The New York Herald Newspaper, December 16, 1876, Page 2

et tees ae eee SS AMUSEMENTS, THEATRE E THHATRE,{ BROADWAY AND sap ST. ‘oprietor and manner... 8 Mr. Josh Hart MATINES. |Last TWO FORMANCES OF THE GRAND PRESENT) BILL. MATINER THR IMMENSE EVENING TO-DAY Programme given to-day ab the AT MATINEE. fompany appecr to-day Th { At THE MAT! INEE | _ Professor HARTZ. To-DAY | Professor SKIGRIST tT? and his wonderfal «do; MATINEE. | ring the children to MATINRE.}D0GR. THE DO (EMEC NOVEIAY THEATRE. Ode Bo. Be MM PPPP II cco g@ ok YY MMMM P pPilc oc ooo YY MMMM Pere f1 © oo L Y “MMM P 6 000° LLLL oy MV OM oP i ece QVEWY THE ed BROADWs SiN PROFE! MISS ROSA LEF. SAM SHE BIG FOUR. LANGLOI8 BROS JOTIN rn DEV ERE. tANLON and “THE HOGAN PARTICULAR AND fs invited to the careful and considerat the comfert of Indies and chi matinees, polite and gentle ‘ance for this especial pur iren wnat se, and the seate of prices E, ¥ LITTLE. FIBLDINGS. CRONIN. tention paid to nded at the nly ushers’ being in attend- ranged at one-half rate enables Indies to afford their little eves an afternoon of pure anil wholesome amusement, SCHOOL The most sumptuons revi a Mr. as CHARLE: I. CASTLE Ir, AUGUSTIN DALY . LAST TIMES cs LLAN 3 DURFACE. OBARLES JAMES LEWIS, Mr, RGIE DREW, Mrs. G, HL GTLe Wednesday, December 20, FIRST NIGHT of Mr. AU- GUSTIN DALY's new and powerful DKAMA of SOCIETY, entitled, THE AMERICAN! Box sheet now open, FOR BOANDAL” MATINEE 1[0-DAY, DECEMBER 16, 144 O'CLOCK. apg COMING SENSATION 11 TUR AMERICAN | AUGUSTIN DALY'S new Draina ef Sectoty, December 20 TE AMERIGANT! Anew Drama of Society, by the autbor ef “Pique.” FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Decomber 20, BY | ICAN 1 », Bal pie NEW DRAMA OF THE A By Augustin Daly, December XILMOKE’S GARDEN X (late Hippodroms HERIDAN SHOOK. Gd. GILMORE, THIS (SATUR Fashionable games aud fetd aud third of the SaFeR mateb gi n LO, for the Bennett Plate JAMBS GORDON tween the ii Fuller, and the © Presented t, Lie! under Chub. a between the followin: VILLAGE BLACKSMITH, Je Trot ed with the following entr: Wm. E. Weeks w. m ‘ John Murphy's blk. Jarry Hamilton's bik, m. Lane's f. g...... Ri THE RENOWNED AN b HQ. tenant PF. A, jer Captain Mowry: MORGAN. phy. Parse of $1 ge tirat, BEE weet see- Snowflake Newbrook w+ Harry: Bt. George 8 CALIFORNIA POLO. PLAYER ANO RIDER, * 4) give exhibitions or his 3 FEATS O njuncelo with (hb MBXICA in WORLD FAM HORSEMANSUTP, QUESTRIAN, ABKILLO, GILMORE’S SERENADE BAND. ADMIBSION. . Reserved Seats. Boxes (tor tour persons) Sal © Broudway WONDERS. 1AS of the First Programm NDERS AND ME TLS an HELLEL'S: ROBERT 8 MISS HEL im the AL Visio Rothing lke Miss (eile: witnessed in this or an GRAND) MATINEE ONY PASTOR'S, THIS (SATURDAY) tone ALL TON eit phenomenal wonder entitled HRNATUR 250, and 500, Se. extra RACLES, LLER, ROBERT HELLER, Frestidicitutear, Plantet and Humorist, HELLER, ifestations have ever been ney. SATURDAY AT 2. ¥ Pastors THE STARS APPEAR TNE BARDS OF TAKA, HELLY AND RYAN “MR. AND JONK."* MIR. Mis. MALO: KIRK AND LD BW, THE GREAT &THIOPIAN ARTISTS, MORGAN, THE QUEEN OF 80) JENNIE NG. 6 THE IKE THE IRISH @& ASEY, TIARRIS AN BW ACTS. 4ST. FELIX SISTERS. IN BROTHERS, BILLY COURTR GILBERT, + TONY PAS R TROUPE, BAZOR MANIA. 8 OF A CENTURY. ALMY DAYS Is DIXT PRIVATE BOARDIN TONIGHT THE MONSTER BILE BATRE, AY, LAST N7GHT OF DOMINICK MURRA INNOCENT, OR TH AMBLER'S: ESCAPED FROM SIN MONDAY—MIt. OLIVER DOUD AN FIRANCISC NSTRELA > MR dilated BYRON, OVERA HOUSE AN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, | Brondway and 29th'st. MATINEE TO-DAY, A MATINEE TO-DAY. AT BRING THE LITTLE ONES; ——® —Side-splitting Jokes, Bireh. Glorious Sinzing, > The TT! The Minstrel Palace. i 4 Brilliant Artists. city. Wamooid. Comic Dances, Backus. Received with screams — every night. The funuiest entertaininent In the EVENING, at 2. Seats secured. ELLERS WONDER TI RE. For Hiellerism, natural and nnnataral morrow's SUNDAY TIMES. Noau ARISIAN VARIETIES, ( With ot. and ARISIAN VARIETIES. | LAST MATIN TO-DAY PERFORMANCE T LA FRENCHY, | BXUILARATING, + magic, read to- Broadway. Largest, Liveliost, Fanniest Entertainment in America, SCENES AT SALARES, VA. ASSAI ¢ Grand Otio MUEL, Geor, ee AtKil all. | Blanch i sor, the French ers, the Artists’ Models, and Par 4 ory, Evenings at Matinoes Tu days and Saturdays, at Vitty of tho ti will appear in hows at cach entertainmen speckalty artist new French sei Minuet.” Th eri utlint Female Modots, UTDONE, r iar sation, Fe: ie by Gasiticht, jesdays, Thurs es in the world hing lovell- | 1 vy & star company ot QOWIN BOOTH. (CUBLIED MONDAY, DRC. EUM THBATRE. “A, ROYEE KOONS. ARGYLE “ROOMS, BRILLIANT ENTERTAINMENT. o AM OP THE KIND IN TMK “C OPEN EVERY NIGHT. NG AT Dr, Landi, See Relb BS Rvot “oe MONDAY, DEO. 18-LYCKUM TIT (pana THEATRE. AD, NEUBNDOREF SATURDAY, Decem CLOCK, ori comedy im five acts, by Munnstacdt. Box office open daily from 8 tli 4 o'clock. TREE OF CALIFORNIA IS ON Hroadway, opposite Stewart's apto Nt M Tammany Eall. } OLIDAY Goce G04 Broad: ee de given in private farvilioe after 11 o'clook. BRTHOVAN HALL, ST sT., Nis. Socindlos every Sarardey. pia All so tu ple strangers. rare XUTBITION jRIG THIS EVENING, AT CARTIER & Co. Me magers. GOODS. ADVERTISE YOUR BUSINESS THE BOW ERY. commonces 8 ‘aronors prow crowded of specinition. | Hh FOXE NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, Mr. WALLA’ | ofthe eminent dramatist ax bis present @ brilliant co! in bis celebrated Irish drama the SMAUGHRAUN, The engagement of Mr. 0 bein the comed: FORK 4 SHAL will be resumed after arecement, atter drama, entitled ALL FOR HER, will bo roduce - EVERY NIGHT at EVERY SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT 1:80, will be perform THE SHAUGHRAUN, UN, ‘ohn Gilbert, with the origt " . Al Montague, Mr. Stevenson, M Pock, Mr Mis Box office open daily from to4, Places may be secured four weeks in advance, prievo Manager. Mr. SHERIDAN SHOOK Mr AL M. PALMER Misa CLARA MORRIS, Miss SARA JEWETT, Mrs, MARIE WIL A * Miss BIIOU LLERON, Miss LOUL SILVESTER, i Miss MABEL LEONARD, | Miss HELEN VINCENT, Mr, JAMES O'NEILL, Mr. J. R. STODDART