The evening world. Newspaper, December 18, 1903, Page 3

1 BS MONEY Wife ‘and Daughter of the Aged , Schooimaster Who Left Large ~ Fortune ‘Have Finally Been Located in This City. IT IS PREDICTED THEY’ WILL CONTEST HIS WILL Left Him 45 Years Ago and the Old Man Never Saw Them Again—They Have Not Yet Announced Their Intentions. Within a few days a contest will be fled against.the probating of the will of Alpheus D. Du Bois, the principal of Public School No. 36. His daughter, ‘Mrs. Blanche McKee, and his wife, Mrs. ©u_ Bols, who deserted him forty-tive Fears ago, will file the contest through ‘thelr attorneys, Manterre & Manlerre, of No, 31 Nassau etreet. The attorneys were in consultation with Mrs, McKee this afternoon, itd it was determined to vring suit’ at once. The daughter, who, according to the terms of the will of the old schoo! teach- 41, 18 (0 receive §10,0W of the vast estate Jett by him, js not satisficd with her @hare. Her mother, who has joined with her, Is not mentioned in the will. Neither Mrs, Du Bois nor Mrs. McKee saw Mr. Du Bols during the last forty- five years of his life. In Inte years they have stopped with Mrs, Martin Fre! of Kingston,’a sister of Mrs. D . Mrs. Freleigh now lives at the Grantley, No. 057 West One H dred and ‘I'wenty-fourth street, | Mrs McKee has two children, a son who Is @ student at Columbia University, and @ daughter. Mrs. McKee's husband is @ son of Mrs. Frelelgh by a former: marriage. When seen by an Evening Work re- porter to-day Mrs, McKee refused to go into the past, and Mrs. Du Bols like- wise maintained a silence about the estrangement which kept her away froin her husband for so many years, The daughter is a striking looking wom: Her hair is gray, but this feature only t@nds toward an accentuation of the youthfulness ‘of her. face and figtire, Bhe. possesees the beauty which -her mother once had—the woman who won the heart of the old school teacher aad turned his life from one ambition. to enother—pedagogy ty money As. Her Mother Wan Ambitious, Mrs.. Du Bols's maiden name was Julia Vell, Her mother was a boarding- house keeper,’ yet_she had planned a “grand ulllance” for her child, a girl of remarkablé physical charm, Alpheus Du Bois, a -young man, ardent and eager to make a name for himself in the quieter groove of pedagusy, bourded With Mrs. Vell. time was a very , fell in iove with the young school teagher. He had Just rhea UUM LHe Sou, Wake ue uae A weer ue Kare cae Nk BOs UES lyr Mudd edtth cag iy Lyuies yeala, “an a suvic ule produ rolus, Mu Went) Waste curing Gy) a BslPiivls avrvaucenent lovers Louk “tnatiers 1ui0 aus tue young tuelr uw A banos and were musrieu. antity [ea wath unotuer and) mot n-law ior several years alter that, ul toe hfe was noc u Nappy one ive bois. At Lurryluwi were na his sisters, he was @ posluon in wv private school eccepted, thinking that Vell appeared on the scene gain. She wantea ner daughtersto jive ~ ywath her in New York, and her intiu- tenge was of such a compelling cuar- ler, that she prevailed upon Julla Du ‘Bole to desert her husband. ‘The mother andythe child lett Tarrytown and took mpi Tesidence with Mrs. Vell, ju Bols made trip after trip to New aid srealauaty” Iegaren, Sti Aromat res death tn a Washington to aie os young fie fui? of, optimistic ay ‘a taciturn, \d creature, one anpuael the billding up 10. tal in Public Wensol "Nor we Ce ese ites ty & with Denay & Co., ie Pine strest enyeatments proved. ducky and his lune increased. innings, but jet the i is estat: Pabetiritles’ of thes ‘subs will reach Three and four sper nd mish wy ie pr agsording eta hogan itr teacher Julia Du Bols hai Malesite He siete tet His daughter had married, but whet} Was Ivy Blanche, McKee he did not kuow. ‘th e heard that she. had’ two but he left no provision for qreae AH ne wile Beneficiaries 5 oti ila Da Bois, a nephew of schol te Reacher. one ‘of the. mem ott an, attorney