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Third Aven hr Theatre. —Lester and
Allen’s finely organized troupe of minstrels, under
the special management of Harry 0. Edgerton,
closed their fortnight’s engagement at this theatre
last night. Asid- from their own considerable merit
individually, and their enjoyable performances, the
special drawing cards were John L, Sullivan and
Mr. William Muldoon, who gave what was termed
* Antique Class’c Pictures of Roman and Grecian
Statuary.”
In the matter of posing, Mr. Muldoon maintained
his various positions as rigidly as a statue should,
but the Hon. John L. Sullivan appeared to bo
by means motionless—on the contrary, he was
particularly emotional, and r.s a Hercules ho created
something of a fos r that the enormous kalsomined
stuffed club which Im tremulously poised above his
head was about to drop upon the knowledge box of
the kneeling Muldoon.
If John propose tn continue in his present classic
line of work, he should steady his nervous system
with something mo-e bracing than sarsaparilla and
Croton cocktails. Were it not that Mr. Sullivan has
Forever abjured the use of alcoholic fluids as
1 beverage, a few doses of whisky might accom
plish the desired eflpct. There were many per
ions in the audience who disbelieved that Mr.
Sullivan's nervousness and unsteady posing were
the result of protracted and intense study of the
history of the sculptors of ancient Greece and Rome,
but incontinently, and with dogged persistence,
attributed not only the shaliness of his Hercules,
but the general sene which afflicted his other
examples of fine art to an undue and unintermit
ted absorption of fine w’nes and coarse gin.
As it was, this prejudice existed to a greater extent
during the closing weok, and a portion of the audi
ence, especially on Thursday night last, being be
yond the reach of hismawleys, and in no danger of a
knock out. had the hardihood to mildly guy him.
And to make matters even they yielded a generous
and it must be admitted deserved modicum of ap
plause to Mr. Muldoon.
On the same evening Messrs. Lester and Allen
presented Manager Edgerton with a handsome gold
watch and chain as a souvenir of their esteem.
To-morrow evening, Tony Denier’s "Humpty
• Dumpty ” combination will begin a week s engage
ment. In the company are Miss Sophie Ravel,
Monsieur Ravel, the Goodrich family. Signors Eldo
rado and Eugene Rivello. the Leonard brothers. Miss
Beatrice and other principal • pantoraimists and
leading specialists. Many new tricks will be intro
duced and the performance will doubtless prove an
enjoyable entertainment.
Matinees as usual.
Star Theatre.—Last evening the final
performance of ■■ The Black Hnsaar'’ was given in
the presence of a numerous audience, and thus
closed the brief but fairly successful season of the
McCaull Comic Opera Company.
This company will not be seen in the city again
Until next Spring, when Manager McCaull will pre
sent the new opera, now in preparation, on the
stage of Wallack’s Theatre.
To-morrow evening Madame Modjeska, under the
management of Mr. Dan. Frohman, 'will commence
a limited engagement, appearing in "Camille”: on
Tuesday she will be seen in "Mary Stuart”; on
Wednesday and Thursday evenings as Rosalind,
and the remaining performances of the week will
be repetitions of "Camille,”" As You Like It”
and " Mary Stuart.”
Madame Modjeska will be supported by a spe
cially selected company.
At the Saturday matinee "Camille” will be the
play-
Lyceum Theatre.—An audience which
occupied all the available seating space and stand
ing room in the auditorium was present at the New
Year's matinee, and gave Miss Helen Dauvray and
her excellent company a liberal recognition for the
gratification afforded by their performance in Bron
son Howard's bright and sparkling comedy of "One
Of Our Girls.” Under John Rickaby’s management
the Lyceum has at last obtained a position as one
of the successful theatres of the city, and it is to be
hoped that so fine a property may not again bo
classed in the list of "Jonahs.”
Miss Dauvray, in " One of Our Girls,” will be seen
hero until further notice. Matinees as usual.
Harrigan’s Park Theatre.—“ The
Grip ” will not, so far as present indications are
concerned, lose its hold upon popular favor for
many weeks to come. The " standing room ” chro
mo ornaments the vestibule of the theatre with a
frequency as pleasaut as it is suggestive. Harri
gan’s Patrick Reilly is an excellent example of char
acter acting; the five " catching ” songs, with Dave
Braham's music, and the general mingling of jollity
and pathos, the realism of the stage setting, and the
work of Ihe entire company make the performance
one of the most perfect yet seen upon this stage
Under “Ned’s” management.
Matinees on Wednesday and Saturday.
Eden Musef - During the past fort
night, had the halls of the Mu see been much larger
than they are. they would scarcely have held the,
throngs which crowded in day and night. As it was
many visitors were compelled to wait for the chance
of entrance when those who were lucky enough to
gain admission came out. The principal features for
the present week, in addition to the standard at
tractions which have made this a popular resort,
are the figures of Wm. H. Vanderbilt, Miss Helen
Dauvray, and Mary Anderson. Then there are
Linda da Costa, the American nightingale, concerts
by the orchestra, and the chess automaton. Mati
nees every afternoon.
Tony Pastor’s Theatre.—Now, after
giving the old year a tender and affectionate, but
none the less grand bounce, and making the honors
easy for the new year. Tony braces up with another
9 complete change of bill. Among its most notable
end attractive features will bo the first appearance
here of the English serio-comic vocalist, Miss Queen
Vassar; Messrs. Hawkins and Collins in their spe
cialty of "The Two Doctors;” Carroll and his banjo;
Frank and Lillian White.; the Dutch Comedian, liar
ry Morris; Harry Le Clair and W. J. Russell; the
Gregory Brothers, Maggie Willet and Harry Thorne,
Lillie Western, William Melville and W. Harbeck, the
-••Man Serpent.”
It goes without saying that Tony will be visible
to the naked as well as the spectacled eye at each
performance, and be heard in his New Year's budget
of songs. He will also "speak a piece.”
On Thursday afternoon a special performance wi'll
be given for the benefit of Mrs. R. W. Butler, the
widow of the late well-known manager. A host of
volunteerswill appear, and, aside from the worthy
object in view, the entertainment of itself should
-insure the presence of a crowded audience.
National Theatre.—This, New Year’s
week will be duly observed and made the occasion
by Manager Heumann of presenting a special at
traction on his stage for the enjoyment of the
patrons of the National, This attraction is the
popular drama of ‘-Monte Cristo,” in which Mr.
Gustavus Clarke will impersonate the role of Ed
mund Dantes. He will be supported by the entire
regular company of the house, Miss Mamie Wallace
appearing as Mercedes, and Mr. Alf A. Wallace as
Danglars.
The variety olio which precedes the dramatic per
formance will include among its most notable fea
tures Messrs. Manning and Drew, the dancers and
vocalists; Maggie Cline, the original Mary Ann
Kehoe; The twin brothers, the specialists;
and the Misses Drucie and Carrie Gilmore in their
sketches and songs.
The regular matinees will be given as usual on
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Special sacred
concerts will be heard thie afternoon and evening.
Fifth Avenue Theatre.—lt may not
ba regarded as a matter of news, but it is really a
fact, that ** The Mikado ” is still running, and with
its continuance of large receipts is swelling the
bank account of D’Oyley Carte and tho good broth
er John Stetson with a constant accession of big
round dollars. -The Mikado” until further no
tice. Matinee as usual.
Criterion Theatre (Brooklyn.)—Dur
ing the coming week Mr. John L. Burleigh will ap
pear at this theatre as " Cherubini " in Charles Gay
lor’s drama entitled "The Bohemian.” Mr. Bur.
leigh will be supported by a competent company.
The event of the season at this theatre will be the
appearance on the 18th inst., of Miss Carrie Turner,
eupported by Manager Hilliard of the Criterion.
Mr. Hilliard’s histrionic ability is such as to need
little else than favorable comment here.
Lee Avenue Academy of Music (Wil
liamsburg).— The Mestayer and Vaughn "We, Us &
Co.” combination will come forward at this theatre
to-morrow and will bo seen here every evening and
at the Wednesday and Saturday matinees of the
present week. ” I ain’t saying a word, am I?” will be
tho watchword; Miss Theresa Vaughn will be heard in
her lyric specialties and it goes without saying that
Mestayer will give an unctious and jolly boom to
tho whole performance.
