The New York Herald Newspaper, February 23, 1879, Page 11

BUISSVILLE IN AN UPROAR. Officers of the Law at Work Among Its Stables. DISEASED COWS SLAUGHTERED. The Origin and History of Dreaded Pleuro-Pneumonia. A melancholy day, indood, was yesterday for Bliss- ville, L. 1, and swill milk interests suffered sadly, for the cohorts of the law came down on the cow stables and made bloody work among the chief sufferers from pleuro-pneumonia, These numbered ® score, Anticipating lively scenes on this oceasion the Henanp reporter was at his post early, aud through the courtesy of General Patrick was able to witness the performance of the entire programme. The General, standing on one of the swill vats, looked like a Roman emperor, dressed in a blue overcoat and soft hat, witnessing the bloody scenes in the arena, ‘True, the victims did not pa- rade before him and cry “Ave Cesar tmperator mori- turi te selucant,” but they kept up a weak, consump- tive bellowing that was quite as touching to hear. They seemed to know that a crisis had arrived and that the prolonged torture of # slow death that they had been suffering was about to end, Doctors Me- Lean and Bell wore on the ground very early, and be- fore nine o’clock had examined sixty-8ix cows, which were permitted to be driven to the slaughter houses in Johnson avenue. Of these animals Mr. Henry received thirty and Mr. Moses May thirty-six. In permitting cows to be taken away tho examining doctors do not guarantee that they are free from disease, they only certify that they do not exhibit pronounced symptoms. Itis therefore the duty of the Brooklyn Board of Health to have tho proper oilicers ready to examine the carcases and say whether the meat is fit for human consumption or not. A meat inspector is specially detailed for that purpose, so that the danger of bad meat reaching the retail stores is not very great. INSIDE THE STABLES. The ceiling of tho stalls is about seven fect from the floor and is made of boards. No ventilation is possible, except when the doors which lead into the alleyway at the cows’ heads are opened, and this can- uot well be done in winter on account of the cold. The poor brute has to breathe tho same air many times over and each time she inhales she takes in a quantity of deadly poison that induces the disease. Filth was everywhere to be seen, notwithstanding tho rigid regulations issued by General Patrick. THE. BUTCHERING. The butcher arrived about half-past one and soon the appraisers (Lorewcp, Abraham, Claws and Pettite) were among the doomed twenty, which they valued at sums ranging from $5 to $20 per head, making a total of $2¥0, which will be paid by the State. The first cow knocked on the head was avery weak looking creature. It did not even have strength enough to walk away fronrthe men as they advanced to despatch it. Sirange to say, however, it was one of the last to depart to the happy grazing grounds. It took from twenty minutes before two until about ten minutes after to kill tho twenty animals, the work being done in a very rapid and humane manner, which re- flected credit on the executioner. After the animals were dead another butcher went among them and slashed the hides in such a way that they would be of no use for leather. The execution was carried on for the most part amid the hooting and swearing of the mob outside the fence. One milk- mau, of Teutonic extraction, informed one of the doctors that “It vas a dam shame to kill people’s property so. 1 fave two hundhred dollar dot red cow bees all right," he said. Another resident of Blissville was very anxious to purchase a young ani- mal from the General just betore the slaughter, and walked off in disguet when he saw the object of his admiration knocked over by the butcher's axe, SYMPTOMS OF THE DISEASR. ‘The reporter had long talk with Dr. McLean, and: learned that one of the cows just killed had given premature birth toa calf. The Doctor said that 1% was clearly evident that the animal was so affected by the disease that she could not retain her off- spring. This is u characteristic symptom of this in- fectuons disease. Distinction has always been made between the contagious and non-contagious pleuro- pneumonia. Thetormer is a blood-poisoning disease of a zymotic character, having a certain but ill-deflned incubstive staze. In fact, the incubative stage is from nine to ninety days. An animal may not show symptoms of the disease, but would carry it in her tail or her hair and infect other animals. | In speak- ing of the cows killed on Priday Dr, McLean said that the normal weight of a lung is from two to three pounds, but he found one weighing twenty-six in one of the aminals. Besides Drs. MeLe Drs. Hall, P. Nostrand and Hopkins, § No living animais are to be sllowed to leave the premises, except to go to the slaughter house, The inference is that one-half of the animals in the stables will be killed on the premises and sent to the offal dock. The stables are so infected, Dr. McLean said, that. they could not be put ina safe condition for cattle to be kept in them. Certain days ure to be set down by General Patrick on which cattle may be riven to the slaughter house cana A TALK WITH SUPRRINTENDENT RAYMOND, Sanitary Superin‘endent Kaymond, of the Brook- lyn Health Department, said to a Henan reporter yesterday that to a certaiu extent he approved the proposed bill of the Milk Produce Exchange of that city, for the establishment of a Mik Bureau of In- spection. He thought, however, that the license fee could be made lower than which is the amount contemplated to charge eac er, should the bill ever became a law, ‘There are at present, he said, about tweaty-seven hundred rmilkmen holding liconses from the Health Board. For these they pay nothing, the condition being that they will sell only pars, unadulterated and unskimmed milk, and that will not sell any milk from swill fed Tho Produce Exchange recognize, it ap- pours, but 1,200 milk dealers, They confine cir estimate, the superintendent says, to the better class of dealers, which accounts, perhaps, for the difference in the numbers of people holding liconse from the Healta Department and the esti- mate of the Exc ye. Good must ne of the <= agitation of the swill milk question, Dr. Raymond said, as dealers in milk were now becom ing alarmed aud did not want to let their customers know that they had been feeding their cows with cow! distillery swill. It costs about $2 per week to feod euch cow properly on dry feed and hay, whereas the board per head ut the Bliss: Ville stables was only fitty cents por week. The Doetor stated turther that he had been told by one of the men at Blissville that some cows had been kept confined in their stalls at that place between ree and four years without eyer being taken out for vercise. Yesterday, he said, he received a communi- cation informing him that since the authorities