The New York Herald Newspaper, April 19, 1877, Page 5

° STARTLING ‘DISCLOSURES, President Woves Reveais the loner: Workings of New dersey Mutual FACTS AND FIGURES. ed Who Stole $300,000 of the Company’s Assets? HON. H, C, KELSEY ADDRESSED. ——-- Presidont. Noyes has at last decided to speak for him. velf, and that he has somothing interesting to reinte bo one who reads the following story will deny. When he was brought to Newark, N. J., from Now Haven, Conn., public feeling ran so high against him that (to use nis own words) the people would have lynched Dim if they had had an opportunity, At that ume bo deemed tt best to remain etlent and await develop- ments, and often since be made 4p his mind to remain silent de has bad cause to congratulate his judgment, His policy of silence has enabled him to gather facts for his vindication when the hearing vetore Chancellor Runyon is called on the 30th of this month, These facts are double-edged, and while they wil! tend to clear Mr, Noyes they jog him toa spot until recently quite sunny. MK. NOTES THULS AIS STORY, In an Interview with a Henatp reporter Mr. Noyes anid, with some show of pride:—Although 1 am oa gentleman, 1 am also a first class detective, and while in jail { was gathering some of the facts now in your possession. When | Orst camo to Newark,” he continued, “I was not immediately Bent to jail, but allowed to remain in my hotel. While im tne hotel a gontieman high in the Church bere in Newark and a man eminent in society came to me apd said, ‘Mr. Noyes, is there no way !n which this thing can be smoothed over!” At tho time [ knew of nothing to Connect this man intimately with my trouble; but, Mrong in a sensool thejustice of my cause, | said, ‘No, sir, | am into this business now, and I intend to touch pottom betore | leave this piace.’ Two hours altor this answer of mine I was in jail. I can’t explain how or owhy it was that the autboritics took such a sudden notion that! should go to jail. 1 leave disinterested parties to draw their own conclusions, This gentleman of ecclesiasticaland social distinction was one of the former directors of the New Jersey Mutual Lito (msurance Company, and knows how certain things were managed by tho directors when he was of the Board. PREVIOUS HISTORY OF NEW JERSEY MUTUAL, Boforo continuing this story | had better go back a Ustle, so that you can better understand all the bearings of what 1 bave to say. 1n 1874 or 1575 Mr. Anderson, ince famous from his connection with the Continental Life Insurance Company, was in the New Jersey Mutual, About the samo time Mr. Steadwoll was in the Custom House, He had some money and was anxious to start a law office, being a lawyer and having previously practised his profession, Stoudwell and Anderson ‘wofe acquainted, and tho former spoke of his intention ‘of beg jg Again the practice of the law. Anderson spoke disparagingly of the enterprise and suggested that it would be better for him instead of opening an office to ‘accept the nice round salary of the office which he (Au- derson) was about to vacate for a similar position inthe Continental, Steadwoll protested that he knew nothing about life insurance, but Anderson reassured him by saying that if be was short at the end of the ycar be would help him out, I do not think that Steadman fully Mderstood what that meant at tho time; 1 think ne ac- cepted it as a kind and Iriendly offer on the part of Mr. Aniartoy. Weill, Sieadwell finally acceptea the offer of ca! lerson und took charge of the New Jersey Mu- tual HOW DRFICITS WERE MADX UP. At the end of the first ycar be discovered that ho was about $200,000 behind im his accounts, and he Went and told Anderson how matters stood. ' Andel Jongh Guaplaged to the actaary, who innocently enough gave credit for them on thé books and swore ‘to the account of tuecompany., When the securities bad been dis- layed to the actuary Mr. Steadwell brought them ck and they wore returned to the Continental Com- pany’s vault. Steudwell thought the company should increase iis business, and with this end in view he began to advertise and start agoncics all over the country, The demands of agents at this time were enormous, and although policies came flooding in from @li quarters it Was (ound that it cost about seventy-five per cent of the firs’ year’s proceeds to pay forthe procuring of the premiums. ‘The show ot business was of course very great, but with such enormous ex- nses NO Substantial basis could be arrived at. Broaawoll thought ho was climbing the tree of pros- at time in doubie for him quick about time. this: perity bately Con- tineutal Lite Insurance Company went into the hands of a receiver, and When be made up his accounts the friendly Anderson could not advance him the securi- {ues necessary to wake both ends meet, NOYES’ BARGAIN WITH BTEADWELL, For twenty days poor Steadwoll ran hither and whither secking some company to reimsure the Policies of bis company. Ot course none of these would comply with his request, as the assets were insufficient. At the end of twenty days he came to, me and asked me if I would reimsure him, and I, of course, told him that | could not, as tho assets of his company would not warrant inc. He was almost 12 dispair and said, ‘Can’t something be dove lw get out of this awful maddie?’ 1 told him that of tourso something could be dove, but to teimsure tho policies was impossible. | told tim that 1 would ea pro rata reinsurance— that 18 to say, if the assets of the company would real- jue seventy-five cents on tho dollar a holder would be allowed $750 on a $1,000 policy, and could continue to pay the premiom on that amount, and not on the face value of his policy. steadwell ‘finully agreed to Buch an arrangement, and the bargain was couciuded. All the assets of the company aad not yet been turned over to me when I was arresied, nor had | had time to investigate the value of those securities that came into my possession, The premiums of policies in the New J y Matual Companys, owing to the extensive aa- sing and canvassing done by Steadwell, amounted to about $650,000 per apnum, and I saw a grand op- portunity of raising a moribund concern, in two years at furthest, mto rosperous and payiug business. Life insurance, kuow who have ever had to do with it in an executive Way, Will easily recuperate irom wiirmity to soivency under judicto! manage- ment. Now, t pr to reduce the expenses avout seventy-five per cent, to cut off clerks, cluso oifices, stop further cumvassing and advertising, and by doing this I could, with the income secured by romiums, have paid every creditor of the coucern one dwundred conts on the dolar, Tho kind gentlemen who brought me here and who are so anxious to pro teot the policy holders have now wiped out the bund- some Income of $650,000 per year, aud the policy boiders wiil be very lucky if they can get ten cents on the doliar, You ask how did it bappen that there was. go largo a deficiency as $200,000. That question bothered me for # long time, but, us I told you, | am po mean detective, and L huve solved the question to my owa satistactiyn, if not to that of several otbor wealthy gentiemen here in Newark. Now theso aro the facia in tho case, ond | will give you the figures ‘no directors of the compaay — subscrived for policy holders, but lator ;— 100, as a guaranteo fund Biorise ater the bargain