Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-12-03
GOSSIP FROM GOTHAM
Sixto Lopez Working in the Interest
of Aguinaldo.
HAS LUNCHEON With DR.. ABBOTT
Miss Daisy Post to Receive Fine
Wedding Present.
AUTOMOBILES FOR LONDON

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, December 2. 1900.
Aguinaldos agent in this country and
former private secretary, Sixto Lopez, is
staying at the New Amsterdam Hotel, in
this city. having come here from Boston,
it is understood, to stir up some sentiment
for the cause of the Filipinos. That he has
not been idle unnoticed while he has
been here is shown by the fact that he took
luncheon with the Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbott
at the latter's invitation two days ago.
Lopez has been in the city for some four
days, but the fact did not become gener-
ally known until today. Several we'll
known men met him on his arrival With
Mr.. Lopez is his private secretary, Thomas
z. Patterson of Brisbane, Queensland, Aus
tralia- Lopez's book will be a volume of
not more than a hundred pages.
Miss Posts Wedding Present.
A handsome town house, at No. 40 East
50th street. is to be the princely wedding
gift of Frederick w. Vanderbilt to his niece,
Miss Daisy Post, who is to be married on
December 10 to James Lawrence Van Allen,
only son of ]. ]. Van Allen of Newport, and
grandson of the late William Aston The
mouse cost Mr.. Vanderbilt $4,000. Miss
Post is the second daughter of Mrs. Will
lam Post, sister of Mrs. Frederick W.
Vanderbilt. She is a great faVorte in So
c1ety. and was bridesmaid at the we'd
ding of Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt to the
Duke of Marlborough. Miss Posts wedding
Will be celebrated al the residence of her
mother, at No. 100 East 39th street. As
the brides family is in deep mourning. it
Will be a small wedding. and the invitations
will not be extended beyond the family cir
Gle of the bride and bridegroom and a very
few of their intimate friends. The cere-
mony will be performed at noon probably
by Bishop Potter, and will be supplemented
by wedding breakfast. Miss Post will
have two bridesmaids. They will be Miss
Sara Van Aleu- sister of the bridegroom,
and Miss Mabel Gerry, a daughter of Mr..
and Mrs Edbridge T. Gerry. Their gowns
will be of white lace. Mr.. Van Allen has
and for his ushers Mr.. Frank w. Andrews,
jr.. of Newport: Mr.. Robert Livingston
Gerry, Mr.. Lawrence R. l. Gillespie and
Mr.. George Griswold second Two days
after their marriage Mr.. and Mrs. Van
Allen will sail for Europe Upon their
turn it is expected that they will make
their home in the house just purchased by
the uncle of the bride-elect.
Automobiles for London.
Lewis Earle. formerly of Washington city,
where he was for a number of years III
the real estate business, now lives in Lon
don, where he is interested in automobiles
When seen at the Holland House here Mr..
chase automobiles for our London company
We have secured the right to run lines of
automobiles on certain London streets. and
/ am mere TO get the machines. We Will
start four experimental lines there-one
the Embankment, one on the Strand,
third along oxford street and the fourth
on Piccadiily. On all but the PiccadiIly
lire We will start five omnibuses to each
line. These Omnibuses will carry eight pas
seugerS in and six outside, besides the
driver. or fifteen in all On Piccadilly We
will use hanSomS. We have gone into the
matter carefully, and are fully convinced
that it is a sound business proposition, and
one that will bring good returns If the
experimental lines turn out as we'll as we
expect them TO, we shall at once add to
them, and also street lines running to and
from Eusten and Waterloo railroad sta
tons. shall also take back with me
number eff machines for renting purposes
electric for city and nearby suburban work,
and gas other motive power machines
for runs further afield.
Tammany's Vice Crusade.
AS predicted in this correspondence, Tam
many is selecting the people it will make
uncomfortable through its vice committee,
and to begin with has thrown a bombshell
into the -Four Hundred Coincident with
the announcement Of the chamber of COM
merce anti-yice committee of fifteen. which
is dstinctiyely an anti-Tammany body, Dis
trict Attorney Gardiner announces that
I
aga nst many prominent persons who own
property the lower east side. which is
occupied by men and women of unsayory
regulations. Tammany does not announce
that it has undertaken these prosecutions
on its own initiative. The evidence has not
been uncovered by its own vice committee.
The district attorney takes pains to mae
pain that the complaints against these
property owners have been brought to him
through Superinte ndent Of Elections Nc
Culiagh. republican state Official.
Ninety property owners have been served
by the district attorney. This knowledge
is not new either 10 the district attorney
or the police department. nor was it I'M
known to the Tammany vice committee.
Tine police have always had a list of the
houses in which suspicious persons were
harbored. One of the chief features of the
vice crusade will be to uncover the uses to
which the list was put. No idea of institut-
ing criminal proceedings against the
wealthy owners, who knew nothing of the
characters of their tenants, thought of
until the vice crusade blossomed into po-
tency. OF course it is well understood by
the public and by Tammany that the own
of property, VINO are TO be called to ac-
count are utterly ignorant OF the way in
which their agents handle their property,
but Tamnany has purpose in view. Chief
Devery's order closing up the bars in the
big hotels and uptown cafes an hour after
midnight was another move in the same
direction Through the Inconvenience and
humiliation that will result from these
moves the organization will strive to rem
der the Idea of vice crusade unpopular
among the wealthy classes-a point that
Tammany has never failed to score as an
incident to every outbreak Of civic decency.
Heads Failing I'm City Departments.
Tammany commissioners are welding the
AK in the city departments and 1000 heads
have already fallen. More are to fall.
There is dismay among the municipal en-
ployes The dismissals are said TO be a
further step in Richard Cookers war upon
the Employees Protective Associations be-
gun with the trial and dismissal Of Captain
Clifford of the fire department. for his
tiyfty in connection with the Firemens
Benevolent Association. Between 800 and
/ 900 men have already been dropped from
the roll OF the department Of streets and
highways. About 10 street cleaning de-
lartment drivers have been dropped. More
than 600 employees Of the park department
have been dismissed. Other departments
will probably suffer in proportion. Tam
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