The evening world. Newspaper, May 5, 1908, Page 4

is t i | i { BOY'S OREN OF MILLIONS LEAT TOHISABDUCTIO Francis Larkin’s Tale of Wealth Tempted Kidnap- pers, Uncle Believes. MISSING OVER A WEEK. Sister Grieves Herself to Death When Lad Fails to Re- rn Home. | Sattle Francis Larkin heard ‘his uncle | and his aunt, who are his guardians, talking over some business connected with an estate of $4,000 which he will | get when he js twenty-on: though eleven vears will pass Defvre that event, he began to draw mental | pictures of what he would do with all this wealth. For days the burden of Frank's con: | versation with his playmates on the | block was his plans for the disposal wf his fortune, and as the idea erew so | did bis estimate of the amount. and the | news spread abroad In the neighborhood | of No. 141 St. Mark's avenue, Brooklyn, | thet some day he would be « million- | etre. Frank's uncle and his aunt, Mr. and} Mrs. John McGovern, believe that this childish chatter prever the temptation to kidnappers who are only watting the time they cbnslder proper to come forward and demand ransom. The lad disappeared Sunday a week ago, and anxiety over hin absence caused his sister, Miss May Larkin, to grieve her- self to death and has brought his aunt to the ego of nervous prostratton. Estate Tied Up- ‘The bpy 1s an orphan, and he and his hister have lived with the McGov- erns since the ceath, a year and a half ago, of his father, James Larkin, who worked for the Borough of Brooklyn. McGovern {s a policeman ettached to | the Parkville station, and the police | and detective departments of Brooklyn have been working steadily to locate the Uttle fellow. The and teaoher of Pubic School No. ML Van- derbilt avenze and Sterling piace, where he was a pupil, are also engaged in the search, as he was popular with them all. “This money." said MoGovern te-day. ‘42 all_in real estate and there is no way it can be touched, excepting, of course, to draw the income, until the boy 1s twenty-one, Frank heard my wife and his sister and me taiking about {t and asked us some questions, but we didn't pay any attention to this until Mrs. McGovern heard from neigh- bors that he had been bragging about ft amoung the kids on the block. "We told him not to do this, but he was a headstrong. although a good hearted and loveable little chap, and IL must have heard of | he was a good subject believe some th’ it and concludes for kidnapping.” Went to Church and Vanished. Miss May Larkin, the boy's sister, was twenty years old and was devoted to her brother. She was a seml-invalid, and when Frank did not return from St. Joreph's Church: that Sunday and S$ passed she worried and g: Si nore despondent until the fol- somiag, Thursday, woen she died. Hem funeral took place last Sunday. Mira. MoGovern, 1s i and a tressed. to an Even- “it je terrid\ faz World Suppose ry dead. He wa a xood boy although he w ‘is way about some things. ly ever punished him, not even hen | he would ron away h Two Weeks ago lapt Sunday ried for} chureh, but didn't come back, and my| hushana found that ne and three other Uttle boys had mun away toa baseball fe, and he didn't And Frank, wuncit) e vhat night. I talked, with him a long time about this and told him 11 was wicke!, and he see:ned very peni- tent and promiao never, to, do It again. Bhat js why L don't believe he ran away DEN TD EL ATP Conero Marched His Father- in-Law to Station, and Is Also Locked Up. NT OF GU THE EVENING WORLD, Invests in a New Bonnet and Gown, But Otherwise Hasn't Allowed “the Fever of Spending” to Break Out to Any Extent. ‘ENJOYS LUXURY ABOUT HER. Contrasts in Mrs. Green’s Life From Hoboken to the Plaza In Hoboken Mrs. Hetty Green's expenses were $5.50 a week, some- t!mes leas. Her rent was $19 a month. At the Plaza she spenas $300 a month for her suite. cost her at least $10 a day for meals. When whe lived tn her Hoboken flat Mrs. Green spent eleven cents for muslin curtain in her kitchen to keep out the eyes of prying