The evening world. Newspaper, January 2, 1888, Page 2

-*~to-give than to receive”—more rational to gh J THE WORLD. Pudiahed by the Prose Publlahing Oo. MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 2, SUBSCRIPTION TO THE EVENING EDITION (Including Postage), PER MONTH, 800, ¢ PER YEAR, $3.50, THE YEARLY RECORD. fotal Number of Worlds Printed during 1887, 83,389,828. Average per Day for Entire Year, 228,465. SIX YEARS COMPARED : THE WORLD came under the present proprie- forship May 10, 1883. Sunday World’s Record: Over 200,000 Every Sunday During the Last Two Years, The average circulation of The Sunday World during 1882 was The average circulation of Tho Sunday World during 1883 was The average circulation of The Sunday World during 1884 was The average circulation of Tho Sunday World during 1885 was The average’ circulation of The Sunday World during 1886 was 234,724 The average circulation of The Sunday World during 1887 was 257,267 CIRCULATION BOOKS OPEN TO ALL, 14,727 24,054 79,985, 166,636 ADVERTISING RATES. rs (Agate Measurement.) Ordinary, 25 cents per line, No extra price for ao- ceptable display. Business or Spocial Noticon, opposite Féiteral page, BO cents per line, Reading Noticer, starred or marked “‘Advt.": First page, $1.50 per Jine; Fourth page, $1.25 per line; Inside page, 81 ver Ime, 1# rates for advertising in the Daily WORLD do mot ap~ Fila to the Evening tarwe, Nor do the rates of that tsve Gu ply lo the Morning Edition, NEW YEAR'S: ADMONITIONS. ‘The pulpit gave many timely and wiso ad- monitions yesterday appropriate to the day ; but none were better than those uttered by Rev. Dra. Hupgr Newron and Ronxnr Coxnyzn. ‘The former enforced the duty and pointed out the pleasure of the benevolent uso of surplus wealth during its possessor's life. ‘The examples of Mrs. Aston, of the Vannzn- srt heirs and of Puree Coorxn were cited toenforce the truth that “it is more blessed spend charitably than to save or to spend selfishly, Genial Rosent Coxrnyzn exhorted his hearers, among other things, to ‘ honor Manhattan Island”—to strive to make New York the best-renowned city in the world. Local pride is a very concrete form of patriotism. New Yorkneeds more of it—of the better sort, THE SECOND SOBER THOUGHT, The more the Reading employees think of the order to strike, the more they should re- solve not to do it. To strike in midwinter, in the face of-cer- tain failure, for questionable cause and upon, disputed authority, would be the height of! folly. Nothing fails like failure. The /Knights* cannot afford a big failure just now. FILL UP THE PURSE, The story of the sewing-girl who lost a; purse containing all her savings, as‘told in ‘Tue Wort to-day, tests the sinoerity of the ‘‘ Happy New Year” mood in others. Tue Evznrxa Worxp proposes that the lost purse be made good. It does so because it has ascertained that the case is a genuine and deserving one, and because it believes ‘that the habit of saving: ought to beencour- aged. Contributions have already begunito come in, Fill up the working girl’s purse. ‘POOR JIMMY! It is quite too awfully bad that a young and’ unsophisticated patriot like Jimmy Husrep, intent only on serving Limself at the expense of the State, should be ‘done up” by a naughty, wicked political ‘* machine.” So young, so innocent, and so pulverized! Like the valorous chap who ‘ rastled " with a threshing machine, Husrep won't be so handsome hereafter, but he will know a great deal more. The Purarr-Hiscock combination couldn't 'y New York, but it has scalped:the Bald le, \ BEHIND THE PROCESSION, PH Cook, the Roston Boanenaxs, seems nk that itis his mission to secure the tion of everything that he doesn’t deprived of their Sunday papers consent to be cooped up in ahall, or even a church, to listen to his fustian? Brother Coox should try and catch up with the nineteenth century procession. ‘The best monument that Chicago can raise to the valor of the policemen who lost their lives in the Anarchist outbreak, is to make ample provision for the families of the vic- tims. This would be far more sensible than to erect the ' highest obelisk in the world.” The poor man who stole an old copy of ‘Twmorxson’s poems from a Sixth avenue stall ‘s entitled to some consideration op.eenownt i Inspector Byrnes was presented with @ box of of his good taste. He might have taken Swinvaye, and then three months on the island would have been none too Wad for him, The secret of Lord Ranxy Cuvncnr.’s mission to Russia is out. He went.to use a complimentary ticket to ‘dramatic per- formance at the Gatschina Palace,” counter- signed by the Czar. Tho dend-hend privilege is never wasted, “Democratic simplicity” is having a hard struggle for recognition at Washington. There is a great deal of human nature in Democratic women who are pretty and Dem- ocratic men who are rich, The * practical joker” who sends a fic tious marriage notice to the newspapers de- serves to haye the joke returned with « good stout rawhide, well laid o Josern Cook confesses that he reads the Sunday papers on Monday asa“ duty.” ‘The people generally read them while they are fresh aga plensuro. If the swear-off” sticks to-day it onght to hold for a week, and if for a week, then for a year, — AROUND POLICE HEADQUARTERS, ‘The only Police Commissioner who made his ap- Pearance wt headquarters this morming was Mr. Voorhia, Inspector Williams will be forty-eight years oll on Jan. 19—alx days before the annual banquet of the Captains, Billy Florence very kindly remembered his brother, Inspector Contin, to-day. His gifts also made litte folks happy. ‘The members of the Polloe Department will not be paid unti! to-morrow—all on account of New Year's Day falling on Sunday. ‘Phe Inspectors exch received a box of such villain- ous cigars for 4 Christmas present,,that they had hurd work to give them away, Sixty-one of the ** Finest " will face Commission- er Voorhia on Wednesday to offer the