The New York Herald Newspaper, March 28, 1877, Page 8

8 A BOILER RING. How Local Engineers Are Treated by the Police Examiners. FACTS FROM BOILER OWNERS | ——-———— } Charges of Corruption, Injustice and Favoritism. *The committee representing the steam usors of this city mes by appointment at Police Headquarters yes- terday morning to confer with the Commissioners relative to the alleged irregularities of the Board of Engineers connected with the Sanitary Squad tn cou- | ducting their work of examining applicants for cer- tiflcates of qualification, Of the committee Messrs, Jotun S. Hulin and D. W. Odiorve were present with counsel Commissioners Wheeler and &rhards were | also on hand i GENERAL CHARGES, Mr, Hulin stated the objcct ot the conference, Ever since the law of 1862 was passec, giving the Depart ment of Police power to examine applicants for certite cates of qualification as engineers, boiler owners and | stcam users had been greatly aunoyed and sorely | troubled by the way in which the examining engineers at Headquarters have conducted their work. While the steam users had no fault to find with the law or no reason to complain that ® proper safeguard was sought to be thrown around such an agent as steam, they did complain, and with great cause, that the enginecrs whe examine applicants do oot properly discharge | their dutes For years, they allege, the examining | office bas been conducted tn a partial, unjust and in- iquttous manner, aud men in charge have been Influ- enced by moncy. SPKCIFIC CHARGES, Mr. Odiorne craved the Commissioners’ indulgence while he narrated the particulars of bis personal expe- nence with Captain Peter Yule, anti) recently in com- mand of the sanitary squad, and the *exammers” under nim and subject 10 bis orders, Mr, Odiorne 18 en- | gaged in business at No, 117 Elm street, To or three | years ago he had a vertical tutwiar boiler, of only six- | horse power, placed in bis factory, with whieh to run several sewing machines. Upon application to Captain | Yule, the botler was subjected toa hydrostatic pressure | bf 155 pounds to the square inch and a cerudcate given | by Yule, in which the maximum pressure of steam to de used was limited to 100 pounds, bus upon Mr, Udiorne’s request the safety valve was set to the pressure of seventy-five pounds, This was done to be on the safe side, and was all the power required, Three.days after tho botler was inspected and the certificate of ita i | safe condition given, Mr. Odiorne sent #mil Payas, a Swiss, to the rooms of Captain Yule with the request that he be examined ag to his fitness to tal ce rge of the boiler in question. Payas | was a thorough machinist, a sober and careful man, | and quahded in every parucular for the duty intended, The examining engineers, Hanford Horton and Dantel Sutton, rejected Payas as incompetent This was so | unexpected that Mr. Odiorne subsequently sent Payas | | | | betore two eminent practical engineers of this city, who anhestatingly gave bim a certificate of qualification, believing bin to be capable of taking charge of notoaly Mr. Odiorne’s boiler, but all kinds of bolicrs of whatever | fize or power. Two days aiter Payas? rejection, an- other sober, industrious and competent man was sent before the cxamining engineers by Mr, Odiorne, with | tho samo result, This rather staggered the satter, and he begun to reflect. Have 1 been decetved in my men, | or have | offended the very practical engiveers under Captain Yule’s orders? thought he. For some time Mr. Odiorne conld find po satisfactory answer to the query, but the mental {og proving so troublesome was ared away. 1 LIGHT ON A DARK SUnJKCT. | j toon cle ‘The foz was brushed aside by an individual calling on | bim who represented ounself asa practical engineer | in cearch of employment. He bad beard that Mr, Odiorne wanted such a man, and, baving vast experi- ence and already possessing a certiticace of qualiticas 1 Yule's engineers, he would be able to give tm in an hort. did you Know that 1 wanted a man??? esked Odiorne, vi, L heard it talked about; don’t know who told | d the appiicant, me ‘his seemed & live strange to Odiorne, as he ha never 0 bor hud the me vody a ened his lips as to bis wanung an sent by him to be examined mace ap quainted wih the tact Betore th 1 Wad eft the premises, however, he w (as one of tue *hangers-on"? around Yule’s ¢ ha med probabla, been apprised by th ter of the rejection of the men that Odiorne had s a jected to do ‘bis work, Subsequently, this part of | Yule & Co.’s programme of sipplying “ready-made + enginvers’’ was better understood, but not any the ed, ugh erippled Mr. Odiorne was not defeated. as | axpayer aud an American citizen, he came to the mh that be would transact bis business in his or, iy other words, if be could not obtain a certificate of qualiiicauion ior any of the men he se- | One inure appre Th | lected to run his bower be would run it bimseif. thing Was certain, Captain Yule shouldn't drive him | into capitulavon, All His life about beilers, and owns | 4 himself capable of running it. w, Mr, Odiorne went betore Yule’s | | tor information regarding this matter, | could be given of the cause of the trouble. Bulin bad « share eteoniew: with Captain Yale, and be told bim that if the oext man sent there by bim was rejected he would know the reason why, Another man was sent and passed insianter, though to this day Sergeant Lefferws is bothering that individual by threatening to take his certificate away {f be is caught doing anything else jor Lis employer than running the boiler. Mr. Hulin deems iw pretty near time that such « high-banded outrage on the part of “the fness police force im the world” should cease. AND STILL THEY Comm, The aMidavit of George Hoffman, No. 263 Stanton street, read, wherein he charged that tm 1866 ne obtained a certificate of his qualifications to fli u position of ap engineer trom Yule, Horton & Co., and | that it was renewed anoualiy for the period of six years, In 1872 he changed his place, and upou trying Uo get bie certificate countersigned, according to law, it was taken trom bim altogether, He could get no satisfaction trom Yule, and Snally ascertained from his new employers that they must have been the innocent cause, a¢ Yule had been fighting them for a long tm because of thetr opposition to the illegal mode he bad of conducting his business, Other affidavits of like character were read, al! tend- ing to prove that the system of examining applican bow and a long time past in yogue at Police Hea carey decidedly mixed, and wiil not bear the light of day, MORTON'S SCHOOL OF INSTRUCTION, 1t was also insinuated during the meeting that Han- fora Horton, the ovly examining cngineer at present oe duty, was in the babit of privately posting all ap- plicants who came to bis bouse, and paid over the customary charge. He posted such by giving them « list of ng, with the answers appended, that would be asked, at the same (ime assoring them that there would be ‘no ekipping sbout,’’ but the I would be gone down as ‘fixed. If the spplicant could commit the answers to memory, there was no trouble, and he was quickly made an engineer. This school of instruction dourished for a long tame, and, Mt was added, **may now bo in operatton.’