The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-08-22
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
A Madman Makes a Sensation on
Broadway.
JUDGE GoFF's $4,000 HOUND.
Boys Have Fun With the Third Ave
nue Cars-A New Yorker Who IS
I03 Years Old = Rooscyelt's
Picture to Go to Paris.
JUDGE G0FF's $4,000 HOUND.

n II" 1ONh, August 3l--1IotAAO>
gerson Newport, a wealthy manufacture
OF ST. Paul. created sensation In iroht
OF the Holland House yesterday Afternoon
bv pursuing a cab driver and foutlsihhe
a shirt over his head. Mr.. Newport haAso
a cab at Union Square and instructed .ie
driver to take him to dealer IN Aie1s
furnishings. When he got in the store NC
asked the clerk 10 show him me SIM,
A number Of garments wero displayed, anu
he finally selected one which suited A1.li'
and then, in spite OF the protest OF Tue
cerk, disrobed in the store and put TIE
new shirt on. After putting 1t on, no"
ever, he did not like it, and inmediate1s
took dt off. In the meantime hs sa" q
cab pass the store door, and thinking
was the cab in which he had come a'io
that the driver was leaving him. ran OUT
and brand.sh.ng tho shirt, called 90 ,ns
driver to stop. He was captured dA.o
taken to the police station. Il was appaS
ent that he was not in his right nfilo t1to
he was removed to Bellevue Hospital
KILLED ~ $500 DOG.
On Thursday last Charles l. RoaAe, .
member OF the Republican Cfty eolitA Nc
tee, was out driving. Near ms h2te w.
saw dog writhing In the nliools ~ ai,,
street The dog seemed to be IN sucil p l'ali
that Roake got out of the buggy oorio" :.
a p;sto from his friend and euptleu -
into the dog He then rode away ~
dog was not killed. however .iiu 49,.
Thomas F. Garrett, proprietor Oh lna ~
Hotel shot the dog again ana oea1 Ai'' 'lio
ouc with club. ..,o,r,5 >,
1t turned out that the dog oe.on7 tor
Recorder Gofr. 1t was RUSSIAN ioA-
80 nd vas valued at 5000. 1t is said
thar there were only two dogs IKE MN AZ
mo country. Roake was afterwards ar
rested on a warrant charsins nun W..
crrslty to animals the charge oe1is paseu
on the fact that he drove away az,
sbootin, the dog without having kii-eo
| him.
,,-ober of New York boys had great
g.. sunday afternoon with the Third Ave
80 electric cars at Tenth Street one
| ~ tha bows lowered horseshoe INTO tile
| slot causing what electricians CAL sHoLt
circ,it. The cars all stopped and the ooEs
| enioyed the fun greatly. Finally the morse,
! shoe was Withdrawn and the cars hio.eu
| an bu, in a little while the boys put the
| horseshoe back into the sios ana ne
| was another stop. An inspector OF tile
| line went out to see what the trouble was
and finally located il. The ringleacer OIL
| the bows confessed that he was guilty
| onrv done it," he said, 80 see the cars
stop" He was taken to the forkeVti.s
| police Station and committed to tho Catno-
| ;ic Protectory for five days.
| NE1W HORh . ohbCS1 Ai->->'
1ohn McGrath, New York's oldest man.
| ,a,, daughter Twins, who is eighty years
of ose with siXty-four direct descendants
amone whom are great-great-Sranochii-
| dreu. McGrath is one hundred and ehfee
wears of age and declares that he va,
| live to see another century am $50
| Tor ten years more. SAID ne 10 So
| friends yesterday. Look at my heao. :
o;n,t lost hair, and I have got Srandsons
| 10 c hearty Old man,
+akes q walk every day, and mas useo
! r.hislrev and tobacco for more than eishtS
| years. .+ ;ust
| comnIat.d by Bayard II. Tyler at ms SUI
| do Twenty-third Street and Fourth Ave
| nue.. will be exhibited at the far-S I ~a,,-
| s,tion II was ordered by the New 1oEA
State Commission to the E1posuioii- -
,n;cture is ffty-one inches in height ana
| ra,resents the Governor in a sitting pos
| ton It will be on exhibition at the ar
| tist,s studio tomorrow and Wednesday
| and will be shipped next Saturday 10
| Paris. ,~,>-1zru,
| Publishing HOUSE REORGANlHt1L,-
! Tho reorganization OF the D. App.eton y
| Co. has been very successful, every
| ,or having accepted the plan, most I'M
,,sna1 rss,,it. which is due to the labors OF
| + Hampden Dougherty, the receiver, anu
| Iames G. Cannon, the Chairman or Tue
REORGANIZATION Committee
| Al, work on the two big steel towers aI
! the foot of Delaney Street, Mahnas'A"
ana South Street. Brooklyn. for tte ne"
| E,,st River Bridge, was stopped to-day by
strike. The men declare that work on a
tower $50 feet above the river level IS
r;sl recurring special skill and nerve,
and IS worth the highest compensation.
II is understood that Mayor Van "sch
viii make answer to the Ice Trust charges
now pending against him ne1ore ehe 1os
80. Mr.. Crokers advice was to ignore
tbo charges on the theory that no matter
MAI rho Mayor might say. the Governor
would remove MIN. But the Mayor evil
DENLY does not view the matter in that
light