The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-06-13
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
Mrs. Eber Brock Ward Will Not Get
Divorce.
MADE MONEY WASHING STAMPS
Policc Raid a Poo!-Hooin aud Arrest
Number OF Women, Most
OF Them With Gray
Fl IRIS.
MADE MONEY WASHING STAMPS

NEW YORK, June 12-Special.-it has
been mentioned in this correspondence
that Mrs. victorine Ware has sued her
husband, Eber Brock Ward, the brother
of the Princess Chimay, for divorce, ask
ing 5000 for counsel fee and $500 month
almony.
Mrs. Ward alleged that her husband mad
eioped with another woman, and was IN
the habit OF carrying a loaded revolver
and sleeping with it under MS pillow at
night on the pretence that she lntelaeo
to injure him. He had also been IN TIE
habit since their marriage, IN SePLenl0er'
1897. of drinking to excess. MrS. Naro
was a widow with u ifte2n-ye;tr-oio
daughter when she was married 10 The
defendant She alleges thai Ward mas
written TO an uncle OF his. saying he
wished he had not married heS, as lie
cared more for Blanche, the daughter:
Ward, according TO his wife. E1os+uaohSu
her in France last July, and remained
away from her until January. She says
he has treated her cruelty siEce ne fe-
turned.
Ward denies the charges of cruelty ard
intOXication.
Her petition was denied yesterday by
Justice Smyth in the Supreme oGut:
POOL ROOM FOR WOMEN et<>lUi-b.
Five men ana twenty-eight w2mst: were
caueht in a pool room for women. 81
West Seventeenth Street, yesteraay ana
placed under arrest. Several trips oy
the patrol wagon were necessary 70
transport the prisoners and paraphernalia
20 the police station. The women gave
fictitious names. When the police enter
ed the pool room the women made an
hvsterical scramble for places of refuge
Some crowded into closets, others hid
their heads under some hanging wraps
ostrich like, imagining they were con-
cealed Twelve of them fell TO the floor
apparently in faint. The ponce say
this was doubtless a dodge on the part
of some. When pool room was entered
a few days ago and many women were
arrested. three that tainted We're allowed
to escape.
There was not a young woman in the
crowd. and the majority OF them had
gray hair.
William P. Whyland, twenty-nine years
of age a son of a wealthy grocer, was
prisoner yesterday in the Harlem Police
Court on the charge OF disorGerly con-
duet. He was released on bail
.sWASHED" STAMPS
Landon T. Davies, who has been en-
ployed as stamp clerk by Kissam, Whit
ney & Co.. bankers, Of No. II Broad
Street was arrested to-day, and con-
fessed to having used "washed'' Internal
revenue stamps upon contracts made by
his employers.
He said that he had been using wash
ed stemps for about six months, ana
that he got them from boy on the
street. To this boy he gave good
stamps, furnished to him by his en-
ployers, and received the washed
stamps in return and twenty cents on
the dollar for the good stamps. He
thought that he had received about $1,000
by the operation
1t was said on Wall Street yesterday
that a representative OF the Russian
Minister OF Finance was on visit to New
y0rl, to secure a loan for the Gar,
Fire broke out in the Tribune Building
last night, causing much excitement III
Newspaper Row, but the flames were soon
extinguished, and the paper appeared tdls
morning as usual. The damage was
about $4,000.