The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-03-02
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM.
Gambling Houses Were Closed Tight
as a Drum.
TEuT0NIC MET A GIANT WAVE.
Dashed Over tie Vessel and Seriously In
jured Two Passengers-An Au:
tomobile Dashes Into
Bakery.

NEW YORK, March 1.-Panic stricken
issued for their arrest, the proprietors OF
several of the best known gambling
houses in the city have disappeared, says
the Herald.
Owners of these resorts have been con-
WINGED that the men conducting the pres
ent crusade mean business. SO generally
has this idea been accepted that every
gambling house in the city was closed
as tight as a drum last night. There was
no activity during the afternoon at the
places down town where day games are
conducted and last night even the lux
uriously furnished resorts in the neigh
borhood OF Fifth Avenue were closed.
There was considerable exodus OF pro-
prietors and attaches of these Illegal re-
sorts on the day following the Committee
of ,Fifteen's wholesale raids in the Ten
derloin. It had been hoped by the man
ayers of the raids that they would eaten
at least one of the head men in each OF
the resorts to which a detachment Of
police were led. This hope, it is believed
by Special Sessions Judge William TRAY
ers Jerome, was realized in several in
stances, but i'll other places the raids
were a failure in this respect.
The Committee of Fifteen and District
Attorney Philbin have succeeded in con-
vincing the proprietors of gambling
houses OF at least one fact That Is,
that the present crusade is genuine, and
that there will be no relaxation in the
efforts to close up these resorts.
A GIANT WAVE.
While the Teutonic, Of the White Star
Line, which arrived yesterday, was
speeding toward this port on Sunday.
tremendous wave, rising out OF a moder-
how
rolled thunderousy aft Two passengers
were caught on deck by the flood and
seriously injured and minor damage was
done to rails and fittings. Panic spread
throughout the saloon and Storage until
officers of the liner treasured the fright
ened passengers.
Up to that time the voyage had been
without unusual incident. The sea for two
DAYS had been unusually calm for a VIM
ter voyage, the officers said. Sunday
morning dawned clear, but there was
moderate sea running. Toward O'Clock,
however, the wind fell somewhat and the
sea was growing calmer. The course OF
the Teutonic was west by south and the
wind west-northwest, blowing perhaps
twenty-five miles an hour.
USUAL SPEED.
The Teutonic was running at her usual
speed when suddenly directly in her
track rose q mountain Of water The liner
dropped into the hollow in front OF the
advancing wave and her bow drove under
it. She did not lift on the swell and II
came laundering over the forward turtle
back, towering twenty feet above the
deck and rolled toward the bridge.
Stanley c. Wilson, a saloon passenger.
vas on the promenade deck, having just
left the breakfast table He was caught
BY the flood Of water and dashed against
the rail. His Jaw was broken and he was
picked I'D unconscious. On the storage
deck the water had more serious effect.
John NIichaelson, twenty-five years ola,
who came from Denmark, was over
WhcImed and carried the whole length or
the Storage deck When the snip
emerged from the wave and the water
cleared from her deck Nicholson was
found unconscious lying in the scupper
with his right foot almost torn OH 1t
was hanging simply by a shred OF hesh
and it was necessary to amputate it.
LOOKING FOR JOBS.
Thrty-one customs inspectors OF TINS
mort were notified yes terday that the
positions they had occupied were apoi-
ished, and that they must look for other
employment. Two deputy surveyors
Daniel Z. Bowling, who was once acting
Mayor of this city, and Theodore +.
Reed-received requests from the Secre-
tary of the Treasury for their reslstla-
lions.
Mr.. bowling and Mr.. Reed are both
Democrats Collector George r. Bidwell
is a, Republican, and no one who knows
him doubts that he is a practical poll
tician and believes in reWardlng 1rlenoS
and not putting ones self out too much
to oblise enemies. But in this case 1t is
we'll understood that something more
than a political advantage is the OBJECT
in view. Collector Bidwell. Surveyor
Croft and Naval Officer Sharkey nave
all united to effect what they believe VIII
be a practical reform in the customs ser
vice at this port.
CUPID'S WORK.
Cupid has been very busy. of late IN
the Cropsey Avenue Methodlst Episcopal
Church in South Bensonhurst, and now
the pastor is to marry the pretty So
nrano of the choir and be pastor no
longer.
The Rev. Orrin Wilmer Snodgrass has
annlied to be removed to another charge,
and the official Board of the Cropsey
Avenue Church failed to extend to nm
a call for another year. Church gossip
thinks that the action of the Ohciai
Board may have been influenced to some
extent by friendship for young sultor
for the sopranos hand, VINO was oeledleu
by the pastor. The pastor says ne does
not believe this is true but admits that
he has not received the Can ioi 'iie Ao>s
church year.
AUTOMOBILE IN A BAKERY.
AS if in emulation of the proyerblal
bill in the china shop, an automobile
brousham for some reason unexplained
dashed across the sidewalk in front OF
No III Eighth Avenue last night and
crashed through the window of a bakery