The New York Herald Newspaper, March 20, 1879, Page 6

6 vs ‘NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, pai ees Aaah 1 THE DAILY HERALD, Published every day in the year, “Three ceuts por copy (Sunday's excluded). Ton dollars per var, five dollars tor six mouths, two dollars and fifty conts for three mouths, or at a rate of one dollar per month for any period lees then three mouths, Sunday edition included ; without Sunday edition, eight dollars per year, free of PVEEKLY HERALD—Oue dollar per year, free of post- re. eee. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBE Tork or Post Office money ord Ban be procured send the m: spenez. remitted at risk of sondes Hon subscribers wishing thelr Abcir old as woll as their new addross, ‘All business, nows letters or telegraphic deepatches must de addressed Naw Yous HeRatp. ‘Letters aud packages should be properly seaied. Rejected commun! ill wot be returned. PHILADELPHIA OFFIC! 12 SOUTH SIXTH STREE’ ci . LONDON OFVICR OF THE NEW YORK UERALD— . SNO. 48 FLEET ST. f | PARIS OPFICE—49 AVENUE DE LOPERA. O NAPLES OFFICE—NO. 7 STRADA PACE. mB pemen Avia 5 oo pecetved and ress changed AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. * NIBLO’S THEATRE—Brack Cxoox. BOWERY THEATRE—Tux Ocronooy. Pixarone. Pinarore, » PARK THEATRE—Eyaacro. BROADWAY THEATRE—H. M. 8, Pixarorn WIFTH AVENUE THEATRE iwAPOUuR and SOUCERER, . WALLACK’S—A Scuar oF Paven, GRAND OPERA HOUSE—A Cutxouarep Case, GERMANIA THEATRE—Ja 60 Sixp Win. ! UNION SQUARE THEATRE—Tix Baxuee’s Davcurer. BOOTH’S THEATRE—Lirtex Dugs. THEATRE COMIQUE—Mutiicax Guarp Bate MASONIC HALL—Tax Mivaxts. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS—Mvp Scow PixaroRy TONY PASTOR'S—Pivavonu BuRtasue, AMERICAN MUSEUM—Coniosinies. CHICKERING HALL—Battap Concer. KURTZ’'S GALLERY—Awmuicay Anmists’ Exarsimion, BREWSTER HALL—Pupustaiaxise. * TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1879. The probabilities arc that the weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be warmer and Jair, followed toward night by increasing cloudi- ness. To-morrow it will be warm and partly cloudy, possibly with rain. Watt Srreer Yesterpay.—the stock market ‘was active and feverish in tone. Government bonds were weak, States dull and railroads lower. Money on call lent at 5 a 6 per cent, ad- vanced to 7 per cent and closed at + per cent. Yesrerpay was a field day for lecturers, H. M. S. Pinarore has started on a cruise through the magazines. Wuire Heaps are disappearing ‘from Con- gress. We could better spare sorcheads. Tue First H. GING (official) in Colorado was done in a cemctery—a fitting place for so grave & proceeding. Rowett axp Ennis were at the Stock Ex- change yesterday; better then than after they “get their shares of the gate money. TALMAGE will have to preach against, clubs again, too frec indulgence in one of them hating sent a fellow preacher to the Tombs Police Court yesterday. ‘Tnenr Is Nor.Rest even.in the grave, unless lot owners keep their prospective sepulchres out of the hands of their heirs. So the Greenwood ‘trustees say. Ben Wrra tum Reourarrry of the equinoctial storm and the tax collector comes the story that some of our legislators want to investigate the great monopol ‘ Tue Nationat Caritab is suffering a com- bined attack of new bills and the Cameron- Oliver suit, and which does most harm the doc- tors are unable 8 were examining an old pistol terday morning. Of course it was not loaded, yet it sent one of those friends to a hospital bed and the other to a station house cell. Tur Rervration of Cashicr Barron, of the Dexter Bank, which, since his death, has been considerably tampered with by Madame Rumor, is entirely relic: of blame by the Bank Exam iner and is restored to its original heroic propor- tions. Good! Tue Divistox of the gate money of the great pedestrian match was made yesterday, the amcunt awarded O'Leary being invisible to the naked eye. The ex-champion would apparently do w ‘o remember that with the odds against. “him the best thing he can do is to first take what money he can get and take his growl afterward. Savine Lr but when mem- bers of the Volunteer Life Saving Society drop itito compelling thieves to restore stolen prop- erty, as one of them did yesterday, they are Qoing too far. If t lo it citizens will begin to expect the pdo so too, and such a radical change in police customs would amount almost to revolution. Tux Wxatner.