and Mr JOHN PARSELLS. ¢ OF MISS MULTON, NQ, until further notice, ult’s charming Drama, en- SATURDAY—MATIN EVERY SATURDAY KVE will be presented Mr. Bon: titled WILDER, and KATH: AXTON, FANNY MORANT, }ORWOOD and LOUISE OVERA HoOUSE—STI AY. AND 28D 8T. R & Ue acne . -Lessees and Managers Doors open at 154, Commence AS i GE. MISS LETTIE ALLEN. Mi. J. B. ATWATER. TO-MORROW EVENING, GRAND CONCERT. ‘ NINTH REGIME BAND, &c. I en MW gorgeows style, Kvery- THE BLACK CROOK: | thing new. and belliant, Mor re BLACK CROOK. | lucehi Ballet Troupe on Monday TUK BLACK CROOK, | next. YORUM THEATRE. — EDWIN BOOTH, SATURDAY MATINE EDWIN Bo SATURDAY bDWi % AT 2:39, OTUELLO, OTH AS LAGO, 2HANT OF VENICB, SUYLOCK. EDWIN | BOOTH . IN HI8 GRAAT CHARACTER, RICHELIEU. ELLY & LEON’S MI RELS, (| OPERA NOUSE, LLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, | 24d st. and 6th av, HE PARLOR TO-DAY, TO-DAS, i TO-DAY, HOME OF” MINSTROLSY, GALAT i DAY, EN ALY MATINEE FRIDAY, DECEMRB. 22, Alp THE BROOKLYN SUFFERERS. M BR 18—Firat uppeurance of Mr. Wm. Courtright, 614 BROADWAY, Proprictors - Manager red rt a a ppt, Miss Perey the ne Coroner's Jury, in whieh Harrigan and Hart Billy Burry, in Kdward Martigan’s act, Very iborly. Billy Carter, Larry Tooley. ati Vednexday and dat ST TIMBS, UMER, Lessees and Manugers TWO MAGNIFICENT PERFORMANCES TODAY (SATURDAY) MR. LAWRENCE BARRETT. ‘of the distinguished trage- t character of King Lear, TVS Th ARRETT & BAL Last appew: dian in bis | MATINEE — aL the play superbly produced, and the sapport- ing cast enlisting the entire powerful company of Boeth’s Thoutré. Firat appearance of Mr, BARRETT during EVENING | this engagement as : | KICHARD NL | ‘Tho tragedy produced with great spleador and & great cast. JARRETT & PALMAR renrecttully. announce thelr fortune in securing the sole right to the charming domestic Drama, from the pen of tl Gilbert, which ts now and has Theatre. most patnetic description, 1 situations and touching incidents. BARRETT will assume the ttle part, produced for the frst simes on OH ICIST- T POOLE & DONNELLY ,, Lessees and Managers TO-MORROW 18. i a, GRAND CONCERT, iv DOWNING’S NINTH REGIMENT BAND + and the following ominens artirte:— Mmo. MARIE SALVOTT. d TG derful Boy Soprano a taror last Sunday evening) ¢ DN, the popular fener; FFER, fi SCHER, French M, MOREL horn solotst, clarioust soloist. . Conductor BENEFIT, to be given ON THURSDAY AFTERNOON, December 21, aT 1% O'CLOOK, in bebalt of the SUFFERBRS BY THE LATE BROOKLYN FIRE, by the managers, actors, musicians and attaches of the following theatres :— WALLACK’S, ACADEMY OF MUSIC, PARK THEATRE, KAGLE TOBATRE, . BOOTH’S THEATRE, OLYMPIC, UNION SQUARE, 5 KSLLY & LEON'S, GILMORE’S CONCERT GARDEN. At the GRAND OPERA HOUSE combination performance of Tony Fastor's, Harrington & Hart's and Grand Opera Houso companies, rtieniars of the entertainments to be turnished ven in the Sunday papers, Fuit will be 5 Tickets ndmitting the holder to arfy one of these houses pamed on the occasion of the benefit performances, are now in the hunds of every meer of, jetropolitan POLI for sale, and on Monday morning may be bad at the box offices of all the participating theatres. Prico of ticket... BERLUS TIVOLE THEATRE. Buh ste, between 2d GRAND A TY GALLA V ay Opera, si Admission, only 2% id 1 er he and Dam nh only 20 Rea yt XERMANIA THEATRE, SUNDAY EVENING, Decomber 19, at 8 0' FOURTH GRAND SYMPHONY CONCERT, prices, Grand orchesten of forty. Condnetor ved ) special Artists. Basler and Pantoraime, "Thureday Matineo, 15¢. LTR. KE CKUM THEATRE, MONDAY, sents 25 con’ J 1OUKLIRU- LYCKUM TIL. N=” AMERICA aRUM, bs 105 Bowery, near @ . ouly tm Now York. Captain GRO COSTERTENUS, ‘Tatoned [rom head to toot, with 10,000 other Curiosities. Open daily, trou Rs WOOTH, MONDAY, DE MPAMMANY Ha SATURDAY EVENIN sic, wld ~ ROH EDI IS-LYCEUM THEATRE, TETY SOCIABLE,” EVERY NEW AND ELEGANT MU. CARTIER & 0O., MANG (LOATING ON THE CLOUDS OF PARADISE. BY Dr. Landis, See Religious Notices. Masonic Teari.e p\ Hrofewor CROMWELL ILLUSTRATES TUE CBNTENNIAL. MATIN TO-DAY AT E At the request of nomen dee sO a 0 Nights of his unique enter. Mi ¥, December 18-—Tho ORLENT and TUESDAY, Decomver 19, Testimonial Ben- DERS OF THs WORLD, this being post pearance in this elty this sense ] ICHBLABU. EDW LYCKUM THEATRE, MONDAY, DEO, ZOCTBTY SOCIABLES, KVBRY SATURDAY EVEN- ing, Tammany Hall, Haat [40h wt, AKTIBR & CO., Managers. ik EDWIN BOOTH. KUM THEATRE, TRW AND BRILLIANT MUSIC.—"POLO GALOP,” Goerdeln, 40c. (played at Gil What Wei the World Without if), Dank: YO hanghraun Waits,” Baker, S0c.; “Sweet’ Birdy fermpenion te Little Robin, Teil Kitty I Am Coming’), ersiey, oc. ; “Shepherd's Morning sone” (piang), Wi we. Copies’ matted. WILLIAM A, POND & GO,, 547 Broadway aud #0 Uniow square, New Y “TL ELLER'S Helieriem BS AMUSEMENTS. : OTTA: PARK THEATRE.” LOTT. JENN E. ABBEY -.. + Lessee and Manacer AN of MUSETTE, MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, wiil positively be produced, OITA. atter elaborate preparat LOTTA, LITTLE NELL and the MARCI (ple GkeatT NEW YoRK AQUARIU Broadway and 35:b at, Open daily from 9 A. M. until 10 F. M. Sundays excepted). Only living Behemoth in this nemisphe Amphibi ! Gorgeously colored Fishes! Mag- 'y sper ! Greas Fish-hatehing Department! 200,000 eggs nenbation, 100,000 diminutive $ Jaborate pro- vening, by Harvey RT FOR THE BLIND, December 16, at 8 o'clock, & SATURDAY EVE, BENEFIT OF on whieh oce Miss HENRIETTA BEEBE, OLSTERRELC I Revorved seats at Sehuly “ S OF THE DANCK” AND Ge Christmas collections of Bound Music; uneqnalled for ya- riety, bonuty and elezance: $4) worth of choicest Music for $2 50; price, $2 50, pinin; S4, full gilt. DIESON & € SEOURE YOUR SEATS FOR EDWIN BOOTH, MONDAY, DEC) I8-LYCRUM THEA ERE, oT FORGET SOCIRIY urday evening, Taman ¢ E “WORLD OF ng."