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Union Square Theatre. —Miss Annie
Pixley has made a papular success at this house
by her clever personation ef the dual roles of Ruth
Homewebb and Mabel Hawthorne in the “Deacon’s
Daughter,” and has been drawing crowded houses
at every performance. In these days, when so many
women of the stage with certain imitative ability,
kick their way into prominence, it is a pleasure to
witness the performauoe of such a comedienne as
Annie Pixley, who brings to her work a vigorous In
telligence and a just sense of artistic appropriate
ness, She has what few actresses possess, a keen
appreciation ©f burner and the power to give it
expression.
She can be funny without coarseness and create a
laugh without encroaching on the field which is the
province of the ciowu. Miss Pixley has lost none ©f
those beauties of face and form for which she has
long been noted, and her costumes display her nu
merous attract ons to excellent advantage. Her
singing is effective, and brings frequent encores at
every performance. In the “Deacon’s Daughter”
the popular actress is seen at her best, and her en
gage men t, which is in every way a success, will be
continued two or three weeks longer.
Lyceum Thea tre. —‘ On Thursday
evening last, Mr. Daniel Frohman brought forward
the promised eomedy.play, written originally by
Madison Morton <nd Robert Reece, entitled “ The
Highest Bidder.” For its present production it
was in some sort revised, amended and •' turned
•ver" by Mr. David Belasoo; but, fortunately, the
changes which have l*een made in it have not de.
prived it of any appreciable quantity of its humor.
It has for the central figure of its action, and as its
vitality. Jack Hammerton, a vivacious, manly sort
of fellow—capitally played by Mr. Ed. Sothern—-who
is at once a lover and an auctioneer.
. The “ other principal parties” in the relation of
the story are a delightfully irascible old English
man, capitally impersonated by Mr. Lemoyne, and
the pretty daughter—very prettily represented by
Miss Belle Archer.
The “Highest Bidder” is a lively, entertaining
oonoeit, excellently presented and deserved the re
ception accorded it by the farge audience which fa
vored Mr. sothern and Mr. Lemoyne with many
recalls. More extended reference will be given to
this production hereafter. The “Highest Bidder”
‘Will be continued until further notice.
Madison Squ are Theatre. —Mr. Palm
er’s company from Madison Square Theatre has
bad a notable success in Boston with “Jim, the
Penman,” at the Park Theatre. In the meanwhile,
the company that he left at home has effected a
delightful revival of “ Our Society,” a comedy long
Since accepted by this public, and now gladly wel
comed back to the scene of its first victory. “Our
Society” will hold the stage throughout the present
Month. Mr. Richard Mansfield has taken a lease
•f the theatre, and he will occupy it on the first of
June. Mr. Mansfield’* plan is yet to be disclosed.
He has several new pieces, notably “Dr. Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde,” which he will bring out next Monday
Hight, at the Boston Museum.
The Casino. —lb will be a year ago
next Tuesday evening since Manager Rudolph
Aronson presented •• Erminie ”at the Casino. The
regular Casino company which appears in the pop
ular operetta includes the Misses Pauline Hall,
Marie Janson, Louise Sylvester, Isabella Urquhart,
Alma Varry, Sadie Kirby, Georgia Dennis, and
Messrs. Francis Wilson, Mark Smith, Henry Hal
lam, Max Freeman, Geo. Olml, A, W. Mafiin, Murry
Woods, J. A. Furey, 0. L. Weeks—the Casino chorus
of forty and orchestra of twenty-four, under the di
rection of Mr. Jesse Williams.
Preparations are being actively pushed forward
for the opening of the Casino roof garden. Several
changes are to be made. The pillars are to bo en
circled with vari-colored lights. Many large palms
Are to take the place of the smaller plants, and the
fountain in the centre is to be prettily lighted by a (
new process of illumination. ,
1
Wallack-Dalx. —Mr. Wallack is mak-
Ing unusual preparations for hie two weeks season 1
at Daly's Theatre, and expects to give a presents- <
iion of Octave Keuillet’s celebrated play, •• The Ro.
mance of a Poor Young Man,” that has rarely been t
equaled and never excelled on our local stage, J
The scenery will be entirely new, and has been
painted by Phil Goatcher, and the cast will include t
yearly every member of Mr. Wallack’s excellent >
Company. The engagement at Daly’s Theatre is for
two weeks only, and seats can be secured for the *
Whole of that time.
Standard Theatre. —“ Gasparone,” >
U spectacular production, which will follow “ A
Trip to Africa,” at this house, is in active rehearsal c
•by Mr. Duff’s opera company, and will be brought t
put on Monday, May 16. Lillian Russell, Zelda Se
guin, Eugene Oudin and J. H. Ryley have leading I
comic roles in «* Gasparone.” 1
11 A Trip ” can be seen but for one week longer, $
Proctor’s Novelty Theatre—Mana
ger Procter announces for the current week, begin
ning to-morrow evening, the engagement of Mr.
Tony Paetor aud his road combination of variety
Aside of their evening performances,
they will apppear at each of the four matinees— i
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, It
soes without saying that Tony and his company <,
will p'ay to enormous and delighted audiences, and k
oven standing room after the doors are opened will
be out of the question.
Poole’s Theatre. —For the current '
week, commencing at tho matinee to-morrow, Mies
■Annie Borleiu will be the dramatic attraction. At
the four matinees—Monday, Wednesday, Thursday 1
and Saturday, as weH as in the evenings. “Oliver 1
Twist” and “ Leah the Forsaken ” will be the plays, 1
Miss Beriein appearing as Nancy Sykes and the
Jewish maiden.
On Monday, May 16th, Mr. Dan Harkins will 1
Slake his first appearance at this theatre, and in- 1
augur&te his engagement by his impersonation ©f ‘
ttichard 111. 1
i
1 Theatre Comique, —The very success
ful play of “ The Main Line 41 will be presented at 1
this popular theatre, the second time the present
season, by general request of a largo number of the i
most prominent residents of Harlem and the viein- i
Ity, for the current week. The play will be cast aud '
fairly acted throughout, Miss Etta Hawkins, as
•• Possy ” Burroughs, having created a character 1
which will, wo predict, capture many hearts.
For this engagement the seats are in great de
mand, bespeaking large audiences nightly. The
usual matinee occurs on Saturday at 2:15.
For the week of May 16, the distinguished ac
tress, Miss Rose Coghlan, is underlined to appear in
a brilliant repertoire.
On the occasion of his benefit, Mr. Josh Hart was »
presented by the attaches of his theatre with a gold
onounted cane. His benefit was in every respect
an appropriate recognition in which he is held by
the “ Harlemites," as a manager and a fellow efti
-fcen.
i lIABtiIGAN’3 Park Theatre. — Miss
Xaura Bellini, the prima donna of Conrold’s “Gypsy
Baron” opera company, has made a i»u6-
•ess during the past week at the Park Theatre. It
fa a pleasure to understand what an artiste is sing-
Jjng about, and Bellini has the true method.
“The Gypsy Baron” will be continued during the
present week. Thus far, the audiences have been
large and the box-office returns satisfactory.
Tony Pastor’s Theatre. — Gardner
and hl, "Tin Feidl.r” rubbish having departed—
Share comes upon this stage for tho current week
commencing to-morrow evening—Messrs. George W.
&nd Wm. J. Thompson in their sensational drama
Entitled “The Gold King.” It will bo presented
With a capable oast, and with appropriate scenic
Jiurro undings. During the performance the acting
jtogs Hector and Hero will be introduced, and add
their quota to the interest of the entertainment.
Matinees will be given as usual on Tuesday and
Friday.
4■Globe Museum.— 37,s9l people, during
its past w.ek, viewed th. life «Ize figure of the
Murdered Bahway Girl," which wa, on exhibi
tion at tho Globe Museum. No. 298 Bowery, dressed
|ln a fac-slmile of the identical clothes she wore
when murdered. Several persons thought they
partially recognized her, but no one has boon able
So positively do so, and the question of her identity
fa as much of a mystery as ever.
In compliance with the publics wishes the man
agement have decided to keep tho figure on exhibi
tion another week, in hopes that some one seeing it
Will be able to identify the poor unfortunate and
give some clew that may lead to tho detection of her
murderer, and earn the $l,lOO reward which is
Offered.
Several new curiosities will be shown, beginning
jtfonday, and in the theatre pleasing stage perform
ances by a specialty and dramatic company; each
pt age performance concluding with Harry Thomp
son's drama, entitled “ Pomp The Faithful.” The
'jtisual sacred Sunday concerts will be given this
afternoon and evening.