had Oo Tuaking war on swill milk and diseased cattle the‘gumber of milkmen who bought milk at the Erie Railroad Depot, Jersey City, tea greatly in- creased. AN ENGLISH VETERINARY SURGEON'S VIEWS ON TUE HWLORY AND ORIGIN OF THE TERRIBLE DISEASE. A lotter was received at the Henatp office from a Prominent veterinary surgeon of this city, tendering some information on the sub; cattle disease, about which there is so much excitement at present, A reporter accordingly called upon him and the fol. lowing interview was the result:— “I have come at your own snggestion to geta statement of your views on plouro-pneumonia,” said the reporter, by way of introduction. “Well, L cau probably post you up considerably,” feturned the Galen of the lower creation. ‘1 am Eng- lish by birth, and lived along timo in tho western counties when the rinderpest aud the pleuro-pn monia were raging. My uncle was government in- spector of cattle in the same dist exceptional opportunities for obtaining correct views: upon the subject. ‘Chere has been a great deal of pletro-pneumonia thera sinco 1841, I have prac tised tor twelve years." “Ilave you seen any cases of the diseaso in this country?” “Never, here; but I haven't a single doubt that this disesso is the same ag that which they have had in England.” “Why so?" “Mainly because it is so infectious, That is one | Of its reat characteristics, ‘Lhore has never been known a case in which its origin was spontaneous, In the old country they have always been able to trace it, Whenever and wherever it has broken out, to its source,” “In @ report of veterinary experts, which was Published os an advertisement the other day, it was stated that in Gat, Fleischmann & Company's stables, Bt Bliesville, the © cows affected with sporadic types of plotiro-pneumonia, Could that be ao?” “I pronounce that to be impossible and absurd. No such cases have ever been known. Reliable veterinary sirgeons are tnoniinous in their reports upon its features. Wherever it breaks out it imme- et, so that Thad | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1879--QUADRUPLE SHEET—W!ITH SUPPLEMENT, diately spreads. I think the newspapers are inclined to make too little of its supposed presence here. ‘Tho utmost alarm would be justifiable, should it once secure a firm footing here, and especially amoug our great herds in the West.” OUR WESTERN HERDS, “Do you think it would be likely to take possession of animals which are never confined, but are allowed tw roan at large in @ perfect state of nature?” “Oh! yes, undoubtedly they would be subject to it, but the results would not be so fatal, and a larger percentage of their whole number might escape it.”” “How long has ite presence in this country been known?” “1 do not know. Last summer a man residing near Rahway, in New Jersey, seut for me to go aud see his cattle, about eight in number, which, he said, lad developed some strauge complaint, 1 was then at Newport and consequently did not go, but he afterward informed me that they all died with the exception of one calf. From all that I could gather from his description of the symptoms they must have bad the pleuro-pneumouia,”” HISTORY OF THE DISEASE. “Do you think that the discase existed in England before it was detected in those animals which were i ed from the United States?" tar as L know I think that it did. Iam at least certain that it has been there very recently. The magnitude of the loss which it produces when once it has become thoroughly spread may be veaiized in the fact that during the thirty years which had elapsed up to 1869, since its iret appearance in England, it, together with the foot and mouth disease (a trifling complaint, by the way, which is rarely tatal), had de- stroyed over eighty-three million pound: meat! It was first known in France in 1769, in the county of Burgundy or Franche Comté; then it invaded Prussia in 1802 and reached Great Britain in 141. It was ctis- covered in Brooklyn, m the United states, in 1543, and was probably brought here, as it had been to England, by the :mportation of Dutch cattle, It was in New Jersey in 1847 andin Brooklyn again in 1850, this time being brought by English cattle. In 1859 the cows about Boston had it,"* “What ure the best methods of prevention and cure?” “In some parts of Germany inoculation has been & great remedy, but the inoculation is much more dangerous than that of smallpox. More than two por cant of the cattle which are thus treated are sure to die.” ‘What kind of matter is used for the inoculation?” ‘Matter from an animal affected with the pleuro- nenmonia, It is generally taken from one which ax been freshly slaughtered and is obtained by squeezing the lungs and gathering the serous exnda- tion. An incision is made at the end of the tail and it is there spplied.” “Why there?” EXTERMINATING THE DISEASE. “Because the matter produces a great deal of local | inflammation, which is apt to result in gan destruction of the tissues. The amputation of the tailis more simple than an operation in any other part of the body and it can be done at a moment's notice, and the loss to the cow, if she survive the disease, is not a serious one. However, I believe that the best way to deal with it is to stamp it out imme- diately, by slaughtering every herd in which it makes its appearance, ‘This is also the opinion of Professor Low, of Cornell University, who has written much upon the subject, and of Dr. Sayre, of the Massaclu- setts State Board of Agriculture.’ «What is to recompense the owners ?”” “In England the government at the time of tho rinderpest paid them a perecntage of the value of the slaughtered cattle, Whether they do it now in Togard to the animals which have pleuro-pneumonia Ido not know. Measures ought to be taken in this country to prevent the abandonment of the beet exporting trade. Examinations on this side by com- petent veterinary experts would restore confidence tothe consumers. It is not they who oppose the landing of the cattle that are afflicted with pleuro- pneumonia so much as the farmers, who fear the spread of the disease among their own stock.” THE ORGANS AND GENERAL TissUES. “Is not the disease, then, detrimental to the quality of the flesh and the milk of the cow which is affected ?”” “1 do not think so; and herein 1 shall probably differ, upon physiological grounds, with most physicians, In respect to the milk, my reason for this view is that when any organ takes from the blood and appropriates a certain portion of it for a purpose, it leaves the impure elements where thoy were and accepts only the pure, Even if the blood contained deleterious matter, I do not think it can pass through the mammary glinds and become a constituent of the milk, Those glands would take just what they required for their peculiar work and no more. “But medical experience contradicts your theory. How often some of the most