The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-30
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
Women Crowd to Get Free Babies
From Superintendent Blair.
QUEER VERDICT ON MURRAY HALL
.He Was Lady" Says the Coroner's
Jury-The Fight Against Tam
many to Be Prosecuted With
Vigor-Isobbed the Mail.
QUEER VERDICT ON I'M URRAY HALL

NEW YORK, Jan 29-Never did the
women of New York and vicinity make a
greater -ush for a bargain counter than
hundreds made yesterday to get the
babies offered free by George Blair, ,Su-
per4nt esrdent OF Outdoor Poor. The de-
.naud for white infants far exceeded the
supply, and two stray waits who were
sent to the Randall'S Island Infant ASy-
hum or the. noon boat yesterday were
spoken for,' before they had been in the
institution half an hour. -.
II am very sorry, said Mrs Mary Z.
Dunphy, superintendent OF the snsutu-
tion to two women VITO CALLED TO setect
a baby shortly after one O'Clock, but
all of the babies have been selected
already
IF YOU wish, Mrs Dunphy continued,
I'VE will place your application on record,
and when we receive a baby correSpoIo-
ing with your description we will notify
you, and you can come anu sec IL ~ ID
what you want.
TIE two women. disappointed beyond
measure, gratefully awaited themselves
of Mrs. Dunphy's offer And ,-.us was
started the waiting list Never, proba-
bly,, did a waiting list grow more rap9d.E.
When night fell women applicants ior
babies still were waiting to have Them
names and addresses placed upon the
schedule.
He WAS \ LADY.
Murray Hall came to her death by
natural causes. He was lady.
This was the verdict returned pE CoEo-
ner Zucca's jury yesterday IN the INQUEST
into the death of Murray Hail, the Wo-
man who for thirty-five years passed as
q man was prominent in politics and a
member of the General Committee OF
Tarnr,anv Hall. The case, Coroner yucca
said. was not properly one Tor nam 10
have had: the question of sex ana the
r,rn,or of foul play having caused MIN 10
take it up.
In his speech to tie jury, as wen as
throughout the entire proceedings, tite
Coroner continually mixed his senoefs IN
reference to the deceased, often using
the neuter as d means OF escape.
! Miss Amelia Hall, the adopted daughter
of Hail. and DR.. w. c.. Gallaher, VINO
attended the masquerader IN heI
Illness We're the p1anclpsll "t.1.S
FUSION AGAINST TAMS1AN1:
At . meeting of the Central City COM
,,ittea Of the Citizeqs' Union last n1sfil
- was. announced that Headquarters ior
| the campaign would be eStab-lshesL Vii
February at No. 81 Union square E-<ie,-
Once settled there the lndepeh:sliI 80,
ers intend to prosecute WIN .iso. LIZ
campaign for fusion against ani u 10y I'll,
follow has been outlined. and mas pSen
;n1nrsa6 by many conspicuous Rekunii-
cans and Democrats. tbs plan ihcluSss
the. holding OF a convention IN ,HpL.i'
which a committee Of seventy VII NC ~ ~
nointed to discuss cadmates M NIL, ~,
leaders Of ottler. organizations IL [I
,Eantfon also will adopt platform. L t.at,-
ars- IN the organization which gave sem
ou- III coo votes in the three corheie 7
,TororaIrv fight of 1897 have also pre-
nared a publas statement.
- DREADED DISSECTION.
Friends of Nellie Hoesmer, VINO uiS'u -
| BELLEVUE Hospital or January ~. "a
vo,lnr voman's body was dlsposeu u
.ta bosnital authorities. On calhns d.
, t;,e bos,ital with Il basket OF 1ruil ioL
The natienI on January 1Sth' one VI NC
friends was shocked by the annoutieeiii,.
that Miss Eoesmer had theo the 90
after her admission and that Lel 49,
1-as already on the dissectinS tapie III Inc
College of Physicians anu oui
West Fifty-ninth Street
Althoueh the hospital RECORDS sho"
that Miss Hoesmer was removes ilo LII. ~
home at NO. 3S33i East Thirty-elSnth 9tieee.
in a Bellevue ambulance, her podS vas
consigned the next day to the tender Niei-
oies Of the surgeons scalpel. No attempt
was made TO send notice OF het ue1eh ~
tbe friends with whom she lived
One of the sad features of the woman 5
fate is the fact that she had always eA-
| pressed a dread of being dlssecteo- que
had made adequate provision Tor hef
burial, having kept several hundred uoi-
| lars in bank for that purpose.
EraTNTF,D FROM EXPOSURE.
William J. Zimmerman. q highly trusted
| ernnlove of the Postoffice Department,
| fell fainting across the desk OF Cnlteo
! States Commissioner Shields yesterday
| when he was accused of systenatlcstily
stealing from the mails. Chlef PostoIllce
hn1i
! has stolen from the mails for several
| wears, but Zimmerman only admitted
| thefts extending over one year. j. Lynn
! < Co., who were heavy sufferers from
| the mans operations. believe they have
| lost in the last six years between S50eVV
| and $4,000 through thefts OF mali. II neg
! have lost S43 money orders in the last
year.
A SARCASTIC SISTER.
I Mrs. Charlotte Y. Alderman will remain
! trustee of the property, No Mangln
| Street, despite the efforts made by her
! brother, Rodman a. Brush, to GUST her
| She wishes to retain the trust for the
| protection of her brother, she says. and
| because in the event OF his death the
title would revert to her.
Mr.. Brush applied to the Supreme
| Court for her removal on various grounds,
| one of them being that she refused TO
| see him When he called ct her residence,
| NO. DOL west flSNtS-Setoilu StiStt, ScA :
| ner Of Riverside Drive. informing him
| that ne could only gain admission by
! making appointments in writing
| Hearing that he had gone to the house
| in her absence. she wrote threatening
| to have him arrested for disturbing the
peace if he repeated the offense. He de-
clared in an affidavit that he went to her
! house last spring, and the door was not
| opened until he rung the bell long, loud
| and vigorously four times. After he had
waited for more than fifteen minutes his
sister, who is sixty-seven years old. APP
| peared and said, in a sarcastic tone:
Ring the bell again. I could not have