The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-12-29
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
Big six~Masted Schooner Excites In
terest in the Harbor.
THE GOVERNOR IN ovERALLs.
Timothy Woodruff Casts Aside the
Pink Wa1stcost Tor Once aud All,
Tenant Iicfuscs to Pny licnt
Because of Rats.
THE GOVERNOR IN 0VERALLs,

George w. Wells. She was just i'll from
Brunswick, Ga, after Il notwithstanding
run and with a cargo that would have
filled three ordinary coastinS Schooners.
The run OF more than seven hundred miles
was made in three days and tWenty-three
| hours. 1t takes the regular steamship
| three days-to make the trip
1t was the first time this schooner had
| been in this port. and her appearance at
| tracted considerable attention from ship
| ping men. Her six masts, designated as
! the fore, MAN, mizzen, span+ler, jigger
and driver, were the first thing that caught
| the eye as she came up the bay. and she
| was quickly recognized.
| Launched at Camden. Ne. last August,
| the big schooner, in command OF Captain
| John c. Crowley, her part owner. has
been breaking carrying and speed records
! ever Sinoe.. She sailed from Philadelphia
! on November 18th, and made Havana in
| the remarkably fast time OF six days, with
| tho largest cargo of coal ever loaded
| there.
| There was no cargo for her TO bring back
| from Havana. so she returned TO Bruins
wick, Ca, and loaded forty-siX thousand
yellow pine railroad ties, valued al 5000.
| The cargo was consigned to Cook and
| Company, of this city, and is for the Erie
| Railroad. She could easily have carried
| ten thousand more
For the greater part of the run up the
coast the schooner had the wind abean,
| but she drove along at rapid, clip all the
way. When a day from port the wind
shifted into the south, and from that
time until Sandy Hook was reached it
would have bothered the fleetest coast
steamer to keep pace with her
AMATEUR AERONAUT
With toy monkey clinging to the string
OF u parachute. d big paper balloon, with
red. white and blue stripes shot up from
the yard at the rear OF the residence of
Arson Phelps Stokes. at No. 229 Madison
Avenue, at 3 o'clock yesterday after
noon.
At an altitude OF several hundred feet
there was a LOUD report from a fuse at
tached to the balloon. The white para
chute was liberated and, with the mon
key twisting and whirling beneath it,
sailed merrily toward Lexington Avenue,
alighting on the roof of No. rs East
Thirty-eighth Street.
Seven small boys. ranged about a trench
beside the wall of Mr. Stokes conserva-
tory. cheered Justify they watched the
monkey descending. while the big balloon
sailed majestically toward the East River,
ascending to a great height, until it was
lost to sight. The youngsters were the
guests OF Master Harold NJ. Phelps Stokes.
Mr.. Stokes youngest son, whose ambition
it is to be an amateur hallooniSt. Harold
himself had constructed the balloon, with
the aid OF Leo Stevens, aeronaut. 1t
was inflated with hot air from a fire built
in the back yard trench.
Mr.. Stokes witnessed the ascension from
the conservatory, while Mrs. Stokes led
several friends into the yard to watch the
boys enjoying themselves. But it was not
alone the members of Master Harolds
balloon party who enjoyed the sport.
Scores of children, locking from windows
and house-topS between Madison and
Park Avenues. Thirty-sixth and Thirty
seventh Streets. cheered the balloon and
watched its flight.
Master Stokes had privately announced
to his companions that the family cat
would be seen clnging to the parachute
as it scared heavenward. Harold's
parents, however, forbade the sacrifice of
the feline pet. and Master Stokes COM
promised with a toy monkey, which he
bought specially for the purpose.
GOVERNOR IN OVERALLS.
Park Slope, that important and arlsto-
cratic section of Brooklyn, IS just awstk
ening to it's loss. The pink waistcoat.'
coexistent with the public career OF Lic,I-
tenant-Governor Timothy L. Woodruff, is
no more, and it's passing is regarded a
dreadful setback to the pink ward" IS
the Twenty-second. in which MI Wood
ruff lives. is called.
The pink set which is the inner
CIRQUE of the Logan Club III the same
district, has almost stopped drinking tea.
and there is fearful feeling throughout
the neighborhood that something has
happened.
Lieutenant-GovernoT Woodruff has APP
peared at an evening dinner in his fav-
orite club the famous Montauk, in q
common pair of painters overalls.
splashed with the outpourinSs of the
house decorators pot
Everyone else at this Informal eve
ming dinner given last Saturday evening
by Senator William J. La Roche TO hir-
ty-iive members OF the club. was in eve
ming dress when the Lieutenant-Govcr
ror in his overalIs. suddenly moc.1
among the diffusing smiles and pleasanc
greetings and grease and paint stceaks
q he went his way to his place OF honor
mkt To Senator La Roche.
There was Il forced attempt to seem not
TO notice the supposed eccentricity when
Mr.. Woodruff arose and bowling first TO
the Senator said, in effect, this:
II tclephoned to Senator La Roche that
I had not time to change to evening
dress, and he said. Wear any old thing.
this is entirely informal affair | in
tended to come just as | was, but then
noticed these overalls left by a man who
has been painting my house, so 1 put
them on.
Gentlemen, my purpose was twofold
First. to test the informaity of this oc-
casion, telephoned by Senator La
Roche, and, second-well. gentlemen, you
all have heard of the pink waistcoat and
the reputation it has given me dress
er. and / want to show you that l don't
care for it any longer"
OVERRUN WITH RATS.
Richard 3. Lee, who lives at No. 315
West Eightyfourth Street, is the second
former tenant in the Hartley apartment
house, at No. 49, Central Park West to
put forth the plea, in a suit brought
against him for rent. that the house was
overrun with ferocious rats who ate up
the food in the larder and frightened the
members of his family by bouncing from
their holes in the daytime.
Bird NJ. Robinson, receiver for the Bal
timore Building and Loan Association,
which has charge of the apartment
house. brought suit in the Eleventh Dis
trict Municipal Court against Mr. Lee,
who was a tenant in the house up TO
May 10th. Mr.. Lee, in his answer to the |
complaint. stated that the rats had |
driven him from the building
Justice Worcester. however. refused 10 !!
ar any evidence