at. White resents hix aunts, py Suting bis duties aa na exe dhe 'no- Uned Sesterday the school teachers who decelved. beduents, in. the will ranging fram #2900 to $0000, sania siifd to an Evening World repute ond “That will was made "sa waa witneased by, Loulse ali. i ‘Fownsend Young, u lawyer, an fer wood, a’ banker, all of fig. ‘The will’ was made And. exe. ust June at Osulning, where eny his, vacation, The 8 wi er was, on vai wit- were te friends. He was in fel rani and knew tte ie, 2 ter ae oy 1 th » in and the: ar reconciled. “Nelther secit ever referred to this ¥ now | 1%—The body. of Fannie C, *y 8 us Pha yon erg ts Pind int vest veaterouy : win the Bieepy Hollow Come town, never saw him again, and perhaps shi mpi igh | REYNOLDS ‘AND THE HERO WHO SA ER LIFE AND FOR oe SHE HUNTED LON LEARY’S HIGH SCORES DISRUPT BOWLING CLUB Fellow-Members Look Askance at Her 200 When the Best They Can Do Isto Average | 50. EVEL CONE, SI ARE GENS Creditors Here and Abroad Charge Hyman Gattle with Several of the L The Lady Washington Bowling Club, ; dy Washington ac- Defrauding Them of $200,000 of Jersey City, has been split into fac-}cused Mrs. Leary of having talked : tions, and the dove of peace has fied in |about the club's affairs and so brought Worth of Precious Stones. | terror trom the alleys of the Berkeley |them to public notice, Mra, Leary de- The husbands of the members of the|her to stick to the ship—or the bowling Lady Washington Clay are members of | ticy. She decided to stick. | Urey the Berkeley Club and are enjoying the | oyuited as they can be. The hussinds, squabble greatly. One of the husbands, he meclusion of the Berkeley Club. being of a mean disposition, tola a | ure crowing fat over the laughs they are re a thi re et nel reporter about the scrap and It got int |Rettne out pf the scrap, Bets use being the papers, Mrs, Leary of Pawn ;Tickets—$150,000 Worth of Claims Against Him Have Already Been Filed. transactions have deen brought out at the enforced bankriptsy proccedings The dealers were thus forced to pay Charged with havi ‘2 arged with having defrauded jow-| (yr, ailers of this city, Utica and Amster- Thirty-seven thousand dollars’ worth} Which have bern going on since lavt jdam, Holland, out of nearly $200,001 of pawn tickets from thirty-five pawn| AUcUst worth of precious stones, Hyman Gat- thia city. Brooklyn, Albany Negan tm small Ww shops in and Troy have been found d ttle's creditors, He is believed to have sold nearly a8 many more. He fn sald to hive begun his peculiar | operations at the very start of ils ga- | ing Into bustness for himscif. Owing to his name, he was enabled to tle, a brother of the Fifth avenue jJeweller, is a fugitive from justice, {wanted by the police on ® number of sVIEA EES warrants for violating the penal code} Gattle was formerly with the Gattle| get 3 almost unlimited credit, but he bey jon no less than seventeen counts, ef 5. and! 4 ; “wan 4 m Jewelry Company, Gattle Brot by purchasing ‘smell lots, so as not Eince starting in business for himself Gattle {s alleged to have purchased goods on credit and then pawned them. was treasurer of the Gattle, Ettinger & Mammel corporation up to Novem-| ber, 1990, when he retired to go into! 16 arouse suspicion, As soon as he recelved the goods he pawned them, part of the money going to the credit- FINDS HERO WHO | Club, In Webster avenue, where the /nied the accusation. Then Mrs. La- ladies have been permitted to bowl one |franz is said to have said that Mrn SAY HE BOUGHT ON CREDIT. afternoon a week. Leary'’s high scotes were due to va u 4 And all the row has been caused by |fact that she stepped over the chalk THEN PAWNED THE JEWELS. | the nigh acores of Mes. James Leary, |line before delivering her ball. Mrs | of Hoboken, who Is able to roll up|Leary dented this also, — scores of 200 or more, while the beat eta ay nae Wi atinatogs 25: her slater members can average ts 