—The favorable conditions attending the area of high barometer which ex- tended over all the districts cast of the Rocky Mountains were somewhat disturbed yesterday afternoon by the advance of a depression moy- ing from the regions of Colorado and Wyoming. The pressure is now highest over the South Atlantic States. Itis falling rapidly, however, in the West, as the vances into the Central Valley districts. nt indications point to the probable breaking through the zone of high barometer by the centre of disturban whieh will 1 hk hor tion. 11s influence will be felt most in the Jake regions and the northern parts of the Middle Atiantic States. The gradients will become steep over the Northern Missousi a Missis slower lake xe that in may be expe those districts during to-day amd the early part of toanorrow. No rain has fallen duving the past twenty-four hours and but little snow is re- ported, mainly in the lake regions and Atlantic coust districts. The wiuds have been from fresh the lakes, and other sect have remained nearly station tendency toward and and Sonth Atlantic + 3 the ap- proaching storm will be @ severe one, as the onditions favor the development of gales. Our special weather cable tells of the complete ful- filment of the prediction sent to Europe on the ‘13th by the Henaty Weather Baveau. Very severe weather has prevailed for the past fow days over the northern parts of the British Tislands, and it is likely to continue so for some ‘days. ‘The weather in New York and its vicinity ‘toalay will be warmer and fair, followed toward night by increasing cloudiness. ‘To-mourow it will be warm and partly cloudy, possibly with eae enperatures a slight NEW YORK. "HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1879—TRIPLE SHEET. Mayor Cooper amd the Police Com missioners. Is was on exciting and not very digaified scene which was presented yesterday in the Mayor's office. We deeply regret the loss of temper and the violations of that quiet and orderly mode of proceeding which were so inconsistent with the gravity and decorum of public official actiow. It ill befits the dignity of the great office of Mayor of this great city to stve orders to policemen in his p«esence which he is impotent to * patorce, It was such a spectacle as was ever witnessed before, and, we trust, may ver be witnessed again in_ the official ca of the Chief Magistrate of this metropolis, It.is not blame which we de- sire to expreas, but regret; for we cordially give our full indorsement and strongest sympathies to Mayor Cooper in his resolute determination to remove the Police Com- missioners, who are flagrantly and no- toriously unfit for their places, and should be compelled@to give way for efficient successors, 3 . It is a matter within Mayor Cooper's per- Sonal observation and within the observation ofevery inhabitant of this city that the Police Commissioners belong to that category of officers which were aptly described by President Lincoln as ‘augers that won't bore.” They are glaringiy unfit for their places and ought tu. be deposed. Mayor Cooper has the. almost uxanimous ap- probation of the whole body of our best citizens in his strenuous te- solve to put them oui of . office. We understand and appreciate his indig- nant zeal and his impatience of delay.. We are as impatient as he is of Sfficial red tape, the dilatory methods of a circumlocution office, and the everlasting wrangling of at- torneys at law who seek to confuse o plain case by ingenious .technicalitics, and who would gladly spin out this hearing into the tedious prolixity of the Vanderbilt will case. The Mayor is so clearly right in substance that it would be regrettable to have him fall into self-defeating errors of form. We incline to think that he made a mis- take in refusing to hear the Commissioners by counsel. We will not assume to pro- nounce on the legal question involved, but as a matter of prudence and tact he was badly advised (if he took advice) on this point. In all courts of justice the right to appear by counsel is guaranteed by law, and the usage of parliamentary bodies accords this right to all parties who are put upon their defence. his rufe, as established by law in all couris and as established by usage in all legislative and parliamefitary inquiries, is so evidently founded in justice toat, it cannot-be .regarded as arbitrary or merely technical. It requires moro, train- ing.than a citizen not bred a lawyer can be expected to possess to manage his own defence when arraigned on’ charges which he is entitled to refute if ho can. - The most .valid defence might be spoiled by a bungling mode of presentation. The, rule of allowing counsel is’ dictated by equity and caanot bo.get aside without offending tue general sense of fair play. ‘The olearness of the case against, these Commissioners does not justify the Mayor in disregarding it, be- cause if it can be dispensed with in this case it might be in all cases, and innocence would lose its protection if the regular forms of proving guilt could be discarded at the mere will of an examining magis- trate. r Besides, the Mayor's power of decision could not be impaired by listening to coun- sel. At the conclusion of the hearing, by whatever method conducted, he remains the sole judge of the sufficiency of the evi- dence up to the point when he makes the removal and communicates’ bis reasons therefor to the Governor. The Mayor must form his judgment on the facts, and, not