irightful diseases are transmitted to the young while they are suckling.” “If the organ becomes physically changed, then, of course, the Bormal arecens will not go on.” “Well, does this disease affect the lacteal organ?” “T have never known of a case in which it did. Any inflammation in the organ would, of course, change the character of the tissues and the secretion would be different. But Ido not care to theorize about it. What should bo impressed upon the people is that the disease should be taripad out. Strict quarantine should be established and maintained in every in- fected neighborhood." DR, M'LEAN'S CHALLENGE TO VETERINARY SURGEONS. Baooxtry, Feb. 18, 1879. To THe Eprror oF THE HEBALD:— I see in your issue of to-day a statement alleged to be made by M. Maxmillian Fleischmann characterizing my report on the stables st Blissville as untrue. Well, it is his interest to say so, and I decline to discuss the subject with him, But, farther on, he says that Professor Going and four other veterinary surgeons examined the stables when the disease was at its height (what disease?) and that there was nota single cow in 4 contagious state, Now, I challenge the said Professor Going and the four said veterinary surgeons to call a meeting of the duly qualified veterinary sur- geons of New York and Brooklyn, and { will then prove that they are wrong and that I am right, the one in the minority to pay all expenses. I decline entering into any newspaper discussion on the sub- ject, hence the above proposal. I trust that the Pro- fessor will consider his professional reputation suitt- ciently at stake to accept. L. McLEAN, V. 5. DE MURSKA'S DIAMONDS. In the Hgnaup yesterday was reported the arrest of Theodore Von Gloiser, an Austrian, twenty-six years of age, on suspicion that he had stolen diamonds be- longing to Mlle. Ima de Murska, the Hungarian song- stress. Von Gloiser was arraigned yesterday in the Jefferson Market Court, Mr. John 8. Hill, Murska’s husband, being the complainant. He said he and his wife boarded at No, 20 North Washington square, and that it had beon their custom to employ a reliable man to watch the lady's jewels in her absence. Von Gloivser filled this office from Sunday to Thursday last, In Mile. de Dfurska’s dressing case drawer on last Thursday evening were left @ bracelet set with one large and two smaller diamonds, and a beautiful locket get with pearls, diamonds and turquoise. The latter was a present to her from the Governor Gen- eral of Havana in 1875. The drawer also contained a diamond studded star with a large solitaire pendant of 34, carats, which formed the centre of a cluster of thirteen smaller stones of 15, carats. The star and pendant were valued at $2,000, and were a gift froin the people of Melbourne, Australia, to De Murska in pt De Murska visited the Martha Washington re- ption on Thursday evening with her husband. Previous to leaving she informed Vou Gioise: the whereabouts of the jewels and asked him to “keep an eye upon them.” Next day the lady says sho missed the solitaire pendant of the stur, a8 Welles some of the largest stones in it. Mr, Hill reported the loss to the police, and You Gloiser was arrested on Friday. Mr. Hill added to the above statement that he found Von Gioiser at the Astor Place Hotel and took him to the house, He did not wish to charge the prisoner with theft, as there was no proof against hin. oo Gloixer was nervous, but emphatic in his protesta- tion of innocence. He said he might have slept in the evening when the Jewels were stolen and aliowed @ thiel to secure them. He was discharged. GROWTH OF THE TEXAS. PurLapenrnta, Feb, 21, 1879. To tHe Epiros or the Hunan In your article to-day, “Our Next Census,” estig mates are made of the probable increase in the spective States, under the heading of that Grow” you say “that next yeur'’s enumeration will show the groatest gains within a decade to have been in tho States of Illinois, California, Kansas, Minnesota, Texas and Florida, in the order in which we have named them.” T have just returned from an extended tour through the West, and especially Texas and Kausas, Your estimate of increase in population for Kausas [ think is too low, but in regard to Texas Iam certain that | its population has doubled since 1s70, and that in- stoad of its beung only 1,109,011 in 1880 {t will suount to 2,000,000 or upward and have a representation in Congress of fifteen to seventcen members. ‘Che im- migration into this State from all parts of the Union is immense, The railways are taxed to their wtivost to carry them, and last year the immigration was cs- timated at over three htndred thousand, THE TRADE OF TEXAS WORTH Texas is in ompire producing all the lsu of life and capable of sustaining 80,000,000 » Texas produced last year one-Aith of th on erop and Beat you no doubt, ehe will produce 1 iW bales. You have said truly (and the Hy deals in facts) that Central Texas “has a body of land equal in area to the whole State of New York and wo- sed in fertility and climate by any in the you might have added in the world, This tho Lone Star State is capable of producing: palos of cotton, and as to growing wheat, rn, oats, &c., the product per acre is much more than any of the Western States. Texas wants choap transportation for her vast products, She wants railways to develop her immense natural resoure Give Texas cheap transportation northward, eastward and southward and in 1890 she will have @ population equal to the great State of New York. Let New York look directly to Texas for expausion of trade and conmmerce and it will be mote profitable than Mexico, ¢ 1 America and the States of Columbia com- OBSERYVEL, De | OUR PUBLIC HOSPITALS. SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE VISITING COMMITTEE OF LADIES—PRAISE AND BI.AME, Some very interesting points in connection with the present condition of the public hospitals of this | city are elncideted in the seventh annual report of | the visiting committee of ladies from No, 52 East | Pwentieth street. They speak first of that Ultima Thule of the public charities, Hart’s Island, where “drift together the dregs of the other hospitals, the | paraiyties, the consumptives, the broken down drunkards, the men and women disabled with rheumatism or asthma—patients not interesting in a medical point of view, rarely curable, yet not likely soon to die, In one ward there were sixty-nine patients, and at least twelve confined to their beds. Tho nurses and orderlies sleep in little pens, fenced off from their wards; they have no possibility of privacy or quiet, no air but the common air of the ward, and no place to keep their clothes or other property, In its loneliness, its rude appliances, its makeshilt ways, Hart's Island is more like a frontier station than a branch of one of the departments of 9 great city government. Yet, if it misses some of the