The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-07-05
ENEMIES TO POVERTY.
MASS-MEETlNG IN NEW YORK At
THE COOPER UNION.
Addresses by "a Number Of Anti-Pauper-
ists-Magnifcent Jewish Synagogue In
Brooklyn Railroad News and General
Metropolitan Notes.
NEW YORK BUREAU, J
RICHMOND DAILY TINES, I
,IuIv 4. 1890. \


July 4, 1901
4 mass-meeting under the auspices OF the
Anti-Poverty Societies Of New York, was
held in the Cooper Union. Mr.. Jeremiah
Cougin presided in the absence OF DIR. Nc
Glynn. Miss Mary Donovan read the De-
claration OF independence, and Mr.. John
MacKin delivered an address. The meeting
vas carried on in a style in accordance
with the name by which She organization is
known.
ALL SORTS.
Counsellor Jefferson VI. Levy, who owns
Thomas ,;e0crson's old home, Monticello, IN
virginia. left for the South to celebrate the
Fourth Of July, accompanied by Author
William Hosea Ballou.
Captain Hugh II. Garden, president OF
the New York Southern Society, has gone
TO the White Sulphur Springs.
HEBREW ITEMS.
Application will soon be made ny the
congregation of Temple Israel to erect their
proposed new synagogue on Bedford ana
LAFAYETTE avenues. Brooklyn. The struc-
ture will be in the NeO Byzantine style
of architecture, and will be built of brick and
terra Gotta. When complete, IL Will resem-
BILE the Church of It. Sophia at Damascus
The site and building Of the old Temple
Beth-El, on Lexington avenue and sixty
third street. has been sold to downtown
congregation. The trustees Of the Temple
BETHEL intend erecting on their new site
ION the southeast corner Of Fifth avenue
and Seyenty-siXth street, for which they
paid S2j0,00), a structure that will cost
100000. Jhe site consists Of six full lots,
and is l02Xl50 feet.
The new congregation, "/ichron
Ephram," will buildas synagogue on sixty
seventh street, between Third and Lexington
avenues. They have been fortunate in
securing this eligible site, which has a
| frontage OF 20 feet, with depth of 100 feet.
| The site includes three lots. The building
will cover a space Of 90 by 90 feet, and will,
| il is declared, be an ornament to the city.
| 1t will have accommodations for nearly
| 900 persons in the min hall for worship.
Down stairs there will be class-rO0ms for
the religious school, 50 arranged with fold
| ing doors - 10 make the whole space a
large hail. if desired.
There are, perhaps, relatively more syna-
| gOgues in the Nineteenth ward than in the
Tenth ward, the other part Of the city,
which has large Jewish population.
SOUTHERN RAILROADS.
| General Thomas SAYS: "The Louisville
Southern road, about rs miles, from Louis
willie 10 a connection with the Cincinnati
| Southern. has been leased 10 the East Ten
nesseee, Virginia and Georgia. This gives
il a northern outlet both 10 Cincinnati and
| Louisville, which is necessary 10 complete
its system. The East Tennessee guaran-
tees , per cent. interest upon Sl,OOO,OW
bonds. The net earnings Of the road at the
present time amonnt to about this sum.
| This lease adds no additional burden to the
| East Tennessee, V. and G.. II. Il. Co., but
! gives it an outlet 10 IA very important centre
ON the Ohio River. The stock Of the Louis
vile Southern road is held wholly by bust
ness men Of Louisville, who have pledged
| themselves TO Join the East Tennessee Com
| pany. to make its new line a valuable con-
nectCn with the South and divide the busi-
ness with the Louisville and Nashville
road"
Upon inquiry at the Office of the Louisville
and Nashville Railroad Company, President
Norton said: "Only S3,0O0,O00 Of the new
four per cent. bonds have been sold. The
proceeds Of these bonds are to reimburse
capital account for the purchase Of the An
niston and Cincinnati and the Admission
and Atlantic Railroads, for additional
equipment, etc.
The Admission and Atlantic is a narrow
gauge road which is being made standard
gauge, and is being extended from sylacau-
! ga, Ala, to Calera, Ala. distance OF forty
miles, where it will connect with the l.. and
| y. system. When this line is completed 1t
Will afford facilities for transporting the
brown iron ores, which exist in large guam
titles along this line, to the Birmingham,
! Ala, district, where they are needed for
mixing with the red hematite ores Of that
section. 1t will also afford facilities for
| transporting the coal and coke from the
Cahaba and Warrior coal fields to supply
the furnaces along the line from Calera TO
| Admission.
BLOODY TRAGEDY.
John Lutz, forty years Of age, Hunga-
rian, had quarrel this morning with his
wife Mary, aged thrty-siX, at their resi-
deuce, in regard to their eight-mOnths-old
daughter, Emily. Lutz drew revolver and
shot his wife three times in the left side and
once in the left elbow, inficting probably
fatal wounds. lie then turned the weapon
on himself and put two bullets in his left
breast, killing himself instantly.