The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-02-06
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM ] ] /.
!. a Man Has Fun With the Police Over
the Telephone.
PREACHERS AFTER BRoUGHToN.
His Methods Dcnounced-A Bowcry
BcSsar Reforms and Grows
Ricl,-Rcy Madison G. Pc
tcrs Turns Baptist.
PREACHERS. AFTER #BRoUGHT0N.
His Methods Dcnounced-A Bowcry

NEW YORK, FEB 5.-Special.-For
some time past q man has been In the
habit of calling the police up over the
telephone and turning Loose TRADE of
Bllingsgate over the wire. Eacl time
he talked over 4 different phone, and
could not be located. Yesterday ne made
another long distance assault, and the
operator at police headquarters asked
the fellow where he was. The man re-
piled: ''Twenty-third street and Seventh
avenue, you biackguard! What are you
going to do about it,"
The operator was laying trap to
catch the man who has been 'cussins'
the police force over the phone for six
months. AT any hour of the day or night
he was apt 20 open up with his vituper-
alton, scoring everybody from the COM
missioners to the patrolmcn Every time
he has called headquarters from q differ
ent phone, and until yesterday morning
all efforts to capture him proved unsuc-
CesSfu!
The operator gave the tip to another
operator sitting near him, and the SER
Seant at the West Twentieth Street Sta
tion was notified that the police cusseg
was in drug store at Twentythrid street
and Seventh avenue. The sergeant sent
Detective Perkins out for him, and mean
time the operator INDUCED the fellow
until, when the detective entered the
drug store, he was fairly black in the
face with his efforts at Billingsgate-
The fellow did not resist arrest. When
arraigned in court, he made no defence.
and cheerfully paid a So fine for the fun
that he had had.
BROUGlITON CRITICISED.
Several of tine Brooklyn pastors paid
their respects yesterday to Rev. DR..
Broughton Rev. DR.. a. j. Garfield. OF
the Church of Our Father, called him a
Georgia fire-cracker.''
Rev. ]. Benson Hamilton, of the De-
kolp-Avenue Methodist church, said:
Slang and vulgarity that are prohtb-
tied in the average parlor we have heard
used as the most striking features of re-
ltgious addresses in the present revival.
Parents sit and listen without protest to
language which would shock them if their
children repeated it."
Mr.. Hamilton stated that DR.. Brougi-
tons declaration about women stenoG-
raphers had caused more harm than
good. and that instead of helping the
revival was detriment to it.
FROM BOWERY TO WEALTH.
At the twenty-eishth anniversary cee-
bration of the Bowery Branch OF the Y.
NJ. C. A.. last night, Secretary Honey
man. in reviewing the work of the Asso-
citation. cited the case Of a young man.
VINO two years ago came into the branch
wreck. After staying two weeks he
took the pledge and left, going out West.
Nothing more was heard from him until
ten days ago. when he came into the
branch and handed in a twenty-dollar
bill, saying he wanted to help the boys.
He said he accepted the assistance of
the branch two&years ago, and was glad
then to stop there. Now he was stopping
at the Waldorf-AstoIia, and had become
wealthy.
FOR CONSCIENCE SAKE.
1t has already been mentioned that
Rev. Madison Peters would quit the
.Bloomingdale Reformed church. at the
service yesterday his letter of resignation
was read. In part, he said:
My sole reason for resigning this po-
sition of power and influence is, that af-
ter many years of honest and prayertul
investigation, I have come to the delib-
crate conclusion that the Bible-tte Pro-
tcstant's only rule of faith-teaches bap-
tism for believers only. l can, therefore,
no longer, in good conscience practice
infant baptism, or baptism by sprink-
ling
While the letter was being read many
women Were moved to tears