The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-19
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
Mayor Van Wyck Vetoes the Police
Bill.
THREE LADS BREAK THROUGH ICE
two Lost Their Lives in Futile Effort
to Save .Other-Geutleman Gam-
bier Dies III Bellevue
Victim of Morphine.
THREE LADS BREAK THROUGH ICE

Victim of Nkorphin inc.
NEW YORK. Feb. 1S.-With a mes
sage filed with characteristic aceroity
Mavor Van Wyck has returned to the
StateSenate the police bill disapproVed.
By registered mail the bill went TO Al
bany Saturday afternoon, addressed to
the secretary of the Senate, ana was ie-
ceived by him yesterday.
No time will be lost by the LEGISLATURE
in repassing the bill over the Mayors
veto. Unless the Republican, programme
should undergo change, the bill Will De
in the Governors hands for approval by
Wednesday or Thursday at the latest,
and he will approve it.
The bill, with the Mayors message that
accompanies it, will be laid before the
Senate this evening, and will be inn
mediately repassed.> 1t will go to the
Assembly tomorrow morning, and Its
passage through that body will be
equally speedy.
KEEPS HIS SECRET.
Mayor Van Wyck viii have ten days
in which to relieve the present members
OF the Police Board and to appoint in
their stead one Commissioner, who will
have charge of the force. 1t is probable
that he is ready to make that appoint
ment without further delay. Were 1t not
so he would have taken advantage of the
full term of fifteen days which the law
gives him for the consideration OF d
measure concerning the affairs of the
city 1t was in his power to have re-
tanned the bill until next Thursday
II the Mayor is ready to announce his
choice for Police Commissioner he is sue
ceeding admirably in keeping his secret.
Brooklyn Democrats believe, or make
n pretense OF believing, that Bernard J.
York, president of the present Board, is
to be appointed. Friends of John b.
Sexton assert, with great show of con-
tidence, that he will be appointed. James
j. Martin is still considered more than
q possibility. And the list might be
lenS thened almost indefinitely.
KELLER SEES THINGS.
After an examination OF the Rev. John
Keller,s general physical condition late
yesterday afternoon in Arlington, n. j.,
Drs. Extcn, Strassef and EagIeton an
nounced that there had been so much i'm
provement in his physical condition dur
ing the last two days that his recovery
was practically assured. On testing his
eyes it was found that there was also a
Slight Improvement in the condition of
his left eye. He was able to distinguish
l q pencil and similar objects held near
his eye. No attempt to test his visual
OF strajping the eye. The doctors said
they could not tell how strong Mr.. hell-
er'S eye would be.
Services were held as usual yesterday
in Trinity Mission Chapel Mr. keIler's
church, the Rev. August Fliedner Off
ciating. No reference was made to the
shooting of Mr.. Keller, but at the con-
clusior Of the services the congregation
Joined in a prayer for his speedy re-
| covery.
FELL. THROUGH THE ICE.
Three lads lost their lives in an ice
hole II the Hudson River near Haver-
straw yesterday While Il number of by
ISLANDERS watched their struggles without
power to aid them. One of the three
got into the water first, and his brother
and a friend persisted as the result OF an
effort to rescue him.
Patrick and James Coghlan, seventeen
and fifteen years old respectively, and
William Hession. thirteen years old,
We're the victims of the accident VII
layers are still searching for their bodies
Adrlft on q cilke of ice in the upper baw
last Saturday afternoon, Frederick Ram
sey, sixteen years old, oil Fourth Averaue
and SiXtieth Street and James A. Davis,
seventeen years old, Of Seventy-serenth
Street and Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn, were
inst being carried out to sea when rescued
by Policeman William Johnson. who had
followed the castaways for half an hour
before coming up with them The young
men We're adritt on the ice fer nearly an
hour.
CAsHED HIS LAST STACK
The Herald says: Henry T. Pnisley,
whose square red beard and foultless at
tire We're familiar to saloon passengers ON
the big steamships of the Crnard and
American lines, on which he had unosten-
tatiously piled his profession OF gentleman
gambler fer the last seven years, TO use
his own phrase, '.cashed in his last stack
in Bellevue Hospital Saturday night
Flush of money, after experiencing
long streak OF luck, and with a pack OF
marked cards beside him, Paisley died in
a delirium in ward No. q. after being
there three days. His gamblers nerve
stood him in good stead in trying to with
stand his sufferfmss, but he fell victim to
his old enemy. morphine. to which he had
been addicted for nearly twenty years.
Generous to the last, Paisley, his
deathoed, co,afded the cherished secret CT
his special system OF controlling games OF
poker, by which, he sad, he had made
Thousands upon thousands OF dollars, TO
DR. barclay, who attended him and to
whom he had taken fancy.
Few of PaIisley's fellow passengers OF
the American and Cunard liners suspected
tnaC Gi1elI ISEeSdU.e anu cOitIleOuS
traveller, II lyrical merchant in appear
ance derived his income iron the nlanipu
lation OF cards.
AT REvoLVBR's POINT
Henry F.. West. twenty-six years old,
clerk in the bnnking establishment of
Lewis A May & Co., at No. 81 Broadway.
and residing at Fifth Avenue and Eish-
teensh Street, Brooklyn, was held for ex-
animation yesterday in the Coney Island
Court by Magistrate Voorhees, on charges
of compelling two women to sign paper
ut the potrt. OF a pistol intoxication and
carrying concealed weapons.
Miss Eva Syers. eighteen years old. re-
siding with heiS mother at Bath Avenue
end Bay Nineteenth Street, Bath Beach.
alleges that West ealled at her home on
Saturday night, about eight o'c!oek, undar
the influence OF liquor, and demanded that