150. | Others patted her on the back and. told Have Recover&d $37,000 Worth business for himself He ongaged an office at No. 6 Ni sau street. His employees were his wife, his brother-in-law, J. Warren Masterson, and an office boy. terson is « preferred creditor for $2,700 wages and money lent. It ts sald Gattle's. wife, Masterson’s sister, ac- companied him when he fled. He di peared in June or July and Is believed to have taken Jewels worth about $30,000 with him. The facts concerning his |He also is said to haye sold goods to |smali dealers throughout the country, tuking notes in payment. He Is be- Heved to aye sold at least $15,000 worth of goods in this manner. He took care that the notes should fall due jn July last. He dircounted them at two of his banks and shortly before they were due wrote the dealers saying he would accept renewal notes if they wished. Many of them accepted the offer and forwarded new notes. These Gattle also discounted at once, | ors to mako his credit good. He then | feported the goods Sold, and thus ob- | tained an extension of nine months vredit, | SAVED HER LIFE Miss Kathryn Reynolds Learns that Felix Feist Was the For- tunate Man and She Hurries| to Thank Him. Waen his fight began to be rumored about the creditors asked the courts to adjudge him a bankrupt. This was done and Simon T. Stern was appointed trustee in bankruptcy. All that was found for the croditors was $2,100, Claims -agarevating more than. $1 have heen led co far it Is believed i Teast $50,0 more will be added to the , Pecullar int. 50,000 Two Brothers from the Send:Their Iagertion’ Miles Against Twenty. Mite Wind and Land 8 oy NORFOLK, Va., Dec. 1A aut ful trial of a flying-machine near Kitty Hawk, Ne @ Orville, Werteh i ae: De stant m lew for’ three miles ¢ of a wind blowing at the velocity of twenty-gne mitt hour and then gracefully @esé earth at the spor selected by. the: in the navigator's eaty as. ment, but gets ite force: by a small ongine. Vroparatory to ita fi uvved upon a playrorey his platform? was built on a igh cand Mil, ang woen all Was” readiness the fastenings to the chine were released and {t stat an Incline. The | navigator then’ started a small wi al Soe te pi When the end oF 3 reached the maching @radl 1 ]t gotained an altieug he face Of thew Of elgnt mies An mourn ‘The Idea of the box kite I hered to in the basic formatto flying machine. Potent light timbers 3 oot. wide, dle, a and feet acron 9 machine proper. This is Sarees tough Dut light canvas, In the centre is. the nav! and susended just oeiow plan {s a small aso. a furnishes the motive por ae elevating . Ne WO. six in the frame #9 guuged vaward force waen other extends Bord from the contre oF tt the forward impetas, Protruding f tra huge fan-ahaned ner, stretched upon. a frame, c Rnd may be moved to elther or lowered. A Miss Kathryn Reynold’s search for | | New Publications. her hero has come to an end, The : = ‘ — — —— young man who plunged from one au- } tomobdile tn front of another in order to drag Miss Reynolds to a place of safety has been found, has been thanked for his courage, has modestly disclaimed any credit for his act. and every one Is happy. Miss Reynolda Is a yery pretty young woman who lives with her aunt at No. 67 East One Hundred: and Twenty- eighth street. On Sunday afternoon, Noy, 29, Miss Reynolds started ‘to cross Seventh avenue at One Hundred and Fortieth street. A big red automomible, bound downtown came flying along at a high rate of speed. The young woman was so frightened that she couldn't move, ..n1 it looked as though she would be run down, when another automomidle, bound uptown, came to a sudden stop, « young man leaped out. grasped .Miss. Reynolds around — the waist and fairly hurled’ her to a place of @afety. He was himself struck on the snoulder by the automobile, put didn't mind this, and when Miss Rey-! nolds got to her feet again and looked around