The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-08-25
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM.
A Negro Poet in New York Learns a.
Valuable Lesson.
WILL NOT LISTEN TO FLAT Terry
Walter Duryea's Father Leaves Him
Fortune. But the Youn. Mans
Neck Is Broken-Big Bets
OH the Election.

OH the Election.
NEW YORK, August 24.-It was reported
IN the newspapers several days ago tnat
faui Lawrence Dunbar, the negro poet
mad been drugged and robbed OF q Soid
Watch, diamond ring worth Sloo' ana
other JeWelry, and awoke in a strange
hallway after the robbery had been COM
mitted. Upon the complaint of Dunbar,
Waiter Kicks, young negro, was ar
rested, and Dunbar appeared against nm
yesterday in the jefferson Court.
dunbar explained to Magistrate Hogan
that he met Kicks in the saloon Of Wal !
colt, the colored pugilist, in Thirty-hrst
Street near Sixth Avenue. lie said RACKS
spoke to him and they drank together
Dunbar said he was gong OUT to see the
riotng. he was about TO start when KICKS,
he said, told him not to so, and pointed
TO his own nose. Kicks had been arrested
the day before on the charge or beng
with a mob of negroes on top Of the mas
at No. 397 Seventh Avenue, peltlnS the
police With bottles and bricks.
Dunbar told the Magistrate that Kicks
said:
Look at my nose. You'd better not so.
You're too valuable a man to the coiored
people TO endanger yourself
The natery proved effective, and DUNBAR
remained and drank With Kicks and his
own friend Arthur Johnson, OF No. 33l ~ est
Thirty-nfth Street. He says nothing was
put n his glass, SO far as he knew, and
that he remembers nothing from the time
ne lett the saloon until ne awokc N the
hallway.
Dunbar deplored the whole thing. lie
said, somewhat sadly:
Il am not a preacher, but I think my
life ought TO be a kind OF sermon never
met Kicks before. Hereafter | shall look
with suspicion on anybody who hateers
me-
Kicks was held in $500 bail for trial.
DURYEA lNHERITS a FORTUNE.
Mention has been frequently made in this
correspondence OF the case Of Walter E.
Duryea, the young man who broke MS
neck While bathing at Oyster Bay more
than year ago. The young man has been
scientifically treated, and has SO tar re-
covered that he was recently removed
from the hospital. His father was a man
Of means, and spared no expense in hav-
ing his son treated. Recently the father
died leaving an estate valued al something
like $560,VOV. BY the terms OF MI Dur
yeas will, which was offered for PROBATE
to-day, the use of S2V0,0GO OF the personal
estate for two years is given to Walter T..
Duryea If at the end OF that period the
young man still survives the entire sum
is to go to him outright. Shouid he Gle
before the end Of two years without ieaV-
ing any children the 500 eco is to be equalIy
divided among the teStatorS three nepheWS,
Lewis Il. Duryea, Frank w. Duryea ana
Henry H. Duryea. All the bric-a-brac and
personal effects Of the dead man also go
TO the son, with similar reversion in the
event Of his death within two years.
A SOCIETY NOTE,
The Herald prints the following item
| in its society co!umn:
Mr. Wiliam *. Vanderbilt, ,Jr., has
rented for the winter season the residence
! OF his mother, Mrs. y. II. =. Belmont, NO:
Ga Fifth Avenue, between tlfty-tnlrd ana
Eifty-tourth Streets. The house adjoin5
| the dwelling OF former Governor Lev: T.
| Morton.
Mrs. O. II. F. Belmont purchased the
| property in March, 1888, from Tle Eltzit-
betn Coles estate, after Mrs. Belmont mad
| sod the lots at the south corner OF t11th
| Avenue and Seventy-seventn Street, Org
! nally purchased as a site for new mousse
/ Mr.. and Mrs. Belmont occupied no. o!'
| Fifth Avenue last season. 1t is three
/
| dwelling, on a plot fronting 81 1eet in the
! avenue and measuring 10v feet in deptn
| Two years ago it was occupied by the
| City Club, whose present home is in Thr-
| Iy-fourth Street.
! Richard Croker confirms the statement
| recently given out that he has sod his
| stock in the Ice Trust, but he Gays that
| ne did it for purely business reasons. Il
| is said that other leading Democrats nave
| offered their stock for sale. At any rate,
| the stock has recently been gong DOWN
| on the rumor that large bulks OF 1t were
| being thrown overheard
BIG ELECTION BETS.
l.. A. Cooper yesterday bet $4,000 on
| Bryan's election against Louis Wormser S
| S4e,000 on Mckinley.
Bell x Co. executed several commissions,
betting both ways, wasing Sl,22ov 70 500 on
! Mckinley, $3.50 to $4,000 on Bryan ana
| $3.50 TO 81 900 on Mckinley.
Joseph Smith, nine years OF age, was De-
fore a police justice in New Jersey yes
terday charged with highway ROBBERY.
The boy hid himself in a coal box, ana
when Manford Tuttle, ten years OF age,
| came by Smith rushed ouI, drew gun,
told the Tuttle boy to hold up his hands
and then robbed him Of fifty cents. When
the boy was brought into court ana was
pointed out as a bold, bad hghwayman, he
was tiatteced and pleased beyond express
sion.
NUN LEAVES A CONVENT.
Sister Cecilia, a cloister nun of the
Academy of Mt. st. Ursula left the con-
l IL t,y + hn frSt ~