—Unbounded success of DITSON & CO.'S new NJOY THEMSEL o their hearts’ soiree Sociable thin ing, Beethoven Hall, Sth st., near Bowery. Philadelphia Amusements, M Li EW NATIONAL THEATRE, PHILADE CATARACT OF THE GANGES, DECEMBER 1%. ISCKLLANKOUS. Y STORE, wholesale and retail. C HUMBERT, 9 ‘Wooster st, announces to his patrons that Mme. Hnmbert has Just re- turned from Franoe with a large assortment of Fraits, Mar- rous Glaces and Freneh Bonbons, Hoxes und Corpets, Cox nd Paper Motte small articles for Christmas trees, ‘These nnported cools will be sold at redueed prices, The boxes, coruets, &c., are sold on the fitst tloor, Guar. anieed pare. 3. WU, ‘ SEVRES CHI} TYNDALE & MITONELL O offer Sevres China Dinner Service of exquisite forms and classic fignro decorations, coutaining 249 pieces. TYNDALE & MITOHELL, 707 Chestout Philadelphia, BULL-DOZING CHRISTIANS, A BETURNING BOARD WANTED TO SETTLE THE 8, 0. G AND M, ©. G. ASSOCIATION ELEC- TION. The Sea Cliff Grove and Metropolitan Oamp Ground Association is an organization whose formidable and sport-suggesting title is not at all in keeping with the benevolent objects it proposes as its virtualend, To supply with suitable habitations the devotees who infest camp mestings, to sequester the rehyion scek- ing commanity from the turmoil and distractions of the world, and to afford a ticld to preachers of the Methodist persuasion where, in the summer months, they may reclaim the werldly minded and encourage the godly—these are the objects which the S| C. G and M, ©. G, Asso- ciation bas mapped out as the work it is to achieve, Years have passed since its inception, and the spot selectod on Long Island forjthe prosceution of its plans has become a locality where shapely cottages abound and where modern improvement stare the intruder in tho facc, no matter where his eyes may wander, There are over 400 dwelling houses in tho place, and there are in addition a hotel, a taber- naclo and a dozen other establishments, which in tho summer season swarm with thousands, The associa- tion has once or twice in the past become involved in sowe trifling legai d Ities, and now it comes betore the Court again to seek a judge who ts willing to con- stitute himself ‘a retarning board” and to act both minsterially and judicially im its regard, — It appears that the stockhelders of the association annually clect filteen trustees, Six of there last Year supported the management of Ludlow A. Batter shaw, the president of the association, who made the seventh member of this faction, and the other eight were opposed to him and his associate trustee, Aldcr- man Fauikner, The time for election was drawing nour, and the anti-Battersbaw stockboliers felt conti- dent that they would be ablo to oust him, when they received information of a movement on the part of bis supporters calculated tu secure the success of their candidates for trusteeship. It appears that seventy shares ol stock were owned fora long time by a iam J. Pease, and these snares m the present instance constituted the balance of power. The year betore lust these shares were purchased by some of the anti-Bat tershaw people, who gave notes and iaieral securities lor them. No immediate tranfer of the stock was recorded on the books, and Pease, acting in good faith and knowing the stock was sold, sent a proxy to reprosent the purchaser. In time, however, the tranater was recorded and the holders of the stock of course made proper arrangements to represent is in all subsequent meetings of shareholders. Some time since Mr. Peuso died, and his executors, who happeacd to bo of the Battershaw party, found 'a copy o! tho proxy ameng bis papers. Thinking aunter had becn recorded, and as a completo settlement had not been made, they claimed that they had the rigbt of disposing of the stock, and so without giving notice or gecking bo record it they protensed to sell it By this arrangement Battershaw himself was made the proxy to represent it. The anti-Battershaw poeple, however, made them: this action on the’ part of thor y, they <ccured an injunction morning restraining the inspectors of Hlection from Tecowing votes from others than those in whose Dame stock was recorded. Whon Battershaw sppeared to represemt the seventy sbares this injunction was served on the inspectors and the anti-Battershaw peo- plo elected their trastecs. The Batterehaw party, how- ever, did not subinit to this arrangement, and an application was filed by them In the Supreme Court, Chambers, belure Judge Brady, asking— first, that the Court establish the clection of their trustees, they having deen only elected at the Jate election; again, claiming that the election marly, Wlogally and uniarly conducted, and finally, ‘hat the Court orver a new election, To these rather irreconcileavlo propositions Judgo Brady rephed by asking botu parties it they proposed making phim a returning board, As such was clearly their intention, His Hogor said that in view of the re- sponsibilines whieh sdé&h functions impose he pre- ferred leaving ihe ease over ull Thosday next, when it will come up betore Judge Davis, Chauncey Shaffer appearing for the complainants, Josepa Fettroth, and Warner, of Ishin & Warner, for the detendants, DETECTIVES OTIONS.” Detectives Ferris and Wilitamson, of Central OfMee, while on Broadway yesterday morping, saw two noto- rious shopliftors named Maria Snediker, of No, 181 Orchard street, and Sophia Renford, of No, 642 Fost Fourth street, entering various ‘notion,’ fancy goods and jowclry stores, They recognized the woman Snediker as boing tho companion of Sophio Elkins, and the woman Renford as an associate of Soplio Levy, alias Lyons, Mrs. Elkins’ dangnter, both of whom are now in State Prison, The detectives saw the prisoners enter eight different storos on Broad- way and finally enter Tifany’s, at Union square and Fourteenti street. There they were arrested aud taken to Police Headquariers; tut, as no stolen prop- erty was found on the prisouers, they were discharged from custody lato last might, SIX DAYS' VACATION, A meeting of the members of the Cotton Exchange wag held yesterday afternoon for tho purpose of tak- ing action on a motion to close the building on Satur- duy, the 23d, until the 26th, and on Saturday the 3uth, until tne 24. prox., for the Christmas and Now Yoat holidays. On she motio being pat by the Chair it was unanimously