The New York Herald Newspaper, February 21, 1876, Page 6

6 . NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1876, ROWING. The American Centennial Regatta on | the Schuylkill, UWEWS OF PROMIMENT IRISH OABSMEN. -——— Prebability cf a Crew from Dublin Coming Over. AN IRISH SCULLER'S INTENTIONS. to the actual pafinent of the money difficulties may arise which youthful enthusiasm at present declities to contemplate. Mr, Leshie is positive that the only way to meet those difficulties successfully is to make the contest an international one and.to send over an Irish crew, picked indiscriminately from members of all drish boating elubs, THE AMERICAN CENTENARY BOAT RACE, (Prom Bell's Life, Feb. 5.) * * * Whether the universities, or either of them, Will feel disposed to attend the regatta at Philadelphia remains to be seen, It 18 not likely, however, that both will go, and whichever crew is defeated in the forthcoming race on the Thames, that same university will probably not enter for the American event. The Successful university in that contest might consider the matter, but what would be the result of ther de- hberations on the subject it would be very speculative to foretell or suggest. The ehief objection would prob- ably be in the way of expense, but if a suitable crew can be found ready to give up their time, and'should be willing to go, such an objection as expense, in a coun- try like our own, ought not fora moment to come in the If the resident members of the University The Winner in the Oxford and Cambridge Race | Likely to Represent the Thames. | | Dupiix, Feb. 3, 1876. | aro unable to raise a suiliciont sum for the purpose, surely there are many old University men “down”? who would be only too willing to help in a matter in which they to @ large extent are interested. This matter may, however, for the present, be THE COURTS. WASHINGTON PLACE POLICE COURT. Before Judge Kilbreth. HIGHWAY ROBBERY. As Michael! McCabe, of No, 829 Eleventh avenue, was passing by the corner of Thirty-ninth street and Eighth avenue early yesterday morning his arms were pin- joned from behind, and two men held him fast while 4 third took his silver watch and chain, valued at $25, and $3 in money from bis pockets, The robbers then released their victim, and McCabe followed one of them, and, by his cries for assistance, attracted the attention of OMcer Osborne, of the Twentieth precinct. McCabe and the officer pursued their ‘man’ into a saloon at the corner of Forty-first street and Tenth avenue, Upon his arrest and identification the robber throw the watch and chain on the floor. In court yesterday the | preceet. stated that bis name was Jobn Fitzgerald, aud © resided at No. 444 West Forty-fifth street. He de- nied the charge, and was heid in $3,000 to answer. HE ABANDONS HIS WIFE AND CHILD. Mrs, Eliza Hawthorne, of No. 101 East Nineteenth street, charged her husband, Charles Hawthorne, of | No, 80 Waverley place, a young Englishman, with | abandonment. Mrs. Hawthorne, who is young and | -prepossessing, stated that she was married to Haw- thorne six months sgo, and he was tho father of her child, now three months oid, She was seduced previous ‘to the marriage, and shortly after the mar- Triage ceremony Hawthorne’s mother took her to It must be admitted olther that the Dublin boating | allowed to rest; and the final point for consideration | an institution in Clinton place, giving a fictitious is men are very apathetic or else that they have quite | given up, in despair of its feasibility, the notion of row- | ing in the intercollegiate contest or, indeed, in America at all, Itis hard to account otherwise for their seem- | ing indifference in the matter. Not having heard from | Rev. Mr. Leslie, the Vice President of the Boat Club, or | from Mr. Bushe, the Captain of the Rowing Club, I com. | municated with both as soon as the Herat of January | 19 came to hand, I showed thom the article on the | International Rowing Race, and requested them to let | me know their opinion as to the chances under the | conditions there sketched of the clubs sending over crews, Mr. Bushe bas not yet given his opinion, But | 1 know he holds a strong view against the desirability | ef the young rowing mon going over and a strong opin- | on of the impossibility of their going if they desirod. | Mr. Leslie was mach struck with the article, and fully | appreciated the kindness and generous spirit toward | Ireland which suggested it, Subsequently I received | shis note from bim;— Trinity CouLor, | Dvnuix, February, 1876 TL bave not heard anything about the matter since you | spoke tome on the subject. The suggestions of the Hesao, if acted on, would certainly go a long way to | facilitute the project, Should 1 learn anything of a | definite character relating to the subject you may ex- | pect to hear from me. Yours faithfully, | JOUN W. LESLIE, | Meantime I had received a note from Mr. G! H. Pent | ‘and, the ex-Captain of the University Boat Club, a | copy of which I forwarded you last mall, who still holds | office until bis successor be appointed, MR, LESLIN’S VIEWS. The letter speaks tor itself, But the writer had not seen the Hexavo article of January 19, So I thought, | it well to see Mr. Leslie, who is acknowledged to be the | ruling spirit of the University rowing organization | here, Ibada long conversation with him to-day. He | has been amazingly impressed by the article inthe | Heraup of January 19—not atall so much by the sug- gestions, so considerate and generous, as by the fact | that the Hexatp should s0 confidently appeal to the public spirit of the rowing organizations in America, Hence he did not recede at all from what he had stated in bis letter, that “those suggestions, if acted on, would go a long way to facilitate the project.” But he observed that, after all, certain preliminary money difti- culties will still remain practically insurmountable. As he put it very strongly, the class of young men, even in | Oxford and Cambridge, and still more in Dublin, who | “go in’? for boating are not those with whom money is | abundant. Now, even if passages were free, still ‘one tould not venture £o far as America without some soy- | treigns in one's pocket."? Hence he is disposed to con- | Hider this money difficulty as paramount, and as likely to effectively prevent any action on the part of the clubs. { THE JOINT CREW. T referred to the statement of Mr, Pentland respect- ing the joint crew to row at Philadelphia, He knew of this “project,” but evidently distrusted, not the good will of the promoters but their ability to carry it through. Here, again, it is the money difficulty that 1s Ukely to stop the way. A REPRESENTATIVE IRISH CREW. In the progress of our conversation Mr. Leslie reverted to his suggestion of a week ago. The arrange- ment most likely to succeed, in his opinion, is a competition placed on a national basis, Were the | Managing Committce of the Philadelphia Centennial Regatta to iesue an invitation to Ireland to send over a representative Irish crew this challenge would most probably be taken up cordially. The honor of ‘Old Ire- Jand” would be deemed to be involved; a crew would | be selected, rifle team, by competition opened to the whole nation. This would enable, for example, Cork crews to compete, whereas {n the intercollegiate project they have uo place. The moment a national competition was mooted and a national crew proposed to be selected subscriptions would be forthcoming most Uberally to defray all expensea, In this way the best Irish oarsmen would really