on the particular agency by which the facts are urged upon his attention. He should not seem to distrust his ability to keep his mind clear in spite of the confus- ing sophistry of lawyers. His action in cases ‘of removal is quasi judicial, and a competent Mayor should be in no more danger of losing his grasp of the evidence because it happens to bo presented by a lawyer than is a judge on the bench who is compelled by law to listen to counsel. The charter permits the Mayor to remove heads of departments only ‘for cause and after an opportunity to be heard.” What constitutes a hearing is o very important element in this case, and one on which the Mayor cannot afford to make a mistake. If he should remove the Commissioners with« out a hearing, in the proper legal sense of that word, not even the approval of the Governor could make their removal valid. We do not undertake to say what constitutes a hearing in the true sense and veal intent of the char‘er; but the word cer- tainly has some meaning, and if the Muyor should mistake its meaning and fail to give the accused Commissioners a hearing in the proper legal scuse the courts could iater- pose and restore them to office after their re- moval. If he should attach one meaning to the word and the courts shonld establish another meaning the interpretation of the courts would of course prevail. and the Mayor's action would be annulled. He should therefore nim to be on the sale side. Since a removal without a hearing would be void it would be prudent for him to-nceept tho word in its ordinary logat seve rather than sfford occasion for pro- | tracted litigation and the possible restora- tion of the Commissioners. If he grants them a hearing in_ the ordinary legal sense his removals will be sate against a review by the courts: on that ground, and more time will be saved than eau be gained by dispeosing with tho ‘ordinory mode of procedure. In the usual legal sense a hearing means the listening to evidence, which implies an examination and cross-cxamination of witnesses, ‘he following quotation is not {from an ordinary work on jurisprudence, but from Cushing’s “Law aad Practice of Legislative Assemblies,” which would relax the strict ‘legal signification of the word if it could be relaxed by mere discretion outside of courts of justice. “The right to introduce evidence and ex- amine witnesses,” says Cushing, ‘seems to. be incidental to. the right of being heard.” We fear it is not safe for Mavar Cooper to -disregard the established sig- nification of the word as interpreted not only by alf courts but by the usage of bodies which are not bound by technical rules of law. If he gives the Commissioners a hearing in the ordinary legal sense he will certainly be on the safe side, whereas haste purchased by the violation of a legal right of the parties accused would put him back after tedious litigation to the point from-which he started. Be that danger greater or less, it is nob wise to incur it when it can be easily avoided by conduct- ing the hearing to which the Commission- ers are entitled in the custonlary legal method. The necessity for removing the Police Commissioners is -so urgent—it is so meces- sary to the welfare, order, cleanliness and health of the city—that we should be sin- cerely sorry to see the Mayor fail in his at- tempt by acting on unsound legal advice or (what is equally dangerous)’ assuming to be his own Jegal adviser and venturing upon risks in his private inter- pretation of the charter. Wo.advise him to yield the ground’ he took yesterday afd make sure that his work cannot be undone by a difference betwoen himself and the courts as to what constitates a hearing. We desire to seé the Police Commissioners put out in sugh o manner that they cannot’ get back. “aa The Vanderbilt Will Sustained. In a community in which the late Com- modore Vanderbilt's remarkable business capacity, sound judgment and strong self- will were proverbiai, no man of common sense could have doubted that the will lett by the deceased would be sustained by the Court, and the decision made by the Surro- gate yesterday confirming the probate of the will and codicil in all things will occasion no surprise. If a man who up to almost the last hour of his life held control of in- terests involving millions upon millions of dollars was to be declared incapable of de- ciding how to dispose of his property at his death tho making of wills would become a } ubiquitous animal, mere farce. But in this particular case it was-recognized that Commodore Vaaderbilt had disposed of his fortune in a manner [ characteristic of and in harmony with his well known sentiments, and with the prin- ciples he had followed in amassing his ‘vast wealth, He had adhered to the policy of keeping his important railroad interests consolidated and under a single control, knowing that thus only could they be effec- tively protected.and preserved, He had given what he considered liberal