The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-09
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
Tons of Earth, Lumber and Stone
Sent Skyward.
COSTLY EMERALD is MISSING.
Disappeared Very MystcriousIy and
Cunt BE Fonnd-Board Of Educa-
ton Asks Tor Fourteen Million
Dollars for School Purposes.
COSTLY EMERALD is MISSING,

ward at Union Square and Seventeenth
Street just after noon yesterday by the
explosion of compressed air pipe which
was being used by Holbrook, Cabot 6
Daily, the contractors who are excavatins
fer the Rapid Transit subway at that
point.
The contractors have been doing blast
ing on a small scale for some time.
Whenever a blast has been set off the
rock has been covered with heavy beams
and earth to prevent fragments of rock
from flying into the street and injurins
people One Of tile blasts yesterday sent
u big fragment OF rock against the COM
pressed air pipe, cracking it. There was
Il terrific explosion at once
Everything within ten yards Of the pipe
that wasn't nailed down went up in the
air Ii was all over in Il moment, though.
and as the laborers had retiretl TO Il dis
lance while the blast was set off, nobody
was hurt. The damage was slight, ac-
cording TO the contractors. The explosion
was not reported to- the police.
ATTACK OF, .'JOHNNiE.s.'
Samuel Shubert, manager of the Herald
Square Theatre, telepuoned to Captain
Thomas, Of the West Thirtieth Street
Police Station, last night that his stage
door had had u bad attack of the john
MES for q. week and asked for relleI
Captain Thomas picked out Detectives
Darcy and Shoenis because they are
young men and might be mistaken ter
Johnnies themselves and told them to mix
in. with the crowd at the stage door and
arrest all offenders.
The detectives found a group Of q dozen
or more young men to mix with. Two OF
them had a cab in waiting, and they
talked of capturing Edna May. Those on
foot divided up the chorus among them
selves in advance so that there Would~he
no confusion when the girls came out
and then waited for The Girl Up There
to let out
Edna May was the first to come out
The two young men saluted her and then
one on either side tried to lead her TO a
cab, at the same time trying 10 say some
thing about "a little supper and q ride
home" She shook the men off and
sprinted fer Broadway. TIE two disap-
pointed Washers then turned to Aine
Redmond. another member of the COM
pany. Willis trying to talk to her they
were nabbed by the plain clothes COPS
The capture seemed to discourage the
rest.
At the Tlirtieth Street Station the pris-
oners said they were George Atkins and
Eben Scnner. They said that they We're
Princeton students staying at the Hotel
Imperial and it was all Il mistake They
explained that they really had an engage
ment with u member of the theatre COM
pany and had mistaken the first two girls
for the one who should have been wait
ing for them. Captain thomas told than
that they were q pair of little whIpper-
snappers and q disgrace TO their felix's
Then he locked them UP.
\ JEWEL. MISSING
Durand & Co., one Of the oldest and
most conservative jsweiry manufacturing
firms in Newark, felt bound yesterday
to make public the fact that a remarkably
! fine emerald had disappeared most mys-
teriousIy in the process of setting Tor a
New York customer. The rich green
stone. valued at $3,000, was handed 10 the
foreman of the stOnesetterS q week ago
to-day and he in turn handed it to ore
of the Workmen, who picked II up with
a pencil Of bseswaX and, as he supposed,
placed it in the prepared setting Just
then he heard a click as of something
falling upon the iron floor at his tset as
he was wiping the beeswsN rom MS
fingers upon his apron. He looked first
to the floor. then to his bench and then
to the prepared setting. The gem was
gone, Then began a search Waleh mas
continued for a week, and The Stone mas
not been found.
The floor is of closely riveted sheet iron
and every inch of it has been gone over
by daylight and bulleye lamps repeatedly.
while every part OF the work bench has
been closely examined. The stone is a
large one, but microscopic creVices "ere
searched for fragments of 1t. The WORK
man who handled it is q veteran enpioye
cf the house and has set thousands OF
gems Of equal or greater value He IS
not under suspicion, nor will the mem
| hers of the firm disclose mis- name One
| of them said yesterday: 1T was a Dig
and valuable stone and the loss IS con-
siderable We tbsplore the publicity that
| its loss has made necessary. Where II
has gone we are unable TO tell.
WANTED LARGE SUM.
The Board of Education asked the city
to appropriate t,GtV,vvv for new schools.
Yesterday the Board of Estimate decided
to issue $500, 600 bonds for this purpose,
| and adopted a report which practically
| determined the future policy of the city
as regards appropriations for new school
| sites and buildings. The report showed
that the average expenditures for TINS
purpose in the last ten years had been
| S3,6TQ,D0 a year, and it was held that this
| was all the Board of Education could eX-
! pect TO receive in the future. TO give
| $4,000, 900, it was said, would paralyze the
! necessary development of the city IN
| other directions.
| These "other directions" include the
| construction of the underground railroad,
| the building Of bridges and tunnels be-
tween Manhattan and Brooklyn, the ac-
| quirement of new dock property and the
| building of new docks. To-day the Board
of Estimate voted to acquire $l,S90GVO
| worth of property required by the De-
| partment of Docks in the prosecution of
it's work of improving the North River
water front. The general plan for this
f; Improvement was adopted over two years
! ago, and several million dollars have been
expended in acquiring private water
rights, and in the erection of new docks.
| The old plan of giving military instruc-
| ton to boys 10 the public schools has
| been revived in bill to be introduced
! at Albany at the instance OF General
! George w. Wingate, who says that Sc
cretarE. Root is in favor of it. The plan
| proposes that army officers shall be de-
tailed to give the instruction
BROOKLYN LOSES A PREACHER
brooklyn is to lose, as we'll as gain, an
eminent pulpit favorite. Recently Rev
S. P. Cadman, of Manhattan, accepted
call to succeed the late DR.. Rehrends in
Brooklyn. Rev. DR.. A. c. Dixon. of the
Hanson Place Baptist Church. accepted
a call to the Ruggles-Street Baptist
Church, of Boston. He leaves a large
church to go to a still larger one The
Boston church is probably the most de-