usual thread- bare excuses for infractions of the rales, Fourteen Police Captains began operations tn new felds this morning, and were reminded by their Inspectors that new brooms ure expected to ‘sweep clean, Supt. Murray began the year with an early morn- ing conference with ils Iuspectors, He called upon them to see that the lawa are very rigidly eu- forced this year, Chief Clerk Kipp is very proud of the highly tem- pered and s#barp-edged tomahawk which be re- ceived as a New Year gift. It adorns the mantie- pleco in his cosy-ofice at Police Headquarters, Johnny O'Brien wears a broad smile and winks a big ** No,” when asked if there Is any possibility of losing his place aa Chief of the Bureau of Elections. ‘1am still on deck,” he sald this morning, * It will bo a happy New Year to us all” ———————_—_ WORLDLINGS, Tho Hagel Green (Ky.) Herald boasts of a sub- soriber Who rides twouty miles on horseback every week to get his paper. ‘The people of Salinas, Cal., picked ripe raxpber- ries and strawberries and watermelons from their vines for their Chrisunas dinners, Mra. Wesley Ray, of Marshall County, Ky., pre- sented her husband with four brand-new bables— two boys and two girls —on Christmas Day, ‘Mother and little ones are reported to be all doing well, Senator Pasco, of Florida, Senator Jones's suc- cessor, 18 a brunette with jet black hair, whieh he weurs well combed up from nis dark, sallow fore- head, He 16 a graduate of Harvard ;and wont South as a school teacher Just after the war, A farmer recently brought @ wagon-load of par- tridges into Atlanta, and gold them like hot cakes atadoliar a dozen, Pariridges have been very numerous thro! hout the State of Georgia this soason, and hunters have been uniformly sucocss ful in bagging quantities of them, Andrew Carnegie, the tron prince, who pays one of his foremen a sulury of $25,000 year, did his firat work in’ Pittsburg telegraph oMeg for $3 a week. Rufus Hatch was once a locomotive en- ginecr, and Is sald to boast that he can take apart and put together any locomotive now jn use, Congressman Felton, of California, who 1s worth $10,000,000, 18 Fuld to spend more monoy than any of his associates, He usually drawa from $2,000 to $2,600 a month through the oMce of the Sergeant-at-Arms, and Whon in Washington oceu- ples apartments at an uptown hotel that cost him $400 a month, He is very charitable, Mrs, Jacob Condon, of Reed, Pa., dreamed that her baby was burned to death, but in the morning when she told her husband of the dream he Inughed at her fears, Late in the afternoon the child’s clothing took fire at an open grate, and be- fore the flames could be smothered the infant had beon so badly burned that it died soon afterwards, ‘The schoolboys in the village of Victor, Mich., have had a grudge againat tueir er for some time, and they recently determined 4 bring mat- ters to a crisis by biowing up fhe schoolhouse, ‘To curry out the plot they loaded a stick of wood with gunpowder and placed it {u the stove. The explo- sion blew the stove to pieces, but no further dam- age was done, William Horn, living near Greenville, Pa., cap- tured a hawk alive recently, and toking {t home Med It to the leg of the kitchen table until he could procure weage. ‘The baby was left in the room to play, and soon Mra Horn heard it screaming violently. Rushing to the rescue she found that the viclons bird had attacked the child and was tearing ite face and breast with its talous and beak, Before the mother could saye it, the baby had been badly lacerated on one cheek, an eye wus torn out ‘and there were deep wounds on its breast. oe From Hotel Registers. bf We Gardner, of Montreal, is at the Murray tl, ‘The Sturtevant sheltors Capt. Campbell Lane, C, A., of Montreal, Mr, and Mra Ceell Clay, of Loudon, are regis- tered at the, St, James, Atthe Grand are Miss Hobbard and Miss Hart- nell, of the Faculty of Vassar College. At the Victoria are J, Kutgera Le Roy, of Paria, and B, Maritto, of the Kepublic of Colombla, orge lies, Who Las just retired from the man- agement of the Windsor Motel at Montreal, is a guest of the Park Avenue. Among others at the Everett are Dr, 1, Iutehin- son, of St Paul; Win, KR. Wilson, Boston, wud Prof, Julius Dreher, of Koanoke College, A. M. Wendell, business manager of the Albany Express, is at the Hottmat M. Voxe, an ac- Ave worker from Boston, accompantes tiin, Kecent arrivals at the Bruoswick include the Hon. John Hamilton, of Montreal; John C. O'Donnel, of Baitimdre, and Count AL de La Bassetiere, of Paris Atuong thetrecent arrivals at the Brevoort are Mra, James B. Potter, the lon, Charles H, ‘Trevor aud Cok KR. Drury, of London, and Capt.” Corop, of the steamship Etruria, Staying at the St. James are B, K, Jenison, @ Phiiadelpila banker, Eugene Higgins, of the ‘Preasury Departivent at ington, dnd Miss Rosina Vokes, the actress, At the Fifty Avenue ure Henry L. Pi ex: Mayor of Boston; T, b, Alurich, the wuthor, of haries’ Daule Boston, Judge Houser, ex Court, and ST. tana, of the Supreme Governor of Mon- ee A Good Time to Cali On the Inspector. THE WORLD : MONDAY EVENING, JAN THE POOR'S MARKET NIGHT. BUSY JN LAYING IN THE PROVISIONS FOR | THE WEEK, A Scone of Hi “a Hard to Make B Butchers Who Sell For Almont Any One Can Saturday Evening at Wanshin ILE bustle and activity of Washington Market, venon What the mer. chants of that crowde mart would ¢ da: ein ordinary outsider. ‘There are apparently always plenty of cus. tomers floating around and ifm stall-keeper is not netunlly in driving p bargain, he is busying himself rearranging his stock fons to make it pr sont amore attractiv appearance, or filling up hisordersfor the day. To see Washing- ton Market at its busiest, however, one must go there on Saturday evening when the poor people come to lay in their stock of provis. ions for the week, ‘Then [the competition is at its height and the traders are all anxious to get rid of their remaining stock, as