The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-02
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
Grand Jury Filed scathing Indictment
of Management OF Bellevue.
MARRIED, BUT DIDN'T KAoW.I IT.
DR.. Cushing, Wealthy Physician, Re-
leased from Unwilling Bonds-A
Yeii-w Garter Spit u Lodge
OF Royal Arc,num,tcs.
Grand Jury Filed scathing Indictment
MARRIED, BUT DIDN'T KA0W IT
DR.. Cushing, a Wealthy Physician, Re-

NEW YORK, FEB. 1.-The Grand Jury
Yesterday nleu a scathlng prosentment
deHCunc.nS ABUSE in the hospitals man
aseuAenL ADLafu.LtlL PROOF nstu been 90
tanned to establish heartleSS brutality to
the suffering, caiious neglect Oh DUTY,
reckless disregard OF established rules,
and the Grand Jurors were convicted that
radical rarorlns were necessary. They
made SUGGESTIONS for several changes in
the existing system, and urged that three
officials, whom they held responsible for
the abuses, should be removed.
They found that William B. O'Rourke,
superintendent of the hospital; Michael
Joseph Richard, assistant superintendent,
and DR.. John W. Moore, the physician
assigned to the insane pavilion. had been
grossly incompetent and negligent OF
their duties. They believe that the Com
missioner of Charities should select new
superintendent, taking some man OF
broad business training and possessing
good executive ability.
The other positions should be bestowed
on persons chosen for their ability, rather
than by reason of their political influence.
The insane pavilion should be under the
supervision of q specialist who has de-
voted long study to mental Affections, and
it should not be intrusted to a recent
graduate in medicine without regard to
his qualifications.
A BIG FIRE.
Fire last night laid in ashes the two
city blocks bounded by the East River
First Avenue, Thirty-frst and Thirty
SECOND Streets. Nearly 'onaquarter of
the block on the south side Of Thirty-first
Street, extending from First Avenue to
the river, also destroyed together
with the vast expanse of lumber yards
and coal and wood sheds cunring SOUTH
pVI TO :~Sie md oil 10
river front.
There had been an explosion in the af-
ternoon in the cigar box factory of the
William Wicke Company. on the north
east corner of Thrty-first Street and
First Avenue. 1t was followed by III
serious panic ard the injury of a. large
number of the employees. The fire, how
oughly eXtir guished when shortly after
: O'Clock last night it burst forth from
the ruin with such fury that firemen who
had just arrived We're forced to abandon
Water Tower No. and Fire Engine No.
81 and run for their lives. The fire engine
was subsequently crushed under the fall
ing Of the wall of the Thirty-first Street
s'da OF the building and remained there a
shapeess mass of wrecked machinery.
DIDN'T KNOW He WAS MARRIED.
From the bond of a marriage which he
could not remember having contracted.
Judge Smith, Of the Supreme Court, in
Brooklyn. yesterday afternoon freed DR..
George w. Gushing, a wealthy and we'll
known physician in that borough. and an
expert in gynecology. DR.. Gushing told
a remarkable story on the stand and
averred that ne. a widower with two
children. a man of science with a recog
nized position in professional ranks, be-
yond middle age and settled in his habits,
had fallen completely under the influence
y, ,,f,,o, I
to dine and had been forced to so
through marriage mechanically while
his faculties of voition and Judgment
We're temporarily paralyzcd.
Friends of Dr. Gushing, who lives at
No. 231 Scherlnertlorn Street Brooklyn,
We're startled some months ago by the
announcement that suit for separation.
on the grounds abandonment and
non-support. had been istituted against
him by Clara A. Gushing. ! t was not
known that the physician had married
second time
DR.. Gushing filed an answer to the COM
plant, in which he alleged that the mar
ragc had been obtained by fraud and
without his knowledge. and asked that
it be annulled. The plaintiff maintained
that the Doctor was man of means,
that he had abandoned her without
cause and that she had been 1t good and
faithful wife.
HANGED IN BELLEVUE.
Notwithstanding al the care and super
vision which have been bestowed on
ward No. 80 in Bellevue Hospital since
exposure of the neglect and cruelties
practised within its walls, William y.
Howard, Il patient in the ward, COM
United suicide there on Wednesday by
hanging Himself in his csll with d sheet
taken from his cot.
Details of Towards suicide came to
light yesterday, when CorCner's Ptlysi-
clan Weston performed an autopsy on
the body in the AIorguc. and found that
death had resulted from hamorrhase of
the tralchaea. DR.. Schultz, who is in
charge Of the alcoholic ward and the
insane pavilion, as Commissioner kel-
ler's representative, made an investiga-
ton, and learned that the patient hanged
himself during the absence of his nurses
from the iron lattice work Of mis- win
dow He had been in The ward only
two hours.
When discovered hanging in cell No
10, OH the upper tier. the body was still
warm Artificial respiration was at
tempted but the man was dead.
William Howard had just arrived in
this city from Cuba, where he was in
terested in an artificial ice company and
otehr enterprises, His father, Jeremiah
Howard VITO, during his exile from
Cuba, was a prominent member of the
local Cuban colony, is wealthy planter
in Cuba. He is engaged in building an
aqueduct in Pi7lar. del Rio, waere he
owns an extensive electric light plant.
The Towards also own a big foundry
in Caibarien, the seaport of Remedies.
A YELLOW GARTER.
That which was long predicted relative
to De Long Council, No. I25, Royal
Arcanu1n. OF Brooklyn, has come to pass
The jewelled yellow garter auctioned Off
by an actress to the highest bidder at
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