The evening world. Newspaper, February 7, 1908, Page 2

ITHE EVENING WORLD, _ hia necney always involved, and it i not believed that he ever control ec over $1,000,000 r of igations any period of his career Gone to Europe, Wife Saye. | Mrs. Charles W. Morse declared to-| @ay at her home, No. 728 Fifth ave t her husband sailed for Bur Saturday on the Campania, of the ( nard line. She said that her stepsons, Erwin Morse, a student at Yo Benjamin Wayne Morse, a 5 Harvard, were mistaken when they sald Yesterday that r father was still in New York. “I do not believe the boys made th Statements attributed to them,” Mre = Morse. y are care eioee-moutned, like thelr fath would not make any 4 lesa they knew them to be true. “Erwin did take dinner with his father and me here recently, but not last S day evening. He is mistaken in the day. Benjamin did ¢ letter from home yesterday, but I wrote it 1 “T went with Mr. Morse in an auto- mobile to the Cunard pler carl day morning. We reached t minutes before steamer sail o'clock. I am a poor sailor suffering from a bad cold or I would have accompanied him. He is coming back on the Campat on her next trip. The voyage was undertaken in orde: that he might have a rest and recover some of his nerve force, which has deen badly shattered by his troubles." “Did Mr. Morse sail alone or did he have fome one to look after him?” s was asked. Will Face Developments. He was absolutely alone,” replied Mrs. Morse. “if you mean t Mr. Morse might need some one to prevent him from doing anything rash, you do not know his strength of mind. He fs a fighting man, and he will be back to face anything necessary “[ sent Mr. Morse a wireless day, Mr, Boardman, who w geo me this morning, sent one last We will soon hear fro y . Mr. Boardman tells me are not so bad as common rep’ them. \ “Many of Mr. Morse's friends. w he made rich. have deserted him in I trovble." continued Mrs. Morse. “Other have stood by him. I shall rema right here in this house until his re-| ions un- ly to- uppose I shall have to retain a to advise me in protecting my}; personal property. I own all the fu’ niture in the house. one of the motor ears and two of the carriags “The Sheriff has been kind enough to remove his men from my home. They were very courteous, but it was not really necessary to keep them here." | Sheriff Foley took his deputies out of Mrs. Morse's home at the request of Attorney Wing, counsel for the receiver of the Bank of North America, who at-) tached the house. Mr. Wing says he is| ot afraid that Mrs. Morse v to dispose of any of the pers erty. Each for Himself. Judge Morgan J. O'Brien said to-day! that from now on it will be a race of creditors to get what they can of Morse’s assets, and the devil take the! hindmost. He bases his prediction on «| careful examination of Morse’s affairs | Made vesterday afternoon. | “If Morse is really not on the Cam- Panta,” said Judge O'Brien, “I am not| surprised. I wouldn't be surprised at anything I might hear about him. “I want {t distinctly understood that either myself nor my partner, Mr. Platt, has represented Mr. Morse in any of his present affairs. I have been} bitten and am willing to taxe wy loss, If Recetver Hanna hadn't given it out | the public would never have heard| from me. “There seems to be a misunderstand- ing about how Mr. Boardiman came in- to Morse's affairs. At the time of the) foot frontage on Fifth avenue, and on ing was postponed \ crash Mr. Boardman was a director of | the Natlonal Bank of North America Mr, Boardman tried his best to save! the bank. Morse owed the bank $500,000 | on collateral comprising stock of the| Butterick Company, the Tracy Realty Company, Arizona concerns, which have turned out much better