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Statesmen and Journalists.
The Former Dependent Upon the Latter
for Success and Popularity.
Opinions of Carl Schuiz, Henry Wilson,
General Sherman, Senator Conkling
and Others on Press Influence.
Instances Where Journalists Aided Orators,
Congressmen and Generals —The Loyal
Governors’ Proclamation Edited and
Condensed bv a Newspaper Man.
It was a graceful acknowledgment on the part of
Carl Schurz a few days ago, when, in conversation
with a newspaper reporter, he stated that be always
had appreciated the work of all reporters on American
journals and that in his years of experience with them
he had been led to respect and honor their vocation.
He further said that the, press of the country had
always tr ated him fairly, and, in many cases, their
record of bis speeches, addresses, etc., had been
characterized by exceeding fairness, which resulted
in great advantage to him and the causes which he
had advocated. He said he should always hold the
journalistic fraternity in the highest regard, be
lieving sincerely that much of his prosperity and
popularity in the past were due to the men of the
pen and pencil.
This declaration of Schurz called to the mind of
the writer many experiences with several celebrated
statesmen, generals and orators with whom he had
been brought in contact during over four decades.
A lew of them will doubtless be of interest to the
readers of the New York Dispatch.
HENRY WILSON'S STRUGGLES.
In the early years of the Abolition movement the
We i known Abolition editor, Elizur Wright, printed
a newspaper in Boston under the title of the Com.
monwealth. It was located in the roof of the build
ing on the corner of State and Washington streets.
One of its editors was Colonel John Hunter, a finely
educated scholar, and the writer was also employed
on the paper for a few months. During that time
Henry Wilson had come to the notice of the com
munity as the enthusiastic advocate of abolition,
and was known as the Natick Cobbler. His native,
but then uneducated, talent had brought about his
election to what in those days was called "The
Great and General Court” of the Massachusetts
Legislature. He was frequently made the subject
of criticism for his ungrammatical sentences; but
he took it all good-naturedly, and devoted all his
spare time, night and day, to studying the English
language. He was a irequent visitor to the Com
monwealth’s editorial room, where he would talk
politics with Mr. WrightandMr. Hunter and others.
His speeches, made in the Legislature, always at
tracted attention for the extreme views advanced
therein against the curse of slavery, and some of
the Bourbon papers would harshly criticise the
blunders that he would make, beside their condem
nation of his free-soil principles. Mr. Wilson was,
as every one knows who was acquainted with him,
a very solid and sincere man —in lact, gifted with
that "horse sense” which is the safety of many
men of greater calibre.
This led him to prevail upon Mr. Hunter and the
writer to revise his speeches before he delivered
them, and, under this tutelage he soon found him
self quite fairly at home on the platform and in the
halls of legislation. He finally made his way to
Congress, and died while Vice President of th#
United States. A few months before his demise the
writer met him in the reading-room of Young s
Hotel, in Boston. During a half-hour s conversa
tion he referred to the struggles he had been
through in his life, and laid particular stress upon
the hard time be had in educating himself to be
able to write and speak correctly in private and in
public. He heartily avowed his gratitude to several
members of the press, and especially mentioned
Col. Hunter, Elizur Wright and the writer, as
having been in his first start, of Inestimable ad
vantage to him. He continued by saying that the
members of the newspaper fraternity in Washington
were always of great assistance to him and all other
members of Congress, and frankly stated that
neither himself nor many others would have
amounted to much with the public were it not for
the aid they received from editors and reporters.
EDWARD EVERETT’S HARD WORK.
There has been not one great statesman since the
days of Jefferson who has not availed himself of the
aid of some newspaper man. Henry Clay, John C.
Calhoun, and from their days down to the present,
the editors and reporters have been in demand by
all of the prominent statesmen, in Washington.
Ono of the most careful orators in his dealings
with the newspapers was the great Edward Everett.
The writer once was sent to his residence in Sum
mer street, Boston, with proofs of a portion of his
oration that was to be, and was, delivered at a
Bunker Hill anniversary. He was in his library,
and was standing before a large pier glass, reciting
some part of the oration, and watching the reflec
tion in the glass of his gesticulations. He ceased
■on the entrance of the writer, and taking the proof
sheets, sat at his table a while, and made a few cor
rections. He then entered into conversation and in
response to the Yankee boy's queries as to how he
managed to recite his long orations, pleasantly ex
plained that he first wrote out a general title, for his
guide. He then classified the ideas under four gen
eral headings, and again subdivided these four
under lour more sub-headings. This, he said, en
abled him to continuously follow the subject mat
ter, to be elucidated as he went along, and enabled
him to keep it well in his memory. He then, when
having put his ideas into manuscript, would prac
tice and rehearse it thoroughly, alone in his library 1
with the aid of his pier glass. The writer was much
impressed with the drill that the great statesman
and eloquent orator subjected himself to, and never (
will forget that interview. When he delivered that
oration the writer sat on the platform and noted
that Mr. Everett, in that portion which he saw him (
rehearsing in his library, adhered to the motions
and to the very intonations of voice then prac
ticed.
CHARLES SUMNER AND THE PRESS. <
It was always the practice of Charles Sumner not
to put his speeches or addresses on paper prior to 1
delivery, until a few years before his death. He
was then convinced, by having some of his quota
tions from the classics misprinted, that it would be 1
well to employ a clerk to write them out. This oc
curred in one instance when he was to make a <
speech in the Senate upon foreign affaire. It was
known that this speech was to be made, and the
writer wrote him requesting a copy to have mani
folded to mail in advance to the newspapers in New
England, suggesting that by so doing, there would
be no errors in the publication, which there was 1
great liability of making in case it was sent over 1
the wires. The Senator acquiesced in the request, i
and subsequently stated to the writer that it was so '
excellent a plan that he would in the future avail <
himself of it. This he afterward did.
QUICK WOBK BY ROSCOE CONKLING. J
The way that great men avail themselves of the ]
promptness of the press, was exemplified by Sena- <
tor Conkling. He was to address the New England
Society at Its annual Pilgrim dinner. The press j
generally desired to obtain it in advance, and the
writer found the Senator at the office of the Conti- i
Dental Bank, in consultation with Mr. Isaac Bailey, 8
the Receiver of that wrecked concern. The Senator i
politely stated that he had not yet put a word on t
paper, but to oblige the press he would go up to
his hotel, and, with the aid of his secretary, Col. c
Griffin, would have it ready for me before sunset.