was mado with me they took this fund and distributed 1 among themselves. Mr, Kel- sey knew there bad been such a fund, but in his report he says nothing about its disappearance. Had the diree- tors stopped at this very questronable piece of business things would bave been bad enough. They wont jure ther, however, and actually stolo $200,000 from the company and divided it among themselves. They are ail rich men and aro at present very anxious to pay back ine money and Jet the thing ‘blow over,’ but, as 1 told one of them, L’ll touch bottom betore I ivave the place, If the truth were Known, it wus not so | much an anxiety to secure the rights and property of policy hulders that caused the wreck ot tho Now dersey | Wutual as a desire to provide for a certai politician Vitcrative receivership which would give him au ine come for three or four years, | know that great dis appointment wag expressed by these parties when it Way discovered that the assets of the company were not convertibte into cash, No fat counsol tees could be paid and a handsome job was spoiled. Finding oo Money In the assets of the company the receiver, lam toid, Went to Trenton and demanded the $100,000 re- serve fund there held by the Stuta FABULOUS ‘REF HNSKS OF NBW IERSRY MUTUAL. To show you how tho New Jersey Mutual Company bas been managed for years let me stato a few incts. Jn 1873 the Jersey Mutual absorbea the Hope Vom- pany, of Now York, which was at that time insolvent. Alter the transicr the directors appropriated $150,000 to themselves and gave $50,000 to a gentieman who engineered the job. Now, it is well known who eng!- red the job. All the transactions were progressed conducted by Mr. C. C, Lathro Just look at this fist of salarics for 1873 and think of the economy practised by the company. (Here Mr. Noyes read as follows (rom a slip of paper be he! President... + Vice I’resident Booretary Assistant Secretary. Cashier... Medical examiners, General agent. Special general agent (Mr. Lathrop, Boston agene, Actuary Beven clert so transfer the cloud recently | | 26, and ask what you mei businessadd for nse eine hy MTN vents, seer joDery, &C.. es f Rero.des' orth oth ie ers New Jergey Words, the expenses vu! the Mutual tor 1873. This same averuge was continued in subsequent years, while the average tweome of the ma jounted to about 700,000 annum. {his tneome bad been protected by a reduction of say seventy-five per cent ‘ob the expenses the company could bave bean ‘up ip afew years notwithstanding that $300,000 had been stolen. During all this time the records show ' only @ fay average business as to gnany, ol rieks. The Capito! Company’s expenses woul: ; Incroased more than $10,000 per Jersey Mutual business, and saved every year on the expenses, t bave written the following open letter to Mr. Renry Kelsey, and, as it covers a great many points, you might sa’ pace bY publishing 1 | i as Noyes then handed the reporter the following letter:— not have been nnum dy this New ),000 could have been AN OPEN LETTER TO MR. RELSKY. To the Hon. Hx: C. Ke.ssy, lnsurance Commis- stouer, New Joi Sin—I nave at jast before me for review your ex- Wraordinary special report of an examivation of the New Jersey Mutual Lite Insurance Company, ad- dressed to the Logislature of New Jersey, under date of February 12, 1871. shown by your of December, 1976, and was continued to the 50th of January, 18 time sufficient to examine three such companies, id you called in—via, three classes of nothing whatever should have been o or negiocted or takev for granted, ané your revort should have been perfect in ail its parts and positive in its details, especially as you say that the law gave you the “power to examine under oath the officers, clerks and agents of the company relative to the affairs and businoss of such company.” On puge 18 you say:—To recapitulate, the only Assets that I can report at this date (February 12, 1 First—-Why did you ieave out Now York State bonds at Albany, being a part of the deposit Pace value of asset omitted.........0.....+$200,000 These assets inust have appeared on the books, but of them you make bo mention whatever im your twenty-seven pases of report, except that you admit that $11,000 of New York state bonds were held in Albany ag a part of the gross deposit there, But you neglect to include thissum in the assets which you and your exports wore over thirty days looking aiter and Becking for; and neither you nor they make any men- tion whatevor of auy of the other above omitted liems, And here | will remark that a caretul examination of your report satisiles me that it had for its object the foundation for persecutions on the one hand, and tho shielding, perhaps, of Newark, or some other wrong. doers, a few years back, on the other hand, Aud | am confirmed in this when you let slip, with only a word oF two, the mis: $160,000 which tuo company possessed, according to your own provious and your last publie reports, only one year ago, and whieh, if ve did not dad, 1 was your duty to investigate and ascertain what bad be- come of the assets which represented it. Did yon shde it over vecause you knew It was ab- stracted and wiully divided back to the gentlemen who put it in “as security for poliey-holders?” And did you not tind out that more than twice this sum was divided up during recont years and takon away from the company before Mr. Stedwell came in; or did you devolo your time in bunting “Lilliputian broken wheelbarrows”? when you kuew that a “coach and four’ had been driven through the company's assets? The which would not do to tell, or even investigate, Why did you omit unincumbered real estate $61,000, polading two large valuable dwelling houses in Wash- ington, D, C., aud real estate elsewnore, and nowhere make inention of this property ? You made and still make a cry about United States coupon bonds, $132,000, worth $160,000, aud you pa- rade them, as I have shown, usan asset, and yet you say in the letter press part of your report, two pages irom your schedule of assets, that “the company’s ownership of the coupon bonds could not be proved by the cash book and could only be interred trom their apparent possession, and thatthe president admitted that nearly one-half of the bonds virtually belonged to the company’s attorney to secure moneys advanced b. him, and i was not possible, tobe sure, that she mainder of these bonds might not entber be borrowed for the occasion or already hypothecated for loans of which your examiver could not learn,’' What a confession for a five or six year old Ingur- ance commissioner to make, aided by three experts, at the expense of policy-hoiders. The ignorance you display and want of quaifeation for the office you have so long beid 18 only equalied by your stupidity in publishing tt to the Legislature and the world, and showing at the same ime that dishono: purposes may have coutrolled your dotngs. ‘Again, Why did you not, like a man, gather together in one schedule the face values of every asset, and alter exhibiting them itn detail have commented upon their values, 80 as to enable the officers of the com- pany, the policy holders and others to accept or reject your criticisms upon values, and in thus doing let each asset stand or tall, or be depreciated down to ac. tual values—as the minus of others than H, U. Kelsey, who, without nis badge of office