January 11th, Thatcher, Primrose and West’s
Minstrels will bo "on deck.”
Theiss’s Alhambra Concerts.—Un
usually varied and attractive series of musical, in
strumental and vocal entertainments will be in or
der at each performance during the present week.
The orchestra and its popular soloists will be heard
In new selections. Manager Theiss asserts that
the Alhambra and its concert hall were not nearly
large enough to contain all who endeavored to gain
admission during the holiday weeks.
Special concerts will be gives thia aftenron and '
lYoning.
Dixey’s Ball.—Dixey, in spite of his
temperance vows, has weakly yielded to the impor
tunities and invitations of divers and sundry sis
ters, cousins, aunts and miscellaneous political, re
ligious, scientific, artistic and all-around magnates,
more or less notable, and has consented to take a
solid, substantial, complimentary "Ball” —and it is
spelled with a big, big B. He will enjoy this afore
said ball at tho Metropolitan Opera House on next
Thursday night. It is to be a full dress, .patent
leather, and wholly high-toned compliment to the
only real, genuine, cut-in-the-eye-namc-stampod
on-the-cork Adonis, whose wish-bone is stone, and
who, after being quarried out of a block of marble,
has had a flourishing existence of five hundred days
—nights included.
Delegations from Boston. Philadelphia, Chicago,
and other art and alo centres, will be there; Secre
tary Bayard would be there if he could, and Grove
Cleveland would like to, but can't. Ta’mage has
sent his regrets, but as they don’t dance, nobody
will know they are there.
All the leading actors and actresses, and scores of
professionals who yearn to bo leading but are not,
will grace the festive scene; the city officials will
make themselves visible; the managers, headed by
Colville and John Duff, will merrily forget their
dignity and trip tho heavy fantastic in the mazes of
the—committee room and—well, everybody, as well
as everybody else, will be there.
And Dixey will "mingle.”
The ceremonies will bo inaugurated at eleven
o’clock.
At twelve o’clock Edward Evangeline Rice willen-.
ter upon a chariot of flowers seated by tho sido of
Fay Templeton, and followed by the entire Four
teenth Street Company, with W. W. Tillottson in the
character of Cupid bringing up the rear astride of
his quiver, on wheels.
If anybody thinks this ball will not boa success,
he had better immediately retire to the seclusion of
the padded room of some first-class lunatic asylum.
Koster & Bial’s Concerts. —The pro
gramme provided this evening bears the mark of
attractiveness which characterizes the productions
of this popular resort. Ella Wesner will show her
stunning male suits and sing her choicest male
songs. Miss Bessie Gilbert, the child player on the
cornet, will exhibit tho capabilities of that instru
ment. Mills, the ventriloquist, will instruct the
audience bow to talk from his boots,'and many oth
er interesting features should make the concert an
enjoyable one. Notwithstanding tho success of the
burlesque on "Tho Mikado,” the management
have decided to produce an entirely now version of
the piece, and the first production will be given to
morrow evening. The dialogue will be entirely
new and many novelties will bo introduced.
Misses Georgia Parker, and her famous kick; Lau
ra Burt, and her lisp; Sophie Hummel, Louise Les
ter, and Messrs. Brown and Warren will give re
newed life and vigor to the performance, assisted by
some new talent of good reputation.
Globe Dime Museum.—The Conven
tion of Old Maids—homely, handsome, thick, thin,
fat, lean, tall, short, long-haired and bald-headed
maids, in fact, of every style, shape and condition of
the article, from the handmaid, barmaid and lady’s
maid, down to the ready-maid and the maid-up ex
ample—will be continued the present week at this
popular resort. There will be other attractions and
an interesting variety performance upon the stage
every hour. Special sacred concerts will be given
this afternoon and evening.
Gould’s Sans Souoi. —Mr. Gould an
nounces an entirely new programme of specialty
performances for the present week, which will
doubtless be heartily enjoyed by his clientele of pa
trons. Many notable specialists are engaged. The
orchestra will be heard in its selections, and a score
of pretty young ladies will add to the interest and
attractions of the entertainment. The Sans Souci
is not open on Sundays.
Theiss’s Concerts. —-These enjoyable
musical seances seem to increase in their attractions
with repetition. For the current week the selec
tions by the orchestra and its instrumental soloists
will be more than ordinarily varied. All the popu
lar vocalists will be heard, and, as a matter of
course, there will be the usual attendance of crowd
ed audiences. Matinee every afternoon, and special
concerts this afternoon and evening. Admission al
ways free.
Bal Masque de l’Opeba.—This, the
annual terpsichorean festival of the Opera Associa
tion, will take place at the Madison Square Garden,
on Thursday night next. It promises, if the de
signs of the committee of arrangements are carried
out, to be one of the notable events of the season.
" The Battle of the Amazons” is one of the promi
nent features. There will be a feast of gayety and a
flow of wino, and hilarity, beauty and youth, will
reign supremo. I ive V amour.
MLiisical and Dramatic Items,
Says a letter to the Albany Journal—
and it may be true, but locating the incident "out West’’
is a damaging "chestnut:”
"I heard a story about Salvini the other night that
shows his insight of human nature wonderfully. Three
years ago, when last hero, he was playing far out West to
an audience composed of the coarse men, many of
them miners, and women of tho lowest stamp. The play
was ‘Morte Civile.’ If you remember it, Conrad dies of a
broken heart. The piece had progressed to the last act,
and Salvini was standing at thtf wings waiting to go on.
He is always so deeply absorbed in h'is parts that he often
forgets stage business, and his manager is therefore al
ways near him to remind him or supply any needed prop
erty. He observed Salvini’s gaze riveted on the house,
and saw him nervously finger a little vial and finally
place it in the belt of his dress. Touching him ou the
arm, the manager said:
*• 'What is that for? You don’t want, a bottle.’
•■'Yes, yes,’ replied tho actor abstiactedly; ‘look at
those coarse men! If I should die of a broken heart they
would not understand it. lam going to take poison anil
die of convulsions.’
"And he did, to the ho wling pleasure of the au lienee.”
Harry Webb, the theatrical manager,
caused the arrest last Thursday, of George W. Thater, a
well-dressed man, about thirty five years of age, on a
charge o!’forgery. In Jefferson Market, on New Year s
Day, Mr. Webb told Justice Kilbreth that the prisoner
had forged his name to a telegraph order for $lO. Thater
was arrested at his residence, No. 7 Clinton Pl.ice.
The accused was a fourth partner in the office which is
known as the International Amusement Bureau, at Nos.
68 and 70 University Place, and managed the office in
the absence of Mr. Webb. Mr. Webb has been traveling
recently with the May-Fiske combination. AU the busi
ness of the office was attended to by him, and Mr. Webb’s
name was signed whenever it became necessary.
Theslo, Mr. Thater said, had been sent bv the Davene
company through the Baltimore and Ohio office to tho
bureau, and there being no one in the office but Mr.
Thater, he called and signed Mr. Webb’e name, as he al
ways did. When Mr. Webb returned to the city he asked
for the money and Mr. Thater did not have it. The
money was to pay the fare of a specialty performer.
It was stated a short time ago that the
firm of Barnum. Bailey A Hutchinson was dissolved and
a new one formed, tor reasons which, from the following
letter which the veteran showman has sent to the press of
this city, would appear now to have been erroneous:
Waldemeke, Bridgeport, Conn., Dec. 31, 1885,
Sir—An article published recently did great injustice to
my iate partner, Mr. James A. Bailey. He severed his
connection with me of his own volition and I parted with
him with very great reluctance, and only because he had
so severely overworked his brain that his physicians or
dered ale t, telling him that he would become paralyzed
in six months if he did not sell out his show interests.
Mr. Bailey is a superior manager, and he never carried
out an idea connected with the show or anything else
which did not meet my entire and hearty .approval,
which statement contains volumes when it is known
that our show has taken at the doors over $17,000 in a
single day. p. t. Bar \ vm.
