The New York Herald Newspaper, February 24, 1879, Page 9

NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1879.-TRIPLE SHEET. TENEMENT HOUSES Clergymen and Philanthropists Proclatm the Evils of the System. MORAL AND SOCIAL MALARIA Twenty-one Thouserd Badly Ventilated and Qvercrowded Rookeries in the City. VICE, POISON AND DEATH. The clergy of this city, representing different ro- ligious bodies, met a few days ago to discuss the moraland domestic aspects of the tenement house system. At that meeting facts so startliug, the re- ‘sult of personal investigation, in relation to the sub- ject were preseniéd by gentlemen deeply interested in it that it was unanimously resolved that the clergy of New York be invited to point out the special angers and evils of the present tencment sys- tem to their congregations on the fourth Sunday of thecurrent month. Accordingly in many of the churches yesterday sermons, or, more properly speaking, addresses, were delivered, the points of which are given below. Inevery instance the attend- auce was large, and the interest manifested in the subject very great. . Statistics obtained by thorough investigation of the system were presented, and Christians were besought to do scmething more than pray and bestow charity for the amelioration of the poor. Those who spoke, it will be seen, regarded tlie present tenement system as one of the greatest curses of society. THE CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES, At the Church of the Disciples this was tne topic of Mr. Hepworth’s discourse yesterday morning. The text selected was from I. Corinthians. xv.,3— “Evil communications corrupt good manners,” a introductory part of the sermon was devoted to en elaboration of the statement that modern thought- fulness had recognized in a very emphatic way man’s general dependence on his surroundings, and that upon those whose surroundings were incentives and encouragements to aspiration a twofold duty rested—first, to use them for the higher educa- tion and disciplino of the soul; second, to use all possible measures to lessen the discouragements of those who were suffering from ill fortune, Those whose surgpundings were discouraging had a right to look with lifted eye to the more favored people of the community for succor and help. Every man in the community had a right to be able to live a righteous life, to demand of his fellows that tho temptations which overcrowd, overwhelm and op- press him shall be removed ‘by them, if it lies within their power to do so. Mr. Hep- worth then showed the operation of law in the development of physical and intellec- tual nature, and said that the samo law was operative in the development of our spiritual nature. If evil began in the cradle, ho said, we might take the infant out of the cradle into our loving arms and save it, But the stupendous fact, and the most awful fact connected with human life, was the law of hereditary transmission, It was a dark problem that children were born tainted, and that children were not only irrepressibly but irre- sistibly tainted. Add to the fuct that the child was born of a father and mother whose moral natures were dull the other fact that he is cradied in im- morality, that he is surrounded not by incentives but by discouragements; drunkenness knocks at his door every night, and that wickedness sits by his side to teach him vile lessons every day—what are you to expect, looking at. these natural Jaws, as to that boy’s future? It is almost a matter of cause and effect that instead of climbing up he will fall down. ‘There is an unexplored region in this city whero the voice of God is not heard, except when it flutters around in profanity, where the inhabitants know nothing of morality or the influences of the Christian religion. If there is a malaria of a moral character in this city we know that it exists, and wo know that there is a remedy for it at hand. *AmInot right in saying that the responsibility of any conseqnences that may result does not rest with those who are breathing the malaria, but rather on those who are living on the mountain tops and congratulating themselves they are free from harm, STARTLING AND SUGGESTIVE FACTS, ‘This subject has come up of late and has ap in a very emphatic way. A few days ago an invita tion was sent to some of us to mect a gentleman well known for his philanthropy, that we might take counsel together concerning the evils of what is called the tenement house system. We met in ac- cordance with the invitation, end some of the facts that were disclosed were startling to the last degree and exceedingly suggestive. Let me give you some of them.. in the city of New York to-day there is something over one miilion inhabitants, Of that number 500,000 (one-half) live in tenement houses. I do not mean hotels or apartment houses, but what are commonly known as tenement houses. People live there ‘who have 4s good a right to vote as you, who have more political influence because of their greater ectivity, who in any politicai excitement constitute the bal- nee of power, and who settle the destinies of the nation for the time, In the Seventeenth ward there is an average of 305 individuals to the acre, In the Eleventh there are 326 persons to the acre, and in some blocks in that ward there sre 750 persons to the were, Last year there were in this city 21,000 deaths, twenty-five per cont more, in proportion, than in Philadelphia where there are iter Lomes and houses for the poor. Twenty-five per cont more deaths in New York attributable to way in which people are housed is a startling and an awful fact. Phy 8 tell us that there are twenty-cight cases of sickness to overy death; and if these figures are correct then in this year (1874) three-fourths of the inhabitants of New York, at some time or other, were sick, Twenty-seven thou- sand of these pérsons died, and twenty-tive per cent ot those who died might have been saved if they had not lived in tenement houses. These are awfni facts. I get my figures from the best authorities. Of those who died last year sevouty per cent died under the roofs of tenement houses, and a large proportion of them died from causes that were attributable simply to the fact that the Christian community of this city does not take care of its poo. Now, friends, the moral side of this question is intensely awful. It is a well known and conceded fact that from this class of gronie come nearly allour criminals, Such surroundings as those I have described are hotbeds ofcrime. Mr, Arnold tells me that ae has been into what is called dwelling places where it wes impos- sible for the father or mother or children to get out into the street except at low tide. At high tide the floor was covered with water, filth and vileness from the neighboring dwellings, forced there by the pres- sure of the Atlantic. The inmates were er to et on chairs and tables until the tide went down. fie is a wonderful story to tell, but it is true never- theless. CHALK LINE LIMITS, He tells me further that he has visited a room, per- haps fifteen or sixteen feet square, in Which four families wore living aud that the boundaries of each family were made by 4 chalk line. The room was chalked off into tour Cee No oa a Ute tea, no seclusion, no any thing that was good; everythin, that was vile and eretche . Four families Th one room by night and by day! Do you wonder that a boy bronght u that way by @ father that kicks hin into the ‘reste in the morning and kicks bim into bed when he comes home robs a lady in