The evening world. Newspaper, March 17, 1903, Page 3

> — WHICH THE ICHT MRS READ? irs. Eleanor Read Says, “I Am the Real Widow,” While Mrs. Mary AliceRead Makes a Like Claim. “IT’S AWFUL,” THEY SAY. The One Who Figures as No. 2 Says There Is No Estate to Administer, but She Secures Letters (So Does No. 1), and Both Employ Lawyers. “To de made & witlow is sad enough, but to be euddenly questioned as to the legitimacy of guch « title is adding new trouble." Go sald Mrs. Wleanor Read, a hand- gome woman of thirty, who is one of two applicants for the right of wearing the widow's weeds of George HB. Read. He was killed in the Jersey Central wreck at Graceland on Jen. 2. ‘Who is the right Mrs. Read? Mrs. Bileanor Read, who ts staying at No. 11 West Sixty-fifth street, thinke she 1s. Mrs, Mary Alice Read, of No. 171 Pearl street, Brooklyn, claims the honor. Both women have secured letters of ad- ministration, but about all the legal wilow will receive will be the damages from the railroad company and the right to wear mourning, with the eat- tafied feeling that sho is the real wife. “The news that Read had deen mar- Tied before came ike a terrible shook,” gaia Mrs. Eleanor Read to en lventng World reporter to-day. “‘l was married to him three years ago here in New York, and I never dreamed that he had been mamried before. I don't know now that he has been, but if this woman proves her claims I will be the fast one fm the world to contest them. If she is his wilfe, what can Ido? It I have been duped, all I can do 4s to go back to my, parents in Plainfleld, N. J., where Mr. Read got me. “I camt stamd any scandal, and the best thing for me to do is to say as tittle as possible, I never heard of this other ‘woman, and as far as her appearing to claim his estate, that seems very fooltsn, ea he left absolutely nothing. 1 nave not even put in a claim for damages against the railroad," May Recover $25,000, Read was a salesman for the tumber milling firm of F. T. Nesbitt & Com- pany, of No, 133 Nassau street. He was forty-five years old and computed on his age and his earnings his widow may Tecover $25,000 ¢rom the railroad com- pany. On Merch % both claimants to his name will appear before Surrogate Fitegerala and try to prove which is the real widow. “We lived very heppily at Plainfield,” said Mrs. Dleanor Read, “and ogir coun- _try home was one of the most attractive In_ the neighborhood. Mr. Read never referred to any former marriage’end in fact all of his interests in life seemed to be eettled around me and his small stock farm. Our home was on Clinton avenue, but before moving there we lved et Dunellen, N. J. “No one can understand the ewful state of my nerves. Why, I wes not even home when Mr. Read was killed, and when I returned and found that he was dead It eeemed that that was about enough trouble for one woman. Of course I bought a fot at Plainfield and the funeral was naturally conducted un- der my direction, since I wae his wife. “I eimply couldn’t stand to live in the house where we had been so happy, and @o, in oler to get away érom the sur- roundings I came to New York. My increased. administration on Jam told that this other secured them on Mai but ae DD ttist know nothing at all ie aR r is Charlies L. Hoffman, of N 80 roadway, and he ts looking after all my interests, Seems Strange to Her. me fear fhe had not seen my h pume—and then should turn up when “If there were pro est es estate, I could un- derstand; but two widows sup- sd for the without Jeaving an: ping. All be 1stt me is his name, my hi to ik that may be [ey from, @ thing, and that ra it Poise 48 ene calls ‘herself, 9 y stan ip ls of the highest, and every izes with me, { intend re- ere to-morrow.”’ Dieanor Read, who dresses {2 feated by reseat events. Bh la aftected by recent events, Ghe a arent horsewoman, and at the Plainfield coun- try home she eays she hes many bi = AMERIGANTO WED THE WORLD: TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 17, 1903. BOLD'"BATTERY DAN” MAY LOSE" * THE LEADERSHIP IN THE FIRST. | They Say He Has Monopolized All the Patron- age for His Family and Hungry Politicians Would Oust Him from His Position. Down where the wild Atiantio breaks upon the rockbound coast of Manhattan may be heard to-day @ murmur more insistent than the surging waves. It is the sound of revolt egainst ‘Battery Dan” Finn. Feeble at firat was the mutter, beginning at Alex Gillier’s saloon, next door i ' \ to Gmith & MoNell’s restaurant, in Greenwich street. But spreading from there it j f gxew in volume somerbing tremendous, f Forty Greeks under Nicola Janos, whose ancestor fought et Marathon, the descendant being content to sell decayed fruit in a cellar on Washington street, had the nerve yesterday to shout as Judge Finn went by: “Kin, Kin, eudepal Kin; we wanta hava nodder boss; elko Batter’ Finn.” Three of Battery’s henchmen rushed out of Andy Doyle's place to beat the Geeek colony into dreamland, but they discovered that the revolt was too wide- spread for any violent suppression. From the carpet booth of Abdulla Hatem; from the fish market of Gabriel Nahoum there fell upon the astonished ward hustlers cries in Syrian, Armentan and Greek jingles of the caravan and pilgrimage. Bveldently the foreign colony of Greenwich street is dn the plot. As for Mike Kennedy, the Alderman; Mike Halpin, former Assembly; Alex Giitier, who solf lemons for twenty years where he now has a saloon, and Nathan Laufer, President of the First Ward Demooratic Club, at No. 5 Battery Place, why, it's only a toss up to eee which one will try to oust from the leadership next fall Dantel B. Finn, one time of Limerick, Ireland. ‘The matter was taiked over openly (ast night at a meeting of the Hickory Ciub, on Hudson street, sacred to the memory of Col, Michael » No candidate waa picked, but each possible nominee pledged ‘his wort to pitch in and work for the one selected. Anything to beat ‘Battery Dan.” Political poputarity is always a very mercurial quality, ‘To be maintained it requires of a Tammany district ‘leader constant attention and hustling. It is now changed that Judge Finn aince he began to preside in the ctvil court at Prince and Wooster streets, drawing = ealary of $6,000 per, has relaxed in these duties. “Faith an’ I don’t know phwat's the matter with the man,” said Pat Mo- Carthy, who has a truck of tis own right next to Ghilach Maroon’s frutt store, “I'm after thinkin’ thet Belmont business give him e swelled nead. I don’t know, but I'm thinkin’, Well, an’ that won't do in the Fret) Ward, be gob {t won't,” “What I'm sore at him for,” sald Johnson, the horseshoer, “is on account of te turnin’ down Col. Murphy, I ain't never got over that. I ask you, didn’ Mike Murphy send Dan to the Assembly five times? Didn't the Colonel scratch Wauhope Lynn for that judgeship and give tt to Dam? And then didn't Dan ¢urn rund an ae oe Colonel for leadership because ho eald the Colonel wasn't a ive one’ P IN BOWERY ROOM Thomas Curtis or Thorne Said to Have Belonged to Old Eng- lish Family Which He Re- nounced. CAUSE OF DEATH A MYSTERY. He Shared Income He Received with Those More Needy than Himself, and Left No Identifica- tlon Papers. Thomas Curtis, whose right name ts said to be Thomas Thorne, died under pecuMar circumstances {n the Union Hotel, Hester street and Bowery, early to-day, and not unit! after the autopsy, which the Coroner's phystolan will con- duct to-day, ‘will {t be known whether he committed suicide, ‘The man Is said to have been from an old and wealthy English family, and his appearance stamped him as far above the average who stop at Bowery lodging-houses. He made few friends, but one man who has known him for four years says family differences drove him from wealth and social po- sition In England many years ago. Curtis was about the hotel as usual |last night and talked to the clerk just before golng to bed, Early to-day groans were heard coming from his room on the fourth floor, and all the lodgers there were awakened. A policeman was called and a call sent in for an ambu- lance. It was half an hour before the doctor came from the Hudson Street Hospital, and when he reached the man's bedside Curtis was dead, There were evidences of golsoning, but the ambulance surgeon