This was accomplished—and, as in the case with
Senator Sumner, the address was manifolded and
mailed to the press in other cities, and several to J
the New York city editors. The address was a very I
fine one, and, at that time, attracted great attention. £
It was one instance where he deviated from his
former habit of not writing his addresses before de- «
livery. <
HOW REPORTERS AID STATESMEN. 1
1
Many a speech that has been delivered in Con
gress. as well as on political platforms has been
written for flie speakers by newspapermen. Ben:
Perley Poore, Colonel Hayes, U. H. Poynter, and
many other Washington correspondents have, in
years past, been depended upon by many brilliant *
Senators and Congressmen for the best portions of
their speeches. William Copeland, better known 1
for many years as "Statistic Billy,” one of the jol- 8
liest correspondents in Newspaper Row, was called c
upon many times during every year to furnish 1
valuable matter for not only Members of Congress, 1
tat to Cabinet Officers, lor both speeches and re- a
ports upon financial and other valuable statistical c
Information needed. He never made a mistake, and I
was a great favorite with the officials unto the day t
of his death. His statistical articles in the o I '
‘Journal of Co mm er frequently been used in c
Important legal discussions.
STATESMEN AT BANQUETS. ‘
Again The newspaper men who have had to at- I
tend great banquets and dinners at which states- j
men, generals, great wits and accomplished orators
held o th, have always been greatly appreciated by
thoia ors. At one of the finest oanq et, of the
New England Society, at Delmonlco s. General Wii
lytm Tecumseh Sherman made a ratling speech,
he never wrote a speech In advance in his life, and 1
never will. A sketch report of that speech was I
made and sent by telegraph to New England the
night of its delivery, right from the tabl’, by the
w.iier, as also that of Henry Ward Beecher, ou
the same occasion. After the publication, several a
cop es were sent to the general, who had gone a
West, and he wrote to the writer that he owed him 1
a debt of eternal gratitude, as the speech printed t
was a d d sight bettor than tb.9 one delivered, t
TEN COLUMNS CONDENSED TO ONE. £
A notable case of where great and skillful con- *
ilensation was needed and accomplished occurred
in this city, by the making an abstract of over ten
columns of mabhscript into one solumn. This ec
curred on the 3d of October, in 1862, during a .
of great war excitement. J
The Governois of the loyal States-; atthe invita
tion of the great waT Governor of Pennsylvania, had
m. tin conierence at Altoona, in that State. Theij
meeting at the time was roundly denounced kfi
extraneous piece of officioushess by of the ’
newspapers, several of the latter that they
intended to dictate to ’Uncoil! uu q his
Cabinet the course that they fl h&uld pursue in the
future conduct of the lue Governors who
mot here were allgood including Govern- .
ors Andrew, of J Morgan, of New
York; C Mbodejlsland; Morton, of Indi
ana, and ©ther Northern executives or their
They had agreed upon the tone of
p proclamation to be issued notfb the President and
Cabinet, but to the loyal people of the North. Each
one of the Governors had jotted down on paper his
views, and the reader can rest assured that there
was a mass of It.
The majority of the party arrived in New York on
the 2d of October, and went to the New England
Rooms for Wounded Soldiers, at No. 194 Broadway,
where they gathered in one of the rooms at the rear
of the sick ward. Altera short consultation, they
found themselves all mixed up—the copies of each
one, if all were printed, would have made at least
ten columns of any one of the metropolitan papers.
This was finally settled by Governor Andrew re
requesting Colonel Howe to procure the presence
of the writer, who was well known for his ability in
condensation of news and documents. The writer
was soon with the Governors, and, after a short
conversation, in which Governor Andrew acted as
spokesman for the others, the subscriber prepared
his paste pot, scissors, sharpened the inevitable
blue pencil, and went into a work of careful con
densation such as he believed that he had never be
fore been called upon to perform. However, the
different papers were rapidly gone through with,
one by one. The writer will never forget the sigh
of relief of the dapper Governor Sprague, of Rhode
Island, who was then in his prime, when his few
lines of patriotic platitude were unceremoniously
thrown into the waste-basket. The sprightly little
Governer took up his gold-headed cane, turned on
his heel, and said, “ Good-by—gentlemen— please
sign my name to whatever you agree to. I will
join Kate at the hotel,” and off he skipped as jolly
as a lark, the brother Governors bidding him a
friendly "by-by.”
The work of condensation went on, and in the
course of an hour, finally completed, having been
carefully and patriotically culled, quizzed, cut,
blue-pencilled, rewrote, and pasted and patched
a grand and patriotic mosaic of words, It was
read to the assembled Governors, and one or two
emendations made, but as a whole, harmoniously
and unanimously adopted with applause. It was
then, after being signed by the Governors, taken to
>. the Associated Press office, in the old American
Telegraph building, at the corner of Broadway and
Liberty street, and manifolded by the subscriber,
In a short time It was sent to the press of the whole
country. It can be found now in the files of the
, papers of October 3, 1862.
The above Instances are simply recorded to give
the thousands of the Dispatch readers an idea of the
varied and complex work that enures to the indi
viduals who are sometimes sardonically referred to
by hyper-critical noodles as "only newspaper acrib
, biers.”
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I HUMOUS OF THE POLICE.
3 -- -
' Vance Comes to be Tried, Drunk, and Has
a Charge of In'oxication Preferred-The
Seat Too High to Sit On - The Thieves
i Smarter than the Officer—Wouldn't Obey
His Captain—ln the Dark wiih a Lady
i His Time on the Police Premises to be
Short-Left the City Without Lsave-An
Officer Gets a Summons.
BEFORE COMMISSIONER PORTER.
TOO DRUNK TO TRY.
There were three charges against Vance, of the
Twenty-first Precinct, lie was tried on one, but
was not sober enough to stand up and be tried on
the other two. Vance ie quite a young man, and his
captain says he could hardly be called sober since
bis appointment. The man could stand and walk
well enough but in hia speech and eyes he looked
as one that had a long "still” on him.
The charge was absent without leave. He said
ho sent a telegram that he was sick, and the doctor,
on calling, instead of putting him on the sick list,
ordered him to report for duty.
At the close of the trial, Captain Ryan was or
dered to,take the officer down stairs and have him
examined.
While waiting for the arrival of a police surgeon,
Vance fell asleep in the chair. He was examined
by Police Surgeon Doran, who pronounced him un
der the influence of liquor. Captain Ryan was or
dered by the Commissioner to make that charge
against him.
ON A HYDRANT.
Sitting on a fire-hydrant, was the charge again at
Linn, of the Eighth Precinct. He denied the
charge of sitting, but admitted leaning.
" The officer was sitting,” said the roundsman.
* " How far off were you ?” asked the officer.
“ Three yards,” replied the roundsman.
“ Weren’t my feet on the ground ?”
“ Yes, sir; and your arms folded.”
“It was impossible to sit on a hydrant three feet
high,” said the officer.
“ I measured it, and it was two feet seven inches,”
said the roundsman.
■‘lt was in a business neighborhood; it would
have been a ridiculous position for a man to place
himself in.
DIDN’T KNOW OF A BURGLARY.
The store No. 84 Bedford street was robbed be
tween twelve and six o'clock, Boyland’s tour, and
be failed to prevent or discover it.
Boyland said he tried tfie door on his last trip,
and found everything secure. The padlock was on
the door.
Captain Copeland said Mr. Hart reported the bur.
glary committed at his residence between one and
six. He went there and investigated it. From
what Mr. Hart said the storm-door was left open,
the thieves went in and unlocked the door, and left
the storm-door open. The officer if be went
carefully over his post shoula have observed it.