* THE ENGINEERS! UNION. The common rumor that o brotherhood of stationary engineers was in existence tn this city tor the purpose of filling all vacancies with its mombera was touched opon, It was shown that Yule & Co. and their sue cessors were in league with this body, and all appli. cunts for examination at Police Headquarters not ip good standing with the brotherhood wero rejected. BUTHKMLAND'S PLAN. An affidavit sworn to vy Mr. Jono Sutherland, of No 64 Liberty street, was rea. He Yay that botler in- spectors frequently called upon him at « time of the day when 1 was ‘mpossible sa examine his boiler, but Nnding the easiest way the best he gave them money to postpone the inspection, This not once, but several times. The result was that he always obtained a cer- tifleate of good condition and that without the inspec. tors evér secing the boiler om his premises or knowing anything about it. i COMMISSIONER KRIARDT’S ADMISSION, Commissioner Erhardt informed the committee that, from what he had observed and beard, he believed that money had been received by the officers of the sanitary squad, both in the matter of ooiler inspections, or, ra- user, for the omission to inspect, and the qualification ot | applicants for certificates as engineers. A live dollar or ten dollar bill would go a great way to make an exam- tner think the man bdetore bim was competent to luke charge of a boiler, But what the Commissioners | want are hames and witnesses to prove that tnis bas | been done, Give them such a basis to work upou, and they would correct the evil and remove the guilty past the power of any court to order their reinstatement. The committee would do the Commissioners a favor by | hunting up such evidence, and, this done, they would | accept the rest of the responsibility without besita- hon. Tho committee retired, with the understanding that there should be another ‘conference at no distant day. OUR WATER SUPPLY. COMPLAINTS OP A SCAKCITY OF WATER—WHAT | COMMISSIONER CAMPLELL AND CHIEF EN- GINEER CAMPBELL SAY ABOUT IT—THE CAULFIELD CONTRACT, Through the medium of the HERauo’s ‘Complaint Book” readers have doubtiess become already aome- what familiar with the fact that #! upply of Croton water in some sections of, the city ts not adequate 10 | the necessities of the resideats, In the upper stories of some houses up town, as well as !n some downtown residences, the scarcity of wuter adeins to be & source of much discomfort. Efforts on the part of the sufter- era to solve the difficulty of a short supply scem fruit- less, und, having no timo themselves to hunt up the causes, several have written to the Hunarp calling at- tention to the matter and asking an explanation, One correspondent suggests that the immense quantities supplied to the shipping down town may be such drain as to cause a dearth of water at times, and asked Yesterday ZALD reporter called on Commissioner Campbell, of Department of Pudiic Works, and mentioning the complaints made inquired whether an explauation Chief En- gineer Campbell was with the Commissioner at the time. Boil gentlemen expressed some surprise that | there should be wby general scarcity of water, and said that if there 1s a short supply extending over any dis- trict or covering auy considerabie area of the cily no complarut of such scarcity has Leen made at the offices of the department, “‘Lshoutd think,’? said Commissioner Campbell, this office would be the place tor those who suffer trom wont of water to make their complaints,” Chief Eagineer Campbell added to this remark his Dehef that if any scarcity existed it wag only in an oc- casional house here and there, where the burider en- deavored to supply Uhree or four houses through one pipe. Io such instances, of course, not the city, but the owner of the houses, “The water in the reservorr now,” said the Com- missioner to the Cluef Engineer, ‘1s much higher than It Was some Lime ayo, Is It Hoty”? The Chief Bi er replied thatdoring the past sum. mer, when the water supply was really short, the depth of water in he reservoir was ouly sixteen feet; now it is over thirty fect. THE GAULVIELD CONTRACT. +1 see,” continued Commissioner Campbell, ‘that a correspondent of the Hexaup, signing bimself *An Uptowner,’ inquired whether the drain on the pipes for the supply of the shipping may not account for the scarcity of water in his distric. Now, up town is a large space, and while the writer of that communica- tiou may find u18 supply of water short, we do not row where he is, and we cannot tell whose fault it is that be suffers,” ‘And about the supply to the shipping??? the writer inquired, “What interest bas the city in that con- trac d how does it affect the water consumption?” rs, and a ked a few questions about which be found no tault with and answered | correctly, he was refused a certificate on the ground of | incompeency. Two days therealter be Went veiore | Buell & Brevoort, ot No. $0 Broadway, prac cngineers, stating that he wished to | be exumined as to bis fitness to Lake | ree of a voller, These engincers were strangers | to Lim, but his e ination Was sausfactory apd they | gavy lin a certilicate as lo his fitness for tbe work. Tben Mr. »mpiained of Captain Yule to the Commissioners of Police, who ordered a re-examina- tion, telling Yule to keep a record of all the questions | and answers, Presenting bimselftor the second exam- | ination before Yule, that :adividual saluted Mr. Oarorue | th:— “v's a damned pretty pass things have come to that owners of boilers must come here Wo be examiped!? eng Iv was not a pieasant reception, bat Mr. Ouiorne Meant to get the guuge of the men with whom dealing, and Le passed into the examining en; . private room. Hanterd Horton, who ie still in the kame position, at tho request of his associate Suton (now dead), “pat him through.” For three and a halt hours Horton plyed all sort of abstruse and | scientific questions about builers, engines, bigh | and low pressure, tho strength of | maie- rials, and everything else = that — ho haa | ever beara of, much less understood himself, And ail | this demanded from a person who wanted to take | charge of a boiler of only six horgp power, Yet Mr, Odiorne contends tbat he passed a creditable examina. | tion, which was adjourned until a second Calle | mg ‘then, he was informed by Yule, Horton & Co., that it was unnecessary to prolong the examination | further, as he was ‘no engineer,’’ The answers to te eked written by himself, but left with Hor- F. Uulorue was unable to procure, | ipon one occusion Le was told | they were ‘‘part of the archives of the office.” This | | | was the first ime a record of the proceedings 1m oo exainination was ever kept, and it was the lust POLICK SUKVEILANCE. Finding that be could not obtain anything like Justice from Yule & Co., Mr, Odiorve deiermined w take tburge of his own boiler without aceruticate, He did £0 und Was arrested. His trial proved that he was in | the right, as the law admits an owner of a botier to | run it without @ certificate, Betyg honorably dis- | charged, Mr, Odiorne continued to look atier his boiler | as hoe bad started to do, but for ten days hie place was | subjected to police surveiliance, From eariy morning | Dut past six o’ciock daily Sergeant Lefferts or Sergeant | Tatt was on guard waiting @favorable opportunity to | catch the owner napping. Having occasion to visit | Broadway ono morning on business, Mr. Odiorne was | goue just ten minutes, butupou his return bis shop | was in charge of officers and he was arrested by Sere | geant Leflerts on the charge of Jeaving his boiler with- | Out an attendant injustice of Mr. Odiorne’s pers cuuion by the police being showa in its true colors to ihe magistrate belore whom be was taken, caused bis instant and honorable discharge, besides some whoie- some advice being given Lo Uh c gentleman's business and arrested him beeau souai pique, Since that time Mr, Odiorne has be Mone, aud he ts running lis own borer at this date, L,KGITIMATE DEDUCSION Mr. Odiorne cOntenaed in closing that the Board of Engineers at Police Headquarters Was an incompetent Voard; voar certificates of inspection of boilers were Bieved Ly Cape Yule when tho boilers were never examined, and (nat inspectors bave received money for