be secured; whereas under the proposed arrangement, as it stands at pres- ent, there 1s no security that, if a crew were to go to America, it would include the best Irish oarsmen, or even the best men from the University. For | nothing but a subscription can float the best men over ‘the Atlantic, and a subscription will not be forthcom- dmg, except tor a ‘national’? competition. Is it too Jato to ask the Philadelphia Regatta Committee to con- sider this matter? If they do consider it and are dis- posed to view it favorably, it would be desirable that | the date fixed should be such as would afford a suf | Gcient time to enable the Irishmen to cross and train | fm America subsequent to the usual Irish and British | engagements, For this purpose the contest ought not | fo come off before the first ten days or fortnight of | Beptember. AN INTERNATIONAL CONTEST, | Such is the drift of Mr, Leslie's observations. In support of his opinion—that the two University clubs, ag such, will not take up the invitation for the*inter- collegiate contest—he stated that he had spoken to some members of his own club since our last conversation a week ago, and they all seemed \ disinclined to entertain the idea, Hence he infers the | project is really beyond the scope and means of a club, and ought to take the form of an international contest How justly the Rowing Club, as distinguished from the Bont Club, may be regarded ag the genuine ‘‘tory” lub of the old “srue biue” stamp, is evidenced by their easy-going behavior in this business. Somehow | ‘they do not seem io have well assimilated the fact that boating organizations and rowing competitions are in | full force outside the ‘United Kingdom.” To cone | elude, 1 greatly fear Leste will be tound to bea $rue prophet, and that, except under the conditions of | an international competition, [rish boating men will Rot be found rowing on American waters this year. Nore. —Mr. G. H. Pentiand’s letter, to which the eorresponcent refers, was published in the Henao of the 16th inst. @HE PROBAVLE IRISH FOUR-OARED CREW WHO ‘WILL COME TO AMERICA—THE IRISH REPRE- SENTATIVE SCULLER INTENDS TO ROW ON | THE SCHUXLKILL. Deauim, Fed. 5, 1876. @ I have just received the following from Mr. A. , the Captain of the Dublin University Row- tg Ciad:— it Rexospxo, Feb. 6, 1876 I would have written to you mucb sooner, but-I waited until | could get dowm here, where 1 would gicet with the rowing men. I have been talking to Mr. Labatt, whom J may term our representative sculler. it is his present intention to go ever and seul! at the Philadelphia regatta. (Mind, I spoak merely of ‘mtentions, as intimatedto me.) Mr. Labatt is nego- Waling With the combined crew, with a view to carry- <r" the foliowing scheme :— rin nee oa of (i “tour proposed enh ee @ Pbilad regatta, but he sugges at 0 | crew will ‘anes iapare man,” making (altogether) | five, he shonld join them, and so make up a ‘iain’ for the inter-upiversity race—if this latter Be put off to the crew to | Kepiember, Mr, Labatt also proposes to scull in tho | double senilers’ race, provided fe can find aaumitabie | rtuer. Mr. Labatt’s name isthe only ode which I | ou kaow | ‘ours SH ve permission to mentivn. .{ dare say ames of the others as well as) do. fois, A Bi " The “combined crew” referred to. above has been | alrency mentioned in my letier of Janusay 27, and (as | fat present arranged) will consist of G, Ki. Pentland 4ex-Captain of Boat Club), two Messrs. Barrington and | Mr. Hickson, with Mr. Alexander Pentiand for “ifn,” | 3 re man.” | : parentheses in Mr. Bushe’s letter are intendad as | # gentic reiteration of the opinion already expressed | both hy bomeel! apd by Mr, Leslie, that when it rom ry | | some little knowledge bearing upon the importany only enlighten him, but also that portion of the American people who take an interest in | athletic sports (avd the number 1s daily all alive and enjoying that sound health that can only | | amateurs are all | war to enable them to make a successful campaign; but | whether England is to be represented at at the forthcoming international regatta information at our command we are glad to say that | we have every reason to believe that she will The | meeting has évery likelihood of being a grand affair; it | 48 to be principally an amateur gathering; it is to be held at a most convenient time of the year, and English amateur oarsmen, occupying the position they do in the aquatic world, will be fuiling in their duty if no British crew 1 present at the great aquatic féve which takes place at Philadelphia next Augi Although nothing has as yet been officially decided, we believe | the matter has been more than talked over in the Lone | *don Rowing Club, and that one of the officers of that representative English rowing club—if we may so call it—well known for his indefatigable efforts, has already | interrogated one or two gentlemen as to the possibility of their being able t find time to go, which will, proba- bly, be the only objection that in this instance can be | raised to a crew being sent, As time goes on wo shall probably hear more of the matter, and, in conclusion, we feel certain that we shall ouly be echoing the unant- mous voice of metropolitan oarsmen generally in ex- pressing the bope that one crew, at least, from old Father Thames may be seen at Philadelphia next Au- gust. THE WARD CREW. Naw York, Feb. 15, 1876, To ras Epiror or THE Heratp: T notice an article in your issue of Tuesday morning | signed “Amateur,” in which some pertinent and timely | questions were put concerning the whereabouts and | domgs of the Ward Brothers, the heroes of 1 in relation to the coming Centennial regatta, which; in port of importance, will as far overshadow the last international contest on Saratoga Lake as daylight doth darknesa, Having questions propounded by “Amateur” I would ask the favor of a smail space in your crowded paper to not increasing, I am bappy to believe), and who desire to seo America fitly represented in the coming professional | races, which will be hotly contested by the best crews that “all England’’ can turn out. In the first place the innumerable Ward Brothers are come from honest toil and the leading of frugal, tem- parate lives, In season they are all shad fishermen, and I guess not alone Josh but all of the old fourare at present engaged ‘in mending thoir nets’? and other- wise getting ready for the approaching shad fishing. Asto what they are doing “to seal their verdict of | °72"" I can answer that they are doing nothing, and the reason why {s that they can’t afford to, It would cost at least $2,600 to get up a four-oared crew, such a one as the people of the country would like to see row in °76 against the world, ‘This expense, of course, includes everything—the time From | | were | ESSEX name, Where she was confined,’ After her recovery she called at Hawthorne’s house, but bis mother re- | tused to let her in, Thereupon she consulted with her mother and caused his arrest for abandonment, Judge Kilbreth ordered Hawthorne to furnish $300 bail to pay his wife $5 per week for her support, A DISHONEST PORTER, On Saturday morning Detective Dunn,, of the Central Office, arrested James Wright, a porter in the employ of Messrs, Draper & Owen, No, 608 Broadway, The firm have missed goods, consisting of buttons and | trimmings, for some time past, and notified Superin- tendent Walling, The detective arrested Wright as he was coming oat of No. 97 Mercer street, a tailor’s store, occupied by Jacob Cohen. A search warrant was issued, and