than was expected. The debt is| now down, through the sale of some of these securities, to about $26 Tried to Protect Creditors. Ir, Boardman went into Mr. Morse's affairs in an effort, with assistance of Morse, to protec tain creditors who were in plight men Consolidat an investment. He i on another end of Morse’s @ffairs. Acting in conjunction John Quinn, attorney for the Nationa) Bank of Commerce, and counsel f the bondholders of the Consolidated Steamship Company, he carrie i the receivership plan which was effe ed this week In the Federal Cf urts ir Maine. “It is a scramble for what is left now There is nothing to indicate that a jeutatentel progress can be made in the| nancial disaster long ago and drew © ises at a time wi “Help Wanted To-Day ! As advertised for in The Moming ! World’s Want Directory. FRIDAY, FEB. 7, 1908 Adare: agents Apprentices Bakers Partenders Blacksmiths Bookhinders Bookkeepers Boye Bushelinen Butohers Buttonhole: Makers Cabine nvasser rpenter® 2 Print att) Cashiers $1 Plumbers venue 2 pambermaids ... erie 1 Collectors 8 Forters as Compositors , Cooks (Mate) 4 semen ay's Werk Dentists ‘ Dishwashers 5 i Drivers Drag C #levator Zmbro} Engineers Engravers 2 Ferm Hands * Feeders Finishers Folders Foremen and) & | avenue, 100 feet so melters and other |? |\FEW GAINED, MANY 9,000, | MORE LOST THROUGH | ING MORSE. “Romance of Charies W. Morse’s Winged Miiitons Is Without a ' Parallel Either in the Old or the New Worid’s Hisiory of Frenzied Finance WHiLe A STUDENT AT SScHObL - RAN AN =—lal—4 2 ce BUSINESS AND VORK AND FORMS STEAMBO aT COMES TO NEW STEAM BOAT THE 1ce& TRUST KING direction of am’ inj fairs of Char The Federal ¢ heriffs ar attachments in a search for ties, but were una’ Mr. Boa wi Ss message to Mors ie theory that Morse is a on Camp . W. Morse, Campani: Mr, Boardman was directed trict-Attorney Stimson lute yesterday afternoon to pro: speedily as he possibly could. The mandatory directions which trict-Attorney St boardman were t the Federal Grand Jury in son gave en to m cash or securi- e to find any last night, awer. BOARDMA ued its met med w by Dis-| | that he had forty m FRIDAY, Bans FEBR UARY ¥ 7, 1908. POO BOE GEE HLODISG HOBO DE NE OPT POO VOGOOG SHH OG 6 OS GHEG416:6 COS CHVSSE CHE HOW SEPARATED FROM 41S WIFE BY COURT om immmarie eye. [F Small B EB ronG tS IMSS ["SPcapoaset es anmosee” ty to visit. banks i B T, } s” ani ttn ay ve GET Th STATE eae ea ee than a year ago Charles W. Morse, swollen with prosperity jand fat with good luck, stood one night in a Broadway cafe and boasted ion dollars and every dollar of it earning interest. his client as) Aved Miss Bridget Stanton! Morse was at the top of his wonderful career in high and fast| May Be Aleady Indicted. | Left Property to the Two finance. He had gone up like the traditional rocket; and the rocket had Dis- a ‘ reached th ing eminence where i eri i “Hianci eels: Gherardi Boys. ea a that dazzling eminence where its spattering, sparkling brilliance ean that |cut fiery gashes across the financial skies. jin A; | : ., Ad patees Through the fillng of Miss Bridget | At that time he was commonly credited with the control of cor-{ find indictments on criminal against Mor has not lone <0. E day e Morgan J. O'Prien, the law pa | Mr. Boardman and until last October a | Came known th ilrector of and o for tional Bank of Not witness before the for more than two h s. Persons famillar with international | Tenth street, Manhattan. fon treaty be- | tates and Great! yy law said that the ext en the United in is so broad that Mr could be extradited on an in naming any offense specified tn |eral statutes In connection with duct of Federal bank officta’ sume thing is true, they said, of the treaty