John D. Lundy, the well-known ma
chinistand stage carpenter of the Park Theatre, Boston
Mass., died very suddenly at his residence in that city of
pneumonia, December 28. He was forty-five years of
age, and left a wife and three children. He was reputed
to be one of the most- skillful mechanics iu his depart
ment in the country. Mr. Lundy possessed con.-iderable
inventive genius, which manifested itself in many in
stances in different theatres throughout the country
Going to the Park from the Boston Globe while the
former was building, he constructed its stage and all the
attachments. He built the stage of the Metropolitan
Opera House iu this city, and also constructed the oper
atic scenery used in the Abbey opera season. He was the
inventor ofa clever b< x, utilized in producing artificial
rainfalls, and also constructed an arrangement which
has super*eled all the old "stage-braces.” He be
longed to the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics’ As
sociation.
Miss Adelaide Detchon, who two years
ago was deemed the handsomest member of Wallack’s
company, has turned her talents to strange uses iu Lon
don. where she is now living. She has abandoned her
histrionic ambition entirely, and now entertains large
audiences with teats of artistic whistling. Her warblin”-
is described as the very “poetry of puckers,” and there is
hardly a note in the whole gamut of bird vocalism that
she is not mistress of. Her unique art is profitable, too
Miss Detchon is in great demand for fashionable matinees
and sohees, and receives SSO for an inexhausting pro
gramme of three numbers. There used to be a wealthy
young broker of New York whose father’s purse was wont
t o gallop at a lively rate at the lair whistler’s slightest
call.
William H. Fitzgerald, the stage man
ager at theJCas no, was waited ou last week by Joseph
Aarons, alias Henry Moore, alias “Whisky Joe ” who
gave the Grand Union Hetel as his address, and who
stated that, he was in need of money and would dispose
of pawn tickets representing watches, diamond rings
bracelets, etc., which he stated were worth’over $1 out)
and had been placed in charge of Simpson & Co.’and
Silberstein & Co., pawnbrokers. Mr. Fitzgerald ’gave
him $95, and found that the goods were not worth the
amount stated. Police Justice Murray, at the Tombs on
Friday, stated that he could not act 'in the matter, and
discharged Aarons.
An incoming steamer the other day
brought to Kr Arthur Wa lack a grand specimen ot the
St. Bernard. Capable judges say he is tho Ilnest do--of
the kind tnat has ever come to America. Since hearing
this, Mr. Wallack has been lost in admiration in contem
plating the pilgrim of the Alps. Tho dog is called
“ Courage II.,” and boasts of a famous pedigree. Courage
is four years old, and stands thirty-three inches to the
shoulder. His color is orange and white, and he is a
well-known English prize winner. Already the dog has
run up a sl3 bill at the butcher’s, but Mr. Wallack has
not as yet weakened.
At the Lexington Avenue Opera House
on Tuesday evening the Catholic Literary and Benevolent
Union gave a very pleasing entertainment. At 8 o'clock
the curtain rose on the first act of a pantomime entitled
“Jack and Jill.” Mr. J P. Donohue, who took the part
Of Humpty Dumpty last year, was the Clown, and sus
tained his soubriquet of "The Deaf Mute, Miaco.” Messrs.
Shelton, O Brien, Hairy, Capelli ;.n 1 others acquitted
themselves wed. The ladies in the leading parts were
Miss Powers, Miss Fitzgerald and Miss Mcllvaine.
The manuscript, copyright and para
phernalia of "The Gladiator” was sold last week inPhila
delphia by William F. Johnson, attorney for the estate o '
John McCullough. the actor, to James W, Collier oi the
Union Square Theatre, New York. The price paid was
$.5,000. M. W. Canning, of Philadelphia, who was McCul
lough’s first manager, says the title role in “The Gladia
tor” will probably bo played by Edmund Collier, a nephew
of James VV Collier, and formerly the leading man of the
McCullough company.
Mr. H. E. Krehbiel, the musical critic
of the Tribune, proposes to issue in May or June “A Re
view ol the New York Musical Season of 1885-1886 ” It
will contain from 200 to 300 pages, and-will embrace a
record of all the principal musical occurrences in the
opera-houses and concert-rooms. The expense and labor
involved in the preparation ot the work compel Mr Kreh
biel to ma e tne publication contingent on the ohtainin
uumberol subscriptions, the price per copy
NEW YORK DISPATCH, JANUARY 3,. 1886.
Mme. Marie Roze appeared in “Oar
men*' at Bradford, Dec. 28th. A "masher.” who by
some means had gained an entrance to the passage lead
ing to ’he prima donna’s dress ng-room, made his way to
a window looking into the ro >m and began to scrape the
white coating from the glass. While thus engaged he
was discovered by Curl Rosa’s valet, an athletic young
man, who administered to the intruder a severe thrash
ing, and then threw him headlong out of the passage
way.
Miss Ida Weddle, one of the prettiest
of the Mikado chorus girls, was married, ten days since,
to a rich Now Haven man and has retired from the stage.
Miss Weddle was in this country tw.» yeays ago and was
then in the chorus at the Casino. She went back to Lon
don and returned with the Fifth Avenue Mikado com
pany. The young gentleman saw her on the stage aud it
was a case of love at first sight. He pr posed to her, was
accepted and they were married, all within a week.
An “Our Colored Friend” company
started out in expectation ot two weeks of profit, in Penn
sylvania towns. Thej- played in Slatington, Bloomsburg
and Nanticoke on Dec. 21st, 22d and 23d, but quit before
reaching Huntingdon, their fourth stag'd. The members
reached home with their lives, 'lhe Ghost did not walk,
the management giving as a reason that Santa Claus had
the right of way.
Manager of Star Actress (to hotel pro
nrietor) —“You can tell the reporters that Mlle. Zam Zam
h is forty trunks ou the way, one of which is filled with
diamonds.” ‘
Hotel Proprietor (with a.look of relief)—“l am very glad
to hear it, sir, but we don't want the trunks lor publica
tion. We want them simply as a guarantee of good
faith.”
Estelle Clayton’s time at tho Star, as
originally contracted for by her manager, C. W. Durant,
at s2.4r>o weekly, was from January 18 to 30. y e under
stand that the first week has been sold to John Stetson
and Daniel Frohman for Modjeska, who can thus prolong
her Star season one week. Miss Clayton's second week
will probably also be sold to Mr. Stetson-
An alarm of fire, which was sounded at
ten o’clock on Monday evening last, at Geneva, N. Y.,
when Ha nes were discovered in a warehouse on the steam
boat dock, nearly caused a panic at Linden Hall, where
“ Leah, the Forsaken” was being produced. There was a
stampede for the doors, but the audience was small, ami
no crush occurred.
A new romantic three-act opera, en
titled "The Chateialne,” words by Messrs. Parke and
Brand, music by Mr Ernest Ford, of the Royal Academy
of Music, is shortly to be produced in London. Other
forthcoming novelties are a new onera by Mr. F. H.
Cellier; also an English version of “La Fauvette du
Temple.”
The New York Tribune singles out five
young actresses as prominent in our day: Miss-Annie
Robe, of Wallack’s; Miss Geraldine Ultnar, the Yum-
Yum at the Fifth Avenue; Miss Marie Burroughs, of
the Madison Square Theatre; Miss Edith Kingdon, o'
Daly's, and Miss Stella Boniface, of the New Park
Theatre.
Sophie Eyre’s maiden name was So
phia Lillian Ryan. She comes from Tipperary, At.seven
teen she married -Major Lonsdale, of the Seventh Hus
sars, and went to India with him. When he died she re
turned to Europe and went on the stage. She is now Mrs.
Chauncey R. Winslow, of Cincinnati.
John W. Norton, the well-known man
ager of the Grand Opera House at St. Louis, is very ill
with rheumatism, and his life has almost been despaired
of. He has the sincere sympathy ofa very large elide of
friends. Mr. Norton is one of the truest men in his pro
fession.
Mr. John O. Freund left the profes
sion of journalism three months since to. become an
actor, arid in that s'.iOrL time has become a leading man,
the chief support to Mme. Janish. He has proved him
self to be possessed of unusual ability in his new calling.