several packages of buttons and $500 | worth of tailor’s trimmy tound in Cohen’s store | identified by Mr, Draper as being part of the stolen property. Cohen was arrested, and upon ex- amination yesterday the above facts were sworn to. Wright was held in $1,000 tor larceny and Cohen in | $2,000 for receiving stolen goods, THE GAMBLING LAW. Martin Mackey and Charles Landry, of No 89 Sul- livan street, wero held in $500 bali each for violating | the lottery law, ‘The prisoners were in charge of a | policy shop at No, 89 Sullivan street when Officer Reyuolds, of the Eighth precinct, made a raid on the | place and succeeded in arresting the men and seizing several printed slips of the “Old Kentucky Lottery,” MARKET POLICE COURT. Before Judge Kasmire. PRICE OF A SHEEP. | Thomas Mullen, a tramp, on Saturday stole a dressed | sheep, valued at $5, from in front of the butcher store | of Jacob Gaub, ab No. 266 Broome street, .He was car- rying off his prize through Delancey street when over- | hauled by Gaub and a police officer, Judge Kasmire | yesterday held him in $500 bail to answer. A DISORDERLY HOUSE. On Saturday night the police of the Tenth precinct mado a raid on the disorderly nouse at No. 148 For- syth street, and arrested the proprietor, John Anslet, and twenty-five of the inmates, Yesterday Anslet was held in $1,000 bail to answer, and the inmates were discharged with a reprimand, } THE EXCISE LAW. Herman Wilbes, of No, 149 Stanton street, and John | Kehner, of No, 101 Essex street, and John 0’Connor, of No, 186 Chrystie street, gave biul in $100 each to | answer a charge of violating the Excise law in having gold liquor without license, A JUNK DEALER'S CRIME, A few days ago aboy named Daniel Kelly, aged ten | years, living at No, 10 Scammel street, sold to Michael | Dufly, a junk dealer at No. 313 Delancey street, a | quantity of brass keys and escutcheons. Officer Cook, of six men, the cost of their training expenses and their | “pig.” Josh to-day is a better man physically than | he ever was; as sound as adoliar, and T believe if the | | money could be raised for him he could get up a crew | that would duplicate. his . last. victory. and carry the | Stars and Stripes to the fore in this centennial year of | the country’s independence. Our college men and being supplied ‘with the sinews of. | who will lend & helping hand to our professionals (and | who can so fairly represent us as the Ward Brothers, | under the leadership of Josh)? They are all hard: | working men, none of them burdened with riches; but | af the way can be opened to them they will, I doubt not, once more step forth and save our honor and pride. ONE WHO KNOWS, BASE BALL MATTERS. | THE AMATEUR CONVENTION—THE BUSINESS TO BE TREANSACTED—NOTES AND GOSSIP, When the Nationa! Association of Amateur Base Ball Players adjourned their meeting in Boston last spring | 1¢ was to meet in Philadelphia at half-past ten A. M., March 8, 1876, The session will be held in the Assem- bly Building, No, 108 South Tenth street, Secretary Blodget will issue the call next week, and it is believed that the meeting will bo a fall and teresting one, ‘There are now twenty-eight clubs enrolled in the asso- ciation, not including those who have disbanded since the meeting last spring. The aseociation has for its purpoge to foster and per- petuate the national game; but as yet no good results have come from its action. Last year it adoptéd an admirable code of rules; but how far wero they carried out by ball players? It is a disgraceful fact that, dur- ing last season, more ‘revolving’? and semi-profession- alism were indulged in than during any previous sea- son. The association was formed for the purpose of eradicating these evils; but, although: it has had two years to take some steps toward their extirpation, it bas done little or nothing. The rule which prevents a club from offering a player any “money, place or emolument” for his services can be more easily evaded than that which stipulates that no player shall par- ticipate in any match game in one nine within sixty days from the time that he appeared onthe field as a member of auother club, That “revolving” was | indulged in to a largo extent. last year is | Proved oy the number of protests that were |.sent in to the Judiciary Committee. That body, however, acted with insufficient promptness and vigor | in holding its meetings and dealing out justice to the | guilty ones, Several attempts to meet were made, Which resulted in necessary adjournment,” without transacting any business, for the reason that a quorum | was not present. When the committee did meet they | deait with entirely too lenient a hand with the law- | breakers, and, as & consequence, the intringement on the sixty day rulo increased in accordance with tho want of spirit displayed by the members of the Ja- diciary Committee. ‘Those gentlemen seemed jo bo always looking for some technical loophole through whieh they could allow the revolvers to squeeze. On | the occasion of a game between the Keystones, of this | city, aud the Hobokens, which occurred last fall on the Elysian Fields, a piayer who bad donned the uniform | again, and no batm can come to me." This is an ex- ample of the feeling engendered by the sioth{ulness of ose who had been elected to protect the fraternity from such abuses. ‘Ihe better class of the players of this vicinity, however, re of the torpid condi- tion of last year’s Judiciary, and will use their influence | at the coming Convention to elect only vigorous and up- right men to that important committee, The gentlemen who were elected to the offices of president, vice president, secretary and treasurer last year have ail performed ‘their respective duties fault- Jessly, and it # thought of nominating the same ticket for the centenaial year, THE ARLINGTON CLUR. This well known organization, which $s one of the fow bona fide first class amateur clubs of the country, last prepared to make known its nine for this | year, viz. :—Sage, catcher; Falion, pitcher; Isherwood, | rst base; Loughlin, second base; Pursell, third base} | Tracy, short stop;' Gedney, left’ field; Walsh, centre | These names, already | own, make probably the most powerful amateur | eld, | well | nine that New York ever put on the field, not even ex- | cepting the picked t nd Treacey, right feld. Notre. | Grounds, Hourigan, Jast season's left fielder, will play | ood player in the position. is change and that of right will be the same as that of last short stop, and he 1s With.the exception of Heider the Cheisea a year. The Alaskas, of this city, who achieved quite a noto- riety by winning several important games during the Jatter part of last season, wit present a strong pine this year, The players are:—Quilty, cateber; Hankin- fon, pitcher; Rice, first base; Rorke, second base; ; Cowell, short stop; Sullivan, left fleid; field, and Badiey, of last year's Hobo- arrested Dutly ior violation of the law, which prohibits junk dealers from purchasing any goods from miuors, Judge Kasmire held Duffy nm $500 bail to answer. H Of the Seventh precinct, heard of the occurrence, and | | pena | | FIPTY-SEVENTH STREET COURT. | | Betore Judge Murray, HXYMEN IN COURT, | Ellen Donnell, No, 49 North Broadway, Yonkers, ap- | peared at this court yesterday to prefer a complaint against Benjamin Benton, No. 717 Seventh avenue, and | William Myers, No, 673 West Fifty-second street, tor | having abducted her daughter, Mary Donnell. A warrant had been issued and the parties found with Miss Don- | neil at the Eagle Theatre, where