The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-23
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FRO GOTHAM
Lewis Nixon Thinks Committee May
be Unnecessary.
coLER POSSIBLE CANDIDATE I.
Tammany May Kun Him for Mayor if
1t Is Found Necessary 3 Hook
anu LaddrrT Truck Smashed
J,,, :, Trolley Car
.coLER POSSIBLE CANDIDATE.

NEW YORK, Feb. 22.-Lewis Nixon,
Chief Tammany Purifier, autht flzea
statement yesterday to the erect mat ne
|. thought the appointment of Commls-S
s,oner under the police bill with able
deputies who are not affiliated in any
way with the unlawful elements IN the
city, would create a condition IN the CITY
that would make committees like the one
he is chairman of unnecessary. he saId
he would be glad il this was the case,
but did not say, as has been reported
that the Committee Of Five would go
out of existence with the appointment OF
a new Police Commissioner. Policemen
generally, he said, were tired OF being
classed as a lot of thieves. ana Wouiu
welcome the opportunity to do good work
without any danger of being pumsheo
for it.
COLER FOR MAYOR
The talk about Comptroller Coler's
nomination for Mayor is based on the
theory that Tammany believes that pollt-
ical conditions are so doubtful that 1t
will be necessary to put in the field a
candidate who will commend himself to
the better element in the city. If a
Talnmany victory does not appear certain
in November, it is altogether likely that
some such man as Coler or Edward NJ
Shepard or Lewis Nixon will be nomi-
mated for Mayor. If, on the other hand.
Mr. Croker believes he can win anyhow.
a candidate of the Van Wyck stripe will
be nominated. No political proposition
could be surer than this.
CHARGE FRAUD.
Undertaken William Necker, chief en-
gineer of the Union Fill Volunteer Fire
Department; DR.. Richard Jahr, of Wee
hawken Heights, and Thomas Kelly, an
ex-prize-fghter and insurance agent OF
Union Hill, were arrested yesterday
morning on capiases issued by Judge
John a. Blair. Of Jersey City, as the re-
suit of an indictment found by the Hud-
son county grand jury, charging them
with alleged conspiracy in attempting to
defraud the Colonial Insurance Company.
They were arrested on similar charge
several weeks ago and are now awaiting
trial.
The second bill was brought in on the
strength of evidence presented to the
grand jury that Keller wrote q $1,000 pol
icy for David Winston, an incurable l,rl-.
sumptiye, in favor Of Undertaken Necker
as the beneficiary, and that the policy
was granted after DR.. Jahr, then q med
zeal examiner for the company, certified
that Winston was a good risk.
1t is alleged that Winston had been
treated in severa! hospitals for his trou-
BILE and knew that he had no chance of
being permanently cured when Under
taaer Necker aided and cared for him
SMASHED HOOK AND LADDER TRUCK
A Madison Avenue trolley car ran into a
hook and ladder truck ut F'ifty-third
Street and Madison Avenue at noon yes
terday, knocked it over on it's side up
against the Madison-Avenue Presbyterian
Church. killed one Of the firemen, and in
jurcd three others, a spectator nnd the
motornlan of the car The truck was put
p1,+ TsfI md ,,J,+ Lrf five
Tor which it had started. The front end of
the trolley car was smashed, but its run
ring gear WIS not put out of order, and
travel was not much delayed. None of the
passengers were hurt.
COMBINE AGAINST rAllNI-ANY.
The Republican organization of the coun-
ty oif New York took yesterday its first
official action looking toward the forma
ton OF !. non-partsan, anti-Tammany
combination to oppose the municipal ticket
to be nominated next fall by Richard Gro
ker and his aides in Tammany Hall. The
Executive Committee of the County Com
nlittce and the County Committee tsel.
adopted a resolution of the brondest ma
ture, showing precisely where the Repub
IicGns elf New York county stand on the
questions involved in the municipal cam
paign.
\ resolution adopted unanimously de
cares that in the beliaf ara judgment
this committee the r iicans of New
York stand ready to COZ. rate as an Or
sanization with all other organizations and
associations, social or political, and with
all persons without regard to party aflii
alton. in laboring for the election of 2
municipal ticket selected without regard
to partisanship and commanding public
confidence.
TOO MUCH THEOLOGY.
The Rev DIR. S. d. Mcconnell inaugura-
ted brief Lenten monday services yester-
day at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, on
the Heights in Brooklyn, of which he rs
rector This is q part OF his address:
There is a prevalent idea nowadays that
the day of doctrinal preaching of creed and
Of .ueolocy has gone by. I hope 1t has:
The very best thing that can be done with
much OF the theology Of the past 1t to tor
Get it. Much df it is untrue and Immoral!
But we should not throw out the valuable
..,inss with those that are untrue.
..On Brooklyn Heights there ure twenty
or thirty churches, twice as many as there
ought to be. and they are not doing one
rithe of what they ought to- do or eXertlns
nna 1.-THE OF the influence they ought TO
exert 1t is certainly not the fault OF the
reople or the quality of the Christian lite
ttev are leading. What is it? 1t is doc
1rine. People ndhere to a form OF doc
t,ine which they believe to be important
and from sentiment or loyalty will not
give it up These divisions are with re-
card to secondary or unimportant doctF!n;'l
belief or theories
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