would never be sus- pected of capacity for anything higher than the games Of a third rate politician ? When you said “state bonds, $35,000,” why did you not tell what they were, how many aud what States— page 18? Would you give $36,000 for the Virgi and Lousiana State bonds you found in Che poss sion of the compiny? or did you namo “State bouds, $5,000,”’ to ho.d somebody accountable for that sum? Why did you name “loans on mortga as $573,500" Was tbat the face values of all the mort. Buges, of which $289,000 were held by New Jersey and New York as public depusits, or was the amount very much larger und you cut it down to $375,000 as your ipse dixit of their value? You know, if you found out anything, that the face values of their mortgages was not tar from $426,000, and without explanation you put them down $51,500 less, You enter $10,000 as cash in bank, and I vonture the opinion that you did not know that they had one dol- Jar, and took no means to wscertain whether they had $10,000 or ten times (hat sum. ‘You say premium loans, $350,000, and I venturo here the opinion, two, that you did not ascertain whether they held a promium note or that the items were on books in the form of entry charges against Poe and I will go further and say that! do not elieve that either you or your afsistant examinurs over ascertained by examination What amount was 10 premium notes or in book charges against polic.es, and that you neither saw nor read a premium note, or examined @ book cntry on this: item, or know anything whatever ol the re amount or value of this $350,000 ass ana I have reason to believe that the real amount 18 much larger, or was, belore you frightoned thousands uf policy holders to abandcn their policies and destroy the vulue of the premium notes or premium loans and despoiled ‘an annual cash mcome ot over $650,000. The accraed Jnterest, &&, $50,000, we will pass by, simply saying that you knew nothing about jt, as to whether it was one £um oF another, And now comes the last item—"Not anpaid and do- ferred premium, $240,000,” How round you turn all the corners of these large sums, Jo you say “Net?” Aud tf you did, why not ed the deduction you made on the gross pount and let us Know what the gross amount was, and then show bow much you cut it down, and why? { have reason to believo that peither you nor any of your expert investigators know anything about ibis item, as to how much are unpaid past due premiums, and how much are deferred premiums, veing pre- mums notduc; and as to the real gross amounts com- Lined, you know nothing whatever, in ny opimon. Now wo come to “havilities.”” The Urst item con- cerning which you speak the valuation “reserve,’’ and you say, ‘I will est the reserve at only $1,500,600,” Why that round sum? and on the same page (19) you add to It all other liabilities to make a balance sheet—viz, losses unpaid, $63,000; duo Second National Bank, $10,000—the same amoant you credit them with having on hand on the opposite age—due the company’s attorney for advances, PTF oo0—the ‘owner, us you really adinit, of about one- hati of the United States bonds—and debts to others of about $10,000, making a total liability of $1,630,000, from which, aiter deducting Assets OR Opposite ge of $1,208,500—whieh you say is all they ha jouves a deficiency ot $421,500; and you give poor Stedweil, president of the company, or somebody else—no one knows whose duty it is—just ten whole days to pay it in (page 9). Alter such unbounded lyberality in estimating their liabilities and giving somebody so long a time to find somebody fool enough to pay in $421,500 in ten days into a company you had rained—if it nad hot rumed fiselt " belore—it may be mewn as dirt” to call your atiention to page by showing that the ha. bilities tor “reserve” alono is $1,697,017, and which if as being im ali $120,000, making total liabilities of iH 27,007, and total axsets, page 18, deducted, of 1/208,500, and a consequent deficiency ot $618,507. Any State law Which permits you to do things in this way Must “open and shut like @ jack knife,’ woen the boy wanted to whittle or shut ti up, and fet, wftor all, your learned acvuary adds to the above résuits—as connected with the firet item, “the reserve,’ that Stiere wre reasous why this valuation (of shouid be much larger? than $1,697,017 serve, on page 19, the ine learned actual ming Up the habihves, pats down at $1,500,000, Abd now, passing over very many other almost equally incomprehensible things In your report, we say that nowhere over your signature do you state what rate of interest on money and what twilo of mortality you adopted coin- puung the “reserve,” which on one page you Hix at $1,500,000, and then on another page av $1,697,017, concorning which iast fxares the report says, “There are reasons why this amovnt should be increased,” wna you give the Legislature to under- stand on the first page of your report that the stand- ard as to the rate of interest and table of mortality to be used th such CXamination Was ‘fixed by tho act’? which authorizes the examination, when if Mr. Hine, tighis vaiuable compilation of insarance laws by States, ectly prints the New Jersey law, said law, instead of tixing the standard ‘by the act,” leaves it entirely open for (the commission) you, Kelsey, to adopt any standard you please, and does not compel you to divulge the standard adopied, ahd, as | bave said, you avoid it, so far a8 1 can ace. With one exception this report is the most magnif- cent imposition | ever mot with, and shows what lie Otlice boys. o ‘This last foots up the round sum of $40,000 Ie aries alone, Now to arrive at the whole cost of doing companies and life policy holders have tor supervisors, ‘With a lew honorable exceptions. Can you oxplain to the policy holders and the public are us follows: Lathrop, $' ‘ 5005 | Touna on mortgages say $313,560 Wh 97 tL 'nichenor, $rraboe Pt Seer Inived States bonds, mart 150, 001 tL opporito the above Dames, except- Aunts bond, market value say 0,000 | ing tho first, represent the mortgages taken ‘by each. Cash In bank 10,000 | With three ‘exceptions the persons mentioned were Rereh mice “ 860,000 | members of the Board of. Directors, and should have Acerued interest and rents say + 1,80,000 been fully coguidant of what transpired, In addition Net anpaid and deterred premiums, 240,000 | to the mortgages each received something in cash, and —~———-—— | it the whole cin be recoverod, with interest, the Making total assets in value... «$1,208,500 |*tors of the New Jersey Mutual will fare better than te papbre penal $11,000 “4 5 ‘ENTE ‘AL * | gecond—ti baia ete 163000 NEW YORK’S CENTENNIAL BIRTH: | Third—Speqal temporary DAY. pou Senbeae MEGODO ve th—I ‘nD! &o, in dite r) © a Torone einces eo Pe 15,000 | THE CEL'BBsTION or JULY 30 AT KINGSTON. Fiyth—Real estate unencumbered by mortgags 61,000 AN APPEAL TO THE PUBLIC, i gitranty capital of bie | in a becoming manner. you add the claims and debts you schedale on page 19 | | what you moan by such twaddie and why you bave thus despoiled their policies and ruined their com- pany? BENJAMIN NOYES. LIABLE sSLOCKHOLDERS, TO BE CALLED UPON TO REPAY THE PRICE OF THEIR STOCK—THE CONTRACT OF REINSUR- ANCE—LIST OF THE ALLEGED DEBTORS. A not altogether unexpected bonanaa is iikely to betall the creditors of the New Jersey Mutual Lite tn- surance Company. The