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Wallack’s Theatre. —A bright per
formance ef Chassique’s merry opera, "Falka.” is
Jpromised this week, which will be the last of the
Bummer operatic season.
Manager McCaull will cast the opera with an ex
cellent company, including Bertha Ricci, Ray
feamuels, Josie Knapp, Kate Ethel, Hubert Wilkie,
J)e Wolf Hopper, Harry Macdonough, George Boni
fAce, Jr., Alfred Klein and Herbert Cripps, making
goodly array of talent, all of whom are thoroughly
familiar with the opera, having played in it during
former seasons, with the exception of Mr. Hopper,
Vvho assumes the role of Von Folbach, the funny
■fcld governor. That this part is in good hands there
tan be no doubt. His former work has placed him
In the front rank of operatic comedians, and his
■folbach will be fully equal to his earlier efforts.
After Saturday night the theatre will remain
•Closed until August 30th, when Manager McCaull
’Jwill produce an entirely new opera.
I Buffalo Bill’s Wild West.—Great
Crowds daily and nightly attend the performances
bn Staten Island. There is an average attendance
jDf 15,000 people. Staten Islanders never saw such
■|hrongs of people as they see daily now. Buffalo
jpill’s Indians and cowboys, forming the Wild West
exhibition at Erastina, are attracting an average
K>f 15,000 men, women and children daily. It was
estimated that 40,000 persons started from this city,
Jersey City, Newark and Brooklyn on the "Fourth”
to see the Wild West. The managers thought that
the attendance might decrease somewhat immedi
ately after the great holiday, as is usually the case,
fcut contrary to expectations, it increased.
j The special all-water excursion boats are crowded
Bally, while the Staten Island Rapid Transit Com
pany was compelled to order fifty additional rail
road cars to properly accommodate the crowds.
■ The exhibition grows in popularity the longer it
Remains. One cause for this, are the cheap excur
sions that may be enjoyed, it only costing ten cents
jpiroct to the grounds.
if The entertainments given, with the aid of electric
Rights, in the evenings, are becoming very popular.
Rhe sail across the bay and up the Kill von Kull is
delightful these Summer evenings, and when the
Grounds are seen brilliantly lighted the view pre
sented is one of rare picturesqueness. The perform
ances given in the evenings are precisely the same
ps those given in the afternoons.
There is never any disorder, and the most re
spectable classes make nightly trips by boats and
tears. It takes but thirty-five minutes tq reach
ferastina.
National Theatre.—What with the
Jtdison incandescent lights and Edison electric fans
ftnd the system of thorough and continuous ventila
tion throughout the house. Manager Heumann, on
Mhe hottest of nights, continues to keep up a pleas
>nd welcome coolness between himself and his
Uudiences.
< For the present week the dramatic attraction,
Commencing to-morrow evening, will be the ap
jpearance of Mr. Will. 9. Marion in his own drama
tization of Hugh Conway’s novel of "Called Back”
entitled •• Love and Reason.*' Mr. Marion
Mill impersonate the character of Gerald Maynard.
sle will be supported by the leading members of
the regular company of this theatre.
The variety olio will include Mr. Lester Howard
M*d John and Emma Whitney in their laughable
ftpeoialties; the four Emperors of Music in their
original creation, "Mirth and Music;” Messrs.
Sheridan and Flynn in their farcical sketch entitled
*’Matchletts,” and James and Miss Frankie Hall in
their acrobatic feats.
Matinees on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
{Special concerts will be given this afternoon and
Evening.
I Theiss’s Alhambra Concerts. —The
gliding roof of this place of musical entertainment
teauses a refreshing degree of coolness in every part
bf the auditorium day and evening.
m At the special concerts this afternoon and even
ing and during the week. Professor Luigi Del Oro
Will repeat his musical performances which have
|>eoomo so popular wiWi the patrons of Theiss’s. In
Addition there will be concerts by the orchestra and
Ringing and variety specialties by notable artists.
I Sans Souci.—The performances an
nounced by the proprietor for the current week
as a matter of course, ensure the usual suc
cession of crowded audiences. Singing, dancing,
Variety specialties, selections by the orchestra and
fche presence upon the stage of many handsome
young ladies, are Included in the programme.
,!Th« proprietor desires it to be understood by his
patrons and the general public, that the Sans Souci
Is never open for any purpose whatever, on Sunday.
Ee also announces several novelties as being en
gaged to appear in rapid succession.
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Muskral and Urania tic Items.
The Chinese, though they are pas
sionate lovers of the thea're (General Tcheng-ki Tong
■says because they are passionate lovers), have not. like
the Japanese, learned to e nbellish their stage with gor
geous or realistic scenery. Their stage shows merely a wall
with two doors, “off” and “ prompt,” between which is
placed the orchestra, composed of a high pitched violin
i>t , ayed : tremolo,a long flute,a glass trumpet and twogigan
tic cymbals. The scenery is not painted, but described,
thus making even a heavier tax on the imagination than
the stage-proprieties of our old friends Bottom and
Quince. "I enter a garden,” . ays an actor, coming to
the front; " I sit dowfi Qll a black rock, under the shadow
a flowering plum tree; tr>6 Wy'ls cleap’—snd there
tfX? hat . do you say to that,
SIM. Beyefley, Telbin ACo f Sometimes, when the man
agement is lavishly determined to spare no expense, the
comes |3 WM the black rock painted upon a tablet.
The accessories are as imaginary as the scenery. In-
Sof realism you have a system of elaborate symbol- '
something like that of the charades enacted l,y Mrs. ,
ion Crawley and the other distinguished amateurs
•on a famous occasion at Gaunt House.
When an actor stands on one leg you are to understand
that he is on horseback. To indicate that he is in a
•©harlot he carries in each hand a square of cloth on J
which a Wheel is painted, and when he hands the squares 1
to an attendant you Know that he has alighted. It he is '
followed about by a boy carrying an oar, you have no •
difficulty in perceiving that he is on board a vessel; in
fact, Chinese audiences seem to have attained to a pitch
of skill in the art of “make-believe” which leaves Dick •
Swiveller s Marchioness for behind. In a piece which M.
duimet saw at Hong Kong, there was a aeene represent- ‘
Ing an inundation. The hero, carrying the fainting 1
fcerolne in his arms, lumps upon a table, shouting, “ The
giver is still rising.” Upon this table was then placed a ,
•mall one, upon that one still smaller, and on the top ok
all a stool, and the hero, adroitly scaling the edifice, with !
the heroine still in his arms, gravely stated, “ We are on
the summit of a mountain surrounded with water.”
This, by the way, is uncommonly like the comic business
Nvith a table and a chair in the famjliar farce of •• stage 1
JStruqk,” in which the char Acte, s burlesque the CaVern 1
<£.ona from Colleen Bawn.” In brief, the only de- 1
tail of the Chinese st;.ge that V? rise above the
level of the nursery is the costumes, which are of the
most costly nature, and reproduced lor the most part
from models several centuries old. 1
A native Japanese thus criticizes in
good English the costumes of “ The Mikado,” which he
Witnessdd in Boston recently:
’'The play, as a comic opera, is very good, and this,
combined with some of the funniest errors made bv 1
J .layers in their efforts to imitate Japanese customs, aff
orded me a great amusement. It takes me too long
time to criticize minute details regarding the costumes, 1
Scenes, Ac. So I will describe here only a tew points, 1
which seemed to me perfectly ridiculous. 1
“ The first thing a Japanese would notice is the w*ay in
-Which swords are worn. The right way of wearing Jap
fmese swords is to stick two ot them—one about a loot J
onger than the other—between layers of‘obi’ (or belt),
ton the left side of the body, in such a manner as the !
•horter one comes under the longer one, the hilt ol the
former lying nearer to the front of the body.
