The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-27
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM.
New York Soon. TO. Have a Hotel sEx-
cIusiyeIy for Women.
TWO WIVES, BUT NO BlGAMIsT
Police Testify That HcriIby Was Un-
relentin: in Eight on Vice-Giri
OF Fifteen IsToo Bad for
the Iioior,natorics.
TWO WIVES, BUT NO BlGAMIST

the exclusive use Of women. The Wo-
men Hotel Company yesterday pur-
chased TOR about 100000 the House or In
uustry, on the nor,h SIDE OF twenty
nln.h Street and the south slde OF Inlr-
. tietn-n.nth Street 10 1eec east OF M,dl-
son Avenue. 1T has a frontage IN each
street OF rs feet, and the piot IS 1866 leet
deep. Contracts for the sale OIL the prop.
erty We're signed yesterday, bat a trans
fer will not be effected until the supreme
Court formally approvs It,
Though the idea of building hotel ex-
cluSiveIy for women is not new, II has
taken definite shape in its. present form
only in the 1ast two years. A. t. Stew
art built the Park Avenue Hotel for
working women, but SO many restrictions
were PROVIDED for the observance of.ltS
patrons that it did not succeed, and the
building was devoted TO the uses OF an
ordinary hotel. The Margaret Louisa
Home. in East Sixteenth street, is at
present the only hotel in the city which
Is exclusively for women. Though no
person is allowed to remain there more
Than one month at a time. it is always
filled.
IT is proposed in the new hotel to give
self-supporting women place of resi-
dence and also to provide Il pace where
women visiting the city alone may be
received without the suspicious scrutiny
other hotels. The new building, VIII be
twelve stores high. and will contain all
the modern convenienceS. 1t will be fire
proof and viii have ample parlors, read
ing, music and sewing rooms, restaurants
and baths.
TWO WIVES, BUT NO BIGAMIST.
Samuel G. RodenbauGh,e of Belvidere, n.
j., was tried before the Warren County
Court the present week on a charge of
bisamy and found not guilty Mr.. Morrow
defended him and uncarthed a law that
gave the prisoner his freedom, and when
he read the law to the Court, everybody,
including the trial Judge, was greatly
surprised.
Rodenbaugh had no. counsel, and the
Court assigned Mr.. Morrow to defend
him. It was generally conceded That a
conviction would follow, as the cream
stances of the defendants second mar
riaSe were We'll known. His first wife
came here several months ago, and had
him arrested.
The law that Mr.. Morrow cited was
passed by the New Jersey Legislature in
1898, and the section relating to bigamy
provides that it shall not apply TO the
case of any wife or husband who absents
himself or herself from the other for five
years altogether, such person not know
ing the other to be living within that
time. The person taking advantage of the
separation must not be the deserter Of
the other.
AN INTERESTING CRUISE.
With many distinguished Americans
and Europeans on board, the cruising
yacht Prinzessin Victoria Luise, OF the
HamburG-American line, will sail to-day
for an extended cruise in the West In
dies and the Spanish Main. Starting from
her pier in Hobollen AT IL O'Clock this
morning, the yacht will cruise as far
south as Port of Spain, Trinidad, and La
Guayra, Venezuela. The Prinzessin Vic
toria Luise will travel more than six
thousand miles before she returns TO New
York. about March I'd.
From here the yacht will sail directly
south. calling first at Port au Prince.
Hayti. The cruise also includes stops at
Domingo City, San Juan, Porto REQ; ST.
Thomas. Danish West Indies; ST Pierre
on Martinique Island; Port of Spain, La
Guayra, Puerto Cabello, Eenezueia; Cur;l-
Gao. Kingston, Jamaica: Santiago, Glen
fuegos and Havana, Cuba, and Nassau,
in the Bahamas. Several days will be
spent at Havana.
FIGHT TANIMANy.
Governor Benjamin 3. Odell. Jr., at the
annual dinner of the Wcst-Side Republi-
can Club, in the Waldorf-Astoria last
night, outlined what practical politicians
regarded the position the Republican
organization Will assume III The coming
Mayoralty fight. He declared that it
would be an error for the opponents of
Tammany TO hope for victory through
Tammanys mistakes. and asserted that
the true policy would be for all opponents
Of the present regime in this city TO unite
in giving the citizens the reforms they
demand through legislation in Albany
These statements from the Governor
were received with tumultuous applause
HI;
They gave voice to a sentiment now
quite general among straight party Re
publicans, that Governor Odell is the man
who will leave nothing undone to bring
about harmonious fusion against Tam
many between the Republicans who sup
ported General Tracy for Mayor in 1897
and the Citizens Union and Independents.
FIFTEEN, BUT NOT SWEET
Nellie Cronin, girl of fifteen, is so bad
that three reformatory institutions have
turned her out of doors after having re-
ceived her because Of the effect Of her
presence on the other inmates. Police
Magistrate Bremen of Brooklyn, does not
know what to do with her He yesterday
sent her temporarily to the House of the
Coed Shepherd. where she had been be-
fore. AS she was taken out of court the
girl said: I'll make them tired yet
On one occasion when she was wan ed
for stealing jeweiry from two men, Nellie
was found drinking in one of the lowest
dives on the East Side. She fought the
detectives and called on the rouShs in
the place to help her. She then declared
it to be her ambition to be woman
burglar.
Magistrate Bremen sent the girl to a
shelter. and the next morning the super
intendent begged the Magistrate to take
her away. She had used such language
that the superintendent had found it
necessary to isolate her from the other
children.
Nellie was sent to the House of the
Good Shepherd but the sisters there
quickly asked to be relieved of her. say
ing she had shocked and scandaLzed the
girls in the home. bad as some of them
were.
Sent next to the Catholic Protectory.
she was returned from there after three
days with this character:
I'VE have five hundred girls in the Pro-
tectory, but there is not one like this one.
She tried to organize a rebellion, and she
| used language and was guilty Of conduct
that made even the most hardened girls
blush
HERLTHY AS FOE OF VICE
Af+tfe reS1lmption of the rial of Police