The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-25
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
Steel Kings War May be Amicably
Settled.
WOMAN DETECTIVE STABBED.
Flagship of Venezuela Formerly Jay
Gouid's Yncht-Murray Halls
Death May Have Been Due
to All Assault.
WOMAN DETECTIVE STABBED.

tional Tube Company will be settled ami
cably within the next thirty Gays, IL IS
reported, by the purchase OF the NATIONAL
Tube Company by the Carnegie Company.
In the meantime, however, both compa-
MES are intrenching themselves for bit
ter fight, if the peace negotiations 90
not bring about satisfactory results.
The National Tube Company has always
depended upon the Carnegie Company
for it's steel bilets and raw material. IL
has been one of the most important Gus
toners of the Carnegie Company.
WAR WOULD BE COSTLY.
If the National Tube Company carries
out it's threat of Withdrawing it's patron
age from Carnegie he will be compelled
to find another market for his product.
In order to do this he has threatened
to go into the tube business, while he
has already made plans to fight the Ma
tional Sheet Steel Company, which Is
another withdrawing customer.
J. p Morgan & Co. have purchased
$4,000 acres of coal and iron lands III
Green county, Pa, IN the interest OF the
National Tube Company and the Federal
Steel Company, in both of which j. P
Morgan and John D. Rockefeller arc In
terested. The idea is 10 be prepared to
make these companies independent of the
| Carnegie Company in the event of war
| breaking out.
vENEZUELA'S FLAGSHIP.
Inc HaSSNlp Oh the NeNt6ueidIl navy
which isn't big enough to get into Bras
! sey's. but is small enough to navigate al
| most any old stream in President Cas-
| tro's domain will sail for La Guayra
! this afternoon from Pier 8. East River
| She is now the Restaurador. Originally
| she was Jay Gould's steam yacht, the
| Atlanta, once the flagship OF the Ameri-
! can Yacht Club
| She was built by the Cramps In 1889,
| and, until recently, appeared only in
! black She is now white. with simmer
! ing gold band about her like a porcelain
| hath tubs, and her name in gilt letters
| on her escutcheon. She has slowed away
| 200 tons of coal and a lot of provisions
| for the trip.
| Her skipper, Captain jeremiah Meri-
| thew, was formerly chief officer of the
| transport Mcclellan. Her chief officer,
E. S. Estes, and her third officer, D. B.
! Castle We're formerly in Uncle Sans
| navy. Chief Engineer Bayne was until
| recently the transport Sedgwfck. All
the officers are getting a bigger wage
| than they could collect from the United
| States for Il similar service, and all are
| of an adventuresome disposition, includ-
| ing the chief steward, Hanrahan. who
| was a member of the Greedy relief ex-
| petition.
| The crew of the Restaurador. forty all
| told, are seameu of all nationalties. Most
| of them the skipper says, have served in
| the American navy. Many, apparently,
| have served in South Street and in the
| Bowery, assisting schooners across bars.
! The skipper says that he and they are
| ready for anything that Venezuela wants
| done for Il consideration.
WOMAN STABBED.
Dissatisfied with the explanations made
| by her husband about his frequent trips
to this city, married woman resident of
| Philadelphia. employed Miss Minnie
| Roach, a Philadelphia detective, to follow
| him. The husband arrived here Sunday
| night and Miss Roach was on the same
! train. Tuesday night she passed the man
| on One Hundred and Fourth Street. ard
| he stabbed her in the back. but she re-
| fused to give her name. and Dr.. James
| 5. Mckenzie, who extracted the knife,
| says she is not seriously hurt.
| Miss Roach, when asked for the name
Of the man, exclaimed: Give you his
| name? Well, I guess mott His wife VIII
| pay me Well for not doing that!'
| MURRAY HALL.
| 1t is now charged that Murray Hall, TIE
| woman who, for twenty years. lived end
| voted in New York as a man, came 10
| her death as the result OF an assault by
| q man whose name She communicated 20
| the District Attorneys office in a letter
written on her death-bed. In many re-
| spects the case OF this extraordinary
| woman, who was able to conceal Eer sex
| for many years and who actually mas
] queruded as a husband of another woman
| with whom she lived, is one of the most
| remarkable on record. Her will case will
! present novel and interesting problems
| in law, and If her death was the result
| of u murderous assault, another sensa-
| ton will be added, to q case already SEN
| sational enough.
! A COOPER PAINTED.
When Charles Harris, q young cooper
| of No. SO Kent Avenue, Williamsburg,
! went into Joseph Nets saloon at No. 6S
| North Eighth Street for a pint cf beer
early on Monday morning. five Poles asked
Nhim II ne wanted to join Polish club
| to which they belonged. Harris declined,
! but the men, it is alleged seized and
| carried him into a rear room, where they
| took some of his clothes off and daubed
| him with black paint They smeared the
| paint on his arms, legs and face, painted
! a skeleton on his back, and then with a
| pin scratched a large cross on his chest.
| When Harris reached his home he tried
| in vain with water and rags TO wipe
away the paint. He called neisabors.
! and the paint was got off with turpen-
| tine and benzine.
Court on Tuesday and complained against
| the saioon-keeper. A warrant against
/ Nett was issued and in court before Mag
| istrate Kramer yesterday he denied par
| ticipation in the painting. In adjourning
! the hearing the Magistrate issued a war
| rant against the five Poles
| A FINE ORCHESTRA.
| The feeling inspired by the concert OF
| the Pittsburg Orchestra here was of re-
| gret that New York could not possess
! SO admirable an orchestra, especially so
| great a conductor as Mr.. Victor Herbert
! New York gets the best of music, OF
| course, and plenty OF it, but most of it is
| imported from other countries and other
States, and Pittsburg. Boston and Chi
! cage possess bands which New York en-
vies, but thus far has failed to equal.
| w. e. Whittmore. the Chief Engineer
| who is constructing the new docks for
| the North German Lloyd Line in Hobo
| ken. and who has acted in a similar ca
/ pacity for the neutrality-suspicious. Line,
! said at luncheon given on board the
| yacht Prinzessin Victoria Luise, that the
! new Hoboken docks would be among the
/ largest and best III the world Contracts
| were awarded Saturday. he said for the
/ building of a new pier 500 feet long and
| 90 feet wide, with a bulAhead shed 40
| feet wide.