Fifth avenue in broad daylight? Do you wonder thata girl brought up in this social communism, her eyes looking upon indecency ali the time, her cars listening to ob- ecenity all the time, goes to the bal? Do you wonder that I have denominated such surroundings as these us hotbeds of crime? The remedy for this evil is not to be found in any charitable organization on the Continent. Moré than that, brethren, there, is very little use in preaching religion to such people; there is very little use in giving a tract to a sufferin You must first give him: surroundings that shall be an incentive to goodness. Give him honorable work to do and honorable wages for doing it. Then if he falls it is be own fault, Something should be done by Wise men of jw York to change the whole character of this style of houses. Practical Christianity knows how to do it. Every man has a right to @ home, however humble it may be. You now what body ou know what Miss Hillyard has dove in London. She has spent some years among this class of people. She says that she has taken persons from the moral fiith of the worst class of tenemont houses aud put them into healthy homes, where they © boon surrounded with in- centives to encouragement in well-doing, to cleanti- ness and refinement, and she has found the com- Ween of their habits change entirely. Mr. hite, over in Brooklyn, has it ‘blocks of houses in such a hion that they are thoroughly ventilated—uo room in which the light cannot find its way; | open windows, and open ventilators, ‘They been filled up as fast ua they could be built, The moral tone of the ped ple living there has been imereased., Every man a8 his own rooms to himself; it is not on sO but itisa home. More than all this be tetls us that the investinents pay #i% per cont and a very largo sum of eay has been put into thé enterprire, Excuse mo if 1 say @ bitter word ‘Lot mo say it, and to our shame be it said. There are church members in New York, as I understand, who own some of the worst tenement bouses and who let them to be under-let for the most infamous of purposes, simply because they twelve per cent. Let Christian eople be satisfied with an honest six per cent, rather han the infamous twelve per cent. If it should so come, afte? the various sermons on this subject have been preached, that the rich men of New York shonid recognize this as a matter of self-protection as well as a matter of Chi n charity, that they will invest some of their large capital In rearing homes for the poor what a and glorious work will be done, GRACE CHURCH, Iu Grace Church Rey. Dr. H. C. Potter read a state- ment which had been prepared by a committec of the State Charities’ Aid Association, of which Dr. Richard H. Derby is chairman, showing the fright- ful condition of the homes of the poor in the me- tropolis and the relations of the present tenement house system to vice, crime and poverty, ‘Now, then, what is atencment house? The law defines tt ‘a house occupied by more than three families living independently and doing their cooking on the premises,’ This definition would, of course, include what are known as apartment houses. But a tene_ ment house is a very different thing frgm an apart- ment house. Ordinarily it is from four to six stories high, having frequently a store on the first floor, which, when used (as is often the case) as a liquor store, has an entrance from the hailway, so that it | can evade the Sunday law and give secret access to the inmates of the tenement at all times. Four families occupy each floor and s set of rooms consists of one or two dark closets, used as bedrooms, an¢ a living room twice as long as one of these pens and ten fect wido. The staircase is gener- ally dark and the rooms almost entirely without ventilation. This would be a serious evil if they were used for storing hides or tobacco, but the ex- tent of that evil becomes apparent when we remem- ber that into some of these houses, occupying a lot 25 by one 100 feet, there are often crowded together from 90 to 180 souls.. From four to nine persons occupy an apartment, consist- ing ordinarily of two rooms. One is used as @ living room, and the other as a cook- ing room," in which washing is also done. Among the many people in these tenements there can be no such thing as privacy. If of a godly turn of mind there would be no moment’n all the day when they would be secure for the briefest space for retirement aud devotion. Their life must be passed in tho presence of others, Think of the tor- ture to “a young Fate maidenly sensitiveness, we whose lives are hedged about with every circum- stance that fosters such sentiments! How long wiil this state of affairs exist as to modesty when all the conditions systematically conspire to destroy them? ‘Lhe classes who live in tenement houses too soon and too often pass out ot the fellowship of those with whom purity and morality are possible things. ‘The good peopie living in the tenement houses have survived a moral martyrdom greuter than those of the martyrs of old, ‘THE INCONVENIENCES OF SUCH A LIFE, “Then to this want of privacy you must add to the inevitable evils that come from overcrowded, ill- ventilated, viciously arranged apartments, those others thatcome from intemperance and crime and nezlect, To eat and sleep and wallow in the filth in which they had been born and nurtured was all that they have of life. And when they grow up what has the community to hope, or rather what has it not to fear from them? It has been truly said by Edward Cropsey in the ‘Nether Side of Life’ that the home is the last analysis of the State, and it is not strange that the civic virtues decay in a community where, in any true sense of the word, one-half of the people have no home at all. “Why do I spoak of these things in this place and on this day? Doubtless the condition ot those who live in tenements is wretched enough, and the future of acity which endures them is gloomy enough, but such questions are philanthropic rather than re- Ugious. But religion exists in this world to show us how in this world to get ready for another, One of the most infamous tenement houses in New York ‘was ouce achurch, and passed from its sacred uses to those which now make ita blight and curse upon the co As to the best method of grappling wi the poor this is not the place to speak, The problem is itself @ large one, and no one solution will fit every emergency and oyercome all obstacles. PLANS FOR IMPROVEMENT, “I must confess my sympathy with Miss Octavia Hill's plan, aided by Ruskin’s. They built in London a row of tenement houses of an inferior character, and gradually vefofmed and improved them by mvok- ing from the stért the sympathy und co-operation of the inmates. No old housés, defective in constru: tion and arrangement, can’ be made as wholesome and convenient as those built to-day with special ref- erence to light and ventilation and drainage and the avoidance of overcrowding. But no house, however adinirable its construction, will benetit its inmates until they have been taught to live init, Thatis good work done by the kindergarten of tho Olivet Chapel, where the children of the poor are given ob- ject lessons in those domestic duties which have ae to do with the comforts of the home. ‘Then, agin, Misa Carson's work is ono prompted by the spirit of God to ci able the poor to cook cheaply and palatably. But whatever methods we may employ to lift up our fallen brother perishiig by the way, may Goa give Us pationce and courage and hope. | ‘Tho men servants