The New York Herald Newspaper, January 29, 1876, Page 2

A. Stores, Hample Rooms, Bakeries, Drug Stores TCHELL'S Store Agency, 77 Cedar st. —¥OR SALE AND TO LBT. RESTAURANTS, CIOAR DRUG STORE FOR SALE—WELL STOCKED AND in successful operation. ington, N. eS dvors and ture Address AUG, 8. FLEISCH EST, WERLINGS PA locks: cost $1,500; will THOS. F. CLARKE, HEIGHTS; opportunity o ND, 36 Beokm be PyRUG STORE—B scription busine: Apply at once to STK {MSH AND OVSTE trade; corner ‘are opportunity to ® re: Sponsible party; fix T. I COADY & CO., corner 26h st. and ve (OR SALE—THE BOTTLING BUSINESS OF JOUN O'Kane, with Ww. Machinery d bottles; price, $2,50y, 1,70! tladeiphia OR SALE- OLD ESTABLISHED DOWNTOWN Kee: od business; DUSeMeDE; No. 81 NI Por SALE—THE LWABE old established liqnor store Ys Ve wston Market; can be be ict cheap by applying on NS, SASHES, DOORS, for sale chomp, at No, 43 ii z —A SMALL ‘ORE AND STOCK 45 Nassau st. C1GAl ree BILLIARD PARLOR ir new Tables; must be sid | OL ¢—FIRST inedi busine: at D, Port's, No. Broadway, ri 8 i JMOK SALE—BARERY AND SALOON O75” PULTON wt., Brooklyn; one of aha, Sneak hocesions in the ity. ; lock P.M. ‘al :—LEASE AND FIXTURES OF A FIRST le Gallery, now dot did bi ws. Ad- L, box ME-New York Pontoon ne —A TEA AND FINE GROCERY STORE, doing & cash business; good reasons gfvon fur selling Inquire on promises, 644 Sth av., between 1sith and Loh ets., Brooklyn, Hom. FOR SALE—OW THE BAST SIDE. a TiAP ca business. Address SUAU R, teat ing 4 good busin ddress SC =DOUK, BULKITEAD AND AP rth sts. North River and INERY—SAL or no sale ; nO reaKol WILL BUY CONFEC per th $200 olfor refused ir leaving the countoy. 74 Orchard st ‘ LL BUY A PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY, $1 SAUD drrsinisned 12 yenty worth BO Gr chadeocs M.SPITZER 4 'CO., 1.8 Mesérolost. E. D Brookly® MACHINERY, TWO LA OILERS FOR SALE Tu E IVER E Harrison patte: » Tug Boat, new, WOOD, DIALOGUE & CO., hiladelphia, With built by Gan- rges 69 barrels; # locomotive se power, With smoke stack 80 fect long; ¢ & Uasrdick pumps, new piping, &c. Call at 5: West 41s! ot PORTABLE, 10, 15, 40 VOR SA A 10-HORS! and 0 Horizontal Bugines, with or without boilers, tu ular or tive, JOHN McLAREN, River at, Hoboken, N YOR FATAL HOILER EX ROUT'S Safoty Bollers, 45,000 horse powe all parts of the world, 4 b ABI O KXOUSE imites at DROTH AND ROOT MANUPACTU . Ki Liberty st., New York. Waynes econ AND RULING MACHINE: Goubie Address J. T., box 160 Herald offi THE SEVENTH REGIMENT ARMORY. Tho subscription lists for funds to erect the new armory of the Seventh regiment are now in circulation among the young men of the several companies, and the contributions thus far are very liberal. The field, étaff and non-commissioned staf! have completed their Subscription and the amount is $3,000, and it 1s confi dently expected that the entire subscription of the offi- cers and members of the regiment will reach from $30,000 to $40,000. Inasinuch as the members constantly devote considerable time and labor to maintain the drill and efficiency of the corps, and are quite united in the opinion that the city or State should furnish it with a suitable place for militery exercise, such an amount, it raised, would be exceedingly creditable to the orgautza- tion abd will be additional evidence of the enthusiasin and devotion of the members of this colebrated regi- ment. As soon as the active members of the regiment have completed their subscription lists the veteran and exempt menibers will be thoroughly canvassed for sub- scriptions, and it is believed that the amount sub- keribed by them will be at least twice as large as that raised by the young men of the regiment. The Vet- eran Associition 1s @ large and influentiat organization, and its oflicers and members are known to be united ‘fand earnest in the support of the project to erect anew armory by eubscription. The veterans are an impor- tant element of strougth to the Seventh regiment, for they not only send their sons into its ranks, but they aro always ready to give their money to advance its interests, and this Is the first time that thoy have ever been called upon to do 80 to any cousiderabie amount, When the active and veteran members have contributed. 8 object of public interest then the wealthy citi- js men and taxpayeps will be asked to make up the balance required to complete the new armor c The first meeting of the General Committee of tho Regiment on New Armory will be held this evening for organization and business, The committee consists of five delegates trom the Board of Ofticers and three from each company, and in concert with such commitice ag may be appointed by the Veteran Association, will at onco commence active operations, and its progress and the results will be from time to time publicly ai nounced for the information of all interested in the en- terprise, A TEMPERANCE LECTURE. On Monglay night last a young woman, who gave her bam at the Washington street station house, Brooklyn, was found suspended by the neck froma bar in the grated | door ofher cell Sho was cut down by the doorman, and with diMculty was restored to consciousness. She said that “she was tired of life and did not want to live any longer.” On being leit alone she again hung her- self from the bars and was resuscitated with diificulty. A third effort was made by the unfortunate creature to terminate her existence, which was frustrated by the police, She was then sent home to her fath- er’s residence. Mr. McClure is a most respeotabie resident of the Fifth watd, Brooklyn, and feels de: mortified at bis daughter's depraved ‘taste for liq which, he says, fs ber only fault She has recove: from the offects of her fash act, and expresses peni- tence for ber conduct, VERY LIKE SHARKEY. Some weeks ago a Canadian gentleman who had Deen in this city wrote to District Attorney Phelps, Stating that he bad » few days previously seen in Montreal William J, Sharkey, who escaped from the Tombs where he was imprisoned awaiting execution for the murder of Dunn. Mr, Phelps at once pro- cured the necessary extradition papers from the gov- ernment, and placed them in the hands of Detective Tilley, who immediately proceeded to that city to arrest the murderer. After a protracted search he suc- ceeded in finding the object of his search, woo proved to be, not Sharkey, but a New Yorker named James Bullivan, who certainly bears a striking resembiance to the for: Detective Tilley, very much disgusted, ro- is City, and after relating his experience to the author: the matter was allowed to drop. The gentleman who first sent the information, however, continued to write letters to the authorities hero, ro eating the assertion that Sharkey was then in Mon- treal, When informed that a detective badseen the man and satisfied himself that it was a case of mistaken identity, the persistent