said he did not know what had ed death and reported the case to the Cor- oner, Curtis first came to the hotel four years ago and lived there about a year, He did not work and always seemed to have plenty of money. Men in the neighborhood learned of this and of the freedom with which he spent tt, and a good hard-luck would (always stan vB) lived at the hotel for a yea! to Catharine he Mved until he came ¢ight weeke ago. He m tome tow intimate friends, but one of 1d to- day that he had told tin pes ae tof his te st is owns store, in tendon, it ta vest ‘Sua onos the monéy he gave roumstances England, leavin, @ estate. though ‘family fumterences ‘had. driven him away dram home, off in the will, a small fortune, but so many claims were put in that the estate was soon tled up in litigation. He never received en @ whereabouts of his ne papere were found i rir SCHOOLS HALF EMPTY. Long Islaud City Noys, True to the Green, Flock to the Parade. ‘The schoolboys of Long Island City are on atrike to-day, Needless to say they are Irish or of Irish parentage. At roll-call to-day it was discovered that less than half of the puptis of the city were in attendance at the soot, ONCE RICH DIED [DO’YOU GET UP. and Bladder Remedy, Will Pain or dull ache in the back 4s un- mistakable evidence of kidney trou- ble. 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Lame back is only one symptom of kidney trouble—one of many, Other symptoms showing that you need Swamp-Root are, being obliged to pass water often during the day and to get up many times at night, ina- bility to hold your urine, smarting or irritation in passing, brick-dust or sediment in the urine, catarrh of the bladder, uric acid, constant head- ache, dizziness, sleeplessness, ner- vousness, irregular heart-beating, rheumatism, bloating, ‘Truant officers were sent and started after the miswing boys, ee they were not to be found. came swarms to New York, he enjoyed themselves looking at the wonders of “One of the chief complaints,” explained Prestdent Laufer in the basement of No, 31 Broadway, where he has a money exchange, ‘is that Dan falled to make good his promises about patronage. Instead of dividing !t—and there's about $50,000 worth in this district—he kept it inside his family, ‘Dan {# not eo strong that he can afford to do that sort of thing. Murphy called bim good and hard on account of his not coming out for Dan Riordan én the Senutorship fight last fall. Anyhow, Judge Finn only beat Col. Murphy, who made him, by 240 votes, and down here every vote counts.” Unless content to alip out of politics and hold the office of judge, which ts good GIVES HOSPITAL AS A MEMORIAL. J, Rogers Maxwell WiIII See to Erec- tlon and Turn Over to Long Island College Hospital. J. Rogers Maxwell, President of the Board of of the Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, has offered aa a memorial to his brother, Henry Mt. Maxwell, tral build! college building oti Hi we anna of the bull for eight years more, it may be safely prophesied that “Battery Dan” will take up the cudgels in his own behalf. cep @ hustling” ts the motto he adopted some years ago, and when there was @ political fight on he usually illustrated that motto. Dan ts also a fighter, and has @ great many friends in the district who will stand by him in the coming storm. But Mike Kennedy, who ts away up in the Irish eocleties, and who !s busy pay- {ng poor «en's rent all day long 1s in the race, and he, too, te = fighter, and what ia more, the bets are ready to be put up on hii “MOVIN OBIK” FATES WOMEN = rss ston: -, Youth at the “L” Escalator Ex- Hoffman Island voraay. The Karamana, plains How It Happened that |%, week ago, from Marseliles, Palermo Three Women Were Hurt at|ss ward and might recetve a bad fall in the street, “He said that ét omy needed the exercise of ordinary intelligence to mate the journey Be the stairway safe fer even a timid ch CHOLERA SUSPECTS FREED. ATITLED PAUPER Sir William Gordon MtcGregor’s, Pitiable Condition Caused a Rich Woman to Take Deep | cont ry and Naples and reported six deaths at fea, The health officer held the pas- re and crew at