so doing; that a certiticate bad been withbeld from him through malice, and that he had been maliciously Persecuted ; that « ious should not be conducted D private, bat with open 0 that owners may ve present that Yue, Horton & Co used their office | lor purposes Uf oppression and favoritism, and finally be was Of the opinion that tne should be removed and ab nuted Who will treat 4 tecord (hem @ tar examin MOKE OP THE SAXX sony, Mr, Hulin, whose place of business ig at No, 440 Broadway, then related bis experience win Yule & Co. 1k Was Of the sume character as Mr. Oxiorne’s, For jive months he was deprived of the ue of his pouer because the examining engineers Would Lor give cor Lificates of qualification to those he sent belore them, Mr. ulin knew them to be competent men, bay quioy were rejected so summarily that he came to the ey. clusion that Yulo and he were not his triends. One o¢ the appleants sent by him, a Mr, Bmmons, had been pas by @ board of naval engineers eod was a thorough engineer; bat ho was compelled to “step town and out” at the bidding of Horton, At last Mr, present Incumbents | dof practical eugineers Picauts with courtesy and | they “Ol course the shipping bas to be supplied,” the Com- missioner replied, “and as for the ‘Canitield Contract,’ as its called, its history 18 very well known. Some tive years ago a license was given to Mr, Cuulflela to supply the shipping of the port, and for this privilege he pays thecity $58,000 a year, It 1s claimed that he | makes a great deal more than that and that the city is | so much the loser, But of that we shall know more next June when the contract expires. Lf the city can realize more by attending to this matter directly through its own officers, it 18 right tt should make ail | that can be mave ont of it. ‘At present,” Mr, Campbell said, ‘I do not think there is any real ground for com- plaint on account of a scarcity of water except, as the Chief Engineer says, in isolated instances, ? t CRUE O CHILDREN. OF THE ABUSES TO WHICIL UNNATURAL PARENTS SUBJECT THEIR OFFSPRING, Poverty and misery are incident to the lives of tho majority of Baxter and Mulberry street tenement | house occupants, but rarely to a degree as wretched as SOME | that testified to in the Court of Special Sessions yos_ terday in the case of the people against Michael and Roxiva Ward, From the evidence of the officers of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children itappears that the prisoners, who are hueband aud wile, aro habitual drunkards, They lived tu a tumble- down house at No, 124 Baxtor street, In alow, démpand darkened room, which the sunlight never ponetrated, The furniture is the half of a filthy matiress, a couple of broken stools, a few broken dishes and a | cracked stove, The husband never worked except to | procure means to purchase a new supply of the vile gin sold in the neighboring ‘bucket sbops.” The wife excelled ber busband as @ drunkard, baving never | been seen sober, even by the oldest inhabitant. This model couple are the parents of four children, aged two, four, beven and ten years respectively, dependent upon them for support, “How the little ones managed Wo live to their present age iga mystery, When tound by the officers they were more walking skeletons. Their euts lay drank on the floor, oblivious to everything. The children had vot eaten a mouthful of food lor nearly forty-eigut hours, and they were cov- ered from head to foot with filth, Mre. Flay, one of the neighbors, teatifiod that the wretchedness and starvation of the children “boggared descripuon.” She gave them food and notified the police. Officer Lundburg, of the society, gave not that tho children were almost naked and as cold as were buugry. He and Otiver McGuire were obliged to borrow clothing for them before they could Temove them from the house. The fatter and tnother wore cach sentenced to six months in the Penitentiary, and the childrea were taken charge of by the society. AN OVERWORKE Another case was thatyof Vinceat Fina, ao Itattan ragpicker, living at No, 25 Marion street. He was seen plying bis Vocation by an officer early Monday morning, A weak, pany boy of about eight years of age was following him, Thechild had on bis back @ bundle of rags that weihed nearly fifty pounds, He staggered along under the weight, trying to keep in tho wake of the man, who occasionally turned around and rougtly urged btm to greater spe On reaching an ash — barrel the child placed the bundle upon it in order to resy The man turned upon him with an oath and bade him hurry along. The child made an effort to get the bundle again on his back, but Mix strength was gone, and he fell down in the gutter exhausted, At this juncture Officer Selig arrested tbe hard-heurted man, who proved te be child's futher, Ine craeity was also wit- nessed by Mr. Waiter Summers, of No, 30 West Ninth street, Who gave evidence Lo that tin court, Find was sent to the Penitentiary for ove month, and the child was taken charge of by the sovtety. Mary Casey, an ill-looking woman of torty fears of age, was found in @ state of grows Intoxication by Oiticer Leary. She was walking down Pearl street i the heavy rain, leading by the haud a ragged litte boy of four years, Who was barclooted and bareheaded, The woman's face was bleeding profusely from a cut | Mrs. Ferguson to A PAT RENDERING GRIEVANCE. ALLEGED NUISANCE ON WEST FORTY-E£EIGHTH STREET—TWO SIDES OF THE QUESTION— WHAT A DOCTOR 84¥8 ON THE SUBJECT. ‘The tnbabitante of the east side, in the neighborhood of Thirty-fourth street, bave # recurring grievance which comes to them tm noxious gases from the oil: Point, whenever the wind is east- Is ts achance of I! savor to bave that factory fland between the wind and anybody’s nobility, bat there has recently started up on the west side ap alleged public nuisance which, according to the com- plaining parties, deprecintes property in the entire vicinity, is the fruitful source of disease, and is .tn- Ginitely worse than the long tolerated abomination at Hunter's Pointy WHAT THR PEOPLE COMPLAIN OF. Bince the beginning of the present year a fat ren- ring establishment has been im operation at West Forty-eighth street and Eleventh avenue, on the Norib Riv 1s ts rum by ® corporation known as the Commercial Manulacturing Company, and, according to the residents of the locality, whe appear to be Unanimous in its condemnation, 1% 1s the source of untold evil, Just as the people on the st side aro affected by easterly winds, 0 those on the west have, It seems, abundant occasion to read those trom the west or rauging between north- west and southwest, According to the statements mado toa Hera.p reporter by the complaining residents the nuisance in this instancn appears to be more intermnit- tent than that at Hunter’s Point, but vastly worse while is isin full blast On the other band, those who | conuuct the establishment aflect to think tat their lit | tle enterprise {3 perfectly innocuous, plead the permit of the Boara of Health a6 @ warrant jor its oxisience, and, if you af erly accredited person, are will ing to éhow you through the premises where tt {8 car- ried on, To understand the merits of the case 1 is well to remember that the waste of the factory, which the conductors of it js almost nothing, 1 into the pablic sewor running through West Forty: | Binth street and discharged inte the North Kiver. Now, the people who make complaint say that foul gases of tho most offensive and sickening odors possible | are discharged through this sewer; that, whon tho wind is from the directions already indicated, the neighborbooa !