Tbe officer said he didn’t go down to examine, be
cause the gate was padlocked.
The captain said an officer should see an unlock
ed door going over his post.
THE IMPOSSIBLE.
Nash was charged with being in the liquor store,
No. 267 Bleecker street. He said it was impossible
to go anywhere else. He had to go through the sa
loon to get to the yard.
HE MIGHT HAVE HAD A SANDWICH.
De Nyse was in the liquor saloon, No. 293 Bleecker
street. He said he was called in on police business.
At 12:25 a young man opened the door and said
there was a little trouble. The proprietor said they
were raising a disturbance. He left by the side
door.
Roundsman Butts said he saw the officer standing
at the corner. He looked all around and then went
in, and stood in front of the bar eating. He said he
was called in. When asked what for, he replied
there was a crowd of men. The roundsman saw
only two or three and they were very peaceable.
"If the proprietor comes and says there is a row
I am justified in going in,” said the officer.
" But not to stand and eat,” said the Commis
sioner.
“ I don’t know if I did take a sandwich. I don’t
remember,” said the officer.
INSUBORDINATION.
Kambreck, when ordered to patrol his post, re
fused. At five minuies to four Capt. Killelea said
he came to Broadway and Fifty-ninth street, and
found the officer sitting. Although he saw his cap
tain coming, he didn’t move. When the captain
got within speaking distance, he said :
" Kambreck, what are you doing there ?”
The officer got up and walked to tbe middle of
the sidewalk and said something. The captain
said : “Go on.” He replied : " I am here on my
post.” The captain said : “Do you understand
me, or refuse to obey my orders ?” The officer
again said : "lamon my post.”
The officer stood for five minutes and didn’t
move, and then started very reluctantly. Mr. Car
roll and two other gentlemen were there sitting in
chairs.
Mr. Carroll said he corroborated the captain’s
statement. He heard the officer three times ordered
to go on and patrol his post.
" What way d d he tell me to patrol my post ?”
asked the officer.
° He said, have you anything to do but make a
sign of yourself for a cigar store ?”
“ What else ?”
" Patrol your post.”
“ Did I refuse to patrol it ?”
"Yes, sir.”
" The only reason I can account for his conduct,”
said the captain, " is that I had him put on trial
for throwing a chair out of the window, which
struck an officer on the head. I never drove nor
dogged the man. That was the only complaint I
ever made against him.”
The officer said, coming down the Boulevard, he
saw the captain, who oame over to him while
standing on the sidewalk, and said, “ Don’t you
know better than make a cigar sign of yourself ?
Go on your post.”
•‘ Did you refuse to patrol ?” asked the Commis
sioner.
“No, sir; he called this gentleman, and said, don't
run awiy; I want you for a witness. I turned
around and said, remember the nature of this con
versation. Captain, did you tell this man to come
to the station house?”
" Most emphatically, no,” replied the captain. “I
did not know him at the time.”
NO BOYS THERE.
“In a hallway leading to a lager beer saloon in
Attorney street,” was the complaint against Ripper.
He said he chased some boys that loaf around there
all the time. Coming out ho met the roundsman.
McAdam said he followed the officer half a block,
and saw him go in. He asked Ripper what be was
doing in there. He said he went in after some boys.
The officer saw no boys, and he was behind the of
ficer all the way.
“ Have you any questions o ask him ?”
*No,” replied Ripper.
IN A CORNER WITH A WOMAN.
The charge was being in the hallway, 285 Sixth
avenue, with a female.
”I am willing to admit I was in a storm doorway, '
with an explanation,” said Hoar. "Isaw in the 1
Storm door Qf this shoe store an umbrella sticking
out. I footed in to investigate, and saw a woman. ‘
I said * You are out early ?’ She said ‘ Yes, sir, I
mistook tbe conductor when he said Eighteenth '
street. I am waiting for a car/ The roundsman
came along and he says, ‘What are you doing here?’
I says ‘ This lady seems to be out late/ He says to s
the lady, * What are you doing with this officer?' j
With that she went about her business. He pulled 1
out his watch and said. ‘You’ll stay on your post/ ” i
“I saw the lady standing in the door,” said Sergt. <
Chapman. “ The officer was back with her in the :
doorway in the dark. I said, ’ What’s the matter ?’ i
He said, ' She’s lost/ * No, I am not lost,’ she re
plied/'
“ Is that all ?” asked tfee Commissioner,
“ That is all,” replied the sergeant.
A DESPERATE FELLOW.
Inspector Williams charged Sergt. Sheehan, of the
Twenty-seventh Precinct, with shooting Richard
Henley iq the hahd.
The sergeant said the charge was true.
He was asked to explain.
“ Mr. Henley assaulted his wife with a hatchet,
and fractured her skull, in her apartments. He ,
also broke the handle of a hammer on the head of a
lady friend. Then he set fire to tbe house. He
threw a lighted can of kerosene on the stove and on
the floors Then he ran in hi« room and barred him
self in. I proceeded to the hall door. I couldn’t
get in that way, and went in .through the apart
ment aud burst in the door. He had the hatchet
raised and I shot him in the right wrist.”
“ You could not have stopped the use of th6
hatchet without the use of the pistol?” remarked
the Commissioner-
“ I had to use it to save my own life.” ,
“ You had no club ?”
“No: I was in citizen’s dress.” .
“Thd statement Oi the sergeant is correct,” said
the Inspector. “ Henley was a desperate man.”
LOOKED, BUT DIDN’T SEE THE ROUNDSMAN.
Crowe, found in the saloon No. 301 East B*venty
third street, said he was called in by tie proprie er
He saw nothing, and the roun .smau waited in
after him.
Roundsman Nally said he saw the officer in front
of the saloon; then he went in. Tbe roundsman
went in after him, and found the officer standing at
the bar. with his hat off. When asked what he was
doing in there, he said he had no supper, and went
in to get a sandwich.
"Any questions to ask?” said the roundsman.
“No. I looked np and down the street for my
side partner; I did not want to go in alone; I didn't
know who I might have to tackle.”
"I saw him talking to two or three citizens at the
bar, but they were quiet. Officer, did you rap?”
asked the roundsman.
“ No, sir.”
" Where were you when the citizens came up to
you at Seventy-third street?” asked the rounds
man.
•• Near the door.
“When I saw him,” said the roundsman, “the
officer was standing at Beventy-tnird street and
Second avenue, with two citizens. I was going to
time him, when the citizens went in the lager beer
saloon. He passed the saloon and came back, and,
looking up and down, went in.”
"I had mv hat off, wiping it,” said the officer.
“You have started in pretty early," remarked the
Commissioner. "You will certainly find some
thing else that will suit better than the police.”
THAT CLAM3AKE.
O’Keefe, Hughes, Grant and Breslin, of the Thir
ty-fourth Precinct, left tbe city and county without
getting permission and attended a clambake at
Throgg’s Neck.
They all said it was their day off, and didn’t think
it any harm.
