A LOT OF OLD GOSSIPS.
New York Times. Mar 2, 1891
No policeman is ignorant of the existence of the "Third House" in the department, and few have failed at one time or another to be subjects of its deliberations and comments. Its members may be called delegates from the several precincts and squads, and they are generally what are known as ordinance officers, who are soft-plank barnacles, who look after violations of the municipal and other codes, and trot errands and are rewarded by exemption from strict patrol duty aud a quasi-detective rank.
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THE SENATOR'S IDLE HOURS
New York Times. Aug 30, 1891
COHASSER, Mass., Aug. 29. -- "Down the Jerusalem Road! See the houses of Crane, Robson, and Barrett! All aboard!"
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MR. HARRISON'S STILL HUNT
New York Times. Aug 28, 1892
There are evidences that Mr. Harrison, through his National Committee, is making a still hunt this year. Mr. Carter is keepiag remarkably quiet as to what is going on in the brownstone building 518 Fifth Avenue, and the only signs of activity which are allowed to come to the public eye through the newspapers are brief official statements as to the callers who are taken up to see Mr. Carter and some campaign interviews which predict harmony on all sides and unbounded popularity for the Republican candidates and issues.
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THE HONORABLE SENATE
New York Times. Mar 28, 1892
WASHINGTON, March 27 -- "The honorable Senate," In its fretful and jealous desire absolutely to exclude the public from all knowledge of the work that it does with closed doors. Is on the point of doing something that will entitle to be stripped of its high-sounding and misleading description.
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THE WEEK IN THE CLUB WORLD
New York Times. Apr 5, 1896
Holy Week in the New-York clubs, it must be confessed, was, paradoxically speaking, somewhat gay and more animated than the same period has been in some years past. The causes already detailed in this column which generally make the season of Lent one of the liveliest of the year in the club world, and which may be all comprised in the one that there is little outside entertainment at that period, of necessity operate most strongly during the most solemn week of the penitential season.
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THE WEEK IN THE CLUB WORLD
New York Times. Apr 19, 1896
The unusual heat has been responsible for the sudden transferrence of club interest to the country and the subsidence almost entirely of the previous animated discussions relative to the Raines law in the New-Yorks clubs the past week. There is beginning to be a feeling, however, that because the operation of the law so far as it affects clubs has been postponed until May 1, and the Court of Appeals decision in the Adelphi Club case was favorable to the law being inoperative as regards the clubs, clubmen have lulled themselves into a condition of false security, and that the delightful mint juleps, Remsen coolers, and other hot-weather drinks of last Sunday, and the small morning hours of the present days may be summarily cut off when May 1 arrives.
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CAPT. CHAPMAN ON TRIAL
New York Times. Jan 9, 1897
The testimony of the second day in the trial, at Police Headquarters, of Capt. Chapman, charged with unlawfully interrupting the Seeley dinner at Sherry's, Dec. 19, was listened to by a crowd that filled the room to its capacity.
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CHAPMAN HEARING ENDED
New York Times. Jan 14, 1897
Testimony in the Chapman case was concluded yesterday. The question of whether or not the Police Captain exceeded his authority in interrupting the Seeley dinner at Sherry's, Dec. 19, now rests with the Board of Police Commissioners.
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CHAPMAN IS EXONERATED
New York Times. Feb 4, 1897
The Police Commissioners decided yesterday at the board meeting that Capt. Chapman was justified in forcing his way into Sherry's on Dec. 20 last while the dinner given by Herbert Barnum Seeley in honor of his brother, Clinton Seeley, was in progress, and dismissed by unanimous vote the charges preferred against him.
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THE COMMISSION'S SESSIONS.
New York Times. Oct 9, 1898
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8. -- The President's investigation commission continues to hold its sessions with doors closed against all spectators except the limited number decided upon at the beginning to be admitted, including a very few reporters of the press associations and representatives of the local newspapers.
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