action of the stockholders who paid themselves for their stock {rom the coflers, of the company in 1872 has laid the basis for suits to recover. Mr. Ludlow McCarter, counsel for Recetver Parker, | | says there is documentary evidence sufficient to prove | tne rights of the claim. The papers are nearly pre- red, aod some action is expected to be | ‘taken’ to-morrow, The amount of claim to j de. made against each’ | individual stockholder isnot yet determined. Whether any aeductions wil be made for thé present value ot the stock if also @ Mater to be determined. The mortgages were dis- tributed among them to equa! euch claim as pearly as | possible, and the balance was paid in cash. All but a jew wore paid on the 30th day of January, 1873, and interest was allowed them for the interim between | Mat date and the date of tne contract, WALK CP AND SETTLE, Sufts are preparing again-t the following stockhola- | ere o were paid i the above manner for their | stock:—William M. Force, who was paid in cash | $15,000; Hosea F, Clare, $7,400; Edward Hoe, $6,000; Mury B MeCoy. $7,300; David A. Hayes, $1 j Jona H. Kase, $4,450; DeWitt C. Jayne, $7,600; 8 R. W. 7,500 Teoppha dy Fepty ; 4aron Car- ellor, 600, J, Coun Barnet, 600; Witham Shore uhey anticipated, Kisastox, N. Y., April 17, 1877. To Tur Eprror or tie Heratn;— On the 20tn day of April, 1777, the Provinoial Conven- tion, then tn session at Kingston, adopted the first con- stitution of the Stateot New York. On the 22d day of the same month it was duly proclaimed as such from the steps of the Court House at this place. On che 80th day of July following His Exceliency George Clin- ton was hero inaugurated the first Governor of tho State under the constitution, On the 9h day of Sep- tember of that year the first Legislature of the State met hero, On tho I6th day of October fol- lowing the piace was wantonly burned by the British forces, tinder General Joho Vaughan, Decuuse of the prominent part its citizens had taken in the preceding events, On the 22d day of February last, ata meeting ot the citizens of Kingston, a com- mittee was appointed to prepare and report a suitable plan for the proper commemoration and celebration, at this pisces of tbo most important of these events, the one hundredth anniversary of which is rapidly ap- Pproaching, ‘That committoe that the event in which the people of the Stare were most interested was the inau- guration of the irst government of the State under the constitution, the centenary anniversary of which will occur on the 30th day of July uext. They accordingly iermed ap organization intended to embrace the entire State, and, by memorial, called the attention of the the facta avove set torth, as the occasion was one of and importance to tho as a Ith, that body take some action in the mat- upply bill was then in the hands ot the f the Senute; it hus since been reported with a clause appropriating the sum of $10,000 for the erection of a permanent memorial commemo- ratiog the event provided the citizens of this city raise a like amount. We bey, sir, to call your attention and that of th people of the state to the fact that the approaching an- niversary is of no more importance to the citizens of Kingston than to the citizens ot the State at large, and to suggest tbat the Commonwealth, which witbin tho century now. ¢losing bas from so ‘insignificant a be- ginning become an empire in wealth, extent and in name, cap woll afford tospend a small perce, of us vast wealth In celebrating its one hundredth birthday, If there 1g to. be a celebration of the 30th day of July, 1877, it should be a celebration of which the State will hereatter be proud, Events of this character are of rare occurrence and if noticed at all should be noticed The Legislature has been asked to fe propria $25,000 fora proper celebration and to make it a Stal and nota local affair, We submit that the request ts not unreasonable and should be granted. And we ri spectiully request your favorable influence to that ri sult, James G. Lindsley, Thomas Sharpe, Willfaim Lounsbery, -A. I A. Bruyn Hasbrouck, T, Clearivalet, J.C. F. Hors, Mt. Mt Goosveck, William M. Hayes, Douglas. VOSBURGH AGAIN IN BONDAGE. Superintendent Walling recetvea a despatch from Chiet Savage, of Boston, on Monday night, calling for the arrest of the well known William Vosburgh, alias Witham Clark, who has figured so extensively in con- noction with many of the recent bond robbories, but though arrested three times within the past fow weeks on suspicion has invariably been dischatged tor want ol suficient evidence. He is wanted in Boston ut present to answer a charge | of stealing $3,000 in bonds jrom a gentieman ot that | city on last Monday at noon, Detective Shelley arrested | Vosburgh at tho Grand Central Depo: yesterday morn- ¥ ing and took him betore Judge Otverbourg. His Honor remanded tho prisoner to Police Headquarters to await tho arrival of the necessary requisition to take bim to Boston, The Boston officers have already started tor Albany and they are expected in this city to-night. Cornell, George H. raya, 5. L. Steb- THE MAYOR AND POLICE BOARD. The Police Commissioners yosterday spent a good deal of time in preparing a reply to the Mayor’s lester in reiation to the cleaning muddle, The missive ‘was not finished last evening. It will be ready at noon to-day, when it will be forwarded to His Honor. MISAPPROPRIATING MONEY. Emma H. Emmanuel, of No, 1,055 Second avenue, | tried yosterday, at the Fifty-soventh Street Court, vo have Jacob Stern, ot No. 778 Park avenue, Brooklyn, arrested on a charge of embezziomont, At different times sho had put in bis keeping moneys, which he, it 4s alleged, misappropriated, A case is against him in the Supreme Court also, and be ts now under $600 ball op the order of Judge Barrett of the Supreme Court, | The warrant was not issuod, because it was not em- bezzlement, but/a case for the civil court to decide, BOSTONIAN SIMPLICITY. the police as a confidence man, met a Bostonian named William B. Curtis, on West stroet, yestorday, and kindly volunteered to pilot him to the Harlem Rall road depot. Quigley soon won bis companion’s conti- dence and while taking a social drink borrowed $20 from him on « bogus bond, Officer Devens was, un- fortunately for Quigley, watching him, and after tho fraud bad becn committed took him m custody, He was cominitted in the Tombs Police Court in default of bail. REPRIMANDED. Roundsman Lewis, of the Broadway squad, who was tried by the Police Board for having arrested Robert Brown, of Harlem, unlawfully, was roprimanded pub- Hely by President Smith yesterday. General Smith id that police officers when scolded by citizens ould move off to preserve the peace; but if the per- son persisted in the uugentiomanly abuso and threat. ened (0 bring about disorder on tho sidewalk the | oMicer might then arrest bim, Officers should uot nistake disrespectful language for a criminal atsault. A DIVIDED HOUSEHOLD. Mr. Dehvert, Sr., of No, 732 Flushing avenue, Brooklyn, who had bis daughters arrested on Tuesuay last charged with stealing from him $100 worth ot | bedding and jewelry, was yesterday taken before Jus- tice Semler to answer to the charge of assault aod batiery preferred by one of thedaughters, Ho pleaded not guilty, and bis examination Was set down lor tuo 28th inst, Mr. Dehnert marrica the affianced