conyeniences, it also avoids some of the contamina- tions of the city; a more wholesome air pervades it, morally and physically, than is found in many of tho other institutions; and the officials seem todo the best they can with the scanty means at their com- mand,” ‘The report speaks in high terms of the Charity Hospital, especially as far as the school for nurses is concerned. The mission work among the fallen girls at the hospital has been continued through the past year with results upon the whole encouraging. Seventy-seven have been placed in various homes and six have beon sent back to their families; the visitor follows thom up and corresponds with them, gnd most of them seem resolved to perse- in a better way of lite, In the ma- ternity pavilions the during the past year was 247, and the numbe | deaths seven. ‘The committee think it extremely important that a pavilion for the waiting women shonid be built near the maternity pavilions, with a washhouse adjoining, where these women could do all or most of the washing for the pavilions. Thus the whole of this branch of the service could be kept together and all danger of infection from the hospital avoided; while the work would give the women bene- ficial exercise and would tend to prevent the lazy ones from coming to the hospital six months before | their confinement, as some now do, a practice which dangerously overcrowds the wards. Any sich new building sliould contain two warda, so that the better class of women might be separated from the more degraded, as unfortunately they ure not at present. BELLEVUE'S CONDITION. ‘The ventilation of Bellevue Hospital, according to the report, is amd must always be bad. No care and no sy! it is claimed, will suffice to keep the air | pure in such s lubyrinth of wards and passages. uring the past year two towers have been built, giving external bath rooms and water closets to nine wards. The north tower, which communicates with | three male wards, one ‘on each story, is much too small, Each story forms an octagonal room, measur- ing § fect 6 inches from wali to wall, and (ex- clusive of the window recesses, which add nothing to the available floor space) little inore than half the size of the old bath room. The bath and the sink for washing dishes are placed together next the door, m such a manner that it would be impossible to use both at once, while person in the bath would be necessarily exposed to the draught from the door and to the view of patients passing in and out of the closet; there is no room for # screen. The south tower is larger; it is also an octagon, divided on each story into two bath rooms, measuring fifteen feet on the long side by seven feet across. ‘The statistics of the Ninety-ninth Street Hospital are worthy of note. It ix situated on the corner of | Ninety-ninth street aud Tenth avenue, and is used as | a reception hospital, the patients being transferred as rapidly as possible to Bellevue. During the nine months from January 1 to October 1, 1878, it received 251 cases, eighty-nine of which were committed from the Fiith District Police Court (125th street. and Fourth avenue) for insanity, intemperance or desti- tution, and remained but a few hours before being removed to Bellevue Hospital. ‘Lhe comunittee re- iterates its conviction that the Ninety-ninth Street Hospital should be closed upon the expiration of the present lease, which, it is informed, will come to an | end on the Ist of May. It is thought that if an up- | town reception hospital is needed it should be situ- ated in Harlem. THE POLICE BOARD TROUBLE, | | vero | | EFFORTS TO SAVE GENERAL SMITH—HOW MAYOR COOPER MAY BE RELIEVED OF ALL RESPONSIBILITY—THE LATEST GOSSIP ON THE SUBJECT. Although yesterday was Washington’s Birthday the politicians did not in the least seem to realize the fact, for they were all of them discussing what may be called the latest phase of the Police Board diffi- culty, From whispers that were heard here and there it was learned that in a few days, “perhaps during the coming week,” a strong effort would be made to haye a public examination of the affairs of the Police Commissioners. Those who claimed to know ali about the matter explained that under sec- tion 109 of the charter of 1873 ample power was given to any five taxpayers to have a full and public inves- tigation of any department or bureau ot the city government. The section in question is as fol- low: 10N 109.—Any Alderman, Commissioner, head of de- veut, chief of bureau, deputy thereof, or i uer ‘ofticer of the corporation or purse if Judge shall so order, be summarily examined upon an order to be made on application, based on an affidavit Mayor the Comptro! veuldermen, or any Commissioner of Acvou wr of any five citizens who taxp rs, uiring suel mination: justice of the Supreme Court of the fh ment. directing sueh examination to be the it ju a publicly made at ambers of said Court, or at the office of said depart- and hour to be named, not loss, however, It hours after porsoual service of sald order. tion shall by Inte any d Wrongful diversion or misapplic of any nioneys or fund, or any violation of the provisions Jaw of any want of mechanical qualtfieation, for any insp { torshi work, or any neglect of duty in actin | or, delinguene od i ng the office of, the discharge vr nexloe tis alleged in tho appliention for said orde? that such Alderman, head of department or other aforementioned officer or person has knowledge. or. in- formation, Sueh Alderman, Commissioner, head of de. duty, of which {the purty charged sh criminal proceedin Answers on material points he ns and penalties of the crime of in Oat for a 2 MW fai cur. Diner Justice in sald distiet, as the pertios making such application may, in the dic be to attend and be tempt | Hy te Vontore of himself or any | the Supreme Court may now hav to enforce obedi f ty punish coutompt, in any en matter whatever, and shall impose costs upon. those pro: ing such an oxamination, net exceeding $24); if ho thinks no probable ‘cause for making the appli- provided for, the said coats to ho paid | reon examined, ich the quid or other Justice ay 0 * ny Justice of or shall possess, ty o sible to the publ partivent in whieh sald officer is employ THE “RUE INWARDNESS” OF THE MATTER, It will be sven that this law is very sweeping in its character, Its provisions are exccedingty plain, and | although no advantage ty heretotore been taken of | the section, it is believed that in the present instance it will be used to turther the purposes of some of the incumbent commissioners. Mayor Cooper hash an enormous amount of pressure brought to bewr upon him in the interest of General Smith, but it is | said that the facts communicated to the Chief Magis- | trate by Comiissioner Erhardt, have made the ior- mer rather timid about incurring’ the responsibilit of retainiug the President of the Police