The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-10
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
Anti-Rice Committee Made No Re-
port as Expected.
FINED FOR MlsTREATING HORSES
Fair Prosecutor Conducted the Case
in {. Way That Surprised Every
One-Fucrst Bismarck Arrived
With Broken shaft.
FINED FOR MlSTREATING HORSES

NEW YORK, Feb. 9.-No report was
made at the annual meeting of the Tam
many Executive Committee last night by
the -Anti-Vice Committee, which Was APP
pointed tat he suggestion of Richard
Croker last November This failure to re-
port is significant. because it furnishes
fresh proof that the Tammany orsani-
zaiton will throttle the Five when their
| investigations become annoying
Lewis Nixon, chairman OF the Ant-Vice
| Committee, attended last nights meeting
prepared to give the results Of the work
of himself and his fellow investigators
| in detail. He had a carefully prepared
| report covering three typewritten pages,
! which he expected to read and which he
expected to create something OF seESa-
| ton
1t came to the knowledge of various
members of the Executive Committee that
| Mr. Nixon. in his report, either directly
or indirectly would attack Senator
| Timothy D Sullivan, Police Commissioner
| Sexton Street Cleaning Commissioner
| Percival E. Magic. Chief OF Police Devery
present last night. with the exception of
Devery They objected TO being held UP
| to censurc in their own organization.
Pressure was brought to bear upon Mr.
! Nixon. and though he remained ooiti-
| rate for some time. he finally consented
| in which the committee may continue its
| Investigations.
y FAIR PROSECUTOR.
! Miss Helen Balfour, a styNshly dressed
woman, who said she was Il private sec
| rotary and lived q No. so West Eleventh
! Street. in the YorkvilIe Police Court yes
| terCay morning, accused James Moriarity,
| the driver of q coal wagon, Of cruelty TO
| animals.
| Miss Balfour intelIgentIy conducted the
| case herself much to the establishment of
Magistrate Cornell and AIoriarlty's en-
| poyer. So veil did she conduct it that
Morfarity was held in 500 bail for trial,
Miss Balfour said she saw Moriaritys
| team OF horses' vainly struggling to drag
| heavy coal cart. with four tons of coal,
| up the hill in Lexington Avenue at Thirty
| first Street The driver. she said, was
! beating the horses numerically. although
| they slipped constantly on the ice.
He appeared to be particularly vindic-
! tice,'' said Miss Balfour, toward one of
the team. This horse was Il poor horse.
| I know something about horses myself,
| I know that the horse that Moriarity
was beating was unable to Go the work.
| l examined the horse myself | looked
| at his hoofs and found the shoes perfectly
smooth
MILLION y MONTH.
81 calculate upon q. million Il month for
| libraries and organs.
| This is what Andrew Carnegie is telling
! his friends. It is his way Of expressing
| his intention to devote TO public bene-
factions the major part of the great in
| come upon which he is to retire He viii
| be in a position to give away $12,C0o0o
| a year-enough to provide for the living
! expenses OF a fair-sized ctty-and still
! find time to keep the wolf Il considerable
| distance from the front door Of No. West
| Fifty-first Street
WILL PREFER CHARGES.
| Acting on the suggestion made in the
| January grand jury's presentment on the
| Bellevue Hospital abuses Commissioner
| Keller announced yesterday that he would
| prefer charges against Deputy Superin-
I tendents O'Rouke and Rickard as soon
| as he could gather all the material which
| might be needed as proof.
| II have sent to the District Attorney
| a request that he forward to me all in
! formation calculated to substautiate any
| charges ] may make said the Commits
| sioner IF for any reason Mr.. Philbin
| should decline to do as | ask, 1 Will pre-
| fer the charges on information which Is
! now in my possession.
| Discussing the report of the Medical
| Board concerning the needs OF the in
| stitution, Commissioner Keller said:
Il have long known of many things the
| report mentions. But money is needed
| before all the recommendations of the
! Medical Board can be put into effect we
! need u new administration building, Il
| new reception Office and new wards,
| which cannot be built unless we get a
| large appropriation from the city. We
| have succeeded in getting rid of prison
| labor and pauper labor TO a certain eX-
! tent Many of these details are matters
| of organization and may be accomplished
I without any trouble.
BROKE ONE OF SHAFTS.
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| and driven by the port engine only, the
| Hamburg-American liner F'uerst Bis
| narcz arrived last night from Naples.
At 9 O'Clock in the evening of February
| 18th q crack was detected in the massive
| shaft under the low pressure cylinder
| fhe engine was Immediately stopped. and
! the liner finished the run to New York
| under her port engine.
! The Fuerst Bismarck left Naples, her
| last port OF call in Europe, on January
| nth. She carried rs cabin and $40 steer
| age passengers, but no cargo. She had
! moderate weather up to the time OF the
| accident The liner was driving along
| about eight hundred miles from New
| York al her usual speed, when Mr.. IiniuS,
| The third engineer, noticed that the star
board engine was not running smoothly.
! There was u slight rattle that he could
! not account for, and he Immediately
! stopped the starboard engine The ship
! continued. uDIef the tIIitI titSlLltI LIZ
| helm being put over TO balance the port
| screw. An inspection revealed It wide
| crack in the section OF the crank shaft
| forward of the web, or great two-pronged
! rrn of steel by which the power is APP
| piled.
The Gripping OF the starboard engine,
{ together with a heavy head sea. that
| arose after the accident, reduced the
| speed of the Fuerst Bismarck to about
| thirteen knots an hour and she arrived
| at her pier in Hoboken at o'clock, about
| day and a half late.
! For using a shotgun to express his dis
| approval of boyish pranks along New
! York docks. William Warrington, captain
| of an oyster sloop, the Claire, may have
to answer to the charge of murder. The
| captain has been placed under arrest for
| felonious assault, and Arthur Messere,
| his thirteen-year-o victim, is so dan
| gerously wounded that there is little hope
+: Of his recovery.
THE TRIAL OF BEAHM,