blue-nose declared that the off. cor bad been bribed by the fugitive, These statements caused considerabie annoyance to the detective. While be was walking down Broadway on Thursday night ho ‘was delighted to see on the opposite side of the street tne man whose resembiance to Sharkey had caused so much trouble. * Detective Tilley explained the matter to Mr. bas ony bead the latter yesterday went with the officer to Mr. PI office and set at rest the question of his identity. resemblance between him and Sharkey is #0 great that none but an intimate acquaint sauce of both could determine between them, HEAVY ALKRIVAL OF SUGAR. ‘Owing to the burning of estates in Cuba the Span- {ards are sonding forward all the sugar they can to this marleot as rapidly as possible, The steamship Crescent Captain Curtis, which arrived in this port yester- on record irom Havana, drought the largest fro PR RS Oh RI of cargo. FIRES ON LONG ISLAND. ‘The dwelling house of Mr. C. L. E. Bernherdt, at Breslau, 1. {., was entirely destroyed by fre on Wednes- night ontents, ier sor guae co aiining we $600 on furni- =e the Subject. ) LET—IN A CASH | | The Proposition of a Posted s Mary McClure, a resident of 172 Gold street, | Brooklyn, and who was arrested by « policeman of the | First precinct on charge of intoxication and locked up | loss is about | of Mr. James Jewell, of St. James, Long Tewas destroyed i} eee tad noese of Mr. Hiram, Bowel, feet distant, was on fire several times, but saved, NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1876:<WITH SUPPLEMENT. THE CROWDED CARS. Another Batch of Letters on Cabman. What a Britisher Thinks of the Evil and Its Cure. A SOURCE OF WONDER. To tux Epiror oy tux HeRaLn:— The people of no other civilized efty in the world would have so long endured the discomfort of street car travelling as at present exists in New York city. It isa source of wonder why the American people bave so | long submitted to it, more expecially as in every other respect they seem to soty, ease and comfort to an al- most oxtravagant extent, The solution of this difficulty, “overcrowding,” seems to be thata law should be passed prohibiting any passenger trom standing e!ther inside or outside of any car. Another suggestion is that seating accommodation should be provided outside, the same a8 exists in London. So long as the American people will quietly submitto these outrages so long will they exist, AN ENGLISHMAN, A DEFENCE OF THE CAR SYSTEM. To Tum Eprron or Tux Hxnaty:— It has become so much the custom to rail at the city raljroad cars that I can hardly expect to obtain a hear- ing on the other side, which I respectfully ask, to point out some of the errors and inconsistencies charged by your correspondents—also, I am sorry to say, by the writer of several articles in the editorial columns of the Heratp, usually so correct, 1 will premiso here that I am no officer or director in any street railroad or any other railroad, nor bave I any interest, directly o4 indirectly, in any, Tam a broker, dealing in the stocks of all, and coming in contact with the officers, and, having to investigate the workings of the different lines, Iam (1 flatter myself) probably better acquainted with their ufairs than any of your correspondents can be, and, if you will allow me, I will answer a few ot the Propositions made lately in these comununications. In your comments on the proposition of ‘Vulean” (2ist'inst,), for a lower fare for standers, you acknowl. odge the impossibility of such an innovation, but in the same article you say that ‘in ten years the street rail- ways have built few ifany cars, and most of the lines fewer cars toulay than at that time,” and you prop small cara, “plenty of them, say one every minat everybody might be accomunodated with a seat, Now, Mr. Editor, I can safely say that there is no lateral line that does not despatch one car on an average every minute from six A. M. untileleyen P. M., and from eight to wen A, M., and five to seven P. M., a car every thirty seconds. You can easily ascertain this by aaking the starters of any of the main lines be- low Fifty-nintn street. I can prove my statement by selecting one line, say the Broadway, They run 128 cars eight trips each ; total number of trips 1,024 from half-past six o'clock ‘A. M. until half-past eleven P.M. ; seventeen hours, or 1,020 minutes, thus averaging one car a minute, ‘Ten years ago there were not hulf the number of cars run that are at present, and as for their new cars there is no respectable line now that does not put on from six to ten new cars every year, besides fully as many more renovated and painted in’ their own workshops, but now the limit as to number has almost beon reached, for were many more cars put on—and don’t you believe for a moment that they would not be if there were room for them—we would have a continu- ous blockade, Look at it now. When there is an ob- struction of any kind what rows of cars accumulate, almost as it wore tn a moment, Your correspondent of Suuday must be one of those of whoin we read of in “Etiquette on Streot Cars,”” who when ho enters a car leaves his manners and ‘senses behind. Who ever knew of a street car President “owning” the road he managed? And as to a law compelling the roads to furnish seats for all, I cannot see that legislation | can Or has restored specie payments nor can I see how legislation can furnish impossibili- ties in street cars; but 1 know this, that for five ceuis Lcan ride tour miles, and if] can’t get a seat Lam glad to stand up, and I don’t believe any of these grumbiers would either walk or hire a carriage when be could ride even standing for five cents; and I don’t believe he would give his seat up toa tired working girl, or old woman ether, bat would bury his nose in the Telegram and growl at a convenience which carries him home cheaper i the city of New York than avy steam rail- road will out of it, according to distance. No donbs much trouble and inconvenience are caused by this overcrowding; but mre the com- panies to blame’ What can they do that ts feasible’ eighth part of their working hours in—not discomfort merely, but in——. Let him that hath a nose de- Scribe it for himself Yours, gratefully, G. D. DOUBLE DECKERS WANTED, To tae Eprron or toe Heraup:— Your efforts to break up the abominable impositions tions deserve the hearty co-operation of all citizens. For many years I have wondered that the railroad and stage companies did not adopt the ‘double deckers,” a8 they do, 80 comfortably for male and female passengers, in Paris, There the upper deck is first sought, aa there the light and afr are better, I went to see John Stephenson, the noted car builder, and asked why he did not introduce the “double deckers.”” He Said the ra{lroad cotporations would not have them, as they were more expensive and they could make more money as they now carry passengers. There you have it in’a nutshell, Nothing remains but to attack tbe enemy in tront, and beat him by enacting laws po rene him to give a seat to all passengers. In Paris the penalty for taking any one who cannot bo seated (the seats are partitioned by iron rails as they aro in our ferry boats) is or was by fining the driver and conductor 100 {raves for each person carried above | the legal number. 