The New York Herald Newspaper, January 1, 1879, Page 2

\ t iS) i 3 78 Flight of the Airship “Seiduee” to the White Mountains. —---— = THREE HUNDRED. NILES IN HALF AR AGUR 79, GOTHAM FROM THE SKY BY NIGHT Up fix Thousind Eight H Mond U.000 ed Peet’ Throogh Ioy Winds and Clouds -of Snow, (BY SPECIAL TELEPHONE TO THE HERALD.] Sumaur or Mounr beri te ia Jan. 1, 1879—12:30 A, M. “Yon may depend upon the wind,” said the Henatp weuther prophet, turning from his delicate instvu- ments; “look at the influeuces—nor’ nor'east, sou’ sou'’west, east by north; look at the barometer for yourseif; don’t breathe on the thermometer, it’s as. sensitive as a maiden in her teens. But what in the name of Science do you want with all this informa- ‘m going to Mount Washington!” “When do you start?” “In about five minutes, if everything goes well. have an appointment there at midnight.” “Well, well!’ said the worthy king of the winds, with the air of a man who is kind enough to balance between doubting your sanity and attributing to you » downright false turther by way of remark I w: PARATIONS. ‘This occtirred in the Hxnaxp office but an hour and & quarter since, It was five minutes after eleven, New York time, Ali my equipments were ready on the roof. ‘The heavier portions had be tions from Menlo Park. ‘The gifted Edison himself had, early in the day, suspended his inquiries into the electric light for the express purpore of seeing every- thing was in place, und had returned to New Jersey, leaving one of his capable assistants to see me off. I must not digress at this hour to more than recall how fortunate the !ul! had been in the search for a millionnaive’s remains which permitted several sus- picious looking bundles and parcels to be transported over the North River ferries at unseemly hours with- out detectives and reporters prying undex the covering. Pout! What a chilling gust met me as T stepped out on the roof. ‘There was a light in the little iron sen- try box on the ecoruer looking up Brordway. I slipped in, and Mr. Batchelor, with business-like pre- cision, said:— “Inflated, lubric I gone—T was gone up. On a, steam wp.” ‘The long, low body of the airship swayed a few | fect off in the darkness like a hound fretting in the leash. The machinery beneath glistened in the faint light, and @ little column of steam rose whirling northward from the long, thin pipe like a sheeted ghost. Throwing off my overcoat I said, “Have you a ground connect * tHE CATLORIFIER, “Don't worry,” replied the mechanician, “get into your ealorifie: It was the work of a moment to ascend the Indder and slip down into the curious logking seal fur suit all in one piece which he held open for me, I had, of course, tried it on before; but one of the coils of one- sixteenth inch silver pipe, which runs round it inside from the ankles to the collar, making it like a coat of mail under a fur envelope, ‘was a little displaced. The tick hand of this prince of artisans soon adjusted the coil. has no coils, but ben silver plates on the sides and crown, with small eportures at the ears, end a pipe connecting by a flexible joint, on the back of the head, with the end of the body pi ye that the visor wo ily,”” he said. It was ai] right, but there was no need for it ye the pring clicked which holds it open the mechani- cian be adjusting the light asbestos furnaces to the outside of my legs and connecting the little boiler tubes with ends of the coils, “hey will work for eight hours without coaling up or needing water; reguiate the steam by the draught damper.” He opened the valve wide, and almost instantly a grateful warmth began mounting upward, and in half a minute a plume of steam waved from the silver apex of the helmet like that on the helmet of King Henry of Navarre. “That will dv,” said he, as he turned the damper. “1 don't want to make funeral baked moat of you betore the Old Year's gone.” His facetious remark recalled my mission to my mind. i made an impatient gesture, “AML aboard!” said he, good hun AIRSHIP AND FLYING TELE! I stepped into the chair behind the little engine upon which so much depended and glanced at the dinnacle compass before ‘The clock in the bin. nacle marked 11:18, being corrected for this meridian. The Chermometer marked 27 degrees, Fahrenheit. A minute was «pent by the mechanician giving a last glance at the reel of insulated fine drawn gold wire at the stern of the airship. This was his pet portion of the outfit—the small balloons filled with compressed hydrogen, which are fastened at every fifty yards to the wire, and which, distending as the wire is wonnd off, support it in midair, being his own invention, I bent over, took the telephon and held it to my ear, holling the mouthpiece in the odly other hand. He was back in the sentrybox ina jiffy, | and in an instant there came a small, clear vo! Mary had a little lamb, Do you get it now?’ $ on Mary,” Lreflied: “but you might we eomething more appropriate.” “That is Edison's regular incantation,” heard; “but here goes for Tennyson, lously clear caine the emall voi How hard he breathes; over the snow T heard just now the crowing cock; ‘The shadows flicker to and fro, The cricket chirps, the lights burn low, "Lis nearly twelve o’cloe Shake hends before you die, Old Year ——, My eye fell on the clock—11:20, telephone receiver. T next Then marvel- I put back the “Shake hands, old boy,” said the mechanician, runing forth once more. In a moment he stood beside the airship. A thrill of eagerness, suceeded by an instant of fear, «hot throagh me. I could feel my heart thumping against my ribs, “All ready ?” hie . “All ready,” i replied, bending forward to the fever and graeping it drmly. “Let her got" OUT ON THE NrGuT. Ho touched the «le by the sentry box. ‘There was a rattle of loosened chains, I saw him move the compound lever beside him, and at oneo felt the sense of a sndden aawent, It was the critical moment-an inatant’s perpe iar upward rush, eucceeded by a swift oblique ascent. 