The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-17
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
A 'tIarbor Master" Formed on the
Upper Bay.
PLENTY OF FUNDS FOR KELLER.
Judge Dismissed Man Charged With
Forgery Under Peculiar Cir>
cumstances-Braver
at Fire.
PLENTY OF FUNDS FOR KELLER.

seward, carving everything afoat be-
fore it, and lodged with an edge touching
either shore and completely locked the
harbor. Many of the smaller craft caught
by the foe narrowly escaped disaster.
It was the unanimous opinion that the
sharbor master was correctly named.
Men who have long been connected with
shipping in this port said they had never
seen q. "harbor master of such dimen-
sions. It formed quietly, but quickly
The warmer weather, it is supposed. re-
leased much of the ice frozen on the
Brooklyn shore down toward the Mar
rows, and this drifting up on the flood
tide Joined fields released from other
parts of the upper harbor. Then, COM
minSling, the great mass froze under
meath and moved seaward on. the ebb
tide.
1t was from two to three miles long.
It's easterly end caught on the Bay Ridge
shore and held there, while the westerly
end was carried toward the:Staten Island
shore. The ferryboats Castleton and
Northfield running to st. George from
the Battery, We're caught by the ioe and
carried down as far as Quarantine.
GOOD COUNSEL.
Legal counsel of the highest order will
be employed to defend in every manner
the Rev. John Keller, of Arlington, N j.,
who was recently shot and seriously
wounded by Thomas G. Barker, the latter
believing that he was ayenging a wrong
done to his wife. Funds for the purpose
will be supplied by Dean Hoffman, of the
General Theological Seminary.
Oculists of the first rank will also be
employed for the purpose of saving MIR.
Kellers sight which he is in danger of
losing. These specialists will also be paid
by Dean Hoffman, who has sent to the
wounded clergyman a message OF CONT
dence and assurance that money will not
he ok pr0tpcr his rights
way.
While contradictory reports have come
from the room in which Mr.. Keller has
been lying on a bed of torture since he
was shot, one who has seen the wounded
man every day since the attcak was made
upon him, yesterday asserted that his
progress had been satisfactory to the
attending physicians. 1t was further an
nounced that the danger point had been
passed, and that only unforeseen compli-
cations could keep Mr.. Keller more than
another week in bed.
FORGED TO MARRY.
Albino Herman, forty-slX years old, an
architect, of No. 325 West Thirtieth Street.
who was convicted OF forging a check on
the Drovers, Mechanics and Traders
Bank, of Baltimore, was tried by Judge
Cowing in the General Sessions to-day.
He was so overcome that he swocned.
Herman boarded with Marie Tisserand-
several lHCHtNS ago nc t'iCSSiilSt1 liit
check he had forged to her and received
500 in change. Herman was married inn
mediateiy afterWdrd.
II understand that you forged this
check to get married., said Judge Cow
ing.
With tears streaming down his face
Herman admitted that he did.
II had a call from your wife, said
Judge Cowing, land she told me that she
believed you We're guilty of this forgery,
but thought that your desire TO marry
her caused you to do this"
Herman admitted this
why didn't you postpone zhe wedding
until you got some money of your own?''
asked the Judge.
81 couldn't wait, replied Herman. II
expect to get some money to pay back
what 1 got. I will try to be a better man
after this, Judge, if YOU viii give me
chance
your wife a chance to make a respectable
man of you" He then discharged the
prisoner.
CARNIVAL OF CRIME.
The Herald says: With the passing of
the Committee of Five. the supposed in
activity of the Committee of Fifteen and
Mayor Van Wyck's high commentator
of Chief Devery's administration OF the
Police Department, the criminal element
seems to have descended upon the me-
tropolis in unprecedented numbers and TO
have inaugurated a carnival of crime
such as New York has never before
known.
The audacious midday attack upon a
woman who had just aIighted from, 9. car
at Park Avenue and Thirty-eighth Street
on Wednesday, the robbing of men and
women in such frequented thoroughfares
as Broadway and Fifth Avenue. and the
wholesale looting of stores and houses in
all parts of the city have caused q wave
of alarm to sweep over the metropolis
Merchants and citizens who formerly de-
pended upon the police for the protec
ton of their property no longer do so.
In scores of instances they have hired
private watchmen where formerly such
action was not necessary. In Brooklyn
especially is this the case.
BRAVERY DISPLAYED.
Three lives We're saved early yesterday
morning at a fire which threatened the
destruction of the five-story apartment
house at No. 1888 Second Avenue.
Charles Bosse, a printer. moved into the
ground floor store Thursday and fitted up
rooms in the rear for living apartments
for himself, wife and two small children
Flames were discovered in the PRINTING
office about 6 o'clock yesterday morning.
Michael McQuade. who is employed at
No. 1884 Second Avenue, ran, with others.
to awaken the inmates.
McQuade, looking into the printing
shop, saw Mrs. Bosse back of the shoo
with hands uplifted. There Were flames
between her and the door. McQuade
smashed the glass in the door. rush d
through the flames and carried the wo-
man to the street. She was painfully
burned about the face and hands. AS
soon as she was on the sidewalk she ex-
claimed:
My two children are in there, Don't
let them burn. for Gods sakel"
McQuade went in again, despite the pro-
test of the bystanders snatched the lit
tie ones from their crib, and, with one
under each arm, ran to the. street. The
children's night dresses were scorched.
but they escaped other injury. McQuade's
hair was singed and his clothing was
scorched.
All the other tenants escaped uniniured.
George Cuff who lives on the top floor
with his mother and father, carried his
parents to the roof of the next house. Thu
fire. which caused about 5000 damages,
was started. it is supposed. by the eN-
plosion of benzine in the printing Office.
Change of Directors.