Miss Adeline Stanhope’s engagement
with H. J. Myers—in which she was to star as Cynthia—
is indefinitely postponed, owing to the severe illness of
that gentleman. Miss Stanhope is disengaged until the
recommencement of Mr; Jefferson’s tour, in April.
Mrs. Bancroft, the popular English
actress, who has lately retired with her husband from
the management of the Haymarket Theatre, has be
come a convert to the Roman Catholic Church and was
received into it a fortnight ago.
J. M. Hill is endeavoring to secure
the Exposition Park, situated outside" Pittsburg, He
wants to build a house for a cyclorama, like the “ Battle
of Gettysburg,” now on exhibition in Chicago.
Sweeping changes have been made in
the executive force at the Third Avenue Theatre. Treas
urer Henry, his assistant, the head usher and others
have been decapitated and new people put in.
Four members of Clark’s “Ten Nights
in a Barroom” company were arrested at Fall River,
Mass., December 28, for trying to evade paying their
board. They were locked up at last accounts.
It is now authoritatively given out that
Mr. Lawrence Barrett is to manage Mr. Edwin Booth
next season. Mr. Barrett will not allow this to interfere
in any way with his own professional work.
Nellie Lingard is to play the female
lead in “Wigs,” in which Richard Mansfield is to star.
W. R. Palmer, son of A. M. Palmer, will manage the com
pany, and is backed by his lather.
E. H. Price says Mrs. Price (Fanny
Davenport) will appear in “Fedora” only occasionally,
next season. She will play Leah, Camille, Nancy Sykes
and others of her old roles.
Colonel John Burleigh and his com
pany piayed Charles Gayler’s piece, “ The Bohemian,” at
the Academy ci Music, Jersey City, on Christmas night,
to eleven hundred dollars.
J. J. Wallace, the character actor who
left here some time ago in poor health, was married last
week in San Francisco to a young lady from Australia.
Frank Blair, the husband of Lily
Post, who recently returned from the West, succeeds
John Ilowson as Ko-Ko, in the Boston “Mikado” Co.
Lizzie May Ulmer is very ill in Law
rcnce, Kansas, and it is feared that she will be compelled
to cancel her dates and disband her company.
The “Brave Woman” company is report
ed to be in a very poo:’ condition, and it is said that J. M.
Hardie has retired from the principal part.
Fanny Davenport, on December 26,
sent her check for $l5O to the widows and orphans
cieated by the Nanticoke, Pa., disaster.
J. H. Haverly is said to have made an
offer to Miles A Barton for a leaso of the Bijou for min
strelsy next year.
Since Mary Anderson has left us,
John L. Sullivan is now the biggest theatrical star in the
city.
Jennie Yeamans’s new comedy for
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A New Year’s Day Resolution.—
Jolly Andrew Horn, corner of East Broadway aud
Catharine st., comes out of the holidays as smiling,
buoyant and happy as though high-priced wines
were his usual drink. He has opened tho New Year
with the resolution to keep his hotel and saloon up
to the high standard which it has always held. He
is determined that bis customers shall have the
best of wines, liquors, cigars, and lager beer, no
matter what the expense. "Andy " has been a suc
cessful caterer for tho public for years, and ha well
deserves tiie success tie has achieved in business.
The Very Best Oigabs.— Mr. Henry
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reputation for the cigars which he manufactures,
on account of the excellence of the tobacco used
and the skill of his workmen. At all places where
they are sold—and they are sold in the best hotels
and saloons in the city—they give entire satisfac
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cigars are manufactured in New York or any other
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Many prizes have been awarded to
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After the Holidays.—Now that the
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and game and drinking champagne and other high
priced wines, they will dine os roast beef and mut.
ton, and sup from goblets filled with foaming lager
beer. At no down-town restaurant can be found
better food than that provided by John P. Shnnin
gbb. No. 120 Nassau street, nor is there a saloon in
Now York whore bettor lager beer (which is drawn
from the wood) can be found than that which he
sells, and he keeps it in as good condition as it is
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♦Tolisi’s Htepfatlicr.
HE TELLS HOW HE WAS WISHED A MERRY
CHRISTMAS THEN GIVEN A PUNCH IN THE
EYE.
Anthony Kerns’s wife died many years ago, leav
ing a young family on his hands. He married
again, and the wife died. He then married again
the sister of bis first wife. By tho second wife he
had a stepson, John Blackner, an intelligent, strap
ping young fellow, who was placed at the bar
charged with assaulting his stepfather.
"He (tho prisoner) came in,” said tho father.
" and wished us a Merry Christmas. I have corao
to give you what I and that little girl wants (a
young girl of fifteen) what I have wanted to give
yon for a long time. He then struck me on the eyo
and called me bad words, and said ‘l’m going to
kill you.’ Says I ‘All right,’ and ho wont for me,
but ho is a big powerful man.’’
" Had you any trouble with him ?”
" Not as I know of.”
" How long have you known him ?”
" Tho last fifteen years.”
" Never had any trouble with him ?”
•* Not as I know of.”
" Do you imagine on what grounds he did it ?” '
" Not as I know of.”
Charles Blackner, tho prison or, came up on the
stand. He said:
" I went up to see my aunt; now that man has
made her my mother, on Christmas. As soon as I
entered the house ho commenced to growl. Then
he struck me with a piece of something. We
clenched and fell. I’ve got the cut yet on my head
I got in the fall. To hell, he says to me, and got my
finger in his mouth and commenced to chaw it like
a piece of tough steak, and I had to get my finger
out of his mouth. He has fooled the family eighteen
years.”
"What does he do?” asked the court;
" He is a swindler, sir,” said defendant.
" Why did you go there ?”
“To make a friendly visit and inquire about some
money that is coming to us children from the old
country. There’s the mark on my head where he
hit me with something. There’s the finger, you can
see, half chewed off.”
Complainant said he had nothing in his hand;
when they clenched, the table upset, and they fell.
The daughter, Maggie, was called. She said she
was washing the dishes when her brother came in
and wished them a merry Christmas, and upset the
table. He then ran up to father, they clenched,
and the table upset and her brother’s head got
hurt. Both fell on the dishes.
“ Hadn’t you threatened him ?” asked the court.
"No; if he says that it is a lie. And I have no
doubt he will whip the life out of that sister of
mine when he gets her home for not testifying as
he wanted her, as he whipped us children for eigh
teen years we were under him as stepfather. I
should-not have gone there but to find out about
this money coming to us. 1 always thought a step
mother bad, but God save us from a brutal step
father.”
The court found him not guilty, but advised him
to keep away from his stepfather.
It is wise to provide against emergen
cies that are liable to arise in every family. A cold
may be a dangerous thing or not, depending upon
the means at hand to combat it. In sudden attacks
of cold, croup, asthma, etc., Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral
will prove the quickest and most effective cure and
your best friend.
Tiie Scotchmen’s
THEY MAKE A VERY MUDDLED-UP CASE TO
PUZZLE THE COURT.
When two Scotchmen are pitted against each
other in a court they befog it worse than "twa
trollops” in a quarrel in the Salt Market of Glas
gow—nobody can understand which is in the right.
James Innes was barkeeper for John W. Fulton.
Whether James had been the previous "boss” and
had sold out to William and become his barkeeper,
seemed as likely as not, and yet it was not clear.
Whatever Innes had been, he had become Fulton’s
barkeeper and Fulton charged Innes with stealing
$22.37 from the till.
Mr. Fulton said, on the evening in question, when
he went into his saloon and wanted to know what
was "tuk in,” his barkeeper drove him out of his
place and "poot the leecense o’ the place in his
pocket.
That was a healthy outrage. Rob a man’s till of
all the day’s receipts and "take beside his license,”
that would render Mr. Fulton amenable to the law
for dealing without a license.
When Mr. Fulton was bound out “o’ his ain
place.” he went out and hunted up a " poize
officur.”
“ whfit did he do ?” asked Justice Kilbreth.
“Well, he went to the hoose whaur Mr. Innes got
bis jnales an’ whaur I paid $3 for his getting them,
Did I knaw the man ? Yes. fur three or four years.
There was nae business in the place, it was rin
doun. I said to Mr. Innes I wud see him a’ richt if
he focht up a business, and would salary him. Till
the thing paid, I said I wud pay for a’ his males. He
was with me twa months and three weeks.”