1 pressed on the lever, The furled wings sxpanded, the piston reve aud fell quicker than my Pulse, aad the beautiful pinions moved with the swiftness of a bird's, Lwas tive hundred feet above | « the city, spending st every wing steoke to the north, For 4 minute I did not dare to look from the aire ‘he barometer toll me Lwas rising higher every i stant, The rush of the cold air seemed like mad music, I was in midair, ‘The extitation of me whoot £ moment 7 wddenly 1 remembered chat [ had arranged to cirele about the city to make eure that all worked well before putting ou ali the power of the engine 1, Before he could add anything | receiver from its hook | | etric button on the low pillar the | a a ae | , half-moon, veiled by fleeey clouds, was well down the | | western sky. Twas flying over Union | | halt revolved the steering wheel at my left hand as I \ side of the city. | was working to a charm, and when I drew tho re- : ' versing rod to take in tho slack of the wire it was prought thither in sec- | He next fastened on the tur helmet, which | | head. Presently I heard a ticking, as of some one | signal often heard before, now first heard amid the | year ont in “om and Jerry.” The new Mayor | were growing fainter and fainter, and at last were | NEW YORK and seeking the higher air cugpent which I relied on | to aid me greatly in the three hundred miles which [ was to cover in half ap hour, I had ten minutes to spare—no, only nine minutes, ‘The air wi clear, the stars sparkled in the deep blue vqulfabowe. The T looked down. square, and thon over Madison square. H / SWEEPING ANOVE THE Corry, ‘The city on the verge of midnight on the last night ! of the old yoar was like a palace lit for a festival. The H Jong avenues and croas streets were marked by dotted | lines of lights: the two rivers could be traced “like | dark bands with here ang there a colored light upon ; them between the irregular lines of lights upon the piers. It was like a map of the city traced in fre. I | sped on toward Central Park and the airship made a | beautiful circle and headed southward on the west | Llooked to the telegraph reel, It | rewound with exquisite precision, the condensers reducing the hydrogon ‘wire balloons” to their original size with a nicety that,should secure national recognition to the inventor. Islowed the engine to observe this process, and the flight was gentle as an | eagle's seeme whon he is guiling in the far sky over. gently clicking, clicking on a magnet's core. Well, I knew the sound harmonic was the signal telephonic, beating of the airship's pinions, fleeting high above the city’s roar, ev'ry click it seemed repegting ‘Sci- ence reigns forevermore.”” Theld the telephone receiver to my ear, and then spake into the mouthpiece :— “Science reigns for evermore A bubble of joyful sound came back over the wire, and then ‘forever and ever.” I was intoxicated with delight, and ‘tall talk’ passed between the enraptured scientist and my uo less enraptured self. Suddenly he said:— “Where are you?’ Ilooked out, “Over Staten Island,” I replied, and then “went about,” and was soon soaring over ‘Trinity's and St. Paul's steeples. “L just saw you as you passed the Hrnatp Build- ing,”’ said the voice in the telephone. “Bully!” (This unscientific expression must be excused in the scientist's rapture.] THE BSOTERISCOrE.' ‘Then came “Look in the right hand locker; there is a surprise for you.” I took out an instrument like an opera glass, evidently to be used in the same way, but tho bsrrels were thicker and shorter. “Haye you got it?’ “I have.” “Then look at ob- jects through the smaller end, and press the coil in the centre toward you until you sce plainly.” Idid so, and could scarcely believe my eyes. I slowed the engine down 2s much as possible, and descended on @ beautiful slant, AN INSIDE VIEW. I looked again. No sight in the fables of fairyland was ever as exquisite, The city seemed built of glass. I could see through every roof, through every | wall, Every light in every room shone before my eyes. Iwas so near the earth that I could heay the jingle of the horse car bells and the puff, puff and roaring rush of the trains on the elevated railroads, It was 8 wondrous sight at once beautiful and thrill- ing. Just think of it! The heart of the whole million souled city bare to the eye! Thousands and thous- ands already lay adream, some in downy beds, some. on hard pallets,some in hospital, somein prison cells. But thousands were awake, going and coming. Merchants sat balancing the year’s accounts, some with beaming others with haggurd faces, Here was a yopng man looking over the long list of calls he will make to-day, his dress suit brushed and ready on a chair beside him. There a matron is giving the last orders to her -builer about the “spread” for the hospitable table of the morrow. Behold a charming group of maidens gath- ered sbout an open grate fire. You catch a gleam of rounded arms and graceful shoulders; they are talking of the New Year.callers they expect; they laugh and chatter ai fresco while they crimp their hair. A man struts bofore a mirror; to-day he will be Alderman , of the great united opposition. can see the newspaper men laboring over their New Year's articles. In one room of a large hotel is a shurp-eyed, business-like man with a sleek-looking, but cunning, man at the opposite side of the table. The first has a pile of green-looking papers under his left hand, and is indicating on a railroad map something he very much wants done. The first is a lobbyist, the second an Assemblyman. In an instant the second man has some of the green- looking papers in his grasp, and has doubtless agreed toearn the rest shortly. In another room a little bald-headed man is the centre’ of a group of politi- cians; some already call him Mr, Spoaker. In still another room is # similar group about a man with white hair and besrd; they are calling Lim