they were arrested, Oa being brougat to court yesterday morning it wi ascertuined that she had voluntarily left her home with Benton, and that Myers had simply acted as mes- | Senger for them, Judge Murray, deeming it a pity to | separate them, united them in wedlock, amid the general amusement of the assembled court, / HARLEM POLICE COURT. Before Judge Smith, STEALING LEAD PIPE, On Saturday morning the unoccupied house No. 220 East Seventy-ninth street was entered by burglars, and $23 worth of lead pipe abstracted therefrom, On information received from Joha Barwack, of East Seventy-fourth street, a junk dealer, to whom the pipe had ‘been sold, it was found that the culprits were John Powers, No. 330 Seventy-sixth street, and Morgan Bailey, ot 109th street, Powers was accordingly ar- rested by Oificer Murtha, of the Twenty-third precinct, and on being arraigned at this court yesterday, al: though pleading not guilty, was committed in default of $1,000 bail to answer. A warrant has been placed in the hands of Oficer Carthy, of the Twenty-thira precinct, for the arrest of Balley, the prisoner's accom. plice in the burglary, POLICE COURT NOTES, At the Tombs Police Court yesterday, before Judge Bixby, Thomas Dunleavy, Frank Wielt, Henry D, Campbell, Frank Kelly, Thomas Callahan and James Murphy were all held in $500 bail to answer ona charge of being eye-witnesses of a cog fight at No, ol West street. Mary Clark, of No, 938 West Twenty-fifth street, was | held at the Washington place Police Court yesterday in | $1,000, on a charge of stealing a pocketbook contain- | ing $3 60 from Martha Harris, of No, 25 Clark street, while the latter was purchasing goods on Saturday in | Lisle’s store, Sixth avenue and Twenty-third street, COURT CALENDARS THIS DAY. Scrreme Covrt—Cuamprns—Held by Judge Law- rence.—Court opens at ten o'clock A.M. Third Mon- | day’s motion calendar, : | Serrems Court—Spectat Tarm.—Case on, No. 9% Surxeme Cocnt—Part 2—Nos. 1092, 680, 1028, 178, | 225, 2898, 982, 452%, 4224, 4228, 4087, 1142, 574,'1020, j 1084, 1918, 14, 1136, 2531, 1: 1994 | 2352, 625, 1218, 1028, 1056, | 1238) 1252, 1254, 1258, | 1344, 1804, 1750, ‘2336, "12 | 1181, 1156, 1161, 2206, 2507, 1421, 53, 1250, 6 a, 1108, 1803, 655g, 1139, 1213, 2831, 2582, ' 2333, 1217, 1307, 791, fe Cl vi a! } 923, 627, 827, 283, 1856, S23, 715, 865, 1924, 919, ot the New York Club was approached by a “ ee wy A ‘ 5 friend and accosted with the reproach, “You | Part 2--Nos Sus, Pg Hg yd 3, 990, 1000, 1004, have no right to play in this c Yoo | svre Ra , Hee 2 Tees ow ma have played im another nine inside of sixty | g9°y ee ee ee a Oe days.” “What difference does it make?’ replied the | 9¥1"% Ss Bn, tty Sy | fedoiver, ‘the Judiciary Committeo will nover meet | ,,.COURt OF Common PLeas—Part 1.—Ready—Nos, 264, 589, 2049, 777, 955, °056, 969, 177, 51, | 2373, 1690, 1157, 1554, 4! i 228), 806, 2288, | Nos. 1909, 67083, 760, 1618, 986, 2 Set down— F; 1556, 1038, | Part 2—Noa. 1609, 1673, 1470, '1282, 1955, '2974," 1818, | Set down—Nos, 1368, 1204, 1454, 1@ge, 1377, 1763, 1764, 1249, 1292, 796, 1359, ' Part 3 —Pass€d—Nos, 1834, 1621, | 1608, 2188, 1494, 1496, 1780, 1797. Set down—Nos. 1495, | 1504. 1685,’ 1603, 1665, 1668, 1700, 1738, 1755, 1785, New— Nos. 1795, 1709. Court or Comox Preas—Equity Tena.—Nos. 3, 29, 14, 24, 12, Marine Corrt—Part 1, 6882, 6158, 3929, 6489, 6440, 6821, 6261, 3186,’ 8881, 3889, 3011, 3941 Part 2—Nos, 8365, 3801, 5136, 266%, 8797, 3821, 5640, 6690, 658s, 6492,’ 5490, 8844, S801, 19, 3740, —Nos. 2024, 5349, 6881, 6882, 2851, 4789, 4172, 2601, 756, 2056, 2706, S108, "34808, 8535, 6845, 5008," 6784,’ 5893, 6212, 6312, 6529, 5644, 6609, 6603, 6604, 6592, 6665, 6712, 6726, 6726, 2713, 6743, 6793, 6803, 6809, 1610, 6823, 6624. }, 6625, 6836, 6799, ‘OURT OF GENERAL Skssiows—Held by Recorder | Hackett—The People m Which she matched against a | Dengon, arson; Same vs. Edward Stein, felonious aa } similar one trom Brooklyn on the Union Grounds last fall. The Arlingtovs have fitted up their room: 248 Fourth avenue, very handsomely, and 1 now ina highly successial conditien, oth dnancially and socially, That admirable fielder, Jobn Hayes, is reported as imtending to eater i-professionaligm during the coming season and will play left Seid (ef the Chelseas, of Brooklya. That club will be under the management ot Mr. Van Delft, Jate manager of the Atiantica, and will take the place of the Atlantics on the Union os. 6054, \, 585; | sault and battery; Same vs. Anthony Fay and Louw st | Karz, grand larceny; Same vs. Mary Dully, grand_lar- ; Same vs. Michael Roach, false pretences;"Same | Ys, Mary MeCabe, petit larceny; Same va Richard H, | Scott, grand larceny; Same vs Francisco Decamia | robbery; Same vs, Andrew Doolan, burglary; Same. vs | Thomas Devine, grand lwreeny; Same vs, J Dore | mus and Joseph Schoonover, grand larceny; Same V8 Jon MeCarthy, forgery. | UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT. Wasminctox, Feb, 20,1576, United States Supreme Court on Friday:— No. 11, Burbank vs, Bigelow—, 1 from. the Cir- cuit Court for tho Eastern diane oe Lowisana.— In this caso Burbank, widow of Thomas & Bur- bank, aued. Bigelow, a. cftizen of alleging that hy husband. and = Bi partners (@ basiners, and 1 Bigelow had suit and recovered against one Edward W, Burbank, in bis own name, in fraud of the rights of the copartnership, and that the sum secured by the udgment was, /» (ack an asset of the firm |The | Judge Benedict ordered that the trial agaist Wisconsia, | Frich rayer was for discovery and an injunction, and that the Fediment should be declared un asset of the frm. The ill was dismissed for want of jurisdiction, and it is here contended that this decision was an error; as the defendant was a citizen of Wisconsin, he was properly sued tn the Louisiana Circuit, the service of process haying been made within the jurisdiction, The defendant in error maintains that, as Bigelow had be- come a bankrupt in Wisconsin and the proceedings were there pending, the bankruptcy courts of that district alone had jurisdiction. B.'F. Butier for the sopationt and Messrs. Duraut and Homer for the ap- pellee, No. 155, Hallet al. vs, the United States, and one other case—Error to the Circuit Court for the District of Minnegota,—These were suits against Hall, Collector of Internal Reyenue for the First Minnesota distric! it ways previously been allowed, but which were now disallowed. The decision was that they were properly re- ected and that the decision of the department was final, itis here contended that this decision was an error, inasmuch ag that the Secretary of the Treasury was authorized to allow for the eervices rendered in this caso such a sumas 1s reasonable; that the sum claimed was reasonable, but was disallowed, Hence the Court will do what the head of the department should have done under the decision in the Umted States vs, McDaniel, 7 Peters, 11, Gilfillan & Williams for plaintiff in error; E. B. Smith, Assistant Attorney General, for the government, No, 158 Propeller John Taylor vs. The New Jersey Transportation Company—Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Southern district of Now York.