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Niblo’s Garden. —Imre Kiralfy’s spec
tacular production of " Lagardero, the Hunchback
Of Paris, ” is an undoubted success, and is filling
this house at every performance. It is proving to
fce a most profitable speculation for all concerned,
and will be continued for some weeks to come. The
piece is certainly a magnificent spectacle of hand
some scenery and costumes and beautiful women.
Mr. Barrymore makes a picturesque Lagardere,
and is vigorously applauded for his work. Misses
Helen Tracy and Mamie Floyd and Messrs. Wm. H.
Lytell and Harold Fosberg lend valuable assistance,
and everything goes smoothly forward, the per
formance closing every night at eleven o’clock.
In the new grand ballet, “The Seven Ages,” Mlle.
Qualltz, the shapely and graceful premiere, and one
hundred and fiity young and handsome female
dancers appear, to the delight of the occupants of
the front rows.
The ballet of “The Gypsy’s Revel,” in the first
act, is al-o one of the features of the performance,
and is being received with very great favor nightly.
Motto: Secure your seats in advance,
Winpsor Theatre. — “ The White
Blave,*’ one of Bartley Campbell's most popular
plays, was presented at the Windsor Theatre last
week, with all its handsome scenic effects and a
good cast, and succeeded in pleasing large audi
ences.
To-morrow evening Manager Murtha will pro
duce ** Zo-Zo, the Magic Queen," a fairy, musical
extravaganza, with George H. Adams, who is de
scribed as a grotesque comedian, as the star, assist
ed by Misses Pauline Montgriffe as prima donna;
Tama Hanlon, and others.
There will be a grand chorus of thirty young and
pretty ladies, and no end of gorgeous scenic effects
are promised. The chief scenes will be the blue
grotto, the white palace, the bower of roses, and a
xnagnificent transformation scene, which closes the
play. The following time table will be observed;
At 8:05 P. M., the shipwreck; 8:15, the grotto in
fairyland; 8:30, the magic talisman; 9, the bower of
roses; 9:10, the demon cavern; 9:20, the flowery dell;
9:45, the white palace; 10, the enchanted island;
10:15, the grand military challenge ballet, and 10:30,
the tranformation scene.
Fourteenth Street Theatre.— On
Tuesday evening last, the new local drama entitled
•'The Still Alarm ' had its initial production on this
Stage, in the presence of an audience which toward
the close of the performance was decidedly enthu
siastic in its demonstrations of approval.
"The Stdl Alarm” is a drama of action and situa
tions; it has for its hero a valorous and aggressive
fireman; and for its chief features the harnessing
Ct the horses to the engine and the rush for the
fire; the machinations of a highly-polished viilain—
One John Bird—to marry a young girl who is des
perately in love with Joe Manly; and the latter
person’s trick of feigning illness in order that be
might be able to confront and punish the villain.
Aside from Mr. Lacy, the star, who gave a forci
ble and creditable impersonation of Jack Manly, to
Miss Blanche Thorne was accorded the only artistic
Success achieved by any representative included in
the oast.
The play was excellently appointed in its stage
Jottings and—as a matter of record—“caught on."
On the first page of this issue of the Dispatch
Mr. John Carboy has written his opinion of the
pi»y.
"The Still Alarm” will be continued until further
notice.
A special matinee performance of "The Still
Alarm” will be given to-morrow, Labor Day, and
the usual Wednesday matinee will be omitted for
this week. Thursday the members of the dramatic
profession will witness a matinee performance and
arrangements are being made to entertain 1,300 fire
laddies from Philadelphia and Boston Friday night.
Wallack’s Theatre.—Suppe’s latest
opera, “ Bellman," has come to stay, judging from
the throngs that attend each performance, and
from their pleasant criticisms as they leave the the
atre at the termination of the entertainment. Every
evening those words so dear to the managerial
heart, "Standing room only,” have been displayed
in front of the building. Colonel McCaull has given
us many good productions, but none more enjoy
able than this.
Every detail has been attended to and the cast is
well nigh perfect, even the smallest parts being in
the hands of thoroughly competent artists, while
the comedy element, through the efforts of Messrs.
Hopper, Macdonough and De Angeli, is so cleverly
portrayed that the audience is in roars of laughter
whenever any of this trio are on the stage. This,
taken with the singing of Miss Manola and Mr.
Wilke, keep dull moments entirely away.
To-morrow night Madame Cottrelly will be added
to the company, she taking the place of Laura
Joyce Bell, who leaves to join another of the Me
Caull companies, Mr. Otto Meyer, a baritone of
-excellent repute, will at the same time make his
debut with this organization.
Lyceum Thbatbe. — “ The Highest
Bidder" has but two weeks more to run at this
theatre. On Sept. 14 occurs its 100th represen
tation. The revival has been most successful
greater than was anticipated. On Sept. 19 it will
be followed by " The Great Pink Pearl,” which had
been contracted for over a year ago.
This play will have the advantage of an unusu
ally important cast. It will signalize Herbert Kel
©ey’s first appearance at this theatre, of which he
is leading man; also that of Grace Henderson. Mr.
Sothern will play the light comedy role, and other
parts will be enacted by W. J. LeMoyne, Herbert
Archer, Rowland Buckstone; Charles Rowland, who,
Madame Naucadze, come from London for
their original roles; and Miss Etta Hawkins. Mr.
Cecil Raleigh, the well known London journalist,
and author of " The Great Pink Pearl,” is now on
fits way over to finish the final rehearsals.
Dockstadeb’s.—The opening of this
theatre will occur next Wednesday night, and a
sparkling entertainment is presented. The vocal
selections will include "The Song that Reached
My Heart,” " Little Sailor Loui,” ‘.‘Thine Eyes so
Blue and Tender,’’ and " The Arrow and the Song,”
warbled respectively by Jose Monica, Reiger and
the California basso, Frillman; an overture and
chorus from "The Sorcerer,” which will introduce
the Madrigal boys and Mullaly's orchestra; a comic
Bong, "Nothing at All,” by Carl Rankin, while Mr.
Dockstader will voice a new topical ditty, written
expressly for him and called "Never in the Wide,
Wide World.”
" The Pneumatic Railroad to Europe” will close
this portion of the bill, giving way to Edwin French
and his banjo. Perry and Magrew in " Scenes at
the Athletic Club;” Mr. Dockstader in "The Song
Of the Stereoscope’’ and "A Canada Carol,” accom
panied by a startling suit of clothes, and Rankin,
Sheppard and Liston in a new musical act.
The burlesque, "The Fall of New Babylon” will
close the entertainment, and King Hewitt’s revels
with the ballet, and his local points, should prom
ise Mr. Dockstader much scope for merriment,
Tony Pastor’s Theatre.—And here
comes up, like a jack in a box, that prince of good
fellows—the dramatic alter ego of Murat Halstead-
Montgomery Phister, of the Cincinnati Commercial-
Gazette, as a playwright. What should be said of a
In an who fa his green and salad days was intended
-as an elocutionary candidate for the pulpit, and
who deliberately steps down and out from the busi
ness of exhortation and climbs up into the full
glare of the footlights as a play-maker ?
Great Scott! what are we coming to ?
Well, here we have, for the present week, at this
theatre, a skit from Phister—and it is trade-marked
"A Soap Bubble,” and in it Mr. Thomas J. Farion
Will be the bright and jolly principal—the central
figure and materialization of fun.
He will be aided and abetted by a special com
pany of his own—and everybody, will be made
happy.
An extra matinee will be given to-morrow (Labor
Pay).
Bijou Opera House.—Messrs. Edward
Everett Rice and Henry Everybody’s-Friend Dixey
are in the pangs of spectacular and farcical parturi
tion. These laborious managers expect to be re
lieved of "The Corsair,” at the Hollis Street Thea
tre, Boston, to-morrow evening, and will subse
quently introduce a musical and farcical What-is-it
or " What-is-it-Not?” at this theatre on the 12th of
this month, under the title of " Circus in Town.”