Mr. Speaker, too. ‘There is a group of men before an up- town bar; they aro drinking whiskey straight, so as to be properly primed to drink the old is practising @ patient expression of face, He will want @ large stock. A young actress trips laughing and attended to her carriage. A mother wrings her hands over her dead child. So the eye roams on and on; ever changing emotions and expressions moet the | bewildered gaze. A hymn is heard, and the eye falls on a devout congregstion who are gathered to pray the New Year in, Some young people are making furtively merry near the door, but all are singing as with one voice the watch-night song :— ‘Time hastens on; ye longing saints Now raise your voices high And magnify that sovereign love Which shows salvation nigh. As time departs salvation comea, Each moment brings it near, Then welcome each declining day, Welcome each closing year. Click, click. Al! another call, “What is it?’* “Halt-past eleven! Time's up. Ho for the White Mountains!” / Thus startled from my gazing on the wonderful | world beneath, Ilaid down the strange opticul in- | strument and sent back the answer:— “Lam off now. Stand by and don’t be weary. Look out for the electric light.” “Where are you?” “Over Madison square.” THE KLEOTRIC LIGHT ON HIGH. As I spoke I shot over the small lever which brought the revolving magnois into gear with the engine. Around they went with a whirr, I then drew about half an inch the connecting rod which operated the tap of the Edison lamp at the prow, or, as perhays I shonld say, at the boak of the airship. Insiantly the ribbon of platinum and iridium | glowed red, Another half inch of the rod drawn and, like a flash, came the dazzling light of blinding Whitoness. I know it was seen by the observer at the B LD office, for the telephone signal clicked like mad, But f had no time to reply. Shading my eyes with my band I'palled the cord which dropped the downward vertical reflector into place, I seemed for an instant to be in utter darkness. I rubbed my eyes and looked down. The effect was curious. The intense light «eemed leaping from house to’ house, from street to street, asi swept northward. I could not, of eowrse, ob- serve its effect generaily upon the people out of doors; but saw one policeman newt Gentral Burk look up as suddenly as if the roundsman was com! ‘Throwing the forward reflector into placo I passed | over the-Hurtlem River. ‘Che light was flung out npon the darkness ahead, iuto which it plunged Likew «word, 1 looked behind, The city and its lights | blotted out, OUTFLYING THE WIND. 1 glanced at the barometer. i was only 600 feet above the sea level, and the thought that 1 had | yetto monnt 6,000 feet befove reaching the level ot iny destination, eame to my mind. T pushed over the engine lever and the beating of the great wings increased in rapidity twofold, and the airship rore ove slant to about 1000 feet. Over the whitened lant £ swopt at a tevtifie epeod, | glanced ut the spirit thermometer. No wonder I felt the Id. It stood at throw degrees below zer0. The sky was clewr, A flash of light passed boneath mo that 1 kuew was Yonkers. I pulled down imy visor and set open the draught in each of the little asbestos far naces on my legs. 1 was soon again wari, but [had | to rib (he frost from the glass plate in the visor, 1 could thom son that about the airship everything ex- copt the engine and (ho parts in motion were covered with hoart frost. Then 1 bad a strange seneation, ‘Phe beating of the wings, tue throb of the engine, the whirr of the magnets grew fainter on my ears, until all sound ceased, It seemed as though I were aapirit of some Old World legend rushing in silence through space. I can scarcely guess what pieturo I, the Knight of Science, would have presented to mortal eyes, bat the silence be- came intolerable. I could, see the beating of the wings and the rise and fall of the piston rod. ‘This told me that I was not losing con- sciousness, but the thought that I had become deaf gave me a terrible moment of uneasiness. I saw the Hudson River to my left. I knew the old stream well. Ilay back in my chair and raised my hand to my head. Something crackled and at once there came @ great inrush of sound. There was a thin piece of ive upon my gauntlet, I'saw at once what had happened; the earholes of my helmet had be- come choked with ice, This was an intense relicf to me. T looked at the clock—thirty-three minutes past eleven. I Nad now travelled sitty miles, for I saw Poughkeepsie beneath. The ill Mountuias, across the river, white and grand at the summits, but belted with darkness below, were scon passed by. I looked ahead. ALBANY IN FIVE MINUTES. Teould discern a light, which I knew came from Albany. It took a stout wrengh to start the steering gear, which I had not moved after leaving New York. However, the ship once more obeyed beautifelly, | and afterward I took the pracaution while so high up todo a little steoring every minute or so, lest the gearing might become absolutely caked with ice. I need not say that this increase of weight from the congealed vapor necessitated the occasional use of some of tho reserve flotative force, whose character or mode of use Iam not permitted to’ describe, lest some English professor or German) Herr showld Pirate it in advance of the patent. I 2 simply say that the compartments moved easily info place. At twenty-five minutes to twelve I was just south of the State capitul. I had not much time left, it is true, to accomplish 120 miles, with an ascent of 5,600 feet, or 46 feet 8 inches to the mile; but I relied upon the Heracp weather prophet’s prediction to help me through. This must be my apology for slacking speed and destending acouple of hundred feet. The hilly city of Albany looked flat enough from this height. 