Lee Avenue Academy of Musio.—
fMiss Fanny Davenport will be the dramatic attrac
tion here during the present week, commencing to
morrow evening—appearing on Monday in the title
lole of “Fedora” eupported by Mr. J. H. Barnes as
Slay, Miss Davenport will be seen in “ The School
for Scandal.” On Thursday evening, in “Much
Ado About Nothing,” and on Saturday evening, in
■•London Assurance” and * Oliver Twist." Mali
as ui uaL
Waring’s Hoboken Theatre (Hobo
-9 ken, N. J.)—At this theatre to-day (Sunday) two per
i formanoes will be given by the “ Bijou Company,”
8 who will be seen and heard in the familiar opera of
8 “Olivette.” Over fifty vocalists will be included
f in the performance. Among these are Missee Bessie
’» Gray, Bebe Vining. Agnes Hallett and Annie Bar
-0 rett, and Messrs. Alonzo Hatch, Max Figman and
8 Charles Shackleford. This is a new departure, and no
- doubt New York will contribute a fair contingent
• of its playgoers to the audiences both at the matt
-1 nee and in the evening.
t —
musical and Dramatic Items.
• Fanny Herring and Pearl Lascelles
had Ween visiting in Williamsburg, N. Y. April 30 In
f Brooklyn Miss Lascelles fell in alighting from a street
ear. Miss Herring was not strong enongh to put her on
• her feet, and a policeman volunteered his aid, which he
. carried to the overzealous point of arresting both. Henry
Behman bailed them. Op May 2 Justice Walsh fined Miss
f Lascelles three dollars for falling, and Miss Herring one
k third as much for not being able to lift her. It need
scarcely be Said that the ungallant act ot tho policeman,
with its nominal fine a< a sequel, did not at all militate
against the enthusiasm with which “Little Buckshot
was received(at one of the Brooklyn theatres Monday
5 night. ]
Mr. Lester Wallack has arranged with
Mr. William Gillette for a production at the Star Theatre,
r commencing Monday, August 29th, of “Held by the
Enemy.” The play will be presented with the changes
1 made by thff author for the English production, and as it
is novr beinsplayed at the Princess Theatre, London, Eng.
' The scenery will by gotten up by Goatcher, from the
j Princess Theatre models. A specially strong cast will be
engaged, and Mr. Gillette will appear as the corre
c
1 Simon W. Lanreys, the costumer, died
i in this city April 28. He was costumer of the London
Drury Lane Theatre before 1866, when he came to this
city to dress the orig.nal production of “The Black
Cruok.” Later he was employed by James Fisk, Jr., at
the Grand Opera House, this city, and afterward served
' for a time at the Union Square. He leaves no family
; For years he had lived with an adopted son, W. S. Lau
reys, who was engaged with him in the costume business.
No matter how successful may be
Richard Mansfield's production of “Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde” at the Boston Museum, it will not be done in this
city until next season, and then at the Fifth Avenue
Theatre. Manager E. D. Price is positive as to this. For
the opening of Mansfield’s Summer season at the Madison
Square, he will have a new comedy by A. C. Gunter, in
which the star part will be a young English lord.
Emma Abbott closed the most sue
cessful season of her operatic career at the National The
atre. in Washington, last night. She is about to return
to this city, where she will remain a few weeks, a-ter
which she will go abroad for the purpose of completing
arrangements for the production in English of “ Jeanne
d’Arc,” “ Buy Blas ” and “ Aida.”
Frances Bishop, the well-known star
of“Mugg’s Landing,” will be married in this city on
Tuesday. June 14, to John T. McKeever, jr., tho treasurer
of th© Madison Square Theatre. The bridal couple will
sppnd the early part of their honeymoon at Niagara Falls,
and then go to the bride’s residence atSchroon Lake, in
the Adirondack!.
M. B. Curtis closed his season last
Saturday at Indianapolis, Ind. On Monday night the
company gave Manager Frank V. Hawley a benefit, which
netted him a nice round sum. Mr. Hawley was also the
recipient of a magnificent moonstone pin, surrounded
with four large diamonds, the gift of the company.
Mr. Wm. E. Sheridan writes that he
will arrive in San Francisco from Australia about the Ist
of June. He will be accompanied by Miss Louise Daven
port. with whom he will make a tour of this country next
season. Mr. Hal. S. Taylor is at present making ar
rangements to this end.
A new opera will be produced at the
Casino on September 19. The cast will include almost
all the company now playing at Williamsburg in
“ Frmieie,” while the company at the Casino will go on
the road with Paulton and JackobowUci’s opera.
Ernesto Rossi, the Italian tragedian
who visited America in 1881. intends to retire from the
stage. He ia nearly sixty. He will settle in Rome as tho
manager ot the Academy of Dramatic instruction, con
nected with the projected National Theatre.
Ezra Kendall’s “A Pair of Kid’s” com
pany will play a Summer engagement at the Standard
I heatre, beginning about June 10th. Mr. Kendall has
just closed a thirty-four weeks’ tour, and brought home
many shekels.
Mrs. Agnes Booth-Schoeffel will play
In Boston four weeks and in Chicago two weeks in “ Jim
tho Penman.” She will go then to her home, Manches
ter by-the-Sea, for the summer, and enjoy a weil-earned
rest.
Robert Grant and E. L. Bynner, the
Boston novelists, are collaborating in tho writing of a
society comedy, designed for the Lyceum Theatre, this
city.
Chas. H. Crouse died at the residence
of his sister, Mrs. Cogley, in Crook City, Dak., Thursday,
April 14, of consumption, aged forty-two years. He was
agent for Salsbury's Troubadours for a number of years.
Kyrle Bellow will sail for England in
the Germanic on June 1. Abovt a fortnight before he
goes he will send over a handsome new steam launch
which he has had made here for his yacht, the Pera.
George Hoey has written two new
plays, which Henry Chanfrau will star m next season.
They are “The Corsican” and “Wheal Carnac,” which is
Cornish, and means “The Tin Mine.”
Henry E. Abbey and wife will sail on
the steamship “ Eider,” for Europe, on May 14, return
ing in September. Mr. Abbey will control Bernhardt for
tho next four years.
Manager W. R. Hayden will not pro
dnee “ The Still Alarm ” at Niblo’s Theatre as slated,
negotiations to that end having fallen through.
John A. Heraud, journalist and dram- i
atist, died at the London (England) Charter House, April 1
28, aged nearly eighty-eight.
Mrs. Annie Teamans has concluded
■ot ie take a benefit, after all. The season has been too 1
fertile in them, she thinks.
Victoria Morosini has been heard from. <
She is doing the Continent with members of her family, ]
and is now in Rome.
Newton Goothold has been engaged
by B«l»ssy Klrxlfy as leading; man for “ Patrie” next sea
808.
SFRING OVERCOATS, 82, $4, $6, SS, $lO, sll. sl4 and
Cameron, Flatbush ave. and Dean st., Brooklyn. !
epatt Bm.
AMERICAN METER CO.
ECONOMY GAS STOVES.
SALESROOM NO, 223 SIXTH AVENUE, N. Y.
COOKING BY GAS.
Miss Juliet Corson has kindly consented to give
demonstrations on this subject at 2-30 P. M. on each
of the following days, viz:
Saturday, May 14th,
Wednesday, “ 18th,
and Wednesday, “ 25th,
at the Lexington Avenue Opera House, Fifty*
eighth street, between Lexington and Third avenues.
During each lecture Miss Corson will show Broiling,
Baking, Roasting and Boiling on a Gas Stove. Gas
stoves are made to do any and every kind of work
that ean be done on a coal stove. At each lecture
Miss Corson will give practical illustrations of the
use ef a Gas Stove in Broiling, Baking, Roasting i
and Boiling, demonstrating the advantages of the
use bf 6as over any other fuel in the saving of 1
Über, in the cleanliness, in the economy, and 1
what is ef greater importance during the exclu
sively warm weather of this latitude, the
almeet total absence of heat. Complimentary
tiokets ef admission to these lectures can be had
upen application to us, or to 8. Nauhem, No. 988 1
Third avenue, 8, W. corner of Fifty-ninth street.
American Meter Co., No. 223 Sixth avenue.
STABTLING PRICES paid for left-off clothing.
Cameron, Flatbush ave. and Dean st., Brooklyn.
