The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-20
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM.
An Old Man Goes Crazy on the Sub
jject Of Girls.
THE DEBT LIMIT ABOUT REACHED
Richard Croker Has Thrown Away
His Crutches-The Ice Trust
Selling Cheap Ice to the
Poor.
THE DEBT LIMIT ABOUT REACHED

NEW YORK, May 9-Special--l1awyeI
Charles Blandy related a story IL couIe
Yesterday which was heard appsoFliiSls
by three young women. oppoSite ST. 80
uncle of the women, Cornelius H. az
Ness, aged eighty-two, owner OF d i'i,iiio-,
dollar bank account, and immediately ~
his right was his peach-Cheehso WIZ
sixty years his junior
On behalf of the nieces, Harriet anu
Marie Harmon and Louise van NESS
Day. all relatives of the HaVeneSers'
Mr. Bfandy was trying TO lhouce .,ie
court to take the management OF the
fortune out of the old man hdhus os-
fore he gave it all to his vile.
Some time ago, he said, when MIS-. V az
Ness was Alice Wood, of Port Jervis'
She went to Cornwall, where Mr. van
Ness lived in q magnificent manson anu
engaged a boarding house near py. snip
ping and spraiuing her ankle IN front
of the house she was taken into the van
Ness home, just as she planned to be.
She married the millionaire fSpiu Si
21st last.
A letter alleged to have been written
TO the Young woman by young medical
student. who signed himself Otto. was
introduced by Mr.. Biandy. The letter
began My Darling Alice and ended
Your ever faithful, loving husoano. -
was full of love terms and gLeefuiy
old mans fortune
The old man seems to have been crazy
on the subject of girls, and was IN the
habit of proposing to almost every pretty
THE CITY DEBT LIMIT.
Comptroller Coler has reported to the
Board of Estimate that the city debt is so
close to the constitutional limit that 1t
would not be safe TO authorize any fur
her increase, although S2,11S,9lG is needed
for various worthy objects The Comp
troller and the Mayor were disposed TO
lay the blame on the Legislature, winch
passed several mandatory laws increasing
the city's Indebtedness, and special en-
phasis was put on the big expense of the
Davis School law, which, according to the
Mayor, may take 100000 out of the
treasury.
MRS. CRONIN'S INJURIES.
The wife of DR.. John j. Cronin, who was
badly burned by caustic potash thrown IN
her face by a mysterious yelled woman
dressed in black late on Thursday night,
was taken yesterday to the Manhattan
Eye and Ear Hospital, where an attempt
will be made to save her sight
The woman who threw the potash man
aged to conceal her identity and to battle
the detectives.
SHE WANTED WORK.
Rosa Vrechecho to-day sought q. job in
the big Rapid Transit trench and said
she was ready to work with the nun
dreds of men.
She is not yet twenty-five years old,
but she made a strong appeal she SAID
she had been unable TO find employment
for six months, and rather than be
charity subject she would work eight
hours a day at manual labor. She de-
clared that in Italy women worked like
men and denounced the United States Tor
not extending similar privileges.
A PIOUS TRUST
The Ice Trust has now thirty wagons
| out delivering ice in scent pieces in the
| tenement house districts. It's officers say
| that while money is lost on every piece
| of ice sold at that price, they Will con-
| tinue TO sell rather than have the company
[, accused of depressing the poor. It is
probable that the number of wagons VIII
| be largely increased. No ice will, how
/ ever. be sold at less than 50 cents per
| 100 pounds outside of the tenement house
! districts.
Hamilton Revele, the leading man in
| "Sapho,' burned his hand in taking 4
| f1ash-light picture. and last night had TO
! carry Miss Nethersole UP the winding
| stair with one arm.
CROKER GETTING WE'LL.
/ A letter was received from young Mr..
/ Croker Yesterday by one of his personal
friends in which it was stated that his
! father has thrown away his clutches and
| now only uses a cane to get about with.
| Young Mr.. Croker said that his father
| general health was excellent, and added
| that recent sensational stories printed IN
| the newspapers as to his fathers condt-
ton had not the slightest foundation
in fact. It is not believed that Mr..
Croker will be here in time to attend the
Democratic State Convention TO be held
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