maid servants are of the brothers and sisters of the men and wowen and children in some crowded tenement. Your maid may huve brought the fever which affects your child trom the fever-tossed ¢hild at her mother’s home. Idare not undertake to say in just which way you best may accomplish all the results intended for the amelioration of the condi- tion, but ask God to show you the way, and when He has inake haste to follow it.” CHURCH OF THE COVENANT. While discoursing on the “Homes of the New York Poor,” at the Church of the Covenant, corner of Park avenue and Thirty-fifth street, Rev, Dr. Vincent: said:—Becanse men discover that pestilence is the result of ignorance, it 18 not necessary that they should jump to atheism. Religion must reit- erate and emphasize the truth that nature's laws are God's laws or she will fail in her work. The church has done much in this city toward laying the truths of the Gospel before the tene- ‘ment house population by the establish- ment of city missions and the dissemina- tion of tracts, and we must say that the result is pitiable as compared with the outlay. The ignorant and degraded classes of which we are speak- tng are not amenable to the influence of the Bible. Their nature is so perverted by the filth and squallor in which they live that they are not susceptible of moral or religious influences. Among the forces whieh assist in making manhood and womannood, the home is the most important. A mon who feols that his home is a sweet home can scarcely fail to be ppy, but a man who finds his home a den of in- y and dirt becomes vindictive and bitterly assails society for the condition in which he lives. SUNLIGHT AND VENTILATION. The only agencies through which the New York poor can be saved are pure air and sunlight. Nearly haif the population of the city live in tenement houses, Although it is only forty years since the beg Reig a RN ore on 0 Fg yhove, sous in the metropolis AY. ough ti it Health have prescribed ulations in oe to tho sanitary constraction of these houses, they are, as a rule, erected with a total disregard to the ad- mission of light and ventilation. A pby- sician visited one of the six story tenement houses and found therein thirty-two rooms which received their air from other rooms, The halla of most of these five and six story tenements are dark, nauseating and unventilated. Aud what ghall be said of such dens as are to be found in the Ragpickers’ row or Battle alley, the abode of th organ finda, ragpicker and sneak thief, why men and women herd together like animais; dens whieh, to use tho language of another, only a tornaio could ventilate and a second deluge scour out. In the most densely populated portion of London there are not more than 115,000 peopie to the syuare mile, while in parts of the Fourch ward of this city t here ere 290,000 to the square mile, In this terrible state of aifairs the little ones suffer most, it having been estimated that ninety per cont of the children born in tenement houses die before reaching youth. Herod, even in his rage would, I believe, have shrunk from slaughter like this. ONK CAUSK FOR COMMUNISM, The communistic mutterings which reach us now and thea come up from this tenement houve popita- tion, and if we do not bestir ourselves to find a rem- edy tor the existing evils I fear that wo will find out some day, in a way neither agreeable nor safe, what those tenement house people are. The remedy is Christianity, but it must foond building associa- tions as well as churches; it iuust find better homes for the poor. It work tor mon sense men snd women to undertake here, iu other cities. Capital must be content with smaller returns for its outlay, and not sacrifice the and bodies of the poor while reaping large re- turns, In Glasgow and Edinburgh, where tie condi- tion of the poor has been ameliorated in this respect, crime has decreased pag hen por cent. The ques- tion remains with the ©! pot) crate aif teed ot this cit a this horrible state of things to exist in our CHURCH OF THE DIVINE PATERNITY, Rev. Dr, Chapin in the Chiirch of the Divine Paternity referred to the earnest and combined efforts now being made to improve the tenement house system, The preacher’s text .was from Psalms, ixxiv., 20—" Have respect unto the cove- nant, for the dark places of the carth are full of the habitations of cruelty.” “Over one hundred and twonty-five thousand people in this city know no other home than the tenement house, and in its vile, twheolthy atmosphere their lives are spent, Often the abode of disease, intemperance and crime. ‘We are shovked at times at the mortality among children in these dens, but it is a groater wouder vil which exists in the present houses of. how infantile life can exist there at all. Look into one of these houses, and there you will see many sad histories and cruel iagedion unfolded, Here is a poor woman at the ide of her dying child, aud nothing buta thin board partition divides her in her lonely watch from a room in which some drunken brute is beating his wife.” The immorality of the tenement house the preacher dwelt upon with unsparing soneriiz. “It is the natural outcome of overcrowding and Alth,” said he. “‘Happy and healthiul family life under such cireumstauces bo- comes an impossibility. A large number of fam ilies crowded into an illy-constructed house cannot fail to breed moral and physical contagion. “If builders and property holders were even to con- sult their own interests they would find it far more profitable in the end to provide better accommoda- tions for their tenants, Tt is high time that a check should be placed to the monstrous evils of this un- natural tenement house system. They have grown , to such dimensions that nothing short of vigorous, uncompromising action can remove this foul stain trom the metropolis. When the loathsome secrets of these charnel houses are exposed to view public indignation cannot fail to strike landlora and agent with dismay and bring around a reform. are fruitful nurseries of crime, and supply our prisons and reformatories with the bulk of thetr inmates, Every one is interested in the abdtement of such nuisances and in the securing to our working popu- lation of decent houses, where health and not disease may prevail.” WAINWRIGHT MEMORIAL CHURCH, “A Terrible Tenement House Story” was the sub- ject of a sermon by the Rev. John W. Kramer in the Wainwright Memorial Church, corner of West Eleventh street and Waverley place. The preacher regarded the tenement system as a festering sore eating into the vitals of our society. If but one tenement house were in existence— the first that was erected forty years ago—it would be agross wrong, but not the gigantic evil to which ithas grown. In ten years $52,000,000, he said, had been invested in tenement property. The subject invited us into neighborhoods of filth and squalor, and the tenement house told its own story. “Iam a modern edifice and institution,” it said, “though Tlook old and dirty and am filled with foul air and the germs of disease. Iam venerable because of my premature birth; but I have maile lots of money for my owner and have helped to make my agent rich. My origin was in greed and cunning. Thin walls, poor timbers and the smallest possible total cost were the means by which cunning took the extliest profits from me, and unskilled and lazy me- chanics account for my sickly, rickety condition now. No architect stood sponsor for me at my birth, I made no pretence to such high connections, Au inspector from the Department