Hb Knows How to Treat Them.—ln
Andrbw Horn’s saloon, corner of East Broadway
and Catherine street, the “bully bock beer” is at
’present en sale. Accompanying the beer is “the
bully bock wurst,” one of the most pleasant and
agreeable sausages that any man ever ate. They
are made especially for “the bully bock beer,” and
are a most excellent accompaniment for that bev
erage. Andrew Horn treats his customers to the
best ef everything, whether it is beer, whisky,
wine, cigars, or anything else in the way of bever
&ges. Mr* Andrew Horn is a tradesman who is al
ways honest with his customers, and he knows how
t© treat them genially.
MILLIONAIRES’ SUITS, $2, $4. $6. SB, $lO. sl2, sls
and $lB. Cameron, Flatbush ave. and Dean street.
Brooklyn.
If you suffer with dyspepsia, indiges
lion, er looseness ef the bowels, make use at onoe
of ANoosreßA Bitters. Be sure you get the genu,
ine article.
A BLUB FLANNEL SUIT, $3, $4, $6, SB. $lO, sl2.
Cameren, Flatbush ave. and Dean st., Brooklyn.
Wished He had a Long Neck.—Do
not go to No. 2 Murray street, the hostelry of John
P. Sbnninobr, if you want anything bad in the way
•f drink, because he doesn’t keep it. He sells noth
ing which is not of the best. He has now on
draught George Bechtel's “ bock beer,” one of the
meet pleasant drinks which ever trickled down a
man's threat. Once a man said, when looking at a
girafle, “I wish I had a throat as big as that animal,
ee that I could feel Bechtel's bock go trickling down
fer that distance.” The customers of Mr. Sennin
ger can rely on it that he will provide them every
thing in his line whieh ie good.
BOYS’ SUITS. $1.25, $1.50, $2, $2.50, $3, $4, $5, $6
Cameron, Flatbush avenue and Dean street, Brook lyn.
Mr. Siegel’s Bazaar.
WHERE CUSTOMER’S FIT ON THEIR TOGGERY.
Mr. Bernard Siegel is in the clothing line, and
although he neither has a store in which to show
bis goods, and try them on, they are “ hand me
downs,” and unable to speak English, he seems to
thrive pretty well.
He formerly occupied an apartment at No. 57
Mett street, but he saves rent and does about as
mueh business as formerly in a tent that he has
pitebed in the yard. When he hooks a customer,
he “shust ” gives him the pants, and the man or
boy gees t© the commonwealth of the barracks and
tries them on. If they are a fit and the price is
satisfactory, a eale is effected.
April 29th Constantine Caporta paid a visit to
Bernard’s court yard bazaar, and priced the cost
of a pair ©f “ inexpressibles.” Twice he went to
th© common wealth and tried to fit. They were
suitable. He dropped the old pants, worth a cent a
Sound and ran off with the new, worthat cost price
fty cents.
Tk. prlion.r w»« found guilty of J.wing the Jew
„4 aM t ts the Mend lor one month.
A Combing Ohobus. Nav.r before were oonghs
ee univereel and ao violent. Silence them with
Hale’a Honey of Horehonnd and Tar. Nothing eiae
ie ante, fike’i Toothacks Drop* ouro in one min
ute.
NEW YORK DISPATCH, MAY 8, 1887.
■ SeemLocl Innocent.
BUT THE LAST QUESTION SETTLED IT.
Sunday last Officer Farley, of the Mercer street
station, said be was walking through Second ave
nue, near Sixty-eighth street, in citizen’s clothes,
, With a friend. Without a word the prisoner, James
Graney, “ ran into them and strpek them en the
mouth.”
Prisoner said he lived at Sixteenth street and
Avenue B. He was a hod-carrier; had been fifteen
years in the country; was never in a quarrel, aud
never arrested. He was coming from visiting a
friend, and was alone, when a block and a half off
ho saw somebody pushed. The officer, who was in
citizen's clothes, came running up, and said :
“ D n you, you are one of them,” and arrested
him. He was at Sixty-seventh street, and was go
ing to the Sixty-fifth street Elevated station. He
never saw the officer’s face till arrested, and never
struck him. He bad been to Seventy-second street
to a friend’« house, a cousin, aud as he bad been
working up there for three days, he gave that as his
residence at the police court. At the time he was
perf-otly sober.
John Moran, who had known the defendant for
sixteen years, said James was a quiet, peaceable
man.
The officer was recalled and asked to explain how
“ they ran into him.”
“Four men came down Second avenue singing,
arm in arm. We—that is, me and my friend
turned to get out of the way. They shoved. I
was nearest when they shoved into me, and I was
about to ask if the street was not big enough, when
I was struck. He had not got ten feet away when I
arrested him. I got kicked and struck by the others.
This was at Sixty-eighth street and Second avenue.
I arrested him twenty feet from the corner.”
Maurice Flynn, of 1426 Second avenue, was with
Farley. Three or four men came down arm in arm,
and they tried to get out of the way to let them
pass, when both were struck and knocked down.
Prisoner ran away with tho others.
‘•The witness says you were running," said the
Court.
“I was not running,” said Graney. "I had my
hands in my pockets when he came up, and he said,
•you b , you are one of them,’ and cut me here
on the nose. I did not know what for.”
“ How far were you when struck and knocked
down before you arrested him?”
”I was not knocked down,” said Farley. “My
friend was, and I drew my pistol, and arrested him
about eight feet off.”
“You are certain he was not more than eight feet
from whore you were when you were struck ?”
“ Yes, sir. I struck right and left, aud struck
some of the others. They were all in a bunch.”
“I was working at Madison avenue and Eightieth
street,” said Graney. “and I lived at Seventy-sec
ond street. It was too far to go down. I was going
homo to get some of my working clothes,”
“You said something about a crowd coming,
Where did it com© from ?” asked the Court.
“ From the Seventieth stroet station,” said Farley.
“And this was between Sixty-seventh and Sixty
eighth streets ?”
“Yes, sir.”
“ How came you to pass the Seventieth street sta
tion if you wanted to go down town?” asked the
Court.
“I wanted to call on a friend.”
That settled it, passing tho station.
•• Guilty,” said the Court. “ Three months in the
penitentiary.”
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Tlxe Complaint Didn’t Stand.
THE BOY-PRISONER DECLARED NOT GUILTY.
Martin Wick, who although in the grocery busi
ness for himself, had to be examined through an in
terpreter to explain how he came to charge Joseph
pochette, a young man, with stealing his watch,
which he valued at $7. He said prisoner called on
him and wanted to buy his watch. Alter looking at
it he put it in his pocket. He wanted to get out
with it but couldn’t, the door was chained, and
complainant took the watch from him.
“ Why didn’t you bay© him arrested right away ?”
he was asked.
“I didn't think of it right away. After the boy
got out I was fired at with potatoes by loafers.”
Defendant said he lived with his uncle. Mother
was dead and the father was living with Mr. Wick.
He was not in the man’s place at the time charged,
aud never saw the watch. He was a peddler.
John Gartler, the uncle, said the boy had been
living with him since the mother died. He bought
him the horse and wagon that he peddled with.
Harriet Rochette, the sister of prisoner, said,
prior to tho death of mother, they lived with their
father. Then father put Joseph ont of the house
and she went with him. His father threatened to
have him arrested because he wouldn’t give him
ten dollars a week. She knew where Joseph was
that night; it was no ways near Martin Wick's
house.
The complainant was recalled.
“Ask this complainant,’’said Justice Kilbreth,
addressing the interpreter, “why it was. when he
stopped this young man in the store, that he did
not have him arrested then ?”
“He couldn’t think of all this at the moment.
He throw stones at him afterward, and he bad him
arrested.”
“ When did he throw stones ?”
“He wanted to throw stones, but he didn’t;
somebody else told him. He ran off, and he knew
he could get him by-and-by.”
“Discharged,” said the Court.
“It has more than realized my ex
pectations,” says Professor Duncan Campbell, M.
D., LL. D.» President Royal College Physicians and
Surgeons, member General Council University of
Edinburg, etc., of the Liebig Co.'s Coca Beef Tonic.
Invaluable for debility, weak lungs, biliousness,
dyspepsia, malaria, liver complaint, sick headache.
Extreme Hom© Misery.
COULD FICTION DRAW A GREATER PICTURE
THAN THIS PLAINLY TOLD ?
James Long, a carriage maker, was charged with
neglecting his wife and four children. The wifo was
in tho hospital dying and the children were housed
in city institutions. They had lived at No. 205 East
Eighty-fifth street before the home was broken up.
Officer Gardner, of tho Society for Prevention of
Cruelty to Children, said the accused had not pro
vided for bis family the last month. Justice Pat
terson, in the Fifth District Court, committed tho
children; the man had been dispossessed, and the
mother was taken to the hospital, dying.