neigh: bora. Tt will The curtains that screen her from the vulgar gaze at the Placa are of the finest Valenciennes, and cost as much as half a year's Hoboken flat rent. Her grocery man in Hoboken never contemplated retiring on the proceeds of Mrs. Green's custom. A quart of milk lasted her three days, he said. It was kept on the window sill to save ice Dills. Peche Melba is about as cheap a dessert as Mrs. Green can eat at the Plaza. Fruits and vegetadies imported from all parte } of the world are hers—if she paye for them. The price of one fair meal would buy out the stock of the little Hoboken grocer. In Hoboken, the richest woman in the world could Ibok out on a back yard inhabited by dingy cats, and across which were strung long lines of ragged washing. To eee the sky she had to crane her neck. From the windows of her Plaza suite she can look out at the pleasant green vistas of Central Park and watok the most fash- fonable turnouts in New York flash across the circle. She once describad the wealthy of the world as being worse than the dwellers in the late lamented Sodom and Gomorrah. “They tried to lure my boy Ned astray,” she said, while she fixed up a room im the barn of her country house for his home-coming. Any time she feels like taking a stroll through the hotel cor- ridors Mrs. Green can bump into people who count their money by the hundred thousands, and in some cases millions, and to whom the lurury that to her seems so wonderful at her first nip has grown to be a simple necessity of life. a SS ENT From a row of dreary, barricklike, red-brick flats in Hoboken Mrs. Hetty Green, the New England woman, with the wonderful money- spinning brain, who hitherto has posed as the high priestess of retrench- ment and riches, has climbed a dizzy ladder to one of the swellest suites at the Plaza. A week ago Mrs. Green was liable to corns on the soles of her feet from treading the hard floors and thin carpets of her Hoboken | | home: to-day she wades about in carpets soft as mush, and instead of lines of washing and recuperating growlers put out to air, can rest her inates over her sudden accession to a $300 a month dwelling-place, “It's a pretty fine place, #:l right, but) her astonisnment. The telephone at I've got nothing to say against Hobo-| ce was put under the bar | ken.” carne oa thats telephone she said; Mra, Green, with a faded emile on heF| 59 some comfort to knew how 1eimay rather withered countenance, leaned] cold it ts, but @ telephone—have fa back against a tapestried lounge in the] taken out.’ reception room and tapped her foot| The lavish expenditure of money sie against a rug that cost as much as sees going on ull round her has ap- parently not yet infected Mra. Green, her year's expenses In Hoboxen. Sh®} Sie disdaine the iong line of taxicab: has been at the hotel since Sunday with \ner daughter Sylvia and her famous that meets her eye every morning when she starts downtown for her of-| fice In the Chemical cloudy weather she carries her famous | in umbrella, and by @ judiclous use of |: transfers it costa her just one nickel |< so wel downtown. ‘mn Can't Wait on Herself. eee At ‘To a few frends Mrs. Green has com- municated her astonishment at the big |! { stat of servants In the hotel. There is |‘ a complete staff—malds, bellboya aud i) telephone operators for each floor. The |; Skye terrier dog. New Hat and Gown. The frazzled jooking bannet that 0: adorned her head has vanished, but doubt sas not been thrown away, in place of the rusty black dress that the richest woman in the world used wear on her walks abroad, she donned a rather fashionably cut black silk gown The new hat has actually pair of pink roses nodding on its comic opera. If they are looking for ton room and Ag she sat in the reception ro any Ups from Mrs. Gr though, they vatehed exquisitely gowned women] “ reo eaty in to ainner or on their way yet be disappointed. to their waiting motors, Mrs, Green he first day she spent at the hotel | siniled a happy Uttle