of bis son shortiy after the doath of bis first wite, which ac- tion so angered bis children that they ali leit the house. As Mrs, Debnert, who owned the property real and personal, died intestate, the children, who are ber heirs at law, will, It tated, bring « suit to partition ‘ho property. CAUGHT NAPPING. Commissioner Erhardt's latest efforts to discover | delinquent and negligent patrolmen have beon very successtul, The sixteen roundsmen detailed by bim on Tuesday night to patrol the First, Fourth, Twenty. seventh and Fourteenth precints discovered twenty- Hive officers off their posts or sleeping. Charges aro io be preferred against them, and if sustained will secure the dismissal of the delinqients, Their names will hot be mado public until the complaints are served, From this time forward the Commissioner says be will flood the different nets with roundsmen and olbers in citizens’ dre He will do bis utmost to broak officers of any grade caught napping. Ho thinks the namber of burglaries will be materially decreased if officers are vigitant, VETERINARY SURGEONS. ADDRESS BY PROFESSOR J. A, GOING, M. B. C. v. 8 £., BEFORE THE VETERINARY COL- ‘LEGER. A meeting having in view tho resuscitation of the New York College of Veterinary Surgoons, was held in the lecture roow on the evouing gi Tuesday, the lttn fast, Much interest and enthusiasm were mapitesied, indicating a vigorous prosecution of the work. Mr. Cattrel, the President of the eoilege, called upon Professor Going to deliver an address. Afier a few preliminary remarks pertinent to the ovcasion, Pro- fessor Going delivered au address op The Ni Veterinary Surgeons jn the The Protessor said:—P " jometi ational detec as it may appear, seen that im the case of abuses or }, the more flagrant or glaring their na- liable are they 16 escape atiention, baying 1b View the immediate removal of the lormer orthe remedying of the latter. Familiarity bas a de- cided (endency to beget indifference, some accidental cause not unirequently serving to aronge public ativn- i Mow to @ pitch which ordinary efforts had utterly | fatied todo, Thus we dnd Tom’ Hood's. simple ‘song ot the Shirt” ‘tainly electritving 9 pation when ordinary appeals, however eloquent, bad proved unavailing to bring the blush of shame to the cheeks of tho 'n whose hands jay 10 amehorate the condition 4f the wreteved class whose suflerings appealed to the most vender passions of the ‘Suman Wore the noble bard living to the United States of America to-day Lh guffering horse and other animals would in ali proba. the remedy ‘Dilty engage his sympathies, the result being a com- | panion to bis former song, and it8 eflects, perhaps, equally marvellous, When we reflect that the horse, the most important of the class ty which our remarks are intended to apply, is today inthis enlightened country Without avequate aienvion im sickness and accident, We inay well bow down our heads in shame and thougbttully meditate ou the exigencies of tue Situation. Especiaily is ubis fact to be deplored when we recollect that the American’s love of the borse is proverbial, and nis remarkavle in nce im all that pertains to bis pecularaties, treatment, bruiping, &c,, Yaried and unquestioned, That such a nvble animal, whieh contributes so | Jargely to tho welfaro and the amusement of man, | should be debarred trom scientific treatment when ao- cident or ailment temporarily rendered bim unit to give us his accustomed sefvices, is surcly a disgrace which Americans cannot mueh longer afiord to per- petuate If they would maintain their well earned repu- tation for sagacity and promptitude in action. Let us look for a moment at the n ue Of the evil to which we refer, aud we sball undoubtedly find the re- marke wo bave atready made more than justified by the results of our investigation, ONLY ON® VETERINARY COLLEGR. In this connection the starting fact arrests our at- fontion that thero is in this country at present Wut one chartered voterinary college engaged in the educatjon of students. We bave in the United States 10,000,000 horses and about two hundrod veterinary surgeous, having genuine diplomas from @ regular college, oF one vorerinary surgeon to every 60,000 horses, leaving out of consideration the other unimals also demanding scientitie treatment, A fair estimate would piace the value of these 10,000, horses at no leas than $1,000,000,000, and yet, notwith- stunding the boasted intelligence of Americans, a vast Proportion of this vast wealth is daily liable to be dissipated through the ignorance of quacks, abounding in every locality, whose unskilfulness 16 exceed only by their ragiiness and their readiness at all tim: to administer their noxious compounds of to cut mere iy and at random toto the anatomy of the noble animal, whose suflerings and services alike appeal to our common senge and our humanity to save it irom such treatment. If we compare our position with that ot other countries our inferiority will become till more striking. THY FACT IN OTHER COUNTRIES, Take France jor example, which has over 3,000 Yotorinary surgeons, or one to every 1,100 horses, | in Prussia there are 1,300 veterinary surgeons, or one to every 1,900 horses. Are not these facts suificiently stariling to arrest the attention aod enlist the eftorts Ol the American to remedy the evil complained ot when ho bas tlrendy dono so much in establishing his pre-eminence in developing the qualities of the animal which gives so magnifleent a return for the pains bestowed upon him? In roferting again to the coun- tries already incationed the importance of veterinary knowledge ‘Is duly appreciated, us manifested by fos- tering caro of tho respective governments, France pay- ing out annually oo less a gum than 750,000f., or about $150,000, tor the support of its veterinary schovls, But coming nearer home, Americans can tind food for reflection in this convection. In the euterprising Dominion north of us we have the Montreal and Toronto veterinary coltege: to these excelient in- tions the United States 1s indebted tor many of ber 200 regularly qualified voterinary surgeons, WHAT 18 NRRDED MERE, The veterinary institutions just mentioned are sub- sidized to a liberal extent by government, and we ven- ture to say that were the advisability of a withdrawal of grants from institutions under discussion in Can- ada, one of the last to be thought of would be that to which reference has juet been made. What, then, 1 the burden of our compiamt? Just this, that = with amount of liver stock equal jo valuo to our national debt, we provido bo means of giving them acientific treatment in the pop live stock, we Ought to havo at least five or six woll appointed veterinary colleges engaged in the work of sending out graduates, whose diplomas would guarau- tee their competency and eflicieacy. As wo kuow that this cannot be accomplished, at any rate at present, there should be in New York city (ihe centre of gravity in educational matters in this grand {ustitusion, worthy of the object in view, completo in its surroundings and attractions as to placo ft at once pre-emimently at the head of ali similar institutions on the continent of America. grand opportunity is now presented to the ti tees to periorm a truly good work, while making a really profitable Investinent, even should it be neces sary Leunporarily to draw upon their