The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-02-23
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
Two Bad Women Detained at the
Barge Office.
OLD NEWSPAPER y MAN DEAD.
sN1r.NIorsan,s New MISREPRESENTATION
Railway Makes a Fine Exhibit.
David 8. II i'll is Shelved.
Expensive Snow.
OLD NEWSPAPER MAN DEAD.
Expensive Snow.

Expensive Snow.
NEW YORK, Feb. 22-Speciaf.-Two in
tereStinS women are in detention at
the Barge office here. One is Mrs. Ka1h-
crime Hannweter. notorious German.
and the other is Madam Felisia Baume.
said to ,be a French procuress.
With tie latter is a bright little French
girl, named Mile. Le0ntine l. Simons.
Madame came 70 this country TWO
months ago, and as her reputation>had
preceded her she was sent back. mis-
time She came in by way of the Can
adam line.
The Inspector rode with her until salts
fed Of her identity, and then showed her
his badge She protested, and said that
the girl with her was her dapghter. The
INSPECTOR produced picture showing
Madame surrounded by one dozen such
daughters, all about the same age
Pretty big family for SO young and
pretty woman" said the inspector.
Madame saw her face in the picture
and her tears ceased she summoned
Up a vocabulary OF profanity and swore
at the inspector III seven different French
dialects and then cursed In English
Then she wound up with re voyage
back will be veh nice, ali alb! Eend eet
not cost one spennee1
German records credit Katherine
Hannweter with being the wickedest
woman. in Germany. In her thirty-ons
years OF life she has been arrested fifty
times ION charges ranging from petit
larceny to attempted murder.
A LONG TROLLEY LINE
Jersey City promoters OF the scheme
for connecting several trolley lines SO as
to make through line from New York
to Philadelphia are progressing, and It
is believed that the enterprise will go
through. For the present, however,
they are tied Up in the courts.
The death is announced OF Benjamin
Wood, the veteran editor of the Daily
News, aged eighty years. He was
brother Of Fernando Wood, u famous
Mayor of the city a generation ago, and
afterwards long d member of Congress.
Mr.. Wood was descendant OF Henry
Wood Il Quaker, who, early In the
seventeenth century, settled land
which he bought from the Indians. and
on part of which the city OF Camden
is situated.
MORGAN'S FINE HOUSE.
Mr.. J. Pierpont Morgan recently pur-
chased lot on the north side Of Thirty
S3C0, 600.
The land will be improved with a build
ing that will be practically part OF his
residence It will be only one story in
height, fire proof, and will cover the en-
tire plot to be used as a storehouse for
original manuscripts and as library.
Mr. Morgan, it is said, has the largest
ard most valuable collection OF manu-
scripts of any individual in the world.
IL. w Ia
others are locked in safes III London.
In style of architecture the manuscript
house will follow the Morgan residence.
Snow is a rather expensive luxury In
New York. 1t cost the city $4,000 to
clean the principal streets of the ten
inches of snow that fell last Saturday.
1t is said that the friends of Amos
Cummings are in Washington booming
him for the Vice-Presidential nomina-
ton on the Bryan ticket Cummings
is very popular, especially with the
newspaper fraternity and printers. He
is also popular with old soldiers.
The news from Washington is that
David B. Hill will not be delegate to
the next National Democratic conven-
ton The four delegates at large will
| be Richard Croker, Hugh Mclaughlin.
| Edward Murphy and Norman Mack
They are all Bryan men
Mention TaS. Deel 1udOe u lIc lat
that Rev. Madison c. Peters has turned
Baptist He will be received into that
Church on Friday, March Cd. when he
will be immersed. This ceremony will
take place in Calvary Baptist church.
Dr. Peters first service Baptist
clergyman will be in Boston. March
4th.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY PROGRESS.
To-day's Tribune says:
Good buying of Southern railway pre-
ferred was a feature in yesterdays mar
ker. 1t is believed in well informed
circles that the next dividend will be
IL per, cent. The expansion in the
Southern railway earnings in the last
three years has been enormous. AL
though the company has expended large
sums on the property. the showing III
net results for the last three years has
been remarkable. In the last fiscal
year net earnings returned an increase
over the preceding fiscal year OF zl2S
per cent, and an increase OF $3.50 per
cent. over the 1897 fiscal year. On top
of these immense gains the net earnings
of the company from July to December
81. 1889 (the first half Of the new fiscal
year,, showed a gain over the cores
pondins six months OF the preceding
year of 1850 per cent. The gross earn
inSs Of the company from July !, 1899,
to February ii. 1900. have iscreased u
shade less than Is per cent The net
earnings of the company for the first
six months of the current fiscal year
were s5.3976oo. Estimating the total
charges and rentals for the year at
s6.5Coc3O (Which allows for a possible
increase in charges over the 1883 fiscal
year of nearly 1906, COO, it will be seen
& that the company came within 81, le2 $50
s of earnings in six months the charges
for the twelve months. as .'other in
come last year was sa2s,4Io, it is safe
& to say that the company in seven months
Gully to January 81, 1900. will earn
its interest and rentals to June 30th next.
The net OF the last five months of the
fiscal year will be clear for the pre-