The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-04-28
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM.
The Sale of the Fifth Avenue Hotel a
Notable Event.
t VIRGlNlAN SUES FOR DIVORCE
Young Woman Quits Episcopal Order
of Sisters OF. st. Mary. Townsend
Burden and His Brother
Have a Fight at Law.

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Have a Fight at Law.
NEW YORK, April 21.-speclai.-lhe
sale of the Fifth-Ayenue Hotter IN TINS
city yesterday was an Interesting event
and attracted a large crowd. ! mere are
a few old men now living IN New 1oiA
who used to play BAH on part otf the site
which that hotel now occupies MANY
years ago there was a little frame ROAD
house on this site, and this continued
until 1850 This was then as lar uptown
as Van Eortlandt Park seems now. BUT
Madison Square, while still a great cen
tire, is now regarded as almost DOWN
town and it Is by no means certain that
the hotel vail remain there after 1905;
When The present lease expires. In lsoa
the site was occupied by a circus. Ire
present hotel was built in 1852 The sale
of tie Fifth Avenue Hotel and OF the
old Delmonico building, at f1ftn Avenue
and Twemty-sixth Street at S95e,G0o made
this one of the most notable days IN the
history of the Real Estate Exchange.
The hotel was purchased by executors
Of the late Amos r. Emo for si225,0 Co.,
LOVES HER OLD LOVER
Mrs Dora n Rogers has filed suit for.
separation against her husband, Charles
S. Rogers, and has applied TO Justice
Fitzpatrick for a!imOny.
The attorney said that Mr.. Rogers and
his wife were married in 1892. She came
from Virginia. They lived in this city
il good style until last summer Rogers
got a cottage at Ocean Grove and there
trouble between the couple began. Mrs
Rogers charges that on September 18Th
her husband dragged her around by the
hair, choked her and struck her. She
says his treatment was brutal and the
s--i~-
a policeman and a physician TO be sent
for. Since that time Mrs. Rogers has
been living with her parents in Virginia,
her five-year-old son being with her hus-
band In this city. Carlos Alden, attor-
ney for Mr.. Rogers, said the whole
trouble wcs due to the fact that Mrs.
Rogers loved another man. She loves a
man in Virginia. said Alden to Justice
Fitzgerald. 'tAs a matter of fact she was
engaged ITO be married to this man, and
for some reason they parted about eight
months before her marriage. She is still
in love with him. She has sent him her
picture since she was married. She has
sent him presents and tender messages.
She is now in Virginia, where this man
is, and she will stay there if she can get
the alirnony she is asking for. 1t is
merely a strike Ito get alirnony. We mean
to push this case to "a trial as speedily
as possible Mrs. Rogers lawyer visor-
ously denied the story Of the Virginia
sweetheart Justice Fitzgerald reserved
decision.
DOFlFs GIIJR CHURCH ROBES.
Seven years ago Miss king, of Pdiladel-
pllia, daughter of the late d. Rodney
King, of that city, and whose family Is
rich, Joined the Sisters OF St Mary's,
Protestant Episcopal order, and took the
name of Sister Cecilia. She has now
dotted her religious gowns and has been
into ffoa FajtI of no n
Catholic Church. i is said that her rela-
tives are not at all pleased with the step
which she has taken.
The Herald is authority for the state
nlent that prominent New York polid-
clans, led by Senator Hill, have recently
been in conference on the silver question
and that a supreme effort is about to be
made by the Democrats of the East to
keep 16 to 1 out of the Kansas City plat
form. 1t adds that New York Demo-
Gratis think they can carry the State this
fall if the party will only abandon free
silver and that pressure will be put on
to get this concession in return for the
unanimous support of Mr.. Bryan, and
arguments will be prepared to show him
and his managers that they will Zoe the
gamers thereby.
There is war between I. Townsend Bur
den and James a. Burden. The men are
brothers and millionaires. and prominent
members of New YorE's 400 The suit
grows out of differences over the great
iron business left TO the brothers by their
father, Henry Burden.
BOOIBLACN VS.. SUGAR KING.
An italian bootblack named Domerlck
Vigeroti has just secured a verdict OF
$500 against Henry o. Havemeyer, the
millionaire sugar king. He has brought
suit for $500 damages in the Queen S
County Supreme Court.
hi init iISnothlacE alleged
that he had leased a room in the St. Paul
building, at Broadway and Ann Street,
this city for a oootblactking establish
ment, and that IAN electric attachment
connected his place with every office in
the building, 50 that tenants GOULD sum
mon him whenever they wanted their
shoes shined. Vigeroti, in his testimony
during the trial, said that the electric
alta cnrnenJt was first cut off in the effort
to get rid of him, and that atterWard his
signs were removed FROM the elevators
and front windows OF the building, and
other things done to force him to quit
He stated that the receipts of his busl-
| ness fell off from an average OF 80 DAY
10 fifty cents and he had TO give up me
| defence was general denial. The jury
was out only a short time When 1t re-
turned with a rvedict for $500
SOUTHERN RAILROADS.
The Tribune prints the following in its
| financial columns:
Earnings of all The Southern roads are
| maintaining the high level noted earlier
in the year, and the same may be SAID
| of the roads in the Southwest, save in the
case of several companies which have
| shown decreases in the last few weeks,
| owing to high water conditions IN that
| part of the country. Gross earnings OF
! the Southern Railway received yesterday
for the third week in April returned
gain of s36,SSl over the same week year
ago, making for the fiscal year to April
21st total gain of s3O34, rs. Norfolk and
| Western for the third week showed a
gain of s15.9S6, and for the fiscal year
| S1.Sl4,S a2 Louisville and Nashville for the
| third week increased s4S,5S5 and for the
| year to April list, IS. 669, go.
Hotel Arrivals.
Murphy,s-Paul Petit, Palmyra; John
! T. Delaney, Covington; j. Heidelberger,