private resources. Congress sbould turn its attention to this all-important subject and legislate in such @ way as to prove its proper apprecration of the duties of the hour as relat- ing to this question, which presses for immediate and effective action, To begin the tinportant work, resus- Cilate at once the New York College of Veterinary Su eons which is the only one having a legal chartor, hen’ the extent of the ficld 18 considered, when our present dependence upon a foreiga country for veterinary knowledge is taken into accoun when the willingness and the abi ot the Aterican public to pay well for work weil and scientifically done is remembered, there can bo no question that the resuscitation of the New York College of Veteriuary Surgeons would prove a financial as well as a moral success, do something to remove the stigma which now attaches to us, and give bopes of ultimate perfection of arrangements to relieve the sick and disabled animals, RRSUSCITATE THR COLLEGE, That the colleges in Boston and Mtuiladelphia tailed for want of proper support is no argument agains the necessity of the step we propose, but rather a reason why the matter should be prosecuted with such vigor that failure will be impussible. The evilis great, the remedy within our reach, the need pressing, ihe financial results involved voormous; the resolution alone has been wanting hitherto tu place oursely fight on this question. The resuscitation of the college, with asiaif of able veterinary and medical lecturers, would at once insure the attendance ot large nutnber of students now obliged to go to foreign country to acquire a knowledge of the profes. sion. Providing this question be taken hold ot with vigor and a determination to succeed a grand reward awaits those Whe may contribute to its success, By presonting the advantages of the college fairly beloro the American people vy judicious advertising and by enlistiog the aid of the influeotial prose, never slow to further any really good work, the results would be as striking as they would be gratifying, and the work which Professor Boustea inaugurated would begin \o reach the measure of its success in supplying the want whieh is ply felt trom the Atiantic to A SUGGESTION TO THE TRUSTEES. ¢ wave sald that | the Pucitic, d will Pot be questioned, and hence it becom a simple matter of duty with the trustees, Without taking the higher ground, which over. onthusias might Justify, we suggest respectiully the wd visebiitty Of the trustees coming forward nobly, fear- lessiy ana bopetuily, nay, cooudently, with their in- Haence and their meats and make an tnvestment whieh will materially add (o thei wealth while placing their names ou pilot tame to whieh their children cau louk back with pride. We might, 1 Dean switt's celebs Surgeons lendeth to the great American Repubiie,’” Upon the close of nounced Lhe wislingness of the trustees to (urther the interests of the college and the determination on their part to provide tor the full courses of jectures, the lecture the Presitent an- Professor Comstock th addressed (he meeting on the intimate relation existing between medical and veterinary science, and expressed the hope thar ¢ reorgunizers of this, the only duly chartered would recognize this fact by sending out gr properly instructed, YACHTING NOTES. Tho April number of > the Yachting Circular, a moathly reference distributed to the yachting com- | munity by Manning’s Yacht Ayency, 18 out. Boyors from all parts of the country are now travelling avout and Ingpecting the yachts for sale, and on this account the circular appoars in good season, Sixty-one anit aod steam yachts arc descrived im it, from the large schooner on which almost a fortuno is beep ex- pended, to the little eatboat fully equipped. agency ‘has also in its hands other yachts lor private hegotiation oply, Alt tol, the market boats lor sale foots up nearly ball a milion dollars, and certainly they were not butit and placed tu com- mission tor less toan double that sum, Yachts noticed in the circular are oot all located in New York or Boston waters, but are to be found scattered in saic harbors and snug resting places ali over the Atlanue seaboard, To the unimitiated the outlook for the coming yachting sexson may appear gloomy, because of 0 Many boats being in (he market, but this con n would be (ar trom correct. Very many of them are being disposed of by owners With the intention of purchasing larger ctatt, and there are now threetold more applicants than there are yachts In the market, Whether the next yachting season will be as brilliant ‘as that of 1876 depends upon the several clubs, but it | is certain that fully ax large a bomber of gentlemen will take part In-the pastime during the coming suns mer ag jn any previous year. ‘The schooner yacht Katelle, Vice Commodore Smith, Bey will be placed 10 commission about the middie of May, wlue of the | | La Porta, Viscount Corveron, Count Du Chaste:, Signor - NEW YORK -HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1877—TRIPLE) SHEET. b YALE’S CREW OF WHAT IP 18 DOING, IT4 COMPOSITION AND THE PROSPECTS OF [f$ WORK IN THE JUNE COX- TEST. 4877, New Haves, April 18, 187) “A cleaner feather at ibis time of the year! never saw," is the universal dictum of all who have watebed | the Yale crew of 1877. They certamly presented a re- | markably fue appearance to-day, ax, with leads weil | back, they stretched away from the boathouse, | swinging quietly to the Jong. slow English stroke—a Stroke seemingly easy to master, but in fact most dif- fleult; a wtroke the most deovitful in the world, in th the men always seem to be taking £0 remarkably easy, while in pomt of fact they are doing terrible work. Tbis appearance is caused by the very slow re- cover, Those accustomed to watch the old fashioned American oarsman, with bis headlong, frantic rush forward at the ond of the stroke, as though each minute were bis last and be had something to do and very little time to ¢o it in, will be completely deceived by the quiet, machine ke working of a crew rowing the English stroke, and is Apt to fall Into the mistake made by the critics and pro- fessional oarsmen at Springiield im 1873. They never could catch Yaie’s time, and the siow, icisurely swing decetyed them so complotely that they indulged in mueb derision at the ‘newfangled stroke” and the mau who bad introduced it, They dia not perceive that i the old system the Carsinan exhausted bimself in his hurry to get forward, and then cased bimeett off On the stroke, while in the other so-called ‘new- fangied’' one he restod on the recover, and then put ip bis solid work on tho stroke, The crew this year t | ‘as far advanced as regards form as thoy were last year on the Ist of June. IMPROVING THE TIME. Mr, Cook, who graduated last year, is spending bis spring term in New Haven, and tn the intervals of bis arduous toil at the law finds time to coach the crew, ‘The date of the race bas been definitely decided on. It is to be rowed on the 29tn of June, the day after Yale’s Commencement. No course, however, has been as yet chosen, The present Yale crew by no means so muscular as that ol last year, Ken- nedy, Cook and Kellogg are men who, in point of phy- gique, cannot casily ve roplaced. ‘Tho now we though as strong as the r the measure of strength au just named, {tb 18 expacted, however, that improvement of form will more than Gounterbalance the doficit in strength. Of | ‘é crew four have remained—Woou, Collier, E, C, Cooke and Thomp-on, With these old hands distributed at Ol the crew, fall below | wned by the three intervals Lurough tho boat, drilling tho new monbers Into shupa becomes a co paratively easy mater, THE CREW, ‘The following is the make-up of the crew :— Weight, Height, Age dba, Feet, Ey) Ms 5.06 ig 5.10 rt 5.10 g Ws 6.0L Ths, 5. 