# renaered intolerable by them; and that these gases. iso forced back, through thesower and through the waste pipes, into their dwellings | KFVECT OY PUBLIO HMALTH. They say that, in consequence, a locality which, be- fore the ostablishment of the factory, had been per- foctly satistuctory as to ite sanitary conditions, 18 vow | reduced to such 4 atate that people cupnot live in it, and that the tenants are leaving rapidly, thus render. ing property almust valueless, Tho discharge of gas, vhey say, 6 principally at night, and it is shen simply unbearable. SOME STATHMENTS ON THE SUBJECT. Mr, John Draddy, a respectable resident of West Forty-eigth street, said to the HekaLy representative that provious to the starting of the tactory there bad been no offensive smells in the neighborhood, bat that now, when she gases and waste were being discharged, the odors were those of « charnei house, All his family, ho said, had been taken sick in consequence. Said Mr. RK. List, who followed the occupation of a butcher, on Eleventh avenue:—“I huve worked tn siaughter houses for twenty years, and have nevor known of such an Offensive smell as that which comes from this lactory. It appears to me ag if decayed apunal matter were put into a tank, kept there uot it was perfectly putrid, and then that the tank were opened aud stirred ap. People bave come into my hop, and when they found the smel! com! through the sink have asked if] had any bad mi the bouse,”” Qn last Friday night, be added, the smelt was dreadfully offensive. Mr. Hill, who owns property in the locality, said that he had lived there eight years before the ‘actory was started and had never enjoyod better health, but lately he had been suvject to severo sickness, He had already lost half bis tenants, and the others nad said that they would not remain, ‘THM OTHUKR SIDE OF THR QUKATION. ‘The reporter subsequently called on Mr. Peck, the superintendent of the fuciory, and wue conaucted through it without hesitation, Mr. Peck regarding such & course as the best answer to the compluints which had been made There were then uo disagreeable odors, the processes were cleunly, and if things were | always so it would be dificult to see where complaint could lie, The material used was periectly good, not offal fat. He was subsequently brougit to the Forty- ninth street sewer, through which the waste was dis- charged; butit there were any gages being set at large they would be curried across the river to the Jer- sey side, us the wind was from the ea Previously the reporter had himselt visited the spa4, aud bad de- tected avery disugreeavle odor that an eddy ta the wiud had carried toward bim. His conductor also took him to the Forty-cighth street sewer, which ts uncon nected with tho factory, and he saw at {ts mouth | large quantities of accayed tripe, which, he was told, had been discharged from tripo houses in the vicinity. The factory, he was informed, had to bear the brunt of these things as well. WHAT A DOCTOR SAYS ON THK SUBJECT, i Being in quest of impartial testimony on tue subject, | the reporter sought Dr. Nealis, of No, 220 West Thirty: ninth street, who bad attendod the sick tamily of dir, Draddy, Said Dr. Nealis:—*The stench 1s simply in- tolerable; it is as vad as thatof any dissecting room,” He added that it was mere idle pretence to say that it did not come from the factory. When the wind was from the northwest the odor, be said, was most disi- greeably felt even at‘thirty-ninth street and Seventh avenue. ACTION IN THE MATTER. Tue people of the ucighborhood have, at all events, | determined to take energetic action in the matter. They bave already petitioned the Board of Aldermen on the subject and onSlonuay evening they held an infor- mal meeting for the purpose of organizing with the view of protecting their interests and procuring an abatement of what they allege to bean intolerabio nuisance, TUR ALDERMANIC ACTION. The Committee on Police and Health of tho Board of Aldermen yesterday reported rolative to the fat-ren- dering establishment at the foot of Forty-ninth street, North River, They state that it ts ‘tone o1 those ques- tions the determination of which bad been nominally, if not really, taxen from the control of the Common Council by the State Legislature in the passage of the law of 1866 creating the Hoard of Health for this city and investing tt with limited legislative powers. It wae certamly an arcing 4 mn local civil governments, but as the ighest courts in the State have upbeld the State Legislaturo in thus dividing and subdividing the legia- lative powers of the city government into small frag ments, and investing Boards and Commssioners with co-ordinate if not powers superior to the Common Council, a remedy for the evil complained of inust be sought from the Legislature if it cannot be obtained | from its creature, the Board of Health.” The commit. tee has been discharged from further consideration of the matter, and the Board of Health 1s solicited to abate the nuisance ag soon as possible, A RELIGIOUS FRAUD. MRS, FERGUSON'S CONVERT—A REMINISCENCE OF THE, MOODY AND SANKEY REVIVAL, While the Moody and Sankey revival was tn full blast at the Hippodrome Mrs. Jane Ferguson, of No. 322 | West Twenty-seventh street, a lady about forty-five years ot age, became acquainted in the inquiry room with a fine looking young man named Henry Sollinger, who said he was a converted Jew. Sollinger madea deep impression on Mrs. Ferguson, and she took accordingly a lively interest in his spiritual welfare, At the time of bis conversion, however, he was sadly in need of money and a place to lay his head. TUX CONVERT’S STORY. He told Mrs, Ferguson that he had lived in the South since he was quite young, bad gambied on the Missis- sippi steamboats and had kepta gambling hell in Mem- phis and in Natchez, but the Lord did not prosper his work. He came North penniless, und although he had been brought up in the lap of luxury by fond pa- rents and relatives, ho felt that he was an outcast from civilizavon, The preaching of Mr, Moody bad given him renewed hope, and he trusted in the All- saving Power to redeem him. All Mrs. Ferguson’s sympathies were elicited when the young couvert in- formed ber that he had not tasted food within the kpace of thirty-six hours She at once invited him to her house, where he lived for over five weeks, and was treated as'a favored guest. During that time he kept up hts religious exercises and attended the Moody and Sunkey meetings reguiarly. DUFING HIS KENEPACTRESS, Mrs. Ferguson, however, was very anxious about her young protégé securing employment as soon ag possible, and on the 26th of October, 1876, he intormed her thut he had been engaged by a iirm bawed W. J. Morse & Co., of No. 22 Warren street, at a salary of ‘This firm required $200 security before they would engage him, and young Soilinger begged of vance the money, She told him she bad no ready money herself; but on bis drawing twe notes for $100 each for #ix and twelve months sho | consented to indorse them and borrow the money from of her friends, On the 27th of Octover, 1876, r received trom Mrs. Ferguson $200 in © never aw bim again Wil she met tim Jace Police Court yesterday, whero A warrant was money, in the Washington he was arraigned before Judge Murray: procured for bis arrest last January, but the officer was unaple to find him. He was captured on Monday night by Otficer Vandusen, of the court squad, Sollnger, who gave his name as Frederick KE. Hall when are rested, is about twenty-two years of ago, and basa win- ning appearance, He took the matter of his arrest and arraignment with the utmost sangfroid, acknowl edged borrowing the mouey trom Mrs. Ferguson, and sald that the no danger that the notes would not be paid when they came duo, His counsel asked for bis discharge on the ground that he had given his notes for the amount, and that Mrs. Ferguson's onty remedy was bya