In the retinue of the " Circus” circumstance, will
come genial John A. Mackay, whose quaintness
should be welcome to the MoCaull-fed habitues, who
are longing for a change of air.
Little Eddie Holst, the comical Dane, from Copen
hagen; W. H, Hamilton, the basso; Adah Richmond,
Grace Wilson, Emma Hanly, Josie Holland and Hat
tie Delaro are in the company.
Grand Opera House (Newark, N. J.)
—To-morrow night Mr. Edmund Collier commences
a week’s engagement at this theatre. He will re
peat the repertoire of characters in which, during
Jhe past week in this city, his performances at
tracted large audiences, and gained for him from
the press—with the exception of the Herald, which
Sas no dramatic critic-kindly consideration and
eserved commendation of his talent.
Mr. Collier will, some weeks hence, again be seen
Upon the metropolitan stage. His manager, Mr.
(James W. Collier, has received from a prominent
dramatic writer, a new play in five acts, written ex
pressly for the young tragedian, and which in all
Kobability will have its first production in this
-city later on In the season.
Fifth Avenue Theatre. —To-morrow
evening Mr. John Stetson will open his theatre—for
his regular season—with the first presentation in
this city of the new drama of "Allan Dare,” the
author of which is Admiral David D. Porter. This
is an American play, with an American subject,
and the cast, the management assert, will be filled
by a company composed entirely of American ac
tors. The work will be presented under the direc
tion of Mr. McKee Rankin—Mr. Henry O, Miner be
ing its manager and proprietor. The scenic set
tings and costumes are new and elaborate. The
action of the play is supposed to occur in 1800.
Hart’s Theatre ComiqUß.—Manager
Hart, having re-decorated this, the only theatre in
Harlem, opens it to-morrow evening with an ex
ceedingly attractive and exclusively variety enter
tainment. In this are included, for the present
week, the original Horse-Shoe Four. Fred Huber,
Al Decker, Kitty Alleyne, Lottie Mortimer, Josie
Lowe, Carrie Love, and a score of other celebrities,
whose appearance and performances will be wel
comed and appreciated by the Harlem contingent
of playgoers.
The management announces as in preparation
many novelties, lyric and dramatic, which will be
produced in rapid succession. An entire change in
the performance is announced for each successive
week. Matinees as usual.
Poole’s Theatre.—The opening week
of this popular-price theatre scored an unusual suc
cess. In the Summer weather many changes were
made in the interior; among these is the tiling in
the lobby, while a handsome chandelier also adorns
the entrance. The box and circle decorations have
all been repainted, new carpets laid in the aisles,
and on the stage an entire set of new scenery has
been added. New opera-chairs have been placed in
the orchestra, which are of Mr. Poole’s own design.
"The Galley Slave,” one of the best of the popular
American plays, will be revived at Poole’s this week
with a strong cast, headed by Adelaide Thornton,
who is now favorably identified with the part of
Francesca Bernini. Manager Poole is showing good
judgment in placing attractions of this high class
before his patrons, and his efforts to please them
are sure to be appreciated and rewarded.
Miner’s People’s Theatre. —To-mor-
row evening once again the always welcome Joe Em
met will make bis appearance upon this stage in
the old-time and undying "Fritz.” Again will
Emmet’s tuneful voice charm his audience with its
sweet melody in the songs and the lullaby which
never pall upon the humanly sense of pleasure, and
again will the resonance of the silver drum be heard
and win its encores.
Charley Davis, Miner’s representative, manager
and business confidante, says that if he could learn
and understand how to play a silver drum he
wouldn’t care who made the nation’s laws, Em
met’s silver drum has captured him.
Matinees as usual.
’‘Fall of Babylon.”—This splendid
spectacle will soon be seen here no more. But two
weeks more remain for it. It has had a wonderful
success, and the magnificence of sceuio display, of
costume and of action, which have attended its
production, ensured it the great popular approval
which has marked its career.
Lee Avenue Academy (Brooklyn, E.
D.)—Managers Berger & Price commence their reg
ular season to-morrow night with what is practi
cally almost a new theatre. In a past issue a de
scription of the many and costly improvements
they have made in the front as well as on the stage
of this popular theatre, have been given.
The opening attraction which the management
announce is that of the successful English drama
entitled "Stricken Blind,” this being its first per
formance in Brooklyn. The cast will be represent
ed by a capable company, and the scenic settings
and appointments, as well as the mechanical de
vices, will be effective, novel and appropriate.
The matinees will be given, as usual, on Wednes
day and Saturday.
M-uslcal and Dramatic Items,
It may be that many playgoers of to
day are scarcely aware that there still dwells In England
one of the foremost actors of bygone days—Mr. Chippen
dale, perhaps the best Sir Peter Teazle who ever trod the
boards. Xet so it is, and on Sunday, the 14th inst., the
grand old veteran completed his eighty-sixth year, and
in the quaint old house at Camberwell, where Mr. Chip
pendale resides, a few of his old friends ana admirers
spent the afternoon and evening with him. Although
enfeebled in mind and body by bis great age, the old
actor is still in excellent health, and is able to talk about
the scenes and actors of bygone days, though occasion
ally under the impression that he is yet in harness. Af
ter supper on Sunday he delighted all his visitors—among
whom were Mr. Burt, an old co-worker with him; Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur Stannard (John Strange Winter), and Miss
Fanny Haywood—by making a neat and pithy little
speech from his chair, on his health being proposed and
drunk with honors. Very pathetic was his affectionate
reference to his wife beside him, and his confession that
he could no longer speak from "now till to-morrow
night,” as he once could.
One of the novelties in “ The Arabian
Nights, or Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp,” the spectacular
burlesque to be presented at the Standard Theatre Mon
day night, Sept. 12, is said to be the steam or vapor cur
tain. It is introduced in the dismal swamp scene in the
first act. The magician, having delivered an incantation,
summons vapor from the earth. A trap extending across
the stage from the first entrance, is thrown open. Slow
ly steam ascends until it reaches the prescenlum arch,
and the stage is entirely obscured. Colored liglits are
thrown upon the steam, and through it the magician ap
pears and disappears. Meanwhile appropriate music is
furnished by the orchestra. Suddenly a gong is struck.
The steam instantly disappears, and the Crypt of Crim
•son Crystals, a magnificent set, is revealed. Here occurs
the first ballet.
So Emma Abbott is at last, after these
years, to return to Boston! We do not remember the
exact date of her debut here, but it must have been in
1839 or thereabouts Since then we have had Sontag,
Jenny Lind, Carlotta Patti, Adelina Patti, Tietjens,
Parepa, Lucca, Materna and Lehmann. Thus has the
rough way been prepared for the coming guest. Crude
musical estimates have disappeared before the intelligent
work of these illustrious pioneers, the advance guard, as
it were, of the coming prima donna; and the plucky
singer, who is at last almost at her journey’s end, may
rest assured that in Boston she will be judged solely upon
her merits, withoht more reference to her predecessors
than is kind, and with absolutely no allusion to the
“ Abbott kiss ”
Thomas W. Keene’s announcement of
the cast for " The Merchant of .Venice ” created a little
bad feeling between the leading ladies of his company
Constance Hamblin, who has been in Mr. Keene's sup
port for several seasons, was assigned to play her old role
of Portia, and Adele Belgarde was given the part of Ner
vissa. To this arrangement Miss Belgarde objected,
claiming the leading juvenile role of Portia as belonging
to her. Mr. Keene could not see it in that light, and Miss
Belrarde resigned. Anna Boyle has been engaged to
fill the vacancy, and will be Mr. Keene’s lead.ng juvenile
iady for the coming season.
