The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-08-07

the bank Of the lake about 500 feet from
the gate at Seventy-second Street ana
Eighth Avenue when the two men IN a
rowboat came within hailiug distance
They invited the young women to have a
sail and after some hesitanCy the offer
was accepted by the katz and Eisenhoft
women, but their companion refused TO go.
They rowed across the lake to within
about sixty feet OF the opposite shore ana
close TO Bow Bridge when the men COM
menced to rock the boat TO the great
amusement Of the women. They then
started to change, seats and the boat was
capsized
FIRE IN SHIPS HATCH.
One of the watch ABOARD the twin screw
White Star freighter Bowie, lying at her
pier at the foot OF Bank Street, North River,
noticed smoke coming from the middh
hatch about 4:15 o'clock yesterday morn
ing. He notified Cluartermaster Anderson
and the crew was called 10 fire quarters
Meanwhile Anderson had gone to the head
OF the pier and turned in an alarm, which
brought two engines TO the pier.
The ships own hose was at work when
the engines canes, and the crew with the
help of the fremen soon put out the blaze.
1t had started in lot OF cotton in the mid
die hold. Twenty charred bales had been
hauled up on deck and drenched ihey
We're then taken out into the street ana
| herself was not damaged. The damage TO
| the cotton Will not exceed $l,o3o- The
! Bowie is scheduled TO sail tomorrow for
! Liverpool. She viii carry large cargo Oh
| cotton.
-Four weeks ago Hiram Hollis journeyed
! to Jefferson county on still hunt lor
| horse that could give the Speedway
| ..brrsh brigade" something to do de
| looked over several that appeared to De
| good prospects and his choice rested on
! very dark roam mare, so dark that at a snort
! distance she looks like brown She was
the newest thing on the Speedway yestef-
! day Mr. Hollis had her hooked TO a HlSh-
| wheel top buggy. but did not attempt 20
! show her speed as he intends to work her
| easy ana key her up to her best form for
| a go with the top-notch flyers in the
! fall Her name is Blue Bells. She IS
| s:x-year-oId, by Calls Clay. son OF Henry
| Clay, dam by Ethan Allen: second Dam
| by American Star. She is we!l-tuFnea II
| tie mare. On a jog she is inclined to mix
pacing gait trttie. but IS a square s0oo-
! going trotter at speed Although Blue
Bells never has been driven even 4 trial
| milo. Mr.. Hollis says he has ridden fast
enough behind her TO satisfy him that she
will be able to trim few OF the loW-record
| performers when the autumn driving pe-
CCI2BETT AS a HERO
| TDFlhfrt
| lives with his widowed mother la no. 80
! Ra+h Avenue Bath Beach, owes his HE
to James j. Corbett, who is now in tram
ing at Bath Beach. But for the pugiLsl,
ro1I7ic simmons would have been drowned
| in the waters Of GraVesend Bay yesterday
morning.
E;neteen-vear-oid John Easel, who has
long been known TO his friends as the hu-
| man ostrich on account OF his Junk-ea ing
nroDensfties, was reported TO be dying last
| nigh. in st. Cather:ne's Hospital, Williams
burg He was taken to the institution on
SATURDAY. night from a saloon at BushWick
Avenue and Boerum Street after he had
swallowed TWO wire nails, each four iAches
long one ordinary nail and a piece OF bone
two inches long.
Easel lives at No 4S2 Bushwicl1 Avenue.
| He became a freak in a museum about TWO
wears ago. He began by swallowing pins
and gradually he changed his programme
| until It was nothing unusual for nm TO
| swallow pocket knives. brass or iron Chains,
as well as horseshoe or wire nails. keys and
ha;rpins He became i'll last winter, and
was taken to St. Johns Hospital, Brook
yn, where on Janury 80 an operation was
| performed. and there were taken from ms
stomach u horseshoe nails, u lath nails .
hairpns. s keys, l ring and rs pins tor
severai weeks after the operation taSet
lowered between life and death, and when
he was finally enabled TO leave The institu-
ton he was warned to discard his metal
eating habit. He made living by gGng
from one saloon to another giving exhibl-
tons of lsgerdemain.
CHASED on y TROLLEY CAR.
Peter Gowen, who keeps an oyster and
soft sheel crab stand in 'front.' Of No. .
Bowery, served two men yesterday with
crabs. When the men had eaten the crabs
they refused TO pay, saying that the crabs
were bad One Of the men smashed cat
sup bottle over Governs head. Then the
two Jumped on an uptown trolley car.
Governs head was covered with blood and
catsup, \ bystander, who had seen the
row, thought al the catsup was blood, and
he ran up to the corner of Grand Street
and told Policeman Young that a man had
been killed and that the murderer was es-
Gaping on trolley car No III. Young
jumped on a and tod the mOtorman
to put on full speed and catch the car
ahead The motornan did so. but the car
ahead was not III. Then Young trans
ferred and told the new motorman the
same thing. He had to change cars four
times before he caught III. A boy on the
car told him that a young man sitting in
the car without hat was the man who
had jumped on the car at the time of the
fight. Young arrested him, and at the
Muberry-Street Station the young man
said he was James Connors. of 40. 9i9
Second Avenue. He was locked up on a
charge of assault. Governs head was
dressed by an ambulance surgeon from
Gouverneur Hospital, and he was taken
home.
SAVED BY A MULE
George Walter and Carl Roeser farm
hands. went bathing in the Morris Canal
near Richfeld n. j., yesterday morning.
Walter can swim. but Roeser cannot. and
Walter advised his friend to stay near the
bank and not to venture into deep water.
Roeser did so for time, and then became
holder and waved out a little farther.
Suddenly he stepped into deep water and
sank over his head he cried out as he
sfd 81 and was heard by Water, who was
some distance away. He swan rapidly to
Roaser and seized him by the head just
as ha was about to sink. He held Roeser's
1 head above water until he could get firm
grip on the young mans arm Just then
IRoeser threw both arms around waters