of Buildings camo to see me and drank my heaith with the contractor, Next came the insurance agent, who likewise took my sponsor's hand and drank success to me in my mission. My one charge wes to make money for my owner, and I have made plenty of it, When I was scarce a week old twenty tumilies wero crowded within me, and many haye come and gone since then. Some ejected, with their miserable look- ing, broken furniture thrown upon the sidewalk, while orying children listened to the protanity of drunken pirents, Then the people I have seen die in me and carried out in cheap coftins! A SAD SCENE, “I remember one hot night in July when foul smells filed every room and the heat was almost ntense enough to burst my fragile walls, Most of the inmates had "sought remnge on the roof, and there drinking, ‘dancing and carousing were being carried on, In one of the rooms a young wife lay ill and about to be- come a mother. Down in the cellar the oid lead pipes that had done service before were emitting a foul odor, decayed refuse was adding to the fuel and the basin trap was leaking so that a deally flow of sewer gas was coming fromit. Oh, the contractor made money on ie, but he killed my ‘pet that night while there was riot on that housetop and sin in its hullways. ‘That night the we wife ie &@ mother, Daylight came an she was poisoned, but no one knew of it. Tho owner was at his country seat; the contractor had gone down to the seaside to visit his family and the agent had bat just returned trom an excursion to collect bis rents; but none of them knew of the poor one who was dying, just when she most desired to live. Dead and killed, Mr, Owner, by your greed; killed, Mr. Contractor, by your cunning, when, to make money, you used unfit materials; killed, Mr. Agent, when you enticed away proper inspection; killed by you, my leaders and-gentiemen ot our repubiican Commonwealth, for not making laws which would prohibit such a state of things. But this is not allI have done. I have made drunkards and beggars and criminals and har- lots. I contain a multitude of infants, many of whom sicken und die, while the puny ones who sur- vive do #o to become but orphans and paupers.”” ‘Such, continued the reverend gentleman, was the story the tenement house seemed to tell me, and it ‘was an average one. All hail tothe philanthropic men and pure ana brave women.who shall look into them and say that the outrage must stop! MADISON SQUARE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. At the Madison Square Presbyterian Church in the evening a largely attended meeting was held, presided over by the pastor of the church, Rey. Dr. Tucker, On the platform were Mr. Pellew, Dr. Derby, Mr. Brace, Dr. Harrie, Dr. Roose and Dr. Potter. Dr. Tucker made some preliminary remarks on the importance of the question. In the various philan- thropic efforts toward accomplishing different pur- poses they had now reached the tenement house problem. This was not an attack on property owners, who suffered no doubt as much as others from the depreciation of real estate, but was a step toward securing improved homes for the working classes. It was sought to train and tench the people correct habits of daily Ifo, agd thus to reach homes by patient philanthropic work. It was not s religions movement, but an effort to ele- vate the dwellers in tenement houses by improving their homes. Mr. Pellew was then introdnced, and he gave some facts showing the terrible condition of the “system” as it now existed. The children under five years of age who lived in the tenement houses were esti- mated at 125,000, The mortality among them was frightful—12,410, or forty-six per cent of the whole number of desths, and nearly ten per cent of the children of the city! Within the last ten years 7,041 tenement houses were erected, and during last year 358 were pyt up. To recognize the evil was to effert half the cure. Tho magnitude of .the work of amelioration was sufticient in itself to suggest several ways by which to reach the evil. There was discontent among the tenement house population, and thera was always danger wherever there was discontent. As @ layman, he thanked the clergy for coming to this work and secking to abate the evil. MISERY AND SQUALLOR, Dr. Derby spoke next and gave an acconnt of visits of the health inspectors to some tenement houses, some of the houses being visited by himself. In one of these, although it was daylight, it was impossi- ble to see in the four middle rooms without the light of a lamp. In another, a five-sto tenement, there were thirty-two rooms whic received no daylight. In this house there were fitty- one children, only twenty-two of whom went to school. In another house, 10x14}s feet, utterly with- out furniture women were f and at night, in} the same room, there were six men and fiye women seen. This dive was kept by & young man who charged five eents for night’ lodging, and = sokt stalo beer at two cents a pint. In another room were two Italians and three women, and overhead on aloft were ten setices, for which a charge of ten couts each nightly was made. In the same build- ing a .widow and six children resided. In, only four rooms in the entire house wos there anything like family organiza tion, and there were seventy-two. persons in the house. TM another teneraent house of the same class, 10x16, occnpicd by ragpickers, there was orim- inal neglect of the entire building, and in every part of the house there was an utter abandonment of the devencies ot lite. After giving some further instances of visits to tenements the speaker said thet it was surely a right to blot out such scenes as these, to be witnossed daily and nightly in these places. * Mr. Charles L. Brace spoke of the tame of New York for its wealth, commerce and culture, but the city was more famous still for its crime and misery. ‘There was no cause so fruitfal of crime as thos condition of the tenement houses, It could scarcely be understood bow young girls grew up in purity and honesty amid such surroundings, but still they were saved wondertully. Co-operative or loan societies had done but little good in furthering the improvement of workingmen's dwellings, for the workingwen themeelves had not put these socie- ties in motion #nd worked them. The Building and Loan. Ng of Philadelphia had accomplished muc but then Philadelphia was more favorably situat than New York. In the Fourth, Sixth and Seveuth wards thore were 12,000 people unable to read. It was urged that with the aid of rapid transit much would be done, and yet it was said that experience hed shown in Bugland that working: men after their day’s work could not endure for any length of time the motion and the noise of the cara, Single houses for euch moen’s family ought te succeed. In the lower wards af the city improved dwelling houses, on the plan of Mr. White's in Brooklyn, could not fail to e@ accept- able, in London old houses hi been made to do service, when the system was supported by logisiation. We wanted public opinion to sus tuin this movement, There was no autocracy like democragy when iu earnest, aud once the opinion of the public went out in favor of legislative action on this tenement house question then we should havo the power to work practically. Dr, Harris was next introduced, He repeated the figures given by some of the other akers, com- menting‘on them, and went on to say that thirty-five ‘cars ago there were 80,000 people living in tenement fronves in this city, and, under Matsell, th zetce then made an inspection