The New York Herald Newspaper, January 21, 1877, Page 14

“tw bave any thing more to do with the world, Then LE BLESSEDNESS. Abodes. of the Eccentric in the Heart of Gotham. ~ SIN STORIES OF CURIOUS LIVES. Sacred Cows, Cats and Birds of Paradise as Companicns. STRANGE, THOUGH TRUE, STORIES, Here and there throughout the city, sometimes iu a Beglected by strcet and frequently on the busiest highway, houses, strange, eccentric houses, arrest at- tension, Not always houses of obsolete pattern, oF Strangely new design tha: appeal immediately to the eye, aud ploase or shock the taste, but houses with fn air of romance and mystery abuutthem, Often ina monotonous row of brown stone fronts the eye will Hngle out one house trom all the rest as baving ao air, an indescribable something, avout it that divorces it from its neighbors, Peculiar decorations, an unor- finary twist in the curtains, the adjustment of a door plate, or the style of a knob, are often sufficient to in- ficate the peculiarity of the resident master, Then, again, there are houses in which melancholy secms to fave taken a permaneut residence, houses marked tnd avoided in the neighborhoods in which they Nand, In many of these Melancholy has for a com- panion an old maid or an old bachelor, more frequently the latter, for—public opinion to the contrary— the latter is much more gloomy and cross than the former, An entertaining tule concerning tho abodes of old bachelors in New York could easily be written, for the town 16 rich in such, The talo might be supplemented with a sequel no less enter- twining concerning their habits and modes of life, And then what rare romances might be woven, if going back to the initiation of eccentricity, the writer inight tiscover its cause, As the bachelors aro in a majority, or rather, as bachelors with houses are in a majority, they claim earlicst mention, Tho old maids know all men are alike rude, and as the old bachelors in ques- ton don’t care to make any favorable impressions on gentle minds, this imversion of the polito order of Mugs in first considering the men will of course be overlooked, It is only here proposed to delineate the peculiarities of the bachelors who build or own and reside in odd houses in remarkable neighborhoods, and who display on the exterior of their residences unmistakable signs of their singularity. They have thrust their houses upon public attention and their houses have been noticed. A BACHELOR'S PARADISE, Pedestrians on Broadway have for years noticed and Temarked a house on the corner of Nineteenth street and Broadway, tne blinds of whicn are always closed, Occasionally a man, who looks like a gardener, may be seen in the yard of this house feeding birds of para- dise or cortailing the liberty of a certain sacred cow that rambles in the tront yard. The house stands in the middle of a large square lot, surrounded by a tall Iron fence, the bottom of which is closely wired to prevent the escape of the fowls, which are occasionally fed in public, The house is six stoi high and of very plain exterior, but within, if those who claim to have been there are to bo believed, it 18 a perfect fairyland of beauty. Rumor bas it that artistic taste and refinement have combined to make the decorations and furniture ‘just pertect.’” ‘Though nothing bus been said” in public of the picture gailery of this house it 18 said to be one of the most curious in New York, It 1s not so much a collection of master works ag an artistic mu- scum of the grotesqueries und curiosities of cover and Drusb. Tuere are jancitul taies about rich, heavy pancliod walls and ceilings, damask lambrequins aod carpets of Persian woof and flosay plush; ot great, od fireplaces, with antique andirous and ancient poushed brass tenders; of oid-lashioned bedsteads, with bigh curved headboards hidden in curtuided toids of satin lined velvet; of a deep, deep cellar, where in graves of dust aud cobwebs repose grim rows of bottles, full of Jouaonisberger—1812, Chateau Yquem and Coateaa Lautte, Tus last tradition bus an addendum koown only in club circies and to the effect that some old, some old and oily, some old, ofly, aromatic, band-tasbed, biue-gruss Bourvon ts Ridden down tn this dirty hoe, Ob! the hps that sinac! tue hearts that long for Jugt one “pouy” of that American nectar. All ubis beauty, all this sweet- ness uuu one old bachelor are resident in the strange house on the corner of Nineteenth strect and Broad. way. Beiore the Freemasons buiit their beautitul hall on Twenty-third street they offered the old gentleman who lives 1m this house $450,000 for the property, bat he reiused to self atapy price, and \t is provable that the property will be deduated to no better use than a fosidence as long ashe lives, The proprietor of the house that used to occupy the northeast corner of Bond street und Broadway held similar yiews to those en- tertamed by the gentleman of Ninetecnth street—i. ¢., that the Louse was good enough for Lim. MATILDA HKRON'S LAST iti? Just above the Filth Avenue Hotel on Twenty- third street are two dusty looking houses, suppo-ed by Many to be uninbabied on account of the setuled gloom about them. Something seems to be the ms ter with these houses. They are not infirm in strauc- ture, but they seem to want something, und that some- thing is woman's care. ‘They are what might be called “men’s houses,” Who can imagine the ugliness of a tity of men’s houses? A microcosm of prose, a | wilderness of baldness, a congregation in which beaut, and taste would be represented by a gigantic “minus” bign, and a piace where people woud fail down coal and jujure their limbs, would be found in such a Tis 18 no exaggeration, for, though there are ui holes in Twenty-third street, as any one who | may prove to himself by a promenade through | Wish that thoroughfure, none of them injure people’s hubs Dut those in front of these ‘men’s houses.” Every- | bouy im New York who reads the papers knows that | Macildy Heron made ber last bit iu front ot oue of | these gloomy residences, From the evidence it ap- pewred that Matilda while walking along the street | thrust her leg into the coal hule; at least that is the way the counsel for the defence put it when she sued for and obtained $1,000 damages. Thwsame counselior | suught to throw the onus probandi of intent upon the | lair plaintifl, for 1t Was actually in evidence that a man bud stepped upon the same hole cover just a minute | beiore Matilda Heron went through. Oi course! any numver of mee could step upon it, ana that the man | did step upon it and did not go through was proot posi- Live that there was intention in regard to the woman, What on ungallane thing tor a man to do, fail to éatch a woman by ordinary social measures and then seta | trap im & public street to cutch one. | THE BACHELOR OF HARLEM, | Of all the dens of single biessedness in New York | noue bas more interest for the curious than the one located in 124th street, near Third avenue. For years this house hus been au enigma to the police and tne people of Harlem, No one is ever seen to go ito or deven the oluest resident of seen the face of its single | Comeout of this hous fais 10 recollect having & | also read of many cases reported In the HERALD. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, sister, and that they both hata the world and wish to hold no intercourse with it, The most generally ac- cepted of all these stories is that which relates to the presentation of an enormous mitten years and years ‘ago. THR YORKVILLE MYSTERY. During the year 1461 an old lady called upon a real estate agent in Yorkville and mage arrangements to bire a house in East Kighty-sevento » one door west of Lexington avenue. Iu May the house aad continued as tenant until July, 1873. ‘The old lady was known as Miss Wi terious movements, coupled with of all the neighbors, caused a curious imterest among the folk of the vicinity. ing the tweive years of ber residence in the house in Eighty-seventn street she never made the acquaintance of aby one, All that was known of her was that she came. up to Yorkville from the crowded downtown east side, but the street and number of her former residence were unknown. Often at night, alter street lamps bad been ht, the old woman was seen to em », basket in band, and wend hor way to a grocery jore op Third nue, Sbe was always closely veiled the people in th cume used to the sight and paid no attention to Db Olten at the still hour of midnight visitors, or a visito! aman, came to the house and left before the breaking of the dawn. In the iatter part of June, in the year 1873, the residents of the house adjoming that in which Miss Willets resided were troubled with an intolerable stench. It was at frst useribed wo detective drainage, but all the sink pipes and the sewer were jound upon ius vestigation to be in pertect order, Still tie offensive odor vitiated the air, and its source Was a mystery, It Was thought, perhaps, that something wus wrong with the pipes in Miss Wallets’, and some one went to her door and rang the bell, No response was m: but this fuct excited no suspicion, tor she had always retused to answer the bell, Finally it was remem- bered that none had seen Miss Willets going to the store for along time, and inquiry at the grocer’s re- vealed the fact that she had not bought anything for three wecks, Then it was supposed that the old lady bad gone away and leit sume meat in tbe lurder, and that its docay cansed the smell. This View of the ease Was presented to the potice, and after much deliberation it was decided to break the houge open and avate the nuisance, On Sunday, Juty 13, 1873, the police went to the house and broke down basement door. This barrier away, a gush of warm, fetid air welled out of the vase- ment, driving the police back. The police found the kitchen empty, and on mounting the kitchen stairs noticed that the parlor door was locked. An officer sought to esealade the door by the transom, but failed, When at last the door was opened by force, a horrible sight met the oyes of tho intruders. There on the floor tay the body of Mias Willets, and trom the tudications it was inferred that she bud been dead at leust three weeks, The Coro- ner’s inquest was quickly finished and no tight was thrown upon the mystery. “THE HOME OF THE Cats.” In Sixth street, between Second and Third avenues, until quite recently, there lived a pair of muidens 30 similar in appearance that one could not be distin. wished trom the other, umors of strange noiwes ard at night and otber fanciful tales were rife in the neighborhood regarding this house. Plainly told, the story of the strange occupants is about as follows:— These two women were sisters, twin sisters, and for reasons known only to themselves they retired irom society, und thenceforth devoted all their energies to the cultivation of cats, The maternal in- stincts of the old ladies found congenial care and solicitude in looking alter the waats o! their foline family, which, according to the police, at one time tabled up the respectable total of forty-cight. The ladies were seldom seen in public. Twice a year they went shopping—what modeia of wives they would have made—and on these occasions the nelyhborhood turned out to view them. The old ladies are no longer in Sixth street, aud no one knows whither they have one. & ‘These are but a tithe of all the eccentric abodes of single blessedness In New York. THE NEW YORK PILOTS. ARE THEIR LIVES ENDANGERED NEEDLESSLY ?— A PILOT'S SUGGESTION TO REMEDY THE PRESENT SYSTEM. There is probably no class of men who daily en- counter more danger and bardsbip than the pilots of New York, The peculiar nature ot their work and the hundreds of lives of fellow beings dependent upon their skill and firmness, render thoir comings and goings of no small interest to the public at large, Pas- sengers on an incoming steamer, 200 or 300 miles out, ag they greet the pilot coming over the side, sel- dom think of the weary days and nights of watching that he has endured. In his bright eye they do not see the storm that hus togsed the little schouner about as nothing for days, a storm that even the great steamer groaned under and bowed her bead before. The perils of a pilot’s life are seldom brought betore the public, Many as tuo hardships are they scem to be constantly increasing. The system now prevailing is that every pilot boat must look out for itself. The effect is a constant competition that carries pilots very far to sea, The pilots themselves compiain of this, und one of them, a man twenty-five years in the ser- vice, in an interview with the writer, gives below the situation of affairs and a plan for relief, which he thinks would be indorsed by all pilots, as it would protect them and muke the service more effective. A PILOT'S OPINION. “How are pilots remunerated for their services?”’ asked the reporter. “Phey are paid well,’ replied the pilot; “but cess of expenditures the pilots who are can barely support their families. re very badly handled; for instance, there nine boats to do the work of ten, There #80 Much Competition that the boat uBtead of being outside of Sandy Hook, are over all ereation. | trequentiy come in and cannot find a pilot, be- 300 miles off, Amerique had the pilot bouts are 200° or that boarded the cause it the boen stationed off Fire Istand Light and bourded her there there would have been no vccident, The pilot As it was, the would have been sure Of bis position. ship, accord:ng to the Captain’s fifteen miles, and the first thing any of them knew they were on the beach. The steainer Acupulco, of the Pucitic Mail Ime, came in about two weeks ago, and alter waiting outside some time was obliged to come up without a pilot, A gale was blowing up and the captain was obtiged either to come up oF put to sea if he had done the latter he might have been out three or four days longer, 80 he chose to come up. “Why were tlere none there Y”” “Well, 1t wasn’t their fault; it isthe fault of the management. If one boat docs not run out another will, and the first willlose the job, The pilots are sick enough of the system, but, of course, ure obliged to contorm to.it, There is nota piiot in the service but matters, ‘The greater number would be glad enough to bave a reform,” “What is your plan 2”? “To have stations off the coast. One off Barnegat and! | one off Fire Island Light. They would ve torty mules distant, aod others at intermediate stations of ten miles, 'A ship or steamer coming 1n would be sure of signting One Station or the other and would also be sure of getting apiiot, As it is now they are never sure of geiting one, It may be urged by some that the Jersey pilots will object to this, but no reasonable man will believe that any pilot will object to a plan that will make Lis life easier and will verve the public interests etter. ”? “Have you known many cases where ships have come in aud have been delayed tor pilots ¥”” “Oh, yes, | have known mapy, very many. I havo, ‘The plun to establish stations would save in the expense of the supertiuous boats over $00,000 a year. There are about 170 pilows in this port; they could easily ve ac- coinmodated in ten boats, There are 800 pilots in Liverpool and they use only twelve boats. It ts absurd to have three men 1n a boat, as we frequently do, aud pecupunt, The Louse is a plain brick structure, and 18 oullt at the westerly end of 4 lot 100 cet deep and 180 fect front. It stands back of the bouse line, aud on the house line, extending the whole ' length | of the