1 seemed to feel myself among hu- man beings again, and I could not resist the tempta- tion of circling around it for the sake of company, as it were, like a storm bird round a ship on the ocean, OLD ALBANY ASLEEP. } I recollected the new optical instrument and took it from the locker. Happy, Ithought, as the white roofs of the city disappeared and the people in thé old city slumbering peacefully met my gazé. Pres- ently Isaw that all were not abed. One great house seemed full of lite. Ha! I thought, the Delavan. Sure enough. Rooms filled with men, some playing cards, some drinking steaming beyerages out of glasses, met my gazo, You will be making laws for New York next week, I thought. They were not as daintily clad or as clogant mannered as our New York city legislators, and hence I concluded that they, wero “countrymen” who had hurried forward to enjoy their new dignity: I looked around the city.) The Governor was sound asleep. With asigh for poor humanity I brought the airship’s head around to north-northeast, pushed over the lever to the full and was driving quicker than the wind direct for the White Mountains. Putting forth more of the flota- tive force I rose rapidly. & TERRIBLE ASCENT. I knew that I would have to reach 3,000 feet before I could hope to strike the air current which the weather prophet had promised me. At 2,000 feet the thermometer marked ten degrees below zero. Still I kept rising, and I found that my lungs wero inflated atevery breath to the full, Iwas now above Ver; mont, but the green hills of summer were white now. ‘Three thousand feet at last, but no current. Ush! I had gone with a rush through a snow cloud, but was soon above it. Tiree thousand three hundred feet. Heavens! I had entered the promised current. ‘The airship fairly trembled as it beat its way into the flying wind. Ihad my left hand upon the steering wheel, and I brought her into its course, which was northeast. Icontinued ascending, only keeping the wings moving to prevent the sockets freezing. At 4,000 feet the speed was two miles a minute, which then seemed @ snail's pace. *The thermemeter had risen to four degrees above zero. The wind, however, gave me a great chance to put forth almost all the engine power to aid the ascent. The better to seo that all was going well Ij stood up, and found that the ice was | thick ‘upon the narrow deck. I threw off the forward reflector and the effect was dazzling, Everything on the airship glittered like diamonds in the gleam of the electric light. But I could not wait to look at this for more than a second. The flotative force was abundant and the whole contrivance worked | admirably, 5,000 feet, She was rising more slowly now, so I detached the magnets; the light at the beak went out, andin a minute we were at the altitude of 5,500 feet, SIX THOUSAND PRET, Above this I found that the force of the air current was diminishing, but I rose all the faster. It became harder to breathe in the rarefied air. Six thousand fect was reached and Iwas gofAg barely with the force of the wind. I was now,I knew, above New Hampshire, but could distinguish nothing of the | land below, save now and then a white hilltop would appear. Pretty soon, I thought, I shall reach an ad- verse current, I prepared for the utmost force I might meet. It was alabor of great difficulty to work the wing extenders, and I had to clamber up the port stanchion beside the batloon body to knock the ice off the slot through which the extender rod moved. This done, 1 set the wings at their topmost speed and was soon once more flying ahead of the wind. I still rose. I could now see the macs of the White Moun- tain peaks to the north. They were still a little above my level. At 6,500 fect I left tho friendly air curront velow me. It had done me good service. The wind I was entering—the great, constant current—was blowing from the west, but with the increased wing power it scarcely affected me. I had, howgver, to use some engine fores toerise to the required eleva tion. AMONG THE GIANT FATHERS, I steered due north, and the tall crowns of Mount Webster and Mount Jackson seemed just ahead of me, It was seven minutes to twelve. Two minutes later I was at the altitude of 6,300 fect, and thus I passed over the white heads of Old Hickory and the Great Expounder. Then Mount Franklin was passed. I knew the wise old printer for all his snow. But there was no mistaking the goal—Mount Washington. His great, sheeted ghost seemed extended along the earth as I approached him from above. Suddenly I became sensible that there was a change ot the wind scarcely to be ex pected at that great height. it was blowing from the eost. ‘The thermometer rose ton degrees. Out from r the Atlantic Ocean, seventy Miles away, great masses of dark clouds were rising and sweeping toward me. To take advantage of this moist wind in descending I deflected the airship's course to the east, passing over the doep valley to the south of Mount Washington. LANDED. Well to. the east of bim I circled no as to approach with the nuexpected wind. Genny lowering the air+ ship, it seomed as if Washington hinaeclt was rising from hig shroud of snow to moet me. 1 stovred enue tiously to find a landing on the very crest, and then withdvawing just three units of flotative force, dropped down upon the snowelad summit like # bird upon the crest of a wave. My joutuey was done, 1 wanted two minutes of midnight. A WATCH TOWER. ‘The wind was blowin i the snow dust flying from rock to rock, though none was falling from the sky. Tstepped out cautiously and clambered up @ jagged rock swept clear of snow. The deserted hotel a little below showed no sign of life. Tu the little signal service station there was a solitary light, and Leaw a shadow upon the trost-erusted pane; Science had its sentinel on guard, The line of the mountain railroad was almost lost in the snow. 1 looxed up and saw that dark, ragged clouds were moving swiftly to the west in trailing mistincss, Was it fancy that they scemed like the tattered garments of the dying year and that the voices that came on the breeze were muttering the funeral song? Had