The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-03-05
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM.
Devery's Power Has Departed From
Him.
WONDERFUL NEW EXPLOSIVE.
The Tests Are Said to Be Highly Satisfactory.
Prominent Couple Announced Their
Marriage, Which Took Place
Months Ago.

| NEW YORK, March, 4.-Willlam ..
Deyery's power in the Police Department
to protect his friends or the friends OF
| others is gone. The First deputy Conl-
| missioner, under the, new ponce law, iisis
1 charge Of the routine management OF the
1 men and is responsible for IL, out tneIe
| his authority ends. Comm ssioner Mich
] ael c. Murphy is not taking orders from
! the combination which has oeen backing
| the gambling houses and the pool-rooms.
| On the contrary, he has set the syndlcate
1 at defiance, and men conVersant with
| police affairs say that if any man NOW
! paws for police protection he is paying
| for something that cannot be delivered
! Colonel Murphy took the ONCE OF
! Police Commissioner with the greatest
reluctance. He begged to be allowed to
(, remain at the head of the Health De-
| partment, but Richard Croker and the
Mayor insisted that he subordinate his
personal preference, and he dld So
! Tremendous pressure was brought to
bear upon him as soon as he took the
! oath to permit gambling to continue. It
| was represented to him that a majority
| of the members of the Tammany EXecu-
| tive Committee were in favor of continu-
ing the system which he found when he
went into the department.
TOLD THE MAYOR.
|
Mr.. Devery for his first deputy, but be-
yc.nd that he would not go. He told
| Mayor Van Wyck that he intended to
close every gambling house and pool
| room IN the city.
That's right said the Mayor. Tear
| them to pieces and will stand by YOU"
Colonel Murphy did not ask his first
deputy, I1r. Devery, to assist him in
carrying out his purpose. He selected
Deputy Chief Cortright for this service,
and all matters of investigation are en-
trusted to him. The moment that a
complaint is received from amy source
Deputy Chief CCrtright is summoned
and the Commissioner gives it to him
with direction to report on it the next
day. These reports have been forthcom-
ing with much promptness, and while
they have not been fruitful in arrests
they have none the less been effective in
demonstrating to gamblers and others
that the day of protection" is past and
that the new commissioner is in earnest.
WONDERFUL EXPLOSIVE.
Tests are being made at the Sandy
Hook proving grounds with a new eX-
plosive of great power, and ordnance
officials say highly satisfactory results
have been obtained, says the Herald.
Great secrecy has been observed in con-
Quoting the tests, as the War Depart
ment has determined that nothing shall
be made public of the experiments at the
proving grounds.
1t has been learned that the new ex-
plosive is the invention of an American
and as yet has not been named. This
removes it from the class of explosives
that have been named and described and
marks it as something entirely new.
Loaded with the new explosive a shell
penetrated seven inches of armor and
then burst destructively. With most of
the explosives the heat generated by the
Shells impact has caused it to explode
before penetrating the armor. Hence, if
launched against the side of a battle
ship a shell would prove far less effective
than it it penetrated the armor before
exploding.
GREAT SECRECY.
AS a test of the power of the new ex-
plosve a shell was loaded with it and
buried many feet deep in sand and huge
pile of timber was placed on top. The same.
kind of a shell, loaded with an equal
amount of other explosives. was not
burst by the explosion. With the new
compound, however, the shell was burst
into thousand pieces and a sheet of
lurid fame shot up through sand and
timber many yards in height
1t was impossible to learn from those
who We're familiar with the result of the
tests with the new explosive further de-
tails of the trial. Ordnance officials speak
Suardedly Of the matter on account Of
the strict order of the War Department
that all information about tests at Sandy
Hook shall come from the department
headquarters at Washington
1t is known, however, that they con-
slider the results as SURPRISING those OBJ
tanned with any other explosive vet
tried. Much satisfaction is felt that the
inventor OF the compound that promises
TO nave an important bearing on the
ordnance of the future is an American
PROMINENT. COUPLE MARRIED.
Although Augustus l.. Poulson, one of
the best known young men in the Hill
section of Brooklyn, and Miss Blanche
L. Wilson, daughter of the late William
wilson, Y. 5. N, were married on No
vember 18th. 1900, the announcement was
not printed until yesterday. The reason
for this, according to the Rev. J. J. Coon.
or St johns Chapel in Brooklyn, who
married them. is, using his own words,
'"They have not been living together. T
believe. since the ceremony, and may
not be now, unless the printed notice of
the marriage is to let their friends know
that the period of waiting has come to an
end.''
NOT A SECRET. MARRIAGE.
by the period of waiting" Mr.. Coon
said he meant nothing except that they
Gldn,t choose to go to living together i'm.
mediately after the marriage
Now, there is nothing unusual he
continued. about the marriage: nothing
secret. They are two Of the best known
young people in the parish
1t seems that many in the parish knew
that Mr.. Poulson and Miss Wilson had
for a long time been sweethearts and
that they had been married. but it did
not seem to be generally known that the
bride went back to her mothers home
and the bridegroom to his fathers imme-
diately after the ceremony. They have
been to church together frequently and
often met at social gatherings since the
marriage, and Father Cocoon himself is
authority for the statement that there
was no opposition on either side to the
wedding.
UNSOPHISTICATED OFFICIAL.
Old svoyagers who have crossed the At
1antic many times on the liners were sur
prised yesterday morning when they went