adopted. A petition is being cirenlated by the Grain Trade for similar action on the part of the Produce Exchango A meeting of this body will ve held next Tuesday, when it 18 expected that similar measures will be adopted. A KLEPTOMANIAG, Mra Mory Williams, alias Mary Davidson, now locked up in tho Tombs for purloining goods from tho store of A. T. Stewart & Co., said yesterday to a Hxn- ALD reporter thatshe was not morally responsible for what she had done; that sko felt a desire to steal when she entered the store, which she could not re- sist. Mrs, Daviason is about fiiy-four years of age, intelligent looking und of comely appearance. algo says that mach of the goods found at hor donce and contiscated by the detectives were not stolen, but belonged to berself. BROOKLYN'S POLICE GUILLOTINE, It was a day of grief yesterday in Brooklyn tor somo of the members of the Police Department, four of whom wore obliged to give up their shields, Officer Donoghue, of the Third precinct, was one of tho vic- tims, He was arrested a short time since, charged with causing «disturbance Ou a streot car while drunk, Oihcer Jonn Jeunings, of the Tenth precinct, and Of. cer James Sullivan, of toe Eveventh precincts were also victims, Drunk on duty was the charge. For not novifying the Luspector of tho escape of a pi onor, Sergeant Smith Hall, of the Tenth precinct, was informed thas he might heroatter dispense with @ po- lice uniform, ‘on the left flourishes DECEMBER 16, 1876.—TRIPLE SHEET. LES MISERABLES. To A Visit to the Tenement Home of One of the Unemployed. A SAMPLE OF WRETCHEDNESS Mournings of a Wife and Mother Over the Long-Continued “Hard Times.” CASES OF DISTRESS. Some sensible people have been saying that as there is such a want of any demonstration of poverty by the workingmen the record of the idle men which was published jn the HeRALD a lew days since must be greatly exaggerated. This statement was made by 1 reporter to some prominent workingmen yesterda; and the answer was that the total of nenrly 50,000 idle men, as publisbed, was even below the actual numbor of men out of employment They said that the workingmen of this city are peaceable and law-abid- ing eltizens, who dosire of all things that they should be afforded the opportunity to maintain ao manly independence without broils for bread or fights in the strects. The reason, they alleged, why the men have not made any public parade of their poverty Is that tho leaders among them have not taken any stops toward organizing meetings, or effected any combinations in the several districts throughout the city, as was dono in 1873 A prominent trade unionist stated that be as well as others who had formerly taken an active part in keeping the men together found that when the work was done the workingmen fell into the hands of the politicians, and the leaders were not only ignored but were made the vietims of vituperation and calumny as a reward for their pains, Under these circumstances, and lest it might at this time have tho semblunco of personal advancement, the prominent mechanies have held entirely aloof, leaving the case of the poverty of tne men to tho wisdom of the press. Reiterated assertions were mado to the reporter that the qistress among the mea is not in the least exag- gerated, and that unless relief comes soon utter star- vation must como to thousands of the working classes, NO CITY QOAL FOR TH FOOR. To preserve life during the approaching winter warmth ig almost as necessary as food, but among the appropriations made by the city for the relief of the poor no money has been set aside for the purchase of coal to be distributed among the neody. The Board of Apportionment in distributing the money sct aside for charity to the different associations did 20 on conditions that it would only be uged for procuring tood and shelter for the thousands of starving people. In pre- vious years a certain sum was voted tobe given to the Commissioners of Charities and Corroction for the pur- chase of coal. This was given in quantities of half a ton to each famtly deserving of it, and on the ordor of Mr. Kelloch. This method of reliet reached tho labor- ing classes, who are novor a burden on the city Inany other way. A FIRST AVENUE TENEMENT HOUSE, So much has been said aboct the sufforing of tho workingmen’s families tbat the reporter made a visit to the home of one of this class, in company with one of the ynemployed, to seo tho condition in which tho famuy was. Ono of the tenement houses on First avenue was selected for the purpose, the family visited being acquaintances of the reporter’s guide, Tho three rooms occupied by the mechanic, his wife and four children, are located on the fourth floor of a six story tenement house and constitute half the width of the building. Inthe rear of this builuing ia also an- other tenement, of similar beight, a paved yard form- ing an intervoning equare, A dingy looking lager beer saloon, with family apartments at the back, is to be seon on the right of the door as you enter, and “potion”? emporiam, including candies and Kerosene of]. Tho ascent of the stairs is made in the dark, for no sun’s rays can penetrate this huge assortment of front, middie and back rooms, ‘The light that comes through the skylight on the roof is stopped alter it reaches the sixth floor, the spiral staircase of the building shutting in tho darkness of the mammotti box eftectively. A HOME IN DISTRESS, Having reached the apartments of tho family sought for tho reporter and his guide wero admitted bya little boy six years old, who at the first knock on the door speedily presented himself. The apartments consisted of a room about ten teet square, with two unlighted closets, supposed to be bodchambers, which apparently were partitioned off the main room, but which were really a fixed part of the plan of the building. The turniture in the room con- sisted of a washtub, three chairs, an ancient lounge, a table with an ailcloth co two stools and a stove. On the mantelpiece wore a few nondescrip, ornaments, diMeult to comprehend; a looking giass and the remains of a cheaply tramed