"Now, each actor in ‘The Mikado’ has his own way of
wearing swords, which does not seem to agree with that
pf any other in the company. Some have only one sword
Attached to the body, while one has managed to wear two
•words of equal length right in front of the body, hanging 1
vertically downward in parallel lines. 'Jhey appear to !
Consider it all right only it they carry swords, no matter
Where or how the weapons are placed.
"Again, it is rather awkward to see a group of gentle- 1
Jnen dressed in modified forms of a ladv's night-sown, i
and presented as Japanese nobles in a ‘ courtyard’ which
Jias every appearance of a Shinto shrine.
“ Think 01 His Majesty the Mikado of Japan, being pro !
vided with a richly-colored paper parasol, the like of 1
which we are accustomed to see in a street of Tokio serv
ing as a shelter for a poor candy vendor.
"Imagine what a Japanese would say when he sees
several of the ladies and gentlemen dressed with the
right breasts of their garments folded over the left—the
customary way in Japan of dressing a dead body before
putting it in a coffin! To this last point I would call a
special attention of pretty Miss Yum-Yum, who other
wise is an excellent Japanese girl. ”
It was in the “palmy days,” when
here was no cry out about the lack of practice, as the
following anecdote will prove. Saturday night had come,
and the bill comprised three pieces, the second one being
The Courier of Lyons.” The first act was over, when
■one of the actors rushed to the leading man and said, “ I
gav, it’s no use. I can’t get through this part of Jerome,
I’ve studied twelve long pans already, and the brain
w on’t stand any more.” " I know It's been hard work,
old man, b it do the best you can, we'll pull you through
pomehow. You haven’t so very much in this act. Say
What vou like, only remember this, when I sneak of the
tnoney, you know nothing aboutit.” “All right.” said the
Jerome, and the act began. In due time came the lead
ing man's speech, “ Now, father, is your time to speak,
fi’he bag of money labelled Restitution. You found it in
rour room ? Speak, father, speak, for they are beginning
o take me for a thief?’ " But they can t do that,” said
the actor, forgetting his instructions. “I found the
snoney, counted it, and it was all right.”
This is the way Mr. Winter “evolves”
In regard to Miss Anderson in his new work, “Miss An
derson's Stage Life:” “Technical accuracy in acting, al
though a merit, is not in a large sense important to the
■world, and the public analysis of it often seems a super
fluous discussion of trifles. But lovely personality’ and
ennobling spirit, on the s age. as elsewhere, is a blessing
to be welcomed and cherished. Miss Anderson is young,
healthful, handsome, artless, remarkable for pomp of
figure and music of voice, singular in her large, sump
tuous, natural action, and fa-cinating with mysterious
charm.” “The triumph of Miss Anderson now is the tri
umph of an exceptional personality shrined in a beauti
ful person, but not yet the triumph of a consummate act
xess Yet, what a wealth of natural power is here!
what glorious promise! what splendid possibilities!”
"There is always in the work of a true a; tist that soul be
neath the surface which illumines the outward fabric and
makes it precious to all minds that are able to compre
hend it.”
Says the Clipper: There is nothing
more curious in the tenth census report than the statis
ties of the various professions followed by the industrious
dwellers in the land of the free. One would naturally
suppose that there were more than 4,812 actors in the
United States, tor under the general head of actors all
kinds of performers are classed; but our astonishment
Is very much increased when we learn that the total
number of actresses—including ballet dancers, chorus
girls and figurantes in undress uniform—is only 1,820.
Yet we have a compensation. There are 64,533 clergy
men and 165 clergy women to look alter our morals and
to damn the stage and the players on it, and 85,671 doc
tors and surgeons to attend to the ailments ot the Latin
parts of our bodies, and 1,543 billiardmen and bowlers
to help us exercise. The statistics of the diamond field
;will be given an inning next time, perhaps. It may be
added that the census has necessarily to be valueless as
to the number of actors and actresses in the United
Mr. John Williams, the American
Champion dancer, now in Havre, has been challenged by
Mr. George Dumont, the French-Canadian dancer, to
Xlance. clog, jig, and reel, for 5,000 f. (£100) a side. Arti
cles of agreement have been signed, and half the money
Is in the hands of Mr. John Jacobs, of the Albion Hotel,
■feavre. The remainder of the stakes has been deposited,
find the match was to take place at the Royal Music Hall,
llavre. The party winning two out of the three dances to
>• declared the winner.
Here is an interesting case of tit for
j tat, or aqu id pro quo, or a Roland tor an Oliver, or w hat
ever else it may be called. On Thursday, the 17tn oi
5 June, Daly's comedy’ company’ went down to Brighton,
near London, to play at a matinee at the Theatre Royal.
Before the doors were opened, Mr. Daly and Mr. Terries
. found a crowd assembled in the pit, and, on inquiry,
learned that Mrs. Nye Chart had given permission lor tne
r membersand employees of Mr. Augustus Harris's Hu
man Nature” company to be present. Messrs. Daly ana
Terries had not been consulted on the matter, so they
stood upon their rights and refused to accede to the ar
. rangement. A few days afterward, Mr. Daly hwung ex-
• pressed a desire to look over Drury Lane Thawre, ne
was introduced to that establishment by Mr. Terriss,
just at the time when Mr. Augustus Harris was on the
• stage busy with a rehearsal. Here was Mr. Harass op
, portunity, and no sooner did he espy Mr. Daly, than he
ordered him to be shown off the premises.
, A dramatic criticism, in a leading
. morning paper, not long ago informed the public that
1 “ a woman who silences a brute by blinding him is the
I ordinary heroine of Tombs Police Court.” Without
doubting the truth of this statement, may it not be
questioned whether the ordinary heroine of the Tombs
Police Court might not. under the exigenc es of late,
reveal the highest attributes of humanity, duty and self
i sacrifice, as well as the titled lady or the apostle of cul
ture. Surely,, if criticism is to be founded upon a taste
that would banish Shakespeare's tragedies from the st age,
condemning the play of "Hamlet ” for the use of poison,
, and that of " Lear ” for “his detestable passion, let
authors have back the good old times when dramatic
criticism was based upon principles of art which could oe
ascertained by reason, and was not the simple product of
personal feeling.
Mr. Wilson Barrett, on the day of his
last appearance at the Princess’s Theatre, London, prior
; to his departure for America, will be the hero of a drama
tic festival to be held morning and evening. He has done
such good work, ana he has proved so earnest in advanc
i ing the best interests of the profession, that he has won
the esteem not only of the playgo ng public, but of hun
dreds of his brothers and sisters in art. These are now
1 eager to do him honor, and are offering their services to
build up a splendid programme for the occasion. There
have already been numerous applications for seats for
this interesting event, notwithstanding that the prices of
admission are to be doubled.
James O’Neill, whom the variety stage
had not forgotten, though he quitted it four years ago,
died of apoplexy, June 29th, at his residence, No. 58
Washington square, this city. He was born in Dublin,
Ireland, about 1845, and came to this country early in
life, traveling first with Conroy, of the London Theatre.
Soon he became a favorite mimic, singer, contortionist
and song composer. Mr. O’Neill had traveled with Pat
Rooney’s company and other variety troupes, had ap
peared at the leading vaudevilles throughout the coun
try, and had once played on he legitimate stage in
“Marked for Life.” Four years ago he grew corpulent
and retired.
Whether on or off the stage, a woman
is bound to have her own way. The late Josephine Gall
meyer, on a certain occasion, refused to appear in a new
piece, although she had contracted to do so at the behest
of her manager, "nothing but death or marriage to annul
the agreement.” In very spite she married on tiie next
day the most unprepossessing member of her company—
a man whom she net er shook hands with before or after.
She made a great deal ol money, but died in poverty.
It is reported that Annie Pixlev will
permanently retire from the stage on account of the
death of her only child, a boy ten years of age. The lad
died of pneumonia. July 3d, at the residence of his
father. Robert Fulford, Port Stanley, Canada. Miss
Pixley states that she was acting only that she might
leave her son rich. She says she has enough money to
take care ot herself, and that she will never have the
heart to go on the stage again.