Sergeant Webb said he heard they were there at
Throgg’s Meek, and set out on foot to find them.
The route he took was so crooked that he got lost
several times before reaching his destination.
THAT PAVER OF TOBACCO.
Breslin, found in a cigar store on Railroad and
Berrian avenues, said he went iu to get a paper of
tobacco.
NEW YORK DISPATCH, OCTOBER 2. 1887.
> AFRAID OF HIS LIFE.
Weingardner applied to the Fifth District Police
8 Court for a warrant for the arrest of Edward H.
5 Hines, without getting permission from the Super-
J intendant.
1 Weingardner said Hines had threatened to shoot
* another officer, ond when he looked out of the wln
-3 dow and said he would put a hole in him, hb
3 thought it rather serious. Tbe door was locked
and he couldn't get to him. Meeting a brother
9 officer, he asked what he should do. lift advised
9 him to go to court. He asked for a warrant, but the
Court gave him a summons. Next day he saw the
9 captain and told him what he had done.
WITH A FEMALE.
Twomey, of the Thirty-third Precinct, was in
conversation with a female off post, on the other
side of tbe street. The roundsman, when he saw
him standing in conversation with the lady at 165th
street, would have overlooked that, but he couldn’t
his being off post.
"How long was I in conversation?” asked the
' officer.
"Couldn’t say,” was the reply.
5 "Do you know the nature of the conversation ?”
s “Ido not.”
There the officer dropped it.
5 1, mi, | in
—
, OUR FIRE DEPARFffIT.
’ A DULL WEEK—NO TRIALS—HOW
AN INCENDIARY WAS CONVICT
ED—CAPT. MoAVOY SQUELCHES
A STORY TELLER—HOW IKEY
BRUSH SAVED JIM PETERS—
; ’ GOSSIP, Ere.
‘ There were no trials last week, for the reason that
( the ship of State was to be brought out and got
. into trim for the coming race In November. But the
[ well oiled wheels of the Department ran smoothly,
and there was no friction discovered, even though
the heads were away. Therefore, instead of record
ing the thrilling particulars of men on trial, we can
only give such gossip and items as were caught on
the fly.
GOSSIP.
Fireman C. F. Collins, of Engine Company No.
30, is soon to enter into hymenial happiness, and
take a partner to journey with him for life.
George Farrell is the chief operator in the tele
graph room, and is considered a first-class manipu
lator of the key electric. He is ably assisted by
i Edward Sellen, John Kavanagh, Gabriel Van Cott, a
nephew of the ex-Commissioner of the same name,
and E. 8. Simms, who has charge of the instru
ments. The night operators are J. Lord, F. Collis,
F. Fitzpatrick, and are all first-class men.
There is in the chief’s room at Headquarters a
perfect model of a Hook and Ladder Truck. It is
about two and a half feet long, and has all the lad
ders used on a regular truck, in miniature. The
tiller, seats, buckets and, in fact, everything’is
there, and it shows a great deal of patience and me
chanical skill. It is the work ot Foreman Ohearn.
and shows the result of many hours which might
have been put to much worse use, and is a great
credit to him.
Chief Breslin is the inventor of the revolving noz
zle and the hose hoist, two very useful appliances
for fighting unhandy or high-up fires.
Chief Bonner makes a regular study of his busi
iness, the result of which has been the production
of a number of useful inventions, among which is
the cellar pipe, the sub-cellar pipe, the nozzle pipe,
the drop-net, the portable hydrant conductor, the
hose roller, the combined battering-ram and wall
cutter, the lock opener and wrench, the improved
pipe belt, and bis last is one that is being tried now.
It is a rope cage, strengthened by steel rings, and is
designed for saving the life of an injured person. It
lies flat on the floor and the person is placed in it.
Then it is drawn up, and the top closed by the rope
which lets it down. On the bottom is a guide rope,
so that those on the ground can pull it away from
the burning building, or from the flame. All these
inventions show careful study and stamp Chief
Bonner as a man who is interested in his life work.
Michael F. Cummings has fourteen years to his
credit in the Department, and has written up more
fires than any man living. He is the fire record
clerk.
Thomas Coakley is the indorsement clerk of tbe
Department. We hope this won’t be misconstrued
into the idea that he indorses notes, for he doesn’t,
but only official papers. His great specialty is
•• leaves of absence.” He has eight years to his ac
count.
Hugh Bonner Council is still adding to its mem
bership. There are over 600 names on the list now,
and still they come. This will surely be a very
large council, if not the largest in the order.
Charles Toups, driver of Engine No. 18, is a
quick, lively man, and always ready when an alarm
comes in. He is a first-class man with the lines.
Engine Company No. 19 is having her house
thoroughly overhauled and painted. The Assistant
Foreman, Henry Burnett, was appointed in the
department away back in September, ’65.
William F. Flock is the senior assistant foreman
of the department, his appointment to that posi
tion dating from September 8, ’65.
Chief McCabe has got his new horse. It is a hand
some roan, and no doubt is a stepper.
Engineer Tom M. C. McCabe docs the throttle act
on Engine No. 1. He was appointed in December,
65, and has a clean record.
Fireman Bollenbacher. of Engine No. 31, has won
bis spurs. He fought valiantly once, and vanquishc d
a bat, now he is in the first grade. Make no mis
take, virtue is its own reward.
Assistant Foreman Smith, of Truck No. 2, has held
that position since ’December, *6B, and during that
time has only had two charges made against him,
and both of not much account.
The yacht race drew quite a number of the men
away. Somehow every thing watery has attractions
for firemen.
Engine No. 24 and Engine 30 had a race to a fire i
the other day—Station 256. By skillful maneuver- ■
ing and brilliant manipulation of the lines, Engine t
No. 30 got first water. Since then, when Foremen
Scannell aud McLoughlin meet, they never speak
when they pass by. j
The "Zophar Mills" is on the dry dock at Gowan- ]
us. getting a good scraping.
John Haas, who is in the repair shop, is a genius j
in handling and working in leather. He is a good
all-around man and can turn his hand to any work
necessary; hence his value.
William Grace and Thomas Jordan are engineers 1
of Engine No. 30. The first has eleven and the sec- i
ond two and a half years to his credit, and both are
good men. ;
Fireman Hugh Grinnen, the "Kid," is the assist
ant equine conductor in Engine Company No. 1; <
and he can drive well and skillfully pilot the team
when duty puts him in the seat. (
John Banks, driver of Engine No. 7, has been
twenty-two years in the department. During all -
this time he has never had to pay a fine, or been i
" docked " for special absence of leave.
Mr. George Mitchell, of the bureau of combust!- i
bles, is an ex-chief of the Caledonian Club, and a
very pleasant gentleman to meet. He is annoyed at <
the defeat of the "Thistle,” for, like all good ]
Scotchmen, he loves things Scottish, from a finnen <
haddie to a {Bannockburn. (
Engine No. 30 is located in Spring street near ]
Varick, and the house stands on land belonging to \
Trinity Church. It is one of the most dilapidated j
buildings in the department, and needs repairing <
very badly. The company is good, and that’s all ’
there is good about the premises.
