The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-11-27
GOSSIP
FROM GOT HAM
Man Whose steaIings Aggregate a
h9iIIion is Caught.
GIRLS PLAYED BALL IN BOOMERS
4 prominent Merchant Held Up by
rnstom oniccrs While His Bag
rage Was I;ans,ck obtain
Wi,,lmnrovc City Water.
Girls AYED BALL IN BLOOMERS

S-T-y,- YORK. Nov. 26.--fienry Seets,
sy,,rajer whose steaiinss may asgtessiee
81 Glse.e,}o aud ulo has beer tlisitise il2tsl
Justice To-, four years, was affeated ~ 10
CITY Saturday night, ana mas s:ice ose1'
he'd at Po..ce Headquarters u W
Street. He Will be arI1lgned IN t-ie 49, 49,
OF General Seasons to-day, anu WI
compelled to answer complaints hit'oe
his victims, who number hundreds, ana
who are scattered all over the country
In the past Seel.g has succeeded IN aelllS
admitted to bail wherever aTrestea, aiio
he has never, failed to forfeit Ms ooiii'
This 'lms lie viii have no opportunity ~
escape by this method.
Opera ting under a name s-inliai ~ si.e..
of some nr,n with high cofnillerciS'1
irrs. seeiig has swindied the shreWdsst
business men OF America. some OF ..ieih
have again and again fallen MS flS'i!as,
their repeated mistakes being the result
of his rapdity of movements anu TIE
easy manner il wilElll he chan5eft names
-Four years ago, as 81. Bank, he ga
business II this city, obtst:n.nS Sous
worth more than half Million do!iars,
witch he disposed of for what ne cou.u
get, making no returns 10 MS VlctiihS. re
Is believed to have made a Gear profit
That wear Of s:lGOGp The first day alter
the notice took charge OF his office that
year letters came from az business tirilis
calling for settlement OF overdue Claims.
Later Seelig operated successfully in
Brooklyn and still later in seVer2i CT the
larger cities in the West. captain Nc
Ciusky believes that he or his contede-
rates are even now running q sw-nGle With
Headquarters in Chicago. When arrested
See.ig was well dressed, he had IN his pos
session IL considerable sum o. money, ana
in other WAYS gave evidence that his
prosperity has continued since he was
last seen in New York.
PLAYED IN BLOOMERS-
U5r.nit.ated strangers who might chance
to stroll III South Street, in Morristown,
N. J., about 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
might be led to believe from the groups
of young fellows al heading in one direc-
ton that a ball game or a horse 1,,ce was
the object OF attraction But they would
DE sadly m:sled, and should they join the
,,madding crowd" they would discover
that it was basketball in which the youth
were interested, or, 70 be more precise,
the shapely players, for the opposing
teams are composed of charming and VII
lowy young women from Miss Dana's
school, who play-tell it not in Gath-in
oloOmers.
Miss Dana believes in plenty of exercise
for her girls. and is also a believer IN
| freedom Of dress during exercise. Miss
Dana heard of ali the benefits to be de-
rived from basketball, and concluded TO
initiate her girls into its mysteries
So she built a basketball court on the
east side of her school, surrounded it with
a fence built of six foot boards. and turn
ed her girls loose therein. But the fence
was hardly high enough to prevent en-
thusastic male spectators from peerlns
into the court from the opposite side OF
the street. and as soon as 1t became
known that young women in boomers
oTl I0+i,
plain view a. steady stream OF youthful!
admirers of the human form began jour
nev:ng IN that direction. In fact. the
anatomical experts went every afternoon
and remained on the sidewalk until either
darkness drove them away or the young
women, growing angry at the sometimes
audible comments. went into the house
When Mss Dana heard that the girls
were being annoyed she made a protest to
the young men, but they only laughed
So Miss Dana had her carpenter build a
high board screen on top OF the fence
nearest the street.
But the carpenter did not do his work
any too We'll. He left many holes IN the
boards and SO the young men still founc
| it convenient to walk up South street ana
gnze through the cracks in the fence at
the 'sbloomer girls as they are called
The girls have not played now for sew
eraI days. and it was thought that this
was due to the men, but Miss Dana says
not. She declares she cares nothing Tor
! the spectators now and ttiist if they get
| any, satisfaction from watching the girls
! they may do so. At any rate she does not
| propose to modify the rules in regard 10
| athletics.
WEAK FROM HUNGER.
Drenched by the rain and weak from
hunger, Mrs. Claudia Staples, Who says
she is searching for her husband, VINO
several months ago left her on hsr fathers
ranch near Omaha, approached Policeman
| Converse yesterday afternoon at Thirty
| fourth Street and Broadway, and asked
! to be directed to a place where she would
| be sheltered. She carried a child in her
| arms, and almost fell to the pavement as
! she spoke.
! Mrs. Staples repeated the same story
| that she told Saturday morning to Magis-
| trate Kramer. in the Ewen-Street Police
| Court, in Brooklyn. Her husband had de-
| serted her, she said, and for four weeks,
Co.