relations with the other of Europe. Saw Him a Theatre. It was reported along the Ri box Wednesday nicht at the ance of * the Garrick Theatre. Half persons expressed a willingness to make affidavit taht Morse was one of SUBWAY HEARING PUT OFF. fled to Europe w the part yor three MORE OF MORSE’S PROPERTY TIED UP.) dew A lis vendens was filed to-day aga! corner »f Fifth avenue the northw and Fifty- ixth street, with he property on both sides s‘reet, by Thomas for Charles A. Hanna, Nathnal Ban . KNOW The vely wich when % Morse in the flooi d po America, was a ‘ederal Grand Jury | ty Miles from Boston” at number of people who were could n’ already x-Justice artner of | gate’s Court, Bi th se were twelve banks the Na-/estate was lef rardi, of the United Sta and I roft Gherardi, ¢ Steam! sons of Rear-Admiral ( capital stoc! 8 Stanton was for many years a} controlled by him were é: herard Morse in the Gherardi family aictment | is¢ companion of the two men the Fed- they were Of late she was the con Is. The employed ma. the Brooklyn Nav. Miss Stanton, lag signals at real estate kings soared pretty high. countries | nesse: | Frederick Madison aver {alto this | Browne. of No o-da afternoon that Morse, E. Augustu: |Helnze and M rgey, the Montana vt the milonaire theatr angel, occupied a | his deposits they can find. pertorm- | Gherardi Davis anton lived at Brooklyn. a dozen avenue, Board of Estimate Will Listen to r probate in the Surro- | norations that had an aggregate cap italization of $125,059,000. Among | hat stretched in a string from New York City | northward and that had a combined capi | ance companies, with a combined capital f $12,000,000; three insur- | $4,225,000, and seventeen | oat, telegraph, realty and other corporations, having a combined | of $108,209,000, The total resources of the corporations | mated at more than $300,000,000. Big figures these are; but Morse was a big man and used to tig | figures. He was the Ice King. TO-DAY HE IS A FUGITIVE he is a fugitive from public opinion, while deputy sheriffs y, levying on every inch of his property and every cent of |; A Federal Grand Jury is inquiring into his methods of transacting national bank affairs. A receiver's report openly charges him with having, « h the intention of banks have closed their doors. of the big steamship merger which he built up at much pains. He has He h: | Arguments Next Friday. ‘ tons trom the Bronx Taxpay- be ically ousted from every large ersand other fore the Board that work roposed Lex Board was a fifty- qisten to the argum. ur the » have suffered deprec’ his close frier of Fifth Carn EES grave, Another: nh PENNSYLVANIA PLACES hated Cte STEEL RAIL ORDERS. shrunk to a shadov anything any more. tions PHILADELPHIA 7oIt was |tlearned from a trustworthy source to-day | tha el rail orders of the lsyivania Railroad — Company faced 1 | Dollars and Cents. | | written Hate ri 1 6.600." The hey net d tide of r to-day New Amsterdam Bank solidated ul entary, and filled use of acquaintance, ts his | large and never will pe known exnct-| Money Was Unneccessary. | CyRe FE Oh ES Gl ly of them are satisfied ¢ Shese are only a ie Moree etait s with tales of queer | they can z from Morge's stock In itis Det ot vas commected to and strange monial intri shattered assets, and are content ty BYSs Ml, yuld take a chance. It] Tt ts a pity— take thel silence. w pt at all ry fore puri|ditions—that it cannot be There others who were poor chasers | money. sling care of| Morse, lke so many others when they met Morse, and are iil. ® ork’s financial fonaires to-da ause he tok gn ade man. He wasn’t. I sgt an them. © men saw that ; | and he t wave was Steoring for the rocks of {vise : now, cying t . ; Bicenny ava Umene nie c f