amile of perie Mra, Green summoned a maid. content. Perhaps she was toinking Why, you're the fifth I've seen on| Hoboken and the arshaft, and tag !tals floor,” she sald, “Sakes altve, what toot’ toot! of whistles from the river, {4° #1 you folks find io do and long-drawn wall of trolleys. “We answer cails, madam," replied the maid, hardy perennial German band and the tite Se ae re Well, my dear, I won't bother you po ey rhe nel. | Much y Green can wait on her- “Well, this is Lae eal ete Bel | seit, goodnes: the richest lows Falls," waa all the cy a won the world replied. She has | made, however. Bellows Falls ts her summer home in Vermont, and Is nighed on a quite luxurious Mrs, Hetty Green's ideas of ho’ word. jreen has kept her own counsel ives nat impelled her to ne Plaza. That there is a| 7 bk see who know her test do not |? Ta strict conformity with her love of Dw her vest don Incognito, Mrs, Green has order@l the and strong Tt is said clerks at the Plaza to deny that she Antonio Cornero, a real estate dealer, marched hls father-in-law, Bernard Sheridan, round from the house at No, 325 East One Hundred and apartment: | Fifteenth street ast One H police station early to-day and cl nt The cat bee Conevo. had dun back ere escoried to the Nikola round red ring as the two inca desk by Policeuan Sheridan iad budged on way. and Co ged him along With @ revoly thom on the steps of aiguing iva tirentened to | lun unless he got thin wh f en ar the gun as aj f mS to: charge of cruelt mld Myatoat Sherden: and locked wp for carrying concealed ter's engagement juszeteppings there: "Her name: cast not | | to Matthew Astor Wliks, great-grand- ADuperAOn We TemIMter ELLNe Ueto |son of the first John Jacob Astor, war { Although he has appeared tn the) nnounced, Mra. Green has felt a con- | dining-room once, she Was NOt] y.ming desire to get into wo this has delighted her. | ; he is not afraid of being seen, and 18! is+eq, drinking in the spectacle of money b®| i dons as if she were al Troms firat’ opnor. HAVERSTRAW NEGROES THREATEN A LYNCHING. ized, and den! but dQ that the enguze ex- there are those who believe leed Mrs. Green's first oppor- unity oking on at the| sooleiy that makes no more of a thou- this sand dollars than she does of the same) um be of ce and, If ort be . 1 Hod aeeeO eT mooris °°) Laborers Searching for One of All “Astonishes” Her | Their Number Ww ho Killed An- mney conv. anoleapnt other Over Crap Game, of vA great el were A SE fos esr -yard laborers of much ast it to Mrs. er the nelehb od In her Hobo! @ ‘ “Bie § Q come in a st ed Henry Higa ont over a &: ywing an of craps tast 1 's are armed © made that through a grating place. Then aga clock ticked the hi | Phone was in the gro ame An alarm rs noisily, the tele- ‘ery at the corner. | eats jarket got To-day’e hisch 2, tional Bank. In| eps © wa @ hitherto unheard-ct frivolity] maids and bellboys are attired aw atrik- |: for Mrs. Green. ingly as the maids and beliboys of {Ele eR PLATZ. HOTEL a= SyLvin’ Si IREEN? __ nore cortmiaier px TARZER Wrtng.. STOCKS ADVANCE AS BUYERS APPEA Copper Most Fave Brisk bu: well Deom x set wa: Union and Southern Pacitic. Sme’ting and Amalgamated eyes on the spring greenery of Central Park. Fe een eee ott crises Had John D. Rookefeller, arm-in-arm with J. P, Morgan, strolled into| tne stock market today was narrow James Fads How's National Convention of the Unemployed, and joined in| ®nd heelt and dealings were in tne mad, glad, table-smashing whirl for bread and coffee, their friends | (M2, mourns, Sune The wens oF wvouldn’t have felt any more amazement than have Mrs, Hetty Green’s inti-| -allroais f mated notve large in after the y and the & 447,600 The Cloning Prices. down the and d never met sam table tn t over © THREATENS TO WIPE OUT OHiO TOWN, COALTON. has When she looked around the suite she 1 tneet the same fate as Ae had select d her eye was caught by the Ot Ia automatic clock, the automatic Te Towa, Ha! regulator and the telephone. vent have