Havlin’s Grand Opera House, Chi
cago. has been renovated and refitted in fine style. It is
now one of the handsomest theatres in the country. An
excellent painting in oil ornaments the top of the pro
scenium arch. It is by F. N. Atwood, and illustrates a
scene from the Tempest—" Come unto these yellow
sands.” The new drop curtain, by Walter Purridge, is
considered the finest in Chicago. Elfeciric lights have
been introduced, the front of the house has been painted,
and no pains spared to make the theatre comfortable and
attractive to its patrons.
Pauline Hall is resting, but will re
join the cast of “Erminie,” at the Casino, on Tuesday
night, and afterward go on the road with that company
Marie Jansen resumed her part in this opera of Javotte
on Aug. 29th. Miss Hall says that her contract with the
Aronsons has eighteen months longer to run. Francis
Wilson and the Aronsons have had trouble over the road
tour of•• Erminie.” Mr. Wilson objects to going out of
the city. The matter will probably be amicably ad
justed.
Judge Hall, of the City Court, has
approved the accounts of Ernest Harvier, formerly re
ceiver of the estate of Bartley Campbell. The accounts
state that the gross receipts were $61,083.61, and the ex
penditures $50,311.99, showing a net profit of $10,771.62.
The creditors have been paid $6,063.76 of this amount.
The receiver's fees are $1,500. Receiver A. M. Palmer
has had turned over to him, $3,207.86.
Capt. Jack Crawford, the poet-scout,
has been engaged by Peck A Fursman. He is to star in
Charles Gayler’shistorical drama, “Daniel Boone.” The
captain ins’sts upon having living bears, elks, prairie
dogs, wolves and mustangs. Genuine Indians are also to
appear. A special car has been purchased to carry this
novel show. A Wild West street parade will be strongly
featured.
The roster of the Marie Prescott Co.
is: Rose Easton, Kate D. Pell, R. D. McLean, Louis R
Gaisel, W. J. Hunj. hrey, Robert Darton, Howard Tills,
J. D. Hadlock, Wm. Hawat , Ward Rensseller, D. J.
’Ganey, J. W. Bla.sdell, with John Whitely, manager,
and George H. Lennox, business agent.
Jack St. Mauer, who has been con
nected with D. Dalzell in his various publication enter
prises for a number of years, has signed with Lotta as
her business manager and will commence his season with
“ Pawn Ticket No. 210,” at McVicker's Theatre, Chicago
Sept. 12. ® ’
J. B. Polk will be supported by Julia
Bolk, Dolly Pike, Mrs. Mary Davis, Kata Reynolds, John
Woodward, Howe Robbins, John W. Parker Wm j
Johnstone and Henry Pew. W. L. Dennison,’treasurer
and Frank JJ. Bixby, business manager. ’
Mr. Dave Braham’s musicians will
reach Leadville on Monday next, on their way back
across the continent,'where they will play until Thursdav
the Bth, and will fill out the week in Pueblo, and Colo
rado Springs on Friday and Saturday.
Western admirers of P. 8. Gilmore
recently presented that popular and able musician and
director with a beautiful gold cornet, said to be one of
the finest and most costly instruments of its kind ever
made in this country.
W. B. Gross has been engaged as ad
vance agent for R. B. Montell’s new play, “ Monbars ”
which opens the season at the Academy of Music Rph.i
Ing, Fa., Sept, 26. Rehearsals will begin, in thisefty
bept. 8. - ’
John A. Stevens and Emily Lytton
are in London. On Monday last the irrepressible John
opened the Opera (omique for a season of fourteen
weeks, in a play entitled " A Secret Foe.”
Howard Paul will not, after all, come
to America this year. He assumes the position of acting
manager at the Novelty Theatre, London, Eng Sent
7th, under Harriet Jay's management. a ’’ p ’
Fanny Herring was unable to join
Stetson’s “ Uncle Tom ” company last week, on account
of severe bronchial affection of the throat, and is now
under medical treatment.
As the result of her engagement with
the “Allan Dare” company, Louise romeroy has can
celed all her road dates and released her company.
The “Gypsy Baron” will be pre
sented ot Scranton, Pa., by the Conried Opera comnanv
with a cast identical with that of last year.
Disorders of the stomach, liver and
kidneys, can be cured by restoring the blood to a
healthy condition, through the vitalizing and
cleansing action of Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. It is the
safest, most powerful, and most highly concentrated
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NEW YORK DISPATCH, SEPTEMBER 4, 1887.
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■Wife Beaters.
WHAT PUZZLES THE COURT—THE MAN SENT
TO PRISON. THE FAMILY STARVE.
How to properly punish wife beaters is one of the
great puzzles of our Courts. If the man is sent to
the penitentiary, or even the city prison, the family
suffers. There are few wives that can get along
without the help of the man. Their hands are tied
up with a baby, or they have children that bind
them to the house, and they can’t break up house
and go out to work. Punishing the man often
brings extreme want on the family, and thus it is
that nearly all cases of wife beating are withdrawn
when they come up for trial !n the Special Sessions.
ANNIE STONE’S CASE.
Annie camo on the witness stand with a nursing
baby in her arms. Her face, after several days, still
showed the bruises that had been inflicted by Wil
liam, her husband.
Before being sworn Justice Smith asked if this
was the first time her husband had been arrested.
No. The last time he got a month in the Police
Court, but she begged him out after a week. She
just wanted him bound to keep the peace. The
Court couldn’t do that, they oould send him to the
Penitentiary, where he would have to keep the
peace.
Annie was sworn and said that she lived at No.
774 Tenth avenue. On the 29th of August her hus
band hit her in the face, leaving the marks they
saw, and when she fell he kicked her. He wanted
money from her to drink; she didn’t have it to give;
the assault followed when it was refused. The
support she resolved was very little.
He said when he came home from work on Mon
day he found a can of beer on the table. They were
always drinking in the house till twelve at night.
" Your wife says you asked her for money to get
drink, and because you didn’t get it you knocked
her down,” said the Court.
" There was nobody in the house, and no beor on
the table, if there had been he would soon have put
it out of sight,” said the wife. "A neighbor came
in and picked me off the floor.”
"Can you get along without him ?” asked the
Court.
" I don’t know.”
"How many children have you?”
"Four.”
" What support have you?”
" Two boarders. He is always fighting for money
to drink. He doesn’t get a pay, but he beats me.”
“ Six months,” said the Court.
HONOBA MUBPHY’S CASE.
Honora said that she lived at No. 32 Oak street,
with her husband. On the 27th ultimo he beat her.
He was always beating her. He commenced at four
o’clock in the afternoon to beat her, when he was
drunk. She couldn’t say how often she was struck.
After being struck twice she got out on the street,
and after she thought he had quieted down she
went back to the house, when she was again beaten.
They had been married twenty-four years. She had
him np baforo for asoauli, but nlCUdiorr tUo
charge. But for one of the children he would have
killed her on this occasion. She was sick and tired
of life.
He had no defense.
The Court sent him to the Island for two months.
ALICE CAHILL’S CASE.
Alice wanted to withdraw the charge against her
husband James. The last time she had him arrest
ed he was put under S3OO bail to keep the peace.
"Does your husband support you?” asked the
Court.
"Sometimes. I get very little from him.”
"How do you support yourself?”
"Washing and scrubbing.”
"How many children have you?”
"Four.”
"In the institutions?”
"No; they are all right here. I don't want to
punish him this time.”
"Three months,” said the Court.
JOHANNA KARL’S CASE.
She wanted to withdraw the complaint she had
made against her husband, Adam,
"Have you had him arrested before for assaulting
you ?” asked the Court.
" Yes, sir,”
"What was done with him ?”
" He got six months in the police court.”
"Did he serve his time?”
"No: I got him out in two weeks.”
"Why do you want to let him out this time ?”
"I like Adam—l like to have my husband. I beg
of you to let him go,”
"Discharged,” said the Court.