his e ey got top prices for secur! Joost them little or nothing [c ‘arroll, the former leader of with M is friends Tammany $7 | Hall, 18 one of them, but Carroll would M ad he severed his es. It and of youth, foothold doesn't he case of former Justice Morgan J en Judge O'Brien| rose tinted ent into| °? ed 1 street in| early history. his) He was born at Bath, Me. ities that John F, the practice of law to provide for ng industry along th and made a fort father was influential orse ear- and ac. ng Morse showed t t that was in midway of his a ye ffice, ¢ a st keey s i How He Formed the Ice M willy W the € eors, was a-se! was ontract to nd with the id his way Moreover, in their the two knew thread Livorce od “ Blackwell's the press untry for legal plots gues, r the sake of the tra. sald that! of New de wasn't e his first | our of ful strug- cast any, hits on Charles W. Morse’s » in 1856, ndfather was the pioneer of e Kenne- une at it. and well to money- n when teens, He hool edu: books for | nbarl in swath his but tt lex W. iad a ina Trust. mmand-} All the corporations that once wore the name of “Morse companies' ock: is in the world of swift finance—Barney—is in a suici Heinze—is under indictment. —and his nerve—are gone. y ghost of their old proportions. Bath Brunswick, Orleans. It wa: 1835— took whic for some two a ivom the time he fir the plant virtu | Kennebec, Penobsco' ers, crippled many small ice concerns wed prompt! He was the New England Banking King, | tou He was the King of the American Marine. He was one of Manhattan's And he was only fifty-one years old. The rocket had as been thrown out of control stitution with which he was s and their securities. One of His forty millions have @ rocket went up a rocket, but it came down a stick. | New York's Biggest Remance of a small schooner he soon had a tieet | of vesse! 8 in the lumber trade between | and N York, Jacksony. annah and even New about that time. that he moved to New York and © onal control of the offices he had been mantaining bh e years launched {nto ice business he began to acquire | 8, and he kept this process up | juntll he held in the hollow of his hand ally all the ice resources of the and Hudson R v- In the eariy nineties a bad year Mr. Moree m took over ney These ¢ first import: ant development of tne Ice Trust idea) come In 1897, when M | Cons: se formed the joldated Ice Company, He be- came closely associated with Robert Van Wyck, the Mayor, and John F. Carroll, and through this association is said to have obtained dock rights that aided in the development of the Ice ‘Trust. In 1899 the American Ice Company | was born, and he raised the price of | no as c¢ title jice from thirty to sixty cents. He wiped | out compe me tion with a hand that knew | His iness methods were d and as sharp as the commodity andied. It was then he got the of Ice King—got it by right o:| | conquest. + jad|Steamships and Banks Appealed to Him. All this time he had been launching out in other Ines—tfeeling iis way to the centre of things financial. He pe-| can ra Sp pose lives was ne a director in the Bank of the! State of New York, and the Garfleld Uonal, of New Yor and the! sue National, of Brooklyn he tities of the combination of rvo} of activity appealed to him. One the consolidation of ihs coistwise ship lines and the other was the of a string of benks. He put em througlt ¢ Amartea, Na- of Ainerica, New Yatioaal bank and others | is striae, one hy one his biggest single coup in was his acquisition of conirol| Mercantile National. | nd close associates became directors ninating factors not only n others. } Ie COMpANE fe seamahip lines on whion he hav! oy Jor ne. diffie! Hiinmnet be Hi showing been laga band the & Mrs. M in