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14 A LIVELY BOUT ON DECK. on unlimited enthusiasm. There are two inscrip tions, that around the rim on the inside being "Drink deep and you will preserve the city and encourage canals." A slightly different opinion of the conditions precedent to preservation and encouragement, it is scarcely necessary to re n:ark, prevails in these degenerate times. The ins rift ion just below the brim on the outside is in gilt p«. rip, and is repeated in full so the line extends entirely around. It is, "Presented by Jacob Morton to the Corporation of the City of New- York, July 4, 1812." Commercial and patriotic devices on the sides and a narrow band just below the brim are the only or namentation. The grandfather's clock of the Mayor's office is temporarily stowed away in the Gov ernors' Room. This timepiece, about twelve feet lii-zh. is nearly as old as the building. It prob ably will be restored m the Mayor's office when the renovation of the building is completed. A tall case in a corner contains flags u=ed in three wars. There is a stand of Revolutionary colors, the colors of the Ist New-York Regiment used in the storming of Chapultepec in the Mexican War, and a stand of colors used in the i i\ il War. Mrs. I-ytle, the widow of General Lytle, who died of wounas received at Anti?tam, is the '. ustodian of the Governors' Room. She care fully explains to visitors that the articles in her charge are not family relics of Washington, but are mementos of the earliest days of the re- I üblic and of his official career in New-York. Many visitors seem to doubt the genuineness of the i ollection, because no article bears the arms of the Washington family, as do those treasured . ! Mount Wi rum. The body of Lincoln lay in state at the head of the stairway in the rotunda directly in front of the entrance to the Governors' Room, and the bodies of Tilden, Greeley and Grant also were .:•■•■! by thousands as they lay in state in the rotunda. The catafalques for Tilden and Grant, however, were placed on the ground floor. Dur ig i!i" War of the Rebellion the bodies of many fallen heroes bound for New-England and the W.st were guarded overnight in the rotunda. < >n the second floor of the rotunda in a glass case is a model of the City Hall, made of card board by a girl related to one of the mayors of nmre than fifty years ago. Janitor Keese says the history of this model has be -ome involved In such doubt that he knows of nobody who can '• il exactly when or from whom it came, but he says it has certainly been thtre for forty years, and, from the best information he can secure, l. a- probably graced the rotunda for more than half a century. One story attributes the origin of the model to the administration of Mayor \\ • si. rvelt. In the olden days thf> fire engines are said to • beeen kept in the basement, where the headquarters of the police were also situated. Among the famous men who have spoken 1 ' the balcony or steps of the City Hall was Lincoln. Many evangelists of greater or less • elebrity have preached from the steps, and un til within recent years the balcony was a fa vorite reviewing stand for the mayors and their i~ nests. Directly in front of the steps the stand from which Genera] Benjamin F. Rutler vainly en il to address the people was situated. Ho was howled down by an unfriendly mob, and finally . :i apple was thrown at his head. He caught, pared and ate the missile, but was lespJ • hi? coolness, to desist * oping stones bearing the names of the members of the building committee and I M ted witli the erection of the City i which were found the other day by W. M. 1' :'>ugh I'r^sklent Cantor's consulting ■ t. while he was prowling around the roof, will !■• moved down to the main corridor <-f ;.■■• ! uilding and set up in the wall as a mural tal i»- r as boob as possible. ii." City Hall has be^n a favorite resort NEW-YORK TRIBUNE ILLUSTRATED SUPPLEMENT. throughout Its history for demagogues, rogues and their victims and cranks of both sexes. In the picturesque language of the janitor, "liar ty" Keese, the "harmless cranks have always been humored, the victims of fraud have been treated sympathetically, and rogues and suspi cious characters have been turned over to the 'myrmidons' of the law." "More poor foreigners have come here to have counterfeit money and snide jewelry tested," said the janitor, "than any place else In New- York. The moment a foreigner >>r ignorant countryman suspe ts he has been swindled, he starts for the City Halt We send jewelry vic tims to the Assay Office and green goods unfor tunates to the Sub-Treasury. A hays ■■> ■! on« came here with a $100 bill which was palpably a counterfeit and we sent him to the Sub-Treas ury. In about an hour he came back. They had burned a big hole in his bill and handed it back to him, and I had my hands full to keep JOR LAKKY CIN THE CENTRE). Now on the TJnited States steamer Columbia. He knocked out the boxing champion of the British fleet in Asiatic waters. him from thrashing me because I refused to give him a good one for it. "An old woman used to come here regularly the first of each month to collect rent for the building, which she said was hers. She came daily until the clerks in the Mayor's office gave her a slip of paper purporting to settle the bill and sent her with it to the Controller, who saw the juke, gravely took up the scrap she brought and with profound politeness gave her another. She went away satisfied, but once a month for years the same formality had to be observed. "Another woman once entered the Governors' Room upstairs ana demanded the keys from Mrs. l-iul»\ I was appealed to to put the in truder out. si' • said she wanted the key to this building and als*> tliat to the uptown house, i told her I would have t>> talk to the Mayor about it and asked her to come back in a week. She enme, and I save her a big brass key and a still larger one of iron, which I secured from a dealer In old metals. She was greatly {.leased and told me I could ko ri^ht on using this building as long as I lived. I have never seen her since. "Many Btrangera mistake the City Hall for the Bridge entrance and we can hardly convince them nt their blunder. I suppose when the sub- NEW OUT-DOOR. BOOKS NEIV VOLUMES IN THE American Sportsman's Library Uniform with "THE DEER v MJV" By THEODORE ROO3EVELT and cth eri Uniform with THE vi ****• BASS. PIKE. PERCH. AND OTHERS By JAMES A. HEKSHALL, M. D. THE WATER-FOWL FAMILY By L. C. SANFORD and others. lust Rezdj. 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(Postage 13c) On net books ordered from the publishers carriage is an extra charge. Send for special descriptive circulars. address THE MAGMiLLAN CG?/i?ANY f publishers, 66 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. way is in operation life here will hardly be worth living. They will read that tablet ta front of the steps, rush in here for tickets and want to fight because we point to the hole in the ground outside and tell them that is the station." SPOUTS OF THE XAVY. An Order Which Proi id is fur Physi cal Training for "Jack Tan." The sailor in the United States Navy - trained not o.ily t«» handle cannon, but Uso •• handle himself. Despite •■. tion of the long range gun. of tli i " i pedo and of the mine, there are still i. be times when "Jack" must cope hand to hand with his foe. In such an emergency his nical training of powder loads and calibre measurements and weights of projectiles will be of little avail. Then he must depend not only on a Ftrong body, but also a trained brain, to command his strength aright. He must be able not only to give but to dodge a blow. The development of the sailor in the art of THE P>OXER WHO LOOKED AT THE CAMERA GOT A HARD I IN THE WIND FOR HIS VANITY. s»-lf-defence has been recently recognize*! at Washington as of hi^ch Importance, and the Sec retary of the Navy a short time ago issued as order providing for the regular training of ship crews in physical exercises, and especially n boxing. It is believed that the innovation wa3 inspired by the President hirr.s-lf. who is espe cially fond of this sport, and believes that it is a requisite in the training of every American. Th- order further stipulates that all the ves sels of the navy shall be equipped w::h appara tus for physical culture, on application to the Hureau of Equipment Chief among the list of m piemen 1 are boxing gloves, broadswords fencing stuks and baseball and football outfits. The sailors have taken a keen interest in the various kinds of sports which Washington is ■ ■ ■ Th- - 3 :•■_•■•!.. r ■ :th such - ban. Bnds bsvos -t r\nk. "It is both tin;- :. ; -