alr wanted to know about the. “contrap- ver," Disputes are. trequent vy wind ts blowin about 1,800 before the TUESDAY r AW 5, aoe. ‘Hetty Green Quits Simple Life of Hoboken Flat To Join “Reckless Rich” at the Hoiel Plaza BULLET IN BRIIA OF MAN FOUND IN PARK PESEAVOL Heins Shot Himself and Top- pled In, Coroner’s sician Believes. Phy- ed In the Central Park reservolr ay. However, some cartridges taining bullets of the same cailbre which he found in a pocket of the dead man's coat, d the physician's on that the case was one of sul- ide, and not murder, nS ved with Vhs! wate) at avenue, ‘had been missing from his home since | Ost. 28 last. { Dr. ane to-day removed the brain, n yund was the et. A closer insps wed where the pullet nad | right tenple. ‘There were hat appeared | e bullet was the | opinion bullet into hia rain on the edge of the reservolr. and f the water. There we \t ors in the lungs and al leads Dr. Lehane to be- which eve that Heine was not yet dead when he fell into the reservoir. ter ——— SHIPPING NEWS. ALMANAC FOR_TO-DAY. Sun rises. Sandy Hook. wae Governor's tat i. |iiell Gate’ Fees re E3 PORT OF NEW yorK, ARRIVED. ita winzeasin Cociile INCOMING STEAMSHIP, DUE TO-DAY. url, Puerto, braltar, Mia OUTGOING STEAMSHIPS. SAILED TO-DAY. K. Wm. der Grosse, Hamilton, Norfolk. Hremen. Byran, Rio de Janeiro, rapahoe, Charleston. Dunstan, Gig ot “Atians yndam; Holland, Savannah That Bunion! | | "| Will go on aching, smarting | and threb)ing, until relieved by wearing the Coward Bunion Saor, which gives the enlarged joint room to move, | lifts all pressure, removes all | binding, prevents chafing. | And the Coward is the only | | | Bunion Shoe that will do it SOLD NOWHERE ELSE, JAMES S. COWARD, 268-274 Greenwich St., N. Y. (CXEAR WARREM A ERRET. ‘Mali Orders Filled. Sead ter Catalogu, SHILS LAUNCH BY CATALOGUE “The Launch, Or Where Is | She?’’—For Particulars Ap- ply to Flushing Bay. Mr. and Mrs turned from Flushing to their home, at No. 38 West Forty-ninth street, to-day firmly intrenchad in the belief that fate has not determined them for a nautical career. Mz, Sohneldor deciared that the next | time he bought himself a naphtha launch he would give it its first trial | on Broadway. preferably within hailing distance of several hospitals. The Flushing Hospital had done very well by him, and aleo by Mrs. Sohnelder, but it was a dreadfully uncomfortable trip to the hospital from the midet, of Flushing Bay, where they were tossed when their new yacht decided) | to disperse itself Into myrad atoms, ‘The Schneiders bought the launch | only a few weeks ago. Mr. Sohnelder paid $1,400 In cash for {t and was con- vineed that he had a After he had read the catalogue of the company he felt tt was almost a gift. Furthermore, as he read the ideg took |root that the mechanism of a naphtha launch wae as simple as that of e gas stove in @ Harlem fiat. His Book-Taught Lore. He studied the thing up in his office jail day yesterday, and when he went home in the evening thrilled Mrs, Schneider with bis bvek-taught lore. ‘Wouldn't It be fine to try the boat right off? sald Mrs. Schneider. suggestion, and they, hastened to @ taxi- cab stand and set out for Flushing Bay where the litte boat was moored. VThey found it cosily bobbing on the waves, ite brasswork sparkling in ¢! soft Mgnt of the new moon, The ma: her watchman was not on the jc however, to help out, so Schneider had to mo about his launching with only the catalogue to guide him, But after he had ighied the ilttle green lamp on the starboard rail and the little red light on the port, and provided = Mrs, Schneider with a lantern he felt that there was no Feagon on earth way they shouldn't have a sail. Stuck His Finger in the Naphtha. So that he migut have ample room to make @ start in, after be had stuck his [Boger in the nay st full he cast oi from nis buoy. ‘Luen ne got out his cataiogue again and | vegan turning litte knobs and wheew jand Loings Ws Lv sesature ou. |Waile so engaged the tlde swept