Show GOTHAM GOSSIP jay gould the monarch of the money market is superseded salmi morse gains a point po t for hia his passion play olev cleveland eland and ne new r york connected by telephone BT by W U to the herald NEW YORK march 11 the executive committee of the western union telegraph company oom today to day resolved agn I to adaise ahm board 1 of 0 directors at tho tile meeting tomorrow to morrow to declare A dividend of 1 it per cent payable on april lath this Is tho th largest elargest divi end that has ever been declared on the arrival of the steamship joudon from new 01 oilcans Oil loans cans this morning a fire firo was fas discovered in tho the hatch the fire department de Ort ment was im mediately nied lately called and an i soon it dozen steamers were at work the tile veasel ve asel being flooded that being deemed the mott most effective method of extinguishing the fire the careo cargo consists of cotton and stores and the fire has been traced to where the cotton was stored the damage cannot bo be estimated tho tile vessel is valued at a quarter quarte of a million and the cargo about the same amount the well known v hicky and wine house of ives beecher A co failed today to day for nearly it has ba stood for a quarter ot a century the paper of the firm having ranked as wi the best beat antho on the market alio value of the assets cannot even be estimated salmi morse Mors ewas wag placed on trial to day in the tile court of special sessions Sos sione on a charge 0 of play without having procured a license for the building in which it was produced the testimony tea before the was admitted as eviden evidence cei and several several parties testified that they them had ads witnessed fee wit bout paying the it Is announced that harper dros bros have purchased three lots in great junes fc I 1 treet running thron it to tb 13 bond 0 d street fc treel fur for the tile erection of a spacious and anti elegant publishing house for heir their retail busi business nesa which with the land will rost cost tto essays assays the importation of rade trade dollars from china by way of the suez canal and london bindon is i said to I 1 aggregate weekly they are I 1 sold here at US to and are bought by employers of labor to bo paid ng as wages to their employees employ aea al at par the latter class pass them olt off to and retail tradesmen generally the steamship WM which arria so yesterday from bouth america passing a largo ae school hool of whales about milea miles east of cape lenry henry the whales whiles beamed been rom the vessel to be 00 t to feet n length A general alarm was sent out from he the police central oell last eve n 0 o instruct the police 10 1 4 n i r B D hamiltou hamilton minister of west L t I 1 r 1 I 1 matilt on n lec I 1 ee ared 1 monday evening at the vas I 1 i agton street methodist church ebur iio boken when last seen lie was in Vasli ashington inston street on hia his way WRY to the tile ferry before entering ent erine the car he ile told i reporter lie was goin going direct to tho the hotel 14 hamilton Hamil w who ho lately came cam e hamiltons tono acre from sin sta fra francisca chsce cc eaid bald last evening he lie thinks the brother brot h er has jeen foully dealt with the missing 1 man is 20 26 years old medium height eight li dark hair gre grer ces eyes has a wife and three children rn in westerly where he a the pastor ot of the most prom prominent trient methodist church the steamer Clau claudius diu left here this moru morningto into tow tho the steam dredger contesse de je leleps to mp inwall all where bheda to begin work on the panama canal 61 slie 0 is igo feet long go 06 feet wide 12 feet deep it is estimated there will be ten tell miles of cutting in hnud at aspinwall the contract cun tract calls for a trench feet wide on the top feet at the bottom and 27 2 71 feet deep the claudius expects to make the trip down in fit fourteen to eighteen days alie machinery of the I 1 dredger which was brought to philadelphia from pan san Franu aco is very heavy and the claudius Cau Jin expects and is prepared for a difficult task should the weather be stormy she will hug the coast closely from cape hatteras then crossing the gulf stream and making for the crooked island passage it is regarded the greatest towing undertaking ever attempted since the towing of the bermuda dry dock in sections across the atlantic the dredger la 13 insured in philadelphia speaking of the rumor circulated today to day a man aman well known on change told a reporter that gould would never bo be the same jay gould who used to rule the street and whose very name was a host in the speculative field he lie will pay less attention fun to the conflict of bulls and bears hereafter and some new and energetic rival with less brains probably but a stouter frame and better digestion will alet into the the deposed in march of tho the money market who known knot but it may be jim keen keene the counsel fur for morse proved the complaint om plaint to be dismissed arguing that the passion is not a play and that the performance which was interrupted by byc the llie polive was not 11 public exhibition after argument arguin ent on either side justice s etli announced his decision that the PAS bicoll is a play but th that at tho the performance w as not a publik one 1 tie ooin plaint was ai dismissed and the tl v prisoner was Milber lh dissented from froin the opinion another ari th private rehearsal will soon bs be at tempted clevel cleveland and and slid new york were oba v necked by telephone fur several hours yesterday afternoon gentlemen in the tile anae ice of the postal telegraph knew york fork spoke il company g and M eang before an improvised telephone party in ln the cleveland and they tl sd did the saine and their heard in voices were more distinctly new ew york than is usually the tile case between connected telephones in ill this city prof leisl elisha a gray iray inventor of telephones telephone s and P patentee of tile harmonic inor lie and other devices de ices in use in the tile postal telegraph system conducted coo ducted the experiments fles attl their success was dua due to the superior su brior of tha the compound wira in ua 1166 composed of ota a steel case surrounded by copper co per james II 11 keene was one of the tb party and conversed with frienda frien is who had bad been called into he the cleveland cleve and odice office to meet him of the anart cansor milk daily dally received in thia this city from all sources the erie eria railway brings asoo cans calls or about one third of the cites city supply the milk train due at the jersey city terminus Br of this th is railway at midnight lost last night brought only cans calls or quarts leas less than it usually carries peddlers however argued aed that farmers w crould ou I 1 ll 11 not for t alie aake sake of half halt a cent a quart pour the milk on the ground this they would be compelled to do if not sent to now york tor for ilie the farmers have not sufficient apparatus to churn it or make it into cheese and the supply would pint glut the creameries crea meries A private letter announce a that rowell has recovered his old form and lias has challenged the pedestrians pedestrian of england for a twelve hours a day d race for borix six days M entrance mason ra s 0 n winner of the late race and the tu twelve hour bour astick belt littlewood day and simpson ibave entered with rowell so there will bo be at least five starters mason has the best record for a twelve hour race leo lee is rowing on the river cum cain keeping himself ready roAdy for the coming season he has been unable to get a race in england scullery scull ers saying they have had enough enough of yankee rowers boyd is 18 matched to row an unknown for 1000 a side maurice vignaux checked off mints at the t be balko line game last night before making a break while claying playing wit with I 1 AMSo A MS oxton xion in madison square cuare billiard hall this is the h highest run vignaud has made so far inthe in the game several several of bis shota shots drew hearty applause from fro inthe in the group of experts expert and sand amateurs present one of three who has won the tile championship by scientific play said in an aside whisper ho lie can beat us hands down 11 |