“ What do you know of tho moans of this defend
ant?” asked Justice Kilbreth.
•• He is a carriage maker and able to earn good
pay-"
•■ Has ho had employment ?”
“He says the last three weeks.”
“Do you know his habits ?”
•* I know he drinks.”
Officer Minor said on this day in question he wes
requested to go to the prisoner s house. The child
ren were in a most filthy condition; they were cov
ered with filth from head to foot, and filth was in
the room from one end to the other. He had been
drinking, and his wife was dying. She was taken in
an ambulance to the hospital.
John Keller said he sent notice of the case to the
Society. The man had beaten his dying wife,
starved her and the children. When he went in the
house he found the wife sick in bed, a dying woman.
He was lying beside her, drunk. He didn’t say any
thing; be was motionless; too drank to stir or
speak.
Mrs. Smith, a neighbor, said she and others fre
quently gave the family food to keep them from
starving.
Long said he never neglected his children. When
he had work he always gave the money to his wife.
But he couldn’t get work.
“Because you keep continually drunk,” said Jus
ties Kilbreth.
“ I never was arrested for being drunk.”
“ Didn’t you get ten days for intoxication just be
fore you were arrested on this charge ?”
“Yes, sir; but it was not liquor, but want that
made me look like drunk."
“Do you mean to say you could not get work at
Brewstsr’s carriage factory ?“
•• Yes, sir; there is only a certain branch that I
can work at.”
“Ihree months,” said the Court.
In the Spring, hundreds of persons
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A.u Opening,
THE STOftES OP SAUL BROTHERS.
On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, there will
be sb openiig at the enlarged salesrooms of Saul
Brothers, Nos. 335 and 337 Grand street. For some
time past this well-known firm has been making
many alterations in its place of business, and it has
new thrown the two stores into one, and presents
to the public one of the most elegant places on the
East side. On Hay 10th, 11th and 12th, the public
are invited to visit N05.'835 and 337 Grand street
and inspect the immense stock of the firm in the
way of millinery, lanoy goods, drees trimmings,
flowers, feathers, ribbons, laces, <fcc.
This is now so well an appointed establishment
that ladies will find whatever they want in their
line of goods, and they will, als©, discover that in
no place in New York will they be treated with
greater consideration. Whether they want to buy
or not, the Saul Brothers are determined that they
shall have every reason t© be pleased with the in
spection of their goods.
It has been by the courtesy of the Messrs. Saul
that their house has grown from a small business
to a very large one. They began business in as lit
tle a concern as A. T. Stewart did, and like him, by
their strict attention to the affairs of their house,
their honest treatment of their customers, and the
excellence of their goods, they have won a very
great trade. We commend the Saul Brothers to
the favor of tho ladies of New York as upright
tradesmen.
Then and IVow.
A FEW DAYS MAKES A GREAT CHANGE IN THE
MIND.
When Patrick Higgins was arrested and brought
in the Police Court on the charge of assaulting his
wife, she thought the State Prison or the gallows
would be serving him right. You couldn’t punish
the vagabond enough. When the case was called
for trial he didn't open his mouth, she did all the
talking, and it was to let up on Pat.
<* Is he in the habit of beating you ?” asked the
Court.
“Yes, sir.” replied Ellen.
“Have you any children?”
“One.”
“You don't want to press the case?” remarked
the Court.
“ No. He lost his temper. He says he wont do it
any more, he’ll take the pledge."
“ Well, sign your withdrawal/’.said the Court.
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Excise Cases.
" I COULDN’T SAY "—TWICE TRIED.
Officer Ramsey was sent out in citizen’s clothes
to make arrests for violation of the Excise law on
Sunday. He made one arrest —John Noederstein.
The case was called on Thursday, and Ramsay was
sworn.
“ On this Sunday did you visit the premises, No.
1393 Third avenue ?” asked the Court.
“ Yes, sir.”
“ What were these premises used for ?”
“ A restaurant, and for the sale of liquor.
“ Who was proprietor ?”
“ I couldn’t say."
“ What hour did you enter ?”
“ Between two and three in the morning."
“ What did you see ?”
“ People in there, and a man behind the bar.”
“ Who bad charge of the premises ?”
“ I couldn’t say.”
“ Why did you arrest the defendant ?”
“ For a violation of the Excise law.”
” You say you don’t know who was i* charge of
the place. Why did you arrest him any more than
any one else ?”
“I thought he was the proprietor; in the station
house he said be wasn’t."
“ How many were there ?’’
“ Twenty; some eatipg and some standing.”
“ You don't know whether he was the proprietor
or not ? ’
“ I couldn’t say.”
’ Do you know whether he was in charge of the
place ?”
“ I couldn’t say; I ddn’t recollect."
“ Discharged,” said t£xe Court.
TWIOE TRIED.
Frank Herman, of 242 Ninth avenue, was tried
and convicted of violating the Excise law, and fined
$25. Half an hour after ho was re-tried for the
same offense, on the same complaint, and acquitted.
On the first trial Herman’s counsel was not present,
the second he was.
Officer Kook, of the Twentieth street station, said
Sunday, April 24, about nine A. M., he entered by
the side door. He found a man in th© side door.
The defendant was half dressed, in his night shirt,
pants and slippers. Th© brother owned the place.
Herman had charge of it.
Defendant on being sworn said this was the milk
man. He came in with a can of milk. This was
the only way that he could get in. He just went
down to let the milkman in. He lived upstairs.
The milkman was absent, and defendant was
fined $25.
The fine was not paid, and half an hour after, the
case was reopened, and the milkman was sworn.
He said that he rapped at th© door and defendant
came down and let him in. After leaving a can of
milk, defendant sent him back for another can of
milk, and it was then that the officer entered.
The Court rendered an immediate acquittal.
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Tried and IVot Present,
THE VERDICT CARRIED OVER TO NEW JERSEY.
Maria Moore, said to be the wife of a New Jersey
official, was charged with “lifting" a bunch of
flowers and a hat from O’Neil’s store. She was
tried in her absence, her counsel representing her.
The Court has this power in a case of misdemeanor,
although it is only done in rare casee; and perhaps
there were good reasons for the Court granting shis
exemption. If convicted, she would be outlawed
from coming to the State.
The detective of O’Neil’s store, Mr. Kenny, said
the flowers and hat stolen were worth $3.70. On
the 6th of April, ha said, he saw the deiendaut go to
the counter, take the hat and flowers, conceal them,
and go out of the store. Be brought her back, and
searching her he found the property, which be
longed to O'Neil & Co.
“ The lady had a small hat, and this was a large
hat that she took ?" said counsel.
“Yes, sir.”
“You don’t think she was a shoplifter?”
"No. She wore a black wrap.”
“She told you at the time she didn’t know any
thing ?”
She did.”
“And wasn’t she wandering at the time in the
police court ?”
“Yes, sir.”
“You went over to her residence in New Jersey
and found her to be a very respectable woman.”
“ Yes, sir.”
“Under the circumstances I ask that she be ac
quitted,” said counsel.
“ Have you any testimony?” asked the Court.
“I have as to character.”
“Then call it.”
Mr. Burka, her bondsman, said he had been in
business in the city for thirty years. He had known
the family for twenty years; they were persons of
good character. He did not believe that such a
party would steal such a trifling thing as a hat. He
could not tell the condition of her mind except
from what her husband told him.
“ Is there anybody here but her husband?” asked
Justice Gorman.
“ No, but-1 can testify as to how she acted in
Court,” said counsel.
“ Not guilty," said Justice Kilbreth.
Her husband could carry th© verdict over to her,
and give it at second hand.
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Cameron, Flatbush ave. and Dean st., Brooklyn.
Joe Coburn’s Victory,
HE IS TRIED AND ACQUITTED—AN AMUSING
CASE.
Joe Coburn, the ex-pugilist and other exs. keeps a
liquor saloon and restaurant at No. 470 Sixth
avenue. He was tried in Special Sessions before
Justices Kilbreth. Gorman and Powers, with violat
ing the amusement law, on April 24. The complain
ant was Officer Egan, of the Thirtieth street station.
He entered the place at five minutes after one Sun
day morning, and found two colored men playing,
one a harp, the other a guitar. He saw about
twenty-five men in the place, some at tables eating,
others standing. There was playing on these in
struments and singing.
Cross-examined the officer said it was a regular
restaurant. A great many people were in at the
time. There was no stage, no raised platform, no
orchestra. The colored men were playing at the
rear of the restaurant. He saw Mr. Moore (a wit
ness) there. These young men were playing the
instruments.
