The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-11-03
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
Man Killed by Motorman's Attempt
at Dexterity.
ERECT MONUMENT TO LooTlNG.
Bell Taken from Virginia SchooIhouse
Durin, the War to Be Set OH Marble
Pcdestai-B.S Profits III Real
Estate Deal Leaus to Law Suit
ERECT MONUMENT TO L00TING.

NEW YORK, November 3.-John Moran,
thirty years old, of No. 20S West SiNtieth
Street. an iron worker for the Metropoli-
| ton Street Railroad Company. was in
stantly killed by a. Columbus Avenue cable
car in front OF No. 3l6 West Fifty-third
Street at half-paSt four O'Clock yesterday
! afternoon. Patrick Horan, twenty-one
years old, Of No. sol West Twenty-first
| Street, employed by the same company,
! was struck by the same car and received
! SIX scalp wounds. He was removed 10
Roosevelt Hospital, and afterward went
| home.
| Excitement among the passengers fol-
! lowed when it was ascertained that a man
had been killed. y crowd assembled and
| traffic on the line was suspended for more
! than half an hour.
The car, which was in charge of Robert
| kempt. gripman. Of No AS West Thirty
! ninth Street. and Adam Petry, conductor,
| of No, $40 West Forty-seventh Street. was
| passing through Ffty-third Street north
| bound, and loaded with passengers. the
| greater number OF whom We're women
| Moran and Koran We're at work in an ex-
| cavaten below the track, making repairs.
Kemp saw them, and while he sackened
| the speed of the car as ne approached the
men, who could not plainly hear the warn
| ing sound of the gong because of their
| position, he did not stop the car when ne
J saw that they made no effort TO get out Of
| the way.
| 1t is said that many gripmen on cable
| cars and motormen on electric cars IN their
/ attempts to give proof of what they re-
| gard as their efficiency do not always
| bring their cars to a full stop when ap-
| preaching place on the track where
| workmen are engaged. their object being
| to demonstrate how close they can come
| to a certain object without striking it
| Kemp attempted this trick he APP
! preached Moran and Koran The men.
| however, could not get out of the way of
| the car in time an Were struck while II
| was going at a good rate of speed. Kemp
| was locked up at the West Forty-seventh
| Street station. charged with HON eide.
| MONUMENT TO LOOTING.
/ West New York has under way a project
| 10 provide suitable place to keep the
! bell of old No. 1 School 1t now hangs
| in the helfry, where it was placed more
! than thirty years ago The old school
| building is now used as an annex 10 the
| Madison Building. known S No. School
! The structure supporting the bel! has be-
| come weakened WITH age. and threatens
| to let the old bell drop 10 destruction il
| any attempt be made 10 ring it.
Prior to the war the bell hung on a
| schoohouse near Richmond. Va. When
| the Union forces marched on the Confede-
!
| Union army took the bell from the little
| country school. \ Yankee soldier to whose
| lot it fell sent it on to his mother in
| New York She sold it to the trustees
of the little school in West New York,
where it resumed the services it used to
| perform down South.
! The present school trustees intend to
| now take it down and place it III a con-
| spicuous place, where ii VIII stand
| monument to the success of the Union
| army in the pioneer school in West New
| York.
| It is planned to erect a marble or gran
| tie block in front Of No. School. and
| place the bell above it. with the history
| of the old relic engraved on the side OF
+! the pedestal. The trustees intend to take
the matter up at their next meeting.
PRICE OF COAL.
| Wholesale and retail prices of coal have
! become stationary throughout the country
! for the first time since the st.ike in the
| Pennsylvania anthracite mining regions.
| The operators will charge fifty cents a ton
| more than the nominal price OF the july
| circular. and beginning Monday, retailers
| will charge small consumers 1915 q ton
| for all sizes of stove coal.
| Alfred Walter. president of the Lehigh
Valley Coal Company. said last night chat
! the advance would PROBABLY be pern.a
| nent, and that it was based on the resutnp-
! ton of work by the strikers. The first
| carloads Of newly mined coal We're be-
ginning to arrive in this city, he said, the
| announced advance of the wholesale price
| having gone into effect yesterday.
| Retailers agree that the new price will
| prevail and that it leaves them : smaller
| margin of profit. The new wholesale ret
| prices are: Crate. 1910; egg. Si.25; stove
| and chestnut. $3.50. Before the strike coal
| was bought slightly below the rate quoted
| III the July circular
| BIG PROFITS LEAD TO SUIT.
Sixty thousand dollars profit made in q
! few months through the purchase of half
| dozen lots at the ESQ estate sale held in
| April, 1889, is now the subject OF a triangu-
| lar legal fight in the City Court On one
| side is William 3. McNiece, u lawyer. who
| has in his possession most of the property
| while against him is arrayed John Ban
| non. Il real estate Spectator, who was
| formerly builder. Henry E. Stevens, a
! lumber dealer, and others who hold juig-
| ments against Bannon for ma terial sup
! piled to him as a builder, oppose both con-
! teStants.
| Moore and Schley. of the New York Stock
| Exchange, placed in six bets yesterday
| $1,000, at odds Of to l. that Mckinley
| will be elected. This makes $4,000 that
| the firm has wagered at ) to / upon Nc
| kinley within two days. One of the bets
| d.. L.
| Cormck. The identity of the other takers
! was not disclosed. In the outside brok-
! eraee crowd Louis Heinaman bet $500 to
| 500 with L. FEEDER that Mckinley will
| win. J. j. Judge said that he had 5000
| to bet on Mckinley at odds OF 4 1-o 10 L
| A prominent New York Stock Exchange
| house had $4,000 Yesterday to bet at even
! money that Mckinley carries New York
| State by 10000 plurality. a customer of
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| he was prepared TO wager round sum
| at even money that Bryan carries Greater
! New York. In the curb market there was
| a funny incident in the afternoon, when
| man rushed into the crowd and yelled:
II have 5000 to bet even ON Bryan
There was scrimmage to get at him
and hats rew and ribs were punched in
the melee.
Il mean on Bryan for place" the man
Il lrE.A