clock. Two pic- tures wore hung over the mantelpioce, one reproseut- ing the Last Supper and another the Sacred Heart. ‘On the walls were a portrait of Dr. Cahill, anewspaper print of the trial of some Irish patriots anda few photographs of friends or acquaintances, The carpet on the floor was regged. The mochant wite hada wearied expression in ber countenance, but matn- tatned a sad kind of oheerfalness in her mapner pain- ful to seo, The tour children wore clothes which cov- ered them, but the material of which the garments were composed was so varied in its colors and so de- vod of samencss im ench particular article of wear that 1n saying the children wore clothes 1s all that can be said. The conversation whieh ensucd was carried on between the mechanic's wife and tho reporter's guide, as follows:— AMITIAR COXFIDENCE. Guipg—Woll, Mrs. K., how are you making out? Are tbo children ali wotl? Where is the old man him- sell? Mrs, K.—I suppose no’s like the rest of you—look- ing for what there’s no chance to get. ine—That’s so, bedad; not a stroke of work one will got this winter. I never knew the times to dad. —He had sevontoen days’ work now in sove' months, Grior—Some ot us hadn’t the half of that, Mrs. K.—Yes; but look at the poorchildren, Joe can’t go to scuoo. for want of clothes and the two youngest have been sick these three weeks, Guips—Are you gettiwg any heip at ail? Here the poor woman went into a very epen ex- Dlanavion of her Auancial situation, showing bow by & sister employed a8 a domestic and a cousin similarly earning a living she bad been helped with as much ns kept off starvation, She then went on to say that sho went once to Mr. Ketloch, at the office of the Commis: sioners of Charities and Correction, and asked for a few dollars to bny coal, The childron were almost famishing, and sho could not allow the two smaliest ones to de taken Into the room of any neighbor where thero was a fire, as they were so rick. A MIODLING LAN DLO Geine—Has the Jandirra pounced on you yet? Mrs, K.—t'ne agent bas been here otten chough, but we gave him as mneh cx we could and he let as stay. We paid him more than hail, but he might be worse than be We had a hard struggle to siay here, but where could wo goY One place is just the game as another to us, if we had the money, but you see we help exch other in this house as weil as we can, We do Wot iet the children of one another go hungry if on of us has ser atall, und that serves ali ot us, Wo are noarly ali as poor as each other, so none of us can bo proud. If the poor only had plenty of eval it would goa long way to make them tecl less down-hearted, (lero "Mrs. K, looked at the stove, whieh presented a grating without the bright glow of red hot coals, ) 5 THX “OLD MAN" HOPELESS, ivk—Does the ‘old man’’ say he has any chance ajob? Mrs, K.—No; he has no cbance. I'm sure ho must have walked over every inch of the city looking Lo Sometimes he has thought he bad a chance, ways in the end the samo old story, Poor enough, for the hardest of. 1s the waiting for work, It seems now since wo were able to a few dollurs every week that 1 almost despair. We thought we wero badly off enough thea, but though we were poor we had always enough to pay the rent_and not be hungry. 1 don’t koow what we'll di Everybody says thero will be no work for the wint How are we to hve? Here Mrs, . gave a touching account of how a friend of hers, whom she named, had parted with her little boy and giri, both the dren being sent to charitable institutions She was moved to tears in the recital of this cireumstanee, with which no doubt the sight of her own chrlidren aroand her had all to do. Abumber ot grievances to the children, which the poor woman bud either heard of or imagined, were bitterly complained of, and by the time she was through with her tneisacuoly narration sho entirely gave Way, and in a borat of grief cried out that her two sick clifldren were dying of hanger. The reporter’s companion, in ahomely, gentile way, soothed the mother's grief for f the children with thoso simple relig- that wi ho ened tavie knife he iy rtey Figs Hid eo K., alter somo picasant Work of the relltoad eo that might freoze cheerful sallies from the ‘‘guide,” resamed her good- natored expression of conutenance, and spoke as hopetully or despairingly as may be understood by such expressions as *‘Woll, the worst can only bo death.” “I suppose when we're dead they"!l bury us." “The next world must be better than this, for us who are poor, anyhow,” &c. on as it is. without saying a word, fees these two children ‘dying vetore his eyes,” as he says; but the chiidren are not dying, though be thinks they are when he is very downhearted. They are OD'Y not 80 strong as they would be if they got lots of oment. Low he lives | don’t know, except no gets a meal outside somewhere, He always says ho do in the house he won't eat more than lmay Ith much Jonger idle 1 ‘ear he will be so worn out that be abie to work as he used to. reporter ad his companion th tressed iamily, a@escending dark, The atmosphere in the burldii dense, though cleanliness seemed to be attended to on the joboies and stairs, A look in at some of the rooms, the doors of which were open as the descent was being made, showed that the occupants of these apart- ments possessed but the most limited portion of this goods, It was a genuine relief when the et was reached; the contrast with the interior of tenement house made one gratetul for the day- 4 the unpoiluted air, The following conversa- en occurred betweea the reporter and bis WORSE ON AN AVEIAGR, that an average workinginan’s famil t by any means, Nor is that an average tene- ment house. Both the families aad the tenement houses are touch worse off on au averuge, The people tnere are ali cleanly enough and the families evident): pull along well together, Did you not hear Mra, ra say that they help to keep each otuer’s children from being hungry. I could bring you to tenement houses where they would be more likely to lock the door aginst each other if there was anything to eat inside, and where they would seldom