"You saw him take this money; why didn’t you
try and stop him ?”
"I couldn’t do it.”
" What precluded you doing so ?” asked the court.
“ He said it was his.”
Mr. Fulton called a witness who testified that the
boss when he wanted to get behind his own bar was
"shunted ” out by Innes, Mr. Fulton made a de
mand to get behind his bar. Innes bounced him
out.
The barkeeper told this story ;
"Mr. Fultofi promised to pay me twal dollars a
week frae the time I went in his employ. I have a
duplicate of a’ the money I paid and drew in. This
was a night an* day hoose, an’ I never got a min
ute’s rest in nineteen hours—sometimes twenty-one
hours a day. He sent a young man to relievo me.
There was scarcely anything doing, and when 1 laid
down he told the sub. to wake me up if anything
happened. Mr. Fulton and four or five friends
camo in and waked me up. Fulton asked me if I
knew my place. We had words, and Fulton said
he would pay me off next day, and went so far as to
say he could lick me. When it camo to that. I
merely took Mr. Fulton by tho shoulder and laid
him down on the floor. I then put my coat on. and
left the place with the till money that tho boss owed
mo—sixty dollars.”
Mr. Fulton said every word said by Mr. Innes was
perjury. He (Fulton) had a nine years’ character in
one place.
Mr. Fulton said he had got his license back, and
Innes was discharged, and was told to see Fulton
for whatever he owed him.
cleansing agent in existence is
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and preventive of local diseases of the skin, and as
a means of increasing the whiteness and softness of
the cuticle. Ask the ladies if you would learn its
excellence.
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A. Craiilc.
HE GOES TO THE ISLAND AND COMPLAINANT
IS FINED.
Cornelius P. Brown entered the store of Adolph
Bergh, in Rivingston street, and wanted the pro
prietor to purchase a tickej for New Haven—a
stamped ticket. He .was told it was no good, and
asked to leave the store. He went out and broke
two panes of glass.
Brown said he went in this man’s place, and
when he wanted to sell the ticket they handled him
roughly, hoisted bim*outside, and he broke a pane
of glass worth sixty cents. He had lost his temper.
The court sent him to the Island for six months.
He said:
"All right. I’ll fix you when I get out—l’ll fix
you 1 ”
The complainant was fined $5, having neglected
to appear to prosecute.
A. Shiftless Brother.
his sister declares him to be a pro
fessional LOAFER.
Sometimes sisters are bothered as much with a
worthless brother as parents are with a wayward
child.
John Reynolds was before the Justice charged
with abusing his sister Ella. She said he was a
professional loafer. She had often ordered him out
of the house, but ho would come back. If he earns
a dollar it is to drink it. He has pawned the shoes
off his feet and the coat off his back. She was
heart-broken with him. The last two nights he
had come home drunk.
The fellow bad nothing to say.
He was sent to the Island for six months by Jus
tice Power.
Life insured for a few dimes. The
price of Hale’s Honey of Horehound and Tar is 50
cents or $1 a bottle, and one bottle will cure a
cough that might otherwise prove fatal.
Pike’s Toothache Drops cure in one minute.
Why Costello Got Off.—John Cos
tello keeps a junk shop. A piece of brass worth $5
was stolen from the Electric Light Company. It
was found in Costello’s shop and he was arrested.
When arrested he said he knew nothing about it
being there. So said bis wile at tho time. She
said she bought it without tho knowledge of her
busband. 1
John was a.quilted,
That Set tles It.
A POLICE MAGISTRATE CAN FORCE A RELUC
TANT COMPLAINANT TO MAKE A CHARGE. ■
A habeas corpus was issued, returnable before
Judge Donohue, for tho discharge of the wife of Mr.
Murray, the Englishman, who, it was charged; at
tempted to force laudanum down the throat of his
young wife while he pointed a pistol at her bead,
giving her the choice of her manner of death.
When the Justice forced her fo make a
complaint, and committed the man to the Tombs I
and the woman to the House of Detention.
Counsel, in making his motion for the discharge '
of the wife, said there was always a remedy where '
there was a wrong. The defendant, Mr. Murray, 1
was arrested. On the 24th of December he was ar
raigned before the Justice, and the wife was also ar
rested and forced to come to court. When the two
camo into court no complaint had as yet been pre
ferred against Mr. Murray. They brought this lady
into court, and he appeared as her counsel in the
first instance. He had a perfect right to appear for
her, no charge as yet having been made against tho
husband and she having made no affidavit. She
protested against making a complaint against her
husband, and be, counsel for the lady, was ordered
down and assaulted by a court-officer. He claimed
that he had the right to appear for tho complainant
before an affidavit had been made. The lady was
ordered into the private room, and there the clerk
threatened, if she did not make a complaint, that
she would be imprisoned, and, to obtain her. liberty,
she made this-complaint against her husband. She
made this affidavit, all the time protesting against
making it. He claimed that there was no law to
force one-to come into a police court and make,
complaint. They might punish her for contempt,
but they could not extort a complaint from her.
He held .-that tho woman,under these circumstances,
was entitled to her liberty.
The Assistant District Attorney opposed the
motion, to discharge. The wife was but sixteen
years of age. The husband; Murray, was held on
a charge of felonious assault on thia woman. If
discharged will she appear before the Grand Jury ?
She was a material witness. It also appears that
the woman, Lizzy McQuade, with whom the young
woman had gone to board after leaving her hus-.
band, was a woman of doubtful reputation. On the
22d he entered her room, threatened to take her
life, pointing a pistol at her. She ran to the door
and screamed. He said if yon open that door you
are a dead woman. Tho only witnesses were Lizzy
McQuade and the wife of defendant. They had
reason to.believe she would not appear if not held.
She went to this house unbeknown to her husband,
and more than likely she would go back. The
mother had been cabled for to England, and would
probably arrive in the steamship by Friday or
Saturday. It would be impossible to obtain the
woman if released, and the prosecution would have
to be abandoned.
Judge Donohue in taking the papers intimated
that he would sustain the action of the magistrate
and dismiss the writ.
The habeas corpus asking for the discharge of
Mrs. Murray from the House of Detention came up
again yesterday in Supreme Court Chambers, be
fore Judge Donohue, who denied the application to
discharge her. Judge Donohue said persons com
ing in the State and violating the law without ac
counting for their conduct, should be held. There
was an instrument in the Constitution for the pro
tection of our citizens and th© enforcement of the
laws. The woman was considered a witness, not
the complainant. The people were the complain
ants; she was the witness.
Counsel said she had been transferred from the
House of Detention to the care of Mr. Gerry’s So
ciety for the Protection of Children.
"She should be in court,” said counsel.
"She has selected io leave tho House of Deten
tion and go in th© care of this Society,” said th,e
Justice.
" She should be here,” said counsel.
“ She has selected another and better place/’ said
the Justice. “If she desires, she can go back to the
House of Detention.”
Counsel began to argue that when he appeared
for the woman, before she had made complaint, he
had the right to advise, and the Police Justice had
no right to force him apart from his client, take the
wife in a private room and extort a complaint from
her.
Judge Donohue said he wanted no set speeches,
if he wanted his client sent back to the House of
Detention he would send her there.
Counsel said no, ho wanted her discharged.
Justice Donohue then dismissed the writ.
This case wi.U strike layman and lawyer very
forcibly.
Husband and wife came over here from England
on their honeymoon. She is young, and flirts on
the way over on the passage. They quarrel in the
hotel and she leaves him. Be hunts her up and
finds her in a house of bad repute, aud there
threatens violence. Both are repentants in court.
She is forced into the private room of the Police
Justice to make complaint of felonious assault by
the man, no violence having been suffered. The
Justice of the Supreme Court sustains this action
Of tho Police Court Justice.
Erie’s New Outlets.
