. D. Tappen.. ¥ 102.14 George K, 5: 102.0536 Newburg Sayings Bani 25.000 (101-87 Emigrant [pdustrial Savings Bank.. 60,000 10.76 Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank:, 50/000 20L-5L Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank:. 50,000 10126 Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank. 000 oF Cayuge County Savings Bank... LT. &J. ¥, Frost & Co... 2 25,000 wo Jr. es eeee iiliam Alexander, Smith & Co... 85,000 Total amount of bids recetved, ...$1,071,000 THE FIREMEN’S PAY. WHAT THE FOREMEN OF THE SEVERAL COM- PANIES S4Y—THB WHOLE MATTER TO BB CARRIED TO THE COURTS. The foremen ef the several fre companies are beginning to think that unless they make s move toward obtaining their pay they and their men may remain without {t for several months to come, They see no effort made on the part of the Commussioners to aid them in the matter, and every day seems to widen the gap between the Mayor and the Comptroller, They now propose to calla meeting of the foremen of the several companies, and, if it 18 necessary, to employ counsel, and test the point at law as to whether the Mayor aud OComptreiler bave a right to trifle with the interests of seven hundred odd men to their ow men are in favor certain date if uot ay t suey will near they would be willing r Ww but they feel ti it is nearly time the men spoke for themselves, a8 they cannot see why the Commissioners and heads of the several departments, the clerks, &c., can get their pay, while the privates are forced to go without, Aslight idea of the feeling of the officers of the department may be obtained from the following Statements : Foreman Ward, of Engine Company No. 30, lo- cated on Spring street, said that be had not heard of any call fer a meeting; but, while he desired not to be identified in amy act that might cause displeasure with the Commissioners, he would say that the men were sadly in want of their mone; So far as his men were coneerned he knew that they had to deprive themselves o! many neces- Baries tuat they needed. If they had money they eould enjoy their regular day of take a fying visit inte the country; but they were now de- prived of all these pleasures just because they have not money to spa: ‘Their jamilies are also compelled to stay at home unless the men vorrew d it is a8 much as the meu can do te for their families, Jet alone borrow money. His mm were just as ready and Wiling to do duty as tuey were when they were receiving their pay regularly; stil they could not be blamed for expressin| their opinion that if they had the ready cash they could run their family expenses at tully twenty per cent than they can by the credit syste! in regard to re- eeiving one month’s pay, he sald it would do no good; if tue men are paid, they should receive the lull two months’ salary. When they received the May monsh salary nine out of ten did not have $5 note twenty-four hours’ after they received tt, All went for back rent, grocery bills, &c. Foreman Reeves, of Hook aad Ladder Company No. 8, located in Nortm Moore street, sald toat ae had heard that a meeting of the oficers of the several companies was to be beis, but he had re- i) no notice of the same. Still Be felt some- ould be done toward aiding tue men in ting their salaries, They needed the money; in ot wanted it badly. Had they not got tneir May sulary Nardly one of bis command would have been abie to purchase light summer underclotn- ing, but would nave been compellca to Wear heavy underciothing aii this hot weather. Hough Kitchen, Foreman oi Engine Company No. 18, said that ke had not heard of the proposca pees he hoped sometuing would be done. poke tor his men when be stated that they ariven almost to theiruast extremities for Or were to be put off irom month to month to sausfy the animosity existing between the Mayor and Comptroller, why it would be best to carry the matter to the courts to see if they could get their money. He had no douot the Commissioners would indorse any action of taat kind that the men might take to get their pay. Att ouse of Hook and Ladder No. 1 and En- gine Company No. 7, corner of Chambers street and Centre, the men were all very bitter sn their expressions against the Comptroller. “Well,” said one of the men, ‘‘when we got our May salary our erediters stood around the doer hike #0 meny leecues. I owed a man $2 50, and he hung about here for four hours, till in fact he gotit. 1 would have paid him before, bat we did mot get our money till late at night, Now he will Not trust me a cent, Another member wanted to know why all the clerks, the Commissioners, the cttefs of bar talions, the Onief Engineer and those in the re- pair yard couid get their pay, while the men were heglected. “if the Commissioners had any spank,” s#ai¢ ons, ‘they wouid refuse to receive their own pay until the men rot theirs,” “Weil,” sala a third member, “lew people know our circumstances. We say nething, but we are sadly in need of money. I have not been able to buy my wife and children summer clothes for the want of money. They are all wearing their heavy winter clovming yet.” At the house of Hook and Ladder No. 10 and Engine No, 29 tae men all express themselves as in straitened circumstances and that unless they et their pay they will mot know what to do, Foreman Quackenbush s: thas ® meeting was oe neld oy the omMicers, but it would not be called until It recetved at some Wanted to tarow Up at a certain If not paid. Toat, he