of all these dwelling:. Since that time the tenement honse system has beon growing and developing. For fitteen years it in- crensed wonderfully, because during these years the immigration to this city was at its highest. Now, we have to deal with half the population of the city tau old stove, five men and four nod one room during the day, and | ip dealing with this question of improving the Wellings of the working classes. it was of vital importance to remember that from these tene- ment houses’ went forth a terrible record of crime and pauperisin, A little reflection about the matter would easily ‘copyince even the most inex- | perienced that we could scarcely, under the cireum- stances, expect it to be otherwise. . Dr. Harris then spoke of the social life of the eity and the serious aspect of the tenement house problem. . After some remarks from Dr. Roose and the Rev. Dr. Potter, the chairman announced that a public meeting would be held in Cooper Institute uext Thursday evening in furtherance Of the movement, at which the Mayor would preside. The mecting closed with benedietion by Key, Dr. Potter, ANTHON MEMORIAL CHURCH, Thé Rev. Dr. R. H. Newton presided at the meeting held at the Anthon’ Memorial Church, Forty-eighth street and Sixth avenne. There was a large gathering of ladies and gentlemen to listen to the ad- dresses. Dr. Newton, in calling attention to the cause of the meeting, described at lengih the termble condition of the tenement houses throughout thecity and read extraets descriptive story structure contained 92 persons, of whom 19 were ales, 22 females and 51 children, In another had been found , 182 persons, of whom 122 were males, 37 females and 33 children, This discouraging manner of life saps the health and the morals of the people aud fosters vice and crime. It is the duty of the Chris- tian community to consider the gravity of this ques- tion. There should be an earnest effort made to im- wove these structures aud to better the con- ition of the thousands who live in them. Other large cities “have grappled with the evit and done much toward au improvement, Better house may be made, Possibly the rapid transit travel muy draw off to the country muny who do not live in this way. Possibly the churches may build large houses to accommodate the poor in their districts, and In this and other ways the philanthropic purposes now in view by the Christian community be brought about. OTHER SPPECHES. Dr. Stephen Smith, formerly of the Board of Health of New York, next addressed the large gath- ering. He said that the tenement house system is a digouse of many complications, aud it required « peculiar treatment, The Legislature, the municipal government, the Board of Health, the men of wealth, the railroads, the wealthy corporations and the Christian pecple can all do their share toward the ond in view. Superior, however, to these agencies was the work that woman can do, both in an individ- ual and organized capacity. One-hult the deaths of the city are of children under five years of age. Since 1572 the deaths in New York have been 32,617, at whom 16,188 were under five years. ‘The mor- tailty is not the sum total of thedamage. Where there is one death there are seventy-five cases of sickness. No alarm seems to be caused by the great number of children that annually die in onr midst. The indifference long manifested in this particular is not very'creditable. ‘This waste of lifo reventable. Foul air diseases kill one-halt the children. The spring and summer months mark the deaths of two-thirds of thechildren. July and August are the most fatal months, one-half the entire number dying at this period of the year, ‘he hest, bad food and filth are agencies that brittg about the great mortality of the young. On the floors, on the walls, in the and in the clothes of the poor in tenement houses are the germs of disease. Vermin abound — every- where. Some may be harmless, but many are poisonous, he vegetables they buy are stule, the meat’ they procure unwholesome, and neither are properly ‘cooked. The children never bathe, and they never can be found in our parks. If the poor children could be taken to Central Park two or three times a week during the pleasant months a great good would be accomplished. ‘The tencment houses can be improved. Lime and carbolic acid will cleanse dirty walls, the floors can be dry scrubbed, food can be properly cooked and ventilition made better. The Board of Health can give relief in some cases, but the domestic relations of home are beyond its power to improve. This can alone be done by garnest effort onthe part of our Christian women. The field is vast. There might be a Central Ladies’ Sanitary As- sociation, with branches in every church in the city. Each church might have its own di let to look after and there might be a sanitary Sunday regulany sect apart when discourses bearing on the work demanded could be made and collections taken for its promotion. The hospital Sunday m England, when collections are made in aid of the hospitals, has been found to work sdmirably. Regular visits should be made to all the houses in each district. The people should be educated in the matter of ventilation, how lime and carbolic acid can be used, to dry-scrub floors, to wash bedclothes how to select and cook food, aud how and when to bathe children, Mothers should be made to know how .yaluable fresh air is, and that « visit to our parks with their little ones is imperative. ‘THE QUESTION OF MORALITY. Mr, Dorman B. Eaton referred at length to the mestion of morality the subject presented. A hristian community had no right to turn « deut and indifferent ear to the vice and demoralization which are the results of the present tenement house system. The Je ot fifty or morp clergymen forgetting questions of creed to meet this question of practical life was a wed step inthe right direction. Life in a tenement ouse is not consistent with purity to the extent which a Christian community demands, There can be but little privacy and delicacy in a house 25 by 100 feet in’ which over one hundred men, women and children live. Such an existence is fatal to all the elements of refinement. Crime ex- ists in the tenement house districts to an extent un- known in other portions of the city. Grog shops are numerous, and the men and boys visit them be- cause their homes are not attractive. No attack ou property is intended in this movement. If New York cannot be made habitable it ought not to grow any larger. ‘The officers of the Board of Health should be strongly supported and encouraged. Political in- trigue in the interests of rich and grasping landlords should be looked after. The Rev. John Cotton Smith and others also made impressive addresses. “THE POET'S DIRGE.” The last public rehearsal of the dirge to be sung over the remains of the late Bayard Taylor on their arrival in thts city from Germany took place yester- day afternoon in the Germania Assembly Rooms. Over twenty singing societies were represented by 100 delegates and the audience present numbered nearly one thousand persons. ACCIDENT OR BRUTALITY? Coroner Woltman was yesterday notified by Dr. Coggeshall, house surgeon of St. Vincent’s Hospital, that « patient named William Manley was iying in a dangerous condition in that institution. It was the opinion of the .medical attendants that Manley had not many hours to live. Coroner Woltman there upon proceeded to take the man’s ante-mortem state- ment, which is as follows:—‘‘On the afternoon of December 1878, 1 was returning home after performing an errand for A. Kemmet, at South Fifth avenue and Prince stree met two olicemen, named. Kenny aud Harvey, both of the eighth precinet station, standing on the corner. I asked Kenny, joviaily, to have a drink or a cigar. He refused, Lthen asked Harvey, saying that it was Christmas times, an? adding, ‘Let bygones be by- gones.’ He refused, [then stepped aside to allow y to pass, Unexpectedly Ollicer Harvey caught py the left wrist and flung me down noar tho, curb and kicked at me, but did mot strike ime. On" empting to rise Lfound my leg was broken. Ofi- cors Harvey and Kenny then partly carried me to the Eighth precinet station house and laid me on a stretcher. An ambulance was telegraphed for and I was brought to St. Vincent's Hospital, where I have been coutined to the bed ever since. Itwas atter four P.M. when I amet the ofli- cors. Lheard of no charges that wore made against me. Officer Kenny and myself have had some haveti words on @ previous cecesion. I have knowa him about a year, Lknew Officer Harvey, but have nover had any words with bim Coroner Weltuan tioned the officer, who de- nies having clubbed Jey, but stated that the man had falion over @ water trough and had broken his log. He said that the accident was witnessed by Or- fieer ny, of the Fifteenth precinct, who will be rrogeten about the matter to-day at the Coroners’ THE SECRET INVESTIGATION, To tae Eprtor or Tar Henanp:— The Mayor's examination—or whatever it may be callod—of the charges preferred against the Police Department by Commissioner Erhardt is etill con- ducted with closed doors. The singular proceeti: have now occtpied more than # week, and the mys- tery of the inner executive chamber, guarded by darkened windows and a burly policeman at every door, remains nudiscovered. It is not easy to unde: stand why so long @ time should have been o sumed in receiving Mr. Erhardt's information against his agsociates, even it it was necessary for the Mayor to shut out and lock out the people irom all knowledge of the progress of an inquiry in which they are deeply interested, and to debar accused parties from the common right of facing their ac- cusers Oe hearin, o their testimony. What the citi- want to ww is whether their it is managed with capacity and integrity, and whether the patent detects of the street ning business are due to radical and incurable fault of the system or to the inefliciency or dishon- esty of the officers, They care nothing for the jeal- ousies, bickerings and snariings of individuals, wud, like Sir Joseph Porter, K. . B., they snap their fingers at the Commissionera’ taunts against one an- other. If the Mayor is making a proper, vigorous in- vestigation of the important points we have named there is no ape feason why the people should not know itand hear or road the evidence as the case progresses, If he locks himself up with Mr. Erhardt to listen to. gossip or personal scandal: his Soarecy will do no harm, out his star chamber inquiry will do no qoou, He cannot uch moans improve the police discipline or give people cleaver streets than they now enjoy. ABOVEBOARD, New Yor! of the average building of this character. One six | property, | BLIGHTED BLISSVILLE. A QUIET SUNDAY IN THE VILLAGE OF SMELLS— GENERAL GLOOM CAUSED BY THE STOPPAGE OP WORK—HOW HEALTUY FOUNDLINGS WERE RAISED ON SWILL MILK—SIXTY-SIX MORE COWS SLAUGHTERED. Quietude reigned supreme during yesterday in the law-besieged village on the banks of Newtown Creek. Even the smelis took a holiday and ascended into the higher atmosphere to be borne on the breeze to far off lands, where they would descend upon the natives like a “surprise party” and sct the oldest inhabitants thinking where they came from, The usual proces- sions of carriages could be seen moving on the many roads toward a common centre, each on the same sad errand, There was no watching ont to- day to see if any of the carriages turned toward the cow stables, because, at the head of each line the vehicle bearing some friend or relative to their last resting place could be plainly distin- guished, The ¢mi!kmaids” were out all day enjoy- ing fresh air, and were attired in their best suits. Small groups could be seen about the numerous houses thatannounce in flaring letters that the pro- prieior has all the facilities for the entertainment of man and beast, and seemed to be discussing the all- important topie—General Patrick's raid, One meek lookjng “miikmaid” was accosted by the HenaLp reporter, who felt sure that he could ‘escape punish- ment’ should he arouse the ‘milkmaid’s” ire by any irreverent remark. There was no necessity, however, for such precautions, as the party addressed was found to be a regular “cowherd.”” “It will be pretty rongh on the men that attend to the cows when General Patrick wiil have killed all the cattle in the stables,” said the reporter. “Indeed, it will be that same,” answered the in- terviewed cowman, ‘I don’t know what we will do to get food for our families that are now on the verge of starvation.” “ “I suppose you did not get exceedingly high pay for your work ?” “Well, the pay was small enough, but we used to got some swill milk for the chijder and all the swil, we wanted for the hogs and fowls.” “By the way, how did you find the swill milk ?* “Oh! sure it is a shame to have such fne milk thrown away when a good many would drink it and not care if the cows were dying on their feet. I meseif raised several foundlings on it, and strapping children they are. Do you see that boy driving the goat cart over there; well, he never got anything but swill milk to driak,”” The boy pointed out advanced and was duly in- spected by the reporter, who found that if there was any virtue in swill milk it was the preservation against draughts in the nether garments of the youth, His features, recognizable through the toating of dirt of many days’ accumulation, told of anything but a healthy constitution, and Lis whole structure was that ot ope whose term of yeurs on this side of the grave was destined to be short, This was wspecimeu toundling. Atter part- ing with milkmaid No.1 the reporter made the ac- quaintance of several others, and they all told the story of the great distress that would foliow the kill- ing of the diseused cattle. They all admitted that sume of the cows were sick. A man who has resided in Blissville for many years said that it was sbout time the Health authorities looked into the matter, for the place was bad for along time, This only sub- stantia(es the assertions of the veterinary surgeons who examined into the matter. WHAT THE SLAUGHTER OF THE CATTLE PROVED. Until the cattle were killed and their bodies sub- jected to a post-mortem examination, there were Many conflicting opinions as to the nature and ex- tent of the disease. Four veterinary surgeons went through the stables and examin 'd the cattle a short time ago and signed a report, which was published in the HemaLp of the 18th, stating that no contagious disease existed in the preiniscs. Close following came the examination made by Professor Law, Doctors Mc- Lean, Beil anu others, who found but very few cases in which traces of the disease could not be readily distinguished. The slaughter of theanimals disclosed the fact that the examiners detailed by the Governor were right in their conclusions, for the animals killed were found to be suffering in an advaned stage of pneumenia. Dr. McLean, in speaking with a HeERawp reporter on the subject, said that all the ani- mals examined were found to