All who desire to avoid imposition
and be cured, should insist on having Pond’s Ex
tract, put up only in bottles, with our landscape
trademark, on surrounding buff wrapper.
I3oss One JNigfli.t.
A MISSING LINK IN THE EVIDENCE.
Harry Bell was left, head waiter, cashier and boss
pro tern after eleven o’clock, at the restaurant No.
749 Third avenue. In the morning when the boss,
Michael Lewis, came to the restaurant, the till was
empty. Wh'en he left the night before, there was
change in it for a five dollar bill. Bell had deserted
his post and the saloon.
"How do you know the money was stolen?”
asked the Court.
" When I got there in the morning it was gone,
and he was gone. He was left in charge of the
place, as cashier and waiter. I left him at eleven
o’clock at night. When I came in the morning, he
was missing, and the money. I saw him next night,
in a Cheap John lodging-house in James street. He
said, ' How do you know I took any money ?’ I
said, 'Come along and you’ll see.’ ”
" Well,” said the defendant, "let me have a say.
There’s two sides to the moon, though you can’t
see but one; there’s two sides to this story, and for
tunately you can hear both. The boss left me at
twelve o’clock, in charge; that is true. Shortly
after he left I took sick, and was cramped up all
night. At two o’clock I had to go out for medical
aid, and to be on the safe side, I put the money in
the till in my pocket. I came back at half past five
and put the money in the till, and left the place.
It didn’t suit; it wasn’t tony enough.”
" Who did you leave in the place ?”
"The cook; nobody but her.”
"Did you tell the cook you were leaving?”
'•Yes, sir.”
•'The cook isn’t here ?” remarked the Court,
" No; but he was left in sole charge of the place, ”
said Mr. Lewis. "The cook was at the police
court.”
"She should be here. Not guilty,” decided the
Court.
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DEFENDANT SAID IT WAS THE DB EGS OF A
GLASS, OTHEBS SAID A PAILFUL.
John Gerken said he only threw the dregs of a
tumbler; James Armstrong said it was the contents
of a bucketful. It was half-dirty water. He was
standing at the foot of the etairs, 300 Bowery, where
he lodged, when it was thrown on him.
Defendant said he went up stairs and took a drink
of water out of the cooler, and the dregs left in the
glass he threw carelessly from him. He didn t see
Armstrong when ho threw the dregs of the glass
oat of the ■window. It wasn’t diriy wW, Ho
was clerk in the house.
Armstrong said the water was thrown from the
window on the sidewalk where ho stood. The night
before Gerken had clubbed a young man, but was
discharged at the police court.
Joseph C. Meyer said he was passing up the Bow
ery betweec 6 and 7 o’clock. Ho stopped at 300,
where several gentlemen wore in conversation.
They were talking of tho result of this case, Gjrken
clubbing a young man. He stood about five feet
from the stoop line, and the first he knew was a
"quash” of water, and he got a few drops of it,
" Was it clean ?”
"I should judge it was dirty, from the pail it was
in. It came from a wooden pail, not a glass. Mr.
Armstrong’s clothes were all soiled and my hat was
stained. I had to take the stains out with am
monia.”
Gerken was fined S2O.
It Didn’t Worry JSilly.
THE PENITENTIABY DIDN’T BOTHER HIM.
Billy McSherry is a character. For the last five
years he has floated between Blackwell’s Island and
the city. Sometimes the Court would give him
three, sometimes six months, but Billy, as soon as
he had made up his mind, left the Island without a
pass or ticket of leave. He would drop off the sea
wall into the river and strike out for the city.
Officer Kelly said he had McSherry several times
on a warrant. Officer Evans said he had also ar
rested him. Both officers said they never knew
him to serve out his sentence.
On this occasion he was charged with abusing his
aged father.
"If I had my way 1 would send you in the yard
and give you sixty lashes,” said Justice Duffy.
" You would scream. It would be a better argu
ment than sending you on the Island; that doesn’t
do you any good. I won’t send you to the Work
house this time. I’ll give you six months in the
Penitentiary. Commissioner Brennan will give you
a plug of tobacco.”
The sentence didn.t worry Billy.
A. I»ecvilla.r Suit.
CLAIMING SEDUCTION, AND THE ALLEGED
SEDUCER HAS HER CONVICTED OF LAR
CENY—SHE SEEKS, THROUGH COUNSEL. TO
HAVE HEB SEDUCTION SUIT PBOGBESS TO
TBIAL.
Mr. Samuel G. Barnard made application before
Judge Donohue, to be substituted as counsel for
Mrs. Anna B. Fittis, in place of her former counsel
and adviser, Wm. S. McPheeters.
There is a spice of romance about the case.
Mr. Barnard's history of the case was this: Mrs.
Anna B. Fittis, a widow, engaged herself as house
keeper to a Mr. Dichman, a down-town broker.
When she took charge of his establishment, she
supposed he was a widower. She had not been long
in the establishment when he made advances to
her; she met them half-way, then whole, as be
promised to marry her, and she fell.
This happy episode in her widowhood was sud
denly interrupted by the return of Mrs. Dichman
from the country, and Anna's dream of future bliss
was despoiled.
To close her mouth, counsel said, Mr. Dichman
caused her arrest on the charge of grand larceny—
stealing a gold watch and chaio— for which she was
arrested and tried in the General Sessions.
ON THE TBIAL
in that court, she set up seduction as a defense and
presentation of the articles alleged to be stolen, and
through a badly conducted defense, Mr. Barnard
said, she was convicted, but Judge Gildersleeve
suspended sentence.
In the Sessions she had sot up that she was en
ciente; an examination took place in the course of
the trial, and the doctors said it was hallucination,
imagination or something else.
Her counsel who bad defended her in the General
Sessions, after her discharge was instructed to push
this suit for breach of promise of marriage, with
the usual appendix—seduction.
Mr. McPheeters, her counsel, after drawing up
the complaint, made a settlement against her will
and desire, and this motion was to set aside that
order of discontinuance.
Mr. McPheeters, who appeared for himself, said
THE CASE HAD NOT BEEN PBOPEBLY STATED.
The woman had not been truthful to her counsel,
as a client should. When she set up seduction and
her condition, she swore to it and misled him. She
having been married and having had children,
could not be mistaken as to her condition. Still she
averred it and he had to take her word. But when
the time came that in due season a child should be
born and the lady still remained as lean as a bean
pole, ho lost faith in her cause and in her case.
He also learned that Mr. Dickman and his coun
sel were wide awake as to her loss of reckoning,
and she was informed by some one that, if Judge
Gildersleeve should look upon this proceeding as a
blackmailing operation, he might issue his bench
warrant for her arrest at any time, and stop all pro
ceeding by consigning her to State Prison. Upon
learning these facts
THE LADY CAME CBYING TO COUNSEL,
and begged him to discontinue the suit, and at her
it was discontinued.
She denies that she wanted her seduction suit
discontinued, and asked that Mr. Barnard be sub
stituted to prosecute her case.
Judge Donohue, after hearing the arguments of
counsel, ordered the papers to be filed with the
clerk.
The next motion will be to set aside the order of
discontinuance, which, if granted., will enable coun
sel to put the cause on the calendar, or have it sent
to a referee.
Dr. H. R. Bennett, President Mass.
Surgical Society, says: "One of the best tonics to
build up a broken-down constitution from long
standing womb disease, is Liebig Co’s Coca Beef
Tonic." Also invaluable in dyspepsia, biliousness,
malaria, weak nerves.
A. Street Outrage.
VEBY LIGHT PUNISHMENT INFLICTED.
Mary Murphy, a decent young working girl, was
walking along the street when she met the prisoner,
Joseph Merkle, who caught her by the throat and
dragged her in a hallway.
"Did he strike you?”
"Yes, sir.”
"Did you ever see him before?”
"No; sir.”
"You gave him no reason for this ?’’
"No.”
"Was he under the influence of liquor?”
" Yes, sir.”