Fireman Thomas P. Knight (second grade), of <
Engine Company No. 31, was promoted tp be en- ]
glneer of Engine Company No. 32.
Plane for buildings to cost $625,100 were filed, up ]
to Saturday, in the Building Department. (
The stove, which was won by the Volunteer Fire j
men’s Association, In August last, was raffled for (
a week ago last Saturday evening, and was won by t
Tom Casey. It was auctioned off, and knocked t
down to Wm. E. Bishop, who, it is Baid, contem- ]
plates using it in a new hash house, which he will ’
shortly open. ;
TRANSFERS. (
Assistant Foreman James Flaherty, of Engine
Company No. 6, was transferred, on the Ist inst., to
Engine Company No. 16.
Assistant Foreman Walter H. Jones, of Engine (
Company No. 26, was transferred to Engine Com- 1
pany No. 6,
Assistant Foreman Samuel Reed, of Engine Com- J
pany No. 26, to Engine Company No. 2, and As- ;
sistant Foreman Richard F. Keneban, of Hook and ;
Ladder Qompany No. 5, to Engine Company No. 26.
KOW AN INCENDIARY WAS CONVICTED.
Some years ago a fire was discovered on a floor in t
a tenement hquse, but wqa extinguished before do
ing much dani/ip’e. The Firo Marshal discovered
kerosene oil an£'.*powder in front of the door, which
showed the origin, Of the fire very plainly, and indi
cated that it was the work of an incendiary. Hr. C
Sheldon investigated, and found ne ir the premises
a small piece of wall paper, about four inches square,
which had evidently had powder wrapped up in it.
This was the only clew, and a very slight one. but
jt did the business, the Fire Marshal searched c
around among all the houses in the neighborhood, fl
and was rewarded by finding in one of them, about c
half a dozen houses away, a place torn on a wall
where the piece of paper that he had picked up just j
fitted. Th© occupant of the place was a woman, t
and the result of this clew culminated in the dis- ,
covery that this woman had tried to Bet the other j
place on fire for revenge, and while very little dam- t
age was done,the intent to commit arson was proven f
conclusively by the Fire Marshal, and the woman j
was sentenced to State prison for life. After serving (
some time in prison she secured, through influen
tial friends, a pardon; but her guilty conscience (
was too a burden for her to bear, so a year ]
ago she ended beg life with poison. {
CAPTAIN MCAVOY INNOCENTLY .SQUELCHED A i
STORY-TELLER. ]
This is how the "Rattler ” tells it. We give his (
own words;
"The cap, (ififtaning McAvdy,) is one of the fun
niest men lu the department, and oue of the kind
who can joke with his men and yet not have them
ride over him, and the men in his company don’t,
as a rule, desire to be transferred.
"If there is a funny story going round, you can ;
bet that the cap. gets onto it about as soon as any
one else. Well, there was a man who used to come ,
round to the bouse to tell the captain funny sto
ries, and they were about the worst you ever heard.
Funny ? Why, you would feel sick after he got one
of them off. No matter what/he cap. was doing or
what there was to be seen to, this duffer would
come right in, go for the cap., and begin the inflic
tion. The cap. kind of hated to kick, but we could
all see plainly that he was slowly but surely grow
ing thin from the intense agony of the suffering.
We laid corks all around when this feller was in the
house, and would often break out in a yell in his
presence, and say, • I’m a bit of a liar meself,’ but it
was no use; he would no more drop than a moun
tain, and it would have to be a hint like the kick of
a horse, to make him tumble.
“ But hold on, 11l make it short. One day this
laddybuck came in, cocked and primed with a new
yarn, and at once hunted for the Cap. He found
him training his twin French pups, and was just
about to open up his rigmarole, when the Cap. told
him to hold on a minute, and come outside to tell
the story, as he expected ladies. So they both walk
ed around the corner, and accidentally stopped be
fore an Italian nobleman who was roasting chest
nuts. The feller went on with his funny story,
poured it into the Cap’s, ear, waved his arms,
howled, roared, and cut up generally in telling the
story, and then camo t 0 end of it. He waited for
the expected burst of lafter from the Cap., but just
then tbe Italian looked up, and with a broad smile on
his face, said innocently enough, * Chestnutta/
"Well, sir, the Cap. just busted right out and
actually screeched, and the story-teller-well, he
just skipped, and its the gospel truth, he hasn’t
been seen around here since. But, say, the Cap was
so tickled that he bought the Italian out, and treated
all of us to chestnuts that day.”
HOW IKEY BRUSH SCARED JIM PETERS.
There were only a small number of members
present the other evening, and the boys felt some
what dull. The old-timer had been in tbe rooms
all evening, but had been unusually quiet. He
replied to all questions with short answers, and
there was very-little prospect of any entertainment
from him. One of the boys got up and started as if
1 to go out, and after first stretching himself, exe
-1 cuted a double shuffle, ending up by cutting an old-
S’gsoß » iB 6;
The old-timer carefully examined this little per
, form a nee, knd then began to softly cackle as he
, seemed to tfoipk of something very pleasant. Fi
. nally h§ said •
"That dance’mindd tab ot something that hap
; to Ikey some years ago, boys, and if you say
tb, I’ll tell you."
ij He throw back his head, shut his ©veß khJ
j chuckled; the boys gathered around him as he
r Batd -«
1 ’'Hal ha! Ikey did scare Peters that time, for
0 sure. You see, boys, Jim Peters was one of the
e very best men in our company—a whole-souled,
big-hearted man as you conld find, always ready
and anxious to do a good turn for the boys, even at
a bother to himself. But he had one fault, like
a many other good-hearted men, and at times he
r would take too much ‘booze.’ For months he
v would go without taking a drop, and then, all of a
ti sudden he would begin to drink, and for weeks at a
t stretch would be full all the time—not enough to
interfere with his business, but just enough to be
e under the influence. |
“ Well, the night I am going to tell you about, we
had been routed out for a fire at nine o’clock, and
had worked hard, for it was a big tenement; beside,
while on our way to the fire we had licked the boys
of Black Joke, and taken the hydrant away from
them. And our boys had saved two women from the
top floor of the burning house, so of course alter we
were through our work we all went in for a ball or
two.
“At this time, Peters had been on one of hie
drinking spells, and that night he got away with
7 some mighty big horns, though no man there
worked harder than he did, and when we started
‘ for home, be was pretty well loaded. It was nearly
5 three o’clock in the morning when we reached the
r house, and so all the boys but Ikey went right
straight to bed. He stayed up to do some little
- cleaning around the machine. When he got through
he started up stairs to bed. Ikey s bed was next to
the foot of Peters’s bunk. When he struck tho
t bunk-room he found all hands in bed and the lights
t turned down; he thought he would not disturb any
i one, and setting down in a chair, began quietly to
peel off. He had got down to his red underclothes,
t when all of a sudden it struck him that he must
. have a chew of plug tobacco before he turned in,
i so he reached up over the bed to the shelf where he
i kept his tobacco and picked up what he thought
was the plug. Tbe boys had put there that day for
a joke, a flat piece of wax, thinking that of course
he would see it before biting it, but In the dim light
, Ikey never noticed, but just opened his mouth,
shoved in the wax and—bit. His teeth sunk right
into the wax, and as he tasted it and found out
what it was, he tried to puil his teeth out of it, but
to save his soul he couldn't, and the more he tried
the tighter it stuck. Then.he got mad and began
to dance, and turned the light up as high as it would
blaze.