be suffering from lung lesious and were as pronounced cases of the disease as had ever come under his notice, he having hud considerable experience in European prac- tice. The Doctor further stated that the cow which was killed at thg request of the other doctors was a young animal, aud would appear to one not versed in the science to be healthy. The great mistake mady, he said, was in not meking a proper Aistinction’ between the contagious and non- tagious diseases, their different symptoms being easily recognizable to an experienced veterinary, who will make due allowance tor the incubativé stage, which is sometimes but illdetined. The infection, he smd, has pereniated into the wood work of the stables at Blissville and cannot be effectually eradicated by disinfectants, so that it would be almost impossible to keep cows healthy in them. Otticer J. O'Neill, of the Brooklyn Seuitary squad, who is de- tailed es meat inspector, went yesterday to the John- son avenue slaughter houses and witnessed the killing of the sixty-six cows sent there ou Saturday by General Patrick. He will make his report on the condition ot the meat to General Patrick to-day, PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. VISIT TO STABLES IN ALEXANDRIA—SYMPTOMS OF THE DISEASE DESCRIBED—PREVALENCE OF HOG CHOLERA, Wasutnaton, Feb. 23, 1879. Dr. Gadsden, Veterinary Surgeon, of Philadelphia, called upon Dr. Bushman, Veterinary Surgeon of the Army, to-day and requested him to show him some cattle with contagious pleuro-pneumonia at Alex- andria, Va., whither Dr. Bushman had previously taken Dr, McEachran, the agent of the Canadian government. ‘Drs. Gadsden and Bushman accord- ingly went first to the stable where Dr. McEach- ran had previously purchased a cow for post-mortem examination, At this stable they found only one cow, three belonging to the stme person having died within a few months past. This cow was suffering from pleuro-pneu_ monia in @ chronic form, She had a peculiar cough, pallid membranes, and her temperature was 103 de- grees. Dr. Boshman says the cow has lost consider able flesh since he saw her on the 22d of Jaunary, Drs. Gadsden and Bushinan found three other cows on the common, one of them having the dixease in the first stage, The spasmodic action of the nostrils was well marked, When she lay down she was seized with a violous fit of coughing anti labored breathing, SYMPTOMS OF THK DISEASE. Ae a matter of public as well as private interest Dr. Gadsden furnishes the following symptomsof pleuro- pneumonia of the contagious type, which he thinks will enable persons connected with cattle raising read- ity to recognize the symptoms, If the disease arises from cohabitation, @ cough is first noticed about tho ninth day; but the disease wonld not, perhaps, be noticed by the owners of stock before the end of a mouth. The first sign after a cough is shivering fit; the coat looks dull and starving; there is an ocea- sional cough of adry, harsh character when the avi- malis moved briskly; the animal looks full in the eatly morning, thus diftering from healthy animals; the exeremont is dry aud the urine seanty; there is some stiffness about the udders in milking; the quantity milk diminishes; there is a loss of appetite and an altered gait, the animal standing with elbows curned outward from the ribs; the neck and head ere extemled and the nostrils somewhat convuisively extended at each inspiration, and quickness of breathing of tho aniinal ix disturbel with an audible grunt. The ex- pression of the countenance indicates uneasiness or absolute pain; the eyes are prominent and fixed; there is much thirst and ropy saliva trom the mout the muzzle hot and dry; the back is shyhtly arched, with protruding bead’and extended fore limbs and the hinder ones drawn upder, with knuckling of the hind fetlocks, When lying down the animal rests ¢ its brisket or lies on the affected side, leaving the ribs on the healthy «ide of the chest as much freedoin of motion as possible, A¢ the disease advances the pulse quickens, bat be- comes more feebl he beating of the heart, which is at first snbdued, becomes marked and palpitates; the membrane of the eyes, mouth and vagina is usually pallid; the tongue is foul, covered with fa and the exhaled breath has a nauseous and even fetid odor ; grunting, grinding of the teeth, diminishe secre pro Weak it lies down tore frequently; it sometimes shows symptoms of jaundice tym panitis from gases accummiating in the paunch; the gait is now so staggering that the animal appears to suffer from partial paralysis of the hind quartors; the breathing is more frequent and labored; the animal gasps for breath, the spasmodic action of the nostrils is very marked, the grunt is very audible, and there is a peculiar puckering of the angles of the moutl ‘he acute stage of this di to twenty-one days. Convale over p iwo or three ng the greater part of Which the animal is often capable ot infecting healthy cattle. Dr. Gadsden says that, on the discovery of the disease, the sick animal should be imnidiately separated from the healthy ones, to prevent contagion, as he considers treatment useless. HOG CHOLERA, Information continues to be received at the De- partment o: Agriculture relative to hog cholera, This » iact that the diseage te not only in- Tt is also shown that other em can transmit the same back to the previous source, This has been made apparent by Dr. Law, of Cornell Univer- ‘9 sity. The only way yet suggested for the prevention | of the spread of the disease is to stamp it ont by killing the animal. It is estimated that swine of the value of $20,000,000 or 239,000,000 perish every year, ‘The former ay riation to enable the department 1o investigate the subject was $10,000, and a similar amount will be appropriated this year for same purpose. eee MARRIAGES AND DEATHS, ENGAGED, Bror—Brow.—At H. Greatz’s, 589 8th av., Hewer Bick, of Brooklyn, to Turuesa Bick, of Milwaukee No cards, DIED Batpwi.—Suddenly, on February 22, Juura, wife year of her ag Church, Stam- at three P, M, of R. L. Baldwin, im the 54th Fr Carriag a leaving Grand Central Depot at1 P.M, It is requested that no flowers be sent. B —On Sunday, February 23, of pneumonii infant son of Charles A. and Sarah Bogue, aged 1 year. Relatives and friends are invited to his funeral, from 141 3d st., Brooklyn, E. D., on Tuesday, 25th inst., at two P. Browsiee.—Febru: Jous JosErH BRowNLEE, of pneamonia, in the 7th year of his age. Funeral from the residence of his mother, Annie Brownlee, 410-West 29th st., Monday, at two P. M. CanPneLn.—On Sunday, February 23, Marcaner B. CaMPpELt, aged 1 year, 10 months, 23 days, at her pa- rents’ residence, 157 Henry st. Notice of funeral hereafter. on Sunday, Februa taffordshire, Englan of his age. es and friends are Fart wating A invited io at- tend his funeral, from St. Metthew's Church, Sussex she Jersey City, on Tuestay, February 25, at two . ‘English papers please copy. Couirss.--Suddenly, of pneumonia, on’ Sunday, 23d inst., Juaxnevie F. L., relict of the late William Collins, and eldest daughter of the late Captain Fred- biti’ . and Gertrude V. Vultee, in the 7ist year of er age. Bi se oll services at the residence of her son-in-law, Charles P, Kretschmar, 44 Park place, Brooklyn, on Wednesday, 26th inst., at turee P. M. Springficid, Mass., and St. Louis papers please copy. ChaxvirLp.—At Astoria, February 21, Joszrs 5. CRANYIELD, aged 63 years. Friends of the family are invited to attend his fu- neral, on Tuesday, 25th inst., at two o'clock, from his late residence on 2d av. f ‘ChaNk.