The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-05-27
VIRGINIA DEBT SETTLEMENT.
Opy object Of the OlcOtt Committee an
Equitable Settlement.
PROVISION OF THE PLAN PROPOSED,
s.,retary Blaine Improving 90 Presidential
Possibiiities-Dr. Henry Van Dyke
Dead-New York News.
NEW York BUREAU.
RICHMOND TINES,
Nrw NORK. Nav 26. 1891.


NEw York. May 26. 1891.
The Olcott committee of bondholders of
40 Virginia debt admit that they expect TO
80. Governor Mckinney and the State Debt
r.,,n,ission in Richmond early next week.
A. hincs now stand the committee represents
.,,,t - per cent of the bonded debt of the
Sea-, something like S4000,O0O for this
..,ntrv. and about S9,OOOOOo for Great
Britain.
,srrrIFMFNr THE ONLY PURPOSE.
The committee will goto Richmond. having
sstheir chief purpose to relieve Virginia Oh
+.,nlv obstacle % her progress They be-
waved a settlement was impossible under the
t,s3.rship and methods of the Council of
-,rs,sn Bondbolders. but the committee has
o.. object except a prompt settlement, making
v.--.nia's credit as high as that
- .-v other State Such settlement will be
s.-sfsctory 20 all the creditors who are
s,.ua.nted with the facts.
" has already been announced the bond
holders committee Is made up of +. Il. Olcott,
~ L Bun. Henry Bulge. c. ID. Dlckey, Jr.,
John Gill. G.. :. Ellis and Hugh Il. Garden.
THE PLAN PROPOSED.
u is believed that all of these gentlemen
s,.spt Mcssrs Olcott and Bulge, Will go TO
r. hmoud They may be joined by j. NJ.
Ibc plan provides that the bondholders
..mmttee shall surrender 60 Virginia all the
OBLIGATIONS deposited under the agree
rent. and receive in full salts
action therefor. such an amount
If new bonds as may be agreed upon between
tile committee and State representatives.
The settlement must be unanimously agreed
IN bv the committee and approved by the adj
v.1rv board Just what terms Will be at
tsrutel 90 be made between the State and its
creditors has not been stated.
PRESIDENTIAL POSSIBILITIES.
United States Senator Colquitt of Georgia
and Governor Hill had private conference at
Albany last evening. What was said at the
Conference has not been divulged but that
,he two parties 10 1t had something TO remark
shout presidential possibilities seems quite
likely Nobody al the executive chamber to-
5sv expressed any desire To dwell on the sub
--ct Of the call made by Senator Colquitt, or
I'D fact 70 give any information at all about
tle matter
Secretary Blaine's strength was pretty we'll
tested by bis ride Of yesterday and 1t has now
been determined 10 take him 10 Bar Harbor
,arlv next week he consented 10 receive
visitors for the first time to-day.
There were 1910 immigrant arrivals at the
barge Office to-day Of the total number,
as we're Italians from Naples This makes
. total OF 4.602 immigrants landed IN the past
twenty-four hours.
MONEY FOR CHARITIES.
The Will of the late John II. Parish leaves
nearly half a million dollars to local charities
and religious institutions. Among the be
quests are. St Luke's Hospital, $50, OOO Bible
Society. SO 900: Home for lncurabes, $50 600;
Orphans Home and Asylum OF the Protestant
Episcopal Church. $4,000; Society Tor the
Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled 10000:
Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society Of
the Protestant Episcopal Church. 100000
A ). solomon, general agent Of the Baron
de HlrsCh fund, is soon 10 purchase q large
tract Of land near Harrison n j.. wherein
fifty OF more cottages viii be built as an eN-
pertinent This will be the first step towards
carving out the purposes for which the
Baron he Hirsch fund was created.
Or. VAN DYKE DEAD.
Rev. Henry +. Van Dyke, ID. d., pastor of
the Second Presbyterian church. ? died sud
denly last night. He recently resigned the
pastorate of that church, 10 take the chair of
systematic theology IN the UnionR Theological
Seminary. He was born IN 1922.
lheOlOglcally he was "a Calylnlst of the
Princeton school, but "a conservative revis-
ionist." He was a member of the committee
appointed TO revise the Westminster confes-
sion of faith, and he has two sons ministers.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR GAMBLING.
In this city the opportunities for gambling
are without limit and the systems are as
various as they are numerous. In all the
forms of gambling the worst IS that which
occurs in the city pOOl-rOoms. Office boys,
young clerks and the employees of substantial
business houses are Afforded facilities Tor
gambling which are lrTeslstlbly attractive to
them They have not the excuse of the sport
loving contingent. who are lmbued with the
desire 10 buy the races on account of the IN
huence the surroundings Of the Tace-track
brings % bear upon them. But the unfOrtu-
nate young man who never sees
]. an ,l,o
This being the case anything that tends to
restrict their opportunities for betungls of dl-
rect benefit to racing IN generaland the public
st large The truth of the matter Is that the ac-
tiOn of the track authorities takes away very
large income from the bOok-makers and
me which they are not willing 10 re-
lnQuish The struggle is an interesting one.
There IS no doubt that the antagOnsm of the
city p0Ol-roOms Is having some effect at
Gravesend. The races are not attracting any
thing like the attention they received year
ago, despite the excellent character Of
the sport. If the turf agitation
is kept up much longer in this
particular fashion a serious setback to
us popularity may confidently be looked for.
The public has become tired OF the incessant
wrangling and pickering of the people who
have the money end Of the sport IN charge.
PINE RECORD THIS.
Montefore Isaacs philanthropist amateur
iTtSlQlgltdtOr ana utiubcI OF the New OIA
stock Exchange, has made q fine record.
His entertainments for charity foot up into
the thousands. The charities benefited
through his trick performances are legion
and are scattered all over the United States.
Last year be gave away over seven thousand
dix handkerchiefs and several thousand yards
Of silk ribbon The handkerchiefs are those
pulled ont of the hat. and the ribbon Is given
away in the ring trick. a wonderful feat in the
black science. and one which professionals,
great and small. have tried 10 purchase from
Dim.
A HEAVY CORPSE.
10 took twelve brawny men to lift the re-
mains of Mrs Margaret Mulhann Of this city,
who died recently. 1t was found necessary
70 use an undertaker's wagon TO bear
the body TO the cemetery. no hearse
being large or strong enough. She
weighed $50 pounds. A double grave was
needed. and il required the combined strength
o. sixteen men TO lower the body safely. An
ordinary coffin is sixteen inches wide and
thirteen inches high, but the deceased had 10
have one thirty inches wide and twenty
inches high. and she filled It snugly. 1t took
twenty minutes 20 get the body b the street.