property, 1 a wourd tence twelve icet bigh, Quiside of this and on what may | be called the stoop line is an open picket | fence, [n each of the fences a gate Is cut Just opposite | the house. At the outer gate at stated intervals a butcher man appears and lets himself through, The Inper gate, Which is decorated with great voit heads Tipyed in diagonal rows aiter the faslion of old sute doors, is then vpened from within aud the market | basket is taken from im, He waits until the basket | is returned to bim empty, and he always finds money | he amount of his bill—presented with the goods— | ¢ busket. ‘he butcher Is alse the grocery man of | she house, He m: purchases at the | grover’s | the meat. | yney he rece urder for the follow. | Ing day, and se communication # kept up with the vuter world, The man who first had business re lutiong with the house bas long since deparved, He gold out his business und with it the trade of the Mysterious house, His successor in turn sold out, | also conveying the right, Utle and interest to the patronage of this remarkable customer. The boy who | Carries Lhe goods has beeu initiated in the business by | a boy Whose successor he is, and so from boy to boy | the duty is handed down, It is sad that | for a jong time alter the war, when gold was at a high premium, all the butchers’ bills were | paid in coi, and tbat it was pot until after | tne coruer on which the Harlem Bank now stands was fold that any currency cume out of the house, Tue property occupied by the bank was originally @ part bf the jot on which the mysterious house stood, Alter the property was sold currency vecume the medium | of exchange, and even now, when stamps have almost dixappaared, they come in plouty from the verlea pur- ouaser oj 124th street. Yhe stories told by the patives of Harlem about the | mun whe occupies this house ure very strange and contradictory. One story gues that he is avery man, aud that long, long ago be toll In love with w indy whoge father’s farm adjoived that of bis patern rejative; that, having an uncomely ince, he was rr jected by the lady, who subsequently married another | ana br: With tue n 48 them nap, ‘bus, cut off Irom all bope of ever pressing his suit to a seccessial end, and having th the meantime obtained the farm through bis father’s death, be sold ali his property except the corner telerred to. on ‘he caeig be bait the present house aud resolved hencetorward to bide bs face from all mankind. Another sory hag it that the occupant of this Louse jg the servant of a man, of whom tho foregoing ro- funce was true, That the master at his death left nm fis house and all bis cash, and advised him per here ure others who say that the occupant of the House has a wife who tsa confirmed invalid, and others still who declare that the master 18 & copiirmed ine veld. and that a tail servant is bis only compan- | thing was Ludden in its thick folds, ex when they are wanted at this port to have them flying around off the capes of Virginia or off the Nova Scotia coast. Under our system the men are needlessly ex- posed and their lives endangered. There is no reason wuy the system should nos be remedied, except that rt is m pet theory of Blunv’s, which is— (Hore the ancient mariner heaped oljurgations upon the vener- able commissioner and his ‘pet theory” until the air was 80 viue that the reporter found considerable dil- ficuity in seeing his way out.) A WINTER Fou, MISERIES OF STREET TLAF¥IC—OBSTRUCTIONS IN THE BAY—THE OCRAN STEAMERS DE- TAINED, ‘The variable weather of New York, which is apt to change the sspect of the city within an hour, bad a further illustration yesterday, Tbe keer, clear sun- shine of Thursday and Friday was sadly bedimmed and a thick fog brooded upon the city, and the tem- perature varied in just the same way. It had lost its crispness and coldness and was unseasonably warm and humid, The fog was everywhere, but chiefly it seemed to search the rigging of the ships at their moorings and to cling close to the waters of the bar- Dor, The streets, too, were covered with a thick haze, and wreaths of vapor rolled along tall church spires, whose crowning symbols were hidden in the mist, Street trafic was slow, laborious and bedraggled, the pure snow of a litte while ago had suifered no end of defilement, and to toil through it was Dot all in the nature of pleasant summer exercise, Broadway was clear of the great troubles iu this Tes pect which it had Known earlier in the season, out some of the other streots were tecming with slush. But down on the water fronts th Beyond the p most noticeabie, jecting piers every. cept when now and again ‘ly phantom sbip passed by, teeling its Way cautiously through the drifting ice and the more dangerous gloom, Inbarmonious sounds caine up from the river all day long, for fog horns are hardiy tusicul, and sea-going steamers, prudenily recreant to ared to search for a passage seaward, so thoy lay at’ ther piers waiting for ‘the fog to nf, a condition of patiout inacuvity which lasts long and i# inadequately — re- arded, In this way the Britanuec, of the White Star line, which was to bave cariied the United Sintew mails, Was constramed to bide her ime, Sho Was to Wave started at hull past eight A. M., but by Feasou of tho thickness of the fog it Was decided that would gladiy hail « reform in this matter, But they are afraid 10 speak out—not afraid exactly, but, like ‘sailor men’ generally, they don’t un id business | oflect of the fog was | she should not start before eight oy: herbage ing, providing, of course, test toe fog ry that time have listed. Another of tyr hg rg steamers was The Queen, of the National Ng Int abe, too, lay alongside her pier all day; and in e game way the California, of the Anchor line, was detained by the weather, The local traffic, too, was a deal im- peded, tf not formidably obstructed, abd the hindrances were many and irritating. Tne ice was not so great @ barrier as it bad been some time , and the fe te were not borne away by foe toss, but th 11] bad all the difficulty of steering irom one ferryhouse to another in the murkiest of atmospheres, Late in the afternoon the fog lifted im the city, bus it hung mach longer over the North and East rive THE SONG OF THE DIRT. DUMP, DUMP, DUMP THE SNOW ON THE PIERS WITH A SPURT, POISONING FISH FOR THE POOR MAN'S DISH AND FILLING THE DOCKS WITH DIBT. The people of New York are well pleased to gee the action of the city authorities in removing the snow aad Olth trom our thoroughfares. It is no pleasant occupation, that of wading knee deep in slush when- it 18 necessary tocross from one block to anothe! Right welcome, therefore, is the sight of horses, carts and men, with pickaxe, shovel and broom, burd at work retiring the dirt—where? Complaints have reached the Herat office stating that the dirt carted from onr streets is dumped into other places where it Proves an annoyance almost as great as that reme- died. POISONING FISH A Heratp reporter called upou Mr. Jobn H. Lynch, a fish dealer in Fulton Osh market, and lessee of parts of piers 22 and 23 East River. This gentteman told the fol- lowing story :—‘'I have stood this nuisance and outrage as long as possible, At last my good nature is ex- hausted. I lease parts of these piers and pay a good price for such privilege, I have been annoyed for the last two or three years by the Department of Street Cleaning using these piers as the dumping ground of filth, ashes, &o, This year it has been worse than betore. Last week, night alter night have the carts, flied with this snow dirt, come and emptied It on my piers and over the sides, There is no objection on my partto tbe departmont unloading tho dirt off these piers 1f it would compel the curtmen to go to the end of the pier, The