The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 18, 1905, Page 7

tr St F it pceranmssrtasumnnanenaeanat teammates aentaetennsaen late Pretty Japanese Girl SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD MAID OF JAPAN MYSTERIOUBLY DISAP h PEARS—POLICE BELIEVE SHE IS A PRISONER IN RE f : ag STRICTED DISTRICT ' has 1} . ‘ Monday night in | sist he} n t t JA Taka w eu ty aval purposes —— J Such a Quietness of Taste : Steerer rr eee ee || THEY DON'T RUN SO MUCH TO HOUSE AS THE M'CALLS, BUT a Z ges ahcced . STONE PALACES AND FRENCH SERVANTS KEEP THEM IN * N N ¥ * THE GAME—NOT FAMOUS AS SPENDERS—SOME INTIMATE ——_ Har- & *) * FACTS ABOUT THE FAMILY ; in A *| *! pany * sees ee 7 *| * of * con * * 8 1 pres Mu- * we tual Lt s . * as Robert #® % H. McCurdy, who was a di - % or of the Miftual Lif * * bw "I st $40,000,000. # 4 * Salary § ory *! 9 ® the large o y* 1 % salary tm th ' | * Tak routine *> * * * Keer week- @| end pa sins very w] ® little *| * . * - * ROBERT H. MCURDY . * Age 46 . % Born in New York city * *® Graduated fr Harvard in & we 1882 * % Began dis tnseran re! tk with Mutual Life same ye * We Superintendent of foreign & . of Mutual 1886 * 1902 «| ot 1 A. Me- ®| president of the com- * *) ® Draws an income of $147,- @] % 000 per year *! % Has received hundreds of #! ® thousands of dollars in com- #| HF missions since 1963. *| 1% Is also trustee of the Mutual. & ")® Director of Astor National #/ & bank, Windsor Trust company #| Wand of the Casualty Company @) —— 9 of America. | | MNCERDY BUTATE Aummiiriwn he TST TeTTTLTee Fa it he would rently. alwars the same | — way, quiet, self-sufficter un- slurmed, Maybe Mr. MeCurdy was not anx- Rot look hin 70 years, He in|!" because of the feeling of se- so as hls son Robert. gen- | urity which comes from the pos- j session of vast wealth He ts per- MeCurds very |} | $60,000,000, and bh: enermonus hold- mech complimented when bis COM | ings in scores of industrial corpor tienes, and hie real estate boldings are very extensiv W YORK, Oct. 18.—Richard a.| dy, president of the Mutual excellent health. tache glistens gray in the sunlight. His daily routine includes an hour's Journey in a palace car from Mor- ristown to New York. The train ix known as the “miltfonaire's spe- clal.” Mr. MeCurdy drives to and from his home in a shiny victoria with two men the box. When he leaves the train at Hoboken he takes the ferry to Barclay street where a private coupe takes him to his office. He returns on the “spe cia” each day at 4. This he & year in end year out, desp’ 70 years. NEW YORK, Oct. 17 ‘The fam- ty of Richard A. MeCurdy who of them ha a tes at the insarance investiga- of farntly emoluments ROBERT H. arCURDY nting to $4,534,1204 tr elttes on salaries Increased his an-|"° “0h Brotentious sty'e Me Sent stipend trom $100,000 to $150.-| ance dignitaries who do not re pees. He was worth that amount. he| enttartes whe imed; his committee | nearly as big ss . Grould not have given it to him. | hard A. MeCurdy, of the Mu ‘The president of the Mutual faces! tual, who gets $150,000 a year for “the investigators rauch as the aver-|being president, has age man would sit on a dock, letting |and this tratt of the fat ‘ Tile legs hang over to the lapping |in the succeeding generati water. Inquisitor Hughes would | McCall, president of the New pound his question and McCurdy | Lite, gets $50,000 a year less Would deliberate on he had the| Mr. MeCurdy, but during the past answer framed the way he wante $ # RAILROAD ROBBERS CANNOT BE FOUND four years he spent neari Although nearly two weeks ago, road, and as a last straw the whole the Great Northern “Fiyer” was! pack of sleuths tried to make a ban field up and the company’s safe) dit out of a cook @ynamited at Spring Beach, not far| The cook was L. F. Camp, and the Ballard, no trace of the rob-| blotter at police headquarters shows | that he was released after being held on suspicion. The police, how ever, as a precaution, had a photo lgraph taken of the suspect. The Star received information a few has yet been found. The bandits, three in number, se cured in the neighborhood of $96,000 @nd escaped. Since that date rail Toad detectives, state and city au ’ thorities have followed even the| days after the daring robbery say Inont remote clues only to meet with| ing that the holdups were known {disappointment. The first step was|in this city and came here a few hours after the crime All work now being done to un cover the trail of the bandits is be. ing kept very quiet, but the ratlroad sleuths promise a surprise before | Monday. to arrest two vagrants who hap- to ed to be beating their way Feverett that night | The next effort to land the ban dite resul in the reported arrest @ brakeman in the employ of Mr, MoCurdy t# tall, erect and in| His flowing mus- | on a summer Richard M Rob- ert H. MeCordy, and other membe of the family have a sort of Mo- Cardy col the mer t at Morrie Plains, N. J. not to mer tion the business colony in the mag- nificent Offices of the company at s wtreet, thin city nervanta automobiles P is, but Uney are net famous as ders,” entertain ry le live in qui The elder M sore time ago | purchased at swell Morristown a ¥ ne ne atrac- “ lines sur- beautiful put it iture Mutual from his f who was for ny years a director ir a Mr. McCurdy, it is under tood, has always planned that hin om, HOW general manage uta with ‘ome of $ 1d follow him a I nection it has been re wh tnean the yo oe