Texas a Re proceedin the fact Morse's | ceased to private a to business: mination 0: defrauding his creditors. Three of from the bar ile Mercanti ©. vC Morse He isn't king oF pocket Flares Out and the Stick Falls made him Morse holding corpo! tal of $80,000,000, He American marine. The Dodge-Moese Divorce Scandal. Usually the at Was thre sensation was being “exploited port said he nulled that interfered in mportant edt $820.04 ANKs le do} most of had been old to the pubite amship lines, a von, had a capi. was the king of a chance y to look int ang an In imate side of years ako. w fiverce scandal ca arried Mrs. widow e- Morse s of the unton. concelv u was a bri 1 where | to-day ‘| arb of w in. orse went to E e while r Hummel had deen the iavish exy Dodge. the firs! to keap him out of le at the Instance 5 his marriage marry Mrs. ( w, Who, rred’ by her rel Jivorced man. York 4 Maine, who, n elf with M and gave a rocketing career In a world. Conservatism’s Stand Destroyed Him. come \ his name oss of tm tie Re ee » and 1 last Surope. “are now vement Was ry to throw rupt HOS HOOTO. £3 3 3 } rs os + OWERWHEtLMED: PODDH-D FOR SECRETARY TAFT. | WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.-Secretary | Taft expects to jeave Washington to- morrow and be absent trom the ci at [least week. during which timo te ta Kansas City Mo, anid od Mich. and’ to deli the diplomas to the graduating clays | bat West Point The row ni road for K day he will y will leave here to-mor- the Pennsylvania Rai way o! nF speech ebration of Lincc mo Grand Rapids the to Wi Point, N. Y.. to d_the graduat igen’ at the Military Academy on pda Nn R. EARDENSON & CO. ASSIGN. Robert on and rdenso} at | compelled to live on reduced rations jeix hundred bread mHritueden ||US TWENTY MEN PRISONERS ON BARGE IN CE Third Tug Will Make Effort to Force Way to the Bliss To-day. The liberation of twenty men wht have been held prisoners on the gu: | parge Eliphalet Bliss in Noyac Ba, sinco Tuesday depends on the aoilitw\ of the Nonparell, a White Star line{ ocean-going tug, to crush its way! through six miles of ice between the- shore and the barge to-day. The Nonpareil started at daylighes from Greenport, L. I., and Capt. Day” said he believed she could break throug \ | the ice, although the Cassie and the T. A. Scott had failed. The barge was caught in the 1 while the men, who are employees of the E. W. Bliss Manufacturing Come y, were testing war torpedoes tw Noyac Bay. Three torpedo launches which had been witn the barge reached - Greenport in safety. There was ag? the time on board the barge food for o> one day, and the men have beew Loree fissures in the ice, where It is packed between the barge and shore, made it too dangerous for the men te attempt to walk to 1and. Shelter Island, because of the ice, had been without mail for several days until the Nonpareil arrived w.th it yea terday from New York. —— BREAD LINE WON'T WORK. SRURG, Feb, 7.—Only fifty out of line applicants for pted jobs wrk at City Hall to-day ac: shoveling snow at $1.75 a day. | soup 14-1 KT. | GOLD. | A—$7.75 | B— 6.00 Cc — 3.50 D— 5.00 E— 4.00 F— 2.75 = Charge for agraving. | A_$13.50 B 5! in Forty-five peace w | manufacturing and selling the moe Jewelry, Dinmond Mountings and Soll "At the Most Moderate Prices for the Finest Quality and Best Workmanship, | {i f Optical _ Department | | in charge | ' of | it i SIXTH AVE., + Cor. 17th ) Ste “HERE'S A GOOD whenever we offer them us a “'specia eaten by the Smyrnans as their most a bu rocket, but the nalmlghty hard i ea we wse orly Baker's bet in covering SPECIAL ter itis FRIDAY | TEN MET DEATH IN |g un IF miners, can EB Lauentin R. MeD names hour af! for the level as mi love: ax and for litle d of the v The s exp manage apehad The explosion oct mine had peen inspe a thither and Waited for the bodies his fatality had are Montreal MINE EXPLOSION | st Fatality of the Kind Nova Scotia Colliery Stuns | T ownspeople. | PORTHOOD, N. S., Feb. 7.