many of them make it arnie not to carry anythin over Sunday Und stances: they are not disposed to refuse any reason. able offer, The poorer classes know this, and come in droves to the market, eager to take advant of the necessities of the inar- ket-men and seenre their supply of meat, fish and poultry at the cheapest possible price. There is no doubt that Washington Market is the cheapest in the world, and that it is re- sorted to by a larger number of the poorer classes than nny other in tho city on these . Notonly is it patronized almost exclusively by all tliose living in the crowded downtown localities, but all np along tl and west sides as far as Harlem tho te house districts contribute to its enormous custom, It would be simply hnpossible to number its Saturday night visitors, Brom 6 o'clock engaged such ciren they crowd the sidewalks outside and the ad- joinin ereetec streots, whore temporary stands are by what might be cafled a class ilitors for this particular evening and tho passagoways within are some- fines Ko jammed that it isa dificult: matter to get within eyeshot of a butcher's stand, to say nothing of nance to trade As the i the erowd to increase in numbers, until between 9 a o'clock the hub-bub is at its height, ag the din and bustle have reached the propor- tions of a very respectable pandemonium, From this time on the clatter begins to sub: side, but it is midnight before most of the merchants prepare to close up their stalls and get away to their rest. What'the poor people buy. principally is meat, poultry and fish, and the former they area nto pick up at Wargain,” especially in the street, If a merchant thinks that bis would-be cus. tomer has the mon in his pocket 1 wants to buy he vy not hesitate a moment in making a discount on schedule prices: in order to catch his man, The result is that the x is always done ng the mar as it were, for the customers never seom to think that they are getting bottom prices, although they may be paying three cents a vound for their moat [exw than tho. butehor paid for it in’ bulk, Of course the butcher stonr oF CHANCE. depends for his protit on the higher prices which he obtains from his regular daily customers for the choice cuts, and can afford to sacrifice the leavings at a loss in order to get rid of them, As William P. Durando who keeps a big Dutchor’s stall’on the Vesey streot side of the duarket, saidto a reporte: “You see this hig counter piled up with cheap cuts of mut. ton? Those are the breasts and legs. We ‘an't sell them to our best customors, and the ny we can dispose of them is to let ‘at a cheap price to the crowds oft or people who come in here Saturday nights looking for bargains. We have to pay on an average of 84 conts a pound for th animals from which these cuts come, aud we have to sell them as low asthree and four coutsa pound. ‘The people think the price is dear at that, sometimes, and try to beat us down, but I don’t know that we have ever gone under the lowest figure mentioned.” Butcher F, Brown, whose stand is on the stroot on the Washington street side, said: *Talways do a big trade Saturday night, as I saye up for it all the week. This week the cold weather has kept the stock in good con. dition and you see the result. Those Satur- day-nighters are a rum crowd and it's very hard to please them, 1 sell them mutton for four or five cents that I have to pay twice as much for, and beef from five to eight cents, ‘They always want you to throw in some- thing, and that is what I keep all those soup bones for. This ny joint you see will make a good pot of soup fora large family, but it has to go as a sort of bonus. [ don’t sell seraps at all, People who buy meat down here always want something thrown in for the dog or cat, and this is where the scraps come in handy," * Do we sell much Saturday night?” said Poulterer Martin Kletcuka, who keeps a pic- turesue stand on the Vesey street sidewalk just below Washington, ** Well, I should yso. Poultry isaboutthe cheapest thing the market just now, and we count on the Saturday-night crowd to get rid of all the stock left over after dhe week's sale The best stock is all pieKed out by this time, and we are ready to let things at any pric Chickens soll at eight ce pound and tur. keys at 10, or less sometimes. ‘They snap them np attheso prices. This is about the way things go all the year round.” Mrs. Hladey, who keeps the adjoining stand, whon «questioned, replied: '* Yes, Sat- urday night's the time the "imilk train,’ as w call it, comes in, and it. brings a queer-look- ing cargo, I tell'you, If you say $1 they sa 60 cents, and that’s the way it goes, Some times they buy in large, but usually in small, quantities, We don't care much about prices When it gets along towards 12 o'clock in. th zht so long as we get the customer, There are no fancy prices here on Saturday night. Ifadealer ‘asked the prices he doos during the day he would be mobbed.” Poulterer P. Howell, who also keeps o stand on Vesey street, near the entrance to the market, was congratulating himself that he had been able to charge higher prices for his stock this week on account of the cold weather and the blockades in railroads, which had prevented the stock from coming to mar- ket, and had also enabled him to keep over such of his stock as he did not sell, He did not depend altogether on the Saturday-night trade, it was evident, Buteher C. McCauley has a fine stand just about in the re of the market. ‘* Wash. ington Market,” he said, '* is the only market in the city where poor people come in any numbers at all, and although, as a general rule, the butchers in the market don't de- | pend on them for their trade, they find them very convenient at the end of the week to take what is left, "They don’t make a cent on the meat they sell them, and although the heustomers will always say they can get it cheaper uptown, they do not state the truth, ts 80-cent cigars by the