The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-17
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
Human Voice to be Heard Around
the Globe.
COMMITTEE ON NoIsEA SUCCESS
Business Men Banquet at Dclmonico's
and Have Noise to Their Hearts
Contcnt-Nisilance Committee
of 5000 to Be Organized.


electrical engineers VITO have studied the
discovery OF Professor NJ. I. PUpiu, OF
Columbia University, but the prediction
| is made that within the lifetime OF the
I present generation the sound OF the
human voice may 0e made to eucircle the
! globe Officials of the American Bell Tel
| eEsloue and Telegraph Company maintain
| profound secrecy as TO the invention and
| the experiments which they have been
conducting, but admit the purchase OF
DR.. Pupin's patents.
The price paid is said to be between
| 100000 and s5e0,fNo m cash, and an annual
| royalty of $1,000 during the life of the
| patents. which is seventeen years This
| would aggregate nearly tslree-luarters OF
| q million dollars, and is probably the
largest sum ever paid for any invention.
SITE FOR CHAMBER.
| Morris h. Jesup, president of the Cham
| bers of Commerce and chairman of It's
| Board Of Trustees, having Charge OF the
| real estate of the Chamber and the con-
! struction of the proposed building for its
| own purposes, yesterday signed a contract
with Henry Morgeuthau. president of the
! Central Realty Bond and Trust Company,
+. for the purchase of the property Nos 80
81, s. and 90 Liberty Street, formerly
| known as the Real Estate Exchange
| Possession will be given on May list next,
| when the Chamber will begin at once to
| deInolisll the present structure TO make
| way for its new home.
| The building to be constructed will be
| classic in its architecture. While not as
! ornamental in design as some other build
| inss in the downtown section. the Board
] of Trustees intends 10 make it 4 credit
! to the city and an honor 10 the ltberality
! of the merchants who compose the asso-
| citation.
(, The entire structure viii De occupied
( solely by the Chamber except the ground
hit lgNtts-
| term of years to the late owners of the
| property. The purchase of the site
! conducted by Louis j. Phillips and Rich
F! ard NJ. Montgomery, real estate brokers.
! y NOISY DINNER.
| There never was q noisier dinner in the
! big banquet hall at Delmonico's than the
! dinner of the Business Mems Republic
| can and Sound Money Association last
| night Taere was q Committee on Noise
| with Third Vice-President George 7. VIII
| son, of the Equitable Assurance Society.
| as chairman. The orchestra in the gal
! ery was not fairly started on its first
tune before nearly every diner produced
! from under his chair tambourine or a
! set of minstrel bones with which ne
| helped accentuate the time of the music
| The amount OF noise that these instru-
| ments produced increased steadily through
| the succession of courses. until BY tee
| time the coffee came in the Hon. Charles
!
| bers of the Noise Committee were prane-
| ing UP and down the room among the
! tables in approved cake-walk fashion.
| Mr. Wilson showed his ability 10 kick
| tauborrine threee times without toucf-
ing either foot to the floor between kicks
| to the eminent joy of all his fellow
| diners When the Sound Money folks
| knew the words of the tunes played by
I, the orchestra they sang them, when they
| didn't know the words they made eQutva-
| lent souEds-tue main object of the dinner
| was apparently the making OF noise
! VIG1LANTES.
| 1t came out yesterday that IN accord
| ance with Il suggestion made by Blsnop
| Potter in an address several weeks ago
| q body of citizens are arranging to form
| Il band OF 5000 Vigilantes. to keep an eye
| on the police and the enforcement OF the
| law The details of the plan are being
| Kept a secret for the present, but Bishop
| Potter said last night that an announce
raenl might Ue NIUE within u Few days
| When the Bishop first proposed the for
| nation of Il vigilance committee he suS-
| gested that it ought TO consist of not less
| than $500 men, but those planning the
J present organization are thinking OF only
I 8; fifth of that number. The vlellantes
| will be auxliaries of the Committee OF
| Fifteen. Wherever irregularities prevail,
| or the police neglect their duty, 1t VIII be-
| their duty 10 report such derelctIons
| elmer 10 the Fifteen OF some nlured re-
| form organization.
I
| Street. Brooklyn is only eighteen years
| Old and until recently nothing worse had
| been said of him than that he lived in
! idIenesS and did not contribute TO the
| support OF his mothers family. But, ac-
| cording to his own story, while he idled
| temptation came in the person of Richard
| Gallagher. who, he asserts. Induced him
| TO steal i'll order that Gallagher might
| profit
Following the arrest of two other boys
William Dickinson and Thomas Me
az hoe Iss
| grand jury on u charge of grand larceny
| tor stealing from the car-houSe or the
| Sixty-fifth Street and Fifth Avenue
| young Reid who says he accompanied
them on their missions of depreciation.
! his made an affidavit charging Gallagher
! not only with receiving the stolen goods.
| but with being the Fagin who cited the
| boys to their alleged acts of thievery-
As result Gallagher. who is junk
| dealer, ana Rg1o ms ueeen IN trouble with
| the police before, but never has been con-
victed, was yesterday arrested. and was
! held by Magistrate Bristow in $3.50 bail
AsTORs GIVE \ DANCE.
| Colonel and Mrs. John Jacob Astor gave
| dance last night at their home. Fifth
| Avenue and Sixty-fifth Street. The parti
! ton between the halls OF their dwelling
| and that adjoining of Colonel Astors
mother, Mrs Astor, was thrown back Tor
| the occasion. Mrs John Jacob Astor re-
ceived the guests in the draWing-roorG at
| the right OF the entrance. The big ball
! room, which extends entirely across both
! houses at the rear, was the scene or the
! dance Eae t.zAEcinS N4s general uatii sup
! per was served after midnight at snail
| tables placed about in the nails of both
| houses. There Were also larger tables ir
| the d.uius-roouls. at one OF which Mrs.
| John Jacob .tstor presided. while Mrs.
! Astor presided at the other
After the supper a cotillon was danced
! and was led by Craig w Wadsworth,
VINO danced with Mrs. John Jacob Aston
| During the favor figures Il number OF sill
! yer trinkets were distributed.
This testatricl was practically dead
! woman aJ the time this will was signed
! with her mark, and there IS nothing to
show that she had any intelligence at
{ the time the will was executed 10 enable
| her 10 make a proper Will. and l saaH re-
| fuse it probate the ground that II IS
| a fraud said Surrogate Thomas yestsr-
! dav in disposiug OF proceedings for the
| probate OF the will OF Sarah or SOPHIA
| Pelkington.
| Ios0 al No 499 West Broadway Her viii
| gave what real estate she possessed 10
her brother George. and left her personal
effects TO her sister. Marceila Pelkin.ston.
Who now resides in Ireland, and George
| Pe,kington's two children Her sister
| Eliza beth Brown. OF No. 49, Washington
Street contested the probate OF the paper.
charging undue influence and mental IN