civil action. Judge Murray charged the prisoner, but, beture doing so, gave bim a scathing lecture. ‘Tho Judgo’s lecture, however, did not disturb the young man’s equanimity, and he walked out of tho court room smiling. OPIUM POISONING. Coroner Croker’s Investigation of tho circumstances which she had evidently received by a tall, The officer took her to the Totuis Police Court, and he wae sent to prison for ten days Tuo child was Mra over to the Bociely, attending the death of Axel Morburg, a Swede, showed that bo died from an overdoso of opium, taken with suicidal inven’, dia | ‘ OUR COMPLAINT BOOK. POST OFFICE LARCENIBS, To ras Epiror oy ris HeraLp:— Soon after Christmas, 1876, there were sent to the writer of this trom the “old country” the Jilustrated London News oud also the Graphic, Though oroperly addressed and prepaid, they never were received. A duplicate copy of each was then (about February 10, 1877) sept, anc also properly addressed ana progeny repaic, These were sent by “book post” ‘ney hove ever been received. Application was made to the proper authorities here, but us yet] have heard potting about them. What am I to do about it? 4 VICTIM, THE CROSS TOWN CAR BOUTE To rus Eviron oy tux Henan: Through the columns of your most paper allow me to suggest that the route of the Fulton ferry Blage be exteuded to Roosevelt street ferry, thus affording the iadies of Brooklyn, E D., an easy ana pot disgusting wccessto the metropolis, thereby lea tug the cross town line of cars to glory in its patrons with their salt mackerel, peanute and she like, or, might s Fourth avenue car take pity on us and run to the foot of Grand atreest EX-NEW YORKER FREE CHURCHES, To rux Epiron oy tux HxRALD:— In the issue of your wiaely read paper of Sunday, March 16, 1877, there appeared a commanicatwn to the effect thatthe writer could not finda Protestant Episcopal church open for service at convenient hours on week days. Had he or she read the advertisements and religious intelligence In the same issue there would have been no trouble in being suited. For their guid- ance I would say that at the St Chrysostom’s Chapel, Soventh avenue and Thirty-ninth street; St Ignatius’, Fortiesh street, detween Fifth and Sixth avenues; Holy Communion, Twentieth strect and Sixth avenue; St Alban’s, East Forty-seventu street and Lexington avenue, two daily services \hroughous the year are beld; during Lent, special services, At the fir bawed—st. Chrysostom’s Chapel—datly, during the en and nine A. M aud dive und bali-past | and on Wednesdays and Fridays also «t eleven P. M. All of these churches montioned are tree churches, open alike to the poor aud rich, In these days of apostacy it 18 only Ha both sides of a ques on should be presented, Les everybody the Sunday HeRaLp, CHURCHMAN, BROOKLYN SCHOOL BOOKS, To rus Eprros ov THR HeRauD:— Please give us Brooklyn peopie alittle room. We know we bear a bard name. But we begin to feel that we want to Improve; so I think there 1s bope tor us yet, We aro anxious our children should be edu- cated, and believe the taxes are enough to give bouks woall tree, Tho present system 1s buy or else plead poverty by begging them of the principals, very few Bchoots having the same books, So 1 you change | residence buy or beg Hues OLD FOURTEENTH WARDER, SRTIFICIAL CASCADES, To rux Epiton ov tux HeRALD:— Will you kindly inform me by what right certain tradesinen tn Fulton street, New York, put out skimpy awnings which shed a small cascade of cold water along the centre of the sidewalk, the entire length of their establishment? Perhaps tt is a now plan of advertising. You suddenly get a stream of muddy water down the back of your neck. You look up, a hugo sign meets your eye, and gently whispering to yourselfi—"Ob, bless the Heaven-blessed Brown, Jones or Green, to Paradise!” you hasten bome and alter your will in his favor. Yours, profanety, MAD DOG. LIFE INSURANCE. To tnx Epitor oy THe HERALD: — While the life insurance business is being so thor- oughly investigated, would it not be well to have the names of those corporations which, in order to pay their officers extravagant and unearned salaries, ro- duce the small, hard-earned pay of thelr employér, who are forced to submit to this Shy.ockism or lose their official heads, there being no appeal or redress save through the columns of your “Complaint Book ?? SURRENDER VALUE, THE HOUNTER’S POINT PEST HOUSE, To Tux Eprror or THE ArRaLp:— Will you record in your **Complaint Book’? the pro- tests of 300,000 human beings who are compelled to inhale the exbalations trom that pest house at Hunter’s Point? To-night, the wind being in the right direction, the residents all about Murray Hill are exclaiming, “Phew! can’t tbat nuisance be abated 7’? It would seem not, for the thing has been in existence a long time. Une man against 300,000, and able to boil fis fat and bones and load the wir with a disgusting smell! What isto be done? If there is a remedy, will you indicate the most effectual method of eradicating 10? SANITAS, A PAVONIA FERRY ANNOYANCE. To Tun Epiror or THe HxraLp: 1 wish to complain of a man who every morning an- noys the passengers on the Pavonia ferry by marching up and down aud slaging some country tune. Stran- gers, no doubt, consider him a lunatic, but we regular passengers know bim too well. 1 write this in hopes the company will stop the voluntary vocalism of this man. NORTHERN RAILROAD, OUR CITY STREETS, The number of letters on the condition of the streets of the city und the many annoyances experienced aro rapidly on the increase, We present summaries of those on hand. “Improvement”? asks how long that spot in front of No, 128 Pearl street is going to remain unpaved. The street was dug up last month to fx the sewer, or somo- thing of that sort, and was filled up again, but not paved. There are twu or tbree piles of the blocks there, thus leaving room enough for only one wagon to puss, also aflording nice holes for the Wagons to got tuck’? in. which is one of the principal thoroughtares leading to the Park) below Forty-iourih street was cleaned, while above Forty-tourth street it was nat cleaved, though | it te 1m a much filthier condition, “A Resident of Fifty-eighth Street’? calls attention } to @ yung of loalers, styled the ‘Bloomingdale Asso- ; clation,’’ who stand in front of their club house, at | Fifty-ninth street and Eighth avenue, and insult all Jadies wno unfortunately have to pass that way. A. B, Winant writes about the horrible condition of Fourth avenue by 116th street, The avenue ts blocked up by an embankment twelve feet high, making 1t en- Urely tmpussable, and there 14 no Way of getting across the avenue trom 118th street down to 113th street. | One Hundred and Sixteenth street {s a boulevard, but has no bridge across the Fourth avenue. Who is re- sponsible for the delay in putting the bridge acro: Fourth avenue at 116th street? Tho Boulevard o been finished some time. “Graves” states that owing to the large quantity of | mua in the streets horses continue to suffer trom pick- | ing up nails in their fee As usual each owner be- | comes a horse doctor, and the poor beasts have to grin | and beur the punishinent of possessing too much proud | esh. | | “H. M. P.’