detectives in his office to-day, ANA MOM SNS JK, bun ow rontouttar oh AGRE FRE ORLA * Washington Market is the cheapest mar- VOM) Maelo Rareas re? Rant oR PORE oor people come here in such numbers. here butchers will sell them fairly good ents of mutton at prices which range three or four cents below what they paid for the meat in Wulk, I thing they are doing a good work in relieving poverty and destitu- tion. With good ment at three and four cents @ pound no one ought to go hungry. The trouble with a good many of those who coine here is that they want to get their meat for nothing, Weare not doing business that way, however, although there are ag many butchers in the market who will give away scraps if the persous who ask for them really seem to be too poor to pay for better nich cases of destitution as that are 1 who keeps the largest stand in the market, said: " Tdc have much busin with the Saturday. nighters, although I keep my stands open pretty late, and seen good deal ‘of what is koing ou, I do. not think these poor peo- ple are imposed upon asa general rule, for of them know y are gettin, Ont in the street, where they do abueeanceriny sort of a trad the meats that they Kell 1s heap are the poorest ek that can be ob. mostly poor Texan stock that'is cut upany way, aud sold in chunks for a shil- li rtwo, according HOW MANY POUNDS. to size, It’s different with poultry, ‘These fellows get hold of stuf! that has been several weeks on the road aud ix in a pretty bad condition. Tt ix washed and ironed and fixed up so as to make it pre- sentable, and is sold for fresh poultry. Very few are fooled by it, however, and cheap res. taurants take a good deal of it, knowing that, with sufficient seasoning, they can shove it off on their enstomers. . Buteher David Kearr had on hig table a pile of several hundred weiht of mutton breasts nnd legs, a part of which, he suid, went to th Saturday night customers, but the gree part to cheap restaurants on Chatham street and the Bowery. “ You see more destitution among the customers of a five-cent restan- rant,” he said, * than you do here among our nin the Saturday night crowd. bt about it, Washington Mar- City Charles N.Van Buren and Benjamin W who keop adjoining stands near the Washing ton street side, both declared that although the poor people of the city could obtain meat and. provisions for almost nothing in the market, it was fresh and wholesome, and there was no need of nny housewife who could raise a few cents going without a din- nor for herself and family. One of the most prominent fish-dealors in the market, Henry A. Van Dyne, told the r porter that'what was true of the butcher trade applied cqually to the fish market. “We sell fish on urday night all the way from four to ten cents a pound, und we never sell anything that is not perfectly fresh and wholesome. If we ers would have immediate red Clerk of the market. for thirty i time has not been twenty feet from this place, Of course, on Saturday night we are not anxious to carry over any of our stock and big reductions are made in pri ® What the poorest people buy are flound- ers, codfish, haddock aud these cheat simelts, The latter are sold outside for real smelts and often deceive customers, who think the dealers in the market are trying to impo: upon them because they ask so much highe: prices. They are sold about a hundred pe cent, cheaper, but really after you get them they are worth nothing because you cannot eat them, ee ‘These outside stands are injuring Wash- ington Market inore and moro every year, Ofc urse they can sella little cheaper, but most all of their stuf is bad and unwhole- some, and it is of uo advantage to the poor people to buy it, when they can get. what is Peay good in the market at such stall i ‘Then, too, they have no redress for tions that are practised upon the Clerk of the market has no jurisdic er the curbstone dealers, The city ought to abolish them alto~ gether, or drive them away from the mar! not that their competition brings about lowe ices, but } use outsiders, coming here and being imposed upon, attribute all this to the unreliability and bad management. of the market itself, and T have no doubt this abuse has caused Washington Market to lose re) nitation among a better class of custom- ers.” ‘ess by app Thavyo been here now vars, and my stand during that RENTING A FURNISHED FLAT, Experience of a San Franc! May Be Duplic in New York. [From the San Francisco Chronicle.) About two months ago a yentleman and nis wife, who haye been residing in the vicinity of Low Angeles for many years, arranged to take up thelr residence in this elty, ‘They lived in ** boom” land before the blizzard of tnflation struck it, and re- solving to prot by the abuormal rise tu valuations, disposed of their lots and houses at a very fair profit, Having an eye for future investments in Northern California, they came to Sun Francisco. From street to stteet the couple wandered in Nearch Of a residence, UntIl one day they found a Nat of four rooins duly advertised And adnouneed beiny to let furnished complete, ‘The landlord wax sought, aud uc, pollte und accommodating, told his would-ve tenaots that the fat was to let on wecount of the former occupants leaving town, ‘The Los Angeles couple viewed the rooms and were very much pleased with the look of the furni- ture and Keneral surroundings of the apartments, But it ts better to partute the story from this polut us It was told a Chronicle reporter by the lady: We bired tue Nat—it ls on McAllister street— and concluded to move ia after the place was cleaved up. 1 engaged & Japanese boy and a white cook, and they started to do the work. On the first day that we were Iu the rooms I was arrange ing wome hooks on @ table and had to pull it away from the wall, ‘Tommy astonishment the back legs fell down and the top collapsed with the load of Mterature, ‘This was the Orst surprise, I gent the Japanese boy for a carpenter, and while he was ne went to the kitchen to see how dinner was etting on, Sorprise number (Wo awaited me here, found the cook in a state of excitement. She had 1 the Veyctable dishes from the cupbourd, and Hitting the covera the disiics had fallen to pleces with a cravh, 1 didn't kuow what to do, An! returning to the parlor sat down upou a fancy a rocking-chair, Ominous cracking noises Couple that began to be manifest aw 1 took my seat, and sud. denly the entire chair fell to pieces, It had been simply gined together. 