0U5g No. 6—H. Livingston, "TY, ac,, 20 165 sy ALS No. 7—W.W.Collin(cap. ),'77,ae 2b 1st ¥ Stroke—A. D. Thon pson,’79,ac 21 180 Average 21K (168K GF. Aldrich, coxsw’n, '79, ac, 18 100 | Subs. —Clark, '78, a seveee OL 168 —Law Senvol. THE CREW—CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MEN, Hart 1s one of the now men, Ho ts the shortest, ligtitost and nearly the youngest manon the crow, Ho is very muscular aud has great powers of endurance, His boating record consists of class races and a race at Harviord last eummer in which he rowed in the win- ning gymuasium crew, Fred Wood, No. 2, needs no introduction. His first race was rowed at Sprivgiield in 1873, He pulled stroke oor on that most splendid of treshinan crews which won the day easily, In 1874 he puiod ou the Univer- sily at Saratoga, He drops bis head and shoulders at the beginning of the 1 ag With this exception he ally. He is the youngest He ts well bullt and muscular, Ho hus rowed 00 bis lass crew at the Yalu races. He experience some difficulty in catching, being e others, He slides very well, but throws back too tar. W. K, James, No. 4, isa very powerful man, He is tall aud possesses a great amount of nerve strength. In bis build ho somewhat reminds one of Kellogg, of last year’s crew, though be istalier, He has rowed on his class crew and also on the gymnasium crew at Hartiord last summer, He has a trick ot meeting his | oar, Wath this exception his general form is good. E. 0, Cooke, No. 5, rowed 1 the freshman crew at Saratoga in 1874 Ho was one of the winning crew at Springfeid last sammer. He is matured apa seasoned by many races, aud 1» tooked upon asa reliable man. Hermann Livingstone, No, 6, 18 a8 pretty an oar as there is In the boat. He is a new man. He mado a Foputation last yearn his singte Boul, Ho bas a babit of raising bis shoulders at the end of the stroke, He also throws too much muscle on his oar toward the close of the stroke, thus brioging it out of the water with a jerk. Collin, No, 7, 18 captain of the crew, He is popular with hig men and a favorite in college, His first race ‘was at Saratoga, in 1874, on the freshman crew, Lust your he rowed in the winning eight at Springield, aud @ added the crowning touch to his boating honors by rowing in the Yale jour at the Centennial raves, His le 18 good, but his form 18 marred by his habit of iting round-shonidered in the boat, Thompson, siroke, is physioally the most remark- able mai in the boat, ¢ bas some defects of form wanich he will Bave to overcome before June. His back ‘8 too round and he slides too fast. He is apt also tu turn bis var biado too flat on the recover. AS 4 WHOLE. Looking at the crow as a whole the most noticeable fault w the too rapid slide and here and there bent instead of straight backs. catch, however, is pretty good, while the feather 18 beautuul ft arty im the season to give a more detailed criti This I will attempt in my next Jetier. SPORTING . EVENTS ABROAD. PIGEON SHOOTING AT MONACO, [From Bell's Life in London, April 7.] The legitimate season is now over. The Prix deo Cloture, decided last Wednesday and Friday, has been the winding up event of a long and most successful meeting, Which has now lasted over three months ‘The following statistics have been kindly given to us by tho Seeretury, and they will n0 doubt be of some interest to readers of Bell :—Ovo hundred and sixty. threo different gentiemen have shot bere during the season ; among them were Uilty-four Englishmen, fitty- three Fronchmen, twenty-one Italians, sixteen Bel- gians, tive Germans, five Americans, two Russians, ‘ Austrians, two aus, One Gre one Swede and one Dver 13,000 birds have been trapped, Neariy £6,000 Ww been shot for im prizes and sweepsiakes, and the value ot the prizes offered by the administration has reached the sum of £1,000; to that sum must be added tho £1,400 10 specie gt away during the grand incor. national prizes of January. With those tems no Wonder Monaco commands the attention of sports:nen from every quarter; their namber tnerenses yearly, and will no dyubt coatinue 10 that groovy several other attractions are promised for next year. We append tull jails of the Prix de Cloture, result of which was telegraphed | Grasp Prix bk CLoTUK jue £100, with £200 added, and a sw wakes of £4 each; the secund received £40 out oF the prize aud 25 per cont out of tn the third received £20 aud 25 per cent; the fourth, 15 per cont birds the Brst day, 6 at 35 metres; sevovd day, 6 at 27 metres, Baron B. St. Claw (ooget dart and ALLLO11101—11L Mbt 101 —110 + OLLLULLLLOLO— 11 ALlvtivilovl—10 WwOLLLOLLiol—o OvlUOLILILLL—o (267) du Chagtel (£47). OLLLOLOLOL0 1olLeluli00 Liolitouioiw + OLOULLUELLIO LLooLLoLou hipuinstone,. oulLoiotto + Marty + OOLLOMLELO Count La OLOOLLOLLO Mr. A. Bi « O1LOLLOvLd Sicoor Fr 1uvOL LLL Hon, M. Scott, + OOLUTLLOLO Captain A. Patton, oviluloly Mr, Lewio. LoLuolvid M. J, De Speyr « Libeoouo M. De La Parte Lot loowu Mr. Shaw-Kennedy., OLOLOLLO Prince Hobeniohe, Olulvive Cylunel Wyune.. OULD Mr. Ponatel oOLOOU Count D' Aspreni ouvy Thoms. see. OOUU ‘The minor eveute on both days were won by M. De Fiusoart, Mr. A. Rush, Colonel Wynne, Couat Lam: perege and iD, Riphtoomes. WALKING MATCH FOR FIFTY POUNDS, On Tuesday afternoon, the 3d inst., a goo! perform. ance in (he walking line was achieved at the Prince of w Ground, Bow, by Alexander Clark, of Bethnal Green, who had undertaken to walk seven and a halt niles 1h one hour lor £50, Mr. W. Kennard, ot the Earl ot Warwick, Mile End, staking £25 on time, and Mr. J, St0% of the Red Cross, Bethnal Green, backing (be pevestrian for @ simiar sum, the whole being staked tp « He went away ata rattiing paco when the im, 208., and the second in 7% 538, and trom this powt he soarcely varted, and The tollowing are the nt 1110 tone Miles, sale throughout, times and the time of each Mite Time. MS. | factory at Nos, 315 10 8 EXTENSIVE FIRE. AN Several Buildings Gutted by the Flames—Narrow Escapes. THE LOSSES ESTIMATED AT $132,000. a rs Afire broke out yesterday morning tn a large fan Kast Twenty-second street, whieh in a short time caused a destruction of nearly $200,000 worth of prope: At the time the flames burst forth the factory Was crowded with a large nam. ber of working girls who earn a livelinood by folding the paper for the fans, A panic eusuca among them, and it was with great difficulty that they escaped with their lives, Thi Hats and shawls had to be rehn- quished in the haste to escape from the burning baild- ing. ORIGIN OF THE FIV The building—or rather row of Ove butldings, all connected together—is situated on the north aide of Twenty-secoud street, near Second avenue St ts separated ‘rom the Eighteenth precinct station house by a narrow alley about hve feet wide, As Officer Quickiey, of the Eighteenth preemet, was returning to the station house with a prisoner, a few minutos betore eleven o'clock, he saw flames txeurmg from the fourth flour of the five story factory building at No. 817 East Twonty-second street, The officer pinced his prisoner im (ho station house and then ran up stairs to the fan mantfactory of Gustay Brueck, oncupying tho fourth floor of the series of butidings, where a large number of boys and girls were at work. The @amos bad broken out in iho japanning room and the em- ployés were unaware of their danger, gave tbe alarm, and one of the bo room whoro the girls wero working, crying out fire!”