The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-03-14
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
Or. Parkhurst is Where He Can't
Turn Loose.
TWEED MAN NJ DIES les POOR.
Woman Commits Suicide for Grief
Over Pet Dog That Died-aIiss
Morton Will Wed-A Mar
riage Annulled.

NEW YORK, March 13.-Specla1.-Wnen
Dr. .Parkhurst announced some time ago
that he would quit politics and contine
his work to the church, he had not then
consulted with the members of the So
ciety for the Prevention Of Crime. Now
that the new crusade against protected
crime, has begun, DR.. Parkhurst is ne
cessarily very much in the fight. OF the
situation as it now appears, DR.. Park
hurst says:
every thing will be closed for while
but along In the summer things will be-
come pretty active again. The public has
been lumbugged in this way SO many
times that it will, I suppose, be hum
bugged again: But ait least this good
will have been accomplished: a step will
have been taken toward showing that re-
forms in this city can be accomplished
only on moral lines. An effort to purify
the city must be non-political, for be-
tween the Republican machine and the
Democratic machine there Is nothing to
choose. One is as bad as the other The
present crisis has been brought about
by disagreenents among the gamblers
themselves. knowledge CT the real con-
dition of gambling In the city has come
from gamblers. those who are highest in
the business" w.
The whole city is now aroused, and
there is a genera! demand that all dens
of vice be rafded and broken up The
grand jury yesterday found ten tndict-
ments against gamblers, and the work
is going steadily on.
A SOCIETY EVENT.
The most interes ting society item this
week is the announcement of the enga ge-
ment of Miss Edith Morton, eldest daugh-
ter Of Mr.. Levi p. Morton, to Mr.. VII
liam. Corcoran Eustis. Mr.. Eustis is the
son of the late Chief Justice George
Eustis, of louisiana. and has for years
been identified with the polo and hunting
interests Of the Month. Miss Norton is
now abroad, and for the present nobody
seems to know whether there will be
an early wedding in Rome or whether
Mrs. Morton will return with her daugh-
ter and have THE wedding at home
Edward r. Bell, a prominent retired
banker and railway man of New York.
died last night Of pneumonia He was
eighty-one years old. and was a brother
of the late Isaac Bell.
SHE LOVED HER BOW-WOW.
Mrs. Marie Tomosko committed sui
eide yesterday at her home in Passaic
by drinking carbolic acid. It is given
out that she took her life because Of grief
for a pet dog, which died several weeks
ago. She was twenty-one years of age.
DR.. Frederic A. Cook, Arctic explorer.
has succeeded in having the marriage of
his seventeen-year-old niece, Abilene, an
nulled. Her husband. Major Rose, etsh-
teen years of age, was INFATUATED with
the girl and frequently threatened that
if she did not marry him he would kill
himself. They accidentally met on Broad
way last fall, and she says he terrified
her into going with him to Rev. Stephen
Merritu's establishment, where they were
married After the ceremony she found
a pretext for leaving tler husbands side.
They have never lived together.
Several Brookiynites appeared before
Mayor Van Wyck yesterday in behalf OF
a movement to extend Bedford Avenue.
While the discussion was going on Mr..
Cornelius Morrison, a Wall Street cof-
fee broker, startled the gathering by pro-
posing the construction of monument to
William N. GLOSSY Tweed on River
side Drive.
1T is my belief" he said ''that the
great public highways laid ol.t and
built by w Itbiam NJ. Tweed have been OF
vast benefit to the city. and although he
was convicted for the way he conducted
the city's affairs. a monument should
side Drive
Mayor Van Wyck did not object to
the sentiment.
WAS TWEED MAN.
The Tribune of this morning prints the
Following:
Edward Pettinger, one OF the last sur
Svivors of those who attended the famous
barn dance that was given in honor of
William \. Tweed, the Tannany Hall
boss, in Fleetwood, near Mount Vernon
Thirty years ago. died yesterday in the
Westminster County Almshouse, In East
View Pettinger was a sherif's atc-
stioneer under Tweed, and had nearly all
of the large sales on the Real Estate
Exchange. At one time it was estimated
/ that he was worth 100000. He Is said to
brave been one of the best dressed men 4
in this city in his day Pettinger was
one OF Tweed's confidential friends, and
was consulted In all of the large political
schemes that were planned by the Tweed
ring He frequently took dinner with
Tweed I've at the Americas Club. in Green
swich. Conn