The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-02
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
The Largest Crowd Ever Assembled
Saw the New Year In.
PHILBIN MADE RADICAL CHANGES
Mayor Van wyck Orders All rool-
Rooms Closed. Not TO Reopen.
Couple Found Dead from
Gas Aspbyxiatior.
PHILBIN MADE RADICAL CHANGES


City Hall Park was gathered there last
night to see the old century out and the
! new century in. It broke all records OF
| the past, great as some of these records
| have been. 1t has seemed many times be-
! fore that the limit of the park and its
adjacent streets in holding crowds had
| been reached but on all these occasions
there were still passaseways along the
| sidewalks kept open by the police and
! chances here and to get a faint show of
| elbow room. Last night the crowd
| Swarmed over everything and flied every
| nook and Granny with one solid mass of
| swaying. pushing. suffering humanity.
| Whatever reservations the police had
| planned to keep clear were overwhelmed
| as by an irresistible food. Women were
| buffeted pushed, hauled, trampled upon
! until they were fainting, inert bodies in
! the arms of their escorts. Numbers of
them We're dragged by almost superhumau
| effort into some Of the stores along Park
row. where with their clothes half torn
| off they were resuscitated with such re-
| StorativcS were at hand
| The police had expected a great crowd.
| but the event went beyond their utmost
| imasinings. The barriers they put up and
! tried to maintain were swept away as
chaf before the gale, and they did like
everybody else. became mere flotsam and
letSanl, swept hither and thither by the
great swayinG sea of humanity. More
police reserves were sent for and still
more and the crowd seemed to swallow
, them all up fast as they came
Persons who We're In the City Hall had
no conception OF the magnitude OF the
crowd until the glare Of the fireworks re-
vealed the apparently ltmitless extent of
the throng. To get out of it was to be
borne one knew not whittier. and getting
to an objective joint was n mere matter
of luck and hard fighting The century
went out with at least one record estab-
lished that in all human probability will
not be matched for many d year to come.
RADICAL CHANGES.
District-Attorney Philbin yesterday
made radical changes in his official staff.
He requested four assistant district attor-
neys to resign, reappointed three of the
assistants whom he had found IN the Of
fee. and announced the appointment of
three new men. who have yet to win their
spurs as prosecutors.
The men dropped were Henry w. I'm
ger. a statutory assistant; Forbes j. Hen
messy, Daniel O'Reilly and Charles E. F.
Mccain. deputy assistants. Those reap
pointed were James w Osborne. statu-
tory assistant: keyron j. O'Connor and
Gerald Hull Gray, deputy assistants The
newcomers in the office are George w.
Schurman and Franklin Pierce, statutory
>. D.
assistant.
Some OF the changes created the utmost
surprise while others had been fore
gone conclusion. 1t had been assumed
hat Mr.. Osborne would be retained not
,nly on account OF his ability. but parti-
sularly because of his familiarity with
rthe Molneux case, which has not yet
come before the Court of Appeals. Curl
ously enough, Mr.. Phiibin accumulated the
fac he retained Mr., OS-
borne with any reference to the Mol
ineux case MessrS OConnor and Gray
are younger men who have usually assist
ed as statutory assistants in the prepara-
ton of cases.
DECISION REVERSED.
Comptroller Coler. who withheld from
Ralph j. Treat s5,201.63 which he had
earned on contract to sewer 1S2d
Street. for alleged violation of that part
Of the labor laws known as the stone
law has been directed by the Appel |
late Division of the Supreme Court to |
see that the money IS paid. The de-
cision, from which Justices Van Brunt |
and OBrien dissent, reverses the lower
court, which refused to Issue q writ of !
mandamus f,r which Treat had applied. |
The law alleged to have been violated |
provides thatlstone used on public work, |
except in the case OF paving blocks and |
crushed stone, must be worked. carved |
and dressed within this State The law |
is chapter Alb g the Laws OF 1885. which |
is incorpora ted in the Labor law OF 1897. |
chapter 4l5. Tie contract of Treat also |
provided that Ills provision of the law
must be compiled with in regard to the
Istoue he used. In the application for |
smar.damus Layers Kellogg and Rose
Icoatended tflatthe Labor law is uncon-
Istitutiona, as construed by the Comp
Itroller to meanthat money earned could |
Zoe withheld fol- alleged violation OF the
Labor law, in tat it took away property
without due prieSS of law and impaired |
tn. obligatiousbf a contract. The fur
liner point waS&nade that the provision |
ts to dressed tone was against the
Federal law. D. ause it was in restraint
bf trade among States.
POOL bOMS CLOSE.
| PooI-rooms " be closed in this city !
Eo-day-
II Mayor Van q k has taken cognizance
IL the fact til the police have given
IErotecton to mbtinS WslnTests. He
Instructed Chi f-Polce Devery last |
light TO see the pool-rooms closed, |
st to reopen.
| Devery imme ely demonstrated that |
| .Nis Nixon the truth When he
Id the Chief Police could close the
| EnbIng ho1 when he desired. |
| livery caused eers TO be given for
| I pool-rooms go out of business.
| -Aached to IN rider was a postscript
| 9veyinS motto at this time the order
100 be obeyed ne pool-room men ac-
cs1ngly made angements for long
htday.
| sDISPLEASE WITH PHILBIN.
! monG the tr of the members of
! tn Iammany Vice Committee the
| Onion prevails at District Attorney !
Pfbin is not ned to deal in full
fahess with organization. Mr.
Pffins friends. the other hand, as
| se4that the Dis t Attorney will deal
fait with everyZ he, and that all the
Tainany Comm e has to do is TO
deiinstrats the esty of its purpose
in 4 efforts to sd -ess vice.
andh will receive possible assistance
| ASPHfNLED BY GAS
ASfyxiated by rs, a man and a
womb were found, Fad yesterday morn
ing | a room the} pad occupied during
tie tecedIns nishtn Tie vesta Hotel
at fsta avenue hid Fulton Street.
E'rnciyn- The on4 were removed TO
the brSue and du} b the afternoon the
man tas identi:ie' John ]. Walker.
q ye4s cid, C nter. who lived at
II Mhuley place maica L. J. The
| wcmal has not identified. The re- |
| port lrsr circull as thai the connie