bim | gently out into the bay. | Hig wood Tlect confidence fp him until he ignited a match and applied the flame to tue nearest tube. Then there was a biinding rash und a succession of small expiosions, tollaw- ed by @ Dillow of nasty muoke. ‘This passed @Way iu & lew seconds, Db w- ever, with no further damuge than the eingeing of of Schneider's hair. Ieee tully recovered tis aplomb he vay dear, 1 guess have sled.” “The goed ‘wite, “aug? gemed that. they signal for” help. Then He Took the Count. “Nonsense, Schneider. \So he Ugited anotuer taper and turned | a few knobs open @ oa auzen valves OF #0. a it’ ee explained to-day as he adjusted his bandayes. “I ‘had ¢hougnt there was bomnething the matter with the flow of fuel, There wasn't. 1 touched {t all off at once, and Mrs. Schneider and I were blown out Into the bay somewhere. “My wife, thank God, landed tn ahal- low water, and managed to scramble to herself from drown- gates drowned two re fisherman was my s name—there isn peg left of In fact, the nenerman who res. cued my wifo said something about seeing the last red hot nail of her shooting through the firmament in the direction of City Island. I guess I wasn't cut out for a yachter, and Mrs. Schneider, who I am giad to an: caped with only & severe 4 fockting, agrees with me. Wile bau y ISIN OSPITAL Frederiok Schneider re- | rare bargain. | Schnelder hugged his spouse for the t wa tank and found | of the Staten Island Rapid Tranalt toad And. thrown into. the” Staten Isl Sound |The tedy was found by two fishermen late last evening. They saw Geastoay ott \floatine in the waters of the upper hetween Clifton and Stapleton and. when they rowed near found |hody, which they towe taken to the morgue. wi father made : SLAIN BY HOLDAP NEN AND THROWN NTO UPPER BAY | Relatives of Robert Schneider] ; Deny That He Took His | Own Life. \ Harris Suction Clip Fits Noses of All Shapes “There, te absolutely no reason to; —because of the SUCTION think that Robert Schnekler committed | SLE. @utcide, and every indication points| PRINCIPLES tt grips i Ge to the theory that he was held up,; M0t tightly—but securely, and robbed and thrown into the upper day.” leaves no disfiguring red said William O'Hara, a cousin of the; marks. nan whose boly was found near Clit- 3. L, after being missing since | April 13. O'Hara was the last of Schneider's | relatives who saw him alive, and to- day he examined the body with Coro-| ner Cahill. Schneider visited O'Hara, who lives in Second street, New Brigh- ton, the afternoon of the day he dis-| appeared. “He was'In great good humor,” con- | West 125th nei Ave. tinued O'Hara. “I never saw a man| at who was more pleased over his pros- | 2. Columbus wo Avoublat 62d Se pects. He was tirty-four years old. 489 Fulton S: engaged to be married, he bad several | Onpaae fede thousand dollars in a bank In New | York and a responsible position with | the American Linoleum Company. “Robert left me saying he w Attached to vour glasses while vou wait, for 35 certs. SOLD ONLY AT OUR STORES, OCULISTS AND OPTICIANS Last 23rd oe near Fourth Ave, Our New Store, 76 Nassau Street, ea | near John Street, Opens This Week AHOME ella, COMPLETE nau WEEKLY AN ACCOUN to for ne ilved Sohnotder. ‘forty dollars in his pocket, wore a diemond ring. a scarf pin and a gold watoh and chain. His father, myself. rel all hie relatives, in fact, think that the absence of these things from the pody Is enough evidence that he was held up and murdered.” e are Schneider's relatives young man @id net kill him- they have requested the De tective Bureat: and the District-Attorne to make a thorough investigation, al- though there is very little to go on. Richmond Terrace !s a lonely place. and for a r more there have bee: numerou: beries and hold-ups there One theory !s that Schneder reached there late in the evening was robbed and his body carried across the tracks Ho had between thirty and TISHER BROS. COLUMBUS AVE. 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