amounts to his daughters, and had in his other be- quests displayed something of his natural imperiousness and strong prejudices ond much of his natural shrewdness, The will bore unmistakably the stamp of its author, und no one who knew Cornelius Vanderbilt could have dgubted thot it was his work, even if the production of a number of antecedent willg carrying out in substance the same testamentary. pur- poses had not proved beyond doubt that the final disposition made of his property was in accordance with along cherished and well settled determipation. There are two notable points in the Sur- rogate’s decision, of which we are enabled to present only a briet abstract. He con- demns in strong, but not too severe, terms the aspersions upon a lady's character ‘shadowed forth in the open- ing of the contestant’s counsel, and de- clares the subsequent but tardy apology, made after diligent and persistent efforts to secure witnesses capable of testifying to the charges, to be ‘but o sorry and meagre amend for the endurance by a delicate, ‘sen- sitive, cultivated woman for two years of o baseless slander.” Every right-minded man will approve this rebuke of a gross abuse of a. counsel's privilege, and it is to be hoped that it will, as the Surrogate says, ‘‘bea lesson to those who are. prone to assail private character and revel in pro- miscuous defamation.” ‘The other point in the decision is the overhauling of some of the witnesses whose testimony the Surro- gate believes is open to the “reasonable apprehension that it may’ have been fabri- cated.” ‘This certainly deserves the atten- tion of the District Attorney. But unless the cause of justico should demand some griminal prosecution it isto be hoped that the Surrogate’s decision is the last that will be heard of this offensive and it would seem wholly unnecessary case. simon’s Artful Games, Simon Cameron, a youth of seventy-five, saving an orange {rom the dish of fruit on the hotel dinner table to give to the sweet widow Oliver, age anywhere from forty to fifly, would make a pretty picture, full of poetic sentiment, and the subject is worthy the attention of any artist who has a taste for the style of the courtly Corydons and Phyllises that figure in the duinty French school, period Watteau. 1t might crowd the canvas, and stump the imagination of the artist, yet it would certainly improve the. picture if the accessories could be made to suggest outwide of the great company at the table ‘and .Simon’s energetic. grasp at the golden fruit his -boyish games up stairs when he would not hear his grandchildren kuocking at the door, even though he had strategically provided for the case of their forcible and enthusiastic entry, General Butler could be thrown in anywhere in the character of Simon's comrade ina scrape, determined to seo him through. “He ought to look toward the widow, and have the end of ‘iis thumb against the end of «his nose, and be making & fan with his fin- gers. His eyds ought to luugh simul- taneously at the whole univers», especially at the setting sun and the rising moon. Altogether we are of opinion that the great galleries ot American art will be in- complete if proper attention is not given to this subject. Different painters have done enormous justice to the fustian of our his« tory; who shall take up the gay side—give us its poetry—put in the amorous aspects of ardor in the breast of the American octo- genarian, and tho fine speculative games of the widow who, with the poetry of her Irish nativity in her soul, has acquired syinpa- thetically our national genius for finance? Here aro grand themes for the historic pnint- brush. No more Pocahontas here! And if the sceno of a mere Indian gir] marrying a commonplace Eneliahman is worth a nanel in the rotunda in the National Capitol, where, oh ! where shall we place the_plastic chronicle of the games of' the widow Oliver with the owner of the: State of Pennsyl- vantia?—the Senator, the -plenipotentiary, the cabipet minister, the chief of the Winne- bagoes. But let fone of thage Washington , women paint it, We infinitely prefer that it should be done in Puck or the Graphic, where it will be done with genius and will only cost the people five cents a copy. “It Was the Cat!” Every householder is familiar with the active agency of ‘the hatmless, mecessary cat” in certain clusses of domestic occur- rences, The breakage of a window in the garret, of a water botile or soap dish in one of the bed chambers, of a vase in the par- lor, or. of a trayful of crockery in the kitchen is certain’ to be the work of that So also is the mysteri- ous disappearance of pitcherfuls of milk, of reserved breasts of chickens, of delica’e cuts of fish and tender lamb chops, and one rémarkable case is related of a cook who, immediately after the disappearance of her married sister through the basement door with a bundle under her clonk, rushed to her mistress with the' startling announcement that