have the chance to exerciso that feat of gencrosity. No, the workingmen of the city are worse off than yon saw thai poor family te be, I remember the time, on! a few ye buck, when you would not on a Sunday afternoon a more respectablo mechanic and wile in any city in the world than the women and her husband in whose room yeu have been, There are thousands like them in this city, thoso who were making good wages and had comtort- able homes, bat woo had little by little to come ¢own to “hard times,’ but all these, I think, are above the average workingiman.”” CASES VOR THE ATTENTION OF TUR CHARITA' Mr. Kelloch, Superintendent of the Ouidoor bad sixty applications tor reliet_ yesterd: average jor two weeks past has been for Keloch says there is a host of cases of destitution that are hidden away, and only come to hight by in- direct channels, These are among people who were once well to do, but through’ the hardness of the times were deprived of employment or lost their money in fraudulent savings banks They focl ax a general thing an extreme aversion to havin, their names made public, and ali that is given in di erence to this feeling hebgin their addresses, whic! however, are precise enough to m: he task'of tn ing each abject of charity easy. Among those received by Mr, Kolloch are the following: — AU No, 222 Chrystie street there 18 a worthy woman in want of # little money to puy her rent, At No, 106 Greone street, rear house, third floor, ther: isan invalid, who has been such for sixteen months past, having had a cough all that time accom- panied by spitting of blood and searcely abie to do anything except at raro intervals. His wife does all the work she can to support the two, but sho ia in want of coal for the winter, and her means are inade- quate to the purchase of it. AtNo. 56avenue A there 1s a poor man who hi en paralyzed for the last seven years. His wife is also sickly, and both are in need of everything the charitably disposed ean afford to give them, At No. 524 Kast ‘Iwenty-ninth street there is woman in extremely destitute circumstances, with no visible prospect of reliel. At No. 124 Roosevelt street a. poor woman, with throe children, asks for relief for her sick husband, who has been without work jor somo timo, At No. 324 East Twenty-second street lives another woman whose husband was killed, and ts without the means of support for three chilare: At No, 163 Perry strcet a man and bis wife and eleven children live, all ot whom of work and destitute, At No, 609 East Ninth street a widow in wretohed circumstances resides, with four children, aged re- spectively nine inouths, tive years, seven and eight CATS, . At No, 36 Pitt street may be found a widow lady who buried her hasband last Monday, Ue was sick tor over two years, and she hag two small children to sup- port and is without the means to do it, Another widow, residing ». 362 Kast Ninth street, second floor, back room, in destitute ctrcumstances, asks for a supply of coal to put her over tho winter On the top floor, back room, of No, 811 Second avenue, lives a sober, industrious woman, the motner ot three children, who is struggling bard tor existence and asks only for a supply of coal to help her over tho cold weather, Ut the rear top floor of No, 24 James strect there is & poor woman with feur children mach in need of re- lief. On the second floor, rear bouse, of No. 135 Crosby street an industrious, deserving woman, worthy of any assistance the charitable can extend toher, ‘On the top floor, rear buitding, No, 340 Kast Eleventh street, is a deserving woman, who asks for a gift of coal, ‘There is a colored woman 1 the rear of the building No. 831 Thira whovw probably over bien years old, and she lives all alone and is in want of coal, in the rearof the house No. 87 avenue A may be founda woman who has been long suffering trom rheumatism and is without any meaus of support. At No. 307 East Twenty-sixth street the benevolent will find ar. object worthy of consideration. At No, 410 West Fitty-secona street a widow woman beseeches the help of the charitable, At No. 120 Cherry street there resides a very pine woman, to whom a helping hand might be given in tull hope of reward. ‘Some coal is sadly wanted by a worthy aged woman residing at No, 223 Eust Forty-tirst street. An unemployed man, whose wile has been an invatid for some time, lives at No. 147 Chrystie street, and his case calls earnest!y for reliet, On the third floor of No. 652 Water street hves a widow with a sick daughter aud two grandchildren, and they have no means of support whatever. There is a man at No, 702 st Thirteenth street who has beon out of work since M needy circumstaners, He has awite d any assistance given him would be well applied. There is a couple living at No, 199 Prince street who have been married forty-cight yours, and they want coal, as they art very destitute. , By gomg up one fight of stairs in the rear of the house No. 309 East Houston street a old lady of seventy years may ve lound, who has two little chi- pport, and who is bait the time sick herself, dently a foreigner, and writes with @ quaint Pathos, She says:—'‘By my poorness 1 got to sup- port two lit dren of my daughter, wich is died threo years ago. Please have pity on my triste cir- cumstances and jet me have from the public charity a half a tun of coal?” Ont of work for three months has been the case with a tan living ot No, 88 Willett street, who has five children, only one of whom bas employment. At No, 340 West Thirty-sixth street there 16 a man with five children who stands badly in need of help. At No. 641 Ftith atreet a woman calls tor help tor ner- self, her mother and her chiliren, She 1s abl@ and willing to do any work 11 she can get it Thero 18 a deserving case of charity at No. 236 av- enue A, where a whole family is in a destitute condi- ti on, At Eignty-first street and Tenth a strongly in heed of relief lies sick and desti Mrs. Bridget McDonald, ot No. 1,099 Firat avenne, represents that she has five children and a husband out of work andthe rent unpaid and the children huogry, She requires work