W. T. Carleton and family are on
Long Island for the Summer. Annie Clarke is at Need
ham, Mass. Digby Bell and Laura Joyce-Bell are at
Ocean Spray, Mass. The Daly Brothers occupy a cottage
at crescent Beach, Mass., and are winning yacht races
in and around Boston harbor. Fannie Forrester is sum
mering at Boston Highland-. W. J. Florence is a guest
of the Reutagouche Salmon Club, at Metapedia, Quebec.
One of the smaller people at the Porte
St. Martin, in Paris, playing in “Patrie.” was a big, well
built fellow whom no one would have fancied famished.
One night he fell fainting on the stage. The doctors pro
nounced him exhausted for want of food. He had eaten
nothing that day, and for several days before had had
only one ten-cent meal each day. The company had to
subscribe to keep him from literally starving to death.
In the Hayman-Rankin California
Theatre controversy, McKee Rankin has taken advantage
of a technicality on the ground that he is not a citizen of
the United States, and although he has made the most of
his theatrical residence in the United States for the past
eighteen years, he has fallen back on his legal privileges
as an alien byway of postponing the inevitable and ham
pering Hayman in collecting his rent.
Hoyt and Solomon’s new opera,
" Maids and Moonshiners.” with Lillian Russell in the
star part, will be produced at the Standard Theatre early
In August. Manager Duff has secured the American
rights. The book is said to be very Gilbertarian, and the
music, by Teddy Solomon, very catchy. The scene is laid
in the Virginia mountains.
R. E. Graham and Mamie Cerbi were
married in this city Sunday, June 27. The bride is, we
bel eve, a daughter of a lady once favorably known as a
greenroom dresser. If so, she is one of Vice-Chancellor
Thomas S. Preston’s graduates at st. Ann's R. C. Sch< ot,
East Twelfth street She deserves to be happy in
new sphere.
The company to support Lizzie Evans
the coming season will consist of Blanche Moulton, Julia
Blake, Eloise Bridges, A. S. Phillip’, Charles Mason, A.
Z. Chipman, Charles O. Richardson, H. D. Blakemore,
Henry Scharf and J. A. Westervelt. Miss Evans will open
her season at the Globe Theatre, Boston, August 16, for
two week a
The death is announced of the cele
brated Russian dramatist, Ostroffski, at the age of sixty
three. It is said that the uneducated Russian merchants
and public functionaries will secretly rejoice at this, for
the deceased dramatist was in the habit ol portraying
their peculiarities with an altogether too unnleasant fi
delity.
Later English advices say that the
American rights ol C. H. Hawtrey’s " Harvest’’ have
been secured by A. M. Palmer. The piece will be done at
the London Globe about July 15th. Arthur Dacre, Amy
Roselle, Kate Rorke, Yorke Stephens and H. B. Conway
will be in the cast.
Ed. Harrigan’s Company closed a
very successfiil season at Boston last Saturday night.
The company returned to town, and Mr. Harrigan and bis
manager, Wart Hanley, also Mr. Dave Braham, and their
families have gone to Schroon Lake for the balance of the
Summer.
Mr. E. G. Haynes, who for the past
three seasons has been the business manager for Mr. J.
M. Hill's various enterprises, has leased and will manage
the new Opera House at Norristown, Pa., which has a
seating capacity of 1,800. His season opens about August
23d.
Managers are said to be superstitious
about engaging anybody that has ever been connec'ed
with that unfortunate affair, “It’s a Cold Day When We
Get Left,” inasmuch as everybody is badly left that ever
had anything to do with it. Haverly is the latest victim.
Eben Plympton will continue his im
personation of Jack Beamish, at the Royalty Theatre, Lon
don, until the last of July, when he will sail lor America
to star with “Jack” during the coming season. Miss
Deane will accompany him as leading lady.
“Patent Rights,” an original American
comedy in three acts, by Fred Marsden.will be nut on the
Fr»aQ Almy Le Grand next season, ft will be
Played at Square Theatre four weeks, beginning
March 14, 1887.
Clay Greene and Dave Bc-iasco will
direct the rehearsals ot M. B. Curtis's new play, “Caught
in a Corner,” which will be pre.-ented at the Bush Street
Theatre, ban Francisco, lor the first time on any stage
July 26.
Jessie Williams and Colonel Milliken
have completed their opera of “Benvenuta.” Williams
is quite enthusiastic about it, and claims to have one of
the brightest books and scores seen in this city for several
years.
Charles Hawthorne, the theatrical de
signer and costumer, is making the costumes for Mrs. D
P. Bowers for her coming season. He is also making ’
costumes for Emma Vaders, of the Edwin Booth Com
pany.
Henry Hamilton’s domestic drama,
“Harvest,/ is said to be in favor at Wallack’s, with a pos- *
sibility of its opening the regular season there. Robert i
Buchanan’s ‘ Sophia’’ is also talked of in this connection
“Sqldiers and Sweethearts” is the ,
title of the new musical comedy which will be pr< duced
at the Bijou during the latter part of August. It is ex
pected to run until Nat Goodwin’s opening in October. <
Jeffreys Lewis’ interior tour, under
the management of J. k. Long, has been a series of sue- (
cesses. She left for Portland July 8, and after playing
the Northwest circuit proceeds to New York.
Fred. W. Warde, supported by a com- 1
pany including Ralph Delmore and Helen Leigh, is this
week presenting “Damon and Pythias” at the Grand
Opera House, in Toronto Cana la.
J. Charles Davis will not be absent :
from h-is office at the People’s Theatre during the Sum
mer. He will be there a lew hours every day to attend
to his many duties.
Rowland Buckstone was a member of :
Rankin's Company at the Third Avenue Theatre, New
York, and his old Syndicate luck appears to haunt hi S
still. '
Arthur Moreland has an interest in
Dockstader s Minstrels, in this city, and will be the inter- 1
locutorwhen they open at the Comedy Theatre.
Twenty-five thousand dollars was the ,
amount of money taken in at f >ur performances by .
Sarah Bernhardt, in South America, recently.
Dore Davidson and Ramie Austen will
not star next year, but are negotiating with several man
agers. "Lost” did not meet with success.
Frederick De Belleville will be jointly
starred next season with Miss Rose Coghlan. They will
add several new plays to their repertoire.
John E. Warner will do the advance
work for Wilson Parrett's company, after the engagement
at the Star Theatre,
Maggie Mitchell and John W. Al
baugh and family are at their Long Branch cottages.
“ There’s millions in it,” is said just
three times by Raymond in Col. Mulberry Sellers.
Vernona Jarbeau-Bernstein is nearing
an interesting epoch in her married life.
Lester Wallack is at his country house
at Stamford, and is not in good health.
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IT IN HOUSES OF BAD REPUTE.
The police of the Twenty-ninth Precinct pulled
two houses of prostitution, Mamie Wilson, No. 119
West Twenty.ninth street, and Carrie Lenori, No.
117 West Twenty-eighth street. They were held in
bail to answer the charge of keeping a disorderly
house.
" What do you know about the men and women
found there?” asked Justice Smith.
"Nothing. They were there,” said Officer Blonk.
"Discharged,” said Justice Smith.
George W. Perry, residing at the Albermale Ho
tel; Joseph Algon, Rahway, N. J.; Henry Russell,
West Forty-second street, and James Squires, the
discharged gentlemen found with the girls, and ar
rested with themand the madames, all said they
were Journaleers.
If that was the reason that Justice Smith let them
off he is entitled to the thanks of the fraternity for
his kind consideration. But we beg leave to say
there wasn’t a reporter in the crowd. Reporters
have the same passions that politicians and others
have, but this can be said of them, they are not
deadheads.