Counsel asked that the complaint be dismissed;
there was no stage, no violation of any law com
mitted; it was a restaurant, and there was no pub
lic amusement. It had been decided by the Court
of Appeals that there must be music and pay for
admission.
The motion was denied.
“ How long were you there ?” asked the Court.
“ Ten minutes, I should judge.”
“Musio there all the time ?”
“ I heard a song after the music, and made the
arrest."
“Is that your post ?”
“No,JI was doing special duty.”
Counsel again asked that the complaint be dis
missed. Motion denied.
“ What sort of a place is this ?”
“ It is a restaurant. I should judge.”
•• There are oysters and a bar ?’’ said counsel.
“Yes. sir.”
“ Were not these two strolling players this even
ing?" asked Justice Gorman.
“I don’t know; they were there when I went in.”
Martin Nelson said ho knew this restaurant where
this harpist was playing. He went in to have sup
per, and seeing these strolling players outside, he
called them in to play and help digest bis oysters.
They were playing for him, just as David once did
to Saul.
Joseph Moore, a darky, the harpist of that even
Ing, said he was never in the place before that even
ing. He had been up at Eighty-fiftn street, playing
for & party. He and his friend were passing Joe’s,
and a gentleman invited them in to play while he
was eating.
“Is that the only time you ever played there
asked counsel.
“ Yes, sir.”
•• Acquitted,” said tlie Court)
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Jk Queer l>ogf Case.
A GREAT BTRETCH TO MAKE CRUELTY TO
ANIMALS.
On the 12th of April Mr. McHugh was walking
along Eleventh avenue with a mnzzled dog, holding
it by a chain. Smart and Seymour, two of Bergh’s
men, were riding along the avenue, and spying it
and the boy, Smart got out of the wagon. Ho sap.
posed McHugh was about to tak© the dog over the
Twenty-third street ferry to engage in a fight, and
went toward McHugh. McHugh said, as Smart was
approaching him, he drew a revolver, and McHugh
ran with the dog to a lumber yard. Smart says he
didn’t draw ©revolver or run till the boy ran, and he
followed him into a lumber yard. The* he arrested
McHugh, and found that the dog had receutly been
engaged in a fight, he supposed; its nose was badly
damaged, ©nd in dragging the dog after him the
muzzle pressed on its damaged snout. This was
cruelty to animals, and on that charge McHugh was
arrested and the dog pounded to Bergh’s society.
When arrested the boy told a great many different
stories of how he eame by the dog.
The boy, on the stand, said the dog belonged to
Mr. Murphy, on Tenth avenue, and he was giving it
an airing. The officers in the wag©« looked at him;
one jumped out and drew a revolver. He thought
he was going to shoot the d©g, and he tried to es
cape in the lumber yard.
They charged him with going to take the dog over
to Jersey to engage it in a fight. He said no, the
price of the ferry wasn’t in his pocket. When
searched they didn’t find a cent. They did not be
lieve him and put him and the dog in the wagon.
John Murphy, who keeps a liquor saloon on
Tenth avenue, said the dog belonged to him. Ho
asked the boy that day to take the deg out and give
it a walk. Half an hour after he heard the boy and
the dog had been arrested. Murphy was asked if
tho dog hadn’t been recently in a prize fight. No.
How did it’s nose come to be cut. He said it was
chained in the store, and a cat came near it. The
dog made a bounce for the cat, missed it, and hit
its nose on a demijohn, cutting it.
The boy was found guilty and fined $5. Mr. Mur
phy wanted to know if the Court would not give
him an order for the dog, it was present. They said
no, be must apply to Mr. Bergh for it.
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Brooklyn.
That Love Letter.—Mary is some
what jealous of her husband, Henry Pollard, of
No. 331 West Forty-first street. She said she had
i been out all the week working, and had just sat
down to make a new dress. A friend of Henry’s
called, and Henry undressed himself right before a
stranger. She looked in his pocket, as he threw his
trousers down, and found a letter. It was from a
"gal" he was to meet at nine o’clock. Of course
she taxed him with dishonorable purposes, and he
hit her, and she fell •• by the force of his fist.”
“Didn’t Henry find fault with you for stopping
out o' night?" asked counsel.
“No; we hadn’t spoke in three weeks.”
“You didn’t go out for a policeman ?”
“No; but ho put me out and threw my clothes
after me, and I hadn’t a cent. I saw a policeman
and told him my fix, and he told me to go to
“ You didn’t ?”
“No, or I wouldn’t be hero,’’ said Mary.
The old man said he didn't strike Mary, either
with his fist or a poker. But she struck him. Be
did not even shove her.
Henry was acquitted,
YOUTHS’ SUITS, $3, $4, $5, $6, $7, $% $9, $lO, sl2, sls.
Cameron, Flatbush ave. and Dean st., Brooklyn.
A Would-be Suicide. — Pat Flood,
the man who some days ago ran through the City
Hall Park jabbing a knife in his neck. Was brought
before Justice Smith yesterday, charged with at
tempted suicide, and held in SSOO to answer. He
said yesterday he intended death.
OCR FIRE WARMT.
TRIALS — JUDGMENTS — A FIGHT
—A LONG ABSENCE WITHOUT
LEAVE-A LETTER OF THANKS,
Etc., Etc.
The Board of Fire Commissioners held their regu
lar weekly meeting on Wednesday last, with Presi
dent Puiroy in the chair.
The first business transacted were the trials of the
following-named delinquents:
A FIGHT.
Firemen Patrick J. Brennan and Lawrence Rey
nolds, of Engine Company No. 51, were charged
with being engaged in a fight on April 25tb, and in
addition, Reynolds was charged with being under
the influence of liquor.
Reynolds’s case was first tried, and he pleaded not
guilty.
Assistant Foreman Barber testified: “On the
night in question I was in bed. Reynolds came in
and said that he went into the saloon on the corner
of Third avenue and Fourteenth street, after he
had left the theatre, to which he had been de
tailed; be went in to get something to eat, and
while there he was assaulted by Fireman Brennan.
I reported the facts to the captain (Arnot Bpenc*),
and I investigated the matter and found that Rey
nolds’s story was true. I did not, until afterward,
find out that Keynoldi had assaulted Brennan. As
to the charge of intoxication, when Reynolds came
to me he smelt very strong of liquor and he also
acted as though he had been drinking, and also
from his appearance, too, but he might have been
able to do duty, though.’’
Reynolds, in his own behalf, said—“l bad got
through at Harry Miner’s theatre, to which I had
been detailed, and between eleven and twelve
o’clock I went into the saloon. I saw Brennan there
eating. I asked the waiter to bring me something
to eat. Brennan then commenced fooling with me
and hit me in the face and blacked my eye. I re
ported the fact to the assistant foreman. There was
no fight between Brennan and I; we were only fool
ing and skylarking.’’
In answer to President Purroy, Reynolds said he
would not have told on Brennan if he had not
blacked his (Reynolds’) eye.
President Purroy—“Reynold*, I don't believe
your story."
Reynolds—“l did not strike Brennan; my eye
caught his fist; we were skylarking. I did not teli
the assistant foreman we had been skylarking. I
told him that we had had no real fight. I was not
intoxicated, and was perfectly able to do duty, and
was not under the influence of liquor.’'
Assistant Foreman Barber recalled—“ When Rey
nolds reported to me, he did not tell me that there
had been a blow given to him.’’
President Purroy—“ If this is so, there is no good
ground for the charge of assault. The Board have
not possession of the facts at all; and there are no
good grounds for the charges. I think the men had
a fight, and Reynolds then made the charge of as
sault against Brennan; but since then, all your
sympathies have been changed toward each other,
aud there are no real facts in the case; and it must'
be dismissed, as the Board have not been fairly
dealt with."
Reynolds’ and Brennan’s cases were then dis
missed.
A LONG ABSENCE WITHOUT LEAVE.
Fireman James Mahoney, of Hook and Ladder
Company No. 8. was charged with being absent
without leave for eighty-one hours and fifty min
utes, between April 24th and 28th, and again for
ninety-six hours, between April 28th and May 2d.
When his name was called he did not respond,
but the secretary handed President Purroy Ma
honey's resignation, which the Board accepted.
DID NOT PAY THEIR DEBTS.
Fireman John Levins, of Engine Company No. 23,
was charged with failing to meet an indebtedness
of $18.50 due a Mr. Andrew 8. Quirk, Ho pleaded
guilty, and promised to pay the amount just as
soon as he possibly could. In consideration of that
promise the Board suspended sentence.