1 hud w good ery. and thew way hus’ came home, We Went downtown to aw restaurant to dinner, and comforted ourselves on the way home to the fat that the kind lundiord would make ight, Let's play hand casino — b re we retire,’ #: my od, drawing a ebony care the wall. Scarcely Nad Th laced in” position than It, too, wing the manner in whiell tt had he tems and Joints had tits of on to hold them together, and they ad Leen pushed into the sockets to hold them ti place. ‘This was the last straw and we went to bed, Thad better pass over the quality of the matrosaes and pillows on that bed. ‘The wp rings were worn out and stuck toto our backs and Fibs as we Vainly endeavored to Nid & comfor * The bext morning the door-bell_kept up a con- tinuous ringing. ‘The callers were duns looking Jor the last tenants, and as a climax, when turned home after breskfust we found a bly, fu dirty man sitting before the kitchen joking vile-smeliing cigars, He an. mself aw a deputy sheriff in charge, and proposed to remain where he was until the judg. Ment was satiated, *** What Judgment 2’ we both asked aghast, ‘we don’t owe anything.’ ‘+*'No, but the last tenants Md for the furni- ware,’ was the reply. + rong 1 7 Hen the furniture don’s belong to the tend. jord,? **"*Thould say not. Here's the bill for $500,’ the Sheriff's deputy, banding us a document bearing the name of a Orm that rents second-hand furniture. + This incident Olled up our onp of woe, and the next morning We returned to the Palace Hotel, re- solved to never again rent @ furnished fat,” See AS A New Year's Week Ball. ‘The annual ball of the employees of David & Brown & Co, will be held at Irving Hall next Thuraday evening, Denolag will begin at 990 Me Hl? baa how VARY 2, 1838, WELCOMING THE NEW YEAR. —— A FEAST CELEBRATED NOWADAYS VERY MUCH AS IN OLD TIMES, Some Gifta Which Old English Severcigns Keceived from Subjecte—The Wassall How! and Its Modern Substitute—Y¥. N New Year's Day {/ wave feasts been held } by Christian, Pagan or what not so far as the chronicles of men go back. ‘Time was when the Romans gave gifts to their Senators on the opening day of the year, and the day has been celebrated with more ceremony than Christinas, even in Christian lands, Christinas, as it is now known, o — general feasting and gift-giv- ing day, is a comparatively modern. insti- tution, adopted from the Germans, who still preserve it as their chief holiday Indeed, while the rest of the population of this country are making preparations for the celebration of New Year's Day, German citi- zens are taking down the Christmas tree which has been brilliantly illuminated and upon which admiring children haye gazed fondly for a week, After Cwsar conquered Britain, forty-five ‘ears before the birth of Christ, the Romans i their custom of celebrating the en- sof Janus with gift-giving and festi- . Dates, figs covered with gold leaf and hall pices of money formed.” appro. vrinte’ New-Year's gifts, The Druids of hi itain adopted the Roman custom, and ga branches: ot mistletoe cut with a golden knife in th ered forests, ward VI. was pleased to receive an or- an tuck full of cloves, and the reformer, Latimer, sont to Henry VIEL. for a New: Year's gift a New ‘Testament, with the leaf turned down at Hebrews xiii., 4, which the lusty monarch of seven wives did not relish. Jines I, once received a canteen on which was engrayed the sun, moon, stars and Manets, said to have been the work of David {., the Scottish king, while confined as a prisoner in Nottingham Castl Jan. 1, 1580, Sir Francis Drake gave Queen Elizabeth a “tanne of feathers white and sthe handle of golde, inameled with a ral f 106 of mother of pearles, within that a half moone garnished with sparkes of dia- mondes, having a picture of Her Majest: within it.” ; Gift piv still prevails in France, but in England and America, despite the dictum of Fashion, New Year's Day 1s devoted to cull- ing and Social festivities, The wassail-bow! was an institution of * olden time in Merrie, England,” and pre- ceded the custom of to-day of drinking healths of hostess and guests in punches and egy-nogs on the initial day of the year. The Wassail-bowl is to New Year's what the yule log isto Christians, It is the symbol of com. fort, good cheer and happiness. The custom was in the beginning for young women to go from door to door singing songs and giving liquor known as lamb’s wool—a sort of mixture of ale, nutmeg, sugar, toast tnd roasted erabs or apples, to. all their friends. In return. they received gifts, fre- quently of money, till the wassail-bowl was passed by young women 80 persistently that it became & question of Whether they were any better than begyars. ‘The present. custom of calling by gentle- men upon ladies began by the setting out at candle-light of six men together. They called and sang conyiyial songs, in which they demanded’ that if their friends loved them they wit by giving them to drink. This soon. degenerated into. a begging scheme, and to this day boys are particularly importunate in their requests for gifts, 50 that A happy New Year, sir!” is hardly more than a beggar's plea, “* Health, my lord king,” the sweet Rowena gai ** Healtn!” ered the chieftain to the Saxon maid; ‘Then gayly rose, und ‘mild the concourse wide Kissed her pale lips and placed her by his side. ‘At the softscene, such gentle thouglits avound, ‘That healtns and kissed "mongst the guests