Beautiful Helen no doubt had a fine com
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it exceeded in purity the complexions of the ladles
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HER CONVICTION STAMPS OUT A SUIT FOR
FALSE ARREST.
The private detectives of dry goods houses have
a very delicate position to fill. If they don’t stop
thieving by shoplifters and the help, they are dis
charged. If they, blunderingly, make arrest of an
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few arrests are made, the firm is likely to think his
services might be dispensed with, while the fact is
his presence here and there in the establishment is
a deterring to crime. Such a man the Ridley firm
have got in Mr. Morrison. He has protected the
firm and the public, and the concern has nover
been involved in a suit through his blundering.
Kenny, the officer attached to O’Neil’s store, is
another very careful, cautious officer. In the last
case that Kenny had, the Court, vary likely, had a
strong leaning to acquit, put then, that would have
laid the firm open to a suit for damages.
Kenny said he saw the defendant, Rose Williams
(colored, tidy young woman, with baby in arms),
in O'Neil's store. He saw her standing at the
hosiery counter, and drop three pairs of socks in
her umbrella and walk off. They were only worth
thirty cents. As she was going out ou the street,
he brought her back.
"What explanation did she give when arrested?”
asked Justice Smith.
"None.”
"You were in the Police Court; did you hear
what statement she made?”
"Yes, sir.”
" What did she say then?”
"She admitted in the Police Court, taking them.”
That was on the record of the papers from the
Court below.
Defendant said she went in and looked at the
stockings. Standing waiting to be waited on, and,
knowing the price of the socks, several ladies came
beside her and pulled the stockings about roughly.
Her umbrella was in one hand, while she examined
the stockings, aud the ladies by her were tossing the
stockings about. What she was shown were too small.
She did not know that any socks had fallen in her
umbrella, aud, as she was going out, the officer said
"I want you.” She supposed that ip the pulling
and hauling of the socks by the ladles they dropped
in her umbrella.
“You recollect the day you were in the Police
Court?” said Justice Smith.
"Yes, sir.”
"That’s your signature?”
“Yes, sir.”
•’You said jmu were guilty?”
" Yes, sir; I was so excited, they were in my um
brella.”
‘•Whjt did you say to the officer?”
‘1 didn’t do it. You know I didn’t.* **
“He says you said nothing.”
The womap said she was frightened when arrested
and searched, afld lost her wits. She did washing
and ironing to help her bdßOaßd along. ;
Phcebe Sharp, residing at No. 257 West Twenty 1
fifth street, said Rose lived with her as domestic
for twenty months, up till she got married, and she
had full charge of the house and never took a pin. 1
Rose was a good, chaste girl, and was now married, ! 1
and had been ten months out of her employ. She I <
went with her to Saratoga, and while with her there J
never was anything stolen. She, witness, had had
collars stick to her umbrella when shopping. These 1
things frequently happened in large stores.
The Court found Rose guilty and sent her to the
City Prison for one day (about three hours). She
was convicted at one, and four o’clock made tbs <
day. <
But the conviction and imprisonment estops a «
civil action for false arrest. Civil action after con
viction, is a rather hazardous speculation to expect
to succeed,
Mr. Ilaelcett Went Astray, ,
HE GAVE HIS WATCH TO A STRANGER TO GET
THE MONEY TO TREAT.
On the 20th of Juno at five in the morning John I
Hackett lost, his watch in the Bowery. He said : ]
Me and this defendant, William Fuller, were at the j 1
corner of Fourth street and the Bowery. I asked ]
the bartender for a drink. He wanted the cash. I i
offered to pledge tho watch for a drink, but he i
wouldn’t take it. Fuller came out with me, and I |
gave him the watch to pledge. He took me as far
as Sixth street and left me at the corner.” ’
" He was a stranger to you ?” <
" Yes, sir.”
" Were you sober ?” >
“I had some, but I had my senses.”
" How much had you drank ?” asked counsel. 1
"I couldn’t say.*’
"This was five o’clock in the morning; where
were you all night ?”
" I was astray.”
"Do you know’ where you strayed to ?”
“ No.”
" Where did you come across Fuller ?”
"In the Bowery, about four o’clock.”
"You asked where you could pawn your watch?”
" Yes, sir.”
"You and Fuller went out together. Where did
you part ?”
" At Sixth street.”
" Where did you next see him ?”
“ In the same store next night.”
Pat. Fitzgerald, the bartender, said Hackett came
in the store whore he worked and wanted to know
if he couldn't get drinks on his watch. He said, i
"No.” He got in conversation with Fuller, who ;
said he could raise a dollar and a half on it. Fuller
took the watch and they- walked out together.
Hackett came back and said he had lost Fuller and
his watch. Hacket could walk and knew what he
was doing. He knew the road to his mouth.
Fuller said he lived at No. 150 West Fourth street.
He bad but recently come out of the hospital,
where he had been doctored eleven months for a
broken leg. He naturally felt thirsty. Previous to
meeting Hackett he had drank all that afternoon,
all that night till about five o’clock in tho morning,
when he met Hackett, who wanted drinks on his
watch, and then promised to go to bed. He was
going in the market, and they went in the market
and had a cup of coffee. He was going to get a dol
lar aud a half on his watch, but the man that of
fered the loan said he gave no tickets, the market
wasn’t a pawn-shop. Hackett went to the end of
the market and fell asleep in a chair, while he
(Fuller) went hawking around for the loan of two
dollars on the watch. When he returned, Hackett
was gone. Then he went on a continued tare him
self, and tne next he knew he found himself in
Madden’s, drunk. Hackett was there, aud he was
arrested.
The Court gave Fuller the benefit of the doubt,
and discharged him.
Fobtify the system, by the use of
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, against the diseases peculiar to
hot weather. This medicine induces a healthy
action of the stomach, liver, and kidneys, causing
them to prevent the accumulation of the poisons
which produce disease.
Woxilci IVot Convict Ills
JF’atlier.
WHY A FAMILY MAY BE MADE HOMELESS.
3 Timothy White was charged with cruelty to his
- eon Patrick. Officer Stocking said he found prison
t er’s son, aged fourteen, at Thirtieth street and Sixth
t avenue asleep on the corner at 11 P. M., and arrested
P him. Tho boy told the officer that he was waiting
. till two o’clock in the morning to go and got his
j papers.
) Patrick White, the boy, said the prisoner was his
, father.
• “ How old are you ?” asked Justice Kilbreth.
j " Can’t tell you,” replied the boy.
"How do you support yourself ?” asked the
Court.
"By selling flowers and papers.”
“How much do you make ?”
" A dollar a day.”
"Does your father know that you go out to ped-
> die these things ?”
“ No.”
“Did you ever talk to him about peddling ?”
"No.”
“He knew you were peddling papers?’*
"Yes, sir.”
“ In the night time ?**
"No, sir.”
"Who did you give the money to ?”
" Mother.”
“ Did your father ever see you give money to your
mother ?”
“ Once or twice.”
"How many are in the family ?”
" Five of us, and one at sea.”
“ What doos your father do ?*’
“ He is a waiter in the Hotel Bristol.”
“ Who furnished the money to buy papers ?”
“Mother.”
“Your father knew all the time you were going
out?”
"No.”
" Does your father get drunk very often?”
"No.”
The father said he never got a penny from tho
boy; the boy went out against his wishes. He
was able to support his family. He did not
know he was out at night to get papers to ped
dle. Had seen him give money to his mother, but
never asked them anything about it.
"Then,” said the Court, "it didn't make any dif
ference if he stole it ?’*
"I only saw him give money but ohe time. I
have a good, happy home.”
The mother was called, and said her boy went out
at half.past three o'clock in the morning, but the
father did not see him. He went out, like other
boys, to have recreation. He gave her the money
he made, sometimes fifty and sometimes twenty
five cents. He sold papers at night, when his father
was at the hotel.