—This was a case of collision on the Hudson River off pier 39, at the foot of Vesey street, between the propeller and the ferryboat John 8. Darcy, belonging to the transporta- tion company, October BI, 1867, The decree was for the appellee, the Court finding that the collision was wholly the fault of the Jobn Taylor, becauso the courses of the two vessels, when first observed, were crossing, and the ‘Taylor had the ferryboat on her starboard side; and it washer duty to have kept out of the way, and for that purpose to have put herself ina position to take the necessary steps in time, Itis here insisted that the ferryboat was at fault for not stopping her engine long enough when coming out of her bertl to observe if her course was clear, that she might govera herself -accordingly, and in giv- ing a signal of her intention to come out anead of the passing boat witnout first stopping to observe if such ‘a thing Was possible. C. Van Sautwood for appellant aud W. R. Beebe for appellee. COUNTERFEITERS CAPTURED. THE LOUGHERY BROTHERS AGAIN UNDER AR- REST—A JEALOUS WOMAN'S REVENGE. The counterfeiters of five cent nickel pieces who ro- cently escaped from the Raymond Street Jail, Brooklyn, have been recaptured, and are now 1n their old quar- ters, The prisonersare John and Thomas Loughery, brothers, both natives of Canada, It will be remem- bered that the Lougherys were arrested last summer for manufacturing nickel five cent coins, which were of such excellent workmanship that hundreds of them passed undetected through the Sub-Treasury in New York. The counterteiters were in league with ono Philip Lewiniski, and carried on the business in a stable on Franklin avenue. The machinery seized by United States Marshal Harlow at the time the brothers Lough- ery were arrested was valued at $10,000, and it is said that they had put in circulation about $30,000 worth of the spurious coin before they fell mto the clutches of the law. Lewiniski was indicted in conjunction with the Lougherys by the Grand Jury of the United States Court, and in the early part of December their case was called for trial before Judge Benedret, They were defended hy Gen- eral Catiin for two days, during which the case for the prosecution was very strong against the prisoners. On the third day Lewiniski was present, but his associates in crime had fled. On the night of December 7 the Loughery brothers cut a hole through the partition of the debtors’ room, in which they were kept, and ea- caped, The counsel stated the case to the Court, but ‘hem should proceed, and, in event of their being recap- tured, it would only remain for the Court to pass the sentence of the law, Lewiniski was convicted and sen- tenced to the Albany Penitentiary for a term of five ears. ss Large rewards were offered for their capture by the Sheriff, and the Marshal’s officers were in their search, Keeper Stinson, of the a special detective to work on the case, anions and friends of the counterfeiters who lived in rooklyn were kept under survellfance. It was finally ascertained that the men ‘wanted’? were secreted in New York. They were traced to the ‘Mills House,” corner of Fourth avenue and Twenty-seyenth street, in this city. Jail Keeper Stinson, in company with offi- cers Schultz, Cassidy and Evans, went on Saturday to the house, taking with them the prison van. They also obtained the assistance of the Twenty-first pre- cinct police. They entered the ‘Mills House” and searched the roo! for the fugitives. It was found that room No. 13 was locked on the inside, and so Stin- son told the proprietor of the house to open the door, The man said there was a sick erson in that room and it would not do to disturb Sin. Stinson rapped three times on the door and the bar was removed cautiously by those on the inside, In & moment the officers from the jail were on the other side of the threshold and confronted the Loughreys. Jobn hid behind the door tn his nightdress, while Thomas covered up his head with a quilt in the bed. “The jig is up now,’ aimed John, aud he shook | hands with bis captors. The two men then dressed themselves and quietly accompanied their captors to the van. They were then taken over to the prison in Brooklyn, where they were placed in cell No, 1a rather dainp apartment on the lower tier. They atiribute their capture to a woman with whom Jobn had been intimate, but eventually discarded, and thoreby excited her jealousy, Tue Lougherys say that when they escaped they walked from the jailto the Fulton ferry through the side streets in company with some men who had aided them to get out. They laugh at the vaunted vigilance of the police and say that they have been out walking openly on the streets of New York every night since they lett Brooklyn, They con- kidered the crowded city far more available as a hiding Jace than the country, where all strangers become ob- jects of attention and curiosity, They will be arraigned for sentence in a day or two, CAPTURE OF ALLEGED BURGLARS. James Reed and Edward Stroker were arrested yesterday and lodged in the Third precinct station at Jersey City on suspicion of being implicated in the daring burglary and safe breaking at Schroeder's grocery store, corner of Newark and Chestnut avenues. This was the most daring burglary perpetrated in Jersey City for many months. The powder explosion in the safe was beard by several neighbors, yet a young man who is in the employ of Schroeder, and who was sleeping directly tm the rear of the store, says that he heard no noise, as he slept soundly. A more public location for so hazardous an exploit could hardly have been selected. rr SABBATH ROWDYISM AND MAYHEM. The feud that has long existed between what aro known as the First and the Sixth ward gangs in Jersey City culminated in a sanguinary fight yesterday morning. Terry McCue, of the Sixtb, and James Reilly and John Connolly, of the First, had been ca. rousing through saloons during Saturday night. About seven o'clock yesterday morning they went into Dick- inson’s saloon, on Montgomery strect, and a dispute/ arose over the payment for drinks. Connolly told McCue that the laiter was “no good,” and the opinion was indorsed by Reilly, McCue inched with Reilly, and both fell on the sidewalk. During the scuffle Reilly lost a large piece of his right ear, which McCue was seen spitting out. It was picked up bya newsboy, who gave it to the police, McCue then rushed at Connolly And tried to bite his ear off also, but Conolly managed to get outof bis reach. McCue remained master of the field till the police swooped down and arrested him and Reilly, the latter showing signs of distress and bleeding lateral He is a brother of the notorious Phil Reilly, who is under indictment for the murder of Livingstone, but who made his pe from Jersey City on the night of the murder and is still at large. MANGLED ON THE RAIL. At an early hour yesterday morning a man was knocked down and run over at the corner of Fourth avenue and Twenty-ninth street, by a freight train be- Jonging to the New York and New Haven Railroad. He received a compound complicated fracture of the femur and humerus and was also terribly mangled. The flesh ‘was 60 lacerated that the pulsation of the femoral artery could be readily felt, Surgeon Andrews was suin- moned and applied a torniquet above the bleeding wounds, but the man died ive minutes after his admis- sion to Bellevue Hospital. Upon his person was found ‘fa diamond stud and ring, heavy gold wateh, chain and sleeve buttons and $40 in money. His body was after- ard recognized as that of John D. O'Shea, in the ploy, of Alderman Pettigrew, street contractor. He was about forty No. 197 East T! hold an inqaest. CRISPIN GRIEVANCES, irtioth street, Coroner Woltman will John J. Lang and Thomas | To Ta® Evita or toy Heraty:— Having noticed in the public press assertions calen- lated to mislead the public mind in reference to exist- ing difficuitics between ourselves