1 once endeavored to stand in a | Paris omnibus, and was obliged to get out during a | Pouring rain because the conductor was afraid of ar- rest and fine, The outrageous imposiuons practised | by our railroad companies are only equalled by the | simplicity of their dupes. Why should I pay eight cents to ride from Forticth street to Forty-fith street when only six cents is demanded from Fortieth street to the new Post Otlice? Why should not ratiroad com- panies having more than one terminus be forced to give transfer tickets to either ~— terminus. to all who demand them? If five persons, in haste, get into a Broadway car at Amity street to go to the Astor House and pay twenty-five cents, and that car turns and goes to the Broadway and Broome street terminus, thero is no redress, a8 no transfer tickets are given.” So with East Twenty-third street and Thirty-fourth street ferry cars, and all others, You are right to ory out, “No seat no fure!” In ad- dition demand that iransfer tickets shall be given and that the Fourth avenue company give passage to Eighty-sixth stroet for six cents, How long would the people of London or Paris endure that vile atgnch aris- ing from the urine and excretions soaked into the earth of the Fourth avenue tunnel siuce thirty years? The | earth should be removed and new earth put in and covered with bitumen—or else endure the stench. The interference of the Board of Health, causing the ro- moval of the carpets and cushions which covered the seats of cars (and still allowing the filthy matting on the bottom of the car) was most absurd and wrong. During these cold mornings and nights, to say nothing | of the days, let any delicate person who is warm from exercise or from a fire enter and sit upon one of those wooden seats and lean against the wooden back of the car. In a few moments he will get a chill, and during a lengthy ride in these cars many people have undoubtedly got pneumonia or pleurisy, lumbago or inflammation of the kidneys, neuralgia or sciatica, or, perhaps, hip disease has been caused from such exposure. Nearly always children are very thinly covered over their seats and hips, and, being seated upon those icy cold wooden seats and against those backs, their lives are endangered, as are all our healths, Let the seats and backs be carpeted throughout the | year, and remove the nasty, disease breeding matting, Eniorce ventilation of cars, and insist that there shall be no windows in ventilators, but holes, always open, unable to be closed, Then give carpeted seats and backs, and let the cry ever be, “No seat no fare!” with ventilated and comfortable and healthy cars. A SUFFERER. A SEAT. FOR EACH PASSENGER. New York, Jan, 27, 1876, To Tux Eprrox or Tie HaKany:— I have read with amusement the various lotters that appear in your columns daily concerning the accom- modations in our street cars. The different companies are evidently going to get into trouble if they do not provide seats for all But it seems to me that all controversy on this subject would be stopped if the English plan was adopted—viz., having on the top of | the caré two paraliel seats, running the entire length, and spproached by'a light tron stairway from either platiorm, thus providing seats for double the number of passengers, the charge to be three cents for outside and five cents for inside passengers. In order to make this the more effective a law should be | passod imposing a penalty on the companies for carry- ing more than twenty two pessengers inside aud eighteen out. This plan would wertainly be cheaper than running double the number of cars in order to provide seats for all, It certainly works well “across the pond,” and why should it not work, well here? Yours, respectfully, TRAVELLER. IMPORTANT TO ASTHMATICS, A PLACE AT OUR DOORS WHERE CURE THEM, After fifteen years of suffering from asthma, catarrh and bronchitis, with large outlay of timo, exertion and money in search of cure by medication, and by long journeyings and residence in climates of valnted galu- brity, without improvement, the writer of the tollow- NATURE WILL know that they would adopt any good plan to rem- edy the evil but to refuse passengers when the seats are full would only aggravate it, and a bowl would arise from those left (and they are the majority), that | would soon restore these growlers to their seuses, and they would gladly accept the situation rather than walk. Propose any feasible plan and it will be a blessing, but to put more cars on the existing lines, with about’ 400 converging at West broadway and Chambers street, ‘aud more at the now Post Ofice, is almost a physical impossibility, uuless on an elevated or underground trek ese are my ideas crudely expressed; bat I remem- ber the distress and trouble caused by the drivers’ stnkes several yoars ago, when the caré could novran for a couple of days—ant it was good weather, too—and gen- tlemen avaijed themselves of trucks and express Ons a& A Meaus of getting home, but poor girls had to stay home and suffer from loss of work; and 1 think that with ail their faults they are a great convenience, t A CAPITAL SUGGESTION. To Tux Epiton oy Tus HexaLo:— T own a veliclo and pay a license, My wheels fit the railroad track. If the law will allow me I will carry passengers on the Third avenue or any other route, and give seats at the sare rate of fare. Can I do it? | Will be glad to invest my small capital in the onter- | prise, and there are hundreds of others with velucles that will do the same gladly under city regulations. The wblic streets belong to and are paid for by the public | for public use, not private monopoly. Tam «war it private property oan be taken for public use in vertain cases, but can any one point out a constitutional law that gives any Legislature or ecrporation any power to take public property and give it toa monopoly | for private gain aud use? Please let some legal gen- | tleman answer this. They may say public expe.tie! requires it; but that is not law, taken in $54 on a crowded Third avenue car. Reckon up and see how the sardines were packed. Give me &@ pubjic tram or rail way, ‘free’? to all vebieles under Ucenses and rogulations, and then you will.see plenty of accommodation given by competition—seats for all. A POSTED CABMAN, REFORM IT ALTOGETHER. To tux Epiron ov Tux Herarp: While you are so vigorously and ably arguing aro. 4 form in our street car accommodations, I see no reas son why you should not “reform it altogether.’’ Cer- tainly the over crowding of the cars is the most cry- ing nuisance, but there are others that, although small, aro none the less annoying. Very few conductors will | stop the car when they see a gentleman running to catch it A few evenings ago | wanted to catch a Third avenue car coming down town. I was going up ‘Thirty-fourth street, and when about geventy yards from the avenue saw the oar coming. I at once ran and shouted. The conductor must have seen mo, tor he | Jooked toward me and had his hand on the bell strap, but the car was not stopped. In turn- ing the corner 1 stumbled and fell. On getting up the car was seen standing still about the middie of the block. I again ran to it, and on stepping on the platform was accosted by the conductor with “Why the —— didn’t you hurry up?” Another case of complaint is this:—At the switeh-off, around Frank- lin’s statue in Printing House square, the Third avo- hue cars every morning and evening block up the footway from sidewalk to sidewalk, thus obliging pedestrians to walk out into the road order past. That is a posttive violation of a city ordi to which the writer has called the atvention of the car conducters and drivers, and also the police officer on | for but has received only abuse in reply, Many simi- jar causes of annoyance cail leudly for reform, which may be achieved if time if you continue ate 1 crusade, Yu ENOUGH TO SICKEN A COMANCHE. To THe Eviton or rue Herato:— Thave read your articles on street car crowding, I have looked for some editor to take up this vatragoous grievance for years, fully convinced that the first effort would provoke an opprossed people to cry aloud and spare not. Instead of this 1 note but litte on- couragement in public sentiment as expressed. The | fact i# that men and women otherwise delicate and sensitive as to their surroundings have in this car travel- ling matter become callous, and daily submit to offen associations that would sicken aComanche Indian, im choose a cold, bracing | ight and post himself on the rear platform of a | car about forty people inside, and when the door opens let him inhale the choice atmosphere | T have talked and argued on this subject for years in vain, What cap one voice do? Occasionally | have had the sympathy of fome indignant Briusher glad uf contrast, but goferally the astonished looks of sur- rounding p warned me that | ran gypat risk of | being set down asa lunatic. After all, the remark of a Nostrand avenae car conductor summed up the case. “He couldn't help it; he was sure ho dida't get off his platform to coax yn." You've got an up-bill fight, Mr. Editor, since you'¥e got to mako people ashamed of being treated ike cattle and standing {t; but if you'll persevere 1, for ho | don’t doubt that will begin to admit Uhat it ts just | terested, bave had similar experience. | Market, and on going out the first morning he exclaimed, ing communication, a merchant in this city, found at New Markot, N. J., within one hour’s distance of this city, a place where nature cures all diseases of this class, His fellow sufferers will read his letter with in- terest :— New Yors, Jan. To tax Eprror or tne HeKxatn>— I desire, for the benefit of suiferers from catarrh, bronchitis and asthma, to place you in possession of a fow facts, showing that climate induces those diseases, ‘and that relief and cure can be bad without money or medicine, We find these diseases more prevalent in cities adjoining the sca or lakes, where the damp, chilly winds prevail—such cities as Brooklyn, Boston, New- ark and Williamsburg being even worse than New York. In 1800 1 moved from Albany to Brooklyn. Tho cli- mate induced catartt. badly, followed by vronchitis and asthma; bave had asthma for fifteen years to such an extent that at times. to monthe I coyid no ue down, and could breathe only with the Pata i entity te ti rp, and wheezing so that it could be heard diatineily, I doctored and tried all known remedies without relief, became a hopeless invalid—being re- duced from 150 to 116 pounds—and was given up by my physteian to die. 1 visited Virginia, Denver city Colorado Territory, and other points to try the effect of climates, without relief, Iwent w Plainfleld, N. J.; found no relief there; but while in Plainfield I drove to New Market, adjoining that place, miles west, andto my astonishment and delight, whilé riding there, | found I could breathe treoly without wheezing, and always on gomg there I founda refreshing west wind blowing right from the Blue Ridge Mountgns, in sight. That wind prevails nearly all the time, Which is the easiest for au asthmatic to breathe, I towhd the country full of delight{ul acenery, Located there, and, having lived there one year, fave fully recovered my health and now weigh 150 pounds—weighed 115 one yearago when I went there. Have taken no medicine and aitribute my cure entirely to the stirring, refreshing mountain breeze. Mr. W. S. Stevens, formerly of Brooklyn, who had asthma badly, is entirely restored in this lo- cality. Others, Whose names can be given to those in- , 1875, My object in calling attention to this locality is this. There are scores of sufferers by whom this information will be bailed with joy, and this locality 18 within one hour’s ride of New York, via New Jersey Central Railroad to Dunelien, which New Market adjoins, or by Lebigh Valley Railroad, direct to Now Market. Rev. K. W. Sawtell, D. D., a foreign mizsionary, has located there and affirms that in all his travels tn this* country or the Old World he bas nover seon anything equal to New Market for its exquisite beauty, while the Bealth of the location makes it still more alluring, Deing situated two miles south of the Blue Ridge Moun- tains, which not only adds to the beauty of the scenery, but aifords an almost constant western breeze so full health that asthma, bronchial or catarrhal difficulties find ready relief and cure, and those affected badly with these difficulties who make this locality their residence are entirely restored. About a month ago ® clergyman from Chicago came thero with asthma. He could scarcely breathe. He had it four and one-half years; had travelled to Europe, to Colorado Territory, Denver city, and found no reltef anti! he came to Now “Is not this glorious? {can breathe as well as ever.’ He remained about a month and was advised not to go back to Chicago; that the chmate there would a induce asthma, Ho went back and now writes our predictions about the ill effects of this climate have all proved too true, I have gradually grown worse and ‘worse, and now wish I had wings to fly to New Market, N. J., ‘to-day, but I have resigned and am coming at once.” While they continue to reside near the sea or lakes medicine cannot cure them. A residence im this locality without medicine will cure, T shall be happy to give any information I can to those altlicted. - ver, Col, is largely advertised as having a climate that will cure asthina, and many, as the clergyman and myself, have taken the 2,200 miies journey to reach it oniy to be disappointed, when relief abd cure was within one hour of New York. 1 am entirely restored, and daily attend to business, while one year ago the soem im ability. Yours, tng Beene ae TP EYDON, No. 102 Water street, forced upon the public by the city railroad corpora. | TURF NOTES. Stock Farm, Flushing, LL, on Tuesday, January 18. A week previous to her death, in turning quickly to avoid @ blow from a man, she tripped and fell on the frozen ground, and died from injuries received. She vas twenty-two years oid, a large, heavy mare, and within month of her time for foaling, andthe shock seemed tobe too much for her. She was got by im- ported Hooton, and her dam was by Texas, who was believed to be a son of Lance. Her second dam was by | Conn’s Str Willkam, by Sir William; third dam by Whis- per. Kate was bred by Mr, D. W. Crockett, in Ken. tucky, from #hom Mr, Durkee purchased her in 1872 Mr, Robert Bonner has purehased the chestnut mare Music trom Mr. W. C. Trimbie, of Newburg. The price paid for the mare has not been made public. Music has a record of 2:21}¢. She was sired by Middleton, son of Hambletonian. Major B. G. Thomas’ bay mare Lady Taylor, by im- ported Glencoe, dam Occident, by Bertrand, her dam Diamond, by Turpin's Florizel, out of a mare by Lewis —— died at Walnut Stud Farm, Kentucky, last weel She was foaled in 1851. Lady Taylor was but a moderate racer and unsuccessful as a brood mare, ner best produce being Derby, by Eclipse, and Salaria, by Australian. Summer and antamn race meetings will be given on the Point Breeze Course, Philadelphia, the coming sea- son. They will be under the control of a newly organ- ized association, who have retained J. D, Ferguson, secretary of the Maryland Jockey Club, to manage the moetings. About $13,000 will be given in purses ip ad dition to the stakes) ~The programme will be arranged bext week, ‘Tho Spirit of the Times Stakes tor three-year-old trotters, foals of 1874, has been opened and will close on Wednesday, March 1. The subscription is $260 each, $50 to be paid at the time psoas and the re- mainder on or before the lst of September preceding the race, after which the whoie becomes play or pay, the race to be trotted on the second Tuesday in Sep- tember, 1877. The Spirit of the Times Stake for foals of 1873, to be trotted some day in September vext, closed with fourteen nominations. ‘There 1s on exbibition in Boston a wonderful appara- tus, and one which has been much needed on the trot- ting track for the past few years. This apparatus is in- tended to do away with all doubts as to the time made by horses ina race, There is to be placed in the Judges’ stand a large dial with hands to indicate min- utes, seconds and their fractions; also a number of dials placed in the grand stands at suitable points, so as to be reaaily seen by spectators, without leaving their seats. The hands or pointers on all the dials are moved by electricity. THE YALE-HARVARD RACE. WHERE WILL IT BE CONTESTED?—THE SET- TLING OF THE PRELIMINARY CONDITIONS. New Haven, Conn., Jan, 28, 1876. The desire to know where the Yale-Harvard race is to be rowed is universal Somesay that New London will be the place, and others assert that Springfield will be the favored locality, In an interview to-day with Captain Cook, of the Yale Navy, it was learned that the choice of place 1s left to Harvard, the chal- lenged party, and that the race 1s to come off on June 80. Captain Cook thinks that Harvard will choose Springfield, If only to spite Yale, whose preference is for the course on the Thames. It will be remembered that CERTAIN CONDITIONS were submitted at the last meeting of the college rep- resentatives, on the acceptance or rejection ef which the race depends. It has been ascertained that one and the chief of these conditions was as to the time when the race should be rowed. Yale desired that it should be rowed after the Saratoga regatta, within the three weeks succeeding the expiration of the summer term, but to this Harvard would not agree. The an- nual examination of both Yale and Harvard occurs in June, with tho difference that while Harvard gives three weeks to the examination Yale gives but two. At such times the men composing the crews ‘cannot well spare the time for boating exercise and Harvard has three weeks to Yale’s two. The tormer inanifestly bas the peti as the latter’s examinations are crowded into a shorter space, but Yale has conceded the point as to time. Another condition was as to the CHOIOK OF REFERER. Harvard claimed the right to name him, to which Yale would not consent. Tho result was that Yalo sub- mitted a plan whereby and in pursuance of which the referee should be selected. I am not at liberty to state what the plan ia, but it is a fair one*and will doubtless be accepted. YACHTING AND COACHING. {From the Boston Advertiser, Jan. 25] We do not know that the taste for yachting among those who seek an expensive excitement by way of amusement is passing away, However that may be, a now dissipation is coming into vogue, the fascinations of which are likely soon to rival those of the free-sailing craft, To own and drive acoach and four is now the leading ambition of the young mon of the period to sport inclined. This is a fashion imported from Lon- don, where there are several coaching clubs, which drive their teams iv procession through Hyde Park, while the ladies of fashionable society, out for an airing, sit in their comparatively Uny carriages by the toaeeae to admire the splendid spectacle as it thun- ers by. There is already a coaching club in New York and another im Philadelphia, with the prospect of oue in Bakimore, Before long coaching-club day will be one of the important and Liagtinced days at the Central Park. Whether it is possible to spend as much money on a coach and four as on a yacht is yet an open question, for in this country at least the possibilities have hardiy yet mm fathomed. It is clear, however, that between the es, the coach, the stable and the attendants there opportunity to squander a vory pretty little fortune. Besides skilful driving, there 1s the coach which may be made as elegant and luxurious as a jewel box, and tho horses, in respect of which the fancy may be so capricious that the world has to be roamed over betore the ular combinations of color, etyle and nobility of descent, upon which the owner’s heart is are brought together. coaches for this coantry have ail of them been made in London, to order, of course. Several new ones are now building. This patronage of foreign makers is necessary now, but the time is coming when Ameri- capa will be ableto get them up. Some