said, would not be of vantage to the men or to the public, So far rhed, they stood solid for et any pay for six month duty if they did rot butit would be a great biessiug if the men eoud im any way get their money. Assistant Chief Engineer Shea sald that he was the men would receive their money soo understood that the Mayor ora rks wot to send the warrants back petrol All he wished was that the m id get their money this weck, as he knew many Were jn great need of it. Acting Clerk Car! Jessen satd that the Commis- sioners had every reason to believe that the men would be paid in a few days, put ne cou! ive no positive answer as to what they done toward securing the pay for the men. The Com- missioners Were all anxious to see the men paid, but the figat between the Comptroiler ‘and. the Mayor Was one Which they had no jurisdictio over, MUNICIPAL NOTES. ‘The firemen’s warrants for the months of June and July have not yet been countersigued, A juégment im favor of the heirs of John L. Brown for $107,000 tor extra street cleaning work done by Brown in 1871 was filed in the County Clerk’s oMce yesterday. The Board of Aldermen will to-morrow after. noon pay their annual visit to tue Catholic Pro- pectery In Westcvuesser County. The Mayor, Comptrolier and President of she Board of Aldermen have nov settled apon tae | successor to Mr. Canda as a director of the Brook- lya Bridge Company. ‘The Board of Aldermen will probabiy next week adjourn wots Sepvember. According to the statement sent In to the Board of Aldermen yesterday by the Mayor the receipts of the srookiye Bridge Company for the week ending July 31 Were $400,400 77 and the CxO tures $282,000 to HAPPY CHILDREN. Distribution of Tickets for To Morrow’s Free Picnic. A Lively Scene at the Mulberry Street Station House. RL Bs Some 1,900 children of the Fourteenth ward were gladdened yesterday by the distribution of the tickets for the free picnic excursion to Oriental Grove, Long Island, which 1s to be given to-morrow under the management of Mr. George F. Williams, The distribution of these little pieces of pasveboard, the possession of which is so highly prized by ‘the poor little inmates ot wretched tenements, is always an exciting event, and {s looked forward to with the atmost eager- ness by the children days and days before, They hear of the coming picnic, and their bearts pound at the enticing prospect of a day in the pure bracing air of the country, of a deligntfa swim, of the fun and frolic, and, above ail, those , rare luxuries—ice cream aid cakes—at the very thought of which their mouths water. This ehildish eagerness was well illustrated by the scenes attending the distribution of tickets yes- terday. A HAPPY, EAGER CROWD. The hour at which the great event was to come of was three P,M., but before two the entire block betwe: Spring and Broome streets in Mulberry street swarmed with the children of the poor, They afforded a most interesting sight to a student of physiognomy and character. Their faces, though many were undoubtedly nipped by early privation and wan with premature care and suffering, had lost nothing of the happy innocence and fresh naivet’ of child- hood, and, strange as it may seen, if piaced beside asimilar multitude of Filth avenue and Madisom avenue children they would have scarcely lost anything by the comparison as far‘as health and liveliness were concerned. Many of these merry children were sturdy, rosy-cheeked and endowed with fat legs’and arms such as many arich mother would dearly wish for ber own little on™ A PICTURESQUB ASPECT. What gave the crowd of boys and girls a most Picturesque aspect was their dress. Most of them Were bare-footed, many bare-legged, and the curt- ous varieties of odds and ends of all sorts of rage that covered their bodies positively dely deserip- tion, Many of the boys were tronsers reachiag” only to their Knees (and looking as though they had descended to the sixth generation) an@ shirts, the wido tears in which shewed their bare chests; others sported some rem- nants of old worn out velvet which nad probably been ‘thrown away by its wearer years ago. A few wore, even in August, dirty, torn fur caps, which formed quite alaughable contrast te the remainder of their summer costume. The iittle girls, most of whom were also pare-footed, looked’ rather neater, and, with the characteristic ten- dency ofthe sex, had taken much greater care not to soil their costumes in the dirt. Many of the children evidently belonged to the respectaple poor classes, and their faces showed already a gleam of rudimentary education, RANGING THE CHILDREN IN SINGLE PILE. For over an hour these 1,900 ehildren raised the Wildest hubbuD in anticipation of the much-sought~ for tickets. Puysicians gay that In order to pro- duce exuberance of animal spirits good food is essential, and to judge from the liveliness ol these little Fourteenth warders they all must have been fed on spring chickens ana truffles. They yelled and kooted, and romped and cut capers withous @ moment/s intermission. Every passing care ‘Was assailed with every missile that was at hana, 80 that tne driver was only too giad when be ha@ passed the police station, where the crowd was ‘thick Captain Allaire, at about three o’cloek, erdered @ piavoon 01 Ris men te range them in Single file, Tois dificult task was very quickly e@ccomplisned; for, with am instinctive knowled, of what was necessary for their own good, the: fell into their places