and the firm of Han- non & Redish, we would ask sufficient space in your valuable journal to place our grievances before your readers. In reply to the statement that we have ‘struck against machinery, we emphatically deny it, and, ‘on the contrary, our organization has never resisted the introduction of machinery, The present diffeulty w® not to resist reduction or demand for increase of wages, but simply to maintain our organization and the rules governing the same. We hoid that ander | The following additional cases were heard in th® | the law incorporating trade unions we have the legal right to combine tor protection, a right which is not questioned when omployers combine a mgr very often of exacting unteasonable profit from bli, ‘The rule in question is one deemed necessary the we have determined to struggie. With the aid coming to us from all parts of the country we shall sueceed in defeating those who aim to the only weapon to resist oppression the unfortunate workers pbave—namely, our trade union, Very re- specitully PXRAQIIVE CoMMIPER ORISPING years old, unmarried and resided at | tion of the legitimate mechanic, and to maintain | A * this time he talked incessantly about | and while his wife was still suffering from illness an —WITH SUPPLEMENT. ri padi pane Tare ae THE DYNAMITE HORROR. The Strange Story of Thomas’ Wife. Her Ignorance of His Harly d History. WAS THE: FIEND A MONOMANIAC ? As was announced In the Hxrauo, the steamer Wic- land brought from Europe on her last trip the widow of Thomas, whose dynamite plot resulted 30 dis- astrously at Bremerhaven. At the time a HERALD reporter called upon her and an interview was ar- ranged, the lady promising to disclose her knowledge of Thomas and his antecedents and to make whatever statements might tend to establish his somewhat in- volved identity. She received the reporter, and in reply to his questions touching her husband, she cor- roborated the statements published in the Hena.p’s London letter, She said:— “To me he was always known as Wiiliam Thomson. Under that name he married me and by it he was known to all the acquaintances he made on the Con- tinent He seemed averse to speaking much of his early life, but he gave me to understand that he was born in Brooklyn and that his people lived in Petersburg, Va. His father, he said, was English, his mother Scotch, and of her I have frequently beard him speak in terms of the greatest affection and reverence, Once, however, he told mo that his name was Alexander, and that he was led to conceal it from his being engaged in blockade running atthe time of the war. He always spoke of the sea and of military life as if he had been conversant with them, but I fancy his knowledge of both was somewhat superficial, Of his means and resources I knew little, ‘He was never engaged in any business to my knowl- edge, but I am led to believe that he had a passion tor speculati At one time I remember his showing me $75,000 in bonds, but that was the only instance ot his giving me an inkling of the resources he commanded.” THOMAS’ HABITS AND DISPOSITION. Speaking ot Thomas’ habits and disposition his wife said:—‘He was essentially a man of quiet dispo- sition, Most of his time was spent at home, aud he seemed to delight in nothing so much as chatting and laying with his children. He was very proud, made few acquaintances, and although jovial in company he always preserved a strict decorum and reserve, He was no drinker, nor did he smoke much, and I never Lonerae having seen signs of intoxication upon im. From the subsequent conversation the reporter was Jed to believe that Thomas’ actions and likings during the ten years of his married life in many instances sa- vored of insanity. His passion for , tional stories of murder and havoc, p> oe for tales of blood, and the unaccountable longing tor scenes of carnage, which prompted bim to look for war details with anxiety and to visit battle fields from whose horrors the bravest might shrink, all seemed to indicate that ‘Thomas was essentially a monomaniac, His wite states that during the Franco-Prussian war he conceived a most bitter and unaccountable hatred for the Germans, At times he would utter the wildest denunciations of em, and, when excited, would make the maddest rei and express toward them the deepest detesta- jon. SHE MRETS THE MYSTERIOUS MAN. Mrs. Thomas gave the following story of her life from the time of meeting her husband:—During the summer of 1865 Mrs. Thomas, then a young girl, was stopping at a little country village in Iilinois, It is a quiet, se- questered spot, shut oif from the world by great tracts of woodland and ranges of hills which, from the ad- vantages they offered sportsmen, drew together quite a number of foreign pleasure-seekergy he population ofthe place was made up principally of French and Germans, and only an occasional American ever so- journed at it very long. During her residence here there came to the house at which she was boarding an English looking gentleman. suifering from rheuma- tism. He was tall, broad shouldered, witha ruddy complexion and a protusion of light brown hair, This man was Thomas, Why he came there he did not di- ‘vulge, but hinted te the young girl into whose company he was necessarily thrown that be had been a blockade runner and was now seeking coucealment in this out- of-the-way place. Their acquamtance ripened, and in the autumn of the year she became his wife. They first took up their abode in St, Louis and lived there for a while, Thomas devoting himself entirely to bis ride and forming no associations outside lis hotel All ‘his adventures in the war, often expressing a fear that pursuers whom he dreaded would Ret upon his track. At night, too, his sleep was troubled, and he frequently started up, ex- claiming that the dagger of an assassin had been at his throat. One night in the middle of winter, while all the residents of the hotel were asleep, there came a knock at the door, which Thomas roge from his bed to answer. In a moment he came back, hurriedly dressed himself, and, without any explanation, departed. Days passed away, and Mrs. Thomas neither saw nor heard anything of herabsent husband, until the thought that he had deserted her began to dawn upon her, She waited patiently, however, and one day he came back as suddenly. as he. had departed, and told her that be narrowly escaped with his hfe and that she must prepare to leave St. Louis at once, ‘That afternoon they took the train for-New York and travelled day and night in the most severe weather till they reached it. So intense had been the cold und so exhaustive the excitement of the trip that Mrs, Thomas had to be conveyed to her hotel in an almost numb condition, and had to have restoratives applied immediately on her arrival. Bat no delay would be | suffered. The steamer Hermann, of the Bremen line, was to sail in a couple of days, and on her they leit for E 18th of January, 1866, After a twelve | ry! ¢ they reached Bremen, and from it pro- ceeded to Dresden, where they resided several months, Once in Europe the fear of some impending danger seemed to leave Thomas, and he became tne bluff, jovial fellow which the acquaintances he made there jave since described him to be. Most of his time was spent at home, and he delighted to visit all points of interest about the city and its suburbs in the company of his wile and to describe them with a truth- fulness and fagihty which must have been the resuit of very extensive reading. While here he joined the American Club, and became a favorite