or assistance, Mrs. Millen, of the same houre, states that she has eight obildren, an unemployed husband, and no work to enable her to keep her family from starving. ANOTHER SAD CASE. To rae Eprron or tun Hyeauy:— A family ‘s actually starving ut No, 323 East Seventy- fourth strect, room No. 1, and a line in your valuable paper stating their caso would most likely relieve them betore it is too late. A FRIEND OF THE FRIENDLESS, Drceanen 15, 1876. A COLONIZATION SCHEMR, To Tur Epiron or tur Hraano:— I admire your neble efforts to arouse the rich to tho necessity of employing or feeding she destitute poor this winter, Let mo call your attention toa billnow before Congress, that would give immediate reli! to the idle workmen of ali our large cities and, by in- creasing our productions, benefit all classes:—The Banks Homestead bill, that provides for the settlement of all idie men as colonists on tho pnblic iands by a loan of money, to bo paid with interest in fifteen years, as has been and is dono by the Enghsh government in Canada and Australia; by the French in Algiers and by KBmperor of Brazil in Brazil. This 1s the only permanent relief, and { ask you, is it not better to offer to the 59,000 workingmen of this city homes in the West than to offer to keep them by cunrity ? . Hoping that you will investigate and discuss this great measnre of reliol, by furnishing an outlet for our surplus labor on our vast but unprodactive land, 1 re- main, &c., WILLIAM A. A, PARSEY, DETERMINED TO DIE, The case of Lawrence, who attempted to commit suicide by inflicting a frightful gash across his throat and who is now lying iu a precarious condition at St. Francis’ Hospital, Jersey City, is shrouded in mys- tery. Herofases to take any food and declares that ho will starve himself to doath. He is unablo to artic- ulate plainly, but has informed the sisters of the hos- Pital that ho has three brothers in Charloston, 8. C who are in comfortable circumetances, Ho gaves different name whou first brought to the hospital and nothing was found on him which could lead to his identity. The attending physician foreed nourishment into his system through the js, Dut the sufferer said it was po use, ws he had seen enough ot the world and be wi determined to got out i Ho says tried to cut his throst wit! oabany- to death, DESTITUTION IN THE COAL FIBLDS. Hunger and Distress Among the Unemployed. FEARS OF A FAMINE ENTERTAINED. An Appeal to the City Authorities for Work and Bread. MESSAGE OF THE MAYOR Sonaxtox, Pa, Dow. 14, 1876, Tne condition of aflairs among the poor people of the coal regions js assuming an alarmii aspect, ‘Thousands, who have neither work or bread, nor the prospect of obtaining any for themselves and families, are on the verge of starvation and do not know what to do or which way to turn, The destitution is wide- spread and distressing and is not confined tothe laboring classes alone, as thero are numbers of skille¢ mechanies who have been idle for many months ané whose httle store hag long since been exhausted, ‘There are hundreds of families in and about Scranton, and notin this city alone, but ia every settlement thronghous the canal regions, who do not know where to get to-day’s dinner, and who would be shivering by cheerless firesides were it not for the heaps of coal- dust that lie seattered along the vailey and from which they draw their supply of fuol, such as it isy So many poor people or such intense downright de- spairing distress have not been scen in this section of the country for many years, It is actually paintul to witness the want and sorrow extant, Unlike the great cities, toward which the wretched of al) classes tend and in which poverty 1s seen at all peri. ods, the towns of the interior are generally tree trom apy considerable share of needy people in prosperous times, but a change bas come over the land, and mep who a year ago would deem it a disgrace to ask for assistunce under any circumatances, are absolutely famishing for the ordinary necessaries of life. Mo chanics, too, men in receipt of wages varying trow $2 50 to $3 50.atthe opening of the centennial year, are now reduced to the verge of pauperism, anxious 4 earn Miity cents aday if they can get auything to do, MRKTING OF THE DISTRESSED. They talk easily of their distress and no longer make any effort to hide their poverty, and ata meeung of their pumber held the other night, asking the city authorities to jurnish them with worx and bread, some sad stories were related. The pitiable pictures pre- nted at their homes are touching, and in some in- stances would wring tears from the most callous heart. It is a sad spectacle to see a broken spirited husband in the midst of his little, feeble family, for which he is unuble to provide bread, * even though their appeals are like so many daggers to his heart, The patient mothers invariably seek to stifle their own grief, and wherever I have called they bavo endeavored to hide the poignant fcatures of their sorrows, But the wan fice and prematurely old and haggard looks have told a story that the eloquence of the sweetest voice could not gainsay. It is remarkable how patient in most cuses the womea have shown themselves wherever 1 bave been. In the same homes where despairing men raved incoherently and cursed cerporations and the government, as well as their owa bitter fate, there was an air of quiet resignation and weak submission on the faces of the women that were truly heroic, 1t is the fact that women endure more jm any great ordeal than do men ava endure it better, Where a burly man will go bowling about with a big sorrow, showing 1t to his neighbors, a litte woman will set ber face against fate and bido it in The sorrows that kill men only bring out the sweetest, noblest natures of women. BUICIDR FROM WANT, It was only yesterday morning that a aroggist in the Fourth ward of tnis city, who had been out of work for five months, committed suicide to escape the pain ot scemg bis wife and littie ones suffering tor bread, He had no prospect, no hopes of being able to assist them, and so be closed bis eyes forever