"When I came up,” said the officer who made the
arrest, "he had his arm around her throat, in the
alleyway.”
"She called me in the alley,” said the prisoner,
ft" That statement is absolutely false,” said the
woman. "I did not know the man."
" I would give him a year, it is little enough for
the scoundrel,” said Justice Murray.
Justices Ford and Patterson thought three
months enough.
"How I wish that my skin was as white and as
soft as yours,” said a lady the other day to a female
friend. "You can easily make it so,” said the lady
addressed. "How?” inquired the first speaker.
"Use Glenn’s Sulphur Soap.”
jV. It.
w DONTL’ BE A CLAM-HOW THEY ARE GO
ING—PETER COOPER POST FESTIVAL
GRAND ARMY RIFLE ASSOCIATION—
HORACE GREELEY POST EXCURSION—
STEINWEHR POST VINDICATED—DAKIN
POST ITEMS-A FAMILY EXCURSION—
WENT ALONG AS GUESTS-ON TO ST.
LOUIS—ITEMS OF NEWS.
"DON’T BE A CLAM.”
By special request the Dispatch will preach a
little sermon to-day, taking for its text that very
sensible admonition, " Don’t be a clam.” It is our
opinion that the reason a man should not resemble
a clam is that the bivalves are continually getting
into hot water, with fatal results to themselves.
The Grand Army has been in water that was pretty
warm during the past Summer, but that was main
ly on account of the weather and the politicians.
The latter tried their best to heat the water to the
boiling point, and came near succeeding once or
twice, but cool weather and a sober second thought
has rectified all that, and with harmonious action
at the St. Louis encampment the G. A. R. will be
stronger than ever before. But one or two things
should be borne in mind by every comrade, viz.:
that political discussions between comrades as
Grand Army men are against the rules and regula
tions of the order, composed as it is of Republicans,
Democrats, Labor men and Prohibitionists, and
such discussions cannot fail to work injury. Every
comrade has an equal right with all others to his
own political opinions and to cast his vote as he
pleases, and to question his exercise of this right is
not only foolish, but in very bad taste. Its only
outcome will be the stirring up of bad blood be
tween those who should be bound together by the
strongest fraternal ties. It should also be remem
bered that when a man becomes the President of
the United States he is the representative of the
whole nation, and no matter how much disappro
bation may be felt for acts of omission or commis
sion on his part, he should invariably receive the
honor and respect to which the high office ho holds
entitles him. One thing more—don't believe all
you see in the newspapers without investigation.
Canards are published with the express purpose of
inciting discord &nd fomenting trouble. For in
stance, it was telegraphed to the papers, the other
day, that General Black intended to move the ex
pulsion of Generals Fairchilds and Tuttle from the
G. A. R. at the coming encampment. Of course
every sensible man knew that the report was a lie
before General Black promptly branded it as a false
hood, but it shows to what desperate expedients the
enemies of tho Army are resorting in order
to make trouble. Keep cool, brethren; be
clams ’’ and everything will be "0. K.”
HOW THEY ARE GOING.
The committee appointed by the members of
Rankin Post of Brooklyn to take charge of the ar
rangements for the trip to St. Louis this month,
met a few nights ago at the rooms of the Memorial
Committee, City Hall, Brooklyn, and perfected their
arrangements. They have accepted the offer of the
West Shore Railroad, and the post will take the
Annex boat, foot of Fulton street, on Sunday even
ing, September 25, thence will be taken to the
Weehawken Depot, where the entire party, num
bering from 300 to 500, will be provided with parlor
cars. Tho train will pass through Albany, Utica,
Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Suspen
sion Bridge, Hamilton, Detroit, Chicago, and thence
direct to St. Louis. The return will be made by
any route the post may hereafter adopt. General
Henry W. Slocum, who is a member of the post, and
the candidate of the Department of New York for
the position of Commander-In-Chief, will [accom
pany the party, and it will be the first time since
the G. A. R. was organized that this department
went to a national encampment united upon one
candidate. New York is ent.tied to the position,
and it is to be hoped that it will be gracefully ac
corded to ths Empire State; by the delegates from
other departments.
But to return to Rankin Post. A dining car will
be attached to the train during the whole journey.
Without counting meals, the cost of the round trip
will be $22.25. A drum and flute corps of fifty lads
will go with the party. The time consumed in the
trip will be six days, and if the excursionists return
with tho next Commandwiu-Chief in their party,
they will be given a welcome that will make their
hair curl.
PETER COOPER POST FESTIVAL.
Thera was something of a "sound of revelry by
night” at Washington Park last Wednesday even
ing. Commander M. H. Whalen, Superintendent of
the Barge Office, and the genial officers and com
rades who compose Peter Cooper Post, had their
hands full in welcoming the guests who flocked to
the annual festival from every quarter of this city
and Brooklyn. There were hundreds of pretty
girls and other hundreds of good-look ing matrons*
while the "boys,young and old” were scattered
about in promiscuous profusion. The merry dance
couldn't have been any merrier, and nobody could
have enjoyed themselves more than they did if they
died a tryin'. Some of those present were: Com
manders Jake Scheider and J. J. Humphreys. Cap
tain Matt. Stewart, Past Commanders J. P. Murray,
J. P. Lonergan, Isadore Isaacs, Andrew Stewart,
John Sohmidling. Joe Forbes, Sam Minnes and J.
A. Joel; Senior Vice Commanders Larry Freeland
and E. M. Bloomer; Adjutants Geo. W. Roberts and
Henry Schriver; Officer of the Day John W. Mc-
Geviran, Surgeon E. R. Duffy, Capt. Joe. Wood, Col.
W. A. Treadwell, Aiderman Dowling, Andy Horn,
Sergeant De Mott, Hon. Bernard Byan, ex-Assembly
man Galvin, John Rice Finn, P. F. Traynor, D. J.
Sullivan and W. H. Dolan of Peter Cooper Auxiliary
Corps; Inspector Lawrence of the custom house;
Comrades Michael Shay, J. F. Pecreira, E. Claus,
Thomas Mead, W. H. Roche, John Connors and Mr.
Mcßride.
GRAND ARMY RIFLE ASSOCIATION.
A meeting of the G. A. R. Rifle Association was
held at the rooms of the Veteran Club, No. 440
Grand street, last Wednesday evening. Comrade
Hofele, of Dahlgren Post, presented for inspection
the U. S. Standard Sprinfield rifle, 45 calibre, which
was adopted by the association and used at the con
test which took place at Creedmoor the following
day.
On Thursday morning a number of the veterans
started for the range. At the 200 yards target the
scores made out of a possible 50, were as follows;
F. W. Hofele, Dahlgren Post, 43; J. A. Mitchell,
Dahlgren, 40; E. H. Pipenbring, Koltes, 39; M. Mc-
Quade, Aspinwall Post, 35; J. W. Cameron, Dahl
gren, 33; A. De Forge, Koltes, 32; J. P. Roufeseau,
Anderson Post, 24; E. J. Rapp, Riker, 9.
As the 500 yards target had been placed at the dis
posal of the Fourteenth Regiment, National Guard,
no shooting was done at that distance. The gold
badge presented by Comrade Hofele was awarded to
Comrade Pipenbring, of Koltes Post. Another con
test will take place at Creedmoor to-morrow, and
comrades who wish to enter can take the train leav
ing Long Island City at 11:05 A. M. The next meet
ing of the association will be held at the Veteran
Club Rooms, No. 449 Grand street, next Thursday
evening.
HORACE GREELEY’S EXCURSION.