? thinks that Mayor Ely should sce that | First avenue, between Twenty-eighth and Twepty- ninth streets, 18 broperiy cleaned, ag it 18 ina filthy condition. is the attention of Captain | Murphy, ot the Twent § precinct, to the crowus of | young fascals who infest that neighborhood. Last | Sunday alternoon they amused themselves vy throw. ing stones and breaking glass in windows, Ladies had to walk out imto the muddy strect to avoid bein; struck. Though a pobceman was present, he fatie for some time to drive the ruffians away. “A Pedestrian’ complains of the dungerous condi- tion of the sidewalks in jront of the New York County Bank's new building, corner Fourteenth street and Eighth avenue, 1t has been in a disgraceful condition all winter, and now they bave a raised sidewalk about eight or ten inches above the remainder of the walk, and Jast night, no light being there to warn pedes- trians, “Pedestrian”? was thrown at full length. “A Residenv’ calls attention to tho ieonvenienc the residents of it Forty-eighth etreet are enduring from not having their garbage and ashes remove Since Thurs night last barrels and voxes have been standing before the dwellings running over with ashes. Charles 8. Barnes says a word or two tn reference to our httle park at the junction of East Broadway and Grand street, For the past two weeks there have been no lamps lit, a8 the globes are carried away, and it is resort lor Improper characters. » LR’? states that on Sunday was pa: i witha friend through Fifty-sixth street, betweon Thitd and Second avenues, he was struck with a stone in tue back of the head go as to make a ep gash. This outrage was committed by one of w ty of young Vagabonds who were congregated in he kindling wood factory, When he was bit “BE. 1, BR.’ ted to Bnd an officer, but there was none to bo found nearer then the Fity-ninth street police station, “C,"? direots attention to a nuisance corner of Fighth avenue and Fourteenth street, in the shape of an exca- vation in the middlo of the street, Which 18 a source of danger to velicies, The sewer 1s out of order and the stagnant water there accumulating i@ a result of this nexloct. San Old Resident’? complains of a gang of ruflians who congregate at the southwest corner of Th irty-tirst street and Eighth avenue, They insult ladies or com- pe! them to cross the street by blockading the sidewalk: J. H. Wilmart says that the crossing at the corner of Broadway and Fourteenth street ts so badly set that the car track projects four inches aud causes many se- rious (alls A lay fell «day or two ago and was un- able to stand on being assisted by the writer. ‘Constant Reader’ wants the Street Cleaning De+ partment to send more carts about town for garbage ind ashes, and sensibly Observes that disease is being vred in many sections ot the city by the neglect in col- lecting retuse. jent of Twenty-fourth Street’ calls attention He also ca) ty “A Re NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1877.-TRIPLE | treasurer of the Board of Trustees was very reticent SHEET. THE EAST RIVER BRIDGE. PREPARING FOR THE APPROACHES ON EITHER SIDE—COMPARISON WITH OTHEB STRUCTULES OF A SIMILAB KIND, , ‘The proposals tor lowering the buildings and con- structing on them freproof roofs at either end of the great bridge have been all received, and a decision re~ j garding them will be reached in a few days The yesterday on the question of further purchases of real estate in New York and Brooklyn in the vicinity of the bridge, Perhaps there is a fear lest property owners might put up their terms to an undue height were 1} known that the company was in the field tor the purchase of property veyond the limits of that over which the roadway will pass. Tbe approaches to the bridge are now of immediate interest, cuble laying only awaiting settled weather. Chief Engineer Roeb- ling thinks that it will be time next mouth to com- mence regclar work ‘m this complex part of the | great undertaking, The New York approach will be | the more important of the two, and great care will be taken to unite architectural display with solidity and durability in constractioa, The plans for buiid- ings tor business purposes beneath the roadway of the bridge are not yet decided upon, as the purchases of property on which the company bas set ite eye aro stillin abeyance, There will be little difficulty tc per- fecting all the arrangements for the Bruoklyn Approach, A few wurehouses will probably be estab- lished under the rouaway, but the elevation and dis- tuuce boing much Jess than that of the approach on she other side of the river Now York will claim the rincipal re of ention irom the trustees ‘The vurse car rails, with tron tramways alongside tor wacon wheels, will reach through from the extreme end of one approach to that of the other. The latter, however, will only take tn, on the land sides, about ono-third of the New York and three-fourths of the Brooklyn approach. COMPAKISON WITH OTHER SUSPENSION BRIDGES. The master mechanic, Mr. Farringiou, said yesterday that the Brooklyn Bridge, when completed, will be tue longest and most imposing in the world. Next to it comes, in point ot length, the new bridge at Niagara Falla, The cubles oi this bridge consist of seven ropes, laid in a cluster, one being in the centre, Lach re is two inches and a half in diameter, ali making & bout seven inches ip diameter, The span is feet, The bridge across the Unio River at Cin- ciunati comes next In ez. It has ope spun of 1,057 Jeet and two short ones, 28 feet each. The suspension bridge at Wheeling, W. Va, basa span of 1,010 feot, but the superstructure 1s of wood and 1s not so substan- ay meuhioned, 1) wus built many yours ago, When suspension bridge buiiding wus in its ip- Eliet, Who was alterwara Lieutenant Coionel sue brigade on the Mississippi, and was killed at Memphis. The same engineer constructed the rst suspension bridge gt Niagara, she preuecessor of the present rairoad vridge. briage across tue Licking River, connecting Covington ang Newport, bas ‘a span of 700 feet, and all the remaining structures of the kind in this country vary trom 100 to 600 feet, CABLE MAKING FOR TWO YEARS. In laying the cables Mr, Farrington wished it to be understood that the guide wire oly would be lowered toward the water i order to gain the requisite position Jor each cable About 100 men wil be engaged in | running the main Wire across, compressing each strand with powerful iron tongs and binding closely each | cable with heavy clampa Al the men who have | aiready been employed in the delicate work that bas | stublished even w temporary bridge between the two | cities have been instructed and iraimed by the master | mechanic himself, and Le expresses entire satistaction Wit the readiness and energy with which they obeyed every order, He says that greater care has been be- stowed upon periecting every detail than bas ever been known beiore im the construction ol ® suspension bridge. The material for all the cables will not be com. pleted in less tuau two years, and it will take another year tosuspend the roadway. It 1s an enormous work, and every portion of it must be thoroughly tesied in the process of construction. RAPID TRANSIT NOTES, The commission appointed by tho Court, of which General Chi fA. Arthur is chairman, and which was to nold awession day belure yesterday, adjourned to an indefinite period in order to await the decisions of the legal tribunals to which the injunctions have been carried. The object for which the commission was ap- pointed was to uppraige the value of property belong- ing to the estate ot E. Ellery Anderson and others on the line of the Guibert Elevated Railroad ou South Filth avenue, which can only be done after the courts have decided the main queriion. Unti! then the com- miasion must adjourn irom day to day, Without being able to avcomplisn anything, DORA STEGMAN’S WEAKNESS. Anice looking young girl about eighteen years of age, named Dora Stegman, was arraigned before Judge Wandelt yesterday on two separate charges of larceny, one preferred by a former friend of bers named Emma Feist and another by her brother, Frederick Siegman, Emma testified that Dora bad #tolen a cashmere suit from her room on the 10th of March and Frederick Stegman testified that hix-sister Dora had stoien $25 from him on the 12:h of Marob. Young Stegmuan said that be had heard sv many complains of iis sister Stealing irom different persons that he was con- strained to make the complaint. Judge Wandell heid the prisoner, who teariuily confessed her guilt, in $500 to answer, FRANCISCO'S FAT. L WALK. Near Waverly Station, on tae Pennsylvania Railroad, on Monday evening, Francisco Olaero, an Italian tramp, was run over while walking along the railroad, and instantly killed, Near the station Francisco and a companion heard a train coming, became bewildered and stepped on the opposite truck, the very one the train was on, The body was taken to Newark and yes- terday buried in the Potter's Field, HENRY COOK'S SUICIDE, Tho inquest on the body of Honry Cook, whose re- mains were found in the Spuyten Duyvil cut, on the Hudson River Railroad, last Sunday week, resulted yesterday ina verdict to the effect that the deceased | committed suicide by jumping off the cutin a tit of | mental aberration. MARRIAGES AND D ATHS, | ENGAGED. Britrox—Backmax.