for him he was disappearing up, AUGUST BELMONT REPLIES TO AVAN Says Interurban Company Has a Chance Right Now to Give Public Better Transfer Sys- tem in this City. $10,000 DAMAGES FOR PRETTY MODEL Senator Hanna’s Chum, Daodley Baldwin, Rich Clubman, Set- tles Breach of Promise Suit Brought by New York Divorcee ELIOT Seven Standard Authors at Low Prices. CLEVELAND, Dec. 18—Mrs, Kather- ine Wolverton left here to-day for New York, taking with hep-a snug check je $10,000, the signature on which is August Belmont, President of the In- terborough Rapid Transit Company, to- day replied to the statement made yes- terday to the Rapid Trarisit Commission by Thomas F. Ryan, of the Interurban Company, in which Mr. Ryan gives notice of the Intention of the Inter- unban to bid for the construction and control ef additional subways now under Giscussion by the commission. Mr. Belmont says that Mr. Ryan now has a chance to give the pwbjic a trans- fer sysiom with the Interdorough which Christmas the road in his machine, that oe Dudley” Beawins the Tried Hard to Find Him, wealthy society bachelor and clubman Now, Mies Reynolds has always been) and chum of Senator Hanna, The check very certain that this young man saved] 1s the result of a sult for breach of her life. The thouzht that he might go, promise which Mrs¢ Wolverton recently the rest of his life unthanked for his’ brought. She wanted 950,000, but com- seryice. was more than the young promised on the stm above mentioned. woman, could bear. j Mrs. Wolverton is a very handsome She tried In every way that she knew, woman, who when in New York has to get some track of her hero, but ler employment a& a cloak model. Dudley | he is noi taking any steps (o make use efforts were in vain, She got a de-| Baldwin is a son of the late Dudley | of, and in a sarcastic way he Intimates scription of bim and of his automobile.| Baldwin. rich banker and commercial ‘that Mr. Ryan's bid so long in advance and day after day went up on Seventh{ man, He is a member of the leading |for the tunnels is In the nature of a avenue in the hope that she would see; ubq and a typical man of the world. |bluff. Mr. Belmont says: him in the-throng of vehicles. But she’ y76 4s also an intimate friend of Mark|. “Mr. Ryan has never discussed trans- ig portation matters with me, therefore 1 never would have seen bim if ane | anes Wolverton testified yesterday ;40 not know his plans. I know that hadn't called The Evening World to her 11) sn met Baldwin at a bathing | When the complete interbotough sys- taught him to]tem ts In operation in Manhattan and Benistanies bench and that «she The friends of Felix Feist, of No. -13 Sink loon Allicbax ata jause-to 7 vee She then | Kent themselves which In all likellhood Went Thirty-seventh street, had heard! &wim. eon cheek la husband | the |eecured a vorce from her. Seer eahe erotiotee oe cael expected that Baldwin would marry | Will materially change the views of that he had engaged. in some suchi her, but he put off that aupposedly |every one on the question. |The ad- trifling act of heroism on Seventh ave-| happy event on one pretext-or another. | vantages to, the city accruing from one nue one Sunday afternoon, and when] Lawyer Cruel in Uxamining, [Complete rapid transit system will 50 they read that Mi&s Reynolds was! on the stand yesterday Mrs, Wolver-|¥on dthe quesiton of the mere com- searching for Just such a hero they/ton was forced to-admit*that she hadj Petition in the bids for construction called his attention to It. visited nearby towns with Baldwin and {#4 operation, * A Writer of Songs, that they had registered at hotels as ee aay sage se a Ore Weed sfc fs man and wife. While she was giving | {rom the surface lines to Rapid ay Nase rere elie ale sath eels testimony her A flushéd, her eyes rade is concerned, the i terteerous sentimental. songs... His filled with tears, and she turned in an| !herited a