Assistant Foreman John McLeod Murphy, of
Engine Company No. 7, was charged with failing to
sat.sfy a claim of $54, which he agreed to pay in
monthly installments of $lO each until the whole
amount was paid up, but this he had neglected to
do. He pleaded guilty.
President Purroy—“lt is a puzzle to the Board
why you are all the time subjecting yourself to
charges of not paying your debts. You do your
duty as a fireman all right, but you are all the time
bothering the Board about your debts. There are
all kinds of accusations against you for your not
paying people what is due them.*'
Murphy—“ This debt is for a funeral which oc
curred four years ago, and I have made arrange
ments to pay this money, and will begin my pay
ments from the sixth day of May, each month. I
will pay my father, and he will pay the man to
whom I owe the money. ’’
President Purroy—** Very well, then; if you carry
out your agreement we will suspend judgment,.but
you must give proof of that character to the Secre
tary.’’
Sentence was suspended.
Fireman Joseph A. Fisher,, of Hook and Ladder
Company No. 9, was charged with failing to pay a
judgment obtained against him by M. D. Tannen
baum, of No. 58 East Third street, for $32.50, which
he agreed to pay on March 6, which he did not do.
He pleaded not guilty, and said : **l paid a City
Marshal, named John Leary, $34, but the amount
of the bill was $32.50, and hero (showing it) is his
receipt. After I had paid it Tannenbaum asked me
for the money, and I told him I had paid it to the
City Marshal, who told me I must pay him and not
Tannenbaum. The marshal showed me his shield or
badge and the seal of the court. I never saw the
marshal before, and I don’t know whether he is a
marshal or not.’*
Mr. Tannenbaum said—“ Fisher has owed me this
money for a great while, and I could get nothing
from him but promises—no money—so I concluded
to sue him in Judge Stockler’s Court. After I got
judgment against him, Fisher acknowledged the
debt as being a just one. I saw him several times
after this, and the last one he told me he had paid
the amount, and showed me a receipt signed by a
City Marshal."
Edward Pietenbring testified—“l am a City Mar
shal, attached to the Fourth District Court, and had
an execution against Fischer handed to me in favor
of Mr. Tannenbaum, for $32.50. There is no City
Marshal named John Leary in the city, and there is
no person of that name attached to the court.
President Purroy—“Now, Fisher this looks very
bad for you. You had better think the matter
over, and if he don’t hear from you we will investi
tigate it, and it may turn out very seriously for
you, and may cost you your position in the depart,
meat. Wo will adjourn this case until Wednesday
next.
THE MONTHLY PAY-ROLL.
The sum of $123,286,11 was paid for all purposes
of the department lor the month of April.
SICK FIREMEN.
The medical officers reported that there were fifty
seven sick and disabled officers and men in the
Department.
SPECIAL BUILDING SIGNALS.
The following assignments of Special Building
Signals went into effect May Ist:
Station 712—location Nos. 79 and 81 Cliff street;
companies assigned, Engine No. 12, Hook and Lad
der No. 1. Station 713—location No. 108 Fulton
street; companies assigned, Engine No. 29, Hook
and Ladder No. 10. Station 714—location Nos. 16
and 18 Park Place; companies assigned, Engine No.
29, Hook and Ladder No. 10. Station 715—location
No. 62 Thomas street; companies assigned. Engine
No. 27, Hook and Ladder No. 8. Station 716—loca
tion N. W. corner Franklin street and Woet Broad
way; companies assigned, Engine No. 27, Hook and
Ladder No. 8. Station 717—location No. 425 Broome
street; companies assigned, Engine No. 20, Hook
and Ladder No. 9. Station 718—location No. 22
East Fourteenth street; companies assigned. Engine
No. 14, Hook and Ladder No. 3. Station 719—loca
tion 8. E. corner Sixth avenue and Twenty-third
street; companies assigned, Engine No. 1, Hook and
Ladder No. 12. Station 721—location No. 130 Jane
street; companies assigned. Engine No. 3, Hook and
Ladder No. 5. Station 722—location No. 117 West
Thirty-eighth street; companies assigned. Engine
No. 26, Hook and Ladder No. 4. Station 723—loca
tion No. 129 East Forty-second street; companies
assigned, Engine No. 21, Heok and Ladder No. 2.
KINDNESS APPRECIATED.
On last Tuesday afternoon Chief Oscar Shay sent
a letter to the proprietor of Earle’s Hotel, a copy of
which is as follows:
New York, May 3d, 1887.
Ferdinand P. Earle, Esq.:
Dear Sir—On behalf of the officers and men of
the Fire Department, I take this occasion to return
my sincere thanks for the generosity shown by you
in furnishing refreshments to those on duty at the
fire Nos. 221 to 227 Canal street, on the evening of
the 28th ult.
Please accept my personal thanks also, as I con
sider such magnanimous action on the part of one
of the oitizens of this city an appreciation of our ef
forts in the performance of duty.
Very respectfully,
Charles O. Shay,
Chief of Department
THE “ THREE FOURS."
Controller Loew was behindhand again this
month in paying our brave fire-laddies their April
salaries, as it was Thursday before the •• boys " got
their money, and it worked great hardship to them
by sneh a long delay. As there is no apparent good
reason why the brave fire-fighters do not get their
hard-earned salaries sooner, it is to be hoped that
the Controller will be more prompt in the future.
JEFFERSON, NO. 26.
At a meeting of the members of Jefferson Engine
Company No. 26, late V. F. D., last Thursday even
ing, they organized an association to be known as
the Jefferson Association of New York, by electing
the following named officers: Thomas E. Tripier,
President; John Ford, Vice President; Robert Oli
ver, Secretary; Jacob Roth, Treasurer; Joseph Hoff
man, Sr., Oliver H. Kingsland, Robert N. Campbell,
Trustees.
The object of the association is for the purpose of
affording beneficiary aid to the sick and needy of its
members.
All members of Jefferson Engine Company No. 26
are invited to attend the next meeting, to be held at
C. Meyers's, corner Seventeenth street and Avenue
B, next Wednesday evening. May 11, at 8 P. M.
T. E. TRIPLER, President,
No. 301 Avenue B.
Robert Oliver, Secretary,
No. 218 East Thirty-fourth street.
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THE EXEMPT FIREMEN.
At the quarterly meeting of the Association of Ex
empt Firemen of the City of New York, held at Cale
donian Hall, April 19, 1887, the following preamble
a Dd resol ut,ons Wo re unanimously adopted:
IVAgreaa, the Association of Exempt Firemen of
the City of New York has learned with profound
??. r 5 ovr tij e death of their late President, Zophar
Mills, and
Whereas, the unexpected dispensation has brought
mourning to the family of our deceased President,
so suddenly bereft of its kind and affectionate head,
and
This Association is duly impressed with
the loss of our beloved fellow member and Presi
dent, one endeared to us by many years oi constant
intercourse, each of which has served only to dis
play those noble and generous traits of character
that adorned him. Therefore
Resolved, That in the untimely death of Zophar
Mills we have lost a warm and faithful friend, whom
to know was to love and honor, the community a
valuable and useful citizen, and the association an
active, honorable and zealous member, one ever
ready to uphold its dignity, to advance its interests
and secure its prosperity, who has proved his devo
tion to it since its organization, October 13th, 1842.
Resolved, That we tender to the afflicted widow
and family of our deceased President and friend, the
assurance of our warmest sympathies in this sad
bereavement and earnestly commend them to the
care of Him who has promised to be the *• Husband
of the Widow and Father of the Fatherless."
■Resolved, That as a mark of respect the office of
President remain vacant until the expiration of the
term for which Mr. Mills was elected, January 17th,
1888.
■Rerouted, That these resolutions ba entered in full
in the minutes, a copy engrossed, duly authenticated
and transmitted to the widow of deceased, and that
they be published.
Geo. W. Wheeler, Edmund Stephenson,
Rec. Secretary. First Vice-President.
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HUMORS OF THE POLICE.
A Doorman Not so Very Drunk—His Appaal
—Listening to Music—Bursrlars Get Lazy—
To be Drilled to Tell the Truth—Doctors
that Differ-Elliot’s Idea of his Duties—
Not Exactly Faith Cure—Found at Last-
Wandering Nolan—Lit.le Misdeeds—What
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BEFORE COMMISSIONER VOORHIS.
A DOORMAN CHARGED WITH INTOXICATION.