—Mr, Joszrat A. Buittox, of New York city, to Miss Fayxix Backmax, of Philadel- phia, No cards. DIED. Barxws.—On Monday, March 26, 1877, Macain 5, | daughter of Jobn W. and Maria Barnes, Relatives and triends are respectiully invited to at- tend tho fuveral, trom ber parents’ residence, Port Richmond, Staten Isiand, at haif-past ope P, M., March 28, 1877. Bout leaves pier 19 at twelve AM. Care | Tages awaiting. Hy BaktLert.—On Sunday, March 25, Major Jonas Bant- LBTr, in the 74th year of his ago. Relatives and iriends of the tamily are respectfully invited to attend the funeral services, at his late resi dence, No, 34 1st place, Brooklyn, to-day (Wednesday), at two o’clock P, M. BERNHEIMER —On Tuesday morning, the 27th inst., of scarlet fever, Esta A., beloved daughter of Adolph and Fannie Bernheimer, aged 1i years and 10 months, ‘The faneral wilt take piace from she residence of | her parents, 145 West 42d t., this day (Wednesday), the 28th 108t, atone P.M. Beygvict.—On Monday, March 26, Amaxpa M., wife of Joel T. Benedict. Friends are invited to attend the funeral services at No, 7 Bast 42d st, Wednesday, March 28, at three o’clock ¥, M, Interment on Thursday, at Varsippany, de Biouix.—On March 26, Kars, infant daughter of John A. and Kate Biglin, aged 17 months. Funeral trom ber parents’ residence, $02 East 34th st., Wednesday, March 25, attwo P. M, Relatives and friends are invited to attend. Bortox.—On Sunday, March 25, Epwarp Bortox, in the 76th year of bis age. Relatives and triends are gy rede { invited to al tend the june trom the Marey Avenue Baptist Chureh, on Wednosday, the 238th, at two o'clock. Borokss.—Suddenly, March 27, at his residence, 182 Fort Greene piace, Brooklyn, vosian J. Burckss. CuKanmayx.—At Montclair, N. J., Sunday, March 25, Isaac HL Chkaumax, aged 40 years, Funeral services’ ay the residence of his father, George M. Clearman, Montclair, on Wednesday, 281h {nst., at haif-past one o'clock P.M. Train leaves Bar- clay ‘and Christopher sts. at 10:45 A. M. GonserY.—On Monday, March 26, at the residence of her parents, 117 Weat Houston st, ANxix I., oldest daughier of Patrick and Mary Connery, aged 16 years, 9 months and 3 days. ‘The relatives and friends of the family and Sodality of St, Anthony's Church are invited to attend the fu. 1 Her remains will be taken to St Anthony rch on this (Wednesday) morning, at nine A. M. where a solemn requiem mass will be celebrated for the repose of her sual; thence to Calvary Cemetery at two P. M. ‘OnxiGuTox.—On Monday, March 26, 1877, of dipnthe- ra, Fronexck, daughter of Jobn and Jennie Creigh- ton, aged 4 1 month and 25 days, Funeral on Thursday, March 29, from tho residence of her parents, 378 Grand @t,, at half-past one o'clock | P.M. Interment in Trinity Cemetery. Davis. At Stony Brook, 1. lL, March 26, Mrs. Mancanet EB. Davis, wife of Harrison Davis, aged 53 years, 7 months and 14 days. Relatives ai Iniends are invited to attend the fa. neral, on Thursday, 20th, at New Village, at two o'clock. ‘Train leaves Hunter's Point at 10 A. M. for St. James. Doxovay.—In Jersey City, Tuesday, March 27, Miss MaxGanst C, Donovan, im her 39th year Relatives ana friends, and those of her brothers, Richard, Charies anv Cornelius, are respectfully mvited to attend her funeral, on Thursday, three P. M., trom her late resideuce, corner of Jersey av. and 4th 4, Jersey City. and A. M., are invited t¢ (Wednesday), ab ten A. Mo, m bis late residence, No, 76 2d av. Kixo Soromox Lovex, No. 279, F. and A M.— Brerunes—You are hereby summoned to attend an emergent communicanon of this lodge, to be held at the New York Assembly Rooms, corner of 2d av, Ist st, on Wednesday, March 25, at Balf-past Bil o'clock A M., sharp, jor the pur; of paying the last tribute of respect to our late brother, George Ete linger, A ASCHER, Master. Fratuexstoxs —On Monday, March 26, Jous Fra tp the 74th year of'his age. Funeral will take p! to-day, at half-past one o'clock, from his residence, 259 Garden #, Hoboken, to Calvary Cem: q Fickxs.—Ou 26th inst, Wriiax G.. youngest child of Martin apd Frances Ficken, of diphther:tic croup. The funeral wil! take place on [bursday, 29th inst... at three o'clock P. M., © 230 South 4th 6, Brook: », March 26, of pnenmonia, Jo Banna M., relict of Dr. Jules Fhess, a 78 yuars, The tuneral will take place at St Ignatius Charch, 40th st, between 5th and 6th avs., ob Thursday, the 20th imst., at ten o'clock. Fre cn.—On Sunday, Maron 25, of acute peritonitis, Juxyy C., wile of Tt. Henry French, and daughter of Frederick H, M and Louisa Newcomb. Funeral will take place from her late residence, 54 West 25th st.. at half-past one P. M., Wednesday, 28th inst, Relatives and friends are invited to atten Garpyex.—On Tuesday, March 27, of scarlet fever, Freppig, youngest son of Augustus and Mary J, Gard. ner, tn the 9th year of his age. Services to-day (Wednesday). atone ovclock, at the residence of his tather, $68 Lexington ay. Grounx.—On Tuesday, March 27, Maria A, M. Gaene, aged 31 years, 2 months. Relatives and iriends of tho family, also the mem- bers of the Lodge of Antiquity, No, 11, F. and A. M are respectiully invited to attend the funeral, from her late residence, 825.9th av., on Thursday, the 29th inst., at one o'clock P. M. Haicut,—Suddenty, on Monday, March 26, CHaruis CG, infant son of Henry and Fannie A. Haight Relatives and friends are invited to attend the ta. nerai from the reaidence of his parents, No. 153 Kast Slst st, at two o'clock P, M. Hanux.—On Tuesday morning, March 27, Acxxs F, A. Harun, The tunerat will take place at two o’clock this Wabresing 3 afternoon, from the residence of her parents, 97 West 61st st, No carriages. Haxnimay.—At Irvington, N. Y., on Tuesday, March 27. Frepexick G., infant son of Charles and Surah F, Harriman, aged 3 years, Relatives and friends of the family are invited to at- tend the funeral, at the residence of his parents, on Thursday afternoon, March 29, on arrival of the 1:30 train trom 4 HEKNZ MARTINEZ. --ADOLPIINE LANGERKECK, wife of Evaristo Martinea-Hernz, aged 20 years and 10 months, on Monday, Maret 26, ab her residence, 11 East 290b t., iD this city, “the relatives and friends of the family are requested to uttend the funeral, at the Church ot tho Transfgu- ration, on 29th st, between 5th and Madison avs, on Thursday, (he 20th inst., at half-past nine AM. Horuxiakn.