The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-22
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM.
Devery's Last Day as Head of New
York Police.
A HALT CALLED ON DOCK BOARD.
10y at Hospital Bleedin. to Death in
Spite of Observation-Disclosures to
Be Given Bnii-Lcvy Has
Phenomenal Luck.
A HALT CALLED ON DOCK BOARD

Police of New York, says the Herald. His
| fate rests with Governor Odell, whose sig
| nature will make into law the bill lesisla-
] ting the present Police Board and the
+! Chief out OF Office
! Governor Odell is expected to sign the
| bill to-day, and to file with it a ne1noran-
dunn answering the objections raised by
Mayor Van Wyck in his veto message.
The moment it is known in Mulberry
| Street that the bill has been signed MI.
| Devery will be regarded as a former
chieG'' The Police Board yesterday des-
! ignated Deputy Chief Moses c. Cortright
| to assume charge Of the force His as
| sumption Of this authority PROBABLY Will
! be resisted by Chief Devery. but the re-
sistancc will be only perfunctory. Mr..
| Devery will fight in the courts to hive the
! new law declared unconstitutional.
AT its meeting yesterdayfthe Police Board
dismissed the charges against Chief Dew
| cry which have been pending for several
years. The Chief was not retired ON a
| pension of $1,000 u year, because he did not
! wish to be SO retired. He objects to be-
| ing kicked out OF the department through
| the summary action Of the Legislature,
| and has been advised by counsel that the
| law cannot be sustained in the courts. He
| therefore spurns the opportunity to accept
| an annual pension and will fight for vim
| dication.
GOING TOO FAST.
| Mayor Van Wyck, in accordance with his
| promise to the Board of Estimate yester-
day, plainly told Peter f. Meyer, men,
| Der on the Dock Board and Richard Crok-
ers business partner, that the Board had
! exceeded it's authority in attempting to
| pledge the city to exhaust its entire Dor
| rowing capacity by spending $2o,eSVoo Tor
| new dock property without consulting
| him.
| He informed Mr.. Meyer that the Board
| yus going altogether too fast and that 1t
must keep within the limit OF S5,Oo0.00o
| year imposed by law. He told MI Meyer
| that the Dock Commission would not be
! permitted to hold up all other improve
! 1nents in order that it might carry OUT It's
| own plans. and he ordered 1t to IesclEd us
| action SO tar as possible.
It was learned yesterday that through
the recklessness of the Dock Board, there
| is danger that the tax rate of 1902 may be
| the highest in the history OF the city. Ii
more property be condemned than the
citv is able to pay for by the issue OF
| bonds, the former owners have the rlshe
| IN obtain Judgment against the city Tor
! the amount of the award.
BARKER GIVEN BAIL
Thomas C. Barker, who shot the Kew
John Keller at Arlinton, n. j., Will De
| neon to-day. This decision WIS reached
| by. J,dse Blair in Jersey City late yes
| +Irdav afternoon after q conference with
Prosecutor Erwin and Lawyers van
Wrinkle and Wall, counsel for Barker.
THE Judge said it would be necessary 70
have a certificate from physician, Setting
forth that the minister WAS III no ufhaSe,
! Of diving of his wounds. 1t is ulluerstooo
that DR.. Exton. who has been saatenui'is
Mr.. Keller, will give such Ger ~
M Erwi, Judge Blair placed Barker
| hail at 5000. Mr. Van Wrinkle mas Sc
owed n bondsnan, but would not make
1rnoyvn his identity last night. Inc "iahu
~, did not consider the compliant
ooairst Barker at its session sesteioas
| afternoon.
INTERESTING CASE.
Extraordinary efforts are oeii,s ii'oS ~
! her physicians and her trlenus 70 sshs
| the life of Miss Bessie flsher' siie :, .te
woman who was burned in ire IN Tue
pierrepont on February list. MISS + lsller
:. - daughter of George NJ. Fisher, u re-
| t;rad merchant. who lives at NO. 81 Hal
COW street. Brooklyn. She was visiting
ber sister at the Pierrepont When the
fire occurred. .;,.o5
covered her Whole b 1,od rrotectea
! where her corsets had Froteceeo
! her The young woman's death was
| looked ,,non at first as certainty by not
! onlv/ ner fu1nily, but by the physicians
Who attended her. The reason for thss
was that an instance has rarely neeii
known Of person recoterAhs IiA
| burns where over half OF the SKIN sur
| face was affected. consequence "nei'
! Miss Fisher did not die her case began TO
o+tract attention among medical men,
both because of her remarkable vitality
and because of the amount of skin graft
| inc, which would be required to cover the
| burned surface should she finally pass
| the danger from septic poison. generally
| present in its worst form IN such d case
| TO KEEP UP TONE.
! Thomas f. Ryan, president Of the Nor
| ton Trust Company, who last week pur-
| chased for his own occupancy the CID
| Minturn mansion, at the northwest cor
| ner of Fifth Avenue and Twelfth street.
| Yesterday bought the Lenox house, at the
! northeast corner of Fifth Avenue anu
| Twelfth Street. For the latter property
Mr.. Ryan paid about 100000 to the Pres
| byterian Board of Home and Foreign
| Missions.
Mr.. Ryan bought the Lenox house to
protect himself from a possible undeslr-
able neighbor in the shape Of an apart
ment house or mercantile building. Inc
| LenoX property, which was sold by John
| N. Golding, fronts l31 feet in Fifth Avenue
| site is therefore large enough to permit
of just such an improvement as Mr..
Ryan does not wish to have opposite his
residence.
1t is interesting to note that, although
Mr.. Ryan paid only about s25O,OO0 for the
Minturn dwelling, where he intends to
make his home, he gave 100000 for the
parcel opposite. simply to preserve the
character of the neighborhood.
BLEEDING TO DEATH.
Six-year-old Louis Macari has been "
ing in Bellevue Hospital ever since Fri
day, his life ebbing away, while visiting
physicians and members of the house
staff have applied every remedy known
to medical science in an effort to save his
life.
Louis is what is known in hospital
parlance as a .sbleeder.'' In his blood
there is lacking a certain element neces-
sary to coagulation. and his case is
parallel with that of the fraiI little boy
in zola's DIR. Pascal whose blood
ebbed away through a scratch in his
delicate skin.
Cedio Macari, the father of the little
boy. who lives at No. $50 East Twenty
second Street. ran to Bellevue HoSpitaI