“This sudden brightness woke Peters, and look
ing out he saw what looked like a big red devil
dancing at the foot of his bed and, with a shudder,
rubbed his eyes and looked again, while the red
figure still danced away and seemed to be beckon
ing him to come, but not saying a word. Peters
didn’t know what to make of this etrange scene
when all at once it struck him that maybe he had
the bugs, and he buried his face in the pillow to
shut out the awful sight. That was it, he had them
on him sure. Cautiously he looked up again, but
there danced the figure just the same, and unable
to control himself any longer, he fell back on tho
bed and began to scream like blazes.
“This only made the red figure dance toward him
all the livelier and wave its arms like mad. These
screams of Peters woke the boys and they rushed
helter-skelter toward his bed. Just then Ikey—by
a great effort—yanked his jaws loose from the wax
and yelled, ‘What in thunder’s the matter with you
anyhow, Peters?’ And Peters, when he heard Ikey’s
voice, fell back on the bed, saying: ‘Oh, Lordy, its
Ikey Brush, and I thought I had the bugs on me,
sure.' ”
As the old-timer paused, Ikey looked into the
room for an instant, and then his face disappeared.
A moment later the old German waiter entered,
carrying a tray with foaming glasses, and as he
passed them around said:
"Ikey says haf dot mit him.”
THE PENSION INSURANCE FUND.
One thousand dollars is paid to the nearest rela
tives alter the death of a fireman. His widow or
children, as the case may be, also receiving an an
nual pension until the children become of age, or
the widow marries again or dies. The pension and
insurance funds are both distinct, however. One
dollar is deducted each month from the pay of each
member of the uniformed force and such other of
the employees of the department as may desire to
avail themselves of its privileges, and, if necessary,
two dollars can be so taken. In this fund there is
rarely any balance over, it being generally used up
as fast as collected. At the end of the year 1886,
there was $3,362.01 on hand and $17,000 was paid to
the beneficiaries of seventeen men during that year.
The relief fund in tbe hands of the treasurer on the
Ist of January, this year, was $489,577.84.
All the money collected from fines, licenses, sales,
etc., from the different branches of the Fire Depart
ment, go toward the Relief Fund, and in 1886, $132.-
612.64 were so collected; and there was paid in 1886,
to relieved men, $17,636.20; to retired men, in pen
sions, $56,958 68; and in pensions, to widows and
orphans. S2B 707.58. When a fireman asks lor and
obtains a special leave of absence, he has the amount
of pay for the time off taken from his salary, and
during 1886 $3,621.65 was, from this source, added
to the fund. From all sources, $1,005,975.96 were
collected since 1871 to the end of 1886, and for the
same time $516,398.12 was paid out, leaving the
balance on hand as given above.
Since 1879 no part of the foreign insurance tax
has gone into the fund, this being all turned over
to tbe old volunteer firemen’s associations. The
money for both funds, though kept separately, is
all deposited in the Lincoln National Bank, and tho
accounts of it are kept by Mr. Savage, the head
book-keeper of the department. Prior to 1872 there
was a salary and expense account, but since 1873
there has been no salary account, and no expense
account since 1884. The checks are all drawn
against these funds by both the President and
Treasurer of the Board of Fire Commissioners, and
the latter official is under bonds to the amount of
$50,000.
A relieved man is one who is excused from doing
fire duty, but is detailed to d© any other work that he
may be called upon to perform. This brings such
men under the head of being relieved or paid from
the pension fund.
NATIONAL ORDER AMERICAN FIREMEN.
The convention of delegates of local councils of
the State of New York for the purpose of organizing
a State Council, will be held in Horseheads, October
11, 12, 13, 1887. Representatives will be present
from the following councils: j
Buffalo Council, Buffalo, N. Y.; Hyde Park Coun- |
cil, Hyde Park, N. Y.; Warwick Council, Warwick,
N. Y.; Ithaca Council, Ithaca, N. Y.; Owego Coun
cil, Owego, N. Y.; Ballston Council, Ballston Spa, N.
Y.; Belmont Council, Belmont, N. Y.; Linoleum
ville Council, Linoleumville, N. Y.; Horseheads
Council, Horseheads, N. Y.; Williamsburg Council,
Brooklyn, N. Y.; Port Richmond Council, Port Rich
mond, S. L; Matteawan Council, Mattea wan, N. Y.;
Penn Yan Council, Penn Yan, N. Y.; Oneonta Coun
cil, Oneonta, N. Y.; Bay Ridge Council, Bay Ridge,
L. I.; Brooklyn Council, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Tarrytown
Council, Tarrytown, N. Y.; Wappingers Falls Coun
cil, Wappingers Falls, N. Y.; Volunteer Council, 1
New York City; North Tarrytown Council, North
Tarrytown, N. Y.; Jamaica Council, Jamaica, L. L;
Kingston Council, Kingston, N. Y.; Whitehall Coun
cil, Whitehall, N. Y.; Hugh Bonner Council, New
York City; Hudson City Council, Hudson, N. Y.;
Washington Council, Flatbush, L. I.; Little Falls
Council, Little Falls, N. Y.; Melrose Council, Flat- ,
bnsb, L. I. 1
The convention will be called to order on Tuesday
morning, Oct. 11th, and continue in session for tvyo
days. M. H. Brown, chairman of the Local Com
mittee, writes that a banquet will be given to the
delegates on Wednesday evening, and on Thursday 1
a grand excursion will take place; dinner will be J
served at Hammondsport, and a grand lunch will
be spread at Urbana Vineyards in the afternoon.
The delegates reach Penn Yan in the evening, and
will be the guests of the resident members of the
Order, who will tender the visitors a banquet.
On Wednesday, the sth inst., the members of
Hugh Bonner Council will meet the elect delegates
to attend this convention. Horseheads is a suburb
of Elmira, N. Y., which latter place is 274 miles from
here by the Erie Railroad.
A special train will leave for Horseheads on Mon
day, the 11th inst., at 7P. M., and special rates for
- can be had by delegates if they notify the
Nat. Secretary, Mr. Thomas A. Raymond, No. 173
Broadway, The price for the round trip special
tickets will be $8.15.
Wo understand that there will be a large delega
tion go from this city.
Glass standard Collars-
COUNTERFEITERS FLOODING THE CITY— «
TniiOWN OUT DAILY AT THE SUB-TREASU
RY.