—in Brooklyn, on Sunday morning, Febru- ary 23, Hermna Crane, widow of George L, Crane, in the 76th year of her age. Puneral services at her late residence, 73 Nassaz st., on Tuesday, the 25th inst., at two P. M. Devirs.—On February 23, MicuarL Deyiim, in the 25th year of his age, son of Margaret Devlin. , Funeral will take place from his late residence, 81 Gonarene st., on Tuesday, February 25, at two P. M. sharp. Fexer.—Sunday morning, at ten o’clock, WILLTast H. Fines, in the 4ith year of his age. Funeral notice hereafter. Boston and Springfield papers please copy. FLANaGan.—At his residence, Clifton, Staten Island, on Saturday, February 22, JouN FLANAGAN, a native of county Clare, Ireland, aged 53 years, ‘The reiatives and frienés are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from St. Mary’s church, Feb- , at two P. M. Noricr—To THE MEMBERS OF TITRE Custwenp, of PRED YousG Men's Dymocratjo Civp:—You will please attend the funeral of our Jate brother member, Isaac V. French. GEARE’ Graney. Funeral from his late residence, 521 East 14th st., on Tuesday, the 25th, at one o'clock. Hatt.—On Sunday, February 28, in his 90th year, Lieutenant General Epwarp HaLt, a yeteran of the war of 1512. Funera! from his late residence, 202 West 34th st., on Wednesday, at one o'clock. Hian.—suddenly, at Rahway, N. J., on Friday, Feb- ruary 21, Joun J. HicH, in the 20th year of his age. Relatives and triends are respectfully invited to at- tend the funeral, on Tuesday, February 25, at two o'clock P. M., from First Presbyterian Church, Maser te will mect twelve o'clock train from New ‘ork. HiGorxs.—On Sunday, February 23, Joux Hicarss, beloved son of Catharine and the late Philip Higgins, aged 29 years. ‘The relatives and friends are invited to attend his funeral, from his late residence, Mott st., Mott Haven, to St. Jerome’s Church, where a solemn re- qniem mass will be offered for the repose of his soul, ‘uesday morning, 25th inst., at ten.o’clock, inter- ment in Calvary Cemetery. Humsent,—On Sunday evening, February 23, 1379, t Newtown, L, L., Susan Humperr. Notice ot funerai will appear to-morrow. JACKSON.—On Saturday morning, February 22, after a brief illness, Ixez B. Lockwoop, wife of Henry M. Jackson, in the 25th yeur of her age. Funeral services at the Presbyterian Memorial Church, Madison av, and 53d sf Puesday, February 25, at one o'clock P, M. Relatives and friends are in- vited to be present. The family will accompany tho remains t» Woodlawn Cemetery. aturday, rary 22 iu the 65th year of her age. ‘Yhe relatives and triends of tue family are re- speetfully invited to attend the funeral, at No. 52 Barrow st., on Monday, February 24, at four P. M. Kissam.—At Jersey City Heights, on Februar, . of scarlet fever, Jennie 3, daughter of Walter and Sarah J. Kissam, aged 3 years and 7 months, Funerel to-morrow (Tuesday) afternoon, one o’clock, from the residence of her parents, Willian st., between Waldo and Chestnut avs., Jersey City Heights. KNowrros.—On February 22, BENJAMIN F, Kxowt- ‘TON, in the 34th year of his age. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to at- tend his funeral, from his late residence, East 68th st., between Ist av. and av. A, on Tuesday, at one P. M. Lockwoop.—Mrs, Mary Lock woop, wife of the late Edmund Lockwood, at ten minutes to cight P. M., February 23. sy Funeral at her late residence, 12¢ Sands st., Brook- lyn, at one P, M. Wednesday, February 26. Lovect.—At Brooklyn, Sunday, February 23, of dropsy of the brain, UERITE H., only child of Edward A. and Aunie A. Lovell, aged 1 year and 13 da: Fe eral ov Tuesday afternoon, February 25, at two o’clock, from the residenc® of her gran » Reu- ben Maplesden, No. 2 Strong piace, corner Harrison st., Brooklyn. Lupiow.—In New York city, February 22, ee monia, Mr. Davip P. Lepiow, 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., a mt on Monday, the 24th inst., at three o’clock P.M. Luspy.—In this city, February 22, of paralysis of the heart, Feancts LAwReNce Luxpy, only son of the late Rev. F. J. Lundy, D. ed 38, aneral from St. Peter’s Church, Morristown, N. J., on Tuesday, 25th, on arrival of 10:55 train, Inter- ment at Mendham, N. J. Maxer.—February 23, Eva B., youngest daughter ot Augustein and Josephine Monee, aged 7 years, 9 months and 23 days. Funeral to take place from her late residence, 163 Gth st., at half-past nine A. M., February 24. Mantin.—Ou Saturday, February 22, atter a short illness, Josern Mantis, in his 92d year Relatives aud friends are invited to attend the fu- nerai, {rom the Alanson Methodist Episcopal Church, Norfolk st., between Broome and Grand sts., at half- past one P, M., on Tuesday, Fe . Marusws.—On Sunday, February 23, at her resi- dence, 112 East 101th st., Barer, beloved wife of James Mathews, native of Easkey, county Sligo, Ire- and. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend funeral, on Tuesday, 25th iust., at two o'clock P.M. TOWNSEND COX, President. February 23, of pneumonia, Taomas ‘T. 1879, Exizs Moxse.—On Friday, February, 21, of pneumonia, Naruan Brewster Monse, Jr., aged 40 years, Funeral from his late residence, No. #6 Albany ¥., Brooklyn, at two P. M., Monday, 24th inst, MeGay.+On Friday,2tst inst., Ronnar T. McGay. Mond: February 24, at two P. M., his late residence, No. 48 Prospect st., Brook- } from lyn. Poncent.—Febrnary 2, Erizanrru Purcxt, at the residence of her brother Edward, 431 West 57th st. Nequiem mass, Monday, 2#th inst., at halt-past ten o’elock, at Church of the Peulist Fathers, 60th st., near Yth av. Funeral from thence to Calvary Ceme- tery. Ross.—On Saturday, February 22, Sanan E., wife of John Ross, in the 38th year of her age. Funeral from ber late residence, 167 Broadway, Brooklyn, E. D., Monday, February 24, one P, M. Scotch papers will please copy. Savacr.—Joun Yous, infant son ot John Y. Sav- age, Jr. Funeral from 303 Kast 624 st., Monday, two o'clock. SreLeMax,—On Sunday, February 23, Marganer, widow of Martin Spellman, and sister of Michael and James Muity. Relatives and friends are invited to attend her fu- neral, from her late residence, 800 East Lith st., Tuesday, the 25th, at eleven A. Mt. Vanian.—On Saturday, February 22, Harrix 5, Variax, in thg 20th year of her age. Funeral frofi the Reformed Duteh Church, corner Qstst. wand ddav., on Wednesday, February 20, halt-past one P, M. Relatives and triends are invit to atioud, =e Pa Friday, February 21, Eviny €., wife of vy. We i Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to aitend the funeral, from the residence of her bro- ther-in-law, Mr. Honry Dix, 100 Bast 62d st., ou Mon- day, February 24, at twelve o'clock. vALCKRS—On Saturday, February 22, Lewis M. WALrens, aged 68, Fanersl on Tuesday, Februar; from his late residence, No. Wanner: si, WaRpen, @ mative of the city tonderry, Ireland. Funeral (rom 301 Bast ith si., Pebraary 2&4, at o'clock A. M., thence to Greenwood Cemete WesrenveLt.—On Friday morning, February 21, 1879, at his residence, Gi West dsth st., Jacon A. WsTRRVEL, in his 80th year, Relatives and friends are invited to attend his , from the South Reformed Chureh, Sth av. and 2ists.t, on Monday morning, the 2tth inst, at ten o'clock. In complianee with the wish of the de- orgs A, it iskindly roquested that no flowers be sent. NOFF.—On the 22d inet., Mrs. Surzamere W., wife of Goorge W. Woodrud, D. D., cad daughter of tho Jato Rev. George Coles. Funeral services at the Allen street Methodist Epta- | copal church on Tuceday afternoon at three o'clock.