The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-11-28
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
Nine. Sara Bernhardt Given an
Ovation by Large Audience.
MISS kEARNY TO BE A NUN.
Man Arrested for Building Fire Under
Horses to Make Them More-so-
c:cty surprised by Announce
mcnt Of Secret Marriage
MISS KEARNY TO BE A NUN.

tnI
mont Of Secret Marriage
NEW YORK, November a7-The
,,d,,c+ion of .'LAislon," at the
Garden Theatre last evening, was d se
to5,,, tr;nrnnt, for Mime. Sara BeEnharGt,
NJ Constant Coauelin and the author NJ.
Eostand. The theatre held an auuieLee
that crowded the building TO the very w.
and, withal, was one that "as VI u.s IL
guished quality, resembling fal!iei ei,e ~
troooiitan at an operate premiere thah d
-, ~, 40 whore = dramatic performance was
being given.
Much has been heard here OF Nine
Rernhardt's success in this role IN paris
where even in what we call the oos eas
of last summer she crowded the li3uSe
nightly when other theatres had an oue
empty benches. Much was eApec.eU "
her therefore, and the audience, "hiie pi.-
pared to be delighted, was READY as "eii'
to be disappointed II thelf NJ %
pectat tons were not realized
NO greater tribute can be paid to the
actress and the play, then, than to say
that after the first curtain the great auoi-
ence demanded her again ana again peioie
the curtain, and that as the pay pro
sressed there was no hating IN that en-
thusiasn with which the initial act had
been accompanied
SECRET WEDDING.
Invitations were sent out the other day
in this city and New Rochelle by Mr. and
Mrs William Beard Smith for the we'd
ding reception of their daughter, Netae
Adele Smith Benjamin Badeau, OF New
Rochelle was referred to as the orlce-
groom. The reception was held last nlSht
at the home OF the brides uncle. MT.
| Frederick McCoun, Of No. 13S West Seven
ty-fifth Street There were a hundred per-
sons there from New Rochelle and almost
as many more from this city.
They all thought that Mr.. and Mrs
Badeau had been married at home in the
| a afternoon and offered their congratulations
accordingly.
That's where the bride and bridegroom
had their little joke On the guests, for Mr..
and Mrs. Badeau were married two years
ago in Yonkers, by the Rev. T. H BaraS-
wanath, of the Central Methodist Church.
The marriage was kept a secret from the
| members OF both families and from all the
| friends OF the bridal pair until about a
week ago. and then only the brother of the
| bridegroom and the sisters OF the bride
| We're told
! MISS NEARNY TO BE y NUN.
| Miss Mary Watts Kearny, eldest daugh
| ter of Gen. john Watts kearny, has taken
! the first formal step toward becoming a
! Lady OF the Society of the Sacred Heart.
| Miss kearny went to the Convent of the
Sacred Heart, at kenwood, near Albany,
on last Tuesday. At the expiration of the
| usual, period within a few weeks, she will
become novice. Some years must elapse
| before her final vows may De taken.
Miss kearny has for some years contem-
| plated the step just taken, but has deferred
| it at the request of her father. Gen kear-
| ny did not wish her to join the Sacred
Heart Society until she was quite sure that
! the work before her. as one OF its members,
| was what she desired.
The nuns of the Sacred Heart are not
clustered, but are in communication with
| their families and friends, and are per-
! initted to have photographs and memen-
| toes of their families with them. The so
! clety is the leading educational organiza-
| ton OF women for women in the Roman
| Catholic Church. There are 1000 religious
! in its membership in its 142 houses in all
| parts of the world except the continent OF
] Asia, and in its regular schools there are
| 1900 pupils, besides 10000 pupils in the
| free schools which it conducts. The So
| ciety all over the world celebrated its one
hundredth anniversary last Wednesday,
BOERS HERE.
| COMMENCEMENT Samuel Pearson of
! the Boer army, and five comrades whose
| homes previous TO the war were in the
| Orange Free State. arrived in this country
! yesterday on the steamer Statendnm
| which sailed from Rotterdam In the
| party are Commandant W. d. Synnan and
! his siXteen-year-o.d son, Comma ndant A.
| Liebenberg, Hercules D. Veljoen and \.
| Spurer. They are all stopping ut the
| Union Square Hotel. General Pearson
| Who IS the spokesman, says that none OF
F.; them knows a single person in the United
! States. He is forty-one years old, of me-
! dunn height and built like a prize fighter
! Previous to the war he WIS at the head
| of firm of shipping agents with offices
! IN several towns in South Africa. Com
| mandants Synman and Liebenberg have
| served terms in the Cape Town Legisla-
| ture. General Pearson said:
| We are here simply on a tour of inves-
| t;gution. We were driven out OF our own
! country and we Will do everything we can
| here to aid our cause. We want to OBJ
| serve what the feeling of the American
| people is. We will tell them all about our
I struggle if they care to hear us, although
| we are not here in any official capacity If
[ sympathy is expressed for us by the
| American people we might try and have
| this sympathy made practical
i BUILT FIRE UNDER HORSES.
II Herman c. Stroh. truckman of 40
}tGates Avenue, Brooklyn, will be arraigned
before Magistrate Smith in Long Island
| city tomorrow on a charge of cruelty to
animals made against him by Miss Nellie
! Winans, of Astoria, l.. I.
strotl and a helper drove to Astoria sew
| eral days ago with a loaded truck While
| passing through jamaica Avenue. one OF
| the streets that has been neglected since
| consolidation. the truck stuck in a mud
| hole. The horses refused to pull, and
! after being severely beaten became balky.
| Stroh and his helper, it is alleged, built
| fire under the team to make them move
| along. The fire was kindled of straw and
| light pieces of wood, it is said, and tfle
{ flames shot up so high that they singed
| the animals causing them to jump and
| plunge in their efforts to escape. The
| horses finally dragged tie truck out Of
/! the mud hole and were not stopped for
1 some distance.
| There was a surprise for society yester-
| dny in the announcement that three weeks
| ago Miss Mary Carolina Washington Bond,