went round. From titis the social custom took ita mise; We atlll |, wd BULL must keep the prize, Ben Jonson wrote: ‘* Enter wassol like a neat seamster, and songster, her page bearing a brown bowl, dresst with ribbons and rose- mary before her.” But soon the wassail bowl ceased to go its rounds from house to house, and settled down by its own comfortable fireside, where, presided over by fair maidens and mistre of the household, it gave forth its cheer to callers on the natal day of each new year, Some of London's oldest guilds gather in their ing rooms on New Year's Day, and the President, standing over a big punch. bowl, drinks from a silver flagon to the health of the King, Queen and his fellow-officers, The flagon is then passed ‘round, each in turn drinking the health of the President. And on New Year's day the health of Uncle Sam, the President, and a lot of other good fellows is drunk by a hundred thousand other good fellows this broad Union oyer, In the Scottish Highlands there is still much superstition concerning New Year's Day, and, until a recent date, juniper bushes were cut, sprinkled with water and laid on a fire ere the houschold arises on New Year's morn, ‘The dampened junipers do not burn readily, but they create a fearful smudge, and everybody is almost stifled. ‘This fam gation was supposed to drive out the witche: and was a sort of house-cleaning for the ne year for the minds and souls, This rhyme is ‘still heard in Scotland: It New Year's Eve night winds blow south, It betokeueth warmth and growth; If west, much milk and Osh In the sea; If north, much wind and storm there Will be; If east, ihe trees will bear much fruit; If northeast, flee it, man and brute, In some parts of England, shopkeepers will trust no one on New Year's Day, on the ground that it would be a bad start for the new Year, ‘The Persians celebrate the opening of the New Year by unusually hardy and neck-risk- ing games. Dancing-girls jump the rope with poles, and frequently the rope, which is stretched sometimes seventy or eighty feet, is placed so high that the girls, by the use of their poles, leap from the tops of buildings over the rope. The Shah gives money to the’ performers, and the day concludes with a display of fireworks. ‘Thé Chinese New Year does not come at the » as that of effete civilization, but yall the same, Indeed, it's three big days, avcording to the arrangements of the Celostials, "| And that brings the writer and the reader around to the point. New Year's falls on Sunday this time, and although legal sanction has been given to the observance jof Monday as the holiday, there are many ‘people who would just as 600n think of weighing the new baby after it had had twenty-four hours to vrow old and heayy in as to celebrate New Year's when it had reached its second sun, New Yorkers, too, don’t believe there can be too much of'a good thing, and as Saturday was half a holiday anyway they made it a whole one quite generally, and thus Satur- day, Bondy! an Monday form a triple New ear's, In the myth old Janus or January had two fo One looked back at the old, the other smiled forward upon the new year. Then why not three of him ? , How, Tax Worn would like to know, is a body to watch the old year out and the new one in if the old yen expires on Saturday at midnight and the new year does not begin operations till Monday morning at 12 o'clock and a hai Who's the year between ¢ wh 1 tedte owt ld THE PEOPLE'S LETTER BOX. Every-Day Topics of Lnaterest to Readers of ing World.” Please be kind enough to give my mite to case of ‘Mother and Son” in Saturday's Evening Worip. K. of Ly New York, Jan. 1. An Offer of Information, To the Editor af The Eeeniny World: If your correspondent signing himself “South America” will make an appointment with me on Tuesday or Wednesday (forenoon preferred) I will gladly give him all the in- formation asked for, as it would be too much to ask you to print. I have travelled in South Ainerica from Rio to Cape Horn, and am now thinking of returning to Montevideo or Buenos Ayres in the spring. If convenient “S$. A.” can see me at my address on Tues- day at 9.304, Mm _ Sunny Sours. 62 College place, New. York, A Little Free Advice. tor of The Rrening Worl: J.B.” wishes to become a practical engineer and not merely a@ ‘ starter and stooper,” his only course is through the school of experience, either asa fireman, steamfitter or mnehinist, He should ayoid ‘paper engineers” and * mechanical ex- perts” who will * post him" for a consid- eration, ‘These quacks undertake to learn others what they never learned themselves, are respousible for the large amount of hanical” nonsense prevalent among engineers, such as ** speroidal,” " myste ous gases” and ‘low water” theories of explosions, WPeren Givvons. New York, Dec. 31, 1887. Tothe If Restricted Emigration Suggested. To the Bditor of The Keening World + ‘As one of the “' vast army of unemployed” workingmen in this city at the present time, I have read with pleasure the letters of “ George Rogers” and others in the EveNIno Wontp—a paper, by the way, without a peer in this city in advocating the best interests of both working men and women. As yet not one of your correspondents haa sig. gested a remedy for the gloomy outlook. It is said with truth that 100,000 deserving men are out of work in the city of New York alone, many of them having large famiies to supply with the necessaries of life. Every field of labor, skilled and unskilled, is over- crowded, a fact which was recently borne out statements of two S mnen well known in this city, One advertised (in Tire Wonton. of course) for an expert accountant for a short time only,and received oy cr three hundred applications the first day. The other wanted a man-of-ull-work to take charge of his country seat during the winter season, This called 450 “unemployed” to his place of business, several being anxious to take the situation and work—"* for