the night a tongue and the year # shroud? ‘Thue it came to the ear— THE SONG OF THE DRAD, Drifting away, Fore er away, Bearing the apoils of tho ruthless years: ing away Hl ment of rest. | vaded me. night? I thought. ‘The last cloud had soon swept | ‘Tho faded day, Carrying sorrows and dreams and fears, ‘Peveyes Gas Rating ant cares and tears, Tumbril and bier throats with their life-blood red, urses left half unsaid, oo. jasping, Faint on the sickened ear. Wailing away, Reeling eae Sighings and sinnings of grief and crime, Stealing away, Tn dark array, All the past joys and sorrows of Time, Wishings and wwailings from ev'ry chime, Waning, Waning, Into the gloom away. Ti was a solemn moment. The exciting realiem of ny tlight bad found a» dreamy reaction in the mo- I know not what sense of sadness per- Do the old years always die thus on tho Ana ‘And dying ei by to the west, and the heavens were bright with the | Stars; the moon had set, I turned to the cast. HE comEs. To the right and left the white peaks rose Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the great forins Thad passed in my flight. Iseomed to stand amid a mystic council of the giant fathers of the Republic that was now so great, and whose infant life they bad watelied amid storms that shook them not, among clouds that lowered long, then rose and passed away. The vague immensity around mo, peopled alone with the hoary-headed fathers, was hushed in silence. The silver bell of the air ship’s clock struck with a clear toned tinkle. It was midnight. Was it an echo of the silver bell, repeated and repeated until it became a ghime upon the air that rung s glad melody in my ears? A shaft of pale Night as of early dawm appeared in the far cast from behind the mountains. A sound as of downy wings upon the aircame mingling with the silvery chime, and feathery flakes of snow that came from no cloud were falling around me. A musical jingle as of showers of golden coin rung through the night. A laugh like that of a joyous child sounded beside me. I saw no human form, I heard no syllabled word, but I knew that the Infant Year had come, * * * * * * * VITAL STATISTICS. ‘The following is a copy of the annual report of Dr. Nagle, Deputy Rogistrar of Vital Statistics, which was presented yesterday at the meeting of the Health Commissioners: 22? |255] ¥F | 3 les5 eel 5'S ss Fes See gl: £3 1878, STF ad |: Fs : ee (225 |i ea ee Es HS SFFeal FLERE PE peel * 180) ra i 194 March. 9.27. 14 13 198; 106| ii 206 153} 193 143] 72] 102] 17s) 99) 174! 185} 005] 2,192] 25,729) 1,120} 2, wy | - opel gF g oe ph ihe zs i wre. 1383) oF = zee] = hed Fay © 5 Fe] -8 = ai i a) Re BF i} 33 4 poy 19 ld 29 wv 8 2 a . 3 5 9 November...) 38 December..::] 26 Totals. 200; 188| 1,168 It will be scen by the above tables that during the joe year there were 1,811 more deaths than the year fore, and that the greatest mortality was in tie month of July. YEARLY REPORT OF CONTAGIONS. The Health Commissioners at their meeting yester- day afternoon received the yearly report of the deaths in this city from contagions diseases. They are us follows:—Small pox, 2; measles, 304; scarlet fever, 1,051; diphtheria, 990; whooping cough, 377. ONE HUNDRED AND OVER. In the Bureau of Vital Statistics during the past year the deaths were recorded of the following per- sons whose ages reached 100 years and over:—Fanny Wood, 192 years, Irieh; Mary A. Maroney, 100 years, Irish; Mary Connors, 101 years, Irish; William Moan, irish; Hosa Oliver, New York; Mary Davis, Patrick Corrigan, 106 years, Irish; ingham, 100 years, trish; Ellen Howard, joo years, Irish; Mary Mernoane, 106 years, Irish; Catharine Cosgrove, 105 years, Irish, and Catharine Buckley, 104 years, Irish. POLICE BOARD MEETING. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STREET CLEANING DE- PARTMENT. ‘There was a full attendance of the Police Commis- sioners at the Board mesting yesterday, Instructions were issued by them to ths chief clerk to advertise for proposals for cleaning the streets and removing ashes and garbage therefrom. Captain Gan- ner, of the Stroct Cleaning Department, re- ported that from the Ist of January to the 3ist of December of the past yoar 17,724 miles of streets were cleancd, 799,710 loads of ashes, 243,016 loads of street dirt and 4,765 loads of garbage removed. In the same period in 1877, 6,024 miles of streets were cleaned, 724,804 loads of ashes and 240,902 loads of street dirt were removed. The contract for unloading ashes and garbaye from the scows of the department was awarded to M, Van Buren & Co, at the rate of four cents per cart load. Acomplaint was received from William H. Webb, touching the dumping of garbage in lots at the foot of Wost Thirty-seventh streat. The superintendent was directed to put an end to the causes of com nint. MGeneral Smith submitted the following resolu- tion:— Rosolved, Thy teh, at his the responsi bilit recommending pi election, nnder (he law or any tale, roxnlat! order of the departinent heratefore ulgpted. Recolved, Th counsel of the Board of Police be req 0 whother any furthor orders of the Police Board of an those now [nm force aro necessary. for thepurporo af holding the members of the polices fores amenable to diveipl Ne event of any aueh menibor reporting & place ax suitable for « place of rogistry or place If enbscquent investigation shaws thas baw been violated and Pirltaons Hyuore h places recommended by him sixty Paine, ‘Tho original resolution was carcie.. A communication Waa received from ‘Mr. John D. Yownsend relaitve to the charges against Captain McDonnell, which was withheld trgm publication, MUNICIPAL NOTES. The Board of Aldermen yesterday passed over the Mayor's veto the resolutions giving poxmission to the Morrisenia and Fordham Railway Company to extend their tracks over Harlem Bridge, and also directing the removal of the cast side elevated rail- way stations at Ninth and Houston streets to moro convenient positions. Mayor Ely yesterday ent in a veto of the Alder- manie resolution authorizing the employment of conugel in the attempt to remove the elevated railway tracks from the sasinel 9 ‘The Gommon Council passed a resolution trove af asking the Park Commissioners to pay the laborers work on Riverside Drive a pro rata share of th money due them, ‘The Mayor hus signed Alderman Bennett's resolu- tion requesting the Folie Commissioners to allow one-hait instead of one-quarter of policemen's salary during ee ite 1 by ald neat meh A resojution offered Alderman ly yestord : $000; 000, nder the direction of the Boyvd of requesting the Legislature to appropriate to expended improving the city streets and \ parka, was yesterday voted down in the Board, Apportionment, HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1879.