her e of the Mutual mpt him he was asked | what the total assets of the Mutual amounted to | fy insurance olf y A 1 nd, who y Gillet 1 e Tex enident, and P. Sta ant | Mr. Thebaud has 1 great ‘ r © the M His | which is nearly three times the «al lary of the president of the United States. Thebaud lives in fine style jat Morristown * income Citlette has b a year Moore Piliot $1 | 090 | One of the things the insurance }investigation has put on ais that the “Big Three’ insurance com | panies have established something |resembiing commercial dynasties ‘The president sits on the throne and | his son Inherita tt | ‘Word w elved Tuesday mor ing from North Forks, Alaska, stat ing that it was 10 degrees below zero at that place ATTLE STAR DNE -WE eRe RY “ * * . * * - * * * * * * aeeeeeeeeee | FIGHT FIRE AT WEST SEATTLE Tree Falls Through |- Roof of Building’ Secretary Metcalf categ| Mav Fly the Coop? At Ballard ; i SDAY oc! 18, 1905 Fiend Who TeafficsIn 9 8 Young Girls Is Convicted). :: , DERS FOR MORE UNFORTU NATES of Hand read rdon and Cit n$ ' rf r for Guy Weller, an ex Weller, O F urged with being a © mo! t " | { nb men Keef| ne A ft] nd Brown Weller'’s abilit mak 1,"| N ing a half a The police \ t . prisoner, W is & procurer ar , I and ; he Interests of Van-! Ta He and V ia b f ‘ tort ‘ OotSoersrooooesoorseee A urried the high T ay morning a bran f long, was ted epee me WASHINGTON, D. C.. Oct | Soececeseescoses PPPeoeD | a Bok ed Coe { friction between Sec nat gh upon the wo w a Ae alt f the department of _ rye Hy N was hurt, but t lerable; ae nd labor mt S , damage was done the building I t, in connection with the) day 1 lied ( exclusion act, the former 1#| quired num St | Milli le t retire from th abinet, tion asked " ole a ion at an early day Ibe called to ¥ ik e date f | DENVER, Oct. 18.—-Charged with L h$ k B Opps |conapiring to steal $1,712,687 front aunch oun y ee | the Denver Savings bank, which re f nig ry le th n ently failed, L. Imboden, J. A. Hill St | w derive by an |C. B. Wilfley, BK. Hull, H. L. orm | hen , ers : Hull, ©. C. Romberts, W. T. Camp. - eangg saber She page 9 D. M. Carrie, A iu , M1 gg Egg Begg aggre Bo. a gas u annexing by the grand jury re ag ge ee ae | ked as a s. “Ballard would not have r oit he eattle to ’ Jdent | the h aid, “for a J being n BF ard a> house, was | wel t stater Mr The barge | Crouch went astray, as » an tt veered | there | a high school in Ballard and that pupils graduating from it are eligible to the univer “Ti d off” WwW k wit was claimed that the Ballard ippe POO wcnssetion woolk: be @ leking 9-1 vantage as Seat 4 plans for a publ rmanent improvement that | FRESNO, Cal, Oct. 17.—Ofticers | would be of mutual advantage | ¢ looking for a man named Van council did not say whether who had been sending strange would have the election ps about the coming of the ow! | « » asked for by the peti wreck previous to Sunday night's | tion fisaster. It is thought he may If th to aoe all ke something of the wreck. Of- | it will pre at the same time ficiala are firmly convinced it was|that the municipal election takes the work of wreckers. A switchman | place. says that after the switch was lock-| Out of the 25 names that were ed at 9:20 ne trains went over it | signed on thi t page of the peti In safety |tion it ts alle that seven or ‘Two Li Hotel Fire RTLAND, Oct. 16. Two persons were burned to death tn a Ore | fire the at 180 o'clock this morning tn Mount Hood hotel, a temporery frame structure just outside the fair grounds, The building and con. tents were entirely destroyed, as «ore two other structures adjoining. to which the read. ‘This * the second since the fair as caused loxs of lif Says Husband Robbed Her Papers in the suit of Etta Webb Kidder vs. William H. Kidder, Se Morris and Sophius Mortensen were! filed in the King county clerk's of- {| | fice Tuesday morning. Mrs. Kidder } laime that Kidder has disposed of } considerable valuable property be- | | longing to her and asks for an Or- der restraining him for selling of | mortgaging any more of it a | a | a straining the parties who purchased { the property, the other two defend ants, from disposing of the erty At the time of their marriage November, 1902, Mra, Kidder all that she possessed property and sets amounting to $4,000, Kid she claims, mor . short time later » belonging to her » iiving tog bout athe, Mrs. har ldren of a former marriage ¢ claims Kidder delighted to mistreat The person whom The Star men- tloned In ite 7 y night editic as being struck by a Northern F cific engine at Interbay and jured was identifie J. EB. Hol comb. He died at an early hour Wednesday morning. The restraining order tn tt - of Alex Pantages ve. John Gordon et al The Bounding ( which was Issued Monday by Judge r as not aside by him Tues 4a ¢ Gordon's having given bond | $1,000 RUMMAGE BALE Ladies’ Auxiliary to Temple de |Hirach continues Wednesday, Thurs day and Friday eral = Hate} bullding, Third and Pine str Oo prop ' ne! ave | eight of them were names that had not been registered either this year ‘The petitioners have the " | If you Want to rent @ house or « fiat nee page 6 ore or last Opportunity Thousands of Bargains for the Eco- nomical at the closing of the Reliable Monarch. MEN'S $18.00 SUITS FOR ... $7.95 MEN'S $20.00 SUITS FOR MEN'S $1250 SUITS FOR $5.85 EN'S $16.00 SUITS FOR i | HUNDREDS OF OVERCOATS AND CRAVENETTES AT HALF PRICE SCHOOL SHOES. 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