Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-27
GOSSlPFROM GOTHAM
Gamblers and Divekeepers Have
Things Their Own Way.
BRADLEYMARTINS QUIT This side
Harmony Re-EstabIished Among
Members of Belmont Family
AN INTERESTING COCK FIGHT

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star
NEW YORK. May ~. 1890
| Gamblers and divekeepers are shaking
hands with each other over the summer
outlook. Some of them had feared that the
police might try to make them slow up"
| for few days at least in the light of the
| revelations made at the MaZet committees
| recent sittings bun they have changed their
| minds. Gambling goes on as usual in the
| city and the lambs are being heeced with
out interruption Saloonkeepers too, are
jubilant. They rather thought that the po-
lice might keep a close watch ON the side
doors after hours, but not many of them
| have either seen or heard of the detectives.
| 1t is only a pretense that the police are
| making of closing the town up tight. In the
| opinion of men who have cause to fear
visits from them their efforts co not amount
| TO much. And. what is more, it is not ex-
pected that the vigilance of the police will
| increase. Chief Devery however is COM
| pIacant Il am perfectly satisfied" he says.
| that the laws are We'll enforced There
| is hardly a saloon in the city that is moi
| doing good side-ioor business. A spring
l time thirst extends over the town from
| Harlem to the Battery, and no one who
| wants drink has any trouble in getting
| it. Here and there the saloonkecpers bring
| OUT tue SANDWICHES which Tor A TIME nave
| been laid aside, but in most places not even
| this show is made of giving a meal with
| drinks.
BradIey-Nartins Are Aliens.
| If there was any doubt that the Bradley
| Martins have determined to thoroughly ex-
patrate themselves 1t was set at rest by
| the conduct of the husband and wife just
| before sailing back To London. Accom-
panied by Mrs. Sherman, Mrs Martins
| mother, they appeared before President
| Feitnsr Of the tax board and made atii-
| davit thar their personal property in this
| city was not taxable because they were
| not residents of the United States and never
| intend TO be any more. The personal prop
| erty of the Bradley-Martins and Mrs. Sher-
man has been assessed at 100000 for
| years, and it is said that one of the rea-
| sons for their leaving this country is that
| it has been raised $1,oO0ooO. They paid
| $50, 900 taxes.
| In the case of William Waldorf Astor it
has now been finally decided that he must
| pay his taxes to prove that the United
| States government has no claim upon him.
Sc says President Feitner of the tax board.
| Mr.. Astor recently left his home in London
| and came here to swear off part of his
| taxes. He answered a summons from the
| tax commissioners. He declared that he
was a nonresident and the citizen of an
| alien nation. He was not a New Yorker
| or an American, he said He had been
| paying $4o,Hu a year too much. and he
| asked to be relieved of that burden. The
| tax commissioners were non-Commital on
the subject. Mr. Aston went back to his
| English home upheld by the belief that he
| had won his case. He had saved $4O,NDo
| year Mr.. Aston, when he got back to Lon
| don. printed in his own Pail Mall Magazine
how he disliked the country of his birth.
| He repudiated America from Hudsen's Bay
| to the Floridian peninsular. Americans
smiled. They will smile none the less
| broadly now that Mr.. Astors Reputation
of his country will cost him $4,000 a year.
| The Belmont. on Good Terms.
| Those members of New York fashionable
society who have believed the stories of
a quarrel between Perry Belmont and his
brother August over the formers marriage
| to Mrs Henry T. Sloane would have been
a little taken aback had they been In the
| Grand Central station the other day. They
| would have seen Mr.. and Mrs. Perry Bel
| mont just returned from their honeymoon
| trip in the south, and August Belmont
| leaving together in special car for New
| port. The mission of the little party is of
a character which shows that complete
| harmony exists between the Belmont
| brothers. They Were going to dedicate
| window to the memory of Mrs. August Bel
| mont Mr.. and Mrs. Belmont will return
| from Newport at once. In all proba bility
! the little glimpse they got of the beautiful
| Rhode 1slafid town by the sea will he their
only view of il this year. for within three
| weeks, or as soon as they can arrange their
| affairs, they will sail for Europe. They will
spend the entire summer on the continent
| The Belmonts have no intention of making
any social campaign. They only desire to
| be quiet and to be alone.
| The North Atlantic Squadron.
After undergoing minor repairs. coaling
| and getting stores board at the Brook
| Ign navy yard, the North Atlantic squad
ron. United States navy. goes to Newport,
| r. l., where it will be stationed this sum-
| mer. The fleet is due to leave Tompkins
| Vile anchorage next Sunday for Newport,
| arriving there the following morning. on
| Tuesday the people of Newport and of
| Rhode Island will have a chance at the
| officers and crews of the ships On that
| day, which the day the governor of
| Rhode Island is to be inaugurated, the
| ships companies will land from the flag
| ship New York, the Dattleships Indiana,
| Massachusetts, and Texas, and from the
! Brooklyn. and take part in a parade. Be
| tween 700 and $40 men will be in line, and
| it will be the first shore parade at Newport
| since the war began. The first stay at New
| port will probably end on June II. when the
| squadron will be augmented by the
| cruiser New Orleans. which has been down
| at New Orleans to get silver service. on
June IL anchors will be dropped in Boston
| harbor. On the following day, Bunker Hill
day, the squadron will lend itself to make
! the celebration of the day the greatest
| event than it might otherwise be. After
| Boston the New England coast will he
| visited, and return made to Newport.
| settlement of Spirituaiists.
A spiritualstic settlement is being es-
tablished at Egbertsville. S. l.. by a society
| of 400 persons, who have organized under
| the title of the School of Psychic Phioso-
| ply. A tract of 100 acres recently has been
purchased on Meisner avenue, and there
will be erected large temple of worship
| and many small cottages, to be occupied by
| the members. The School of Psychic Phil
| OSOphy organized in Richmond Dor
| ough in the spring of 1898. The tncorpora-
| ton papers were filed in the county clerks
office two months ago. The object set forth
/ is 't--e investigation and study of psychic
| phenomena and the relation of such phe-
| nomena and their underlying principles to
| daily life"
| DR.. Joseph Bruder, who has many pa
tientS among hebrews living on the east
! side, says that some Que attached to the
| mission in Pitt street had tattoed a cross
| as a symbol of the Christian religion-on
the arms of numhar of tL,s. chiiaEa,, -,