The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-12-23
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
Chief Devery's Orders are All Sc,
Aside.
CHILD BURNED IN SCHOOL.
Set Fire to Christmas Tree and Caused
Fanic-Casc of Smallpox
in Insane
Asylum.
CHILD BURNED IN SCHOOL.

W." YORK, December Corporation
touhSel Whaien sent q letter to the POI
nee board yesterday. giving it as his
opinion that Chief Devery had exceeded
MS authority in transferring Deputy
Giller mclaughlin and Clayton, and thar
aoGoiuihs 20 the Charter, no one has the
f!Sht 20 either assign or transfer deu1Ity-
chlefs out the Board of Police Commits
siofers The opinion was Just as every
one conVerSant with section 30 and go
tue ones quoted by President York, when
he asked Mr.. Whalen for an opinion. ex
pectsd 1t would be, and after it had been
received the board lost no time getting 10.
sether and ordering Ac ing CHIEF Cor,-
right TO notify Deputy Chiefs McIauch-
In and Clayton TO so back TO the posts
occupied by them before they received
notice OF their transfers on Saturday last
."rtrlSht notified the men by telephone
ana told them to send men over at once,
to get written orders. Mclaughlin goc
TINS message in Queens, and Clayton gor
II !. IN bfooklEn; nevertheless, it was lesa
IMAM fifteen minutes after it was sent
that piain-clothes men showed up ana
asked tor the written orders The latter
were that the deputy chiefs would pro
ceed TO their old posts at once, and both
started without delay
me decision OF Corporation Counsel
Whalen and the prompt action of the Po-
o.
ice headquarters as q great victory. 20,
President York and Hugh McLaughiin.
what Chief Devery thought about it could
not be learned yesterday. Tor although II.
was at headquarters for q short tirns
during the day. it was before the decision
had been made public. When seen late,
on he declined to make any statement
ABOUT the matter. eXcusing himself on tina
ground that he was on his vacation and
did not care to discuss police matters.
BURNED IN SCHOOL
In Public School No. a yesterday was
a. big Christmas tree loaded with CANDY
for the two hundred little onas. who wer,
eyeinS it eagerly. Fourteeu-year-oId Car
RE Hanley, of No. 414 Greenwich Street.
was playing Santa Claus She wore a
long red robe and q high conical hat. ali
tricked out with white cotton and was
recittug a little Christmas story. when
suddenly the hat got into gas jet.
II was ablaze in q moment. and little
Carrie crazed with fright, ran full tilt
into the Christmas tree. igniting 1t. and
then there was a panic Carrie. dis
tracted by her burns then plunged into
the thick Of the children and they all
made for the statrways, -nady fighting to
get oft first
MUSIC GAINED THE CHILDREN.
Only Miss Ella Conway. the principal,
kept her head. She seized the blazing
out the names at last. but not until the
child was fatally burned on head. face
and limbs Miss Conway herself was also
painfully burned
Meanwhile the children were struggling
to get down stairs, and the noise OF tbs
panic reached the primary department. De-
low. where there were five hundred more
children. 4 quick wI,ted teacher jumped
to the piano and started. Strike Up rEe
Band. Here Comes Sailor. And to that
jolly tune the five hundred little ones flied
out without sembiance OF fright or dis
order, though the oIder ones upstairs wela
pling out mad with terror The school
building was onlr slightly damaged and
the engines wa-e not called
SMALLPOX IN INSANE ASYLUM
\ cEse of smallpox was reoorted yester-
dav from the Manhattan State Hospital
on Wards Island It is that of Rose
Colligan, twenty-seven years Old. who had
been in the hopSital about four months
suffering from 4 mild form OF insanity.
She was so nearly cured that she was
about to be discharged. DR.. BIauvelt, OF
the Bureau of Contagious Diseases. said
that the disease had been taken to the
hospital by a visitor who had seen the
woman there a few days ago
Or. Blauveit and Sanitary Superinten-
dent Dillingham; both say that there IS
no reason to fear q smallpox epidemic at
the hospital All. or almost all, of the
patients there have been yaccinated. The
Colligar woman WIS vaccinated two
weeks ago and as the vaccine m her case
took admirably the attack Of smallpox
she has is likely to be extremely light.
Recorder Golf yesterday sentenced
Henry Zeimer. one Of the heads OF a
fraudulent divorce bureau. 10 ten years
IN State prison, and James Holden alias
Frank WILSON, a professional corespou-
Gent. to three years in State prison
Mrs. Byrde Iferric5 and AInry Thonp-
son. who said they had testified falsely
in divorce cases, were allowed to go IN
der suspension OF sentence.