The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-12-09
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
Rev. Or. Dixon's Church With the
Roof Garden.
SYMPATHETIC SOCIETY WOMAN.
End of an Important Law Suit
American Tobacco Company May
Make Cigars -J II d = ment
Against Wagner Car Co.

NEW YORK. Dec -SDeciaL-Much
has been said about the new Brooklyn
Baptist church with "a roof garden ON it.
10 is the Hauson-Place Baptist church
and Rev. A. q. Dixon is the pastor The
improvements will cost $4,000 and will
be ready by next summer There Will be
four elevators 90 take the worship
pers mp and down Mrs. Dixon
SAYS that &c is not really a roof garden.
simply an open air auditorium. where IL
viii be ple1santer 20 hold services on
warm evenings than iu ue church That
it Will be- 20 church people what the Mad
ison Square Roof Garden is TO- theatre
soer- so refreshments VIII Doe served.
SIZE FOEGANE HIM
There was pathetic incident iu the
u0fs0u-A.arkot Police Court yesterday
mormas. Mis-. Herman he Roy Jones, %
society woman. brought charge against
john I0Hr.r. 3D. cibman. Who had been
abusive to h.r When She started Go give
boz beer testimony she turned and sa"
doe cabman with his head bowed and tears
running down his checks.
.Ilas.. ma ann. sand he edo bo m'r-
,ffal ~ o. the first time have ever done
SUCH tnu- aui DO VIII De thc last Time.
believe mc. ma Im.
lns Jones mlt.r-d. She bowed her
head Boz aclnoWl .d-mout oI rhe caoman D.
apology and said 10 tfe 'oHrc
49,. has boon punished enough ] VIII
not prosecute him.
Then turning t0 the cahman -Ao SAID
Sow. here is the dollar 3 owe you. Let
ID ~ d D.
Who are rude 10 women.
Naei-trate Mayo called tie HciHehl
% sad
judge sh.pmau. Of the United states
Circuit Court of Appeals. yesterday hand
cd down "a decision that Boo euect ends all
LITIGATION in which tha Me.-lacn Light
company was involved. AND assures to
that company "a monopoly DOB on. Dhit-i
states of the patent NJ Tor. carl Auef.
The suit was against the American ih-
randcsccnt Lamp Company and ihe COM
pauv was enIOiueI from the manufacture
Of mautels made in infringement oI the
WcIsbach-RaWson patent
Gf.reo Avery. SON off George TT. Avery,
fhc we'll known hotel man. made % wager
with 70 friend tie other day that DIS morse
would drink beer. lle drove the horse o
a bar and ordered "a schooner of beer,
which tho horse took with evident relish.
The horse then smaekcd his li9s for
second drink. which was also gwen MN.
Avery won bis wager
AN ENENTFCL CAREER.
g. Meredith simpson. d man with "a most
interesting career. died yesterday aged
seyouty-scNcn years. lle made fortune
u New Orleans in the dry-goods business.
which was swept away by the war. After
.FL
"a prominent part in several financial Nen-
lures 10 is said that hc was several times
boo his life pauuer and several times IL
millionaire He was one of the many Who
were crushed by the failure oi Grant d.
Ward In his latter days Dee was owner
OF Doe famous W0Odhouse Mexican bonus.
said to have involved many millions of
money. Simpson purchased the bonds Tor
"a small price and friend of his says tnat
De- was once offered s. 10000 for them oy
Piorpont Aiorgan. However that may
he me never realized and died lh COM
par3tiye poverty.
Isaac Waldhe.m went To- the wharf yes
terdav 10 meet his wife who was expected
10 arrive ON the steamship TraFe tie
had "a large bunch of flowers Don his hand
10 present To- her, and eagerly scanned
the face OF each woman passenger as she
came down the gaug-plank, but his wife
did not come. and De went to the officer
i'm charge OF the deck and asked where
She was. AS teuderlv as possible the
officer told him that his wife had died
during the voyage. She was twenty-five
year. DID, The husband was heart
broken.
INTERESTING RUMOR.
The Tribune prints the following:
n WAS rumorcJ yesterday that the
American Tobacco Company the tobacco
Trust intended to enter the field OF cigar
manufacturing. and had completed neso-
Ilarious with kerbs W-rtheim X Schiller
for the large cigar mandatory owned
by that firm. While The American IoD'c-
co Company denied the ramor, b. was as
suqcd by IFS circuiators chat Che denial
was technical.
Marcus Braun recently secured judg-
ment AGAINST the Wagner Palace Car
COMPANY iu the city Court for $50 dam
ages for "a mistake made by one oi tAe
oDu.uanv.s conductors. Braun had puf-
chased "a berth which was afterwards all
Ioffcd bv tine conductor to woman.
When the error was discovered every
bcrth boz the train was sold and Braun mad
ro Sci m the smoking-car during the Trip
from Cleveland. o.. 20 New York.