—Ten coal employed in the pit of the Porthood mine in this town, were kil! ed by an explosion to-day ‘The mer were wo! the south level of the bodies have been re ring in 1 of t John Campbell, Dun- yonald, Maleolm Be: Gill's, WiRis M nald and four foreigne not known. irred about half an ter the men had begun work| day, Previousiy as usual, the ed, and the lower ris of th ad been f from oi amp. The volunte: ews had uity In entering the damage no aver-damp was discover same reason there was ficulty in locatng the bodi tims, ene about the bankhead aft osion Was exciting, Hundr 1 whose well as nt to the st 1 the inines here and the people mpted di ue pruct 4 word reached ¢ ‘owned by the Portland way Coal Company. TI Dyment, M of Bi secretary-treasure is H A, Morine. The direc! we iN STORM. pound and in Mr nto an adjolaing tleld and badly CHARLOTTES, POUND SPECIALS FOR THIS FRIDAY Special Assorted Choco || MOLASSES BLACK WAL- || NUT CIRCLES, POUND 1 9c} SOLID 18-KT. i GOLD. j A--$10.25 | f B— 8.50 | H C-— 4.75 ‘ D— 650 E— 5.50 Soltd 22-Ht. Gold [. ovate. | RER AT FACTORY PP F-— 4:5 12.09 <—$6.50 Guaranteed. reputation by and Diamond We fdin= Rin iHastr ed ! @araso: tS Pages, ever 2,900 tMustratina | Mailed Fre ON E 99—CiiLCOLATE COVERED SMY!N\ Fis, We don't have to inirodi.ce their goodness t. our veterans, who buy them 1'—this description is tor thos: wh» are not acquainted with their dclicicusness. Smyraa produced the fine t figs in the world centurics before it made rugs—the only figs in the world that can be successiutly shipped over the seas after being ruiled ripe So they are fuscious and iu!l ilayored as when nourishing form of food. It takes the best chocolate to tring out the exquisite flavor of these figs, and POUND C the SPECIAL for this SATURUAY PUtON BONS . POUND 1 Oc AND SATURDAY lates (cits) PUD 19¢c CHOCOLATE COVERED GLACE PINEAPPLE, POUND 29c High Grade Bon Bons and Chocolates, Pound 25@ Park Row store open every evening until 11 o'clock. Barclay street and Cortlandt street stores open Saturday evenings until 11 o'clock, WE DEP vER FREE to 10 Tbe, Manhattan above Hoboken and J. i ga C. 0. D, Candies for our out Cltown customers efully packed and shipped from our special mail order de- partment. HOLES Ea ONE PRICE (Cash or Crodit.) Finest stock in city. | Bus- dneas strictly confiden- tial; no employer's refer- ente cequired. Call or write for All, Catelogue No. 44, 37 Maiden Lane, N.Y, Branch, 389 Fulton at rooklyn. | About the only “guessing” lfeature there is to a World “For Sale” Ad is: “Whe will get the bargain by gettina there first? | BARRETT, Suddenly, on Feb. 6, JOHN J. BARRETT, husband of Ellon T. Wile Hams, formerly of the Seventh Ward. New York Funeral from his Inte residence, No, 868 South Fourth st,, Brooklyn, Sunday, at M. Interment Calvary. T'T.- On Feb, 6, ELIZA BENNETT, ral will take place Feb. 8 at 7 ALM, from 115 West 15th Interment at Waterbury, Conn. | FRITSCH.—Feb. 6, 1908, MARGARET. FRITSCH, nee Haggerty, envd 3, bee loved wite of Char Kerio re No. S48 Past Bighty- first street, on Saturday, Feb, 8, 2 P.M. Interment Calvary Cemetery. M'CARTHY,—On Wednesday, Feb. 5, at ealdence, 187 W, 120th at., JOHN RY MCARTHY. Funerai Saturday morning, at 10 o'clool, from the Chureh of St. Thomas the Apostle, 118th wt, and St, Nicholas ay, 1 Calvary Cemetery, On Feb. 5. 1908 at hie residence, , OWEN WARD, native unty, Monahan, Ireland. m mass to be held at the Church of St, Ignatiue Loyole, Raat se at. Satnrdae ro en ee N