of the quar- tofies of horses are said to be extraordinary tor style and breeding. England has ig gent & good proportion ot them up to this time, but the whole world is laid ‘under tribute by those whose purses are long enough. The first summer parade of the New York club will be in June next Great preparations aro making for the tea regular days of parade, when the “accomplished hips’? event, and the display is expected to an impevus to the formation of similar globs in other cities. ere fg talk of establishing Ii of public coaches out of New York city to suburban resorts in the style of those running out of London to villages twenty or thirty miles away. NEW YORK YACHT CLUB. At a meeting of yacht owners held at No. 65 Broad streot on Thursday, Mr. J. S. Dickerson, Commodore of tho Brooklyn Yacht Club, presiding, the following ticket was putin nomination for the election of officers of the New York Yacht Club for the couing year:— Commodore, G. L. Kingsland (the present Com- modore); Vice Commodore, 8, Nicholson Kane; Sec- retary, W. B. Bond; Treasurer, Sheppard Homans; Moasurer, A, Cary Smith; Fleet Sui L. De Foi Woodruff, M. D.; Regatta Committee, William Krebs, Henry Sicers and George 3. Winston, M. D.; House Comumitteo, Fletcher Westray, N. D. White, G.'L. Jor- dan, H. Holly Hudson, ©. Alfred Grymes, H. M. Alden, George Proudfit; Committee on Admission, 8. Nichol- bon Rane, AG. Hatoh, Philtp Schuyler and H. M Morris, ‘The election takes place on February 3, and as there is arival ticket in the feld, with Vice Commodore Garner at ite head, the result is awaited with much interest by the méuibers of the club, AQUATICS. New York, Jan. 28, 1876, To tas Eprror or tax Herarp;— At the regular meeting of the Alert Boat Club of this city it was decided to havea new six-oared barge built to be named Independence, for the purpose of sending a picked crew to Philadelphia to participate in the re- which takes place du the Centennial The, crew will row the entire distance to our city or “Brotherly rail and be composed of the follow- ing men:—Bow, G. Miller; No. 2, A. Netzel; No, 4 F. Neppert; No. 4, F. Lohr; No. 6, G. Droste; M. Hey- denreich, stroke; coxswain, H. Miller; substitutes, CHARITABLE RESPONSES. The following additlonal subseriptions have been re ceived at this office for the widow in Thirty-first street: — Carey. $2 00 Inwood. age 10 Total, $18 00 Previously received 18 OL Total amount, ...... All of which has been duly forwarded to the family. ACCIDENT ON THE ELEVATED RAIL- ROAD. Yosterday, as one of the noon trains on the Elevated Raitroad, driven by engine No, 10, had completed its down trip and was running to the ewitch at No. T Broad- way, the passengor cars, which on the down trip are tn front of gine, ran violently into engine No. 6, which was standing on the main line, utterly demolish jug the cab of the engine and slightly heapren wy the the ne- passenger car. The accident was entirely owii carelessness of a switchman catled Harry, giected to throw over the switch. None of the passen- possible it may not bé necessary to pass a seventh or wore wore burt W. Adelman, 8. Miller, A. Smith. H. MULLER, Corresponding Secretary. HANDBALL, A MAGNIFICENT CONTEST. ‘The lovers of this fine game had a raro troat yester- day in witnessing the match between Philip Casey, champion of the United States, with D. McCarthy as his partner, and B. McQuade, of New York, with James Casey af partner, at No. 404 Madison street, in this tity. The interest which this mateh treated was ap- parent long before the hour announced for the com. mencement of the play from the crowds which flocked to see the ‘big’ game. of tators were fully realized, the molto ed ib superb and hearty a) and showing ‘The following the in seveee BT match for $100 a side takes place court, the contestants ye be Landy and against R. M. Dove and D. PIGEON SHOOTING. Kate Crockett, the dam of Lula, dicd at Spring Hit | zveNrs DECIDED ON THE GROUNDS OF THE LONG ISLAND CLUB. The monthly reunion of the Long Island Shooting Club took place yesterday at its grounds near Jamaica. As usual upon these occasions, the Club Cup was put up for competition, and twenty-two members entered the list, causing a pleasant interest in the result. The con- ditions under which the cup is shot for are the ordinary club rules, 7 birds each, 25 yards rise (with the exeep- tion of the previous wfhner, who is penalized 2 yards), 144 02 shot and 80 yards boundary. ‘This was the fourth return of the event, the first holder of the prize being Dr. Tulbot, the second Mr, M. V. Baylis and the third Mr, “Redding.” The fortunate man yesterday turned up in Mr. Robert Robinson, the veteran pigeon shooter, who astonished the large assemblage with the form he presented and the style with which he cut down his birds. Messra. Wii Wynn, Poih yon, emus, Burritt, “wig | at Broadway, Walters, We Hartehorue, G ve, Hi son and thé “Captain,” ‘each “Redding,” at Baylis, Wynn, Madison, Walter Gildersice Chappell of the shooters, petal two birds, retired, while others shot out the allotted number, although there was no possible chance of their winning. The birds, as a class, were a very inferior lot, Mr. president of the clu! ‘ted as referee. — Following the cup contest was a classified tg stakes for members only; $8 entrance, 8 birds, yards = 80 yards boundary, and cub rules — ern. Sixteen participated, the money being divided so 5 Be Ff the tems, $15 to the second and $8 to the ird. Messrs. Wingate, Talbot, Liprieser| John- son and Madison each killed all; when shooting off, Wingate and Madison tied at the third bird and divided the $25, Messrs. Baylis, Robinson, Gildersieeve, Hartshorne and the “Captain” each killed two when they shot off for second money. Robinson and Gilder- sleeve cutting down three eac! ht best to divide, and they did so. For third money “Atkins,” Broad> way, Hemming, Wynn and Walters, each scoring one bird, were compelled to shoot off, and Wynn managing to kill his second pigeon on the and the others hav- ing retired, was hauded the $8. The only blank score Was that of Mr. Valentine. PIGEON SHOOTING CHALLENGES. . New Yorn, Jan, 27, 1876, To Tox Eprroz oy tue HeRatp:— Reading in your paper of this day achallonge issued from Mr. Outrater to shoot a match at twenty-one pigeons against me for $100 a side, Long Island rules to govern, I beg to state I am ready and willing to accom- modate Mr, Outrater any match he likes for any sum of money; and if he will name a place and time of meet- ing he may rely on my bet ere to draw up articles and stake amount. Yours, &e., BOWER TALBOT, V. 8. Jaxvary 28, 1876. To THe Epizor or THE HERALD:: Ihave onty shot one match for the last twelve years and nota head of game for five to six years, still I will bet $50 each shot that! kill from 70 up to 100 pigeons out of 100 lye rises, and also that I kill 90 even, and the odds that 1 kill 95 and 100 out of the 100 sprung ‘rom ite trap, the same as Bogardus shoots next Tuesday at renton. . A COCKING MAIN. SPORT FOR THE FANCY IN-A BARN NEAR MIL-~ FORD, CONN.