The city has been flooded with bogus standard
dollars during the past few days. The counterfeit
coin .s made of a mixture of antimony and glass,
and can be easily detected. Mr. Gulliger, of tlie
coin division of the Sub-Treasury, said yesterday:
" Ibo story that the genuine coin is split in two,
hollowed out and filled with glass ia not correct. A
compouud is made of antimouy and glass, and this
gives the ringing sound to the coins made there
from. They however, lighter than the gen nine,
and if slruck with a chisel will fly to pieces. We
are constantly throwing out counterfeit coin, and
latterly these glass dollars, although not a new
couterfeit, have been again appearing.”
At the United States Secret Sdiv.ce office it was
said that the opening days in the retail dry goo Is
houses has given tho “ shovors of tbe queer” a
goed opportunity, and the bogus coin has been
’ nsli<4 out vigorously. Tho officers are ou tho
lookout fot tko GOUBterfeiteys and expect tQ cap.
tore thein*
A. Wife Beater.
HE WAS HELD TO ANSWER.
Mary Rowan, a young married woman, appeared
yesterday against her husband James. The blood
oozed through her bandaged head.
" Have you any children ?” asked Justice Patter
son.
“ Yes, sir, two. One four years, the other two. ’
“ What does your husband work at ?” asked the
Justice. «
“ He is with the Edison Electric Company.
" Is he in the hab.t of getting drunk ?”
“ Yes sir."
“ Has he beaten you before ?”
•• Yes, sir, often."
•• S3OO to answer,” sa’.d the Justice.
Fabmbbs to Get Thbee Cents a Quabt
for Milk.—The Milk Exchange, at a meeting held
on last Wednesday, decided that the price of milk
should be raised one-half cent a quart, and this in
crease went into effect to-day. ’ilia farmers wno
send their milk to the city have heretolore received
but 2X cents a quart. This, however, has not paid
them sufficiently, and they demanded one-half cent
more. More than 650,000 quarts of milk are shipped
to this city every day, so th it the difference in the
price will amount to $3,250 daily. Individual con
sumers, however, will not be made to feel the in
crease to any appreciable extent.
R. R. R. RADW AY’S READY RELIEF.
FOR THE OHRE OF ALE ROWEI COMPLAINTS
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tcrnal na'ins arising from change of diet or water or other causes. As a Tonio or Stimulant, a ew drops
Uken in water is better than French brandy or bitters. Externally for Colds Inflammation of the Lungs,
Kidnevs and Bowels, Rheumatism, Neuralgia. Sciatica. Sprains, Bruises, Bites of Insects, Toothache,
Headache, Pains in the Back, Chest and Limbs, the application of
lIADWAY’S ItJLAVOA TLELTJEI?
to the part or parts affected will instantly relievo and soon cure the sufferer ot these complaints. Sold
by druggists. 50 cents a bottle.
Dr.’ Radway & Co., N. Y., Proprietors of DR. RADWAY’S SARSAPARILJLIAN
JJESCiYEivt uad L»U. Li/xDV, Ax’s,
ALY’S
9th season, the
r fftp mafiagement of
da vt "' Mr AugvsTiN Daly.
I WEDNESDAY NIGHT, OCT. sth,
I rxrow- First production of Pinero’s Comedy,
DICK. I DANDY DICK;
MISB ASa Rehan, iHss Dreher, Mbs mfifion, Miss St.
Quentin, Messrs. James Lewi>„Chas. Fisher, John Drew,
r George Clarke. Otis Skinner, W. Gilbert, Ac.
J FIRST MATINEff OCT, Bth.
’ Broadway and 39th street,
t Evenings at 8. Matinee Saturday at 2.
THE CASINO’S MOST BEAUTIFUL
COMIC OPERA PR )DUCTION,
} THE
i As performed 550 nights in Paris.
i n a z, and 450 o‘phts in Lend n.
) anvroor Magnificent Costumes, Scenery, etc.
, ADMISSION, 50c. Seats secured one month in advance.
UNION SQUARE THEATRE.
Under the Management of J. M. HILL.
I The Comedians.
ROBSOX A.Xt> CRANE.
’ In a Comedy, in four acts,
J THE II EN 11 IE 'T T A..
, BY BRONSON HOWARD.
Evenings, B:ls.Saturday Matinee, 2.
DOCKSTADER’S
SPLENDID MINSTRELSY.
**!>»•• Freckle and Mr. Rnlde.”
I THISTLE.
“FAIL OF NEW BABYLON.”
Evenings, B:3oSaturday Matinee. 2:3ft
Academy of music, nth st. and irv
ing Place.— A. J. MURPHY, Manager.
1 3D WEEK. 3D WEEK.
Elaborate production of the latest London melodrama.
A DARK SECRKT. I The Greatest Melodramatic
A DARK SECRET. Success Ever Known
A DARK SECRET. I to New York!
Including the Marvelons Aquatic Scene,
THE HENLEY REGATTA.
EVENINGS AT 8. MATINEE SATURDAY at 2.
Reserved seats 50c., 75c., $1; Family Circle, 25c.; Gen
eral admission sOc.
STAR THEATRE. French Opera.
LAST TIME (BUT ONE) OF MAURICE GRAU’S
FRENCH OPERA BOUFFE COMPANY.
Monday and Tuesday,
LA FILLE DE MME. ANGOT.
Wednesday, last time,
LE GRAND MOGOL.
Thursday and Frldav,
LA MA S '’OTTE.
Matinee, MME. ANGOT. Sat. Eve. SERMENT D’AMOUR.
FUFTH AVE. THEATRE. LANGTRY.
Proprietor and Manager Mr. JO;IN STETSON
EVENINGS AT 8; MATINEE SATURDAY, AT 2.
MONDAY, OCT. 3, 1887.
Third week and continued success.
. u MRS. LANGTRY,
Accompanied by Maurice Barrymore and her own com
pany in her grand production,
AS IN A LOOKING GLASS,
Appropriate Scenery and Gorgeous Stage Settings.
Seats secured two weeka advance.
LYCEUM THEATRE.-4th av. and 23d st.
DANIEL FROHMANManager
“ It was seen with pleasure and hailed with applause.”
-TRIBUNE.
THE GREAT PINK PEARL.
THE GREAT PINK PEARL.
THE GREAT PINK PEARL.
Preceded by EDITHA’S BURGLAR.
*»* Wednesday Matinee—THE HIGHEST BIDDER,
preceded by EDITHA’S BURGLAR.
STANDARD THEATRE. B’wav &33d st.
CROWDED HOUSES NIGHTLY'! 1
Every Evening Matinees Wednesday aud Saturday at 2.
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS;
Or, Aladdin s Wonderful Lamp.
ALLACK’S. LAST WEEK.
HOUSES CROWDED TO OVERFLOWING.
SUPPE’S I MOCAULL
BELLMAN. | OPERA COMPANY.
Admission .50c. Matinee Saturday at 2.
BIJOU OPERA HOUSE, Broadway and
30th st —Evenings at 8; Mat. Wed. and Sat. at 2.
