The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-13
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
New Workers Trying TO Convert Hon..
Wm.J. BRYAN.
KILLED HIM BECAUSE OF LOVE:
Charles De,monico Will Take q Wife.
The Fair Bridge-Jumpcr Has an
Offer Of Marriage-Other News
From tho Big City,

NEW YORK, May l2-Special.-lt was
given out here this morning that comp
troller Bird S. Coler and some other
New york Democrats had gone to WASH
ington to confer with Chairman James
X. Jones and other friends OF MI VII
liam J. Bryan. with view 10 seltlne
Mr. Bryan to give up his silver notion
These men think that Bryan can get a
large number of electoral votes east of
the Allegheny Mountains if he Will only
consent to give up free coinage at IL TO
l. The Herald, which prints the story,
says:
II will be recalled that Mr.. Coler was
instrumental in 1879! in bringing together
the friends of Mr.. Bryan and the New
YORK state organization The free silver
men of New York wanted the state
Committee to adopt d red hot free silver
resolution on the day that 1t noml-
ma ted Judge Parker for Chief Judge or
the Court OF Appeals. The Democrats
felt that if the silver question were kept
in the background Judge Parker 1nlght
be elected Mr.. Coler talked to Senator
Jones and others and got them TO CON
sent to a programme which resulted IN
the State Committee taking the middle
ground. The result was that Judge Par
ker carried the State the year after MI
Bryan had been showed under by 26S,tc1
plurality.
Just say I'm going over to Washing
ton for my health, said Mr.. Coler last
night, as he took the tram Tor WASH
ington.
NEW. YORKS FRENCH TERRACE.
New York is to have a French terrace.
1t is to be provided by Sherry, and we
are told that there Will be greenery and
many blossoms, merry outdoor music,
, dim lights and quiet hooks amid the tree
! ferns and boxwoods, a delightful retreat
for 1ove-making. Incidentally there will
| be plenty to eat and drink
| Catherine Costello yesterday afternoon
| shot and killed philip c. Dresser, a police
man, from whom she was divorced two
| weeks ago. She says that She killed
him because she loved him, and could
| rot bear to be separated from him.
i iBRuDGB JUMPER HAS SUITOR.
Miss Marie Rosaife Dinse, who in her
dependency jumped from the Brooklyn
Bridge, now has a sutton for her hand.
| He is William Miner, who makes a living
by stripping peacock feathers. He is very
much in love with the fair bridge jumper,
who had won his heart by her bravery,
and he has written her a letter, in
which he begs her to be his wife. Miss
Dinse is still in the insane pavilion at
Bellevue Hospital, and her sweetheart
| mas not yet been permitted to see her.
Mrs. Annie Gumbert, thirty-hve years
| of age, and her seven-year-old daughter,
| Annie, were found dead in a fiat in
| West Fifteenth Street. They had been
poisoned and it is believed that the
woman killed her daughter and COM
| mitted, suicide. Another child, four years
! of age. says that her mother tried to
| give her some medicine the night be-
| fore, but she refused to take it because
| it was bitter.
CHARLES DELMoNICo TO WE'D.
Charles Delmonico is about to marry.
All of the last generation Of Delmonicos-
Lorens. Giro and Charles-died bachelors,
and the race OF famous restauraneers
l was preserved by the marriage of Miss
Delmonico to Charles Crest, by whom
she had two sons and a daughter.
Charles, the eldest son. assumed the
name of Delmonico by act of the Legis-
lature, and fell heir to the business
Up to the present it looked as If he, too,
| would end his days in single 'blessedness.
But six weeks ago he went to the Vir-
GINA Hot Springs, and there met Miss
Jeanne Edwards, of Brooklyn, daughter
of NIr. and Mrs. John T. Edwards, of
ST. Marks Avenue Mr.. Edwards is an
Englishman by birth and a partner in
a manufacturing firm. Miss Edwards
has just announced her betrothal to Mr..
Delmonico.
EDUCATING SPANISH GIRLS.
About twenty-five women assembled in
the Hotel Majestic yesterday. and, after
listening to Mrs. Alice Gordon Gulick tell
of the urgent need of an institute for
girls in Spain, formed themselves into
the nucleus Of a New York committee.
with Mrs. G. e. Mitchell as chairman
Mrs. Gulick intends forming these com
mittees in all the principal cities of the
United States, and thereby appeal to the
women of America for their aid In pro-.
viding the building, while men may be
called upon for the endowment fund.
I'VE have already $4,000 in sight" said
Mrs. Gulick.