The two excursions of Horace Greeley Post, one
of which took place nn tha afternoon of Satur
day, August 27th, and the other on the same even
ing, were exceedingly pleasant affairs, although not
as numerously attended as they would have been
had some other day been chosen. However, the
party made up in joviality and good-fellowship for
what it lacked in numbers, and the pleasant sail
down the bay, around Staten Island and up the
Hudson was highly enjoyed. The boys felt so good
that they placed the Hon. Amos J. Cummings in
nomination for the position of Department Com
mander, but we are afraid that the Hon. Amos will
have to belong to the organization a few years long
er before his candidacy will be seriously entertain
ed. Some of those on the excursions were Com
mander Wildman, of Greeley Post; Commander
Rockwell, of Dakin Post; Senior Vice Demarest, of
Shields; Officer of the Guard McGeviran, of Greeley,
and representatives from Mansfield, McKenzie, Per
ry, Reno, Riker, and other posts. Stirring music
was furnished by the drum and fife corps of Naval
Post, and the Volunteer Firemen’s Sons.
STEINWEHR POST VINDICATED.
2 o the Editor of the New York Dispatch:
In your last Sunday’s issue a so-called "Veteran”
succeeded in having an article inserted criticizing
the action of Steinwehr Post for rejecting the Pau
per Pension Bill, at the same time assailing the
honesty of some of the post members as to their
motives in voting on that question.
From reliable information, I do not hesitate to
assert that this article emanates from a malicious
person or persons, who are continually harassing
the progress of Steinwehr Post, and who make it
their particular object to belittle the well-deserved
merits of its Commander, Coroner Levy. These
unworthy efforts have been so far confined to blas
phemous talk and indecent language, indulged in
by these parties in certain public houses. But
when these unjust persecutions, based on nothing
else but ignorance, prejudice and jealousy, are car
ried into the very ranks of the Grand Army, with
the evident purpose to create disharmony among
its members, some means ought to and will be de
vised to hold these individuals to a strict account
for their obnoxious and meddlesome ways.
As to the invectives heaped upon the good name
and reputation of Comrade Nitzsche, I beg to refer
to Koltes Post, whose Commander he was for seven
consecutive years. They will say, among other
laudable things of him, how only recently he re
turned, or, more properly expressed, donated the
sum of SBOO to their post fund, which had been,
some years ago, abstracted by an absconding Quar
termaster; how he paid the life insurance, the
quarterly dues of this man, to several lodges, and
all that, at a great sacrifice to himself, and for the
sole purpose to be able to recover, at the death of
the man, this money, and turn it over to Koltes
Post, at the same time wiping out the blot on his
dead friend’s name and that on his surviving fami
ly. In justice to Comrade Nitzsche, I will also state
that this "Veteran” uttered a deliberate falsehood
when he reflected upon his army record in Germany
as well as in this country. He was wounded twice
at the battle of Frederlce Schleswig-Holstein, July
6, 1849, for which he receives to this day a pension
from the German government. He was also wound
ed in the late war, at the battle of Fort Harrison,
October, 1864. His conduct, throughout bis serv
ice, is a matter of record, and can easily be traced
and verified. In conclusion, permit me to assure
you, that the entire proceedings at the encampment
of Steinwehr Post, held August 17, the speeches in
dulged in by Comrades Nitzsche, Cooper and oth
ers, were full of patriotic spirit and devotion to the
interests of the Grand Army, and contained nothing
of that miserable harangue as reported in some
newspapers, copied and still more falsified by this
pseudo "Veteran.” ADJUTANT.
DAKIN POST ITEMS.
Dakin Post’s noted baseball team, under Captain
Dave Waring, struck a snag on the afternoon of
August 26, when they met, saw and were conquered
by a picked nine composed of Brooklyn reporters.
How could the veterans have expected anything
else ? The newspaper men could bat not only with
their willows, but if that failed could let the ball
strike their "cheek” which was equally effective.
The game was played at Manhattan Beach, and, as
said, resulted in the defeat of the "Vets,” every
one of whom has the reputation, of having been a
noted ball-tosser in his day—kind of " balls ” not
specified. When Umpire McNeamy called " play,”
the Dakin boys went to the bat in the following
order: Glendenning, Waring, Cantwell, Rockwell,
Bydick, McFayden, Harnott, Law and Brady. They
made two runs in this inning, and then their op
ponents knocked out three runs. The reporters’
nine were Weigand, McCaffrey, Belzer, Pardessus,
Greuzback, Hyde, Hennessy, Stoddard and Burtis.
In the second inning the veterans got a goose-egg.
After two reporters had gone out a ball passed be
tween Shortstop Rockwell’s legs, and another error
by Second-Baseman Brady resulted in seven runs
for the newspaper men. The " Vets ” although
disheartened, struggled valiantly, but the lead of
their opponents was too great, and the reporters
came out winners with a score of seventeen to nine.
After the game the contestants repaired to Delaney’s
Hotel, where they enjoyed an excellent spread "set
up” by the veterans, and accompanied by the usual
liquid trimmings. The contest will be repeated at
some future date.
On Tuesday evening last the drum and fife corps
of Dakin Post serenaded Comrade Kuhlmann, prior
to his departure for Europe next day. Many visit
ing comrades from Hamilton, Harry Lee, Middle
toe, Farragut and other posts were present. Past
Commander Hall was called to the chair, and in a
brief epceah introduced Comrade Kuhlmann, who
made a vigorous response. He referred to an Ameri
can flag which he held in his hand, bearing the in
scription, "T. S. Dakin Post, 206, G. A. R., of Brook
lyn,” which, he said, he was going to carry with
tfinj and u ; n furl from highest jeak Of ol<l
homestead on his arrival, to stay there as long as
he remained, and he promised to "spot on the
shoot” any man who attempted to haul it down.
Songs, recitations and speeches followed. Past Com
mander Hall and Senior Vice Waring keeping things
going in a lively manner. The boys separated at a
late hour, after Commander Rockwell had led them
in singing "Auld Lang Syne.”
A FAMILY EXCURSION.
An exceedingly pleasant affair was the annual
family excursion of Steinwehr Post, resembling, in
this respect, all that it undertakes in the way of
recreation and amusement. The members of the
post, with their families and friends, gathered at
Urbach’s Morrisania Park on the afternoon of Au
gust 24, and proceeded to enjoy themselves by tak
ing part in various games and sports for several
hours.
About seven o’clock, all present sat down to an
excellent spread, the Commander, Coroner Levy,
presiding. He heartily welcomed the guests of the
post, among whom were Commander Thum and
Captain Feldstein, of Koltes Post; Colonel Stewart
and staff, of the Eleventh Regiment, National
Guard; and Comrades Coroner Mitchell and Aider
man Lally, of Yonkers. Speeches were made by
Comrades Levy, Nitsche, Steinhardt and others,
after which the remainder of the evening was
passed in dancing and social enjoyment. Among
others present were Senior Vice Lochmuller, Junior
Vice Arnold, Adjutant Alexander, Sergeant Major
Lupprian, Q. M. Sergeant Bash, and Comrades Von
Bowies and Schneider. The committee in charge
consisted of Comrades F. J. Werneck, Louis Loch
man n, Francis Albrecht, Gustav Arnold and Jas
trow Alexander-
WENT ALONG A3 GUESTS.
Farragut Post has been haring another “Outing,”
this time as the guest of the James Oawley Associa
tion. whose excursion took place on Sunday last.
The post attended in a body, and as the membets
boarded the barges, each one was presented with
an honorary badge and a button-hole bouquet.
The start was made from the foot of Fifty-first
street, N. R„ at 11:30 A.M„ and Mr. Cawley, and the
officers and members of the association bearing his
name, were Indefatigable in their efforts to add to
the enjoyment of the veterans. Dancing went mer
rily on while the excursionists were en route for
Exoelsior Grove, on the Hudson, where all hands
sat down to a bountiful collation.
After an hour's stay the fleet started for home.
When opposite Riverside Park, Commander Heil
ferty was called upon for a speech, and after feel
ingly alluding to the dead hero resting on the over
looking hillside, he thanked the members of the
association for their kindness to the old soldiers.