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. | | | ‘|THE NEW CITY GOVERNMENT. | —— MAYOR COOPER AND EX-MAYOR ELY-—LIST oF NEW OFFICIALS AND HOLD-OVERS. ‘The city government for 1879 will not go into prac- tical operation until Monday next, although Mayor Edward Cooper steps im and Mayor Smith Ely, Jr., stops out from the City Hall at eleven o'clock to-day. ‘The new Board of Aldermen will not have power to act watil the first Monday iu January. They assem- bleat the City Hall at twelve o’clock on that date, when Mayor Cooper will send in his first message. It is, understood that the document will be very brief The ‘tleman evidently proposes to tamiliar- ize himself With the actual details of conducting business in the various city departments before ha enters into any lengthy disquisition upon what should be done in the way of reforming abuses. TAMIEDIATE CHANGES. At the caucus of the new anti-‘Tammeny and re- publican Aldermen to be held on Friday night next, itis nearly certain that Mr, Jordan L. Mott (inde- pendent democrat) will be agreed upon for president of the Board and Mr, Jacob M. Patterson, Jr. (repubs lican and formerly Excise Commissiouer), clerk in place of Captain F. J, Twomey. ‘he anti-Tammany members have already agreed in caucus, to support Mott. It is further understood that Captain Tuomey will bo retained in the Board as deputy clerk. Mr. John Tyler Kelly will be retained as Mayor's Marshal, Mr. James E. Morrison will officiate as Mr. Cooper's secretary, and it is understood that Colonel John Tracy will be appointed chief clerk | pee of Mr. John Hardy. It is also understood tha: ajor Hart will be retained as chief of tho Permit Bureau, These are all the officials immecliately affected under the administration of Mayor Cooper, What the future may bring forth, in a political sense, as to removals and appointments under the ingoming city government was fullydiscugsed in last Monday's Hpaup. OVFTORRS FOR 1879. ‘The following are the principal officials who £° into Office to-day and next Monday and those who ck ower from 1878 :— Mayor—Edward Cooper, independent democrat, in place of Smith Fly, Jr. Contntnoller —Fonn Kelly, Tammany democrat. City. udge—Rufus B. Cowing, republican, in place of Josiah I’. Sutherland, independent democrat. Sheriff—Bernard mur ‘Tamimuny democrat, Register—Frederick W. Loew, Tuinimany democrat, connie Clerk—H. A. Guinbleton, Tammany demo- crat, Surrogate—Delano C. Calvin, Tammany democrat, District Attorney—Benjamin K, Phelps, republicai Coroners—Honry. Woltman. y. domoorat; Richard Croker, Tammany democrat; Richard Flana- gan, Tammany democrat; Moritz Ellinger, anti-Tum- hat! ‘eLange—Will R. Roberts, T: ermen-at ‘ammany ; Patrick Keenan, Tammany; Nicholas Haughton, anti: Tammany; J. 8. Hyatt, anti-Tammany; Michael Burns, republican; Ferdinand Finck, republican. District Aldermen.—Fourth — district —Thomas Sheils, Tammany; James J, Slevin, Tommany; Mat- thew Stewart, republican. Fifth district ohn J, Morris, republican; John W. Jacobus, republican; John Cavanagh, Tammany. vd Sixth district—Bernar Kenny, anti-Tammany; Joseph P. Strack, anti-Tan. many; George Hall, Tammany. Soventh district William Sauer, Tammany; Robert Foster, Tammany; Robert Hall, anti-T' any. Eighth district—Henry ©. Perley, republican; Terence Kiernan, ‘anti- > many; Thomas Carroll, Tammany. Twenty-third and f'wenty-fourth wards—Jordan L. Mott, anti-Tam- many. ‘Tammany democrats, 9; anti-Tammany democrats, 1; republicans, 6. Total, 22. Majority of republican and anti-Tammany demo- crats com ined over Teneey 4. The City Fathers who retire after next Monday, wheu the new Board comes into power, are—William Bennett, ‘tammany; ‘republican; Ferdinand Erhart, republican; tiam H. Gedney, republican; Samuel A. Lewis, Tammany; Lewis J. Phillips, republican; Joseph C. Pinckney, republi- can; Bryan Reilly, anti-Tammany ; Louis C. Waehuer, any. HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS. ; Public Works—Allan Campbell, Commiesioner, in- dependent democrat. Locks—Jacob Vanderpoel, independent democrat; Henry F. Dimoek, independent democrat, and Jacob Westervelt, independent democrat, Commjgsioners. Excise—Richard J, Morrison (president)#Tammany democrat; Philip Merkle, Tammany democrat, Com- missioners. One vacancy to be filled here in place of George W. Morton, removed. Law—William C. Whitney, independent democrat, Counsel to the ration; Williaan A, Boyd, Corpo- ration Attorney, Tammany democrat; Algernon 3, Sullivan, Tammany democrat, Publig Administrator, Park—James I’. Wenman (president), independent democrat; William CG. Wetmore, independent demo- ‘erat; Smith E. Lane, independent democrat; Samuel Conover, Tammany democrat, Commissioners. Police—William F, Smith, Sidney P. Nichols, Tamma: ‘4 3 . hardt, republican; D. C. Wheeler, republican, Com- perc ‘Tho terms of the two last named have expired. Charities and Correction—Townsend™ Cox (presi- dent), independent democrat; Thomas §. Brennen, Tammany democrat; Isaac H. Bailey, republican, Commissioners. Fire—Vincent C. King (president), Tammany demo- erat; John J, Gorman,»eTammany democrat; Joseph