The Court found White guilty, and remanded
him, to get a report of his habits.
■A-n Unhappy Couple,
BETTER FOR THEM THEY HAD NEVER MAR
RIED.
David and Jennie Roach have been married about
five years. In that time the wife has charged the
man with desertion, and failing to support her,
now she brings him up on the charge of assault.
On the 28th of June last he assaulted her. The
night before, she says, he came in drunk, and took
all the money in the house. In the morning he
came in and dragged her over the floor by the hair
of the head, threw her out in the hall, left her
lying there and locked the door. He was then
perfectly sober.
“ Isn’t it true?” asked counsel, " that you picked
up a bed-chamber article and threw it at him ?”
“ No, he threw it at me.”
"And then it was you ran out screaming ?”
"No.”
"Now ain’t you in the habit of throwing the tea
in his face when sitting together at the table ?”
" No, but he has done that to me.”
" You are in the habit of calling him a son of a
“ No, but that is what he calls me.''
A neighbor testified to seeing Mrs. Roach lying in
the hall in a faint. Another neighbor beard them
quarrel twice. On the 28lh of June she heard a fall
over head, and then heard Mrs. Roach afterward
moan.
Josephine Sturler said she lived two days as
domestic with Mr. and Mrs. Roach. Mrs. Roach
fell the Wednesday before and hurt her side. Her
language and manners were so bad she could not
live with her.
"I am entirely innocent,” said the husband. “ I
did not touch her in the slightest manner. On the
Sunday previous and the day before I had a good
deal of trouble; the wife was very cross. My
mother was thers at her request. I kept open till
twelve o’clock, and didn’t go home that night.
Next morning she told me I was out all night with
a cruizer. Then she threw this article at me—there
is the collar I had on when soused. Then she
opened the door, and screamed, and went in the
hall, I never raised my hand to her. I sat down
in a chair dumbfounded. Two haurs titer I was
arrested.”
Julia O’Neil, a former domestic with Mrs. Roach,
said her reputation was very bad. She once made
a charge of abandonment against Mr. Roach. She
then had eight boarders, who were paying her $5
a week, and she Swore she had nothing to Het
language was aomething awful.
The wife, recalled, said her husband was in the
theatrical business. Now, he kept a restaurant,
and, while the would be kept washing dishes all
day, he would be out all night. Last Summer he
was away from her, taking his comfort, while she
was at home slaving. She never fell accidentally,
but he had kicked her, and she had to be taken
in an ambulance to the hospital. He had threat
ened her life, and told her it was no use to have
him arrested, as he had a big pull on the judges.
Justice Kilbreth ordered that testimony to be
stricken out.
Roach was found guilty and fined $25.
Fifth avenue and Best English Tail
ors’ Misfits cost less than ready-made clothing in
other stores, at Shea’s, corner Broome and Crosby
streets. Dress suits loaned.
r _rii.e Agate Club.
HOW TYPOS ENJOY THEMSELVES.
The fifth annual clam-bake of the Agate Club,
was given at Joseph Payez Cosmopolitan Hotel,
East New York, on Monday, July 5. The bake,
which was ready at four o’clock, had been preceded
by a game of foot-ball, and all sat down with ap
petites sharpened by the exercise. It is estimated
the members and their guests, about 150 in all, dis
posed of an average of 175 clams each, in addition to
a very large supply of blue fish and accessories. In
the matter of liquids, no approximate figures can be
given.
After the feast the foot-ball was resumed, until
the music of a skillfully manipulated violin, floating
out upon the field indicated that a finished amateur
concert had begun. This part of the programme
was under the direction of Mr. Jacob Payez, leader of
the Jacob Payez Orchestra. Mr. Joseph Payez Jr.,
assisted upon tho piano. A goodly number of excel
lent vocalists were also present.
Among those present were Theodore C. Wildman,
Secretary-Treasurer Typographical Union No. 6;
Frank Baxter, Anthony Walsh, David Swanson,
Supervisor William Blanchfield, Benjamin Amessee,
Charles Reammendeur, Sr., Charles MacDonald, J.
Ferguson, Sherman Cummin, Frank Ferriault,
Andrew Stenger, Mr. Deslauriers and Bro. P. O.
Meara, of Montreal, and many others.
The Agate Club is one of the leading organiza
tions of printers in Brooklyn and New York. Mon
day’s bake was the fourth of a similar character
which has been held under the auspices of the club.
These are the club’s officers: William P. Robinson,
President; Abe Pietch, Treasurer; 11. E. White,
Secretary; Committee of Arrangements—J. E.
Doughty, Alfred Jackson, James A. Hopkins, Charles
jH. Gregg. Reception Committee —T. C. Wildman, -
C. J. Macdonald, John Kelly, A. Walsh, William J.
Kelly, P. J. Dawkins, D. B. Horner, A. J. Cunning
ham, P. J. Fogarty, J. Cummings and P. F. Del
fausse.
Among the ladies present were Mrs. Joseph Payez,
Mrs. Julian Payez, Mrs. Wildman, Mrs. Harry Han
cock, Mrs. Anthony Walsh, Mrs. John Miller, Miss
Mamie Call, Miss Maggie Hall, Mrs. Sherman Cum
min, Mrs. Jas. Ferguson and Mrs. George Miles.
Innocents JkToroacl.
THE COURT GIVES THEM A HOME ON BLACK
WELL’S ISLAND.
On the evening of July 2d, as Officer Brennan was
passing up Eighth avenue in citizen’s clothes, he
saw John Gray and John McCann near Twenty
third street, together, about half-past nine. Gray
tried to get into Post the tailor’s store, at Twenty
third street, and when the officer arrested him Mc-
Cann tried to rescue the prisoner. Gray took him '
by the arm and shoved him, then put his hand in
his pocket as if to draw a pistol. The officer drew
his pistol and covered him and took both men in.
There were three thieves together; the other got
six months in the police court as a disorderly per
son. The officer charged these two with attempt
ing to rescue a prisoner.
Herman Merritt said he saw the three men go up
the avenue together, the officer following them.
Immediately alter the officer had one by the neck,
and the accused tried to rescue the prisoner. They
hit at the officer, but he covered them with a re
volver, and another officer came up and helped to
made the arrests.
McCann said; “ Going down Eighth avenue to
» Twenty-third street, where I had an appointment
to see a man that was to get me work, I saw two
men fighting. I touched this man on the shoulder
(the officer) —he was in citizen s clothes—and said,
‘Don’t hit that man; he is drunk.’ I then walked
l across the street and the officer pulled a pistol on
t me. I did not then know he was a policeman.”
r Gray said his attention was called to two men
’ wrangling. He did not know this young man; never
saw him befere. He took his handkerchief from
( the pistol pocket and said to Brennan, "Let the
young man go.” He didn’t know Brennan was an
officer, and was astonished to see him draw a re
volver and say, “ I’ll put a hole in you.”
Mr. Merritt said ho saw all three go jop the ave
nue together.
They were sent to the Island for six months each.
Joo Brokeup.
THE SLUGGING OF SULLIVAN OUTDONE.
Complainant and defendant were Hungarians liv
ing in the same house. Joe Brokeup, on a drunk,
undertook to whip Mr. Gerzell. and Mrs. Gerzell,
whose husband was getting the worst of it, got the
knockdown intended for her better half. He struck
the wrong person. That was no justification that
he didn’t knock out tho person meant. Whoever
got that fist when it shot out, would get the bene
fit, and tho hitter, no matter who was hit, was res
ponsible.
Barbara Gerzell said Joe slapped her in the face
and knocked out two of her teeth. Her husband
and Joe were fighting, and she went in to separate
them.
Joe said a lot of boarders in his house had a fight,
and the husband of this woman came in his room,
and took a hand in. He said to them: "Gentlemen,
if you want to fight get out of my room.” The
reading of the riot act didn’t have the effect in
tended, and he stepped up and “ chucked them from
his room,” one by one. The men were all drunk,
but he was sober, and the lady’s husband wm the
last he tackled.
