The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-04-13
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FROM GOTHAM.
A Story About the Best Dressed
Woman.insNeW York.
.B0UGHT. A nun BER OF. 0 RESSEs.
Alta Swell ng-A Rejected Lover
Commits suicide to Waltz
Music Operator Elopcs
with His Divorced Wife.

NEW YORK, April 12.-Special.-lt Is
seldom that storekeeper pleads VIII
customer MOTTO buy his goods, but Ems
was done the other day in a New YORK
store, If the New York World Is 10 oe pc
lieved According TO the World, one Oh
the biggest department stores IN the cry
recently arranged display OF sprihs
gowns. They were the hnesl specimens zen
sof4P PARTISAN art. Soon after the store was
opened a tall, handsome. Distinguished
looking girl came in, looked the stock
over. and selected one OF the prettiest
gowns, then another and another, ana SO
on until five of the finest in the lot had
been taken. Then the manager began 20
plead with her. lie begged her nor 70
take away all of his most beautiful dress
es the very first day of the opening He
urged that she would give the other ladies
a chance to see and to buy, but the young
woman only smiled.
.sWhy, the gowns are for sale, are they
not?'' she asked.
Certainly, they are for SALE replied
the manager "but,why do you select only
the most beautiful dresses in my collec-
tion?"
A MATTER OF TASTE.
The girl laughed and said that she sup
posed it was because she had sooo taste:
She finally compromised. however. by Sc
the total cost being something more than
50 800. for which she drew her check. Inc
Young woman was Miss Jane English,
who a few years ago was chorus Slrl.
Recently while she was singing part
An .'The Telephone Girl her aunt. Mrs.
L. p. LAGRANGE, died in Holland, leaving
her heir to B125,GG0.
Recently an Albany correspondent re-
ported Governor Roosevelt as saving thlt
T 10 tf,~ NJ.
The Governor was so incensed at the re-
port, which was not true, that ne gave
orders that this particular correspondent
should not hereafter be admitted into the
Executive chamber.
Good Friday is not legal holiaa! ~
New York, but Is will be pretty generaliS
observed in this city. All the exchanges
have voted to close their DOORS not olliS
on Good Friday, but on Saturday as well.
The stock Exchange has closed on Good
Friday every year for twenty-five years,
except in 1898.
SUICIDE TO MUSIC.
Frederick Shore, twenty-nine years OF
age, and Fanny Greenbaum were sweet
hearts. They quarrelled. Frederick shot
the girl to death, then went into room
adjoining the one in which she lay, wound
up a music box, and started 1t to playing
a waltz While the music box was play
Ing NE. Slcppeu5 q iliiioi, sooh 49,
full aim, and with the same revolver that
he had used in killing the girl, fred a
bullet into his own brain. He died a
little while afterwards.
FLOPDD WITH DIVORCED WIFE.
Fifteen years ago James G. Craig mar
ried a handsome woman iand went to
Canada to live. About a year after the
marriage. they were divorced and Craig
went to Augusta, Ga, where he married
Miss Beulah Herrill, the daughter OF q
Baptist clergyman. They lived happily
together until a little while ago. when the
first wife wrote him a letter and told him
that she had never ceased to love Vim
The divorced wife was rich, and Craig
forsook his legal wife and his children
and ran away with his no. 1. Mrs. Craig
takes the situation philosophicafy, say
Ing that she does not want him Il he does
not want her, and all that she requires Is
that he will send her enough money &c
take care OF herself and children This
Craig has consented to do. Craig is ar
expert telegraph operator. ithirty-s!N years
old, and handsome.
| Mrs. Russell Sage is trying to resign
| her position as president of the Emma
Willard Association. of which she wa:
| the founder and OF which sheahas beer
the head for ten years. The members
| however. will not hear ito it, and Mrs
Sage has almost relented. She says tina
the only reason for her resignation i:
| that she is tired out with her winter:
| work for charitable institutions, and need:
| long rest.