and soon the file was per- fect. it reached from the police station to Prince Street and then, on the other side, dowa pelow Spring sureet. THE DEAFENING HURRAH! Ana now their eagerness for the tickets had become feverisii, and they strained their eyes to see if the “ticket man,’ as of them called him, bad not come. Ata q ‘ter past three Mr. Willlams, with a large parcel of tickets under hi arm, was seen to approach, and was greeted with such a shout from 1,900 as probabiy only oor cAildren expecting jay’s glorious sports ow how to give. It ilteraily rent toe air and caused hundreds of people in the neighborhood, who did not Kuow what bad given rise to this ex. traordinary jubilation, to rusn to the spot. THE DISTRIBUTION. * The distribution then began and laéted exactiy one boar. In this space of time 1,900 tickets were out, the chlidrea fitng by very rapidly ani it was certainly re- facial expressions alter they had received the pieces of pasteboard. The ticket tothe royal box at the opera in London was never received with more delight than these Tagged children received their tickets. Some, as they erasped it, gave a violent jump; others of a more sedate temperament only tered nugged themselves with joy, while they all tried to re the printed announcements on she tickets. Is Was touching to look upon the repressed delight with which One er two poor erippled urenmns— hampbacks—looked at the tickets, The giria were Tati more demonstrative than the voys, and some of them fairly burst tnto fits of laugnter. They said but littie; all their expressions of satis- faction were pantomimic, A few buys exclaimed, “Alw’s this bully ®? “Ob, 18076 this Bice /” bus thet was 6 al. THE “REPBATERS.” “Repeating” has not only corrupted our poll. tics, our elections—alas! we see it even in she Fourteenth ward children wh they receive +! Uiekets for a iree pivuic. However, in justice te them it must be said that there were vut very jew ‘‘repeaters.”’ alm: hildren running quickly home after they had secured their cious prizes. The clildren were aged between three years and twelve, some of them so small that they coulda just toddle beside their elder sis- ters, aud oLuers already full grown boys and giris, But of the latver there were few, aud tae ma- jority of the culldren were probaoly between six and ten years old. Sume of tue girls carried babies in their arms, thus relieving ther or motners, who, no doubt, were hard at work at home. A few mothers came themselves with their little girls to receive the tickets, and their little ones? joy was reflected In their own smiling fi Very joriunately tt did mot begin to rau tub the distribution was pretty much over, The chil- dren then continued to come in dribvlets, despite the pouring rain, until Mr, Willams ordered a Dig sign bearing tne words, “No more tickets given out until tue morning of the picnic,” to be mailed outside tne police station, Then Ww who had come too jate ran quickly away, and the street Was egain deserted. Buta spectator could Dot easily forget the troops of brigntand happy enildren Whicu filled it a minute belore. TH REPARATIONS for to-morrow’s pichic—tue tuird of the season— are all complete, The children will assemole as eight o’clock in front of the Malberry street sta- Won house, and thence Marck to the voat ata North River pier. 1tis expected that some 1,900 children Will avail themseives os opportunity given them by the generosity of the coutribators to the Children’s Picnic Fund to enjoy a day’¥ wholesome and invigorating relief trom their stifling senements ef the water aud in tho pure air of the country. CATHOLIC PROTECTORY PICNIC, ‘There was an immense throng of visitors at the picnic grounds of the Catholic Protectory, West~ chester, yesterday, From nine o'clock A. M. until three P. M. every mode of conveyance waa PUs to its utmoss Capacity in transporting persons to the institution, Thousands availed themselves of the opportunity to inspect 4 workshops ana rooms where the various branches of industry fare carried on by the 1,500 boys ‘tramed and instruced !n the Protectory, and the visitors manifested a deep interest in all they saw of the labor performances of the inmates, The Visitors vo tne picnic grounds amused them- selves ik every conceivable manner. monster platform presented @ merry scene uotil the assemblage was yall vo order, avout four O'clock, When the Very Rev. Vicar General Quing rose ani jo a few remarks, in which lle ex- ressed the great pleasure it aflorded him to wel- i poree those present on the occasion of their sec~ ond Visit to the Catholic Protectory, and thanked them heartily for the interest they mauvifested by their large attendance and by their ever ready response to all appeals wich were raave to them for support. He then referred to the apparent rosperity of the institation, but, he remarked, here were secret troubles that were not generally such as & bonded debt of cousiderable the interest of which had to be met iy and tne principai to be paid at no very distant d and Uniess the cliy Or State authori« tles made some provision for assistance the in- stitution would ve greatly impaired in ite useruly ness. Mr. Leo 0. r, Colonel Willis, Rev. Thomas Mooney, pastor o1 St. Bridget’s Churck, and Judge Kasiaire also made prief and effective addresses, at the cioge of whieh the dancing was =} resumed Pp until the departure of the elgnt aclock. To-day will be ted to the celebration ul the hell gentenars. \