the cat (then an irre- sponsible kitten) had just run away with two-thirds of a leg of mutton, a loaf of bread and all ‘the tea in the caddy. Scarcely a head of a family in Now ‘York who has had occasion to exclaim, “Goodness me! ‘Whnht was that?" cin have failed to hear the familiar response, “Silent bo--it was the ent!” patie Mr. Samuel J. Tilden ia'the cat of the political household. ‘No political breakages can’ thke place without the destruction being laid at- his door; no political tidbits can be slyly. snatched trom an official larder without the larceny being attributed to him. When the Tammany pudding ‘basin wis smashed last November Tilden did it, The County Clerk’s soup dish is suddenly bro- ken to pieces, and Tilden is said to have knocked it off the shelf. The Police Com- tnission punch bowl is badly cracked, and Tilden is the ‘offender. It is Tilden who has stolen the Tammany Mayoralty pud- ding, Tilden who has lapped up the spilled county clerkship soup, and Tilden who will drink success to the campaign of 1880 in the contents ‘ef the damagé@ Police Com- mission punch bowl. The new House of Repxgsentatives re-elects a capable, upright Speaker, but Tilden’s manipulation and not Randall's merit secures the result. Gover- nor Robinson vetoes an objectjonable law, but Tilden guides the pen. Tie Register of New York is found to have performed his dutiés Sathfully and. is kept in office, but Tilden has first won him over and made a bargain with him as the price of his galva- tion, From Mnine to California‘every town election*is controlled by Tilden’s influence, and his barrel of money plays as important a part in all political p@rformances as Solon Shingle’s “‘ bar’l 6f apple sass” does in the drama. : According to the stories told by his oppo- nents My. Tilden, tnatead of being in a dilapidated condition of health, must be more active and vigorous then ever; and when it is considered that in addition to all this political work he builds rapid transit roads in New York, wrecks railroads in the West, attends concerts, operas, dinners, balls and able celebrations, rides in the Park and looks in on the pedestrians at Gilmoro’s Garden, he may be regarded as a very lively corpse for the campaign of 1880. To be sure, there is reason to suxpect that, like the Papists in Europe, he gets more credit than he deserves for cunning and activity. Mr. Tilden is known to be an intriguer, and so is made to father every Political movement, just as President Lin- coln was compelled to bear the putative fraternity of every vagrant joke that had been tramping over the world for half a century. ° We incline to the belief that Mr. Tilden, like the cat, is much leas harmless than his enomies, with great lack of dis- cretion, represent him to be. The “New Italia.” The readiness with which the moncy has beon subscribed in Italy for the carrying out of the project of establishing an Italian colony in New Gyinea would appear to show that the Itulian government is deeply interested in: the enterprise. Six million dollars would scarcely be subscribed in so | short a time by private individuals in Italy, for the Italians have hitherto shown them- selves adverse to colonizing projects. The idea that the expedition is encouraged by the government in the hope of thus getting rid. of the revolutionary element of the kingdom is hardly tenable.. Times are baf in Itely; ‘there is great suffering among the working classes of Rome and other large cities, and such an emigra- tion scheme, when it costs nothing, has attractions for the Italian workman, who can now entertain hopes of securing a home for himself instead of helping to build Roumanian and Turkish railroads for a pitiable reward. Menotti- Garibaldi’s name fives the project a certain national tinge. He is not the acknowledg:d leader of any party ot republicans; he is simply the son of his father, a good-natured feilow enough, with no: particular genius, but stands well as the figurehead of the present enterprise. If he takes with him a few thousand so-called Guaribaldiatis ‘he’ will render a service to his country and to the memory of his father's earlier work, long since completed. Pictures from Tashkend. Anm&dmirablo set of pictures made from sketches and photographs sent by the Henatp correspondent at Tashkend is given in the last number of the JMustration, which journal performs in a superior style the fanction of laying before the Paris public the account that the artistic pencil has to give of current events. Inthe number are portraits of. Generals Kaufmann and Ras- gonoft; of the first and second ambassadors from the Ameer of Cabul, Khem Nab Mo- hammed Assan ‘and Ulym Heider Khan, and of the Henarp correspondent him- self, all very finely engraved on wood from photographs taken at ‘lashkend. There are two sketches—one of an audience of the ambassadors with the Governor General of ‘Tashkend. and the other of the equipage that a newspaper correspondent