The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-11-29
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
Beautiful Twins Born at the Bellevue
Hospital.
"a VERY EXCITING RUNAWAY.
Two Women Narrowly Escaped scri'
ous in.iury-Important Decision
Rendered in Suit Over Poker
Dcbt--Archeo!oslsts Dine.

NEW YORK. November 2S.-Believue's
first twins, at least the first pair born
| within the hospital walls in the last quar-
ter of a century, were the subjects o. i
long consultation between the doctors ana
nurses in Ward 20 yesterday. The twins,
a month old to-day, and their mother
have arrived at stage when they can be
discharged from the hospital. But they
nave no place to sc. and the authorities
do not want to turnS them into the streets
at this season Of the year.
| 1.-The mother's story is q sad one said
one OF the doctors yesterday. The chill
dren are twin cherubs, far too pretty to
be sent to public asylum. We want to
find some one who will adopt them, and
here is our dilemma. We don't know how
to go about It.
'tFor the mother we can find work. She
| is a good looking girl only twenty years
old soon after her marriage her hus-
band deserted her. She had many weeks
| OF abject poverty and misery. On July
| Goth an ambulance call came in from
No 223 Fifth Street There DR. Train
| found this woman. Irene Wheeler. She
! was living in little room there through
| the kindness of a Mrs, Wolbach, neigh
| Dor in the same house.
Mrs Wheeier's case was diagnosed as
rheumatism and this diagnosis is the
! reason that the twins were born in Belle
| yue instead OF in the emergency hospital,
| attached to Bellevue, near Second Avenue
| Irene Wheeler was placed in Ward 20 and
| became Immediate favorite. We built
up her strength and made her healthy.
| rosy checked woman
| EXCITING RUNAWAY
| Two fashionably dressed women in a
! hanson driven by James Pogue, OF No.
| Cos Second Avenue, narrowly escaped
| death in q runaway accident in Fifth
| Avenue early last evening. The horse,
frightened at Forty-eighth Street by
passing automobile, rushed wildly down
| the avenue, veerins from right to left
| At Forty-ffth Street the horse dashed
on to the sidewalk and crashed into an
awning post. tearing off one of the wheels.
! It continued its course across the avenue
| and down Forty-fourth Street. dashins
! among the waiting cabs in front of Del
monico's, where Policeman Aehrer stopped
| it.
| Pogue was thrown from his seat and
| slightly cut about the head and face.
| Capt. McCluslly. OF the Detective Bureau
! who was leaving Delmonicos- just as the
horse was stopped. assisted the women
from the cab. They We're almost uncon-
! sclouS and became hystericaI when taken
into the restaurant. Another carriage was
called and they were driven home.
! POKER DECISION.
Poke players will De interested in a de-
| cision given Yesterday blythe Appellate
| Term of the Supreme Court, which holds
that former Detective Sergeant Charles
! Heidelberg, who admitted owing s92 Ito a
| game and expressed q willingness TO set
| tie it. will not now be required 10 pay it
| at all The ruling OF the court. in an opin-
| ion written by Judge C,GNrman and con-
| CURED in by Judges Beekman and Gieger-
| ish, is that winner in q game cannot
| recover from loser. no matter what form
! the loan may take although persons other
| than the winner may do so if the loan
| is made after a loss has been incurred
| Heidelberg. Joseph Jacoby and another
! friends were playing draw poker with
| Maurice Meyer, a lawyer, in his residence,
| on the evening of October It'll, 1899. The
limit was 81. and 81 for jackjots. 1t was
| o'clock in the morning before the chips
! were collected and the game stopped.
| Meyer was banker, and Heidelberg was
| found in debt to the game for S92 ia
| CODY was a winner but to what extent
| was not disclosed. Heidelberg asked
| Meyer to make good his loss. but Meyer
| declined, on the ground that he had to pay
! his own losses. Heidelberg promised to
send a check for the sum, but Meyer said
| that would not do.
| Heidelberg, it was said, then turned to
| Jacobv and asked him to make his ac-
| count good. whereupon Jacoby said to the
was done, and Heidelberg remarked that
he would send check for the amount the
/! following Monday.
AS Heidelberg did not keep his promise
JacoDy brought suit in the First District
! Municipal Court for the recovery of the
J money. After a trial before Judge Finn
| the case was dismissed upon Heide1berS's
defense that the money had been lost in a
| eame Of chance and could not be recoy-
| ered.
ARCHAEOLOGISTS DINE.
Dr. Henry S. Morton, president of Ste
vens Institute. gave a dinner this evening
at his residence. NO. so River Street, Ho-
boken. which is said to have been the most
novel in that city's history. DR.. Mortons
| guests were a dozen archaeolosists Of in
! ternational reputation.
| The guests of honor were DR.. John 2.
| Peters. Of the University Of Pennsylvania
and DR.. Edgar JAMES Banks, formerly
| United States Consul at Bagdad, Turkey
DR.. Peters and DR.. Banks have earned
| an enyiable reputation in the fields OF
archaeology and Assyriology. DR.. Peters
| was one of the originator OF tfle expedi-
ton. which was sent by the University OF
Pennsylvania, in 1883, to make excavations
in the ancient Babyionian cities.
! "A second expedition is now being organ
lied and DR.. Banks will be the leader
I DR.. Banks expects to start his expedition
early in January. 1t has for its purpose
excavations in Ur, the city which for years
| was the political and religious head of the
| ancient Babylonian Empire. the birthplace
| of Abraham.
1 One of the novel features of the dinner
/ was the center piece. made of chocolate.
/ It was nearly four test high, about four
| feet square at the base, and represehtee
| the ancient tower of Babel, as nearly as
| can be produced from ruias u15artned.
/ Arab workmen, donkeys and mules, IN
J confectio1ls, adorned the tower and the
| space around it. The sands of the desert
/ were represented with chocolate. inside
! the tower were small vases and similar
| objects of a pattern in use at the Tune
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