with most of the members, his genial hutuor and a generosity which al- ways distinguished him recommending him to them all At this time the Austrian war was drawing to a | close, and day atter day Thomas occupied himself only | with the newspapers, Before this and during his resi- dence in America nothing so pleased him as a perusal of the papers, and for narratives of murders. baities and sudden death he had a special zest, So absorbed | would he become at times im this reading | that he would lose control of himself and | rave about scenes of bloodshed described im it as though he were mad. When the accounts of tle last batties of the Austrian war got into print a sudden. desire seized Thomas to visit these fields of carnage, (aed for the loss of a child he caused her to ride in is company along the route the contending armies had taken in the last campaign. ‘he havoc had been greatest they went, and, though the man evinced a wish to concealtrom his wife | some of the horrors spread along the way, he seemed); to gloat over the awiul sights and to be oblivious to! anything but them. Very hurried preparations had been made for this.strange journey, and so When they pasted through districts where the villages had been yarned and the fleids devastated they suffered intensely | from thirstand fatigue, but even this would not deter him | from continuing on his route. Strangely inconsistent with this morbid passion for looking upon death in its most revolting aspect was his conduct on visiting hos- | pitals where the wounded were brought. He conversed | with them, encouraged tuem and frequently wept over them ; and when he saw the dead Dornw by their com. | | | Over every field where rades to their last repose his eyes would fil with tears, and he would keep repeating, “Poor fellows, I pity them.”? On his return to Dresden the doctor atteud- ing bis wife reproached him with the folly ot his joar. ney, Saying it was the act of a crazy man; at which he | became thoughtful, and desisted for a while from speaking of the horrors he had seen on the wa ‘THY HOME AT DRESDEN, Ina short time Thomas announced his intention of | going to America, He hired a house in the suburbs of Dresden, bade an affectionate farewell to hii and corresponded with them so far ag he was able ou the way, His stay in America was very brief, aa he re turned on the steamer which had taken him there, He had telegraphed his arrival on reaching #reten, and on the night when she expected him Mrs Thomas | ¢ sat Up awarting him uutil, worn out by fatigue, Suddenly she awakened by joud door, aod @ voice she recognized as Ler hus- threatening and swearing, She opened tue | door and, be came into the room, flushed, angry, and with @ strange, wild jook in bis face she had never seen before. From that time be lost his good humor, avoided his friends and sat apart, gloomy, taciturn, and dis- posed to resent any disturbance Wifatever. ‘His chil- | dren, too, whom he bad formerly delighted to fond torn dang oer of con ‘were now negiected, aud no effort of bis w coul dispel his settled melancholy. He was also subject to fits of dizziness, and when questioned about it said he had had a touch of sunstroke, | soon and entreated to be A marked characteristic ‘sion to Ne for whom he bad formerly had a great liking, ihe and again he exppessed ‘his feelings toward them with a pas- sionate earnestness indicative of actual hatred, and whenever he bad occasion to mention them his Cage ‘was most Violent and abusive. Suddenly, however, he became more cheerful, and announced his intention of going to America again, he made the rations and took passage for Ei letters came from him dated from then correspondence suddents ben ts poms news of the perma ees money almost ail expended, and, fivin strange people, she knew not what pin A ppt ga grams sent by her to England were unanswered aud tears of some dreadful accident began ‘to force them. selves upon her, While in this strait she “tent communication from Ber bi announcing his arrival in America and declaring bis intention of speedily returning, one sag seme time after this, while seated with ber pool | impaired their capacity, imself beside tne lke weld. in anew to her Tetras be strange, bli “Oh, how FE this moment! I was 4a the house all last Bight his wile; “the doors were “That could not be,’? said bolted.” locked and “Well, “I was about it,” he replied. “I walkeg around it again and again. Mrs. Thomas endeavored to dismiss such a from his head, and he at last admitted that ho had been there, bat had seen ores ang in imagi just as if ne were. For a few weeks he remained about we house> ae fevoagebe his former and frequently lauy! chatting with the child dren. ‘His wife rejolood rif 3 Improvement in health and disposition and tar believe thet be Tee Le Cy boomy of life night he burst into her room the throat. with ee — ee his —— ta, “I did not wan! a by tellin, ” said, in a voice that trembled wih pa ge ey have to go away for a week or two.’? She began vo weep as she parted from him, when hi turned and whispered, “I must go now, but this wil, be the last time.” He went away, and in a few days came letters frot him dated at Bremen and Bremerhaven. The “| of these missives was strangely rambling, the misspelled, and traces of tears perio ae gt ink on page. These indications of a troub! portentous to Mrs. Thomas. She felt a present: that something dreadful was going to happen, and day aiter day looked tor news from her husband. For jong time she heard nothing of him, till one day therq came a. telegram from the North Lloyd Steamshi Company addressed to “Mra, Thomas,” and Dearin this despatch -— “Zam sick. Come on here. “THOMAS.” Through the misdirection of the envelope she = not sure at first that it came from her husband, she telegraphed to the steamship company to Tone and they senta detective to Dresden to bring her up Bremerhaven. She had heard about the great e: sion there and fancied for awhile that her husband been standing by and sustained some injury, but the dey tective, while concealing the facts of the case, intima’ that Thomas had been wounded by his own hand, » Thi intelligence increased her anxiety and dismay, an served to divert her attention from the’ curious crowd which gathered at every station on the route to see her, and it made her unmindful of their serutiny, On reaching Bremerhaven another detective awaite her, whose attendance, she imagined, had been secur by the kind forethought of her husband. While wait« ‘ug on the platform for a cab she was Pr pen to be« hold a vast concourse of people, be Leva | mepaon| some public demonstration and crowding ail the st and byways which opened on the main thoroughfare. Soon over the faces of the multitudd a look, of pity pasked as there moved into view slong train of heargea, Stretching far up the avenue, which, she wes told, bore to the grave the victims of the exosion. ‘Thd sorrow depicted on the faces of relatives who iollowed the sad cortége moved her womanly heart, and thi tears of the wife were shed in pity for the victims o! the husband’s fatal plo. On reaching her hotel tha Ins yr of Police called upon her and from his lip# she first heard the awful story of Thomas’ crime, Fou a while she says she was unable to realize or compre hend what she had heard. Ina state of stupor she asked the official to repeat it again, and during the sub- sequent examination to. which sho was sabmitted she had barely strength to answer questions pat hers On asking to see, her husband the officials at first de- murred, and