••So much under the influence of liquor as to be
unable to do duty,’’ was the charge against Doorman
Gallagher. Sergeant Lansing said Sergeant McDon
ald called his attention to Gallagher’s condition at
2:30 in the afternoon, in the station house. When
he saw Gallagher, he was of the opinion that he was
intoxicated. Ho was unsteady, aud staggered walk
ing the floor. He was not drunk enough to fall
down. Ho talked well enough, but his breath
smelled of liquor. When charged with intoxication
he denied it. He went on duty at 8 o'clock, went
out to dinner at 12, came back at 1; at 2:30 there
was evidence of intoxication. At 10 in the morning
there were signs of liquor, but not enough to charge
intoxication. The doorman said to him he bad
drank nothing.
Sergeant McDonald said the doorman was under
the influence of liquor. The man didn’t walk
straight; he was sleepy. He was expert on intoxi
cation. Ten years ago he was appointed on the
police, and eight years ago he was made sergeant.
Acting Sergeant German said he had boon on the
force eight years, and was an expert on intoxica
tion. The man was drowsy ; didn’t walk as he
usually does; was sleepy, aud unfit to do duty.
The doorman said the night of the 27th ult., when
he went home off duty, he found one of his young
one’s sick. He went for the doctor, who visited it,
and found it to have a** bad dose of the croup.” It
was necessary to stop up all night and give the
medicine prescribed. At eight o’clock he went on
duty without breakfast, and at twelve went out and
had dinner. Had neither ale nor beer with it, nor
strong coffee. All he had was a dish of corn beef
and cabbage and a glass of water.
“How do you account for the sergeant’s descrip
tion—dinner ought to have revived you ?”
*• It didn’t; I was overcome. When I would walk
so far I would go so and recover. I had nothing to
drink all night, but I smoked continually. I am
good-natured with my family, and if you deprive
me of my position I don't know what I’ll do. If
these men insist on the charge of intoxication I
cannot help it, but I am stating the facts and the
truth."
THE POLICE THE DISTURBERS.
Daily was found absent from his post, across the
street, at Tenth avenue and Sixty-first street.
He said there was a row across the way and he
went over to disperse a crowd.
Roundsman Doyle said there were three police
men on the corner—Daily was one of them. The
only crowd, was the police, and the only disturbance
came from them. There was a party in a house
close by. singing, and the officers stood listening.
The Commissioner said he would like to believe
Daily, that he went for a good purpose, to quell a
disturbance at two o'clock in the morning, but
when the roundsman said be found only three
officers there and he timed them eight minutes
doing nothing but chinning, be thought the de
fense rather fishy. He could hardly impose that
story on him of quieting a disturbance.
DISGRUNTLED BURGLARS.
Curran, and White failed to discover a burglary
committed in Mr. Wallace’s store. No. 50 East Forty
third street. Had Mr. Wallace been there on Sun
day morning, violating the law, he would have
trapped the thieves, but he suffered loss for observ
ing the Sabbath. The entrance to the store was
made by going down a skylight, as ths hanging
padlock On the door was not disturbed till the
thieves left, and then it was opened for them out
side by a confederate.
When the three thieves came out at eight o’clock
Sunday morning, they relocked the padlock hang
ing to the door. The thieves must have been work
ing, the police think, an hour and a half at tbs safe.
They broke off the combination and bored a hole a
quarter of an inch deep, and gave up ths job in dis
gust. They couldn’t burst the door of the safe
open. They couldn’t carry a barrel ol whisky with
them, but they took as many boxes of cigars and
bottles of wine as they could carry. They were
seen to leave the place at eight o’clock, in time to
get breakfast and fix up for meeting.
THE IMPOSSIBLE.
McDermott, of the Mercer street station, was
absent from drill. He gave a frivolous excuse for
his neglect.
•* I would drill them in some other things beside
the manual," remarked the Commissioner.
*• What?” asked Captain Brogan very innocently.
“ Drill them to tell the truth," said the Commis
sioner very forcibly.
“That would baa hard job," said Brogan in a rue
ful tone.
A CLOUD OF COMPLAINTS.
There were four complaints against Taggart, of
the Old Slip Station. The first was being absent
without leave at 8 A. M.
That was true. As early as half-past six he sent a
messenger to report him sick. The messenger
didn’t get to the house until after eight o’clock.
The second charge was that ho couldn't be found
at his residence when Police Surgeon Voorhis went
to visit him.
That was true. Being his morning home he went
to his brother’s house, who was keeping bachelor’s
hall. Between two and three o’clock he took a chill,
then the fever followed, leaving him very weak.
His brother lived at No. 87 Greenwich avenue. Af
ter the sickness he was exhausted, and stayed in
bed and went to sleep. At seven o'clock his brother
woke him up. When he started and got to his resi
dence, No. 136 Columbia street, it was ten minutes
to twelve o'clock; the door was locked, hie aunt had
gone out. But be got in the house. He woke from
his sleep at about a quarter te eleven o’clock.
The third charge was when the surgeon saw him
at 5:30 P. M., at his residence, and reported him for
duty, at six o'clock he didn’t appear.
The fourth charge was reporting himself at the
station-house at 6:15, fifteen minutes late, and then
it Was to report himself sick. He was really a sick
man, he said, although the doctor didn't think it.
He had the feeling* of a man who couldn’t do ac
tive duty. He asked the captain to send for the
surgeon. He came at half-past seven, and aftae ex
amining him ordered him out, fit to do duty. He
went out and while doing duty took another chill.
Next day he went on the sick list and sent for Dr.
Teal, his family physician. He did not eat anything
in thirty-eiaht hours.
“How did you get this malaria? asked the Com
missioner.
“Ths new life, the change of life; going out in the
night air on an empty stomaoh.”
“ Are you accustomed to the city ?”
“I was born and brought up here.”
“Were you feeling so bad when sentout you
couldn't do duty ?”
•‘Yes, sir.”
“ How did you get through that six hours ?”
“It was agony."
Surgeon Voorhis said he was detained in the
Grand Jury room till one o’clock, and when he went
to Columbia street the ofllcer wasn’t home. When
he saw him at the station-house, he made a careful
examination of the officer when he eaid he was ex
hausted from a chill, and found him a perfectly
well man—no fever, temperament normal, no evi
dence of sickness.
Dr. Toal, the officer's doctor, said he examined
him on the 21st of April, between eleven and twelve
o’clock, the day he came off duty. He had inter
mittent fever and his pulse was 122. Taggart was
very sick. He was a very weak man and unfit for
duty, and did not look dissipated. Had known him
fourteen years.
••You can’t vouch for a man when he comes on
the force?” remarked the Commissioner.
“O, yes, sir," replied the doctor.
“You are too positive," said the Commissioner.
“Many a good man's habit* change, while others
reform when they get on the force.”
“There were no signs of liquor on him," said Dr.
Toal. •• Dr. Voorhis will bear me out in that state
ment.”
••It would be hard to tell a man's temperature
without a thermometer," said Dr. Voorhis.
“I could tell yours now,” was Dr. Teal's re
joinder.
•* Did you make a superficial examination ? asked
the Commissioner.
•* I made a very careful examination in the station
house. In my office I did not examine him; I
looked him over.”
ACTING AS BARROOM BOUNCER.
“ Coming out of the liquor store No. 368 Bleecker
street at 12:55 April 22d” was the charge against
Elliot, of the Charles street station. He said he was
going to his relieving point, when a gentletnan, the
witness present, called him in. Two parties re
fused to pay for drinks. When he went in they
concluded to pay. He told the roundsman why he
went in.
•• Have you been instructed that that is a part Of
your duty to compel men to pay for drinks?”
“They would have made a row.”
•• They wouldn’t make a row, but ha probably
would, because they wouldn’t pav. Did jrgy ggg the
roundsman When you oame out?”
“Yes, sir.”
“ And told him you went in to enforce the pay
ment of drinks ?”
“No, to quell a row."
“Anticipated row," remarked Cbm. Voorhis,
smiling.
A he called the officer in. A party
owed thirty-five cents, and he thought the officer
would scare it out of them.
wm* I>< \? ou ÜBe police of the Ninth Precinct, Mr.
lien nett, as scarecrows ?”
“No, sir."
“ Well, in this case you had hotter pay the offi
cer s fine here."
STILL LATER.
Twenty minutes later Elliott was found again (a
No. 368 Bleecker street, during his dinner hour.
“ What was ths trouble ?”
“I went in to see what this party had said to the
roundsman.”
“If I were an officer," remarked tho Commissio
ner, “and knowing the rules, I would try and coax
the man out.”
“I saw the sergeant (Granger) at i?he corner. I
had nothing to drink."
NOT AN IRISH-SCOTISH AMERICAN.