Board, theretore, be only too glad tee of citizens take charge of | e matter, aud it is said that General nith’s friends have been very active in advocating the latest means devised, as is claimed, | to get a full history of the Police Hoard charges. Lf | the five taxpayers were friendly to General Smith, as it is said they are to be, the examination could prob- ably be conducted in such a manner as not to harm his at all; while on the other hand, if the committee were ¢ ly unbiassed and impartial, a complete Investigation of the department could’ be had. In | either caso M 1 be relieved from re- | extimony proved | 4 winissiouer ie could | retain him that | the President of the Board, along with the Commis- sioncrs, was guilty of mafeasauce in office, His Honor could avoid all pressure by alleging his daty under tho law. SuNT YO PRISON BY HER FATHER. Justice Gertrum, of East New York, sont Mary Whiting, sixteon years of age, to the Honse of the Good Shepherd yesterday on the charge of being a vagrant, She is the daughter of Christopher Whiting, | a resident of Brownsville, L, L, aud was sentenced upon the suggestion of her father, Mary lett her | home at mianight about a week ago because, as she | kay, she could not agree with her stepmother. On | Friday night last Mr. Whiting was on his way home, ing through East New York avenue, Passing on | y house he heard some one groaning in the He scoured a lantern, and upon entering the cellar found his missing daughter lying in one | rner. She could hardly be aroused from the stupor | which she had It is alleged eh loaving her home again yesterday mornit Mr. Whiting proceeded With her to Justice Gertrum's Court and had her sentenced as a vagrant. The Mayor’ would to kee a comy | | 1 | his connection with the murder ot the | month. COMPLAINT BOOK. [Nore.—Letters intended for this column must be accompanied by the writer's full name and address to insure attention, Complainants who are unwilling to comply with this rule simply waste time in writing. Write only on one side of the paper.—Ep, Henatp.} OUR WAS IT A JOKE? To var Eprror or tHe Heratp:— T would like to kuow whether the receiver of the Security Savings Bank really meant what he said | when he promised a dividend, or was he only joking? i DISAPPOINTED SKATERS, To tHe Epitor oy THe HERaLD:— Is there no way to prevent the Eighth Avenue Rail- | road Company from displaying bulls on their ears when there is no skating in the Park? During | the past week this outrage was perpetrated | several {imes, and hundreds of people were induced to ride in their ears up to the Park ouly to find them- selves disappointed. SKATER. To tae Eprron or Tue HenaLp:— I, too, think the fare on the Staten Island ferries ought to be reduced, When the opposition boat D. R. Martin was running they yave thirteen tickets for $1, Why can they not give fifteen instead of eleven tickets now, or do like the railroad com- | panies—rnn a boat from six to nine o'clock A.M. and fron: five to seven o'clock P, M. for five cents? EURERA, | pe | | | FARE TO STATEN ISLAND. | | RAPID TRANSIT WATERFALLS, To tne Eprron or tne Henacp:— Last Thursday evening, on returning from a placo of amusenent, a party of nine persons took the ele- vated road at Third avenue aud Twenty-third strect for Harlem, After arriving at 125th street aud while crossing Third avenue we were compelled to run ont of our way to avoid the water which was pouring | down from the engines which were dirvetly over the crossing. In endeavoring to avoid it two of the ladies and their escorts were well wet, an elderly lady slipped and fell and was seriously injured, aud hail to be carried home in a carriage, and will be confined to her bed for wecks. Cannot this nuisanuco be stopped? HECTOR, WHAT IS HE DOING? To THe Fprron or tHe Hrnary:— Isee in last Sunday's Hetary a complafnt against ex-Governor Parker, receiver of the New Jersey Mu- tual Life Insurance Company, and asking for an explanation why he does not give us some satistac- tion in relation to a dividend. As yet he has made no reply, which is certainly very unkind, to say the least. “I propose that the policy holders come to- xether and see if there cannot be some way devised to prevail upon ex-Governor Parker to do oF say some- thing, He must know there are many in great need of money, and as lony ax he has that which belongs to us why’ wili he hold on to it? Let something be done at on POLICY HOLDER. TRAVELLERS’ BAGGAGE, To THE Eprror or tHe HEraup:— , Allow me to draw the attention of those who are compelled to journey on the Pennsylvania Railroad to the advisability of first ascertaining that th baggage does not weigh an ounce oyer one hundred pounds. Ihave roamed the land in the capacity of a “commercial tourist”? for over five years, but the weight of my trunk has always been an enigma to me until Tuesday last. On that day at Pittsburg I desired to check it to New York and was informed that its weight was 125 pounds, the charge for the excess being titty cents. Remoustrance was useless. The polite baggage master informed me that at the commencement of the year strict orders had been éi nto weigh all baggage and collect exc: for every extra pound, and that a similar order been given at all stations, I think this will prove a | poor way to increase the revenue of the company ut perhaps the direction is desirous of promot: private speculation among their baggage masters, similar to the strap selli business at the baggage room of the Hudson River Railroad, at Forty-second street. ALS, A. SEAL HUNTING ON THE SOUND. On looking from his residence at Pelham, on Leroy Bay, last Thursday torenoon, Mr. Joseph E, Rogers discovered a living object perched on the floating ice, some distance from shore, ana sailing rapidly along before an east wind. A boat was quickly procured, and, accompanied by a friend, Mr. Rogers started in pursuit of the strange beast, which proved to be a geal, or sea lion, of large proportions, weighing ap- parently about two hundred pounds: A loud bark was followed by @ plunge, and for a moment the beast disappeared, but, partially emerging, faced his pursuers and swam toward them, A shotgun was pointed at his bead, and, with rare heey he puta wall of water between the weapon aud’ his glossy sides. Passing beneath the boat, another cake of ice some distance to windward was reached and mounted ata bound. An hour was spent in the chase, but though the huntsmen got near enough once or twice to observe the creature’s form and color, the distance was too great to warrant the haz- arding of a shot. Finally a flurry of suowconcealed the game, and after another hour of search the boat was headed for the shore. From an examination of the impressions left in the snow on several cakes of ice, the seal was estimated to be something more than five feet in length, It is supposed that the seal was carried into the