The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-20
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
Bankers Up in Arms Against Taxation
Scheme,
CROWDS CURIOUS TO SEE.
Friends of Sears Refuse to Believe
Murray Hall a woman-wiu
Dick Croker Return to
Ne" York shortly?
CROWDS CURIOUS TO SEE.

alton policy. his, in so f.r r. affects |
the banks, IS III brief. the Ievy,ng of an |
additional tax of per cenr ~, me capI-
tai. surplus and lnuivice1 nr,ti1s of the
banks and trust Companies Crsr,es Ad-
sit, pre- 1t OF The First Naf;onal Bank
of Hornellsviile, e>-pceside3t ~ the state
Bankers Association, and ,.rman OF
the ASSOCIATION Nofnmittee on Legisla-
ton, is IN TINS cl.s conterring with lead
ing members OF the Clearing House, with
the view of arranging Tor conosr+ed ac-
ton against TINS increased taxation. The
bankers ask for no deduction in +axatior..
although they are opposed n NV in
crease. What they Want is enualization
of taxation. They ask that tho trust
companies be taxed tn: same ae no hanks
and Mr. Adsit will have a bill rrovif;irr
for this equalization introduced in the
Legislature. Such a Dill failed of mas
sage last year. One DER cent addition
taxation, such as Go'ernor Od,,l nro-
poses, would include the trust companies
as we'll as the banks. hut would not re-
move the present discrimination between
the two classes of institutions The add:-
tiona1 tax would mean added burden of
slOu,U01 a year on S1O,00,ON1 institution
like the Bank of CommeiCe-
CROWDS CURIOUS.
who masqueraded as a nan for almost
half a century was taken from the Hall
residence, at Jas Sixth .ivenge Mt
O'Clock last night in an undertaker's
wagon When the announcement was
made yesterday that Murray Halls sex
had remained undiscovered Until her death
on Thursday night, the associates of
thirty years refused to belieye that their
old friend, Murray Hall, was woman
Crowds of curious men and women gath
cred in front of the house on Sixth Ave-
nue., hoping to get chance TO view the
body. and the police OF the Charles
Street Station We're kept busy ordering
| the crowds to move along. But the peo-
pie fingered to discuss the case. deiying
the policemen and annoying those lin
Murray Halls home.
Everybody seemed anxious to get a
glimpse of the young woman known as
the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Hall Those
who know her say she resembles the wo-
man who passed as her mother, the wo-
| man who had been married to MUrrty
Hall, and who died in July, 1898 at the
| Sixth Avenue house. Some say she re-
sembles Mrs. Mary Hall, the woman
known as Murray Halls first wife.
VIGILANCE COMAITTEE-
Bishop Potter gave out some vice news
!
| a letter in his mail of a disorderly houss
at which policemen were acting as pull
! ers-in. The Bishop did not give further
| details and he did not vouch for the ac-
! curacy of his correspondents statements
! or tell who the correspondent was. He
| used the statement as an argument II
| favor of the organization of the Vigilance
| Committee as advocated by him sJmt
! time ago.
| Sheriff Grell has been making a searCi
| throughout the county for several day
| for the Count and Countess de Caste
| lane 1t was not his business to give an
| credence to the published Statement
| that they are in Paris and have beeif Il
| several months. What he had to do W.
| to find them in this county and not !;
| it leak out that ne was on their trail {
| pain CT answering in damages If the
| should flee the Jurisdiction, or to i
| the court know why he had not four
! them. On an affidavit showing that tt
| sheriff had made a thorough search Ju
! tice Fitzgerald, in the Supreme Cou
yesterday, ordered that the Count ar
| Countess be served with summons
| publication in the action brought in b
| half of Asher Werthemer, the Londc
! bric-a-brac dealer, to have his claim pa
| from the income of the Countess fro
F.! her fathers estate. The motion to 81
| join payment Of the income to her VIZ
| made solely On service on the trusted
of the estate of Jay Gould.
| The Sheriff had accurate description
| of the Count and Countess on which II
law required him to make the hunt TT
| affidavit simply tells the places the sheri
! visited, but the details of the search We
| reported to counsel for the creditor. III
| places he went to included the office
| George Gould, the Hotel Martin, on Un
| versity Place, the Waldorf-Astoria, II
| Holland House, the home of Miss Hele
| Gould in Fifth Avenue. and the Hot
! Savoy.
BOOKS IN SPANISH.
Amer an acqui5it of territory in Oh
| West Indies and the Pacific has oEsne
new field for enterprise on thefpar
| of book publishers. A New York. firm
which makes speciality of bookstn tn
!. Spanish language, has enjoyed a larg
| increase OF trade But our expansio
policy has created a special demand TO
school books. The extension of publ
| schools in Cuba. Porto Rico and tn
| Philippines has resulted in a demand 10
books adapted to this new field. In thi
connection, letter just received her
| from f. A. Atkinson, Superintendent {
| Education in the Philippines, is of partit
i ular interest: only to per cent. {
! the population" he says, speak Spanish
| taking the island as a whole, and tt
| first endeavor of the Department of Edl
| cation will be to establish primary schoo
| everywhere, and afterwards high schools
| and gradually English will be made Il
| basis of all public education
THE BARGE CANALS
| The advocates of canal improvement
| will have to work hard to get the $50, 00t
COO barge canal scheme through. II
1 enemies of the canals are already
work Senator Amber and Assembl
| man Hatch have introduced resolution
| for constitutional amendments, permi
| ting the sale of the Erie Canal. In
statement, issued by Senator Amber,
| is asserted that the canals have outIiv.
their usefulness.
The report of the Charter Revisit
/ Commission will go to the Legislature
Monday night, and will be referred to l.
Citizens Committees. which will prob
| bly, name a joint subcommittee to co
| slider the proposed charter changes. a,
hold hearings. Governor Odeu saws tn
he is favorable to the report, but is i
clined to let the Legislature deal wi
/ it, without any special recommendatio
! from him.
/ BROOKLYN'S WATER SUPPLY.
Engineer Mclean, OF the Finance n
partment. in a report to the Board of F
innate, has approved the issue OF 81 g,
0G0 city bonds for improving the u,,
supply of Brooklyn. There is no o,,asfi
that the supply needs the amorovemaY
1 No expenditure OF nItb1ic nona,, .,,,,y