gets about with in Central Asia,.an altogether quaint four-in-hand of camels, For its beautiful reproduction of the photographs from Tashkend the Jilustra- tion is entitled to the gratitude of the cos- mopolitan public. Everybody gets into his hands with a sense of real satisfac- tion the portrait of a man of whom he has heard a great deal, and General Kaufmann has come up wonderfully as a lending character in the great drama of European progress in Central Asia, and has made few mistakes since his brilliant march upon Khiva. Readers of the news will be glad to sce what he looks like. They will be pleased to sce his assistant, Rasgonoff, also, and to look into the eyes of the strange men of vigorous aspect who have now made two journeys to the Russian post in the interest of the late Ameer, _ A Brief Message. The first message of President Hayes to the Forty-sixth Congress indicates his wish ‘that the extra session shall be short, He lays*before the two houses no new matter on which he invites their action, He simply asks them to pass the appro- priation bills which were lost at the last session, and expresses. his re- gret at the emergency -which requires a special stssion when the business of the’ country requires legislative repose. We are sure that the whole country shares the wish of the President that Congress may speedily pass the appropriition bills and adjourn, He not only refrains from presenting any new subjects of legislation, but significantly con- veys his opinion that the country needs peace and rest. He sets a praiseworthy ex- aiple of coming straight to.the point, con- fining himself to the point, and d‘spensing with unnecessary words, We trust that Congress will imitate this worthy example, expedite its business and’ make haste to go home, i Captain Williams, b It is to be hoped the dust likely to be raised over the hearing of the Police Com- missioners before the Mayor will not cloud from public view the equally important ar- raignment of Captain Williams before the Commissioners. -In the Mayor's office it is to bo made doubtful whether the battle of legal technicalitios may not. in part or entirely defeat the im- plied control of the Mayor over the heads of departments, and before the Commis- sioners a very desperate effort will be made to show that Captain Williams is an angel of light and that all that has been said in criticism of his acts is vile detraction. This is'one of the rights of accused persons which they sometimes abuse. Should the bullying tactics of the system, that Will- jams‘ has puraued in office be contin- ued o man undoubtedly guilty of the worst misconduct in the dis- charge of his duty may overcome the attempt to purge the public. service of his presence or may escape with some trivial penalty. On the'case made by: the chargo of Commissioner Smith’ no facts can be heard but such as relate to that case; but that case ,is probably clear enough if the persons who witnessed the facts have the public spirit to come up and testity. We are afraid that the case may possibly fail on a difficulty of that nature. There is not enough moral stamina in the public to de- fend itself in fighting these cases. Un- doubtedly an attempt will be made to get hold of the gentleman from Trenton and to keep him away to make a sort of moral clubbing out of witnesses ; but if the people who saw this case will not help to make an example now they must take their clubbing ag it comes in the future, ~ : , Reform—or Whitewash? On motion of School Commissioner Wheeler yesterday & committee of five was appointed to inquire and report as to the expediency of reorganizing the departments ‘of the Board which have charge of the erec- tion, repairing, ventilating and’warming of the schools, As the President of the Board ig known to be one of the sufferers by the bad air of schoolrooms, and to abhor incom- petency and neglect as honestly asany other man, he could not haveintended to construct a weak or quarrelsome committée; yet it scems strange that of the five members one should be Commissioner Wickham, who be- lieyes schoolroom air to be as good as home air, while another is Commissioner Watson, who has so eloquently ascribed the general parental agitation to tgr-dollar bills that unscrupulous men with venti- lator patents have placed where they would do ths most good. However intelli- gent and progressive the remaining mem- bers—Messrs. Wheeler, Manierre and Bell— may be, they are evidently in for an unpleas- ant job and one out of which any but the most determined men are likely to be tormented. In a city where the majority of homes, according to Commissioner Wick- ham, are badly ventilated, it stands to reason that single schoolrooms, occupied by ten or twenty times as many people as any family room ever is, must be in a condition that urgently demands remedy, and men who do not see this are decidedly out of place on a committee which is tho only present hope of