The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-12-15
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
Threw Gold Pieces to the Assembled
Crowd.
TEN GAMBLING HOUSES CLOSED.
Dispute Over Division of the Profits
Cause o.' .'hcir Shutting Their
Doors Boy Ate Brandy drops
ana became intoxicated.
TEN GAMBLING HOUSES CLOSED.

NEW YORK, Dec IA middle ged
German, who refused to tell who he was
or where he came from, got crowd
around him last night at Grand and
Roebsns Streets, Brooklyn. After telling
them he was worth barrel OF money and
that he was going to Germany tor the
winter, he drew from his pocket q hand-
full of tive-dollar gold pieces and began
+, to throw them to the crowd. 1t dldn
| take long for the news 10 travel ana
| within d few minutes fully $50 people
! were gathered around him. There was
| mad scramble to get the coin.
! Two tough-looking fellows pushed
J through the crowd and offered to take
the man to a place of safety The man
didn't like the looks of the new arrivals
and he advised them to go about their
| business. They hung around MIN, and
! L was noticed by Special Policeman
HausleiG, who had watched the German.
| Hauslen suspected that the men meant
! to rob the German and he decided to ar
| rest the latter. This angered the crowd,
| who wanted more OF the Germans sold
! coin. Hauslein succeeded in getting the
! man to the Bedford Avenue Police Sta
| ton, where from papers in his possession
| his name was found to be Conrad An
| derson. He refused to tell where he came
! from or where he was going. Anderson
had sl,s5l III American gold coin, German
ten and twenty-mark gold pieces, a Ger
man silver five-mark piece; G16 in cur
rency. passbook on the SeamanS Bank
for Savings with deposits aggreSa.!ng
nearly $lID and a passage ticket on
Hamburg Line steamer sailing Tomorrow.
The police decided to keep Anderson in
custody for Safekeepins. Tney held him
on the charge of .ntOXlcatiOn.
GAMBLING; HOUSES CLOSE.
Ten gambling houses that have been
doing Itourishins business were closed
yesterday. 1t was not because luck has
been against them that their doors were
locked. Neither was it the force OF the
reform movement that caused the shut
tiers to be put up.
! There has been a dispute over spoils-
Men who control official influence were
[ dissatisfied with the division OF profits,
and they did what the citizens Com
mttee OF Fifteen and the Tammany Com
1nittee of Five failed to do.
Word was sent around TO close ana the
word was obeyed. Provision Wss made
against possible refusal, and warrants
were issued. AS yet the warrants have
not been served. and It may be That they
never will be. but they have been issued,
and back OF them are men who nave no
knowledge that they being made use
If the demands made by :he men who
form what is known as the Gainb nag
Commission are complied with, the houses
will reopen and the warrants will be
placed in dusty pigeon holes. The Girst
TO close yesterday was ''BenncIts.' Dur
ing the afternoon tive other houses in
the vicinity of Broadway and Forty
second Street were darkened ard the
games stopped. Then the crusade" ca
tended to the region below the City Hall,
where five gambling houses were COM
PEELED to so our OF business.
BOYS ATE Il-.-1->DY DROPS.
brandy drops are no longer sold to the
pupils Of the public school at Eighth Ave
nue. and Fifty-second Street, for the wrath
Of the law has descended upon Giovanni,
the purveyor Of alcoholic sweets.
Miss Greer, the assistant principal Of the
school, noticed that the boys occasionally
talked Il little thickly and that their
cheeks were flushed. She bent over two of
them while they We're at work over their
states and detected the odor of intoxicat t
ing drink. She went to her Office and gave
the matter some thought.
She then called upon the police to HELM
her think, and Detective Dale was sent
from the West Twenty h-Street
fo!lce Station. There are no saloons in
the city which sell to minors, and the
detectives directed the analytic powers OF
| tile assistant principal to the Italian candy
merchant near the school.
Two Of the boys, Frank kalisch and
James Sullivan, whose breath had been
redoent with alcohol, were summoned
lhey confessed that they had purchased
so-calied brandy drops from Giovanni
VINO sold hickey pokey' in summer and
more stimulating sweets in winter. The
boys We're sent with two cents to buy
more candy. They returned with eight
nodules, which were covered with choco-
late and exhaled the familiar odor OF
Whlskey The detective took the confec-
ton TO the Board Of Health. The chem
1918 OF the city reported that the candy
J contained bad whiskey.
detective Dale then purchased FIVE cents
worth OF candy on his own account, and
arrested Giovanni at his store, No. 81
west t1fty-second Street He was ar
ralgned yesterday in the West-Side Police
Court, and Miss Greer related the cir
cumstances. She said that if the man
were warned to desist from selling the
candy she would not prosecute him.
Magistrate Mayo read the dealer a lee
| ture. in which he told him that he would
make drunkards OF the school boys il he
persisted in the traffic. Giovanni promised
| not to repeat the Offense, and he was dis
charged.
THE WALLS TUAIBLED.
| The rear wall OF the two one and half
story buildings at Nos. $50 and lo2 West
Thirty-eighth Street, which are occupied
as studios by William Ordway Partridge.
the sculptor of the Grant statue IN Brook-
Ign and the Shakespeare monument in
Chicago. and by c. Moretti. an Italian
sculptor, fell at about II o'clock last night
and carried with it number OF ousts De,
longing to The two sculptors, which mad
been either Completed or nearly finished
The whole back wall tumbled into an eS-