—LIVELY FIGHTIXG AND BET- ‘TING. New Haves, Jan. 2s, 1876, Last evening, in the town of Milford, in the upper part of abarn belonging to a well known sporting gen- tleman, occurred a cocking main at which the sporting circles of this oty, New York and Bridgeport were largely represented. The main was for $100 a side, each party to produce fifteen cocks and to fight all the birds present weighing from foar pounds two ounces to six pounds, sleven pairs of birda\of the requisite weight wero brought forward, and the principals agreed to fight for $40 a battle, irrespective of the amount stated on the main. Bets of 20 to 1 in tavor of Bridgeport were made previous to the fight, owing to the fact that Briage- port was backed by New York money and birds. Three of the eleven cocks entered in the main were from New York. In the first fight Néw Haven pitted a dark red and Bridgeport a brown-red, each weighing six pounds, At the end of eight minutes New was dec! winner ‘the spoils, The second fight was between light ts of four pounds two ounces each. New Haven pitted a brown-red with dark hack! splendid bird, Bridge- ao pyle. The betting was in favor of New Haven. he battle was desperate, =y notwithstanding that the New Haven bird in the third fly had a leg broken and received other severe apes bee the battle in thirty minutes. The third battle, 1m which New Hav entered a brown-red of five pounds, and Bridgeport a pyle, samo weight, was won by thé latter in ten min- utes. The four succeeding battles were won in succession by New Haven—three by pyle birds and one dark red— in about twenty minutes. Having secured six out of a ‘ible eleven battles, New Haven was declared win- ner ofthe main and the prize money. Three of the fifteen birds which did not fallin weight for the main were then pitted for contests for private purses in amonnts varying from $10 to $25, the New Haven birds being victorious in each instance. MUNICIPAL NOTES. The reduction of salaries in the various departments has created a good deal of dissatisfaction among the clorks and other employés. All salaries in the Comp- troller's office, Tax office, Department of Public Works and Mayor’s office have thus been tampered with. This action is found necessary in consequence of the reduc- tion made by the Board of Apportionment in the estimates of the various departments for the year 1876 Judge Barrett, of the Supreme Court, recently granted ancorder appointing William N. Banks receiver of the Security Savings Bank, in Third avenue. Yesterday this order waa filed in the County Clerk’s office. Commisstener of Public Works Campbell has signified his intention of retaining the present staff of his office, At least so it is reported by those who claim to know the inner workings of tuis department. STREET CLEANING RETRENCHMENT. Commissioner Voorhis, Chairman of the Strect Cleaning Committee, has ordered the dismissal of twen- ty-three cartmen, forty-six laborers, six gangmen and two foremen, to take effect February 1, The saving by this reduction is calculated at $45,000 per annum. A LONG ISLAND PIE EATER. “ Bill” Smith, of Hempstead village, bas inherited or acquired an extraordinary appetite for pie, and, fora long time, has been in the habit of spending most of his loose change in that direction. Running short of money, however, but still retaining his peculiar appe- tite, which had probably been “growing with what it fed on,” he bit upon the plan of forging orders for pie on Mr. John Nichols, baker, using the name of Mr. Anton Bruns, who keeps a p! at Valley Stream, and, by this he from time to time succeeded in ob- taining about $19 worth, which be disposed of to bis individual a. Mr. Nichols became suspicious, made are and had the champion ., ar- rested. Aftera while he acknow is guilt, and the matter was compromised by his payment of $25 and his promising ‘‘ never to do 80 any more.” A REVOLTING WOMAN. The trialof Henry R. Vreeland and Susanna E., bis wife, of Boardville, N. J., for the alleged murder of thoir son Ralph, a little fellow between five and six years of ago, is still in progress in the Paterson courts, The offence was committed last December. Yester. day’s testimony developed a case of cruelty almost un- Ralph was the son of Mr. Vreeland, but his wife was the boy’s stepmother, The principal and most evidence against them was on the part of Mra reeland’s own child, a remark- ably intelligent little girl scarcely six yoars of age, and her testimony, which " was corroborated by the otber children, was almost revolt- ing. ‘She said Vreeland ured whip Ralph with thick ‘“gads’’ until they were used up, when she would go for others and repeat the She whipped him Ull he was too weak to obey the calls of nature, when she rubbed his face in his ‘Own 6xerement and Sees him drink his own urine. She stuck a fork down bis throat tilt he vomit 4 then compelied him by whi him to eat the it. She kept on whipping him finally died, alone and on The case is full of such instances of joke. The other oviaenee was of an auxiliary and com; gaa case is not likely to be co! to BROOKLYN EDUCATION. ‘Tho public schools of Brooklyn that have been hold- ing evening sessions since October 1 closed last night with music and recitations, and speeches by the mem- bers of the Board of Education. full attendance and a most ‘The record shows exhibit for the sea- arene ne cae ee GRRL Aas eae eet — GOSSIP AMONG THE STUDIOS, Washington Whittredge 1s painting a scene on one o the tributaries of the Hudson; “Twilight on the Marshes’ is the title, and, as the namo suggests, the ‘| mass of the rank grasses and weeds of the swamps, In the distance the blue hills are seen, sharply outlined against the evening sky. On his easel isa larger landscape about half fuished. This repre seats a portion of the beautiful Esopus Creek in au- tumn, “The Morning Stage,” which was exMbited at the Brooklyn Academy, is again in his studio, and has beon receiving some additional touches from his brush. Homer Martin has commenced a picture of a depth of the Adirondack woods !n autumn. A brook winds along at the roots of the trees, and stones and trunks of fallen trees, covered with beautiful green moss, show that the density of the foliage overhead is seldom penetrated by the sun’s rays. ‘‘A Pioneer Home’? shows one of the log cabins so often met with on the lakes and rivers of the far West. A bark shanty, one of the peculiar institutions known to those who have “camped out” in the Adirondack region, and sketches of the pine woods of North Carolina, are among the many intoresting ones in his studio, Julian Scott, who is almost the only painter of war scenes in New York, has