lumps of ico and mud would there be taken up by the water and dissolved, Were the ebb tideketting out the rubbish would be carried along the river, and thence, by Butterniik Channel, out to soa, If 1 drop a stick at the end of one of these picrs it will, if not otherwise hindered, make straight out, But these cartmen are uot compelled to dump at ebb tide, but come at all hours and Ui and down goes their mud and ice; and what do they care if it remaius there or Hoats away? The department not only will Bot consult the changes in the tide, but they allow these carts to be emptied on my dock and in the water ‘on euch side of it,’? Tbe reporter accompanied Mr, Lynch to pier 23, whicn he igund covered with trozen mud, which bad evidently Veen dumped there without the least cere- mony. At the end of tho pier the tide was rushing seaward, and on each side of it, where the water wus stil, dirt lay thick on the snow and ice. ‘nere,’? continued Mr. Lynch, pointing to a number of boxes ip the wat ‘48 where we keep quantities of our fish. The other night oncot these care was sunk by the matter thrown in it, and 1 bad to raise ft again, Do the people of this city koow that tho fish they eat are living ip this polluted water? and would it be a woo- der if sickness were to follow such contemptible con- duct on the part of our officials? Ikeep my pier in good order, and am obligea to have ten Jeet of water in the slip at low tide. Lhe department Mill the tiret with filth’to the depth of eight inches, and the latter 1s their dumping ground.” Mr. Miller, also a fish dealer, said that what Mr. Lynch said was strictly true. BLACK BALL COMPLAINTS. Mr. Lamson, of the ‘sball Black Ball line of packets, told a reporter that what Mr. Lynde bad Stuted was perfoctly true, ‘Their vessels bad, time and again, beon greatly inconvenieaced by the ‘action of the authorities, Often would one of the line come in light, and almost free of freight, und, when sho had been’ loaded, it was found that she was in the mad. He considered the dumping of the dirt injurious to commerce, und a Wrongiul imposition on the lessees of the piors. Atone slip they bud been driven trom the use of the place by the accumulation of mud, and ‘ouce, when ove of their line wished to enter, she was compelled to awatt the outcoming of anothe: 880] before she could get in, as the dirt thrown thore hid Jett but a narrow channel which only one sbip could enter ata time, BLUNT OPINIONA Mr. G. W. Blunt, Pilot Commissioner, was found in capital spirits, and announced himself as ove of the distinguished members of the Fishmongers’ Associa- tion, He drifted into various subjects, in the course ot which he asserted thut the present poor manage- ment of the city was due to the care taken of it by two distinguished gentiomen—Tweed and Tilden—together with a democratic Legislature. Two classes of people he held in contempt—the reporter and tue lawyer— both of whom stood with him as earthly imps and devils; che one always misreporting interviews and the otber up to “tricks that are vain and peculiar. He bad no control over the master in question, but deemed it # violation and a flagrant abuse. The officials in charge had no right to dump the refuse where they ” continued Mr, Blunt, ‘had authority we should soon abate such nuisance. I consider any oue who would so fill our shps and river with this mud would be capable of doing anything equally maheious, such us talking his mother-in-law to death. I received from Mr. Wales a day or two ug», and he in- formed me we had no authority in the matter. [tis @ mooted question who really has control over 1 matter, but | do not consider at present that 1 nuve. Mr, 8. H. Wales, Presicent of the Duck Department, said the facts were tacse: he Commissioners of Police, who have this matier in charge, sent down to us to know if they mignt, with their lessees’ permis- gion, use the piers leased by those gentlemen. Recog- nizing that the present season was an exceptional one, such a winter as the present now having been expe- rienced in years before, the Dock Departinent allow e the Police Commissioners to ask the lessees of several private piers for the use of their property.” “Tis department,” said Mr. Wales, ‘‘does not com- pei a man to give up his pier tor any such uses, We ask, and be bas aright to refuse i! he wishes. Fur- thermore, we make ita special Condition that tue snow shail be uplouded only at the ends of the piers, but by ho means on the piers or on either side of them. We have received many cowplaints on this same matter. Hence wo are receiving condemnation on both sides. The people clamor for the removal of the snow, an the lessees are indignant because we dump our loads off their piers. 1t 18 a two-edged sword, sure to cut whichever way you use it, und the problem now grow- ing more difficult eact. hour itis unsolved is, Avia are we to do with the street cleanings?’ We are un- ablo to sed scows Out, a8 they are unfit to stand tue test, Something must be done with the snow, now, where to are we to carry itY Mr, Lynep should apply to the Superintendent of Police or to Captain Gunner, who hus this street cleaning business under his direct supervision, and he would quickiy ob- tain redress. It is, without doubt, an outrage on Mr. Lynch to bave his property damuged, but it is within his power to have this dumping stopped, DOCK PHILOSOPHY. “Man is ever ready to shilt trouble from his own shoulders on to the backs of others, and i a party is encumoered with a dead horse, or the like, to nit the least troublesome and quivtest plan is to throw suld animal in the river, and then all further annoyance is past him, at least. The people, ever suspicious of public officers, are quite willing to blume them for hogligence, not seeing how well and faithiully those olliciais work or with what inconveniences they are surrounded,” OUR OBSTRUCTED STREETS, To rie Epiron ov THe HeKany:— ‘The point that the HkRaLy makes editorially to-day in saying, “If the Board of Public Works were a pri- vate corporation it would remedy that difficulty (i. ¢, the non-melting of snow in sewers) within twenty- four hours,’ is a good one. I was in the city of Milan. Italy, just a year ago, and there saw the streets cleaned of @ snowfall about ten inches in depth by being dumped into the manholes of the sewers, It was curried off by the current of water therein. The temperature on that day was about the same as the Semperature was in this city to-day. ‘The work begun alittic atter eight A. M., and at four P, M.it was inished and the streets cieared of snow. Yours, re- spectiuily, ANIHUNY ARNOUX, he writer of the above, who is a lurge taxpayer, called on Pohce Commissioner Wheeler recently aud suggested the adoption of the plan mentioued, Mr. Wheeler approved of the plan s0 far. as to aj to make the experiment, Subsequently Mr. Woe found an obstacle to the experimeut in the city ori ances, whereupon Mr. Arnoux called upon Mayor Kly and submitted his plan, The Mayor wrote a letter to Mr. Nichols, ct the Street Sweeping Bureau, urging the experiment and unqualstiodly indorsing the proposed method, As yot, however, the experiment hus uot been made, the obstacle now being the objection of Commissioner of Public Works Campbell, who claims that the snow would not melt in the sewers—an obje tou which cannot, 1t is said, be substantiated by tacts POST OFFICE AFFAIRS, The steamship Butavia, which arrived yesterday, brought in ber mails a list of 214 British postal money orders, for which the remitters thereof deposited £637 128, 4d, The payees will receive therefor us an equivalent $3,206 15, currency. ‘Two lists, embrac- ing 208 orders, were also roceivea trom Germany, whose aggregate value, as certiied, was 26,139 mar and 66 plenning, or $6,583 24 Unitod States currency. The surplus money order funds received yessorday from Postmasters amounted to $34,851 44. Tue amount paid out 3.388 orders, nearly 2,000 of which we by the largo publication offices in the vicinity of the Post Office. The total payments of orde:s footed up $27,309 41, Postmastors’ drafts, aggregatiny $24,925, were paid on letters of credit unt; 146 orders, representing $2, 90,773 were insued. The @! bas been used in the money order the purpose of conveying checks from the exeminl clerks W the paying tellers, raved a failure, Owing to the dense tog prevailing yesterday the Mails tor Kurope were not despatched. THE ENGLISH TURF. THE YEARLING SALES 1n 1876. [From the Pall Mall Gazette, Dec. 27.