THE ARRANGEMENTS FQB THE NEW YEAR,
Commencing to-day, the through passenger trains
of the New York, Lake Erie and Western and New
York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroads, which have
heretofore entered Cincinnati byway of the Cincin
nati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad, will be trans
ferred to the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and
Indianapolis Railway, using that company’s tracks
from Dayton, Ohio, and arriving at the new Central
passenger station at Cincinnati, in which station
are located the Ohio and Mississippi, Cincinnati,
New Orleans and Texas Pacific, Cleveland, Colum
bus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis, Cincinnati, In
dianapolis, St. Louis aud Chicago and Cincinnati,
Washington and Baltimore Railroads, thus making
connections in Union depot to all points West,
South and Southwest without the necessity of
transfer through the city. The through-car ser
vice to St. Louis, via the Ohio and Mississippi, con
tinues as at present.
An interchange traffic arrangement has also been
concluded between the Erie and Indiana, Bloom
ington and Western Railroads, whereby through
cars will be run between Kent, Ohio, and Peoria,
Illinois, via Springfield, Indianapolis, Bloomington,
etc. The Pacific express, leaving New York at BP. M.,
will make the connection at Kent. Pullman sleep
ing-coaches are run between New York and Kent,
and the connecting cars from Kent are of the com
posite pattern, built especially for this service, one
half of the car being arranged as a sleeping-car and
the other half has six improved reclining chairs.
The cars also have the latest conveniences, including
buffet. fa
The Coming French Ball.—Three
bands, numbering two hundred musicians are to
discourse the|music for the dancers and merry,
makers at the forthcoming Cercle Francais de 1’
Harmonie grand masqueraue ball, on .Monday,
January 18th. Max Schwab with an orchestra of
100 will furnish inspiration for the dancers, while
Prof. Cappa with the famous Seventh Regiment
Band and another leader with a band of fiifty will
delight the promenaders. The ball this year will
be on a colossal scale, the Academy of Music,
Nilsson and Irving Halls, all threo having been en
gaged for the occasion, and will be connected with
covered bridges. The interior of the buildings will
be elegantly and artistically decorated by French
artists, while special features of a novel character
introduced during the evening will prove genuine
surprises to all who witness them.
Several agents of the society have been absent in
Paris for some time selecting the costumes and nov
elties that will be presented here, for the first time,
which under the combined effect of several hun
dred electric lights and numberless colored gas jets,
are expected to prove highly sensational. A chief
feature this year will be the supper arrangements.
Instead of the old style of charging so much per
person, it will be a la carte, where one has to pay
only for what is ordered, a custom long needed in
public balls. A great many caricatures, tableaux,
comic marches, miniature displays, representations
of national and state politics from a French stand
point, and other entertainments on a grand scale
are in preparation, which on the night of the ball
will have an imposing effect. Nearly all the boxes
are now sold, from which indication the ball prom
ises to be the greatest yet given.
The Oyster Opening Match fob the
Championship of America.—Frank Barrett, of Nor
folk, Ya., has matched himself to open 2,500 oysters
in less time than John Gillen, of this city, opens
2,300. The whole of the stake money, S4OO, has
been posted with Richard K. Fox, who was selected
as final stakeholder, and he also appoints the
referee. The contest takes place at Clarendon Hall,
East Thirteenth street, on Tuesday evening. The
men have met on a previous occasion, Barrett being
so unfortunate as to drive the blade of the knife
into the palm of his hand while in the act of open
ing an oyster, thereby becoming disabled, and lost
the match. It is believed that but for the accident
he would have won. Both mon arc reported to be
in good condition, and an exciting contest is antici
pated. A large amount of money has been wagered
on the result.
He Meant Theft.—John Murphy,
who belongs to " the Downing street growler
gang,” was arraigned to answer three charges of
larceny, to all of which he pleaded guilty. Passing
the store of Morris Bernstein, he pocketed a pair of
slippers. He then came to the store of Mr. Philips,
and took a pair of buttoned gaiters. When he got
to the store of Mrs. Garvort, he took another pair
of gaiters worth seven dollars, when he was
arrested.
The court sentenced him to the Island for one 1
A.. I£.
INSTALLING THE OFFICERS-VISITED BY
THEIR SONS —A STORMING PARTY —
ITEMS OF NEWS.
installing the officers.
Tho past week having been given up in great part
to the family reunions and festivities usual to the
holiday season, few events of interest have taken
place in Grand Army circles. During the present
week the new officers of many of the posts in this
city and Brooklyn wili be installed, and in many
cases the ceremonies will be followed by a reception
or ball.
The public installation o-f the officers of William
D. Kennedy Post will take place at Turn Hall, No.
66 Ea«t Fourth street, on the evening of Thursday,
January 14, The National and Department Com
manders, accompanied by the members of thoir re
spective staffs, will ba present. Tho installation
ceremonies will be conducted by Past Department
Commander James S. Fraser, which is equivalent to
saying that everything will be carried out in first
class style. A reception and hop will follow the
installation.
The officers of John A. Dix Post will bo installed
at post headquarters. No, 33 Union Square, on Tues
day evening next.
Judson. Kilpatrick Post will have a public installa
tion of officers-to be followed by an invitation ball
and: banner presentation at Sulzer’s Harlem Casino,
on tho evening of January 11. The installation
ceremonies wilt begin at nine o’clock, and at 10:30
the banner presentation will take place. Dancing
will ensue at eleven o’clock, and going home will
be in order at any time on the following day.
Ass’t. Q. M. Gen. Joseph 8. Cavendy will install
the officers of John A. Andrew Post at Caledonia
Hath on the evening of January 14. The post will
hold its regular meeting on the night of January 7,
and the Ladies’ Auxiliary Corps will also hold its
meeting on that night, instead of on January 14, so
that they can give the “ boys ” a helping hand or
the occasion of the installation.
Tho installation of the officers of Alexander
Hamilton Post will take place at Association Hall,
at 129th street and Fourth avenue, on Thursday
evening next, the ceremonies beginning at eight
o’clock. The installation will be followed by a
camp-fire and hop.
Coroner and Comrade Ferdinand Levy (upon
whom honors are crowding thickly) and his
brother-officers elect, of Steinwehr Post, will ba
publicly installed at Beethoven Hall in Fifth street,
Wednesday evening, January 6. A ball will settle,
the difficulties of the evening.
The installation of the officers of Edwin D. Mor
gan post, takes place on the evening of the 15th
inst., at the post headquarters at Twenty-fifth
street and Sixth avenue.
On Wednesday evening next the officers of Mich
ael Corcoran post will; be installed by Gen. Martin
T. McMahon at the pastjieadquartors. No. 189 Bow
ery. Comrades generally are invited to ba .present.
Pursuant to special orders from Department
Headquarters, William Finley, organizer and Past
Commander ot George G. Meade post, has been de-~
tailed to install; th©, officers-elect of Veteran post, at
the post headquarters on the evening of the 12th
inst:
Gen. N k W. Day will install the- officers-elect of
Gen. George B. McClellan post, at; post headquar
ters, Na,.278 Bleecker street, on Wednesday evening
next. The installation will be public, and the son
of the late Gen. McClellan is expected to b& present.
Phil Kearney Post will have a public muster on
Thursday evening, Jan. 7th,. at their headquarters,
No,. & Union square, together with a camp fire. Past
Department Commander Henry A. Barnum will be
the mustering officer. He. will be assisted by Gen.
Day and General of tho Staff of the Department
Commander. Major Joseph H. Stiner, the new com
mander of this post is. very energetic and is popular
with the old boys.. He has been the Judge Advo
cate on the Grand Marshal’s Staff for a number of
years and he will make an able commander. His
administration will, no doubt, be a success both
financially and in strengthening the membership of
this post.
OTHER INSTALLATIONS.
The following officers of Women’s Veteran Relief
Corps No. 25 have been elected: Mrs. Marshall,
President; Mrs. Wdolsey, S. V. P.; Mrs. Packwood,
J. V. P.; Mrs. Brown, Sec,; Mrs. Finley, Treas.;
Mrs. Salles, Chaplain; Mrs. West, Conductress; Mrs.
Clark, Guard; Mrs. Vinton and Fullmer, Dele
gates. The new officers will be installed at No. 501
Hudson street, on Tuesday evening.
Thad. Stevens Women’s Relief Corps have elected
the following officers; Mrs. Harris, President; Miss
Johnson, S. V. P.j Miss Williams, J. V. P.; Mrs.