—On March 26, N, Horueiaen, Funerai will take place on Wednesday, March 28, at ten A. M,, trom bis late residence, 166 Pacitlc street, Brooklyn. Relatives and friends are respectfully ta Vited to attend. Hovemayx,—Suddenly, on the 24th tnst., of paralysis of the beart, Sana Avcusta, widow of William C, Housman, and daughter of the late John H Talman, aged 38 ¥ The re 78, tives and friends of the family are invited to attena the funeral, from Trinity Chapel, this day (Wednesday), at ball-past eloven o'clock AM. Inter- ment at [rinity Cemetery. Heones. arch 24, Mary, wife of Edward Hughes, aged 60; native of Mooaghan, Ireland. Friends are respecttully invited toattend the funeral, at 315 Bowery, to-day (Woduesday), at 1:30 P, M., to Calvary, Jouxstoy.—Suddenly, March 26, of Bright's di Ame.ia F., beloved wile ot Jonn H, Jonnston, age years. Relatives and friends aro invited to attend tho fu- neral at ber fate residence, 113 Kast 10th st, at one . M. to-day, JupDp.—At Llewellyn Park, Orange, N. J., on Tues- day, March 21, of seariet fever, EvizaneTa Orusner, only daughter of Charles D. and Lucretie M. Judd, aged 3 years and 21 days. Funeral private, from residence of J. W. Judd, JuRGENS.—On Tueslay morning, HERRMANN JURGENS, aged 46. Funeral trom his late residence, No. 37 Rush st., Brooklyn, E. D., on March 29, 1877, at one o'clock, The remains will be interred in the Lutheran Cometery, KinGstaxD,—On Tuesday moraing, March 27, Dova- .ay son of Daniel C, and Harriet Kingsland, aged 3 years, Relatives and {friends aro invited to attend the fa- neral, from the residence of his parents, No, 71 Kast b4th st., on Thursday, at half-past one P, M. KixG. On Monday, March 26, Groras King, in the 48th year of his ugo ‘The funeral will take place from his late residence, 472 5th av., today (Wednesduy), ut 12 o'clock pro- ciscly. The family desire that no flowers be sent, Lacey.—Susay Owens Lackey, wile of Edward J, Lacey, on the 26th of Mare ‘The relatives and friends are invited to attend tho funeral, to tuke place trom the Church of Epiphany, on 2d av., between 2ist and 22u sts., on Wednesday, tho 28th inst, atone P. M. LAWrxNcK.—On Saturday evening, March 24, of pheumonia, at ner father's residence, 164 West 2th st., ANNik LAWRENCE, youngest daughter of Professor Philip Lawrence, i the 20th year of ner father’s heart ono pang. Lyoxs.—On Monday, March 20, 1877, of pnoumonia, Epwarb Lyons, in the 42d year of his age. Relatives and rienus are respecttuily invited to ate tend the funeral, from bis late residence, 226 Mulberry st, at one P. M, to-day (Wednesday), *Metpeum.—On Tueaday morning, 27th inst, Mary, wife of Alexander A. Meldrum, Relatives and triends are imvited to attend the fu. neral, trom her late residence, No, 766 Madison ay., on Thursday morning, at eleven o'clock. Mitcnkut.—At the residence of her son, Hon, Poter Mitchell, No. @Charlion st., Many Mrrcuxn., in the S8th year of her age, of pueumonia, Notice oi fanorai hereatter, MorraGe.—On Tuesday, at nine A, M,, at tho Fifth Avenue Hotel, Mary Lampeer Mortacs, im the 55th year of ner age. ‘The funeral services will take place at St, Francis Assissi Church, West 31st st, between 6th and 71h avs, op Weanesday morning, at ning A, M., and thence to Calvary for inte t. y.—On Tuesday, Murch 27, Mart, wilo of Audrew Mulvany, aged 32 years. Funeral, Thursday, a: two P, M, Relatives and friends respeetiully iuvited. Mcnvrey.—On Tuesday, March 27, Jauzs Munvsy, in the 35th year of his axe. Relatives and triends ure respectfully invited to ate tend his (uneral, on Thursiay, the 2vih inst, at two o'clock P. M., {rom his late residepos, 124 4th place, South Brook March = 27, D, Menray.—On Tuesday, Main E., daughter of James and Mary E. Murray,’ aged 2 years, 4 mouths, 11 days. ‘A bud on earth to bloom in heaven, Relatives and friends of the lamily are respectfutly invited to attend the funeral, from ‘her paronts’ resi- dence, No. 221 Myrtle av., on Wednesday, March 28, at three P. M. McGuine—After a lingering illness, on Tuesday, March 27, Jounnis, son of Thomas and Mary A, Me- Guire, aged 2 years and 2 months, Relatives and iriends are respectfully tovited to attend the funeral, av one P, M. Wednesday, March 28, trom 64 Bowery. Moin ..—On March 26, Josera Mcluvers, in the bist year of bis age. The ‘riends of tno family are invited to attend the fneral, trom nis lite residence, 274 9th av., on Thurs. day, March 29, at o'clock I, M, McMasus.—On Tuesday, March 27, Atics, the be- loved wile of Joun McManus, aged 3l years, Friends of the Jamily are requested to attend the fu. neral, on Thursday, the 20tn inst, from her late resi dene, 62 West broadway, at one o'clock P, M. O'PRsyY.—Vn Tuesday, March 27, Mary Jans, infu daughter of William and Sarah O’Pray, aged 1 year, § mouths, 14 days. The relatives and triends of the family are respecte fully invited to atiepd the funeral, frou the residence ot her parents, 152 av. C, on Wednesday, 28th inst, at hall-past one u’ciock. Pakkrie—-At Port ittehmond, S. 1., March 21, 187%, Canouixe, wife of Captain Samuel Parker, Relatives and trie are invited to attend her funeral, from the Reformed Church, Port Richmond, on Thursday, at four o'clock P. M. Ravn. —On Tuesday, March 27, at the residence of his parents, 406 West 13th st., ALEXANDER C., youngest won of Veter aud Elizabeth Rabb, uged 17 years, Relatives and iriends of the family are invited to attend the funeral, trom the Reformed Presbyterian Church, West 12th’ st, on Thursday, at 1:50 P. M., March 29. On Tuesday, March 27, 1877, Micnars pk, beloved son of Patrick and Ann Reade, 11 months and 20 days. ind triends of the tamily are respectfully invited to auiend the iuneral, (rom the residence of hig parents, 325 Henry st., Brooklyn, on Thursday, March ), 1877, at one o'clock P. M. Rice,—Isang. K. Rie, beloved wife of A. G. Ric: second daughter of A. H, Kisaam, Esq., 1m the 33d yoar of her age, at Whitestone, L. L, March 27, 1877, Friends and rejatives respectiully invited to attend funeral at Grace church, Whitestone, L. L, Thursday, at haif-past one P.M.” ‘Train leaves Sith st ferry, New York, 12:15 P. M. Bangor, Augusta and Thomaston, Me, and Boston Journals please copy: Savsr.—Ou Sunday, March 25, 1877, Lovisa Saver, oldest daughter of G, W, and Loulsa Sauer, in the 21s! yeur ot her age. Relative friends are invited to attend het funeral, on Wednesday, March 28, (rom ber late resi dence, 201 and 293 Bowery, at one o’ciock P, M. SaLMox,—Suddenly, of pneumonta, Apxue Lea, in fant daughter of Adolphe and Sarah Saimon, aged 3 months anade days. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to at tend the funeral, atten A. 3i., Wednesday, 28th, trom 723 Lexington a TorrEs.—In Jersey City, March 26, 1877, Captain Auxauam Cote Torres, in the 74th year of his age. Relatives and triends invited at his residence, 407 Grove #t, between 9h and 10th, Jorsey City, of Wednesday, March 28, nine A, M. Funeral servi pall Nee adil mi le Episcopal Charen, ‘ovtenville, 8. L, at one P. Boat leaves fo vite: Bal sh at clever! A. Mt. we ete 'Ratxon. —Ou Monday, Maret ane 31 years. y 'n 26, 1877, Jonny Trainor, Relatives invited to No. 738 Gri ind friends of the tamily aro respectiall; ttend the funeral, trom his late residence, Wich st, on Wednesday, the 28th inst, t his Jato residence, Devry.—On Tuesday, 27th inst. . in the 26ub your of 206 Madison ot, Francis B. De to the condition of that neighborhood, Ho says that the street has been cleaned and che alrt lett In smatl piles and allowed to rematn there until it has become seattered allover the street again, mach tothe dis comiort of all vedestriang aud residouta is age Notice ot funeral in to-morrow's pay Ertiiyoen.—On Monday, March 26, after long suf- fering, GRoRGH ETTiiNcnn, in the 66tb year of his age, ¥riends of the family, ‘oll as tho mombers of King Witsox.—lo this city, M 2 Davin Me Wingo, 7) Nar 2% Kelatives and friends are respeectinily invited to tend the funeral, trom his late residence, No, 216 poring St, on Thursday, March 29, at two o'clock Boston papors pleaso copy. of consumption, age. ‘This loving child, by her conduct, never gave het *