Shields, of the Charles street station; who hails
from tho precincts of Dublin, was found coming
out of the Caledonia Hall in Horatio street. He
said that was so.
“ Are you one of Scotia's folk’s ?" asked the Com
missioner.
“ No, sir. I wasn’t in five minutes; I had to go
in.
“ They say there's some good ailsa there that has
the smeil of the peat. What did he say to you, ser
geant?"
“He made the same statement to me—he ha Ito
go in there," said Sergeant Granger. ‘I passed tho
place and stood on the corner, and looking back I
saw him come out."
A DRY PRESCRIPTION.
Riely, of tho Twenty-second street station, found
sitting in a chair, said he was very sick. He was in
about eight minutes, when the sergeant came in
and he went out on post.
“ What did the sergeant prescribe that enabled
you to go out on duty ?”
“Nothing: he mere.y said: ’Get out.’"
" Did that make you feel as if you could do your
duty ?”
“ I was sick.”
“ Ho didn’t do anything ?”
“ No."
“You could hav® done your duty without being
ordered."
INVISIBLE NOLAN.
At 1:50 Roundsman Coffey went on Nolan’s post
to find him. At 2:50 he gave up the task. Rounds
man Linderman then started at 2:30 to find Nolan,
and found him at 3:25, and saw him come out of a
•• dark spot ’’ in Thirty-eighth street.
Nolan said the two roundsmen might miss hint
when he happened to be, by necessity, ten minutes
off post.
There was a third charge against Nolan. Coffey
could not find him from 11:30 till midnight.
LITTLE MISTAKES.
The roundsman said O’Connor was in th* jamb at
the door of the liquor saloon. No. 658 Third avenue.
O’Connor said he was four feet off.
Kelly at tan minutes to ten thought he would re
port sick. On the way to th® Thirtieth street sta
tion be changed his mind. Roundsman Chapman
patrolled the post from ten o’clock till twelve, after
Kelly’s mind had been changed, and couldn't find
him.
Miller, found in the liquorsaloou, No. 170 Riving
ton street, at 11:15, said it was ginger he went for;
he wasn’t a drinking man. This was tho second
charge of being in a liquor saloon.
Finn, of the Twenty-second street station, was
found sitting on an Elevated station, nursing his
dub.
Kelly, found coming out of the restaurant, No.
226 Bleecker street, looked as if he had awoke Irons
a twenty years’ sleep, ready to be retired on a pen
sion of S6OO a year.
Cooney had a headache and went into A saloon
and sat down, and had a cup of coffee.
Jackson and Dunbar left post in Roosevelt street,
to get a sandwich.
Linnes had two females in tow in Warren street.
The Commissioner, speaking from experience, said
one was enough.
WORDS OF ADVICE TO OFFICERS.
Mahoney, of th® Eighth Precinct, was charged
with assaulting Mary Stewart at 7:45 P. M., April
17th, at No. 169 Clinton street, and falsely arresting
her on the charge of disorderly conduct.
He said be was guilty of arresting the woman.
Mary, whose name before her adoption by Mrs.
Stewart, was Sullivan, said Mahoney had some
trouble with Mr. Cushing, one of the family. Ma
honey, who was not on duty and did not do duty In
the Precinct, supposing Cushing was in Mrs. Stew
art's house, entered to arrest him. He was not
there. Cushing and Mahoney had quarreled, and
Mahoney had cut his eye, and at the time
Cushing was across the street, in an apotheca
ry's store, getting his eye fixed. Mrs. Stewart
ordered him out of the house. He swore consider
able and assaulted Mrs. Stewart before be left; then
when outside, he collected a crowd in front of the
house. Mary went out and ordered him to move
on and not collect a crowd before the door. Thera'
upon he arrested her. Mrs. Stewart came out to
protest, and an officer coming up. Mahoney told
him to put h«r under arrest. Mary he dragged off
to the station-house and charged with disorderly
conduct.
It appears it was a family quarrel. Mahoney wan
brother-in-law to Mrs. Stewart and uncle to the
adopted girl.
When Mrs. Stewart went on the stand to testify to
the assault on her niece, Mahoney took this oppor
tunity to get spite and scandal out by the following
process:
•* Let me ask her," said Mahoney, “how long she
has been a widow ? ’
Mrs. Stewart replied, eight years. He asked what
was the name of the husband that died then.
The Commissioner said he supposed it was Stew
art. The woman said it was. The officer asked her
if she bore Stewart’s name in 1876. She said yes.
Then he asked if in 1876 she didn't marry one
Charles Bidley and live with him? No. He had a
furnished room in her house.
The Commissioner wanted to know what that had
to do with the case ?
Mahoney said that this woman called on Mrs.
Stewart not to harbor her husband, and she wa»
assaulted. Then from that he charged Mrs. Stewart
with trying to separate him and his wife. After he
had washed more dirty linen, and the assault and
false arrest had been proven, the Commissioner
made some pertinent remarks, applicable to the
whole force. Because Mahoney was an officer he
presumed a good deal on the authority with which
he was invested. In uniform they would do that
which they would not attempt if not an officer. He
did not see where he got his authority to arrest thia
young lady. If be had not been an officer he would
not dare to do It. Members of the force have duties
to perform and citizens had rights that must not be
interfered with, and would not be tolerated if a citi
zen undertook the same. Officers had sworn rights
in the discharge of their duties; outside of their
official duties they had no more rights than a citi
zen. Such an arrest would not be tolerated by a
citizen, in so small a matter. It was rather a mean
way for a man, and an officer, to get out of a scrape,
to rake up old things and to injure character.
If untrue it was damnable. He didn’t know any
thing about it, but such a defense should not be re
sorted to in a case of this kind. They were both mar
ried, and relatives by marriage, and nothing could
be said against Mrs. Stewart or the house she keeps.
•• This woman has tried to separate me and my
wife,” said the officer. “She has made my home
terrible.”
“Then 1 would not go near her.”
A QUEER CASE ALL THROUGH.
Tho caso against Rorke, of the Madison street
station, was singular.
Mary Ann Bergen and her husband John, were
visiting her parents, and on their way home
stopped at No. 29 Henry street for her brother to
comedown. They said this was 12:15, midnight.
One side of the door was a Chinese laundry, the
other side a grocery. While they stood at the door
the officer aud a citizen passed three times. Tho
last time the officer called her aside and asked If the
man was her busband. She said yes. He then
clubbed her huband up the street. The citizen
took hold of her, and when the officer came back
the two tried to drag her in au alley-way, and told
her if she didn’t submit, they would club her.
They tried to drag her into two places. She got a
chance and escaped.
The woman was seventeen years of age, and ac
cording to her record had been pretty wild when
younger.
The husband John, said he was a printer. Ha
didn’t appear to be over nineteen. He said the offi
cer clubbed him away from bis wife, and he ran to
the station-house for protection. Entering ths
station-house he told th* sergeant that an officer
had clubbed him, and was trying by force to ruin
his wife.
The officer in command told him he must be
druuk, and told him to clear out. He . went back,
met an officer, and told him his story. Powell, the
officer, left his post and went with Bergen. Just as
tbsy got up the woman was leaving.
The defence called Pierce Egan, a bartender. He
was the officer’s companion that night, patrolling
with him. He closed at 12, took twenty minutes to
clear up. After he loft he went in Catharine street
to buy a cigar; then saw the officer talk to a lady
and a man. He told the husband to go on; he
didn't, and he shoved him, and followed him some
little distance.. The officer did not club him, but Ber
gen turned and said he would get even with him.
He (Egas) did net take hold of her, but asked if
married, where she lived—3l Cherry street—what
doing out so late; where was her marriage ring, if
married. She said in pawn.. He swore that the of
ficer did net club the husband, but he chased him.
He swore that neither tried to drag her in a hall, or
made improper proposals.
The officer swore all he did was drive the man
away from the door, as the Chinaman’s place had
been twice entered. The woman he didn’t insult or
assault.
The officer’s defence as to time, trying to make it
near 2 o’clock, was spoiled by. his own witness and
an officer.
What business bad citizen Egan te patrol with an
officer at that hour ?
Was barkeeper Egan’s btore so poorly supplied
with cigars that after his place closed he should go
elsewhere to buy them before going home at 2 in
the morning, the time he fixes?
As for the officer, if he found Bergen a suspicious
character, why not arrest him and the woman ? He
could do it with the assistance of the citizen. Where
was the necessity to elub?
It was not proven that Bergen was drunk, and
why, when ho entered the station house aud told
the officer in command that an officer outside was
attempting an outrage on his wile, should he bo
told to clear out?
Queer case all through.
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