Francis, Chaplain; Mrs. Pritchard, Treas.; Mrs.
Green, Sec,; Miss Butler, Conductress; Miss Custis,
Guard; Mrs, Annie D. Treadwell, Miss Martha L.
’ Green, Mrs. Louisa Pritchard and Mrs. Mary C.
Bentley, Delegates. The installation will take place
> at No. 149 Sixth avenue, on the evening of the 26th
inst.
An installation of officers, to be followed by a
ball, will take place at Wendel’s Assembly Rooms, in
West Forty-fourth street, on Wednesday evening
next, under the auspices of Sumner Women’s Re
lief Corps. The music will be furnished by
Seventh Regiment Band.
Edward Wade Womens’ Relief Corps«auxiliary to
; Wade Post has elected the following officers. Mrs.
Murdock, President; Mrs, Brown, S. V. P.; Mrs.
Kirby, J. V. P.; Mrs. Dunbar, Sec.; Mrs. McAdams,
j Treas.; Mrs. Baker, Conductress; Mrs. Meyers,
s Guard.
The installation ceremonies and ball of Farragut
t Camp S. O. V., will take place at Adelphic Hall,
Broadway and Fifty-second, street, on the evening
of January 13. Comrades of the G. A, ft and
S. 0. V., are requested to appear in uniform.
At the electing hold in the Mansfield WemensJa
( Relief Corps the following officers were chosen:
Mrs. Newell, Pres.; Mrs. Smith, S. V, P.; Mrs.
Barber, J. V. P.; Mrs. Tighe, Treas.; Mrs. Barnes,
Chaplain; Miss Newell, Conductress; Miss DeCastro,
Guard; Mrs. Wood worth, Mrs. Murray, Mrs. Tighe,
Mrs. Roberts and Mrs. Newell, Delegates. Mansfield
Corps now has 170 members in good standing.
VISITED BY THEIR SONS.
Last Monday evening the muster in and installa
tion of officees of Abel Smith Post S. O. V., took
place under the direction of Commander C. H.
Williamson, of R. V. Young Post S. O. V., as muster
ing officer, assisted by S. V. Dept. Commander F„ J.
Rapp, P. T. Colligan, chief mustering and installing
officer, and Comrades Thiele, Lang, Farlow and Ra
phael. The muster in took place at the rooms of
Abel Smith Post, at which the regular encampment
was being held.
Commander Cocheu, in behalf of the poet, re
ceived Commander Williamson and staff, and ex
tended to the Sons of Veterans the hospitality of
the post room, in order that they might exemplify
their work and muster in the recruits. Eighteen
sons of veterans were mustered. H. Harding was
elected Commander, and H. E. Cocheu, Adjutant,
after which the newly-elected officers were installed
by Chief Mustering Officer P. T. Colligan. Remarks
were made by Commander Cocheu, S. V. C. Barnes,
Comrades Holmes, Harding, and others of Abel
Smith Post. Post No. 5 S. O. V. starts out under
the most favorable auspices,
A STORMING PARTY.
Department Commander H. Clay Hall, accom
panied by his staff, will install the officers elect of
Chas. R. Doane Post, of Brooklyn, next Thursday
evening. Delegations from Mansfield, T. S. Dakin,
Harry Lee and other posts will be present. At the
conclusion of the exercises all able-bodied comrades
will be called upon to fall in line and attack the out
works of Rankin Post. The survivors of this on
slaught will then be expected to lead a forlorn hope
against the defences of Alexander Hamilton Post, in
Harlem. “And may a pitying Providence have
mercy on their souls.”
ITEMS OF NEWS.
The fifth regular entertainment of the Reno Post
fife and drum corps was held at the Yorkville Cot
tage, No. 1551 Second avenue, on Thursday evening
last. A goodly audience was present, and heartily
enjoyed the entertainment. Comrade Knobloch
served one of the lunches which has made him
famous as a caterer.
The favorite Grand Army beverage nowadays is
the "Webster” punch, invented and patented by
Comrade William Fowler, of Morgan Post. The
comrade has them on exhibition at his studio in
John street.
A regular meeting of the Veteran Association of
the Thirty-sixth New York Volunteers will be held
to-morrow evening, at No. 161 Avenue B, when busi
ness of importance will be transacted. The second
annual reunion of the association will be held on
Feb. 10.
At the last regular meeting of E. D. Morgan Post,
Comrade Joel offered a resolution, which was sec
onded by Comrade Max Reece, that the sum of $lO
be donated to the widow of the late Comrade Taber.
The resolution was adopted.
Members of the Veteran Association of the Second
Fire Zouaves are requested to be present at the spe
cial meeting, to bo held at their headquarters, No.
32 First street, at two o’clock this afternoon. Busi
ness of importance is to be transacted.
Commander J. B. Lord, of Post No. 58, will instal
the officers of T. F. Meagher Post, N 0.567, this morn
ing, and those of Ellsworth Post to-morrow evening,
at No. 1,591 Second avenue.
Commanders Weldrick, of Post No. 577; Lord, of
No. 58; Comrade M. D. Savage, and others, visited
Mansfield Post last Tuesday evening, and were hos
pitally entertained.
Among the talented artists who will take p rt in
the entertainment which will follow the installation
of Sumner Womens’ Relief Corps, No. 3, to-morrow
evening, will be: Mrs. Dr. Toal. Dr. J. O. Lyons,
Misses Devoe and Graham, Mrs.- Levy, Mme. Dp
Verne, S. V. C. McDermott, Mr. Phillips, and Mr.
McCracken.
The annual reception and ball of Reno Post will
take place at the Lexington Avenue Opera House on
tho evening of February Bth.
On Saturday, December 28th, the office of A. Q. M.
General Cavendy, located at the corner of Warren
and Church streets, this city, was taken by assault.
The members of Doane Post and a select delegation
made up from the friends of the victim, gave him a
severe caning—with a gold head. Comrade Caven
dy will give us its pawnable value next week.
At the special request of Commander M. H. La
man, of Richmond Post, on January 30th Comrade
J. S. Cavendy has been detailed by the Department
Commander to install the newly elected officers.
Rankin Post, of Brooklyn, will have an entertain
ment and hop, followed by installation ceremonies,
at Everett Hall on the evening of January 7. Gen.
N. W. Day will officiate as installing officer.
R. J. Marks Post, of Newtown.,- L. L, will be mus
tered in to-morrow evening by Comrade Young, of
Post No. 499, of Brooklyn.
Comrade Frank M. Clark, of< the Department
Council of Administration, has been detailed to in
stall the officers of G. G. Metternich Post, of Brook
lyn, on Friday evening next.
Comrade Max Reece, of Morgan Post, will install
the officers of Harry Lee Post, of Brooklyn, on the
evening of the 14th inst.
The officers of Sumner Women’s Relief Corps will
be publicly installed on Monday evening at Wen
del’s Hall, Fourty-fourth by Capt. 8. G. Hay*
ter, aid-de-camp national staff G> A. R.
The Francaisu IZAmteib. —The ball of
the Societie Francaise L’Amifrie is being gotten up
in the most elaborate manner, and will undoubt
edly be the one event of tho kind of the season.
The management have substituted Nilsson Hall in
place of Tammany. Hall, as- first given out in. the
Dispatch, and the adornments and decorations are
of such character as comports with the occasion.
The sale of tickets, is. already very large, and those
wishing to participate should secure admission be*
fore a high premium in, placed on the tickets*
Wooden Leg>
IT LAID OUT A COASTER CAPTAIN.
John Smith, a one-legged sea coaster, was charged
with assaulting John, Nugent, captain of a schoonei
that was moored to-the dock. While Nugent was
lying in bed, he sass,. the “Mary Anne ” sailed into
the dock and her captain, John Smith, was trying
to get-his. craft in. and get first place and oust him.
When ho ijot on. deck Nugent said to .Smith, “ What
the—rr=_are you going to do,” and called him "a
son of a.—He was then laid sprawling on tha
deck.. He admitted Smith was trying to pull his
boat around..
Smith said he asked if the captain was aboard.