} Thore has been a slight decline in the number of yearlings sold by public auction, as compared with last year; but upon the other hand there has been a rise im the total which they have fetched, and conse- quent!y in the average, Thus, in 1875, 505 yearlings realized 118,525 guineas, or an average of 235 guine: each ; while in the course of the present season 495 yearlings fetched 127,234 guineas, or 257 guineas each. As compared with previous years the increase has been even more marked, In 1872 487 yearlings were sold for 76,194 guineas, or an average of 174 «guineas each; in 1873 489 yearlings fetched 88,658 guineas, or an averaye of 180 guineas each; and in 1874 627 yearlings Tealiged 99,301 guineas, or an average of 188 guint euch. It will be seen, therefore, that though there have been alternations with regard to the number of yearlings sold, there bas been a continuous rise in value irom 174 guineas in 1872 to 257 guineas in 1876; or, in other words, of nearly ti{ty per cent in the course of the five seasons. 1t may, of course, be argued that. this increase in the prices paid for yearlings does not prove anything as to their rea! merits; but, as with horses of that age there is no guide save that of ap- peurance and breeding, the market value is the only siundard by which they can be Judged: A retro- spective glance at the doings of the bizh priced yeariungs of the previous season wheu developed into two-year-olds 18 not, however, Cuiculated to encourage (hose who in 1876 have paid a total of 30,550 guineas fur twenty-one yearlings, oF upon an average 1,454 guineas cach, Just year seven- wen 'yeurhilgs ‘were wuld fora total of 25,700 yuincas, Or an average of 1,612 guineus ouch, but the only re- surn for it this season bus been the suin of £3,0 won by Orleans. Seven of these yearlings—Actwon, South: ron, Hilarious, Anilogy, Brown Marquis, Hviter Skelter and the Fily vy Vespusian out usion— have not run at all; Macaroon, for whom Mr. Gerard gave 1,700 guineas, has beep beaten six, and Rover, who ‘cost 1,000 guineas, tour tumnds; Wonder land, for whom Mr, Gretton guve 1,100 guineas, has sullered three deféats, Sidon, Gien Arthar and Pellegrino, whose respective prices were 2,450, 1,800 and 1,600 gulueas, were each beaien twice, und Volydorus and Monk, each of whom cost Mr, Gretton 1,800 guineas, Doth Fan once withvut suc- cess. Orleans, lor whom Cuptain Machel gave 1,500 guinoay, ran live times Lelore winning two paltry races at -Goodwood, and was subsequently deleated four times. Matters were bad enough last year, when of tho nineteen bigh priced yearhngs of 1874 only four were returned wianers of £1 705, or less than the high- est price paid fortwo uf the number; but they huve boen infinitely worse this season, as tue resulis quoted abovo will make abundantly clear, Tne suture will suow whut is to be the fate of the twenty-one bigh priced yearlings which were dis- posed of during the past seasan at Middle Park, Cob- hum, Newmarket aud Doncuster, and their career will be watched with all the wore interest, becuuse among them is a colt which fetehed no less u sum thun 4,100 xuineas, or sixty-five per cent more than had ever been given tor a yearling belure. The Duke of Hawtiton puid 2,500 guineas tor Augus tn 1866, und lust yeur Mr. Naylor ‘yave 2,450 guineus lor sidoui; but the 4,100 guineas paid ut Covlum by Mr, R, Pec for tbe gun of Macaroni and Duchess, now named Max- itnilian, plucos these high prices quite im the shade, The next highest price given this season was ulso at Cobhum, wuere Mr. Gerard paid 2,300 guineas for Lord Lovell, vy Blur Athol out of Vergise-meip-Nicht, und ut Mr. Chuplin’s sale of yearlings during the Newmarket July meeting Mr. Joba Day guve 1,950 guiveas tor a daugh- ter of Hermit and Kallipyae, At Mr. Geo’s sale during the same meeting Mr, Joseph Dawsoa gave 1,700 guineas for a colt by Thormanby out oF Actress, und the same price was paid upon the following day for Yopaa, by Lecturer out of Tourmalin, oue of the Ment- more yearlings purchased by Mr. Moon, The Duke ot Westminster gave 1,650 guineas at Mr. Waring’s sale, aiso held during the Newmarket July meeting, tor the daughter of King ot the Forest and Peaciopo Plotwell, while at Mr, Chaplin's sule 1,550 guineas were given by Mr. Jolin Day tor a filly by Hermit out ot Salamanca, At the Doncaster gales the high- est price’ was 1,600 gumeas for Dunedid, by Scottish Chiet out of lusmania, purchased db; Mr. Christophers, and at Middle Park Mr. nA Wooicot guve 1,800 guineas tor Cagliostro, by Ro: crucian out of Laey of the Forest, aud Mr. Gretton the same price tur a colt by that sire out of Finesse, Centenary, by Blair Atbol out of Mudume Eglaatino, was sold to Mr. Blanton for 1,160 guineas at Cobham, and a brother to Hawthornden, by Lord Chfden out of Boovy Blink, for the same’ price to Mr. Jardine, at Doncaster, Four yearlings were sold for 1,150 guineas—a filly by Scottish Chief out of Masqueraue to the Dake of Westmiuster at Cobham; Tartar Emetic, by Macaroui out of Sweetbriar, to’ Captain Macheli at Sir Tatton Syke’s sale, Doncaster: a colt by Macaroni out of La Favorita to Mr, Walker, and a willy by Rosicrucian out of- Bonny Bell to Mr, Perkins, also Doncaster. There were 6,000 guinea lits:—Colt by Rosierucian out ot Little Heroine, sold to Mr. Gretton at Middle Park; colt vy Lord Clitden out of Weatherside, sold, with the son of Macaroni and Duchess at Cobham, to Mr. R Peck; colt by King of Scots out of Duleibelia, erator by Mr. Mitchell-Innes at Mr, Goe’s sale at Newmarket; colt by stirling out of Chillunwailan, tought by Mr. R. Osborne in the Shé@ffield lane lot at Doncaster, and colt by Speculuin out of Liverpool's dum, whom Mr, Stirling-Crawiurd bought out of the Glasgow stud yourlings, also sold at Voucaster, In ali, seventeen colts sold for 24,950 guineus, and four ilies for 6,600 guineas, Lord Cliiden and Rosicrucian are each credited with sixteen yearlings, which realized 6955 und 9,080 guineas; while mer wus the sire of fliteen year- lings, sold tor 5,545 guineas. A still better result was obtained by Macaruni, whose fifwen yeurlings made 9,755 guineas or 650 1-3 guineas each; but wo far ag the average goes he was ouly fourth to Lecvurer, Hermit, and Thormanby. Ouly two yearlings by Lecturer were wold by auction, but they fetched 2,070 guineas, or 1,085 guiueas each, Six yeurlings by Hermit were sold for 4,680 guimeas, or un averuge of 7712-3 guineas euch, and four by thormanby for 2,610 guineas, or au average of 652% guineas each. Blair Athol, with eleven yeurlings sold ior 7,062 guineas, tad an average of 642 guincas, or only a trifle iwierior to that of Macaroni, while Seottush Chief, whose eleven yearlings made 6,960 guineas, was close bebind him with au av- orage of 082% guinens. Three other sires—Adven- turer, Pero Gomez and Broomielaw—were also credited with eleven yearlings, which fetched totals of 3,135, 2,730 and 9.5 guineas, giving averuges of 285, 248 and 883g guineas exch, wile Victorious, with fourteen yearlings, hug a total of 2,985 