" Was your husband drunk ?” asked the Court.
"Somewhat,” replied Mrs. Gerzell.
“ What was the trouble about ?”
“I don’t know. I was in bed and heard the
noise.”
“Was the accused drunk ?”
“I WoM ho was.”
“You know your husband waa ?’*
“Yes, sir.”
»* How did ho oome t 6 strike you ?”
“I saw thenl fighting, and I tan in to save my
husband—we had chiidreii. ?r
“Did he strike at you or your husband ?’*
“My husband was down on the floor.”
Fined sls. That was five for each tooth and five
for the black eye. It must have been a Sullivan
fist that with a single blow could knock out two
teeth and at the same time give a blaok eye.
A. I*ollßll Case.
HOW KOSCIUSKO’S COUNTRYMEN CAN SWEAR
IN COURT.
When Pau! Demond came on the witness stand,
he wanted to make the Court believe he was in dan
ger of rabies. The empty sleeve hung limp, while
his shirt-bound arm was in a sling. He said he
had been bit by Jacob Sewinsky.
Paul said ho lived at No. 144 Hester street. On
the 4th of this month he was assaulted at the cor
ner of Hester and Ludlow streets. Two men were
quarreling, and he said to Sewinsky, “ Why strike
that man ?** Then Sewinsky went at him like a
"hungry wolf.” He took hold of him, bent down
his head, and bit his arm.
"Did you do anything to him?” asked the Court.
“ Of course I struck him.”
“What time of the day was this?”
“ Half-past one.”
“Did you see him before that time ?’*
No, sir.”
" Let me ask you a few questions,” said counsel
for Jacob. "On the sth of February, Paul, you
were arrested?”
“Yes. air.”
“On the 9th of March,’Bs, you were sent to the
Island for stealing—what ?”
"Clothes.”
Defendant, who lives at No. 73 Hester street, said
he knew the complaining witness. He owed Mr.
Hyman some money. Mr, Hyman couldn’t get it
out of him. When Hyman went to dun Jacob, he
struck him; then, when he interfered, he was
struck, and got an ugly cut; there was a ring on
one of Paul’s fingers.
“ Were you ever arrested ?” Jacob was asked.
" Yes, sir, and fined $10.”
“ What was the arrest for?”
“I was accused of stealing a goose.”
Jacob was discharged.
Tom Collins Found.
TOM THINKS THERE IS A MISTAKE.
Thomas Collins was charged with stealing a pair
of scales from the store of William B. Schaefer, No.
372 Avenue B. Tom hooked them up aud walked
off, and when arrested said it was only fun.
“I was a watchman said
f ‘Yes, that was some time ago,” said Mr. Schaefer.
Tom’s counsel said his client was private watch
man for the Union Incorporated Oil Works. He
was suffering from jaundice and pneumonia, and
was very sick. That night he took a few glasses
of beer. Coming along—he knew the boy in the
store—and took the scales up through fun; the
officer was on the other corner and be arrested him.
He was only fooling; he had no intention to steal.
The Court ordered a plea of not guilty to be
entered, and the theft was proven.
Officer Kiernan, of the Eighteenth Precinct, said,
when Tom was arrested he was partly intoxicated,
but he could run very well.
"Do you know anything about him?” asked the
Court.
"He has done time in the Penitentiary and in
State Prison,” said the officer.
"Oh, no,” said Tom. "He has reference to an
other Tom Collins entirely. 1 never saw Black
well’s Island.”
"Do you know this is the Tom Collins?” asked
counsel.
"He is the Simon pure,” said the officer.
“I never was convicted,” said Tom. “I was
arrested and honorably discharged.”
“ In this court ?**
“ No, sir.”
“ He is a sick man,” remarked counsel.
"He will get good attendance free, on the Island.
Six months,” said Justice Kilbreth.
AV ill Tuearxi.
COSTLY LESSONS OF GOING ON A SPREE.
Victor N. Delano, a very respectable-looking gen
tleman, stood shaking at the bar, charged with|bav
ing been found drunk the night before by an offi.
cer. He was without coat, hat, vest or shoes. His
pants wore of the finest black broadcloth, and his
shirt of fine linen, slightly soiled.
"Where did you come from ?” asked Justice
Smith.
" Stamford, Ct.,” said the shaky gent.
“Did you come without coat, vest and hat, and
in your shirt sleeves from Stamford ?”
"No, sir; I was robbed of everything—my watch,
my pocket-book that had a hundred in it, my coat,
my hat, my vest, even to my shose. Lord, God, it
was h to leave a gentleman in this condition to
walk through the streets in his bare feet.**
Justice Smith seldom smiles, but he did on this
occasion; he put himself in the poor devil’s po.
sition in imagination and said:
"Get home as quick as you can.”
Imagine Mr. Delano ringing the bell of a Fifth ave
nue mansion bareheaded, barefooted, and coatless,
to ask relief of a friend to whom he was known,
and the reception he would get from Bridget at the
door.
James Cooney, arrested for intoxication, came in
the same plight before the Justice. He wap stripped
of everything. He came on Tuesday (o see the
sights in the city, got drunk, and while in that con
dition somebody robbed him of almost everything.
On Tuesday, or Wednesday, be couldn’t say, he
applied at the station-house for lodgings. They did
not recognize him at his hotel and turned him out.
He went to the station house and got a night on
a plank. He was given ten days in prison to com
municate with his friends to get an outfit and
money to leave the city.
A. Gentleman. Run Hown.
AND THE COURT RUNS HIM UP TO THE PEN
ITENTIARY.
There were two charges of theft against John As
tout, a respectably-dressed young Frenchman. He
pleaded guilty to both accusations. He was caught
in the old style of shoplifting—laying his coat on
the counter over the goods, and in lifting the coat,
lifted goods with them.
His counsel said he had been told that this gen
tleman’s (prisoner’s) parents lived in Paris, but he
' had run down; he had lately come to this country,
and was in bad circumstances. He never was ar
rested before and was of a good family, and might
reform if let go, as he had never done any wrong
before in his life.
"Did you get your goods back ?’ asked the Court.
“No, sir,” said Mr. Nelson, the complainant.
i "The pawnbroker is a friend of mine, and I don’t
want him to be anything out.”
"Here is a letter from the prisoner’s father,” said
counsel, "in which he sends him a check for SSO,
and expresses the strongest feeling of love. The
man has been a gentleman and is run down. I
think there might be a chance of reformation.”
Monsieur was sent to the Penitentiary for six
months.
-A- Mystery Solved.
EVIDENTLY A CASE OF SUICIDE.
The body of the young woman who was found
dead on the high bluff of Fort Lee early on Thurs
day evening, rested in a plain ice-box in the rear of
Constable John Diehl's residence, all Saturday
morning, A steady stream of country folks poured
into the place and took occasional peeps at the
calm face. It was not handsome in death. But few
persons went from the city to see the remains.
None of the country people had seen the dead
woman before, and Officer Diehl, with the assistance
ot Coroner Schor, began to make arrangements for
the interment in the poor-house plot at Sohraalen
burg, which is just to the north of Englewood, So
certain was Coroner Schor that the woman commit
ted suicide, that he considered an inquest unneces
sary.
It is not true, as published Saturday morning,
that there are three bullet wounds in her head.
She fired four shots in all, but three alone are ac
counted for. Two of these grazed her right temple,
but only one entered the head. This lodged in the
cavity below the right ear, and was the one which
caused death. The powder about the hair and the
burned forefingers of the right hand made it evi
dently a case of suicide. At a few moments before
twelve o’clock Coroner Schor began making pre
parations for the funeral. He was just about lift
ing the body from the ice-box when a horse and
buggy were seen climbing the hill. The horse was
covered with foam, and the driver gesticulated like
a madman in order to attract the attention of those
assembled.
