The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-16
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
Winter Continues Her Grip on the
Harbor and Bay.
.F00TPAD. ROUTED With HAT PIN
Driver Lost His whiskers and Horse
His Tai by Explosion and Fire In
anOii Wa&on-Bankcr Hurt
i'll u Collision.
.FOOTPAD ROUTED WITH HAT PIN

NEW YORK, Feb. 15.-Wintry weather
continued to hold a tight grip yesterday
on the icebound rivers and bay. While
the conditions were not quite SO PAD as
on Wednesday. there was enough ice on
all sides of the Battery and along the
east and west shores seriously to impede
Steamboat tratfic, and in some instances
to prevent it completely.
The Wall Street, Hamilton, Thirty
ninth Street, and Brooklyn ferries
stopped running. There We're not so
many boats caught in the ice yesterday
morning as on Wednesday, because their
owners refused in most instances to ven
ture out. The Staten Island boats and
the boats of the Central Railroad of New
Jersey ran at irregular intervals.
BANKER In COLLISION.
While answering an alarm of fire at
$40 o'clock last night the tender of En-
CINE l coliided at Twenty-ninth Street
and Madison Avenue with the carriage of
Charles Lanier, head OF the firm of Wins
low, Lanier q Co., bankers of No. II
Nassau Street. The pole of the tender
struck the carriage in the center, over
turning it. Mr. Lanier and Miss Irene
Blgelow, relative of his, We're in the
coach. The pole of the tender struck
him on the right leg, bruising it and
ripping his clothes. He was tumbled over
on Miss Bigelow. She was not injured
Thomas Boyd. the driver of the tender.
was badly hurt. He was taken to New
York Hospital. Mr.. Lanier's coachman
received q scalp wound
ENGINE IN A DWELLING HOUSE,
Three freight cars and a dummy loco
motive of the New York Central and
hudson River Railroad backed off the
tracks in Hudson Street yesterday after
n6 1son w.t.
at NO. no. smashing the front of the
place, 1nJuring two men and badly scar
ing the inmates of the house. The in
Jured men are Thomas Dermody, of No.
o6 North Moore Street, who was Knocked
OH delivery wagon. and William Des-
ton, OF. No. 1867 First Avenue, who was
thrown down by the klst car. Neither
man was badly hurt The building was
nearly demolished
HIS HEAD CUT OFF.
Henry EnGerle the engineer who had
CIlarse OF the ice houses and plant Of c.
Deutermann & Sens, at st. Mury's Lake.
near White Plains. met death at noon
yesterday. Seventy-five men were en-
gagged in cutting and storing ice at the
time. There is avn ice run extending, from
the ground to the top of the ice houses, a
helsht OF sixty feet. The run has ca
paclty OF fifty cakes minute, and is
operated by steam. Electric buttons are
used in signalling for the starting and
stopping OF the elevator which conveys
the ice UP the run. A device was put on
the run yesterday in the form of a knife,
having teeth six inches long, which cut
the ice to a required size.
Enderle stepped on the run to remove
mail which, he had noticed affected the
smooth operation Of the elevator. Some
| one on top OF the run pushed the button
and some one else started the engine. In
the next Instant the knife cut off Enderie's
head. His body was dr1lwn in the ma
chinery and literally cut and torn to pieces
Coroner Russell will hold an invcstga-
ton. Who entered the engine house and
started the engine while Enderle was
working on the run is a mystery.
LOST HIS WHISPERS
Snowballs were used yesterday in Mount
Vernon ITO e2t:nguish d fire which de-
stroyed an oil wagon, burned the owners
wlliskers off and singed the tail of his
horse. The vehicle was owned by a. EFT
finger. q local dealer. While he was driv-
ing through Vernon Heights a gust of
wind blew G. spark from his pipe, which
fell among cams containing twenty gallons
of kerosene and naphtha. Instantly there
was an explosion which blew off the top
of the wagon and hurled Ettinger into IL
ha1f a mile. drawing the burning wagon
after it. The burning oils had fallen on
the unfortunate animal, and its skin and
tail were ablaZe as it ran. Some small
boys who were out cOasting pursued the
horse, and by throwing snow upon it saved
it from being burned to death. Ettinger's
overcoat was burned off, md he lost a
llxuriant crop Of whiskers.
ROUTED WITH A EAT-PIN.
Miss Christina Johnson, eighteen years
wood, a suburb of Mount Vernon, put to
hold her up on Wednesday night. Shortly
after ! O. clock MISS Johnson started home.
She missed the Month Fourth-Avenue troll
ley car, which runs nenr her home. so she
decided to walk. When she reached a dark
place between Urban and Chester Streets,
according to her story, two men suddenly
spca1g from behind a clump Of bushes
and seized her by the arms. One of them
tried to put his hand into her skirt pocket
and get her purse. She screamed for help
and succeeded in freeing herself from their
grasp. She started to run, and they fol-
lowed. Miss Johnson, realizing that she
was not fleet enough to get away. turned
suddenly on her pursuers and struck one
of them in the lface hard she could
with a parcel. The blow knocked off his
hat, which was carried down the street
by the wind. While he was scrambling to
got it Miss Johnson grabbed her hatoin,
and as the other nlarnuder saw the glitter
of the steel he turned and fed
Miss Johnson, nearly exhausted from her
experience, sought refuge ait the cottage
oFSlJ, Sniers who. after sending her home