On arriving at the pier, foot of Forty-sixth street,
the members of the post disembarked and gave
three cheers for James Oawley and the Cawley Asso
ciation. Tne affair was conducted in a most credita
ble manner to all concerned, and nothing occurred
to mar the pleasure of the trip, except the fact that
Floor Manager Mooney and bis best girl were left
behind at the grove and had to take a train from
Yonkers. Some of the excursionists were President
William Burris, Vice President Edward Gormley,
Secretaries John Holland and Michael Dolan, Treas
urer Wm. Malloy, Sergeant-at-ArmsThos. Donnelly,
M. J. Mooney, F. Kelly, John Wagner, Jarnos Lynch,
W. 8. Crawford, Henry Vredenburgh, David Scott,
Daniel Jacobs, Comrades Charles J. Drow, Frank
Silva, R. M. Sturr and J. J. Kearney.
ON TO ST. LOUI3.
Arrangements tor the trip to St. Louis have not
been fully completed by Headquarters Department
of New York, but the programme will probably be
about as follows: Leave Albany by the 10:40 P. M.
train, over the New York Central, to Buffalo; thence
via Lake Shore to Cleveland, and thence by the Bee
line to St. Louis, Returning, take the Wabash rail
road to Toledo; thence by Michigan Central to
Niagara Falls and Buffalo; thence by West Shore to
Albany and New Tork.
Headquarters Department of New Jersey will
leave Elizabeth for St. Louis, via Pennsylvania rail
road, at 7:30 P. M., September 24th, passing through
Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Columbus, 0., and Rich
mond, Ind., arriving in St. Louis Monday morning.
Headquarters will be established at the Lindell Ho
tel. Rates from various points in New Jersey for
the round trip, range from $20.50 to $22.25. Tick
ets at these rates will be sold to all comrades of the
G. A. R. and members of their families, also to
members of the Sons of Veterans and of the Wo
man's Relief Corps.
PREPARING FOR A FAIR.
The ladies of Harlem, who are wives, daughters
and friends of the comrades of Alexander Hamilton
Post, have organized themselves into an association
called the “Alexander Hamilton Fair Association,"
with the intent of holding a grand fair in Harlem
in December next, in aid of the Post Charity Fund.
Nearly 100 ladies are enrolled, representing the
active workers in the charitable entertainments of
nearly every church in Harlem. They have taken
hold with zeal, and are fully equipped with experi
ence, tact and skill in such matters. They promise
to put $5,000 into the Charity Fund. Their plans
have been quietly perfecting during the Summer,
and with the end of the vacation active work will
begin. Their greatest difficulty is in securing a hall
large enough for their purposes, which include all
the usual stands, tables, art galleries, beside a res
taurant and a journal or newspaper. The art gal
lery promises to be unusually attractive, for Ham
ilton Post has several fine artists among it mem
bers, at least one of whom has a national reputa
tion.
ITEMS OF NEWS.
Mansfield Woman's Relief Corps, of Brooklyn,
will give a festival at Grand Army Hall, Bedford
avenue and North Second street, to-morrow even
ing. A literary entertainment will be pleasantly
combined with cake and ice-cream, and the ladies
will see that their guests have the best kind of a
time mentally and physically. Comrades and their
friends are cordially invited.
On Thursday last the survivors of the Tenth
Regiment. Connecticut Volunteers, held a reunion
at Stony Point, where they were bountifully enter
tained by their former colonel, E. S. Greely, of New
Haven, Conn.
The death of Comrade Benjamin Van Riper, of
Jersey City, which occurred last Tuesday, was a
shock to his friends, of whom there are a host in
this city and Brooklyn. The deceased comrade was
a member of Van Houten Post, of Jersey City, and
that organization, as well as the representatives of
many others, attended the funeral services, which
took place on Thursday last.
Bendix Post of this city is preparing to give one
of the finest afternoon and evening festivals of the
season at Kessel’s Manhattan Park, 155th street and
Eighth avenue, on Wednesday next. Several posts
have signified their intention of being present in a
body, and all comrades and friends will be heartily
welcpmed. Sons of Veterans admitted without
charge, and are requested to appear in uniform.
On Friday, September 9th, the members of James
C. Rice Post will give their annual dam-bake at
Donnelly's Boulevard Hotel, College Point, Long
Island. The steamer J. G. Emmons has been char
tered for the occasion, and will leave foot of West
Twenty-first street at ten o'clock A. M., and the
foot of East Thirty-first street an hour later. Com
rades generally are invited to participate in the
festivities.
There will be a regular meeting of the Veteran
Association of the Anderson Zouaves at head
quarters, No. 394 Sixth avenue, at two o’clock this
afternoon. The communication referred to by
Comrade Prince and others did not reach the Dis
patch office.
Unsolicited by himself or friends, Comrade Joseph
W. Kay, of Winchester Post,. Brooklyn, and also of
the Grand Army Review, has received the yellow
ribbon from Commander-in-Chief Fairchild, accom
panied. by a very complimentary and well-deserved
letter.
Comrades should bear in mind the fact that the
annual camp-fire and concert of Louis M. Hamilton
Post, of East New York, will take place at Bernet’s
Park to-morrow afternoon and evening. The con
cert will commence at two o’clock P. M. Military
guests and G. A. R. comrades are requested to ap
pear in uniform.
The Grand Army Rifle Association is going to
make an effort to enter at Creedmoor this Fall for
the contest known as the “President’s Match for
the Military Championship of the United States of
America.” It is open to all members of the Army,
Navy and Marine Corps of the United States, or the
National Guard of any State. Some of the mem
bers of the American National Rifle Association
contend that the G. A. R. is not eligible; but Com.
rade Hofele intends to test the question, claiming
that the Grand Army is a semi-military organiza
tion, and has at least as much right to enter for the
match as the members of the National Guard. Give
us a show, gentlemen.
Comrade J. A. Joel, of the Grand Army Gazette, has
offered to supply all copies of the “ Battle of Gettys,
burgh” that may be ordered through the New York
Star, at the regular price of $lO. of which $4 is to go
the Grant Monument fund. This is an excellent
opportunity for comrades and citizens generally to
obtain one of the finest battle acenes ever engraved,
at an exceedingly low price, and at the same time
help along the monument fund.
Captain Theodore Feldstein, Secretary of the Em
ployment and Relief Bureau, announces that he
will be at Room 4, City Hall, from nine o’clock A.
M. to two o’clock P. M., for the convenience of pen
sion applicants and others who have matters con
nected with the Pension Bureau. As Comrade Feld
stein will soon be starting for St. Louis as a dele-,
gate to the National Encampment, he desires, to
close up such matters as far as possible before
departure.
Th© fifth excursion Of tlsg ffiagd
Hhder the auspices of Sumner Women’s Relief
Corps will take place on Wednesday next. A special
boat will leave the foot of Whitehall street at 10.1 Q
A. M. Tickets for the trip to the Island and back
are only twenty-five cents each, and entitle the
holder to special privileges, such as free entry to
the museum, etc. Nearly 200 children went upon
the last excursion, and their enjoyment of the occa
sion was worth seeing. Maltby’s Fife and Drum
Corps will accompany th© excursionists next Wed
nesday.
Farnham Post is preparing to make a raid some
where in this vicinity, and much anxiety is mani
fested as to the exact spot where the blow will fall.
Considerable comment exists in, the post over the
fact that Comrades Waller, Finn and O’Rourke pay
so much more attention to fire matters than to
G. A. R. affairs, and the boys threaten to discipline
them if they don’t let up. Their deficiency is part
ly covered by the activity of Colonel De Courcey,
who, in his new and gallus uniform, will see to it
that the proud motto of Farnham Post, “Upward
and Onward,” will continue at the fore.
The second annual blowout of the Edward J. Rapp
Association will take place at Urbach’s Morrisania
Park, Third avenue and 170th street, this afternoon.