L. Perley, republican, Commissioners, Buildings—Walter W. Adams (superintendent), re- publican, Health—Charles F. Chandler, independent demo- erat; Edward G. Janeway, independent democrat, Commissioners. Tax Commissioners—John Wheeler, independent democrat; John N. Hayward, independent democrat, Commissioners. Board of Assessors -Thomas B. Asten, Tamman; democrat; John Mullaly,, Tammany democrat; Ed- ward North, independent, THIS YEAR'S EXPENSES. WHAT IT WILL COST TO RUN THE CITY Gov- ERNMENT IN 1879. ‘The Board of Apportionment, consisting of Mayor Fly, Comptroller Kelly, Tax Commissioner Wheeler and Alderman Hoberts, completed last evening the revision of the estimates for carrying on the city gov- ernment during 1879. The following is the official announcement:— COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THF APPROPRIATIONS YOR 1878 AND THE APPROPRIATIONS FoR 1879, Appropru— Appropria- Objects and Purposes. wer 1878, wan 1879, 07,500 State taxes...... 3 Interest on the city eo ) 164, Be 8, Redemption of the city debt 1,155,297 Lick ase armaties and drill-rooms— + 09,087 62,250 Indgments 300,000 450,000 Rents—Leases in force . 10,10 61,200 ‘The Law Department. i 148,000 5,500 ‘The Department of Public Toy Depart ee, or 1,611,100 1,576,860 © ‘iment, Of ic »” vepemnpenetiinrgg 479,000 The Department of Build- MERI ath 6s taka thee ae 70,000 71,500 The Department of Public Charities and Correction,. 1,160,000 ‘The Health Department. 190,000 Tho Police Departmen 3,999,805 4,048,100 ‘The Fire Department, 1,220,870 1,264,970 ‘The Department of Taxes) and Axseesinaiits...... 108,900 107,900 » Board of Kdueation 3,400,000 3,400,000 Whe College of the City of New York.....ccc00se006 195,000 140,000 Advertising, printing, sta tionery aud blank books. 127,200 329,800, 865,484 70,000 Sheriff's fees 40,000 Election expenses. 135,000 | Miscellan + 11% p20 Asylume, refor charitable inst! 935,000 | . $90,007,097 LONG ISLAND'S GOVERNMENT. THE BROOKLYN CITY AND KINGS COUNTY NEW OFFICIAIS, WITH THOSE WHO HOLD OVER, The following is ® listof the Brooklyn city and Kings county government officials who will direct the adininistration of the offices to which they have been severally elected, from January 1, 1879;— jor—dames Howell, Jr,, democrat, Comptroller—William G. Steinmetz, republican, Andi Alvert Ammoerman, republican. City Treasnver—Wiiliain Mayo Little, republican. ‘Yex Collector—James Tanner, republican. dustices of Poace.—Virst distvict—Danial Ferry, ) democrat. Second distriet—G, Wilson Bloom, demo- Third district—Prauk Fisher, republican, Pourth district—Charles 8. Eliot, democrat. Fifth district-—Herm I, Guek, democrat, sixth dis trict—Ludwig Semler, democrat, Police Jnstiee— Andrew Welsh, democre! ALDERMEN, Warde, 1—Ciarencel. Barnett, R* 2—William Dwyer, D. B-W.F. Aitken, Bi Warde, 14—Thomas J. Kenna, D, 1, 4—Kobert Maek, D. +. Watore, 5—J1, MeCarty, D. i8—G, W. Williatis, Re 6—Jaines Kane, D. iA. De 1, 20—John. French, BR. 7—David Stewart, I, &—John Melutyre, D. 9—Daniel O'Connell, D, 10—Simon Gunder, D, 11—K. Graham, R. 12-Daniel O'Reilly, D. 23--W. Seaman, Ry %4—Iohn Dryer, R. 2. ub—J. Powers, it. 3—W. Hi. Ray, 1 Connty Oftciils,—Distrlet Attorney —Ienae 8. Catlin, fepublicun, Surrogate+sAbraham H. Datlyy, denio- Cent, Sherift—Tugmus HM. Biloy, LP stiper- visor-at-Large—Samuel Guthrie, democrat, County Judge-Henty A aU Momoctas, justices of Bes- | need of assistance. | noighhors for afew weeks past, but_the old Wickh: iblican, and J. cor Samuel 3. re democrat, County Auditor—Maurice Pitzgess! |, democrat, County Clerk—John Delinar, demo~: ‘istrar—William Barrie, democrat. Coron» - Henry ©. Simus, democrat, and Frayeis Nolan, d SUPERVISORS. We 3—A..J, Ormsbee, Be 13—L.. 8. Crowell, R. 2—Jolth Gallagher DS > 1-5 MleKeover, Yas. D $—Joseph Quick, t. 15—J. H. Snyder, 4—T. Russell, D; 16—H. Hanselman, D. tone i Morn. D* U—James Hyde, D, 24—F. Van Wyck, 12—A. Bennett, D, 25—Peter Van Cott, & Fiatbush—Peter Williamson, democrat, Flatlands—John L. Ryder, republican. Now Lois—4. H.W. Van ‘ellen, democrat, Now Utrecht—Adolph Gubuer, iidependent, Gravesend—Jaqaes Stillwell, dem * Re-olectod. Commissioners of Charities,—First ot Charles H. Henry, democrat. ign ineh - Disteit rn iam H. SLBA, democrat, Third Sizer, republican. Fourth district} ‘Midas, Democrat. Fitth district—H. V, Storms, democrat ly. MePonal 1. ier iat 23-—Ernet Nat QUEENS COUNTY. i The official changes which take place in Quen: county to-day are ag follows :—F. B, Baldwin sues. us G. Edward Carl] as County Treasurer, William J. Young succéeds.B. Floyd-Jones as Assembl; inthe Mest district, William E. Pearse si John Kevysar. iui Assemblyman in the Secoud district. SUFFOLK COUNTY, In Suffolk county N. D. Petty succeeds Willivm 1 Wickham as District Attorney, Charles T. Duryea succeeds Charles 8. Havens as Assemblyman, ©. D. Elmer succeeds Horace H, Bonjamin a School Com- missioner in the First district, and Justus Roo si ccvas Thomas 8, Mount as School Comumissioner sa the Second district. OFFICIAL PATRONAGE. o ‘Thomas M. Riley, the new Sheriff of Kings eounty, has made the following appointments:—Tacnms Murphy, Under Sheriff; John Fuchs, Patrick /ijtind and J. McGuinness, deputies; F. L. Dallon, of tis Emigrant Savings Bank, Chief Clerk; J. R, Wilds, #s- sistant; William Bryan, keeper of the jail; M. Malone and Charles Schultz, assistants; Thoms A. Kerrigan, auctioneer; Joseph Evans and James (as- sidy, van drivers. Thomas Murphy formerly: held the positior of Under Sheriff while Sheriffs MeNames and Walters were in office. There are several posi- tions that yot remain to be fi! ‘The following appointments were made by Gevoral Steininetz, the new Comptroller:—Deputy Comp- troller, Theodoré Rich; Chief of the Bureau of Taxes and Assessmeuts, 8. H. Mildenberg; Clerk, Josoph V, Scully; Clerk of Accounts, H, P. lx wick; Accountant, R.A. Bishop; Warrant Clerk, E. Townsend; General Clerk, W. W. Hanna; mdssen: ger, A. Schaunburg; clerks, ©. L. » Seorge '. Greenwood and John T. Carroll. ‘t. » Charity Commissioner Andrew Zeiser, of ‘Third district, announced his appointments yester !y as follows:—Chiof Clerk, Jacob .G. Feist, in psboe ot George Dugan, removed; Clerk, ex-Judge 1.tomes Eames, in place of John Courtney, removed; (,,licer, |. Robert. J, Rudd, in placo of Thomas Carr's, ro- moved; Surgeon, Dr. Henry Hesse, in placés& br. Joseph creamer, removed, BROOKLYN FIRE DEPARTME.’). ; The Brooklyn Fire Commissioners, in order'-skeep the expenses of the department within the apigopei- ation, have made the following changes:jef. IL Shute, clerk of Chief Nevins, removed; Jamel! Hot trell, a clork at Fire Department Headquarters, takes his place. Shute's salary was $1,000 per sumum. The positions of machinist aud assistant harnews maker have been wiped out. Tho salaries of theo tions amounted to $1,750 per aunim. ‘The fol- lowing persons were also removed, and theimhieos will remain vacant:—Michacl McManus, detail’ firo- man; H. J. Reed, messenger, and Ernest Setche, clerk in the Kerosene Bureau, salary $1,000 per an- num. The Commissioners reduced the saiary of Superintendent. pf oe from $2,000 to $1.00). ‘The Bourd by a later action retained E. Sasche us ono of the general clerks at Headquarters. There will ba a further curtailing of expenses. “ALWAYS WITH You." .* rene GLOOMY OUTLOOK OF THE SUFFERING act CASES WHERE IMMEDIATE HELP IS NE} It ia worth while to remember to-day that then,» Year does not open with golden visions of prope ity for every one. In every section of the city wore woykingmen dwell. poverty reigns wit! perious sway, and thousands of men, women » children are unhappy and cheerless. The pe») who are suftering are not only those who are © willigg to work, but those as well who have used every effort to got work without success. The new year may yet bring sadder scenes of distress thon have been seen in tits city far many yofl pant ic personal charity docs dot 8odii flow ov’ more abundantly than it has already this season. In room 10, third floor, of No, 429 West Yantieth street a widow in needy circumstances appeals for help. ‘On the second floor, back, of No. 454 West Fo~ fifth street a widow and three small children sadly in need of food, fuel and ee o In the rear basement of No, 725 Washington In aged widow and her daughter are in (ie. ‘The daughter strives hard to procure constant § 9+ but is unable to get more than occasional pe ment, and her earnings are, therefore, not sur to supply ordinary daily nourishment for her» her mother. * On tho top floor of No, 126 Mulberry s woman and her six children are almost on the of starvation. The husband deserted the. months ago. In rooms Mf . 13, top floor, of No. 309 Mott s+ widow and ber two small children, and two oth dren belonging to her sister, who a sho ayo, and her aged fether and mother—the ' being sick and bedridden—are all in absolute the commonest necessaries of life, In room No. 13, tonrth floor, of No. 429 Wes: tieth street, a family of need agsistanee, (9 husbund ix'a paiutor by trade, but has been out work since September last. ‘On the top floor of No, 180 Madison street on widow and her two grandchildren, whose fat)er mother are dead, are in need of food, fuel and “i. ing. ‘Gn the top floor of No, 401 Madison street -» i lady, seventy-five years of age, together wit) her ty valid con, who is nearly blind, and a danghte: ¢u' work, are utterly destitute. A son, who wos support, dicd some time since. n the fourth floor of No. 19 Beach street a b band, wife and five small children ere in pow ‘The man has been out of work for it non! Ls Ho is in arrears of rent to the amo: of $26 On tho third floor of No. 65 Forsyth str honse, a widow and her three childroy are » ‘The husband, after seven |) sickness, died a month ago. An invalid woman, who was deserted by ! band a year anda half ago, and her two sn dren, are in absolute destitution at No, ‘Twenty-fitth street, third floor, The woma father and mother are living with hb mother being at the ‘present time yer ‘The two little children have been partially mn bers of the ftaily have been actually atarviny |) ing Saturday, Sunday and Monday they foo») 0s in the rooms, and mae = them Stay bel J the sufforing they endured may eit y ‘On the xecond Noor of No, 216 Bast Sevent stroat, rear house, a tamily consisting of » father aud grandmother, aged respectively et: eighty-one years, their sun and his witt « hiliven, aro all destitute, and in need of very kind, e tributi “ Fee ettiea fctarday £08 the poor of this « E. A. H,, for family at No. Kast Broad) « A Constant Reader of the Hxnanp, for fam( f14 Pitta street, room o* ». 16, $1. ' er’ lief, $5. Se ee ce Tor the threo boys, O'Neil, Lon. Kelly) £5: M. D., for destitute couple at Ne. 64 6» $2. mb Ne 6 3 ‘No. 242 Charry street, No. 79 tom atroet and No. 304 Matt streot, $3. ie Sn) ‘No. 137 East Broadway, $1, Bs B., for No. 242 Cherry strect, 81 Dire. M. E. M., for No. YL Crosby street, N« ‘ Rivington street and No, 582 Eleventh avenue, J. B., for No. 64 Carmine street, $2, ‘s Working Gitl, for the widow at No. 361 Madson street, 60 cents, t E. A, H., for No. 242 Cherry street, $1. «, for cages mentioned in Sunday's | eKALD 4. § Anonymous, for No. 603 Water are for Ne jo. 621 East Eleventh street, $1; for a°7 Lae roadway, $1 50, ‘Total, $48. —— es SPECIE PAYMENTS, Toalay specie payments will bo resume) government, and the greenback will be as va the gold dollar, Wherever the observance New Year's Day does not prevail, gold wij! out fot groenbacks, and hereatter $11 Gusto: duties can be paid with the latter. All array for the resumption of apecio payments he . completed at the Snb-Treasiry, where the gove ment has a large amonnt ot gold o Thia will do away with the God Room, whi bei & istonce since January, 1464, and which, tt ie iad stood, be turned into a mining departiwent (oF the beneiit of the members of the Stock Kxchan ‘