afterward agreed to an tnterview only in the presence of witnesses and with the understanding that all conversation should be carried on in Germ: with which language, Mra. Thomas says, her husban was quite unfamiliar, It was only when he was speech- less and at the point of death that she was permitted to see him. In a large room in the hospital, whither ho bad been tsken, Thomas lay. His breath came hard and labored, and his whole frame trembled convulsively, when hi wile” was led up to the bedside. His eyes fixed upon her face with a look of recognition, and when the doctors in- quired it he knew her be pressed her hand tightly and strove, but in vain, to speak. Fora few moments Mrs, ‘Thomas was allowed to remain by the ying man, and soon alter she was led away he breathed his last. ‘thei began a series of examinations by both magistrates an curious persons of no official standing, coupled with suggestions from the German press which the Americar residents felt called upon to resent, until, wearied by this kind of persecution and longing to secure retire: ment from the unenviable publicity into which-she had been brought, Sirs, Thomas came to America, PENNILESS WIDOWHOOD, At present she is residing in New York with her four children, from whom she has sedulously concealed the knowledge of their father’s crime and death. » Left utterly penniless in her widowhood, it was only by the munificence of the American residents in Germany that she was enabled to pay the expenses of the voyage, and she is now without any resources what- ever. ‘A lady friend of hers, who met her on the Con- tinent and keeuly appreciates the position of a woman of refinement such as Mrs. Thomas is, exposed to penury after a life of atiluonce, has suggested the propriety of making & public appeal forsympathy, as the Americans on the Continent did, in order to enable the widow and mother to support the little ones. whom she shrinks from intrusting to an eleemosynary insti- tution. r k THE WATER SUPPLY." THE HOLLY WATER WORKS SYSTEM—WHAT IN- SURANCE MEN’ THINK OF IT. As public interest has been drawn to the necessity of securing a more adequate water supply since the ovcur- rence of the Broadway conflagration, and as some of the downtown insurance companies were directly interested in procuring facilities for more readily extinguishing fire, a HegaLp reporter yesterday called upon some gentlemen connected with the insurance interest to hear their opinions concerning the best methods of in- creasing the water supply of the city and of guarding against any fires that may occur. Several gentlemen stated that they were led to believe that the city mains were quite unequa! to supply the demand upon them in case of any emergency. They thought that the old mains have been materially injured by corrosion and that the accumulation of matter in them had considerably They were inclined to be- Neve that when the old mains were laid no allowance was mado for the size which buildings have lately as- samed and for the drain upon the mains which so large a distribution of hydrants and water pumps has necessitated. Nor was the susceptivility of hy. drants to become frozen and clogged with ice taken into consideration, An immediate want was to be supplied at the time, and subsequent contingencies were not looked to. They said that some commercial buildings in which are kept large stores of valuable merchandise could not be reached by water im the event of a fire oceurrmg in their interior, Among others they instanced Stewart's, Claflin’s, Nos, 101 and 103 Duane street, Nos. 70 aud 72 Reade street, Nos, 326, 323 and 330 Broadway, the seven story sugar house Nos. 68 and 70 Washington street and the building extending trom 639 to 655 Broadway. THE PROPRIETY OF INSURING THESE BUILDINGS against loss hus been a matter which the insurance companies have long debated. Some time since the Board of Underwriters held a meeting and appointed a committee to devise means for remedying the lack of water facilities; but, until spurred into activity by the Jate fire, no important action was taken, Now, Ton ever, they have awakened to the necessity of urging a consideration of the matter upou the city authorities, and have resolved to investigate such plans as may be offered for increasing the water supply of the city, ‘The members of the Underwriters’ Commitiee seem to have agreed upon the adoption of the Holly Water Works Company's system as the one best calculated to meet the wants of the community. By this arrange- ment a constant pressure upon the water is prodaced,. which will drive a flood upon the loftiest struc: tures. It 18 proposed to divide the city into four districts, so arranged that in three of them in case of extraordinary emergency, by opening valver in the engine honses, a full supply of salt water can be | had from the North and East rivers. These, however, need not be used until the Croton water is exhausted, 43 a direct pressure can be put u; every main in the several districts until their supply fails, “The plan pro- posed is to place a set of engines near the Croton dam and an intermediate set between it and the reservoir, by | which the water can be forced to its fullest speed, in- stead*of flowing with its own current, as it does now. The Holly Water Works Company in prepara- tion a very full and accurate account of the wants and necessities of New York as to the water supply, to gether with proposed remedies, which, when compieted, tt is aid, will proclaim for the Holly system the iuliow- ing advantages :— First—A more posttive protection fire by the facil ties offered for Uitrowing waver any distance likely 10 Ue ro “eet WR eet ior sept Stet, Mi ring and maiai@ ating Canara fs Sin bre lication of greater and more power uth—-Reonomy in supply and delivery superior to any other method. , he saving In the destruction of property by the vedinte extinguishing of fre, as ther economy of Croton water by v water in spin of pmanensy, in mee district au occur, and only during its continuance, Svventh—Adv te be denied front a proposed inde. dent 9 for fre pare poves and for the streets, the mains to ait at that admit the water's reaching ali points likely Jagration, ‘econoray in the cost of distribution by increased facilities, p, The Holly hydrants are so arran; th ” et Lecuhoes tse Selina inenah ot thea ant as es tied oy police or eitizens beforo the arrival of the engine. ‘To further facilitate the saving of water the Holly sell-cloging taucet, it is suggested, should be atiached» toevery hydrant, so ax to regulate the supply and reduce the waste of water. Another advantage is thé automatic action of the water, which, being incom. pressible, gives on its lowering in the mains a signal to the engineer to increase the pressure at his engines. Por purposes of experiment the Holly Company. pro- poses to give @ practical test of its system in any designated district at its own expense, the cost oF work to be paid for only if it periorms the requirements of the authorities, For an evidence of the practical: wulity of their system the Holly Company refer to pattend dana be , In which cities no two 3 ‘ sumed since troduction, i pay guint Several of the gentlemen interested in insurance oD whom the reporier culled said looked forward with confidence to the introgeation afte stem: aod are engine houses at the Battery, the foot of Grand anc stated that all they require of the Common Canal streets and at the outlet of Central Park to feet the introduction of what they reqardgusap. Joos ewiye Of large frem