thousands of children who are daiiy straggling against tha bad in- fluence of air worse than any animal should breathe. K Our Art M The change of quarters by the Metro- politan Museum of Art has led to the with- drawal of the Avery collection 6f Oriental porcelain which for the past six years has been loaned to the Museum by the owner, During that time it his formed one of the chief features at the Museum, That the institution should own such a collection none will deny, and though there is a move- ryent on foot to buy it the question arises, Where is the money to come from? This case shows tho necessity of some action being taken by the trustees to secure a State grant large enough to allow of the purchase of such collections when needed and offered for sale. ‘This necessity has already been pointed out by us. The sub- scriptions of private indivjduals interested in the success of the Museum have al- lowed of the puroliaso.of the Cesnola and other collentions : but this sort of thing cans | merable esvellenvics not go on forever, no matter how’ public \ ‘ spirited some of our wealthy citizens may be. The futile endeavor to raise funds suf- cient for the purchase of the Castellani col- lections, and their subsequent loss to America showed the necessity of State aid. Again, a few days.ago we losta much needed little collection of ‘Tnnagra figurines which $1,500 from a citizen of Boston secured for that city. Ifall the loaned objects in the Musoum were taken from it the new build- ing at the Central Park would: present a sorry aspect when opened, In view of all these facts we again urge upon the trastees, before the opening of the new Musoum, to bring all their influence to bear on the Legislature, and theirs, as -well as that of many others interested in art, should have much weight to secure an annual approprie -ation adequate to all purposes of proper maintenance end acquisition, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. ‘M. Léon Chotteau is at the Everett House, Count L. F. de Pourtalés is at'the Albemarle Hotel. The Chicago Journat calls prize walking miled in- sanity. Campana will begin a six days’ walk at Troy next Mo -day. ‘ Mr. E. L, Youmans, tho scientist, has returned from Europe, ‘ i Senator Vest is ti@ shortest man in tho Senate. He doesn’t have to be pulled down much. i . The Buffalo Express says that Rowell must go, be causo we are ruined by English cheap labor. Mr. Gregoire de Willamov, Secretary of the Russian Legation at Washington, is at the Everett House, Mr. J. M. Clark; an Englishman of liberal religious views, has become cditorial manager of the Boston Travetler. An exchange, defending itself from a charge of mia- quotation, says:—Our contemporary Jays on our table.” Now this is a grammatical error. News papers never “lay;” they lic. ‘The Paters®n Press accuses us of having taken from its columns a joke without credit, when, in fact, we never saw it there. However, as the gentleman who wrote the joke was scolded for making stich a fearful one, we are sorry he did not credit it to the Pres- anywiy. OBITUARY. FREDERICK W. FOOTE, Frederick W, Foote, aged sixty-three, editor and proprietor of the Elizabeth Daily .Jouraal, and, pre- vious to its founding, editor of the New Jersey Joure nal, died suddenly on Tuesday night of apoplery. He had been complaining for some time, but worked in the office till late in the afternoon. He occupied many positions of trust in banks and other institn- tions, and was most widely known and res} x He was formerly member of thé City Council, was an internal revenue collector during the war, an 4c- tive member of the present Board of Trade, and was associated actively with every progressive institu- tion in thut city. He was for many years vestryman of St. John’s Epjscopal Church. MYER S. MYERS, : 7 Mr. Myer S. Myers, ono of the oldest real catate brokers in New York, whose business career is familiar to thousands interosted in that market, de- parted this life at his residence, No, 421 West Twenty- second street, yesterday morning. By his shrewd- ness and business tacf Mr. Mycrs managed, in all the stirring vicissitudes of the real estate mar- ket to retain the confidence of” his clients and‘ the ‘respect of his fellows in business, He was born in Pearl street, in 1805, and was, with perhaps one or two honorable exceptions, the oldest native born citizen of New York. Fifty years ago when the now famous Seventh regiment was fi talked about ho was on hand as an organizer. a fact the establishment of that regiment was inno small nieasure due to his public spirit and warm ad- youer The funeral will take place on ‘Friday morning. 