The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-03-23
FRESH GO [. S S
FROM GOTHAM.
The Smart Set Have Very Gay
Costume Ball.
THE COUNTESS OF STAMFORD ]; j ID
Henry Il arr. the Old Man Who Found
cd the Third Avenue Road, Has
Too n uch Exc IT. in in
Specializing.
The Smart SET Have a Very Gay.
THE COUNTESS OF sTRAF !'I j R ID,

NEW. YORK, March 22.-Spec1al.-S
sFleischman. 3, man about town, gave {. a
costume ball saturday night atter4.1n MID
night at the Tuxedo, Eff ty-nlnt n street
and Madison Avenue, which rs SAID %
have been one of the gayest4 affairs ever
seen in this gay town. The :par ticlpants
were seyenty-hve clubmen. brokers, Ia W
yers and good fellows and nifty ott4tne
chorus girls Of New Yor
The chorus girls were masked, but the
men we're not Each one Of the chorus
girls was escorted from the theatre after:
closing hours to the ballroom, and dane
ing began at once. 11r.EJoe Letter is said
to have been one of the participants.
Electric globes were kicked to bits,
slippers flew off, and when the dance
stopped everybody was out of breath.
The ball was concluded with scene
from Sapho. And all this happened while
New York is in the midst of her crusade
against vice
BALTIMORE WOMAN ARRESTED
When Mrs William a. Bisnau, of Bal.
timore, arrived in this city the other day
after an extensive European tour she was.
arrested on a warrant sworn out by a.
Baltimore merchant charging her with
the larceny of certain articles of wearing
apparel The woman is not%"Mrs. Bis
nau'' but Miss Harriet T. Clogg. of Bal
timore whose father was wealthy. She
took up with Bishau and ran away with
him, but was never his wife. Since her,
arrest she has confessed to the theft Of
articles from the Baltimore merchants
and to other crimes
Mention was made yesterday Of the fact
that by the boom in Third-Avenue Rail-.
road stock Henry Hart, the ninety-year--
old founder Of the road, had cleaned up
Es1,5OO, OCO Since that time he was. stricken
down at his home! and Is critically III :
The excitement Of the ups and downs OF
the stock for the past few weeks has SHAT
tered his system.
NEW NATIONAL BANK.
The first bank to be organized here IN
der the new currency law will be the
Empire National Bank. This will start
with capital of 100000 and a surplus OF
$50, GEO. E. r. Thomas. a son of General
Samuel Thomas. will be president 1t
viii make a speciality of out-of-town &C
counts.
The Countess of STAFFORD, formerly
Mrs Samuel J. Colgate, arrived on the
Teutonic last night. It will be recalle-
that the Earl Of STAFFORD, who came
here last year to marry Mrs. Colgate was
killed by railroad train leaving London
two months after his marriage. The
Countess refused to be interviewed
There was a botd ClanoHd 5Ioopeiy III
Newark last night. While the family OF
Thomas z. Kinney, a millionaire, was at
dinner thief climbed the front porch,
entered Mrs kidneys room, and made
off with $1,000 worth of diamonds.
Ex-Presdent Cleveland has returned
from his trip to Florida, much improved,
it is said, by his outing.
DIVORCED THREE TIMES.
Mrs. Letitia Chilton-Tuttle-Wrigh
Havens holds the record for divorce in
this city. She has just been divorced
from her No. 3, and, strange to say, No
/, No.. 2 and No. 5 are all milhonaires and
all alive. No. 2 and No.-S3 are great
frieS6s, and visit each other regularly.
The woman talked freely last night to a
reporter about her various matrimonial
adventures, and seemed to be genuinely
glad that she was once more free from
the ma trimonal tolls