guineas, or an average of 2134; guincas. King fom, whose five yeurlings in 1875 averaged 687 guineas euch, is only credited with two this season, (gold for 230 guineas, and Parme- san’s average hus declined irom 701 to 218 guineas, King of the Forest again holds a prominent place, for his 81x yearlings were sold for 3,520 guineas, or au av- erage of 5862-3 guineas exch, a result which 1s quite a satisfactory us that uchieved oy this sire last season, when three of bis yearlings averaged 507 uineus each, Sterling, who 18 of the same age ay ing Of the Forest, has began his career at the stud well with a total of 4,205 guineas for nine yearlings, or ap average 01 4781-3 guiveas, while Favonius, who wou the Derby in the same year as that in which King of the Forest ana Sterling were three-year-olds, has koven yearlings sola for a total of 2,580 guineas, or an average of 36144 guineas cach, Another Derby win- ner making u good show 18 Pretenuer, for, though only one yearling is credited to him, it was sold for 900 | guineas: but Kingeralt, who was successful at Epsom | in the tojlowing season, is ascribed the paternity of | three yearlings sold’ for only 630 guineas, or an average of 210 guineas each, Vedette, though the sire of Galopin, has but ono yearliug, and that was sold tor 166 guineas, while his sire, Voltigeur, Succharomoier and other defunct horses ‘of note, hive ceased to appear im the ‘list. guineas 1 furnished in the figures standing against General Peel’s name, for bis six yearlings made only 318 Cia or an average of 53 guineas each, Buteven ¢ occupies a better position than Highwayman, whose single yearling was disposed of for 17 guineas, Altogether there wero cighieen sires whose yearlings realized more than 2,000 guineas, trom the 9,755 guineas paid for the fifteen sbns und daughters of Macaroni, to the 2,070 guineas given jor the two Lec- turer yearlings; and there were sixteen sires whose produce averaged more than 800 guineas cach, Irom the 1,036 guineas of Lecturer to 312 guineas for eight: yearlings by Strathconan, . (From the San Francisco Call, Jan, 7.) The sultry weather which prevailed throughout the city yesterday was tempered outside in the suburbs {nto a balmy afternoon by the light breezes trom tho ocean, and the lovers of the turt who assembled on the track of the Bay District Fair Ground Association wero py by what ts briefly termed in sporting pi good day and track.” The event of the day wus a pacing race, mile best three in five, ip harness, for & purse of $260; $200 for the first I wad $60 to the second, The entries were us tollows:— 0. A, Hickok names 8, g. Nimrod, ?. Molntyre pames b g. Jim Brown, W. Appleby names b. g. Wild Bul. Before the race Jim Brown was the fuvorite in the pools, with Nimrod setond, Betting was lively, and a good race was anticipated, a8 the horses were well Tutehed and in good form. Wild Bill proved bimselt possessed 01 good spyed; bul, owing to his obstinately Vicious disposition, persisted in beating his competitors by ranning, and lost the race, being distanced in the first heat, Nimrod won in three straight heats, and received first money. The second money warded to Jim Brown, who made a gullant contest. The fol- lowing 1s the SUMMARY, 0. A. Hickok names 8. g. Nimrod.. -li1i P, McIntyre wames b. g Jim Brown «222 « dis, b. g. Wild Bil. 219% W. Appleby - “HORSE NOTES. Mr, Francis Morris, of this city, bas lost his cele, brated race mare Ruthless. She was foaled in 1864 by Echpse, dam imported Barburity, by Simoom. Ruth less was the best wo and three-year-old of her age. She was shot at Mr. Morris’ farm, near Kilicott’s Miile, Md., November 7, and after lingering some five weeks 1811—QUADRUPLE SHEET. C., the racing mare Lutitia H., by Daniel Boone, dam Meanness, injured herself very seriously by running away and attempting to jompa fence, She will race no more. ‘The fast time made to sleigh ‘around the stove’’ this winter is most marvellous, Two-twenty-five has been made more times during the present sleighing carnival than three minutes was during a whole win- ter a few yoars ago, A Long Isiander ie anxious to know bow much money Rarus and Sam Purdy trotted for im their lato $6,000 match ip California, This will answer tor a standing conundrum until the above horses come Eust next summer to assist in the grand circuit arrange- ments. San Francisco Chronicle, Jan 11:—Yesterday after. noon an exhibition was given atthe corner of Ninth and Howard streeis of a now and very simple method of taming vicious horses, which 1s claimed to be superior to any in use. ‘The first trial was with a kicking or “bucking” mare which, her owner says, hus allowed no rider on her back for tive re, She became tame aud gentle in ay many minutes, and allowed herself to be ridfen about without a sign of her former wildness. The means by which this re- sult was accomplished consists of a piece of light rope, whieh is paseed around the front jaw of tho mure, just above the upper tecth, crossed in bef mouth and thea secured back of her neck, 1 18 claimed that no horse will kick or jump when thas secured, and that a buck. ing horse aiter receiving (his treatment a few times will abundon his vicious ways forever, A very. sim- ple method was also shown by which a kicking horse can be shod, [It consisis im connecting the animal's bead aud tail by means of a rope fastened to the tail and then to the bit, and drawn tightly enough to ine cline the horse’s head to one side. Lt 18 claimed that it fs abgolutely impossible for the horse to kick on the side of the rope, At the trial yesterday @ horse which for years bad to ve bound ob the ground to be shod suifered the blacksmith to operate upou him without attempting to kick whilo secured im tne munnor de- scribed. RIFLES AND SHOT GUNS. [From the Virginia (Ne Bh tgtdie Enterpriso, Jan. aL) ‘The long-talked-of rifle match between Neil Loyna- chan, of this city (member of the National Guard), and Bub Dudcan, of Carson, was tue first thing on the pro- grammo yesterday, und at about twelve o'clock the first shot was fired, The match was for $250 a side, twenty shots euch, Springticid 45 calivre rifles, dis- tunce 600 yaras, Creedmour rules to govern, Each man was allowed two sighting shots. Loynachan’s were ¥, 4, and Duncan's 3, 0, ‘The following is tho score: — ¢ Loyuachan—b, 4, 4, 5, 4, 0, 2, 4, 3, 0, 0, 2, 3, 5, 8, 2, 4,5, 5,4. Total, 64 points. Duncan—4, 4, 4, 2, 4, 0, 0, 0, 2, 5, 8, 4, 4, 2, 2, 2, 3, 2, 4,5. Total, 66 ‘point Loynachan was thus the winner of the match by eight points, ‘The wind was: gusty and uncertain, and had a bad effect upon the scores of both men. On Loy- nachan’s tenth shot he by mistake tired at his oppo- nent’s target, making a bull’s eye, but under tne rules a miss Was scored to him. This seemed to disconcert him, for iis next shot was a clean miss, buthe soon re gained his composure and in his succoeding shots gave ood uccount of huusell. Duncun was very dilatory in his preparations be- tween euch snot, and severely tried the patience of the spectators by the length of time he took, Loynachan, op the contrary, was very prompt, firing bis shot in one-tenth of the time required by bis opponent. The result of this match shows that the marksmen of Sto- rey county are abundantly abie to hold thelr supremacy over all comers. At the close of the rifle match a pigcon mateh was shot between T, M. Fillobrown, of this city, and W. D. C. Gibson, of Gold Hill. The match was ter foo ide, 26 single birds eaca, from H and I plunge traps set 5 zane apart; 21 yards rise, 80 yards boundary. ‘ollowing is the score :— Gibson—1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 9 1, 1,0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 2, 1, 1, 1-18, Fitiebrown—0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 