.3d WEEK. I SALSBURY’S TROUBADOURS,
CONTINUED | in their greatest success,
SUCCESS. | THE HUMMING BIRD.
Eyeful gofiws.
LIVE AND LET LIVE,
No. 213. BHOAI)WA.Y,
Cor. of FULTON STREET, NEW YORK.
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT.
OYSTER AND CHOP HOUSE.
All the Delicacies of the Season served in First Class
Style. Carstairs, McCaull & Co.’s Monongahela Mona
gram Whiskies.
The New York and Staten Island Brewing Company’s.
Tivoli Beer on draught.
H. W. THORP, Proprietor.
AT THE OLD ESTABLISHED
BUDDING MANUFACTORY
OF
BRADFORD WIIXAM,
No. 171 Sixth avenue, Corner 12th St.,
Spring Bede, Mattresses,
Live Geese Feathers,
Down Quilts, Comfortables, Blankets,
Brass and Iron Bedsteads.
UPHOLSTERY DEPT.
A Magnificent Collection of
AUTUMN JO VELTIES.
TAPESTRIES & PORTIERRES,
SILK AND LACE DRAPERIES,
FURNITURECOVERINGS, ETC.
1 dt.
PI AMO STOOLS.
PIANO COVERS, PIANO SCARFS,
sja 'FAULK COVERS, STORE STOOLS.
Si MUSIC CABINETS and STANDS, ,
QW MANTEL LAMBREQUINS, GRAND
and UPRIGHT COVERS MADE TO
ORDER.
F. NEPPERT, Manufacturer
:,nil importer, No 390 Canal street, 1
near West Broadway, N. Y.
CORSETS MADE TO ORDER.
Ladies who desire a PERFECT FITTING CORSET, and
one that, lor comfort and durability, has no superior,
call at No. 311 East Twenty seventh street, where an
HONEST WHALEBONE CORSET is made to order, in
any style, size, or shape desired, and of any
or material you may select, at PRICES TO SUIT LVERY-
B AJacly in attendance, who will call at your residence,
11 d VVHAI,EBONE CORSET COMPANY.
NO 311 BAST ■fWENTY-SEVENW STREET.
AGENTS WANTED. NEW lOT.K.
Everett’s hotel
AND GRAND DINING ROOMS,
ON THE EUROPEAN PLAN.
BARCLAY AND VESEY, BETWEEN WASHINGTON
AND WEST STREETS,
NEW YORK.
SAMUEL H. EVERETT,
Proprietor.
JL. STROUB’S OYSTER BAY. No.
• 2869 THIRD AVENUE, between 128th and 129th
sts , if tarnishing oysters by the quart and hundred, and
is delivering on the half shell at all hours. The propri*
tor John L. Stroub, is the patentee of the Clam Roaster
which is used at most all hotels, oyster houses, and by
Kivate families throughout the country with great satis-
Btion. They are sold at all the house furnishing stores
throughout the U. 8. Principal Depots : John L. Btroub’a
Oyster Bay, 2869 3d av.; John L. Stroub’s Family Oyster
House, 93 danal st.; John L. Stroub’s River View Hotel*
foot of 125th street. North River. New York City.
gUmtgmtttfo.
MINER’S PEOPLE’S THEATRE,
BOWERY, opposite Spring st.
MATINEES WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY, at 2.
Urand production of
J. A. iIEARN’S
HEARTS
OF OAK.
NIBLO’S.
Q : GlLMOßEProprietor and Manager,
reserved seats, Orchestra Circle and Balcony. 50 cts.
Last two weeks.
IMRE KIRALFY’S
Grand Spectacular Success,
LAGARDE RE.
„ LAGARDERE.
TWO GRAND BALLETS. SPLENDID SCENERY.
Evenings at 8; Matinees Wed, and Sat, at 2.
1 z£TH STREET THEATRE. Cor. 6th av.
MATINEES WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY.
- ™ „ LAST WEEK
or Charles Hoyt s most successful comedy, (author of
!‘ A Rag Baby,” “a Parlor Match,” Ac.)
a hoi,.; in Tin: gkotjtstd.
Beautifully Produced and Playing to Crowded Houses.
Monday, oct. 10th—Welcome Home,
MINNIE PALMER.
Madison square theatre.
Mr. A. M. palmer Sole Manager.
MONDAY, October 3,
txtv. Opening of the REGUL A”. SEASON,
When will be resumed the representations of the late
Sir Charles Young’s wonderful play,
JIM THE PENMAN,
With the original cast.
POOLE’S THEATRE.
Eighth street bet. Fourth avenue and Broadway.
ADMISSION, 10c., 20c. RESERVED, 30c.
THE MAGIC TALISMAN.
Matinees Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday.
Next week—ADA GRAY in EAST LYNNE.
A MERICAN INSTITUTE.
56th 2d and 3d aves., between 63d and 64th sts.
Grand Elevated and surface cars pass door.
Industrial GRAND ELECTRICAL EXHIBITION.
vnwSl Everything in Electricity.
hOVBLi INI ENTIONS, MACHINERY IN MOTION.
WINDSOR THEATRE,
BOWERY, near Canal.
One week, commencing MONDAY, Oct. 3rd.
The Popular Character Actor
JBHYCVOIN.
in his new and original fo r act comedy-drama by Clay
Greene, Esq., entill d
FORGIVEN.
Act Ist—ST. AUGUSTINE, Florida.
Act 2d—NEW ORLEA? S, (seven years later.)
Act 3d—NEW MEXICO, (ten years later.)
Act 4th—NEW MEXICO, (next morning.)
MATINEES WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY,
Globe museum, 298 bowery.
MEEHAN <t WlLSONProprietors.
Commencing MONDAY, OCT. 3d.
Great success of the popular actress,
FANa>Y herring,
who will appear at every performance in her highly
sensational drama entitled
DARING DICK,
THE KING OF HIGHWAYMEN.
The Paris Musee collection of Wax Works, and other
curiosities.
Specialty and Dramatic Performances every hour.
OPEN DAILY from 11 A. M. to 10 P. M.
ct8 _-_ Admission to the Entire Exhibition, 10 cts.
Tony pastor’s theatre. 14th st.
Good Reserved seats, 25 cents.
MATINEES TUESDAY AND FRIDAY.
The Popular Irish Comedian,
JOS. J. SULLIVAIV,
In the Comedy-Drama,
THE BLACK THORN,
LEE AVE. ACADEMY, Williamsburg.
Evenings at 8:15; Matinees Wed. and Sat. at 2:10.
Week commencing Oct. 3d.
Most extraordinary production of the age. From H.
RIDER HAGGARD’S cele! rated novel, ana dramatized
by T. H. GLENNY, entitled,
SHE.
Magnificent splendor, new scenic effects, properties,
wardrobe, music, etc.
Oct. 10—HENRY E. DIXEY in ADONIS.
rpHEISS’S. THEISS’S.
ALHAMBRA COURT AND MUSIC HALL,
14th street, near Third avenue.
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