Hardly had the light wagon coma to a standstill
in front of Officer Diehl's Hotel when a middle-aged
man, with a Teutonic cast of features, jumped to’
the ground. He was attired in a suit of blue flan
nel and appeared much excited. He could hardly
speak, but by mute signs made it known that he
wished to view the body. The small lid of the ice
box was swung back and the dead woman’s face ex
posed. The stranger glanced at it and the next mo
ment drew back, with the exclamation:
“It is she! Poor, poor Eliza!**
When ho had sufficiently recovered he Coro
net Sehor. n d a reporter JU. fti lowing , t .tement:
His i" Loin, and ho resides at No. 4 Varick
place, this city. The dead girl’s name was Eliza
Gerlach, his wife’s sister. Sh e was a servant for a
Mr. Clayton, of No. 352 West Thirty-second street.
The man who is supposed to be the cause of her
trouble is G. Hennig, and until quite recently he
resided with a family named Grim, on Tenth ave
nue, between Fifth and Sixth streets, He is a car
penter by trade, but at present is out of the city.
On Wednesday the dead girl called at her sister’s
residence and said that she was about to become a
mother. Mrs. Lein advised her to seek Hennig, and
in company with the former’s son, a lad of fourteen
years, the poor girl started out for that purpose.
She sent the little fellow up to the Grim apartments,
but he was informed that Hennig had gone in
search of work in either Yonkers or Philadelphia.
She then returned to the home of her employer and
on Thursday afternoon asked Mrs. Back wood, the
housekeeper, for a leave of absence. It was granted.
It is supposed she then wandered to Fort Lee and
ended her life. The funeral took place Saturday af.
ternoon, the body being interred at Edgewater, at
Mr. Lein's expense.
Pkinob Nicolas Tshe bbatov, Flag
Lieutenant Imperial Russian Navy, speaking of the
efficiency of the Liebig Co.’s Coca Beef Tonic, says:
"Itis a most excellent tonic." Edwin Booth says:
" Did me good.’’ General Franz Sigel says: "Bene
fited me very much.*’ Invaluable in debility, dys
pepsia, biliousness, sick headache, nervousness."
A. no tiler New Jersey Elope
ment.
OLIVER MORRIS, A WEALTHY FARMER, AR
RESTED FOB ABDUCTING PETTY IDA HAN
NAHS.
All Sussex county is excited over the case of Ids
Hannahs, daughter of Widow Hsnnahs, of Myrtle
Grove. Ida is very pretty and 18 years old. Her
mother is poor, so last Winter Ida went as a do
mestic in the family of Garrett Gunderman, not far
from Myrtle Grove. Oliver Morris, one of the
wealthiest and most respected farmers in Sussex
county, lives a few miles distant. He is the head of
a family, and heretofore has borne a good name. He
went to see Gunderman several times last Spring
and fell in love with Ida. He managed to meet her
on the quiet and took her out riding. His atten
tions reached the ea-' of some of the neighbors,
but they refrained from informing Mrs. Morris. Ida
soon returned the farmer’s affection, but unbe
known to her mother. On May 29, while Mr. Gun
derman's family were absent from home, Morris
drove to the Gunderman homestead and took Ida
away with him, to a place unknown.
Mrs- Hannahs, hearing of the disappearance of
Ida, became almost frantic and spent her limited
surplus means to discover if possible the abiding
place of her daughter. The disappearance was
traced to Morris, but he refused to tell anything
about his escapade with the girl. He was finally
arrested for abduction, but gave bail for his appear
ance in Court. Mrs. Hannahs finally advertised for
aid and sympathy in one of the county papers.
Kind neighbors took the matter in hand and fur
nished her means to employ lawyer Martin Rosen
krans, of Newton, N. J., who, with the aid of the
Sheriff and a local detective, discovered that the girl
was secreted at the house of J. Tuttle Decker, at
Westtown, N. Y. This week Mrs. Hannahs, her old
est son and an officer went to Westtown, and found
the daughter, who returned with them to their
home at Myrtle Grove. A letter from Morris to Ida
was found, which is said to be of an interesting na
ture. The matter has created great excitement
among the neighbors, and it was feared that Morris
would be severely dealt with. He will be tried at
the next term of Court.
I'a tiler and Son.
NOT GOOD LAW BY ANY MEANS.
Frequently the father when he gets old complains
of abuse from his children. In this case it was a
strapping young fellow of twenty-five who was
complainant against his father over sixty years of
age. August Adams Sr., denied the charge of
assaulting August Adams Jr. The son said on the
sth the father threatened him. Two months before
that he said he would kill him.
“On the sth what did he do ?’’ asked the Court.
“He put his hand in his pistol pocket."
“ Anything else ?*’ asked Justice Kilbretb.
“Yes, sir; he drew out a thirty-two calibre pistol
that had five shots in it."
The court found the old man guilty of carrying a
pistol without a license, and fined him ten dollars.
The old man was carrying the pistol in his own
house.
O’Sullivan-Gabrett. — There was
given in marriage on last Wednesday, 7th inst., at
St. Columba’s Church, Miss Helen O’Sullivan, the
daughter of Timothy O’Sullivan, Esq., to Mr. Henry ,
D. Garrett. The ceremony was performed by the
Rev. Father Prat, the pastor of the church, assisted
by Revs. Murphy and Quinn. The bridesmaid was
Miss O’Donnovan, and the "best man" Mr. John
J. Tobin. The ushers were Charles J. Henry, Esq.,
and Mr. James F. Farrell. A large concourse of
people, relatives and friends of the contracting par
ties, had gathered in the church to witness the cer
emony and congratulate the happy couple.
The bride was attired in a rich ivory satin dress, I
with long round train and fine point duchess lace
tablier; her tulle vail, with orange blossoms, was '
fastened with diamond ornaments. The well-fit
ting dress brought out the slender and trim figure
of the charming bride to great advantage.
A nuptial mass was celebrated by Rev. Father
Prat, and after the ceremony he spoke kindly and
feelingly to the couple before him, admonishing
them of the sacred obligation they had just taken
upon themselves, and in a fatherly and loving man
ner advised them to bear with each other and look
above and to their church forever; not to forget
themselves in their happiness, nor forget their duty
in possible times of trouble.
We congratulate the happy young pair and wish
them joy and everlasting bliss. Marriage, at best,
is but a lottery; aye, life’s greatest lottery, and
blessed, thrice blessed are they who draw a prize in
it. We have known the bride’s parents for many
years, and if she follows in the footsteps of her ex
cellent mother, and is advised by her good father,
her husband may well rejoice in having secured a
wife •' the pride of a home, the glory of a life.”
A Fbaud. —Robert L. Adamson ap
plied to Benjamin F. De Costa, manager of the
White Cross Order for Relief, and obtained a small
amount of money. Mr. De Costa afterward found
the statements made to him were false, and that
the letters he showed to him were forged. The
accused said the money he obtained was a borrow,
and he expected to pay it back.
“ Please let up on me,” he pleaded.
“No; we mean to break up this business of forg
ing letters of character."
He was sent to the Island for three months.
Honest Fools.—There are thousands
of Excise cases pigeon-holed. Once in a while a fool
elects to be tried in the Special Sessions, and is
tried. Henry Ludies, an ignorant barkeeper, elected
to be tried in the Special Sessions and pleaded
guilty to violating the Excise law on July 4th (Sun
day). and was fined S3O.
Officer Eagan said, after leaving the witness
stand, that this was the first case tried in a year,
and he had made a hundred complaints.
Getting; Poor OhildLren. Die.
THE BOARD OF ESTIMATE SHUT OFF AN AP
PROPRIATION AND THE TENEMENT POOR
DIE WITHOUT MEDICAL AID.