their ,board!” It is also adinitted that two-thirds of this great army of idle men and women are ** strangers within our gates” —aliens, In view of these acknowledged truths the remedy is plain, i.e., stop the wholesale incoming of work: ingmen to this country, already overflowing, for a time at least. One or THE UNEMPLOYED. New York, Jan, 2, 1888, low is This, Warden W Tu the Editor of the Evening World: Knowing how wishful you are always to help those who cannot help themselves, I beg to appealto you on behalf of the prisoners now awaiting trial in the Tombs, On Thurs. day last, De . L took a prisoner, who ex pects to be put on trial next week, some arti- cles of food, when I was informed by the turnkey that the warden had issued an order forbidding anything to be admitted ex- fean clothes. It is certainly true that prisoners Who have money can buy what they desire in the eating way, but at prices double or triple, often’ quadruple, to what they can be bought for outside the prison, _ y the laws of civilized countries a pris. oner is innocent until found guilty, and if the law takes the necessary steps to prevent the accused from evading justice by olding him there is no law in thixor any other coun- try prohibiting the uncondcimued prisoners from having the napessaries of life, and at this festive time of the year a few of the lux- y have been accustomed to previous a charge brought against them, may on trial be found unjustifiable and unwarrantable. Lamm perfectly well aware that the prison diet is dufticient to support the strength and health of the inmates, but I do think at this time of the year the authorities ought to be kind and lenient, and allow those who are separated from all who are near and dear to make themselves in their captivity as happy as possible. If the prisoners were condemned, then let them be punished to the full extent of the lay; but Irepeat that until a man is found yuilty he should be regarded as innocent and Sabarrod of nothing which his friends or relatives can provide for him or which can be procured by a prisoner who is out on bail. Tn France, Germany, Belgium, England, and, in fact, all civilized countries inthe Old World, prisoners can maintain themselves if they desire, and it is a burning shame that in this boasted land of liberty the same privi- leges cannot be allowed. — Driver Rocne. 230 Third street, Jersey City, N. J., Dec, 31. Services at the Cathedral, ‘he services in the Cathedral to-day were partic- ularly impressive, ‘he Society of the Holy Name celebrated ita anniversary, and of the 4,000 mem- berg in this city about three-fourths were present. Father MeClosky celebrated the masa, ‘The deacon was Father J. J, McMahon, the sub-deacon Father M, J. Mulhern’ and the ‘master of ceremontes Famer J. W. Kelly. ‘The service of song was appropriute and effective, ‘The mass was Mozart's Second Masé in. ‘The offertory was * Adeste Fideleg,” from Novello. ‘The quartet consisted of Mise Stewart, soprano; Miss Groebl, alto; Mr, Kaiser, tenor; Mr. Stelnbuch, basso, ‘William ¥, Pecher was organist, jah & ee Being Thirsty He Smashed the Windows. Felix Martin wandered about the city last night in search of adrink, but could get none, By the time he reached Jacob Stadier’s saloon at 280 West y-ninth sireet, he was 8 discouraged that, Kable to open the door, he smashed the ows, Malicious mischief was the charge on win which he was held at the Jefferson Market Court this morning. =. Fall of a Boarding-House Reformer. Jonu Moynahan, aged twenty-one, a boarder at 861 West Thirty-frat street, went to the house yes- terday drunk, and found fault with the supper, He chased the landlady, Adelaide Larner, out of her room and hit her a ‘blow on the shoulder with his fist, For all this he was held 1n $300 bail at the Jeflergon Market Police Court, — The N. ¥. A. C. Receives Its Eriondas, ‘The New York Athletic Club 18 giving a formal reception to-day to ité friends at the clab-nouse, 104 West Fifiy-tifth’ atreet, ‘The table is sprea from 1 to 5 o'ck . ‘Ihe centerpiece is a hand some fac-simile of the new property recently pu aged, and 18 decorated with all the medals wou during 158; — For Breaking Sunday Laws, Jonw Reynolds, of 15 Monroe street, and Andrew Jacckle, of 846 East Ninth street, were held in $100 at the Eesex Market Police Court to-day for viola tou of the Excise law, Harry Hilton, of 31 Bow- ery, and Albert Bernstein gave bonds of $500 on & charge of keeping thelr museums open Sunday. —— Obituary Notes, Charles E, Bil, a well-known business man, died esterday at the house of hls son, Chutes E.’ Bill, Jry tei Columbia Helghta, Brooklyn, Joel Parker, Governor of New Jersey during the war, died at the home of @ relative whom he was visiting, in Philadelphia, yesterday evening, at tue agetof seventy-one years. Anorew Garrett, a famous conchologist, died at his home on the jalund of Huwhine, society Group, South Seas, on Nov. 1, 1387, at the ge of alxty-iive years, He’ waa a native of Albany. Matthew Leavy, President of the brewing firm of Leavy & Britton, died of fatty generation of the Hoart af his home, o8 West Fitty-drat wtreet, yeater- jeath Was Very #udden and unexpected. ‘aa torty-Lour yearn of age, ca ALL INDICATES DYNAMITE. ——— SIFTING 1HE RUINS AT THA EQUITABLE GAS-WOKKS FOR PROOF, ‘The OMcers of the Company Still at a Loss Account for Desperate a Deed—A Close Search Making for Fragments of @ Bomb—Tho Superintendent’s Reasons, Workmen are still busy on the ruins at the Equitable Gas Company's works at Fourth street and first avenue. his morning the officers of the company Y and half a score of contractors were on hand |] examining the debris and seeking for new ¥) evidences of the cause of the explosion. | ‘The theory that dynamite used by som discharged employee caused the disaster andj loss of life, is still the most popular one ad. yanced, Indeed, the further the work upon the tottering walls and shattered masonry