4 -_— a REV. LOUIS WILLIAM HEYDENREICH, Rev. Louis William Heydenreich died at his resh dence, No. 224 Schermerhorn streeet, Brooklyn, on ‘Tuesday afternoon, in the seventy-fourth year of his age, He was born in Weissenburg, France, in the year 1805, and married jn Strasbourg in 1831, being ordained a Lutheran minister the same yoar, came to this country wfd settled in Philadelp! twenty-eight years ago, and after havi a ere near that city for a 4) fettbgroap oe he of professor of Janguages in the Female at Bethlehem, Pa. In 1868 ho visited his former home in Europe and remained absent a fow months. After his return he held exo of professor of ages in educational utions in yland and North Caroliusa. During the past eight years Mr. Heydenreich had lived s retired life in this city and Brooklyn. His health had been fail- ing during the past six months, but he died suddenly of heart disease. He was a widower, and leaves two sons rye four daughters. The funeral will take lace : e. ‘224 Schermerhorn street, at three o’clock his oon. . ROBERT T, WoopWaRD. Tobert T. Woodward, of the firm of Woodward, Lawrenco & Co., Broadway, dicd at his residence in Gramercy Park on Tuesday, in the sixty-seventh year ot his age. Deceased was born in Mount Hope, Orange county, N. ¥., in 1812, and, coming’ to this city when quite young, was engaged as a clerk ina Ary goods store. The first house he became cen- nected with as a partner was that of James Hale & Co., dry goods jobbers, Afterward he became one of the'partners in the firm of Jennings, Woodward & Co,; then as senior member of the houses of Wood- wad, Otis & Tarbell, Woodward & Tarbell, ward, Mount & Co., and finally the which he entered in 1863, when the firm was known as Lawrence, Clapp & Co., the predecessor of the present house, The dvceased was well kuown throughout the trade as poaeeees the character istics of sound judgment and the highest order of business ability integrity, with an enviable resent house, reputation tor personal virtues in social and private life. He was a mau of singular modest and retiring ware hina habits. The immediate cause of his death paralyticstroke, u complaint, that had made sufferer at intervals for several years. He leaves fomily«onsiating of his widow and four daughte Funeral services will be held in the Rev. Dr. © ‘3 church, Fifth avenue and Forty-fifth street, at ten o'clock to-morrow. e- REV, JAMES DE KOVEN, D. D, Rev. Dr. James Do Koven, Warden of Racine Cok lege, Wisconsin, and one of the most prominent clergymen of the Protestant Episcopal Church in America, died suddenly of apoplexy at the college yesterday morning. Dr. De Koven was’born at Mid dictown, Conn., September 19, 1851, graduated at Columbia College, New York, in 1851, and at the Gen- eral Theologicai Seminary in 1864; was ordsined a deacon in the Protestant Episcapal Church the same year, and to the priesthood in the following year; was for five years rector of a church at Delafield, Wis,, and tutor in ecclesiastical history at Nashotah Seminary, and in 1869 was chosen Warden of Racine College, which position ho filled during the re- mainder of his life. In Febroary, 1875, he was chosen Bishop of Illinois by the Diocesan Conven- tion assembled at Chicago, He received 39 clerical nd 31 Jay votes against 27 clerical votes for Dr. Leeds and 23 ay" votes thrown against hia election. Dr, De Kovert was put in nom- ination by Rev. Dr. Cushman, who paid o high pve 1 Bf to his great learning, eloquence and aduunistrative ability, and declared that Dr. De Koven, “holds to the evangelic truth and apostoke order as itis; “that his doctrine upon the eye upon all other points was that of the great doctors the Church of every age,"’ and that “while he may doubt its constitutionality he accepts the substance of the canon of the Church upon jhe ritual.” Never- theless the election failed to be ratified on account of Dr. De Koven’s “High Church” views. On another occasion ho was very nearly chosen Bishop of Massa- chusetts, but was defeated for the same reason. ‘ Seymour had prev.ougly been rejected after olection to the bishopric of Illinois fora similar cause, In the General Episcopal Convention, held in New York elty in Qetover and November, 1874, Dr. De Kove ‘us the brilliant champion of the High Church party, and with such elo- quence that @ majority hostile to his views voted to suspend the rules and allow him to speak as long as he pleased, In April of last year Dr. De Koven was called ¢o be assistant minister of h, New York city, but declined the ¢ in Juno after mature deliberation, He was recently elected rector St, Mark’s Church, Philadephia, but had not announced his decision. . De Koven was eminent as a teacher, as pulpit orator, as & writer and as @ theologian, and was ht an persons con- sidered the most ‘distinguished clergyman of his Church in point vf talent and influence, About six weeks ago he #lipped on an fey paveiment at Chicago and broke his leg, since which time he had been con- fined to his room, and the apoplectic Se ‘trinity Chu: caused his death was doubtless able to soci- teak rh senomunation, whether High Cuurch OF is dens mn, wi Low nme, ste is inate arch, wince they all revered him of character, ition ‘slminary Wood-. % 7) fy