The association is named after Comrade Rapp, of
Riker Post, and is composed of veterans and sons of
veterans residing on the east side. There will be
games and shooting for prizes, free to all contest
ants. A good time is assured, and all comrades
will receive a hearty welcome.
Good Advice.—Use Hale’s Honey of Horehound
and Tar for a cough or cold.
Pike’s Toothache Drops cure in one minute.
THE TORTILITA USES.
HOW THE PROPERTY IMPRESSES
A HARTFORD MAN.
A Shrewd Yankee Sends art Expert la
Look Over the Ground—
Expert's Opinion and
Advice.
The Tortilita Gold and Silver Mining Company's
Arizona mining properties, which were quite fully
described in the Evening Post on the 17th inst., have
attracted wide attention, opening up, as they do,
some wonderful experiences in mining precious
ores, and a most remarkable opportunity for safe
and profitable investment. Our readers will be in
terested in a perusal of the following extract from
a private letter received in this city yesterday,
which bears directly upon this subject, and fully
substantiates the favorable impression already
created and confirmed by the statements of the Post
and other leading journals in various parts of the
country. We quote:
Kansas City, Mo., August 25, 1887.
Dear Brother: Your telegram of the 18th inst.
found me at Los Angeles, California, but an hour or
two before my intended departure for the East, and
I am very happy thus to have been able to perform
the pleasant task which you assigned to me, of a
side trip to the Owl’s Head mining district on my
way home. I left Los Angeles at 10:15 A. M. on
Thursday by the Southern Pacifio Railroad, and at
11:45 next morning found myself at Tucson, which
your dispatch informed me is the nearest import
ant railroad point to the mines. Although your
instructions by wire were simply to “go to tho
mines and get at the true inwardness of the whola
business,” I easily understood that what you want
ed of me was to know from the personal observation
of a reliable friend all that could be learned about
some mining scheme in whioh you or your neigh
bors were probably invited to become participants,
and in which your confidence might perhaps not
be absolute.
I have, as you know, seen something of mines
and mining in California and Colorado, and so when
the Tucson Boniface asked if I wanted a top or open
buggy, I told him to give me his best saddle horse,
and without an ounce of baggage I started off over
the hills, thirty odd miles, to the camp of the Tor
tilita Mining Company. The roads were much bet
ter than I expected to find, and the clock was just
striking six when I reined up at an unpretentious
wooden building which looked as if it might be tho
camp post office, or a store, but which proved to ba
the office of the mining company and the headquar
ters of Mr. D. T. Elmore, superintendent in charge
of the active oporations at the mines. Declining
the hospitality which be offered, I managed to get
supper and lodging at the boarding-house adjoining
the little crushing and smelting works, and at au
early hour next morning set out for the mines,
which had been located for me by a Mexican at the
mill in such away that, by the aid of a rough
sketch which I made on paper under his direction,
I felt sure of easily finding them. There are twelve
mines in the Tortilita group. I personally visited
and inspected eight of these during the day, finding
active operations in progress at only six, viz.; the
Jesse Benton, Tom Benton, By Chance and By
Chance Extension, at the northeast cluster, and tho
Red Peach and Lazy Sleeper, at the southwest clus
ter. The little mill has only five stamps, and but a
very moderate amount of mining is necessary to
keep it going.
There is any quantity of ore in sight and within
easy reach at all of the eight mines which I saw, and
1 am amazed that the management is satisfied with
this little one-horse mill, knocking the ore to pieces
with five stamps, and getting out six or eight hun
dred dollars a day, while a fifty-stamp mill might
bo supplied with good rich ore from these mines for
twenty years to come, yielding six or eight thou
sand dollars a day without beginning to exhaust this
great field of precious metal. Elmore tells me that
this property has recently changed hands, and that
tho present company are negotiating somewhere-in
the East for two or three twenty-stamp mills. If
this be true, you may set it down as a fact that thia
Owl’s Head district will astonish the world by the
vastness and richness of its deposits and the com
pany which owns this group of mines will become
the wealthiest mining corporation, at least in Amer
ica.
1 remained one day and two nights at the camp,
coming on to Kansas City by the Atlantic express
which reaches Tucson at midday on Sunday, arriv
ing here early this morning, and now embrace the
first opportunity to write you. . I go to Chicago
this evening, and thence to Minneapolis, not ex
pecting to reach. Connecticut before the second oi
third week in September. When 1 see you-I can
give you by word of mouth a great many interest
ing details of my two days in the saddle—one day
going to and from Tucson and the camp, and tho
other among the mines.
I found my mail awaiting me at the Crocker
House, and among the letters and papers a copy of
the Hartford Evening Post of the 17th, with its
splendid map and description of the Tortilita
mines. It is all very well done, and interests me
much in view of my jfiunt over the properties. The
story is in no respect overdrawn. I notice that the
superintendent’s statements to me regarding the
proposed new stamping works are confirmed. This
settles the question as to the future of the mines
and the mining company that own them.. What is
the stock of the company selling at? It will ba
well to advise all our friends to get in, if they cau
do so, anywhere near the ground floor. This is my
candid conclusion. You know me well enough to
judge whether the advice is good or not. Very has
tily, but truly yours, E. F. Denslow.
—Hartford Evening Post,
The shares of the Tortilita Company are-being
taken all over the country for investment by bank
ers, merchants, farmers, mechanics and laboring
men and women. They cau only be bought now
by private subscription, and those wishing to pur
chase will do well to send in their orders, at once,
as the books will soon close preparatory to calling
the stock on the Board. The shares can now ba
bought at par in any sized lots, from ono share to
5,000, direct from the company’s offiee, 57 Broad
way, and R. J. Dean & Go., bankers, 302 Greenwich
street, New York.
It is believed that the Tortilita is one of the sound
est and best mining enterprises yet brought to tha
attention of the public, and that those who invest
in it will reap handsome returns. They are at least
sure of a safe investment and good dividends,
There is but a portion of the stock for sale, and
that is for the purpose of putting up the additional
machinery required.
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Watdiiixaix Brown.
HE GETS A MONTH ON THE ISLAND ALMOST
IN A WINK.
In two minutes from the time private watchnaan
John D. Brown was before Justice Duffy, he had
turned and was on the onward march to Blackwell’t
Island, for a month.
The charge that an Eighth Ward officer made,
was, drinking beer with two women ia Wooster
street, and when the officer spoke to him, ho de
manded why he should be interfered with.
•‘That isn’t so,” said Brown. “Ifcwas on my
post; I am a private watchman.”
“You watched him with not onp, but two Im
proper women?” said Justice Duffy,.,
“Yes, sir,” replied the officer. «Ever since he
has been a watchman in Wooster street, there have
been more improper women there than ever before.”
“ That isn’t so; I am one of, Holm’s private patrol*
men.”
“Well, he won’t see yo» for a month,” said the
Justice. “Will you swoap he had two improper
women with him?”
“I will,” said the officer. “Hegave them tea
cents to get a can of boor.”
That settled ito s
A Presentation.— Grand Master Cole,
of the Order, of Odd Fellows, having appointed
Bro. Henley Levy his Deputy for the Third District
(this ci£y), the latter was the recipient of a hand
sonde regalia and jewel, in Edward Everett LodgSj
Thursday, August 25th.
Over fifty members attended. Judge Alfred
SteqkJeiy a G., in a few well chosen words, pre
sented the gifts, in behalf of the lodge. Bro. Levy
being taken unawares, did big best to overcome his
perplexity, and gave utterance of bis tjianks with
gratifying results. The Gr. Secretary, Bro. Terwil
liger, Bro. Dr. Ellebash, Bro. Hilton Hirsh, all P.
Gt. 3, and Bro. Kelly and Cougblan, P. D. D. G. M.,
made addresses eulogizing the order, and the good
qualities of the new District Deputy, after which
they adjourned and partook of a repast worthy thia
celebrated occasion.
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