contract between the Metro- Pat iicbfeee politan and the Manhattan road which the Metropolitan had in turn in- 6 {8 entitied,| appealing way to Baldwin, who sat ap- rane ivan ae J" woud Be .a|parently indifferent to what was going His brother Leo published] on in court, He gave no sign that he|herlted from the Third Avenue Rall- ‘Mr. Feist was loath 10 make hims,had heard the testimony or that he saw road, This contract expires next April. elf Mond to Miss Reynolds, but yes-| Mrs. Wolvérton's distress. No effort on the part ie the Metropoli- ome of his friends wrote to] ‘Did you register ag Mr. and Mrs, | tan has been made to increase and elad- young woman and told her where] De Bernard?’ remorselessly asked Mr.| orate any arrangement for trarsfers, coud tind her hero. So pretty) Baldwin's lawyer, and as the completion of the new eub- Miss Reynolds, who \s. only, ninéteen,| Mrs. Wolverton hesltated and her face] Wy would fake at least four to flve by the way, donned her best ‘dress, her, crimso: ‘Phen she turned ¢o Baldwin | Years oe nye elie in via beat hat, sn an rede a sod in @ voice that shook with passion tteaneemene s statements that auch an es and tin fed for the purpose. of * "Oh, How can you be 80 relleving Nae'idng haul on the surface copy| eruelt roads tom Hehe 2 Miss Ber. ake room for the short-riding al mr dias ‘The woman's appeal was real. It was | Passengers, ‘fenilt In ay effort now to uid Ket away mgainei not a bit of clever acting, and the pathos | geileve that congestion by a transte though “urea he would Ket away a at reap acd Seta aay ‘and Tangement on the crosetown. lines “with “y want to thank you, Mr. Felst, for) Ho suddenly leanea over toward nis| the, present Rapkd Transit system. If t! 1 ‘diame ihe other lawyer and sal such an arangemen' at no cost it cannot be bad at a reduced “Here, I can't stand this sort of thing,| cost at present Let us see if we.cannot settle it up.” Wall street was much interested in Christmas you begin small monthly payments. Our Guarantee, The Small Price and Why The members of our Book Club run into the thousands. Every year we save them money in printing, illustrating and binding on account of the large number of volumes we have pub- lished at one time. The plates, illustrations, and “getting ready” to print fifty sets of books cost as much as if you printed a thousand sets. We can always determine beforehand, within ee a few sets, just how many our Club members ‘Famous Illustrations All of the frontispieces are full-page illustrations colored by hand in aquarelle. These are such illustrations as usually ae pear only in books that sell for from ten dollars a volume upyare ‘0 twenty-five. Otherwise the illustration of the sets is rather elaborate, and consists (with the exception of a few text engravings in the Thackeray) éntirely of full-page insert etchings, photoerayuresy photo-engravings and wood-engravings by a artists as Cruik- shank, Pailthorpe, Baudouin, Taylor, Price, Freer, Harper, Sandham and Dielman. a considerable amount on this fer. you think and will be satisfied. Dudley! Sent Cartia: free_on 10 Days’ Approval this latest) development of \ the local Settles the Can traction situation. Since Blection Day, A recess was asked for and taken. and ‘ray the cambalen to bull the J 1 Faction an franchise stocks LS the lawyers on both sides agreed on|{rotion and franchise | stocks | | $10,000 as the proper figure. without some report being circulated, In Mrs. Wolverton afterward declared | regard to a union of local traction In- that she never really wanted imonoy | terests. 5 sat seth bait | “One of. the reports had it definite}: Cut Here--- eS ftom “Baldwin, but merely wished to pate i ‘alve Nn ieiediagetal eee 0 256 22.50 Di eared on Monday} receivea from Baldwin. He used to nia Thackeray 1 2 Phe care i eet sain Mee. Rruitetie era UNION OUT. 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