Sound by the strong caster] winds which had prevailed for the provions two | days. His pursuit and escape were witnessed by the occupants of Mr. Rogers’ house. MERRICK’S SECRET CONFESSION. THE INDIANA MURDERER WHO WAS HANGED LEAVES A CONFESSION IN HIS WATCH CAs (Prom the Indianapolis Sentinel, Feb. 20.) One of the most singular and startling incidents of the present century came to light, yesterd discovery of a genuine confession of the late Willian Merrick, which rivals many of the stories of the dark ages, when men kept or hid away revelations of deeds of darkness in secret panels, drawers, s rings, brooches, lockets and other innocent looking | articles of ornament or furniture, Merrick seems to have imbibed the idea of rendering his name still more famous or infamous by having in his pos- session a watch, with its secret chamber, that | is destined to be one of the seven wond of the age. The discovery of the ret chamber was the result of an accident, or rather was purely accidental, Dr, Edwins, representative from Ma son county, after the purchase of the w sheriff's seie last Monday, took it to the je have it examined and cleaned, ant h osity to see it taken apart, stood by the jeweller while he was doing the work. is @ highly embossed stem winder, with ah double case, is as handsome an appearing timepie as a gentleman of his taste and style would wish to carry. After openimg. the watch and detaching the | works from the case, there appearing to be some | dirt in the groove where tne two sides join, the workman ran a sinali tool around, and in the groove, when in passing a point about a halt inch from the hinge, and that seemed | to resist the passage of the tool, suddenly an inner | late or cap sprung open, startling the jeweller (and | Dr. Elwins also for that matter) so that it fell from his hand to the floor, the fact of it having been car- vied by Merrick making him somewhat pervou In picking itup out teil a tongh tissue paper, closely covered with writing in pencil, which, from its ‘singular wording, would seem to be @ confession ot the horrible erime for which Merrick was executed, together with hints of | yung man at | Connersville and the ola man who wae tound dead in his stable. He also mentions the name of auother who seems to have been a victim to his hellish pas« sious. The paper reads as flow: Je served hor like 1 did th di i hor years her now [don I wonldent yo only for th But its no use. T have to swing for it aud then—thats wh: tame. The old man dident trnble nie owe just a6 easy. he was too drank to ku ryed that other cuss right, he #t ti, hed no busness to get in ake em believe dul w out. I wonder who'll find ¢ Dr, Edwing says it makes him feel queer when he corries that wateh, and he don't know whetier he will keep it or send it to Barnum, HOW TO OPEN THE MISSISSIPPT. Henvy F, Knapp, a Washington engineer, writes to the Kepublican, of that city, about the best way to open the mouth of the Mississippi River, Mo says :— Allengineers have invariably started ont with the fdea that a river should exist without a bar at ite This is just as impossiblo as that aman should exist without a stomach—consey engineers mypts to of mouth of r except for the ent, En tact, a river can exist without a bi uth; therefore the seientifie way of open month of a river, both for the benefit of its entrance and t! efit of its channel throughout its length, is simply to build fo false or artificial bar directly across ite mouth, but far out into deep water outside, and submerged so that vessels may pass freely over it in going in and ont. The result of this, then, is to enable the ont flowing river current to ent down the old natural bar impediment and increase the channel both in depth | and width, That is all there is to the question of giving the mouth of the Mississippi iver the - est and widest entrance of any port in the world, even up to forty tect draught, it desired, nm | night littl LONG ISLAND SNOW BLOCKADE, Harngscrox.—On_ Thurede: The Long Island Railroad is stil! blockaded between | Riverhead and Greenport and Manor and Sag Har- bor. Mails and freights for all points east of River- head have not been delivered during the past two days. The freight train wh left Greenport ahead of the express train on Thursdey morning, preceded | by a snow plough and two lécomotives, got fast at Southold. The express train followed, and the snow drifted in so fast behind her that sh up to Greenport. ‘Che snow plough and one lovo- e Kot off the track, and considerable ditheulty was experienced in getting them on agatu. The men rom the intense cold, and ma: at all, Lhe snow drifted ali day Thursday and tor the most of the night, creating a blockade to the weet yuld not back | were with the trains and ploughs suffered terri- | refused to work | of the trains and ploughs, which preveuted help from | hing them except by slow stages, and up to last progress had been made in clearing the roa ree east or tickets sold for any point furth than Hiverhead and tor no place on the line of the Say Harber branch, pd for two or three days at snow from eight to twelve ee be removed e before a plough can be srest blockade that has occ in ten years, FUNERAL OF o work, It is the ed on the Island DR. NELSON, At St. Poul’s Church, corner of Fourth avenue and ond street, funeral services were held yes, y over the remains of the late Rev. Reuben Nelson, D, D,, treasurer of the Methodist Missionary Society andl senior publisher of the Methodist Book Concern. Tho auditorium was filled with the friends and professional associates of the deceased, Rev. Dr. O. H. Tiffany, pastor of the eburch, conducted the services. A biographical sketch was read by | Bishop Herris, alter which Rev. Dr. Foss offered | prayer, and appropriate Scriptural passages were read by Re been reas and Hunt, Afterahymn had by Rey. Dr. Reid and chanted by the choir uipson delivered a enlogy of the deceased, wler offered the final prayer. ‘The following pallbearers:—Rev. Drs, First Methorlist Episcopal Church, of Kingston, of which the deceased was the founder. EUROPEAN MARKETS, COMBERCTAL, Loxnox, Feb. 22, 1879. lane markets ‘wre dopressed, in s. Plantation Ceylon coffes n sales in the beginning of Nearly all the Minein consequence of large sa further wt. but a reaction A nenrly equal ft y coffee remains dall. The dal THY Diy y offered at the sane time in lizod Domerara sugar dectined 6d. to Is, per e criptions barely maintain former prices. Ww Te steadior by private contract, but at auction to medium Congons were € ‘There has for Indian tea, ri slightly lower, vis still very dull, of ciuriamon will bo offered at auction Lonnon, Feb. 22—5 P. M. Calcutta linseed, 48s. 3d. per quarter. Axtwene, Fob, 22, 1879, American lard closed at 213s florins per 50 kilos. Hayne, American lard closed at 48f. T5e. a 44f. per REMEN, Feb, B 2, American lard closed at 371 marks per 110 Ibs, FINANCIAL, Tho Economist says market are unchan: tuations we securities On the Stock Exchange ue ant, except in Egyptians, Turkish Russian advanced on purchases, a syndicate who intend shortly French five per cents ure ns of their were in dena Loxpox, Feb, 22—5 P. M. Sotgd. per onhi half per cent bonds, 107%; ten- ww Jersey Central console, 88; Reading 89. into the Bank of England on YO. five per cont rentes 111f. 97}gc. forthe 2 Pants, Feb. 22, 1879. Exchange on London, 25f. 26¢, for checks, ee MARRIAGES AND DEATHS, a oe MARRIED. Z On Wednesday evening, Febru- ary 19, 1879, by the Rey. Francis J. Friel, D. D., Jesse G. Be and Lizzir L., daughter of James Mitchell, all of Brooklyn. CHALMERS—W1Lkre.