4, 0, 0,0, '1,°1, 1, 120. Fullebrown thus winning the match and coin by two birds, During this match the wind was blowing hard toward the shooters, and botn lost several birds dead out of bounds, many of the birds being incomers of great swittnoss and strength, a A xwWeepstakes match wus then shot, six men, $10 each, at ten single birds, 21 yards rise, 80 yar voundary, In this match some excellent shooting w done, but Uncle Billy Gibsou walked off with the com by a clean score of ten straight birds, ‘A large number of persons were in attendance, and the varied sports were keenly enjoy.ed by all, PIGEON SHOOTING, AN UNFINISHED MATCH BETWEEN BOGARDUS AND ROBINSON. San Francisco, Jan. 20, 1877, A pigeon shooting match camé off at Oakland yes- terday botween Bogardus and Robinson, The terms were for 60 single birds, 21 yards rise, 80 yards boun- dary, aud 2 ‘irs, 18 yards rise, 100 yards boundary. Bogardu single birds and Kobinson killed 51, The match was stopped on the third pair, Robin- son refusing to continue on the ground of unlair ruling. CURLING, The St, Andrew’s Club and the Yonkers Club con- tended inamatch yesterday at Yonkers. Tue prize was a Royal Caledonian Club medul aud was won by the Youkers men by a score of 82 to 69 points. Wiliam Kettock, of rink No. 3, was tne highest skip, having 32 shots to bis credit, There were three rinks in use, and the game occupied nearly tour hours. Mr. Archibald was the umpire. AMATEUR ATHLETES, Mr. J. Marion Pollock, well known in amateur athletic circies, has issued the following circular to the amateur athiotes of America :— Having obtained tho use of the Metropolitan Rid- ing Academy, American Institute Building, Third avenue, Sixty-tbird and Sixty-lourth streets, and Second’ avenue, for Thursday, Marcn 1, will give an open amateur athletic meeting. The programme will be as lollows:—seveuty-flve yards’ ruo, one mile walk, throwing the hammer, quarter mile run, putting the shot, three mile walk, running high jamp, ove milo run, 120 yards burdie race, bulf mile run and running broad jump. The prizes will be a gold medul to the winner of each event and a silver medul to second, Entrance foe $2 for each event, which will be returned to all those who go over the full course. The track 1s one-eighth of a mile and undoubtedly the finest one under cover in America. No competitor will be allowed to enter under a fuise name, aud the right to refuse any entry 1s reserved. tries willbe received up to February 22, The entrance fee must accompany theentry. The uniform must consist of undershirt and tranks or drawers to the knees. Meinbers of athietic and rowing clubs will be required to furnish a certificate of mem- ership and that the person entering is an amateur, Any person not 4 member of any recognized club must be properly introduced by some well kuown person who can vouch for bis being an amateur, Ab amateur. igapy person who has never competed in au open competition for a stake, or for admission money, or with professionals for @ prize, nor bas ever at any period of bis Iife taught or assisted in the pursuit of athletic exercises as a ineans of livelihood. Ail entries sbould be addressed to J. MARION POLLOCK, 236 East Twenty-fourth street, New York. AMERICAN RACKL'TS. A CHANCE TO SETTLE THE CHAMPIONSHIP QUESTION. New York, Jan, 20, 1877, To Tue Eprror oy THe Herano: The game of American rackets has many claimants to the title of champion, In order to settie the ques- tion and decide who should rightiully possess 1, I will match my brother, Bernard McQuade, against any an in the United’ States) to play a series of thirteen games for the sua of $500 a sido aud the champion ship. The date ot playing and final stakeholder to bo mutually agreed upon. For turtber porticulars the interested can addre MeQUADE, it, New Yor! ~~ WRESTLING. 5, No, 404 Madison tre TO MEET M'LAUGHLIN op | TREHER, New York, Jan, 20, 1877, To tax Epiror or tie Henaip:— Several days ago Colouel McLaughlin offred to wrestle anybody in the world, 1 answered tne notice through the Heap, requesting iulormation us to the style of wrestling be preferred, but as yot have not boen apprised, Under these circamstances, I wish to notity all whom it may coneeru that I have deposited $100 as forfeit money at the Clipper olive, which I am dee sirous may be speedily covered by any one wishing to meet me in @ Wresthng eucounter, First of ail, I BAUER ANXIOUS prefer Colonel McLaugutin; but, in the event of his not responding, Iwill bo glad to meet Ernest Treher I can be found at Strauss’, University place Respectiully, 5 at once. and Fourteenth street, STARVED AMrs, Mary Vaughan diced yosterday in the Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Islund, whero she starved her- self to death, The Coroners’ Office was notided that the Commissioners of Charity were waiting for one of these oilicials there, It was Coroner Flanavan’s ease, wod ho, with hisdeputy, went up to the Morgue, and, not feeling inclined to cr uh asked that de- ceased be brought to where they were. The remains were brought there last evening. [t appears that on the 17th inst, the Commissioners of Churitios notified TH. BAUER, TO DEATH. died, The villain who shot the mure hos not been de- tected, A tow days since at the race course at Charleston, &, the Coroners’ Oifice that Mra. Vaughan was starving herset to death, but no actention wus paid to the “FIRST CHOICE, HOW MUCH?” THE PROPOSED SUPPRESSION OF POOL SEII« ING IN NEW YORK—-WHAT THE INTERESTED say, The act framed by the Grand Jury for transmission tothe Legislature making pool selling in this city @ misdemeanor does not cause much commotion among those parties who are naturally supposed to be the most interested—pool sellers. Inquiry yesterday de- veloped the fact that they feel that many ofour citizen@ must have some way of speculating, and if one avenue is closed they will seek another, whatever the enacte ments may be to prevent the business, A gentle- man who is largely interested im the poo! business when questioned upon the subject expressed the opinion that there was not much fear of such a sweep» ing act ay that recommended receiving legislative sanction. He held, however, that there should be some limit tv the “events’’ upon which pools are sold, and personally was in favor of the abolition of the French mutual system. . XVILY AND ADVANTAGES OF POOLS, _ ‘Tho latter had worked injary in many respects, and it would be well, he thought, if it were done away with, Boys bad become too familiar in the yéar past with the betting rooms, and he desired and hoped some legal restraint should be imposed upon all aue tioncers, that minors henceforth may be prevented trom transacting business with them, Demoralization worked its wuy into the pool marts in namerous ways last season, the most conspicuous abuse being the sale: of election pools, It should never again be tolerated, ‘Thia particular branch of the business brought about the rooms a class of men who possoss but hittle idea of what constitutes the true sportuman. They were a detriment rather than a help, as frequently they wanted to fight or bring suit for their money when they lost it fairly. No such trouble occurred with the prolessional betting man, and a pool room 18 no place for ‘*kickers.’” ‘The geptieman interviewed further held that there was another objection to the wholesale Seppiaeies of pool seiliug—that te, the horse breeding interests of the country, ‘These were too vast to be swept away with a single brush of the leyisiative broom. Besides the large amount of capital invested, gentlemen of hh social positions were largely cngagod in the enters prise. “Shut up pool rooms and stop betting on race tracks,” said he, ‘and you will strike a fatal blow at