The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-11-27
with her baby in her arms, she has been

with her baby in her arms, she mas oeen
trying to find him. She traced MN TO
Greenpoint and on Friday night she fell
asleep in d doorway, where poteenan
found her. Mrs. Staples was dlschafSeo
and left the court 20 resume her search
Policeman Converse was standing at
Thirty-foucth Street ard Broadway at
O'Clock when the woman staggered up TO
him. She was wet and weary from walk
ing The policeman seated her on box
and when she had told him her story ne
took her to the Tenderloin Station. she
refused to permit him to carry her child.
To Sergeant Townsend she said that she
had eaten nothing in four days and he'd
slept wherever She could find shelter she
said that Saturday night she crept into q
hall in West Thirty-fourth Street While
she told of her hardships, her child,
bright little girl eighteen months old. be-
gan Investigating the mysteries OF Cap
tain Thomas room
Sergeant Townsend Instructed the mat
ron TO make the woman comfortable,
while he sent policeman for food. When
it was p!acsd before her the child ate
ravenously. but Mrs. Staples was unable
to retain the food because of her feeble
condition.
DR.. Kenyon. of the New York Hospital,
who was called. said that the woman was
on the verge Of nervous prostratton. Mrs.
Staples said that she would kill herself
four.
I have spent all my money trying to
find my husband" she said My father
may send me enough 10 get home If he
learns OF my plight, and unless he does
do not know what will become of me-
Mrs Staples was taken with her child
to Bellevue a prisoner, charged with va
grancy. She is q bright intelligent wo-
man, ard has, apparently, had a great
| deal of trouble.
SEARCHED HIS BAGGAGE.
Vincent Lambert Tissera, a prominent
and wealthy SingaIese merchant, stood in
the midst of his tum5led belongings on
, the Cu1ard pier yesterday and inveighed
against the customs laws OF the country
| OF his friend President Mckinley. He
| had been made the innocent victim Of a
search by Treasury officials, acting on
wrong information, to the effect that he
! might have struggled jewels in MS pos
! session.
His baggage was opened, piece by piece.
| and jealous inspectors scanned every ar
| 1icle Finding nothing of Importance. they
{; searched his person, and then were forced
| TO conclude that he was an American citi-
| zen of eminent respectability, and not
! srnuggler of gems
! RAIN TO IMPROVE WATER
| There is every reason for New Workers
| to rejoice over the rain OF the last two
| days and to hope the downpour will con-
|
| the nauseating condition of the Croton
water is due. according to the experts of
| the Health Board and the Water Supply
| Department. So low was the water in the
| rivers lakes and reservoirs, they say, that,
| in draining off it carried with it through
| the pipes and into the houses much of the
! subsoil.
That there is a shortage OF water there
| is no doubt. A visit to Croton Lase, and
! Of tho -ar:nI S>tyE 191
tributaries which empty into it, show that
! rain IS much needed. The surface OF the
! lake is now nearly nine feet below the top
| OF the dam.
| A glance at the land surrounding the lake
! shows that the keeper and guards OF the
| Water Supply Department perform their
| duties carefully. They assert that if the
| charged with sediment, it is because OF
| the shortage OF the supply. the result OF
I the long continued drought.
| In this they are as one with President
! Murphy, of the Health Board. and Com
| missioner Dalton. OF the Water Supply
! Department. These officials declare it is
| impossible TO get clear, sparkling water
| TO the houses of the city when, the water
| is low. AS it recedes, they say, 1t car
| ries with it the soil of the shore.
LADY HOPE.
Lord Francis Hope and Lady Hope, bet
! ter known to the theatrical world as May
| Yohe. arrived from London yesterday or
| the steamer Minneapolis, Of the Atlantic
| Transport line. They were met at the
1 pier by Major Putnam Bradlee Strong, an
I intimate friend, VINO escorted them to the
| Plaza Hotel, where Lord Francis and his
| wife VIII remain for an indefinite period
1 1--WE have come over this time for no
/ particular purpose" said Lord Hope. we
| have visited the United States several
| times since our marriage, in 1888 and
| there is really no significance whatever TO
| be attached to our visit on this occasion
i The Duke of Newcastle is to san from
( England for New York on December 61h-
! He viii visit Florida and possibly other
/ parts OF the South, and will JON Us here
/ when we shall all go South together
/ 1t was announced by cable from LONDON
/ about ten days ago that Lady Hope. Who,
| up to that time her husbands family hao
declined to accept, had at last been rec cog
! nized and fully accredited by them Inc
/ reconciliation, it was understood. had oeeh
brought about by the Dowager Duchess
/ of Newcastle, who has been kindly as
| posed toward the American girl, and W.io'
until Lady Hopes departure for Austraisa,
] two years ago. had seen much OF her