makes progress the (ait ist grows the con- viction that dynamite and that alone 18 re- sponsible. . i What the the company is now secking is actual proof, if possible, that the. theory correct, ‘lhe work of the laborers is directed to-day tothe removal of timbers, shattered iron and remnants of the house that covered the retorts, exhausters and engines, It is here that the explosion occurred, here that poor Plaisted, the engineer, was found. upright amid the ruins, dead at ‘his post, and it is here that, if a dynamite cartridge or bomb was used; it is hoped to find some trace of it. Up to noon nothing in the nature of a bomib, or fragments of one had been found, here is every reason for believing, it it claimed, that something of. the kind will discovered, but even if no fragment of an in. fernal machine comes to light views of con. tractors and experienced gas men will not bé changed. “Tn the first place,” said Supt. Enfer to an Evexine Wontp reporter to-day, “ frowa thi appearance of the ruins there is no othey reasonable inference to be drawn, than tha dynamite was the cause of the explosion. ‘as could not have made such a wreck, Exploding gas would not have shattered doors, windows and solid brick walls like this, If gas were the cause, following the explosion would have been a’ buast of light that would have illuminated the entire city of New York, and following that would have cone # fire that would have burned up all the wooden rubbish, or, if not completely would have at least charred it sufficiently to indi- cate the presence of fire. | As it is, there was no illumination, and all these bits of wood, lathing and fragments of broken doors are completely free from the semblance of sinok | “Then, again, the action of exploding gasis upward; the netion of a discharged dynamite bomb i» downward. In the engine-room, @ portion of the floor is torn to atoms, and forced downward at an angle of 45 degrees, In fact, every indication points to @ downward action of the explosive, whatever it was, ‘To be sure, it will be difficult to prove that dynamite was used, but if a bomb Inthe shape of a gaspipe was placed in that room and exploded, if we find fragments of such portions of pipe, the inference is reason- able that dynamite was used. Asstuning, however, that such was the cause, we have no one to accuse. We were friendly with our help and supposed they harbored good-will towards us.”” While it is said by some members of the company that they will not be embarrassed in their work by the disaster, the contractors believe that the damage was 80 severe. other companies to be asked for assistance, The Consolidated Gas, Company has offered to. supply the Equitable wi the gas it needs, —_____ RAIN AND A COLD WAVE, Now that the Streets Hnve Been Washed There Will be Freezing. The inch and three-quarters of rain that fell yesterday washed the streets thoroughly and made Fifth avenue look as bright asa new pin. ‘The rainfall here was the heaviest in the United States. : The cold wave that started in Manitoba yesterday is sailing down the Mississippi Valley and skurrying eastward. Its advance reached New Orleans at 7 o'clock this morn- ing and sent the mercury down to 80 above, ‘Vexas is also having freezing weather, The coldest spot was St. Vincent, Minn., 80 below. Boston and San Francisco were both 46—the warmest. The first touoh of the new cold wave reached here this moening: The indications for the next twenty-four hours, according to Weather Manufacturer Dunn, are fair, colde: weather. Cloudy weather prevails gen throughout the country. a FUN FOR AFTER DINNER. Strong Evidence. [From the Manchester Unions] 4 A Baltimore bookkeeper has committed suictd) and left bis accoants all straight, It is regarded certain that he was insane, 1 j America Ahead. [From the Richmond DirpateR} + ji «*Yon can get shaved in Paris in three minutes,’ You can get shaved in Wall street in less time that that, America is still auead, Four Satisfies Them, [From the Norristown Herald.) ‘The sacred writings, of the Chinese are called “Five kings.” A work of only four kings ie sacred enough for @ great many poople in tnis country—thongh a man often wishes ne had fye kings When the other fellow holds four aces, Just the Thing for Him, [From the New Orleans Picayune, Anew cab company just started in New York bases {ts claim for patronage on a patent hansom. with a top that lowers to suit the occupant, A man who is little short could ride about 1n ons of those cabs and not attract much attention, A Une For It. [From the Norristown Herald.) A new ammonia process effects changes of tem perature from 60 degrees above to 00 degrees below zero, If the process could be utilized by young men when promenading with young ladies on warm summer evenings, the suddenness with Which the temperature would drop from 88 above to 20 degrees Lelow zero, When @ young man foun himself’ in the viciuity of an ice-cream galo would make the lady’s teeth rattle, Eaual to the Occasjon, [From (he Omaha World, J Faithfal Servant—Please mum, some 0’ boarders 1s talkin’ about the butter, Boarding-House Keeper—lmposaiblet butter has a flne favor. Pe {Ua too good, mum, and they're aft Onl Well, before putting it on the atretch a few bairs through It “rn The Poor Man's Grievance. [Prom the Nebraska State Journal.) gar—Oh, yes, the charitable association get me & present for Christmas, Charitable Young Lady—But you don’t to be very grateful for it, ‘*To Tell you the truth miss, I ain't v fal, When I think of the fact that my both cat off at the knees and then think Present I got I can't rake up much gratit ** What was your present 2?” ‘+A pair of roller akutes, ” ‘The Gay Garroter’s Way. [Prom the Boston Globe.) ‘The gay garroter piles his tr ‘And festive fan ota pol i) At sober citizens who don’ Know how to take a joke, ‘He baba 'em Md the neck and «* They are but stupid fol! ‘Who on occasion, now and Can't take @ little choke,”