Two hundred and twenty-one deaths occurred in
the city during the twenty-four hours ending at
noon Friday. Seventy per cent, of the deaths were
of children under five years of age, and a great
majority of these children died in tenement houses
from lack of medical treatment. The record was
the highest in two years, although the heat was not
excessive.
The questions naturally arise, how happens it
that the death rate is so high this Summer and
whether the rate is not likely to be nearer 300 than
200 if the enervating temperature of which there
has yet been only a touch should continue for a
fortnight ?
Until the present year the Board of Estimate and
Apportionment has given the Department of Health
about SIO,OOO to pay a corps of physicians whoso
duty it was to visit the tenement houses and pre
scribe for the sick poor. Although the appropria
tion was small, it was the means of saving the lives
of many little children, and the withholding of the
money this year is branded by health officers as a
piece of contemptible economy of which a great
city's government should be ashamed.
The good that the visiting physicians did may ba
told in a few words. They were men, fifty in num
ber, of some experience in their profession, and
each had his allotted tour of inspection. They
went into the squalid tenement-houses, and where
they found sick adults and children, gave them
advice and orders on the nearest dispensary for
medicines.
The visits were made daily, and no section of the
city, however wretched, was passed by. They dis
tributed tickets from the St. John’s Guild, which
entitled mothers and children to fresh air excuis
sions on the bay. Many druggists in parts of the
city distant from dispensaries, volunteered to fur
nish medicines to the poor on the orders of visiting
physicians. Some of the druggists could not really
afford to be so generous, but in the name of hu
ihanity they gave willingly.
At the present time the Board of Health, handi
capped by the omission of the usual appropriation, is
unable to employ physicians to go among the tone
ment poor. Drs. Nagle and Taylor, o) iho itaailh
Department, condemn in emphatic and indignant
terms, what they call the miserable economy of th*
Board of Estimate. The death rate, Dr. Nagle says,
is likely to be appalling if hot weather continues*
Tim. Lynch’s Narrow Escape.
TWO INCHES ON THE SAME LINE AND THB
JUGULAR VEIN WOULD HAVE BEEN OUT.
Doorman Timothy Lynch, of the Eighth Precinct,
his wife Julia, and their son John, aged twenty
four, were before Justice Smith, yesterday morn
ing, at the police court at Jefferson Market.
Tim had a very bad cut on the cheek, which he
said had been inflicted by his wife. The wife said
she didn't know whether she stabbed him or not,
she was so excited at the time. It might have been
the knife, and then it might have been a saucer
that she threw. How he camo by the stab she
could hardly say, but if guilty he deserved what
he got.
Tim charged his son John with holding him
while his mother "knifed ” him.
John said the charge was a base falsehood. Th®
old man had left his mother three weeks ago. On
Friday evening his father came there with a
warmed-up “still" on him, and threatened her
life. He was afraid his father would hurt his mo
ther, and he ran to the station-house to get protec
tion for his mother. The police went there and
found his father cut, and sent him off in an ambu
lance to St. Vincent’s Hospital, and he was locked
up as a prisoner, although he was not present at
the row. His father said he was.
Three of the children all testified in their mo
ther’s favor.
Mrs. Lynch said she had been working hard all
day. Her husband, who had left her several week®
ago, came about seven o’clock in the evening, in
toxicated and excited. She asked him what ha
wanted. He told her he had come there to kill her.
She called to her daughter for help; the knife was
on the table and they fought for it, and perhaps
she cut him. Her life or bis was to go. They had
been married thirty years; she had had eight chil
dren, three now living, Three weeks ago he left
her; she could not live with him. Th® last fifteen
years of her life had been unbearable misery.
The three children testified that the knife was
used on their father by the mother in self-defense.
Justice Smith discharged mother and sod.
Tim Lynch is quite a politician. When dis
charged from the Custom House, political influence
got him the position of doorman on the police, a
very responsible place. An ill-tempered man, or a
man half drunk himself, is not likely to deal leni
ently with the unfortunates under his charge. Th®
wife and children charged him with being addicted
to liquor and having a bad temper. If that is so,
the captain and sergeants should have noticed it
long ago.
Pabties who are contemplating going
to the seaside during the Summer evenings should
not fail to visit the Ohelsea Garden, Nos. 112 and
114 West Thirty-third street, and feel the breeze that
is to be had there. A pleasant time may always b®>
expected.
A malga mation.
WHAT ITS RESULTS USUALLY ARE.
William Williams (colored) and Annie Smith
(white), aged twenty-five, lived together as man and
wife at No. 148 West Fortieth street. As usual in
cases of amalgamation the union is seldom fruitful
of happiness. It is an experiment that no colored
man having respect for himselt should venture.
Blood oozed through the bandages on Annie's head
as she stood before Justice Smith.
“This man attempted to take my life," said th*
woman. "Ho came in the room with a big stick
and struck me on the head. As he struck me h*
said, * I'm going to kill you if I hang for it, as Cha
con did to-day.’ "
“Are you living together ?"
“Yes, sir."
“ Did you do anything to him ?"
“No, sir. On Thursday he threatened to take my
life and I went to the Station House, and stopped
there, not to be killed,. When I came out of the-
Station House in the morning, he was outside and
asked me to come home, he would do the right
thing by me."
“ Who was in the room last night when this hap
pened?" asked the Justice.
“No one but ourselves to witness it,” she re
plied. “The doctor said last night there was an
artery cut."
“This woman I have been living with six
months,” said Williams. “We room together, but
when I come home there is always somebody in it,
I find men 'ip-'it. Last night I found a man there
with her. When I came up the door was fastened,
and when I got in the man was undressed. I
walked in and grabbed the man. She put her arms
around me, and in the muss she got hit. She went
out and got an officer, and after I was arrested, sh«-
said, ’Forgive me, I’ll never do it any more.' "
“Every word is untrue," said the woman.
Williams was held in S3OO to answer.
A Cherry street Regulator,
HE STOPS A FIGHT BY MAKING A MOD OF’
ONE OF THE GIRLS.
William Miller is cook for an old-fashioned Cherry
street sailor’s boarding-house. Madeline is one of
the help. There is a large number of female help
in the house, and when a sailor comes into port,
while here he is furnished with board and lodging
and a wife pro tem.
Madeline got in a quarrel with another girl, when
Miller interfered and regulated matters by taking
her by the hair of the head and dragging her across
the room. In hitting her, he said he would leave
the marks where the Court couldn’t see them.
Miller brought a number of witnesses, who swora
that Miss Toner got mad and hit one of the ladies
and fired a glass at her. That missed the lady and
she fired another. Then Miller, who regulated the
house, came down and grabbed her, and she felL
He wanted to stop the firing of glasses in the house.
Madeline said one of the witnesses testifying for
the regulator once stole her watch.
He admitted that he was arrested on that charge.
Another witness said a young lady was sitting
with a friend on the lounge. Madeline couldn’t cut
her out and she fired this glass at her. Then Mr.
Miller came in and regulated matters.
Miller was held in S3OO to answer.
'Waiting for Congress.
UNLESS THAT REMARKABLE BODY ACTS- THE
UNVAILING OF LIBERTY WILL BE DELAYED.
Gen. Charles P. Stone said to a reporter yesterday
morning, with reference to the Statue of Liberty
now being erecting on Bedloe’s Island:
“It is impossible for us to make any arrange
ments for the inauguration of the ceremony, or to
eay what they are likely to be, until we know with
certainty what Congress and the Governor intend
to do. The President is bound by law to unvail th®
statue in person, but he can't do it without stoney,
and that rests with Congress.
“This difficulty about funds has not affected th®
work on the statue. It will be completed by th®
contractor before the day originally named for tin
inauguration, September 3. But whether the cere
mony will take place on that day or not, it is quit®
impossible for me to say now."
The public awards the palm to Hale’s Honey 9$
Horehound and Tar as a cough
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