They said yes, abed. The moment Captain Nugent
came up he went for him with his club, calling
him all sorts of names. As soon as Nugent came
within bearing, he shot out his wooden leg, and,
Nugent fell, and got his black.eye.
“ Discharged,” said the court.
BROOKLYN MRE NOTES.
WHO SHALL BE THE COMMISSIONER ?—THE
COMING FIRE BOAT—NEW IMPROVEMENTS—
GOSSIP, ETC,
WHO WILL. BE COMMISSIONER ?
The question as to.who shall be the coming Fira
Commissioner appears to be the all absorbing topic
in and about the Jay street mansion. Inhabitants
of the “ Wick” are. in ectacies over the prospect of
the appointment being granted a resident of that
borough. Ennis, of the Fifteenth Ward, and Connor,
of the Thirteenth Ward, appear to be the favorites
in that particular locality. The strongest candidate,
however, thee far mentioned, appears to be John Y.
Finn, the popular Treasurer of the Volunteer Fire
men’s Association, W. D , and President ot tho
Exempt Association. Mr. Finn is recognized as an
old vamp, whose ambition appears to be the ad
vancement of the Interest of the widows and or
phans of those who in life perilled everything in
the cause of humanity. Should he receive tho ap
pointment, universal satisfaction would ba fait
throughout the entire force as well as by promi
nent citizens, regardless of locality.
That there will be further changes in the present
staff of attaches to headquarters is predicted.
Secretary Applegate, of she Volunteer Firemens*
Association, is mentioned lor the position of Deputy
Commissioner. A prominent newsp iper reporter in
connection with fire matters, is assured of tha
position of Clerk of Supplies.
Chief Nevins will no doubt retain Mr. Cleveland
in his present capacity as clerk, although it is
rumored that a change may at any moment be in
sisted upon. As everything in connection with tha
above changes solely depends upon who may be
appointed as Fire Commissioner, we simply grant
to our readers the news current, paly this, and
nothing more.
TEST TRIAL OF THE FIRE BOAT.
The new fire boat “ Seth Low” was afforded a final
test trip on Thursday last. At two P. M., Mayor
Low, accompanied by Commissioner Poillon, Chief
Smith, Captain Kellett, of the Fifteenth Precinct,
and City Auditor Vogt, boarded the boat in order to
( witness an exhibition of the throwing capacity of
the oompound engines in use upon the “Seth,” aa
1 she is abbrevifttely termed. Twelve lines of hose,
securely lashed to an incn-aiid-ono-baif Manilla
. rope, were stretched across the dock at tho foot of
Montague street. At a signal from Commander
1 Connell, the pumps were placed in operation, and a
! solid stream of water was played into the river a
distance of nearly 200 feet. Consulting Engine**
I Cowles, the vi me present 'va
’ übiquitous in his presence, his countenance mean
while beaming with delight as he proudly pointed
) out to the uninitiated the superiority of the "Seth
Low” over that of any other fire boat in existence.
Mr. McWilliams, the designer and builder of the
. boilers, was also present, and appeared happy upon
hearing the unanimous verdict tha’t the boat was
an unprecedented success as to her steaming quall
« ties. The distance from Harbeek's stores to tha
wharf at Pratt s oil works was made in less than ten
t minutes. This fact should afford ample excuse foi
the pride shown by the constructors of the boat.
» During the trip, Engineer Tennant, formerly of
j Engine No. 21, was seriously burned about the fac|
j by escaping steahh “Andy” looked
man alter the oil was poured on his " mug.”
The pilot-house was visited upon tho return of
s the boat by Mr. Pierrepont, who was enthusiastic
. in his praise of the speed and throwing capacity of
the boat. Captain Kellett, of the Fifteenth Precinct,
• together with Surgeons Fleming and Roberts, made
, the final trip, which was under the guidance oi
District Engineer Dale, who had been up to this
’ time master of ceremonies ashore. " Genial Jim ’•
- stood by the helm directing Pilot Lobdell, whosa
I management of the boat elicited loud and frequent
applause. The detail of men for duty on the boat
has not been made, up to date. The organization of
the Furman Street House Company and the format
has been necessarily delayed.
John Mahoney and T. F. Leniken, who are both
[ members of the G. A, R., have been detailed on
. probation as pilots of tho “ Seth Low.”
, At a meeting of interested citizens held subse
quent to the trial trip, opinions were freely
changed. Mr. Cowles claimed that the " Seth
! Low ” was far in advance of any boat in use in the
New York Department. It is not only cheaper in
r regard to fuel, but it has a clearer gangway than
either the “ Havemeyer ” or the " Zophar Mills.’*
; Mayor Low congratulated Commander Connell
upon the efficiency displayed by the members of
the force detailed for this exhibition, and declared
himself aS well pleased with the boat named in big
honor. Mons. Martel, accompanied by Signor
Frumenti, made an unexpected appearance upon
the second trip from the wharf. Surgeons Fleming
and Robbins warmly greeted tho distinguished
foreigners, both of whom were eagerly grasped by
the hand with a shake which would have gladdened
the heart of those instrumental in their importa
tion to American shores if present.
EFFECTING CHANGES.
The detailed mechanics under Captain Goodwill
have been busily engaged during the week in
effecting changes in the appearance of the various
houses. The stalls attached to Engine 21 have been
rebuilt. A new panel has been placed in Truck 6’s
house for the purpose of swinging harness. Tha
caulkers are busily engaged at Engine 6 and
6’s houses.
VETERINARY.
Surgeon Hanshew reports two sick horses as be
ing this week cared for at the Veterinary Hospital,
The old veteran "Dick” has been again assigned to
duty at the bouse of the happy family—Truck 5.
SICK.
Chief Nevins appeared at headquarters on Thurs
day last, although his physicians were opposed to
the movement. Tell an old fire laddie of “ye
olden time ” to stay in bed and the chances are
that he will speedily make his appearance.
Captain Connors, of Truck 5, was so far recovered
at last accounts as to be able to properly receive
New Year’s calls. Boom it, Jimmie I
Mallon, of Engine 7, is able to appear upon the
street, and although somewhat shaky in appearance,
Jack has progressed in health better than was at first
anticipated.
Benson, of Engine 3, is said by Surgeon Robbina
to be in a critical condition. As "Benny* is s
favorite throughout the force, it is earnestly hoped
that he may yet recover.
MODELS OF THE “SETH LOW.”
It is said that the combined cities of Buffalo, De
troit and Cleveland, are anxious to obtain models
of the “ Seth Low.” The commissioner will gladly
afford officials from the above-named cities any
needed specifications, through Engineer Cowles.
MORE CHANGES EXPECTED.
The reporter, during his rounds, was informed by
one in authority that changes would be made in tha
force employed at the repair yard. Superintendent
Lynch will be consulted in the matter.
VOLUNTEER FIREMEN’S BALL.
The roll of tho Volunteer Firemen’s Association
was called at 8 P. M., on Wednesday evening last.
President Whitlock in the chair. Nearly two thou
; sand tickets have been thus far disposed of and tha
result of the venture is thus far an assured success.
Upon motion of Secretary Applegate, it was unani
mously voted that the advertisement of the coming
ball appear in the amusement column of this paper.
Upon a subsequent motion, that complimentary
tickets be gfanted the Press. Mr Michaels, of tha
Commissioner of Jurors office, sprang to his feet
and denounced th’e action. "Any person attending
the ball should be compelled to purchase a ticket,**
was the argument adop’ted by the worthy Michaels.
Mr. Simpson, of the ball committee, is in favor of
having a hose carriage and engine, of the old make,
decorated and occupying a prominent position iir
the Academy on the occasion of the coming bal?-
Why not ?
A SWINGING CABLE.
Superintendent Watson is busily engaged in per
fecting plans to enable him to make proper connec
tions with the fireboat. It is proposed to b?ve a
swinging cable more than 100 feet in length, with a
new key and transmitter attached thereto, which
may be readily attached without any outside aid.
This will facilitate matters where a prompt res
ponse to an alarm is needed. Mr. Watson has also
perfected his now transmitter, in connection with
the City Hall bell, and by the electro mechanical
beil striker he is enabled to strike 'rum uno to on®
thousand blows at any rate of speed*
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