The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-09-09
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
A Man Who Has Finger for a
Nose.
!. CHRISTIAN .ENDEAvoRERs BACK.
Bryan to Occupy the Cleveland Suite
of Roons-A Boar1 Walk For
Cones Island Hot
ties. on Record.
A Man Who Has a Finger for a
CHRISTIAN .ENDEAV0RERs BACK

3 NEW YORK, September S.-Two hundred
and sixty-fiye Christian Endeavorers com
prising part of the delegation wieh lett
Philadelphia for Europe, early in July,
returned to New York to-day.
These traHelers Were among the many
stranded for a time under the tour pre-
pared by Crawford q LloSos tourists tourists
agents. out their experiences during the
remainder OF their stay in Europe We're
not as comfortable as their felloW-voyaSers
who got home a week ago.
FINGER FOR ~ NOSE.
Thomas oliver Colt. who for twenty
years has used a finger for a nose, is now
a patient at Bellevue Hospital. Twenty
years ago this man came TO the same
hospital under distressing circumstances
A tubercular ulcer had DESTROYED his nose
The affection spread and physicians other
than DR.. Sayre and DR.. Sabine said he
had but a few weeks TO live. Then DS
Sayre and DR.. Sabine removed the ulcer
ated part and stopped the progress OF the
disease.
Colt told the physicians he would rather
die than go through life without a nose
Then it was decided to graft, finger Ut.
Sayre and DR.. Sabine told him that after
their efforts he might BID without finger
as well as nose. He told them to take
all his fingers if necessary
With a plaster of paris helmet the hnSer
was attached to his face and the same
ma terial was used to encase ms arm anu
hand holding it immovable against MS
head In three weeks the finger was
securely grated. The finger WAS then am
putated at, the middle Joint leaving the
grated, portion secure in the place of the
nose Ncstrils leading to the nasal cavity,
were made. The patient left the hospital
in two months a well man.
This time. however. he has Bright's dis
ease and the doctors say that he Will not
recover.
When Mr.. William J. Bryan comes to
New York to speak at the Tammany mass
meeting. on October 17th he will occupy
the suite of rooms in the Victoria Hotel.
which Mr. Cleveland occupied during his
last term
HOTTEST ON RECORD.
The three summer months just ended
have been the warmest experienced in
New York for thirty years. or since the
weather Bureau was established.
Official records show that the mean tenn
nara ttre for June july and August has
been respectively Il, IS and q degrees,
making an average of nearly 70 degrees.
This is three degrees higher than the mean
for thirty years. and. according TO the
local Wea Tier Bureau. exceeds that OF any
other year since 1872 which gave about
the same temperature.
Edward NJ csrollt as President OF the
Borough of BROOKLYN has asked the local
Board of the Fifth District to consider a
its m acting on septemher 18th. plan to
improve Conev Island by building board
Walk along the ocean front at an expense
of s4O0, CSC.
DEATH BED MARRIAGE.
Gen. Edward Welluan Serren and Miss
Marion c. Eoorbach. of Staten Island, We're.
married. in a Fourth Avenue hotel yester-
dav. under distressing circumstances. The
couple have been life long friends. and
shortly after the death of Gen SterrelPs
first wife it was reported that he would
marry Miss Roorbach. but the wedding M
nouncement was not forthcoming. Gen.
Serrell became very sick about o week ago
and when Informed by his physician that
he had not long to live. he sent for MISS
Roorbach and they We're married. Mrs
SerreIl took rooms in the hotel and SAYS
that by unren1ittine care. she hopes to
save her husbands life.