The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-10-28
FRESH I ; E GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
Soldiers Riot Over Smiles of Pretty
Young Girls.
STRAY BULLET YIELDS HEARTS.
Prominent Lawyer Dies on the Opera
ting Tablc-N1an Fought Death
Desperately to See First-Born
Child, but i'll Vain.
STRAY BULLET YIELDS HEARTS.

NEW YORK, October 27.-Rivalry for
the smiles of two young women led two
i hundred soldiers OF the Fifth Artillery.
early Thursday morning, into serious
fracas.
Fifty Of the men were placed in the
| guard house on the Fort Hamilton reser-
| vation. Several, having been tried by
court martial are doing police duty about
| the fort, and several others, it is said.
| are likely to be discharged from the ser
vice.
There has long been bad feeling between
! the recruits who have been sent to the
| fort to man the new seise battery and
| the old men. The recruits have resented.
with the courage born of numbers. the
sibes of the older hands in the service.
| Several small rows had occurred.
The older men. who call themselves the
| regulars and their recently enlisted
comrades. the rockies have been fre-
| oueYting a hotel in Fourth Avenue, near
! the fort Many young women are IN the
| habit of going there to dance with the
| soldiers.
Two of the REGULARS" met two girls at
| the hotel Wednesday night. The girls
were pretty and some of the new men
began to firt with them, and after a
! time led them away from the regulars.
This was considered effrontery on the
! part OF the rockies and they had TO
! fight for their prizes.
| Several comrades went to their assls-
| lance, and the older men were IN BAD
| way until one whistled for help. His
signal was answered by rush OF resu-
lars to the scene, and was followed by
a signal for help on the part of the
rockies.
This brought partisans Of the other fac
ton. The frightened girls screamed ana
hid themselves while the ''rookias and
the regulars attacked one another with
beer glasses, chairs and clenched fists.
The battle was at its height when the
provost guard came up the road and drove
the fighting soldiers into the reservation
back of the fort.
The girls, who had started the trouble
ran in terror to the trolley cars.
At three o'clock in the morning the
trouble broke out afresh at the door of the
barracks on the hill. Several hundred
soldiers were pummellins one another
furiously when Lieutenant Brooke Payne,
the officer OF the day, ordered out the re-
serve guard.
and the guard went up the hill on a run
The fight ceased as ii ov magic. and the
rioters scurred in all directions. About
fifty of them were placed under arrest.
BULLET YIELDS HEARTS.
AS a sequel to the accidental shooting
of Mrs. Salma a. Kerr and Charles w.
Bailey by DR.. Charles 7. Dade. in the
AdrondackS a few weeks ago, formal
announcement of Mrs. kerr's engagement
to Mr.. Bailey was made yesterday. Mrs.
Kerr is still confined to her room at her
home No. 66S Fifth Avenue, suffering
from the amputation of one of her legs
made necessary by the bullet wound, and
the announcement of the engagement was
accordingly intrusted to Mr.. Bailey.
No day has been set for the wedding,
and arrangements for the ceremony have
hardly been thought of, but attention and
sympathy OF her iance have contributed
in no small way to Mrs. kerr's rapid re-
covery. It is believed that Mrs. Kerr
will soon be able to come down stairs
from her room.
News of the tragic accident, which did
not reach this city for several days, be-
cause OF the isolated situation CT the Z
Tahawus Club, caused a great sensation
among the many friends of the injured
persons and OF DR.. Dade.
DIED ON OPERATING TABLE.
Henry Daily, Jr., a prominent lawyer
of No. 81 Pine Street. died on the opera
ting table a the sanitarium of DR.. Alfred
c. Carpenter, No. PIG East Nineteenth
Street, on Thursday afternoon. Mr.. Daily
had feared the operation. and remarked a
few days ago that he expected it would
mean his death.
He had been suffering for about :. year
with hemorrhage of the liver. On October
9Th he was attacked by pneumonia, and
confined to his bed at his home. No. 49,
West Seventy-second Street. Mr.. Daily
recovered from the attack of pneumonia,
but was in weakened condition from the
liver trouble. The doctors decided that, as
a last resort, an operation was necessary.
He was removed, in ambulance, 10
DR.. Carpenters sanitarium on Thursday
afternoon, for that purpose. Mr.. Daily,
however, was not able to stand the shock,
and died before he could be removed from
the operating table.
FOGHT DEATH DESPERATELY
Francis NJ. fremont, hurrying home to
see his newly born child for the first time,
was run down by street car in Church
Street and taken to the Hudson Street
Hospital. He died yesterday afternoon,
and in his last conscious moments spoke
of the first born, for sight of which ne
had tried hard to live. His wife, three
days after the birth of the child, insisted
upon visiting her husband at the hospital.
She was brought down to the hospital in
carriage and then wheeled IN an Inlbr-
lance chair to the cot where her husband
was lying.
Mr.. fremont was taken to the hospital
on October 18th. Mrs. fremont has not
missed a day since the fourth day after
her husband sustained his injuries Her
chair was wheeled TO his cot every ca
SO that for few minutes she might talk
to him and tell him of the child which had
come to gladden. their lives. She babe
him keep up his courage so that n a few
days he might be able TO take the baby
in his arms.
She learned yesterday morning thar ter
husband could not live through the df y.
He knew it, too. She went to the hospital
Yesterday at noon and remained with him
until the end. They talked for a few
minutes Then he became unconscious