Hoffman Island buildings to taate the town until the great parade. every: descripti “Finsect life! Won-Explosive; Non-Staining. ek yourdriy rtf racer fot Harvie's, see inorihors Lf ie dows nat have i Suagke hits gett, or youcan ve ToD. rus Plat cane 26; 4 ie DRUG C ~ PARNInepue etary horses. clon that the deaths possi- he “other woman,” as Mere, wleanor| !nterest in Him, i ound ot Regs The now hosplua| Sixth Avenue and 23d Street, [bly were due to cholera. No new casos te wilow's Sema rg ‘atlce end college Palais Set ts (of four, s¢0- Rave appeared, Ooms. expecter lends o! ie - Read. She is represented by L. J, Mor- late Dr. Alexander J. Bkene, will erect Higon, of No. 44 Brondway. Mrs. Mary HE IS A SCOTCH BARONET. |one wing ana that Fea other be built »y1“LEGGO DAT RAIL!” HIS CRY. COLLEGE PROFESSORS George 1. Read at the Church of the a, Ce a ‘ Talk of Foods. Sacred Heart, No. wi Wout Wiety-first rating sme street, . Jo) hes da copy of the church records. | LONDON, March 27, —@tr \ Willem |‘ dings: it ta estimaicd witi| Harry, the youth who attends to tne| ‘The New York papers recently con- we ware that qe god Pree are led oon Mecdrager, er Santinn Ok emergency lever of the escalutor at the| tained a long secount oF Sie so-called Celebrated orted her up ¢ othe pauper in Water f Rim y = py t Twent: treet stati th discovery of a celebrated professor in mrpgort ed is ‘al deo hipp Ee. aig |Douse, left that inetitution to-day with] GLORIES IW BASTER HATS, | rye Ny cond. stoped renting “Cold, [one of the leading universities, ‘The |] Walters its Lenya Fig ts the Hon SO yp ay ren opel SR riry i Cold Blood; or, The Gory Trail” long| "discovery" related to a new and |i pinng 0 was Killed near Graceland. enn Wornnal, ne @ MAIMimery | cough to-day to explain to an Evening| successful way of treating wheat and » er Morrison save ‘ime al dis client, to Read, was rl st, the age in the jefferson te "Angelis Company ‘as Ailes after her neparation “trom her FOR BEATING A POLICEMAN. Vwo More Members of the Cherry HL Gang Are Locked Up, Michael Gorman, of No. 70 Oliver street, and Frederick Sano, of No. James street, were held in $1,000 bail in the Centre Street Court to-day to answer @ charge of assault on Police- man Frederick Apfel, of the Oak street station. They jumped on him in front of No, ot Ook street, knocked him down and ki hi 4 then fel, who haa been on the force oply two days, got up and pursul: the men ey i ohe of thom, ‘The other was ae 4 Two or three weeks ago he was vis- at H, C, F, Kooh & Sone’, ited by @ richty gowned woman, whose Marvellous tn shape and combination barley to prepare the starchy part by hat th World reporter how it was that three| barley (0 Prepare a aan ore "lof MacGregors, women were injured yesterday by fall- interest in him was supposed to have been aroused by newspaper paragraphs referring to his condition. ‘Dhis is the woman whom it is said he will marry, Sir William Gordon MacGregor comes of an ancient family, the famous clan which dates back to Gregor Cerruch, the Stout. who fought under King Duncan 1, Sir William is the fourth baronet. Bir Cherles, his father, died tn 1879, and was @ prominent churchman, Bir William ts only Atty-six years old, but his many troubles bave given him a Prematurely aged appearance, His downfall was not the result of his own extravegences. He was innocently as-| tw soolated with a band of swindiers bby be were convicted as the result of the bucket shop frauds known as the Royai| ov Jubilee Syndicate swindle in 1897, Bir William gave evidence at the trial ‘that the swindiers had used his name on ctrouers witdwut lin digestible and nutritious. Thereupon Prof, Livingstone, commenting on the discovery of the other Professor, says, “A discoverer who was a busi- ness man first and a scientist after- | ward found that such foods could be made more digestible when cooked | with dry heat instead of by boiling tn | water, and has already placed on the market the food which he discovered | prior to Dr. ——" This refers to Grape-Nuts, the most scientifically | made food known. 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