--On Wednesday, February 19, tthe residence of the bride's parents, by the William I. Chalmers, L. WasHiw@TON CHALMERS rita T. WILKIE, KWworTa—Hveart.—On Wednesday at the residence of the bride evening, B. Ducxworr te ter of Dr. Alexande Hh n——-NAVERY. evening, 379, by the Rev. J. Hackspiel, Hiuaax iin to ANNik G. NAUERT, all of ‘this city. —On_ Wednesda; u1eN.—On Wednesday, February 19, 1879, Dr. D, Einhorn, at the residence of the brice’s parents, Emnesr D. Kaun to Miss Hannait “N—Frrzsimmons,—On Tuesday, February 18, 1879, at the residence of the bride's uncle, Sheriff Bernard Reilly, by the Rev. O. J. O’Brien, brother of i . D., to Many E. both of this city Laone.—At Ellenville, Ulster county, by the Rev. B.A. Goodwin, Avausris zd J. GiLMORE, both of Wurtzborough, icDonatp.—On Monday, February 17, at .¥., Joun C. Si eR, Jr., of Nev R. H. McDouaid, of San Francisco, —On Wednesday, February 1 by the Kev, Charles H. Cc to dkwxte T. Rean- ¥y.—On Wednesday, February 1 Tinitage, WILLARD —On Tuesday, February 11, at ~ v Ohureh, by the Kev. M. C. O'Farrell, Jous F, Torres to Maer A, Onvuevs, both ot this city. WrrnnaNpt—CoLpen. Gxeouon Wirpranvy to E DIED. turday, February 22, Jawes J, By Rev. Father McCiure, sR, Conpgent, No cards, Aunury, ag rs. Kelatives and friends of the family are invited t je funeral, trom his late residence, No. 1) .. ou Monday, February 24, at one 2. M. ‘Thursday, 20th, Many Avexaxpen, wile of Charles Alexauder, in her 21st year. Kelatives aud friends are invited to attend the funeral, trom her late residence, 16 Rutgers place, Sd, at two P.M. riday, February 21, Rosk Frances of Captain Arthar Blaney, ag years. *"Puneral from 46 West Washington place, Sunday at two P.M. N Members of the ty invited to attend. Ist inst., at her residence Burien. | in issth st., Many, wife of Edwatd Butler, aged 63 years. Funeral from St, Jerome's Church, East 137th st., this day, at two P. CaRMUDY,—Studi on Friday night, Jasus Pony a nathy in the county Clare, Treland, in the 76¢ The friends of t »se of his brother Michael are re attend the fnneral, this jay) alternoon, at one o'clock, from bis late 49 Beekman st, Jist inst., TimoTHy Coxxons, vish of Doneraile, county Cork, Ire: Sth year of his age. 1 il friends are respectfully invited to at- al, frou his late residence, L nis day (Sunday), at two Up New — Itochelle, Hyxay CooK, 8) from his late residen: : Astoria, February 21, Josnen 8 CraNrinin, aged 68 years, Friends of the fatuily are invited to attend his fu. neral, on Tuesday, 2th inst., at two o'clock, from his on dd av, On Friday, dnly daughter ‘ot Thomas rs. ‘bruary 21, of pneumonia, ry sidence of hor parents, 808 D., Sunday at two o'clock, sbruary 1%, of membranous croup, MACd KaTHkRENK, twin daughter of dames K, aud Kato G, Doblys, aged 4 years and 10 months, Doxiwerox.—On Friday, February 21, apex Dox- INGTON, aged 79, Funcral from 716 7th ay., Mouday, February 24, at ton A. M, Fay.—Lebroary 2, Euuex, the beloved wife of Michael Fay, Faneral on Sunday, 284, from o'clock. Rela nid friends, Grand st, Brooklyn, F Donws, At Albany, 1 27 Cannon st., two e invited to attend, FLRMING.—Ou February 21, 1879 Ava, eldest ehiid of Johu C. and Allie Fleming, aged’ 10 years, 10 months and ly days. Kolatives and friends are respectfully invited to at- tond the fineral, from the residence of her parents, 284 South dd xt, at one P.M iy, Bhd inst, Frowrny.—Snddenty, on Pebrnary 2, Winntst UeLcrn, only son of William 1, and the late Mary Bima Flowery, aged § yea 4 aye, Puneral services will be held at the residence of his father, N i Post tuith st, on Sunday afternoon, the Bd inst., at four o'clock, . TisbErrs to | neral order was issued that no freight be | ‘This road is so badly blockaded | by the shovel | At East New York, L. L. on the 20th inst., Many, widow of the late William Hart, Sr., in the 95th year of her age. Jatives and triends are invited to attend the fu- neral, this (Sunc afternoon, at three o'clock, from the residence of her son, Gr ‘'T. Hart, Fulton ay., st of Buth Jasms Hawes, arot his age; a the parish idge, county Car- a. The relatives and friends of the family are respect. fully invited to attend his funeral, from his late re idence, 416 West 20th st, on Monday, Februggy 24, at one o'clock P. M, Havuuy.—Suddenly, February 18, inst., James Hazery. His funeral will take place from Mr. Veach’ ner Downing and Bedford sts., Sunday, the eight A, M. His remeins will be interred in Mount melery, Philadelphia, Pa. —On February 20, Many Haan, in the 45th year ot her Helatives invited toa M., trom hi it cor- St age. aud friends of the family are respectfully nd her funeral, this Sunday, at one PB, lute residence, 510 West sath st, . uuddenly, at away, N, J.,on Friday, Feb- Joux J, Hiow, in the 50th year of his age. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to at- tend the funeral, on ‘nesday, February 25, at two o'clock P. M., from First Presbyterian Church, es will meet twelve o’clock train from New Inwry.—On Friday, February 21, CarHanrve Inwrs, wite of Thomas Irwin, in the 624 year of her age. Relatives and frientls are respectfully invited to attend her funeral, on Sund l_ inst.) afternoon, at two o'clock, from her residence, 51 Chambers st. Josrs,—Memorial services by the Sabbath school of the Twenty-fourth Street Metnodist Episcopal Church, near 9th ay.,in memory of EpNA ZELMA, danghter of E. W.and Mary M. Jones, on Sunday, Febru , 1879, at halt-past two P. M. Relatives, friends and members of the congregation are invited, epy.—On February 21, Epwanp J. KENNEDY, after a long illness, in the 33d year of his age. Funeral from his late residence, 46 Oliver st., on Sunday, February 2 KING.—On the mornit of John King, ay Funeral will take plac Ler! rs. trom her late residence, 106 y st., Sunday, at two P.M. Kounxa.—On February 20, Joserpm Kouner, in the 50th year ot his age. Relatives and friends of the famfly, Congregation Ahawath Chesed and Zion Lodge, No. 2, LO. B. B., are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from his late residence, No, 30 East 75th st.,on Sunday, 23d inst., at half-past nine A. M. pREY.