The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-04
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
All the Bowery Haunts Closed by
Order of the Police Board.
MRS. STOKES GRANTED DIVORCE
Andrew Carnegie Sails for Scotland
With His Wife and Daughter.
One Bicyclist Killed and
Another Badly Hurt.
MRS. STOKES GRANTED DIVORCE

NEW YORK, May s.@SpeciaL-A
strange sight met the eyes Of the crowds
that usually throng the Bowery last
night. All the haunts were closed ana
but few attractions We're left me
Bowery has been cIeansed. At yester-
days meeting of the Police Board the
fate of the resorts was sealed and in
structions We're given to Chief Devery 10
see that the places were closed Six ap-
plcations for concert hall licenses We're
refused yesterday and no license was
granted to any boxing club. There was
a great show of indignation among the
men and women who frequented these
resorts, and who wandered diSconsofateIy
up and down the Bowery-
Mrs. Rita II. de Alba Stokes has been
granted by Judge Bischoff, OF the Su-
preme Court, an absolute divorce from
William Earl Dodge Stokes. AIRS. Stokes
is given the custody of her child, William
Earl Dodge Stokes, Jr. The peculiar fea-
ture of the decree, however, IS that IL
nony It is believed that an agreement
for the payment of a stipulated sum an
nually has been arranged by counsel pri-
vatety outside of the court.
MIR CARNEGIE SAILS.
Among the passengers of the American
liner St Louis are Andrew CARNEGIE, MS
wife and Miss Carnegie, who are on their
way to -Carnegie's estate in Scotland.
Mr.. Carnegie said he was going abroad
for his usual holiday and to escape the
summer heat. Speaking OF the strained
rela tons with Turkey, Mr.. Carnegie SAID
that he believed it would be bad business
to engage in a costly war with the Otto
man empire merely to collect the rela-
lively small sum of 100000.
I'VE have certainly had war enough. 1
should think, Mr.. Carnegie added, to
last us for some time In European affairs
we had better follow other Powers, or act
in concert with them. and not assume to
lead 1t is we'll to remember that we are
still a. young nation
Mr. Carnegie expects to be absent six
| months.
| Commodore Albert Tilt, president and
treasurer OF the Phoenix SILK Manufac-
turing Company, president OF the SIX
Association of America. and lifelong
friend of the late Vice-President Hohars,
died yesterday morning after an illness
of nearly a year His death was caused
by a complication of stomach troubles.
Mr. Tilt was born in Boston tifty-nine
years ago His father. Benjamin B. Tilt,
came to this country from England.
where he had been apprenticed TO the
silk manufacture sixty-tive years ago
The silk industry was then in its infancy
in this country, and after many disap-
pointments he had the satisfaction, in
the silk manufacture on a basis which
has since been the foundation for one of
the prominent industries of the country.
tBTCYCIIST KILLED.
Maurice Mars was riding on his bicycle
down Third Avenue last night at high
rate of speed. a truck blocked his way,
and he turned to so around the heads of
the horses. AS he did so another bicy-
ciist Eugene S. NIaioy, met him, and
both were thrown violently. Maloy fell
unconscious beneath rfle feet of the
horses and Mars was hurled against
pillar of the elevated road Both We're
| taken to the Harlem Hospital Maloy
soon regained consciousness, but Mars
! died within twenty minutes after ne
reached the hospital Mars was riding
| on the wrong side of the street when the
| accident occurred which deprived him of
his life.
Rev DIR. James Bonham was found dead
yesterday in his apartments, at No 70
East 1Osth Street. His death was caused
by heart failure. Little was known OF
this venerable man except that he was
an octogenarian, q clergyman or the
Church of England, a lover of books.
| lover of children. and a fervent worship
per of the God whose goodness he preach
ed for fifty years.
When Mamie Fowler. the daughter of
the janitress, found him apparently sleep
ing in his room yesterday as she en-
tered to dust his book shelves, as was
her custom. his left hand lay upon the
bedspread lightly holding little pamph-
| let. The book was open at q page the
first words OF which were these:
1.-THE gate of death excludes all the
wealth of the world, all grades OF earth
| ~ powers and tempting sinful pleasures
| for the earth is doomed to melt and burn
| up all its sinful works
NIrs. Ethel Stevens Tilton, forty years
| DID, said to be an author and literary
woman, of London, was taken yesterday
! to the alcoholic pavilion at Bellevue Hos
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