to their distress, His pame was Herry Moncli, and among other cares vhat bis bereaved and much afflicted wite 18 called upon to endure is that of providing for thoir infant babe, The manner of his death was by poisoning. This would be a digression were it Kgetdia peepee in. stance of tho general destitution which exists. It 18 predicted that thore willbe many icido irom the same cause in this locality during the present winter. PRTITIONS FOR RELIEY. ‘rhe Mayor of the city, Robert H. McKune, was peti- tioned yesterday by a mass meeting of the unemployed poor, who asked him to vse bis influence with the City Counctis for the purpose of pushing forward pub- lic Improvements and so creating work for the desti- tute. His Honor called a joint session of the Solcct 4 Common Councils, and a meeting of these bodies was held last ning to consider the important sub- ject. The Mayor submitted a messago, setting forth tbe situation, irom which I make the following extract, |) give the readers of the Hexatp a good idea ‘ave stato of affairs:— In transmitting to you the accom resolutions of the unemployed eitisens of tals city Piake the opportunity: of saying that the signs ol distress aimong the deserving classes Cour city are largely ivereasing. Most pitiable ghts are presen me almoxt Men, young, ind willing to earn their bread, are. abandoniug all pe of work, while men with wives and children to support re in the most wretched state. of existence, as from day to day, alter vainly bunting for employment, they sre com- peiled to go to their homes without one word of cheer for their desponding families. I would not dare to. attempt to ring that is in our midst, Iv is not atone the Iabuting men of our city, but the num- ber of mochantes now in want is alarming: During the summer thore bas not been the activity in building and other trades that we had hoped for, and to-day want aud suffering are in our midst beyond the conception of us all. in calling you together tl ning in jotut ses. ‘more speedy and satisiactory interchange of views conld be obtained in 4 40. any proposition that may be made whereby the wants of these poople could be relieved. PUBLIC WORK RECOMMENDED, His Honor then proceeded to muke suggestions rela- tive tothe construction of sewers and such other work as is necessary to the city’s welfare, with a view to giving employment Ww tho poor and neody. The matter was discussed at length by the councils, and committees appointed to lock after the location aud plans of the proposed sewers, One member said that they wero not a charitable boay, and that if immediate reltet were ueeded tho Poor Board was the proper Fos a apply. It was very evident from the tonor of the discussion which eusued that the word “charity” has but u small piace in the heart of thaeity councils, and that the anem- ployed poor will {amish belore those tardy bodies do anything to ameliorate their distress. 1t will take the committees a week of more to report; then it will take ‘A couple of weeks to prepare and pass an ordinance, and by the time tho proposed sewer would be begun it would be near time to lvok out for a proper place to bury the doad paupers of the city. THR PROPER COURSE for the Mayor, now that he has engaged in the good work and ascertained that the distress 1 alarmt: to appeal to the public, call a public mecting of ness Men and clergymen—if the latter can unit same platform—ond urge the organization of re- Het estnmittces at once to recotve and distribute food and clothing for the dostiiute, Every heart sh be enlisted im the good work. Itis« crime to be sto! anu indifferent while people are dying for food, and those who intend to give should remember the old maxim—‘‘Bis dat qua cito dat.” INDUSTRIES IDL 1# addition to the causos tor the genoral distress already alladed to the various industries of the city are idie_and will continue so for several months ta come. The exiensivo iron and steel works of the Luckawa: Iron and Coal Company, upon wireh poor of Shanty Hill, a thickly pe the city, dependent Jor the means of support, have penaed operations until the Ist of March, and as consequence their employés, who at the vi Umes,iound it a dificult matter to sustain themaeives, are fairly dismayed and dieneartened at the gloomy prospect. Pineting, pallid poverty sits by many @ Groside to-day, and the indications are that the coming Christmas will be the saddest ever oxperieuced in tao anthracite coal regions of Peansyivania, THK WITTER COLD. The recent heavy til of snow and accompanying bivter cold have made the situation more keenly, and the seantily clad and starving people are reduced to the lowest deptha of despair with not a single ray of hope in the immeainte faiure to light their tooistepa the ainted portion of along the dismal and th» dreary way. The coal in- dustr too, has recently been failing — olf, ond im many of the settiencnts — minty; bos been suspended altogether. Merchants and smal dealers who were wont (0 encourage the miners and Jaborers from time to time with credit are compelled to refuse them now for their self-protects nd this: superadds to their sorrow and intensifies t ress of thoi cheerless and antuppy lot. T have given the sabject a good deal of thought and I attention, aud I have no hesitation in asserting that the extent and magnitude of the press ont suflering among the pour of the coal jons, as well as tne discouraging aspect cf the future, are such as to call for immediate action and large hearted Chrisuian liberality on the part of those among us who are biessed with a fair share of the world’s wealth. A SOAP-OSED BURGLAR, The soap factory of Joseph Saul, at No, 449 East Thirteenth street, was entered by burglars om Thurs- duy evening, and a small safe jn the rear oMce forced open and $30 ken, Captain McCullough and Detective Robinson were informed of tho case and arrested Jam Collins, of Sixteenth street and First avenue, as b one ot the burglars. A poftion of the stolen mone: was found in his possession, and, on bermy atraigved atthe Essex Market Volice Coart yesterday, was held for (rial in dotault of §,|