—In Brooklyn, on Saturday, February 22, atter a short illness, ELiza Correy, widow of nt Laverey, of the parish of Milltown, county of Westmeath, lreland. The tuneral will take place from the residence of her nicces, 304 Myrtle ay., Brooklyn, on Monday morning next, at nine o'clock, and from thence to the Church of the Sacred Heart, where a solemn re- quiem mass will be offered for the repose of her soul. The remains will be interred in the Cemetery of the Holy Cross, Flatbush. Relatives and friends are in- vited to attend, Hartford, Philadelphia, Dublin and Westmeath (Ireland) papers please copy. LAwies.—On Friday, February 21, after a short ill- ness, Harner, beloved wife of Peter Lawler, aged 2) years. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from her late residence, 112 West 16th st., on Sunday, the 23d, at one o’clock P, M. Lvptow.—In New York city, February 22, of pneu- monia, Mr. Davip P. Lupiow, son of the late James H. and Mary A. Ludlow. Funeral services at St. Ann’s Church, on the Heights, corner of Clinton and Livingston sts., on Monday, the 24th inst., at three o’clock P. M. m Saturday, February 22, after a short SEPH MAnriy, in his 92d year. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the fu- neral, trom the Alanson Methodist Episcopal Church, Norfolk st., between Broome and Grand sts., at half- past one P, M., on Tuesday, February 25, MeTzork.—Cagnik, youngest child of Samuel and Fanny Metzger, aged'd years, 8 months and 4 day: MoCanrry. solemn high mass (month's mind) for the repose of the soul of the late MicHart MeCanry will be celebrated at the Church of the Holy Cross, 42d st., between 8th and 9th avs., on ‘Thursday, the 2ith inst., at hatf-past nine A. M. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to at tend. McGnaru.—Friday, February 21, of pneumonia, ‘Thomas J. McGrars, aged 33, Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend his funeral, trom his late residence, 87 Henry st., this day (Sunday), at two P. M. sharp. McGume. bruary 21, CHARLES McGure, son of Margery and Francis McGuire, a native of the comuty Tyrone, Armayh, Ireland, aged 39 years. The relatives and triends are respectfully invited to attend the tuneral, from his late residence, No. 203 Ewen st., Brooklyn, E. D.,on Monday, at two o'clock, 3 suon,—Suddenly, Prrer Mc! iON, aged 42 years. Funeral will take place from his late residence, % Ridge st., Sunday, Febraary 23, at two o'clock. MeMickty,—February 21, 1879, at half-past two P, M., Davrip MeMicats, in the 61st year of his age. Funeral Monday, the 24th inst, at three o'clock, from his late residence, No. 2 Poplar st., Brooklyn. O'SuLrivaN.—On Friday, February 21, Caran the beloved wife of Mortimer O'Sullivan, aged years. ‘The funeral will take place from her late residenc: Weehawken st., West Hoboken, on Sunday, the 23 inst., at two P. M. PunceL..—February 22, Erizabetu Percent, at the residence of her brother Edward, 431 West 57th st. Requiem mass, Monday, 24th inst., at half-past ten o'clock, at Church of the Paulist Fathers, 60th st., near 9th av. Funeral from thence to Calvary Ceme- tery. Ross.—On Saturday, February 22, Sanau E., wife of John Ross, in the 38th year of her age. Funeral from her late residence, 167 Broadway, Brooklyn, E. D., Monday, February 24, one P. M. Scotch papers will please copy, Secor Mary 3., beloved wite of John R. Scott and danyhter of the late Jacob and Mary Birdsall, aged 43 years. Funeral Monday, half-past ten o'clock, from 245 West 20th st, Relatives and friends are invited to —On Thursday, February 20, ELLEN Scutty, er, aged Ss'years; born’ in Mountfede, Queens county, Ireland. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to at- tend the funcral, from her late residence, 238 East hb on Sunday, Febrarary 23, at two o'clock. Satru.—On Thursday, February 20, Tuomas EB. Sarrut, aged 33 years. Relatives and friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from his late residence, 20 Vest on Sunday morning, 23d inst., at t clock; trom theuce to St. Authony’s Church, whore a solemn mass of requiem will be celebrated for the repose of his soul, Interment in Calvary New York Young Men's fatioun ure hereby Roman Catholic Beney notified to meet at No, 20 Vestry st.. on Sunday morning, 23d inst., at half-past nim attend the funeral of our deceased brother, By order of P, H. STRALN, President, . oT , Financial Secretary, The members of Tammany Hall Democratic Re- publican General Committee of the First Assembly district are hereby requested to attend the funeral of their late associate and fellow member, Thomas E. Smith, on this (Sunday) morning, at hi k, from the residence of the dece y st. DENIS KEENAN, Chairman General Cx SyrTH.—Jonx SurrH, of the county of Cavan, Iro- land, in the 63d year of his age. ‘Thy relatives and friends are respectfully invited attend the funeral, from his late residence, No. Fast 2ith st., New Yorkeity, om Monday, Febru- in the 39h to February 20, Epwanp W. Sranpisn. nid friends are respectfully invited wueral, trom 219 Madison st., on Sua- lay, F ‘y 23, at ono P.M. Sreanns.—Of heart disease, on the 21st inst., in his Bist year, CHARLES, only sou of Charles S. and Mary Stearns. Services Sunday, 231, at three P. M., at St. Mark’ ay. and 10th st. February 2, Gronce I, Anse Foray, wife of residence, 212 Madison okiyn, Tuesday evening, February 25, soven Funeral on Siunday, at a quarter to one P. M., from the Church of the Holy Communion, 6th ay, and ‘20th st. ‘Tuowso New Yor«e Catnpostas Cuce.—On tho ALEXANDER C, THOMSON, aged 45 ; services at the Caledonian Club House, 113 ninday) afternoon, at hulf-past nent at Yonkers, on Monday CHAS, G. NICHOLSON, Chief. ERTSON, Corresponding Necrets a At Hudson, on Friday, Februar, A. Tinnrrs, in the S0th year of his age. Relatives and triends’ are respeettully invited to at L. D. » Foun tend his funeral, on Sunday, 2d, at three P. M., from his late rest Waldron House, Hudson, N.Y. Van Nante.—Ou Friday, February 21, Weta Vax Name, in his 64th year. es and friends are respectfully invited to aneral, trom the residence of his son-in« ¢ Bissell, sD intoa st., Brooklyn, om MI. a7 ; February 28, at two P. we ‘The members of Globe Lodge, No. 588, FP. and A. M.y. are summoned for special meeting at Clinton I Masonic Temple i . at tw to attend the tun ar ther, Wm, Veo Naine, Masonic bretliren are invite’. P,P. MARSH, Master, ‘Tuomas Sr aM, Secretary. Wasson.—In Brooklyn, on Saturday, Februa 5 1879, at the of bis sister, ALBXANDEY Wasson, in the 20th year of his age. Relatives and friends sre respectfully invited to ate tend the fune t his lute residence, 42 Sands st., on Monday lock. Friday morning, February 4 od West 48th st. Jacos Ay TRAVEL, in ais SUth year, irieuds are invited to attend his South Reformed Church, 5th av, ot Monday morning, the 2th’ inet. at In compliance with the wish of the des ceased, it is kindly requested that uo flowers be seiite.