blovd-borse breeding.”” Breeding of trotters and thor. Oughbreds would toa great extout be abandoned, as Dut few bigh priced hor: find way ito private stubles for road uses only. ‘THK HORSE BEXEDING INTERESTS. , “And again,” said he, “stop betting and pool sales and you willshut up onehult the race tracks, che other balf being so poorly patronized that luss would undoubtedly result at every meeting. Tike @ good many othor enterprises, money 1s lost very fast by the Management of race tracks when tho public fail tu rece Oynize them, Sell no pools at Fleetwood, and how well would 1s pay? Why, there would be such a loss in ope season that the gates would bo closed the next, Jerome, too, would not like the experience, and the failure of sport at this fashionable resort would prove agreat loss, Itisten to ope with such ‘@ rosult the men now clamoring for the abolition of all public bet- ting would be willing to reconsider their present in- tentions and allow it to go om under certain restraints, MONRY MAKES THR MARE GO. “A State law oi this character,’’ continued the speak- er, ‘can never be passed. There are so many promi- nent men 1p every county and in every city largely in- terested in racetracks and horses of speed that it would meet with crushing opposition, The meetings draw thousands of strangers to the town; they fill the hotels and boarding houses; they make giad the beart of the merchant, giving an impetus to trade that could not be brought about in any ot way. Your true sportsman is a liberal tollow, and none who have met him, either soctally or in @ basiness way, but desires the acqaaintance to continue, A DISTINCTION WITH A DIPFKRENCR, “One more idea,” continued the gentiemaa, ‘and I'll close the case for the defendants. Suppress auction pools, and you will then have the English system of betting 1m Vogue with you toagreat extent—that 19, the bookmaking pian, and tor one I would prefer it, ag it pays more and when understood wiil be almost ag satisfactory. Across tho-water bookmakers become very wealthy; here never, as with only two per cent commission there is not enough margin alter the 8 ure deducted to ever make a man in It 18 @ popular fallacy that cher long in it;’* but any unprojudiced seeker after intor- mation may ascertain that this is not the case, whens ever anxious to do #0’? Other interested pool sellers, as well ag many promis neut betting men, were also interviewed upon the sub- ject, and while they tailed to express themselves as ‘clearly as the gentleman above, they feel as he does in. tho matter of stopping tho gales of pools, ana fully in- dorsed his opinion. ‘ COLORADO AVALANCHES, [From the Denver (Col.) News, January 16.) Reports from all directions indicate an unasual amount of snow in the mountain districts, as well as on the plains, It is ting its accumulated power in the terrible form of suow slides, and if next sume mer's thaw bo rapid these will be supplomented by raging floods, The details of the second fatal sn slide come from G. W. Lindgreen, Supertatendent of the Champion property at the head of Snake Riv p, rts the destruction of the company’s bulid- alanche on Tuesday night, January 9, be- en and twelve o’ciock.. He and three otuer men were in one of the houses. 3s of the others were Moses Proflit, J. Ruebard and the cook, named Pert Klaus, beter known as French Pete. The building was situated boat 1,000 feet above the Snake and 800 feet from tho summit, and was right under a ledge, which it war supposed would protect the building in case of an av- aiauche, When it came down tt took tne front oF lower edge of the house and crushed it, taking the roof partly off and at once filling the house, French Pete was in a lower bunk, and was injured and crushed ta death instantly. Proditt and Ruebard being in the back part of the room, next to the ledge, were covered go slightly that they quickly got out. 8 the super intendent did not make his appearance, one of them called him by name, which he heard, Although four feet under the snow. His reply sounded as though be was a hajf milo off, but they went to work ‘and soon bad his head uncovered, and then pulled bim out of bis bunk with great difficulty. His experience ‘was @ novel one, and one that be does not desire to repeat, He wi nder the snow about three-quarters of an hour, being most of the time conscious, few inches ebvout his head was free of snow, and he succeeded im working his arm a little, trying to dig himself ciear, But when he had succoeded in accom. pee but a trifie the suow again cloged in upon him, reathing was extremely difficult, his efforts being very short and quick. He gave up all hope’until be heard the voice outside calling to know if he wasalive, ‘The suow is very deep tu the Scuke Valley, and all have left the mountaing in the vicinity except two, who are no doubt in great danger from & similar casu- ality, The danger was so great that tho body of the dead man was left in bis bunk, it being quite ungale to attempt to take him down, The damage to the com- puny’s property is estimated at $2,000 to $2,500, If the stores covered up are lout, THE WALL VALLEY VICTIMS. A letter from Hall Valley, dated last Wednesday, in- forms us that the five persons killed by the snow slide at the Whale mine on the Sunday previous aro James Reed, his wife and bey, John Reed, and @ man named Altred, Mrs. Reed's brother, The bedies were recov- ered lust Wednesday. At the time the accident o¢- curred they were ail evidently sitting around the stove, and were found near gach ot aly bruised and mutilated, L’AMERIQUE, Inquires at tho office of the Transatluntic line of steamers this morning show that the Amerique is moving slowly seaward at every tide, and that she ts now only about 100 feet from deep water. A continual struin is kept upon her, and the prospects are very cheering that she will be safely floated off BADLY BURNED. Elizabeth Dowling, aged fifty-six years, of No, 463 West Sixteenth street, was severely burned yesterday by her clothes taking fire from a grate, Oilicer Laly, who heard her screuins, came to hor assistance a extinguished the flames, She was sent to the Bellovue Hospital, FIRE IN JOHN STREET. Fire broke out yesteriay on the first floor of the four story brick building No. 113 John street, A fiss of $300 wus sustaiued upon the building and of $500 on the stock, The owner and insurance are uuknown, THE DEAF MUTES, A STATEMENT FROM THE REV. DR. GALLAUDET, To Tax Epitor or THE HeRacp:— St. Ann’s church was founded on the first Sunday of October, 1862, und from that time to the present has been tie only ono in this city which has specially cared for the deaf mute men and women, It has ale ways maintained « Sunday afternoon service for thom in the sign language, while it has had, of cour:@ other services for its hearing and speaking parish- touers, Its seats have always been free to all, For 1 years it has had a mission chapel in Eighteenth street, near Eighth aveuuo, where it has done an extensive work among the poor. When it bought its ‘present property mm Lighteenth street, near Fifth avenue, it assumed & mortgage of $50,000, This has reduced to $20,000, and 18 provided tor by legac: For the ki three years tho income of this church has fallen souy what short of its expenses, 0 that it now hus a note of $8,000 to be paid on the 6th of February. The parish- loners are striving to raise $1,600. On une of the work Which St, Aun’s with {1s free seats is doing ainong deal mutes, and Also among the poor gene erally, I trust that other friends will contribute toward inaklug up the balance, Yours respectially, notice until yesterday alveruoun, When the poor crea. tinea had aceomnlished bar purhese THOMAS GALLAUDET, No, 9 West Eignteenth streets 4) Naw Yous, Jan, 18, 4872 a