The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-04-18
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM.
Or. Parkhurst's Sermon is Still llnde,
Discussion.
MISS GouLD's HALL OF FAME.
Gov. Roosevelt Will Make No Reply
to the Man Who Attacked his
Military Rccord-Rap-
i'll Transit.
MISS GoULD's HALL OF FAME

NEW YORK, April 17-Special.-Dr
Parkhurst's sermon on Sunday. in which
he smoke of the Westminster Confession
OF Faith as an incubus strapped upon
Presbyterians.'' is still the subject OF as
cussion in religious circles, and mas stlrrea
sup the members of that congregation. In
privately discussing the matter, Dr. Park
hurst said that his chief point was that
Christianity centres in the heart and not
in the head, and that for that reason
Christianity us the most personal OF ali
things He does not believe, however, that
there is any possibility of revising the
Confession of Faith because, as ne says,
it has become great tradition anu
deeply rooted din the admiration and re-
spect of the church. I'VE tried once
said he, and failed, and further effort
would am assured, result in like fail
ure. What we need is a simpler state
ment of some of the main truths that
Christ taught his discipies-a sta tenent 50
plain and SO simple that all may clearly
understand it and accept it as state
ment of our Christian belief"
THE HALL OF FAME.
The judges for the New York University
Hall of Fame, to be built through me
generosity of Miss Helen Gould, have been
selected They are forty-seven in num-
her, including Grover Cleveland, Seth
Low, Theodore Roosevelt. Charles W.
Elliot, of Harvard University, heads the
list Chief-Justice Fuller, of the United
States Supreme Court, is also one OF the
Judges The only Southern man Us pfof-
Woodrow Wilson, of Princeton only
those who are born in this country ana
have been dead at least ten years VIII DC
40 Il; Of 'aCnF
The Rapid Transit Subway Construction
Company has awarded contracts amounts
ing to $4,000 coo for building eight sec
tions of the underground railway system
Tammany has been shut out In the
list of sub-contraetors announced pS Johh
B. Mcdonald not a politician appears.
The men selected have already estaphshed
records for big feats of engineering ana
construction.
.,From this time on said Mr.. McDon-
aid last night "tfe work of real construc-
ton will be pushed
The contracts announced cover the con-
struction of the Srealer part OF the road
TO the Carnegie Steel Company goes the
biggest award This company will fur
nish structural steel and iron for the en-
tire line. Its bid reached nearly s4,eoo.WH.
It will take 1886 tons of steel and IRON
to supply the system.
piled by the Sicilian Asphalt Company, of
New York. of which General Howard Car
roll is president. 1t will require 3,I9o
square yards to furnish the line.
OF concrete 4Se122 yards will be used.
Miss Agnes Havemeyer. daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. James Havemeyer, was mar
RED yesterday to Mr.. Fenelon Z. Cat5us.
AN UNJU ST STEWARD.
Mr.. Howard Gould's steward, Nicholas
hrie
Gould mansion. He came to Mr.. Gould
well recommended, and on Saturday Went
IN and hung UP his hat. In httie while
however, he went out TO see the town.
and when he returned was In state OF
beastly intoxica ton. He was taken in
hand by a policeman. and is now Ian
gushing in Jail in default of a 50 tine
Governor Roosevelt will not reply TO the
attack upon his record as a soldier, which
was made by Colonel Alexander s. Bacon
in his pamphlet issued on Saturday last
in defence of the Seyenty-firSt Regiment.
81 will not dignity Mr.. Bacon by paying
even the slightest attention to anything
that he might say remarked the Cover
nor when he was waited upon by news
paper man.
Mrs. F'eckar is having more trouble. In
addition to the trouble about her little
foster son, Conrad Feeker, she has been
arrested on a warrant charging her with
swindling a Brooklyn hotel to the amount
of So. Her husband says that she is only
in the beginning of her woes, and that
this arrest will lead to dozen others on
similar charges. The woman was released
on bail.
KILLED lBiY WHIskEY.
Stanislaus Dzicniciawitz, twenty-four
years of age. was drinking with friends On
Sunday in a Newark saloon. The question
arose as to each mans capacity for drink
ing whiskey, when this man of unpro-
nouncable name offered TO bet that he
could drink a quart of whiskey, pausing
only now and then to take his breath. He
did drink the whiskey and he won his
wager. but in a little while thereafter he
toppled over and died.