a picture in the same studio, It represents a camp scene during the Revolution, A. party of foragers, their wagon laden with wood and sacks of grain, have stopped at the camp fire, on the edge of the woods, where three of their comrades are seated, The sentinel is made to form part of this group, and across the snow-covered plain the barracks of the soldiers is seen, with the moon peeping over the roofs. ‘This picture immediately suggests the Centennial, and the hope that Mr. Scott will give the most successful result of his experience, as a soldier artist, to that Ex- Py 5 He ts at present painting portraits at Plain- fi N. J. ie Brown furnished two pictures for the Artist Fund sale. The subjects are of the class which he delights in; for he thinks, after travelling in many foreign countries in search of beautiful subjects, that American women and children are the handsomest in the world. He paints them just as he finds them engaged in thei eryday sports dnd occupations. One of these pict represents a ragged street gamin Standing with characteristic disregard of passers by, playing ball, His plate glass windows or by beige, laeyenl hands are all ready, and feet p! 80 that he may not lose his balance im reaching for the ball should it fly beyond his reach. ‘Let Her Come"? is the expros- sive title of this work. The companion picture shows @ little girl playing hide and seek, She ts standing in the shadow ofa treo, behind the trunk of which she i¢ hiding. The strong sunight beyond relieves this figure, which is all in shadow, and is in direct opposi- tion to the treatment of the boy, The latter is all in hight against a dark wall, which forms the background. In @ water color picture three barefooted boys are seated on stones, fishing. They look as patient as boys generally do under similar circumstances, William Gaul, one of the most promising of our young artists, and a pupil of Mr. Brown, bas in his studio @ picture which he calls ‘A Sudden Stop.” A hitle urchin has been riding a companion down hill in a wheelbarrow. A stone in the path has nearly over- turned the unwieldy vehicle, and you can almost tell the jar as you look at the boy, who has lost his equ- librium, and is on the point of tumbling to the ground, A chieken, which seems to appreciate the situatton, is geen scampering off at full speed. One of his most Successful productions is a study of vegetables. He has finished several interiors with figures, andis now at work on a half length portrait of a young girl. W. J. Irving 18 principally ‘ogpyed in painting por- traits. Two of these are now on his easel. Both are of ladies, one being a head and neck and the other a half length. The latter is nearly completed, and the face is full of expression, 18 well modelled and very fleshy in texture, Several unfinished landscapes in his studio re mt scenes on Long Island. Ao autumn on one of the Long Island meadows and a view from the vicinity of Great. Neck are among them. THE CUSTOM HOUSE ROBBERY (?) “We know nothing in the Sub Treasury about the $5,000 in gold certificates which the Custom House authorities say they paid in here Jast Friday, and our clerks say that thoy did not receive it, either,” said’ General Hillhouse, of the Sub-Treasury, yesterday tua Heraxp reporter, The reporter then made his way to the cashier’s office at the Custom House, where he saw Mr. Robinson, who has been Chief of that department for the past thirty years, and the following is hig states ment:—The matter is a mystery to me; weare certain we sent the $5,000 in gold certificates to the Sub Treas- ury. I cannot tell if that sum was in one gold certifi- cate, five, or fifty certificates, We did not take the numbers; we do not take numbers, I do not suspect my clorks, They are all trusty men. Clerks from other departments have been admitted iato this office for comparison of amounts, This wili be stopped for the future. I am morally responsible for the loss of this sum. Ireally have no clew to the lost money. nor have I been ablo to trace its precise denomination. The detectives have got the matter in hand, and it is possible that they may be able to get to the bottom of the matter. Thoy have been in consulta- , tion with Collector Artbur as well as myself.” In con- versation with a prominent Custom House offictal he said:—‘The missing money may have been ‘sneaked’ out of the office, or a possibility exists, and a bare one, that the money was not paid into the cashier's office. The gold certificates could not possibly have been Jost in transit between the Custom House here and the | Sub-Treasury in the iron hand be ap is guarded by a police officer and two porters. The money is not taken out of she Sub-Treasury vaults to be counted till the following day after that on which it is received.” A well known Police Headquarters detective stated :—~It I am not much mistaken, about five or six years a milar sum went astray, and the case was given into ds of Police Superintendent Kelso and Deteé- tive Irving, and the money was mysteriously returned. Ihave heard that in the cashier’s office. a couple’ of days ago there was a $10 deficiency. Whether this $5,000 is a maro’s nest or a real robbery remains to be seen. Collector Arthur will not leave anything undone till he gets at the bottom of the matter, | am certain.’’ LARGE CUSTOM HOUSE SEIZURE. Yesterday Inspectors Hagan and McCort made a large seizure of smuggled goods from on board the steamship Wilmington, Captain Gardiner, which ar- rived in this port from St Domingo City, Samana and Tark’s Isiand, on the 23d inst. The goods seized are supposed to belong to the officers of said steamship, A bogus Dill of lading was prepared to deceive the revenue officers, It was explained to these officials that the reason that the goods were not entered on the mani- fost was because it had been ‘overldoked in the hurry of starting from St Domingo. The goods were marked A ina diamond, and a post entry was made at the Cas- tom House fof them by Messrs. Wilson & Asmus, mer- chants, of No. 62 Front street; but they declined to receive the goods when they knew that they had been seized. The following 18 a list of the goods turned into the seizure room of the Custom House yester- day :—Five barrels cam honey i snuff, 2 per, about 500 jlons in twelve barrels. yale of a gana cannot be stated till the: praised. The duties will amount to or $o00 in gold, ‘The ‘of which Messrs. W. P. Clyde & Co. are the ‘not be seized for infringement of the revenue laws, but the CORONERS’ CASES, The inquest on the body of Frederick I, Kreuder, clerk in the spice mills of Messrs. Brown & Scott, at No, 170 Duane stroet, who shot himself last Saturday Decause he was not earning money enough, was held yesterday before Coroner Eickhoff, and the jury rendered a verdict in accordance with the facts. Coroner Eickhoff held an inquest