? A PANIC AMONG THR WOMES, As might easily have been forescen from the sud- denness of tho alarm, the girls were at once seized with a panic and rushed pell-mell to the door leading to the stairs, Here they crushed and pashed each other down tothe bottom, becoming almost wedged in at) «times, and barely escaping death by being trampled upon. Fortunately they all got down salcly. Tho foreman, Mr. Kaiser, was the last to leave tho building, He attempied to sive some of tho property, but the thick smoke soe com- pelled nim to fly. He only escaped by jumping down the hatchways from floor to floor, and he was severely bruised. It 4s said that tho lines of the fire telegraph were pot in good working order, The Urst alarm was sept (rom the wrong signal box, cornzrof Twenty-third street and First avenue, The engines were some time in finding the location of the fire, but as soon as this was done they went promptly to work to extinguish the flames. When the two engines called out on the first alarm arrived on tho sceno the fremen at once saw that the conflagration bad passed beyond their control, A second und third alarm were immediately sent {rom the police station through the Central Otfica to Firemen’s Hall, This brought out eleven more en- gines and five truck companies. SPREAD OF THE FURR. Tho delay occasioned by sending the wrong alarm had givea the fire great headway, By the time the Gremen arrived it was swoeping through the whole series of buildings. The butidings were ail oc- cupted by cabinetinakers and fan and pianotorte man- ulacturera. Tho varnish, alcohol, paper and wood used by these mavulacturers nade (he flames almost irresistible, The flames soon ended from cellar to rool, and then, leaping the str attacked a row of tenement houses opposite which were filled with fam- ilies, The police bravely went to tho rescue and got out all the persons safely, The firomen rasted to the roof of the tenements and tore it up, directing several streains of water shrougn the rool and thoroughly drenching the ratiers, Tis soon put out the fire on that side of the stroct, tho principal dainago being to the roof and window sashus and shutters, which Iattor were burned off. The flames now raged with terrivie fury, The intense heat caused the cornices of the rout of the police station to melt, and threatened to destroy the building. Four fire ladders were swan, tho narrow alley trom the station house to t ‘ning build 4 from these the wm aire tne ho: upon the roof, Very little damage wi to the police station, although it was at one time thougnt that it could not be saved, and a despatch to (nat eflect was sent to Superinteudent Walling, By the bravery and diligence of the firemen the flames ‘wero at last coniined to the large buiiding which had firat taken fire, Ata quarter to twelve o’ciock a large outward into the stree| r the smoking bric! ind t the flames through id is tellio more serious conflagration. The smoke did not ascend Ireely In the wot, murky atmosphere, but hung over tho burning building, helping to smother the fire, THE LOSSES. As far as could be ascertained last night the losses were as follows :— On the burned buildings, Nos, 313, 323 East Twenty-second siree by Jobn Bior- 75,000 , jactory, Occupying whole tourti fluor of the buildings, besides several other room! No. 313 East Twonty-second stree occupied by Joseph Robitacher, bung manu- IMCLUFOF eee ssere rere 3,000 zs floor—Henty Fuldner, wooden ware. 6,000 uth floor—Waish & McKiniey, chairs... 1,000 No, 315—Second floor, A. Doll, scroll sawing relrigerators. hird floor, roai hg Company, silver plating... . 2, J. & Brine & Brother, shoo shanks 2,0 First floor J. Gossberger, felt manu- jactory os sees + 1,000 Nos, 816 and 518—Building’on the gouth side of the street which caught fire, owned by H. Schroeder, damaged by tire and water........ 1,000 Nos, 320 and 822—Uwned by P. Cassidy, dam 1,000 Total ascertained losses The olive power for all the butidings was furnisued, 23—George He & Sons, letter pressos and hay cutters; Jono J. Cassin, japanner; James Part- ridge, pearl worker, and Joseph Woilerson, wood turner, The total loss, it ts believed, will not exceed $200,000, and that amount 1 fully covered by insur- RACING IN CALIFORNIA. Sacramento, April 17, 1877. 1. Winter’s bay mare Mollie McCarthy and J, Cairn Simpson's bay maro Lady Amanda ran @ dash of two miles and a quarter to-day at this place. Mollie was a great favorite in the pools provioustu the start, she won by a length, The following 18 a SUMMARY, D. Winter’s b. m. Mollie MeCarthy, by Monday, dam Henne Farrow, Ove years Old sseeesecee J. Cairn Simpson's bin. Lady Amania, by dam Lady Lancaster, six yours oid. ‘Time, 4:06, HORSE NOTES. W. F. Perkins, of this city, has disposed of 8 0. Richardsoo's (of Boston, Mass.) imbred Mambrino stallion Ruler, by Herr’s Mambrino Patches, tull brother of Lady Thorne, to Geurge ©. Hitchcock, of Ash Grove, New Preston, Conn., for $5,000. ‘Hurrah, BASEBALL NOTES, Tho international championship closed with seven entries:—Buckeyes, ot Columbus; Alleghonys, of Pitsburg; Tecumsehs, of London, Canade; Maple Leafs, of Guelph, Canada; Live Oaks, of Lynn; Man- chesters, of Manchester, N. H.; and Rochesters, of Rochester. All ol these clube rank among the strong- est 1 (he association, The Stars, of Syracuse, one of the strongest clubs in the International Assoviation, start oo their Western trip to-day, playing at e, Pa, on Saturday, April 21; Monday and Tuesday, 254 and 24th, at Atieghany City, Pa; Wednesday, 251n, at Columbas, Obio, with the Buckeyes; Chursday and Friday, 26th and 27th, at Lodianapolis; , 28th, at Cincinnati; Tuesday aud Wednesday, May Land 2, abo Loum with tho Browns ; y, 3, at Chicago with the Farrban Friday aod Saturday, 4th and tb, with the Chic White Kings; Monday, 7tn, at Janesville, Wis ; Tuesday and Wedbesday, Sth and Oth, at Milwankee; Fridsy and Saturday with the Tecamsebs, of London, Canada, The Hartlords open the season at the Union Ground, Brooklyn, on Saturday, with the Athletics, of Philadel pia sede A SUPERVISOR'S COMPUNCTIO) When the annual town elections took place in West chester county, a few weeks since, John W. Carpen- ter, the democratic supervisor elect of Yorktown, dechined to qualify by taking the oath of office re- quired by law, his politica! opponents having alleged that he made an tilegal use of money to secure his election, Accordingly, at the expiration of ten d succeeding the day Of election the town clerk of th town iseued a cail for a special election to fill the vacancy thus occasioned in the office of Supervisor. This election came of on Tuesday, and resuited iv Carpenter's re-election over his republican competitor by & majority of ninety-five vor The twice suc- cesafal candidate a1 bed ron-clad’’ oath to immediatel; iF the result of tHe election haa been officially ced, e