The evening world. Newspaper, December 14, 1910, Page 5

Girl Who Eloped With a Wai.er ‘DEJANON GIRL THE EVENING WOR Ana May Now Inherit $10,000,000 BANKER SELIGMAN LD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1910. hia automobiles to the hospital with In- structions to the driver to use it in | reaching the girl's people in the event | that her name were learned, This | morning he went to the hospital_and @ orders that a private room and | & special nurse should be provided for by the Carnegie Hall Livery and Motor Car Company and that Ctancey and | George Murray of No, 06 Bixteenth avenue, Brooklyn, had witnes -d the ac- cklent and had assisted him In getting the girl to the hospital. Taffe was taken to the Bast Mfty- first street station, and af 23rd Street ISNOW HEIRESS. | “ge 0F§10000000, Grandfather of Child Who! Eloped With Married Waiter D.es of Pneusnonia SHE IS NEXT OF KIN, Not Believed That Will Making Her Sole Heir Was Changed « After Her Escapade. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 14.—It ts not believed that Robert Buist, prior to his @eath last night, changed his will leav- ing the bulk of his‘millions to Roberts De Janon, the pretty granddaughter whowe elopement with a walter @ year go gained for her unenviabie notoriety all over the country, Although pneumonia is given as the immediate c the aged millionaire's @eath, it is deciared that Mr. suist Teaily died from grief over the girl's eeospade with Frederick Cohen, a t.d- die-aged waiter ahd married man em- ployed at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, where she and her grandfather liveu. MDS A POR URED BY TA Moved by Story of His Butler, 4 Who Saw Mishap, He Calls at Hospital. By order of Jefferson Soliman seven teen-year-old Margaret McManus, a dressmaker's ass down by Fifty-fou la recely the Presby on her way hi nue when she 8 the wheels of a taxicab, For several hours she was not Identified One of the evew!tnes: ns Bernard Clancy, bu «man home, which { street. . he gave such a moving girl's prottiness ang of h Sixtysninth ed the house int of the plight that his employer was moved to interest himwelf in the case. Sent Auto After Relatives, Firet the banker despatched one of FURS He never recovered from the grief and shame brought on him at that time. It fe known positively that it was his Plan to leave his entire fortune to the sixteen-year-old girl. Bince the elopement Mr. Buist has lived alone at the hotel. About ‘wo weeks ago his sister, Mrs, Chariotte Bedford, visited him and found him eritically ill. She summoned physicians, and they continued to treat the mill- fonaire until his death last night Girl Fled With Waiter. The elopement of Roberta De Janon, whose father has made New York his hom we the death of his wife, and Cohen was one of the sensations of the year in Philadelphia. Cohen was ¢m- Ployed to wait on Mr. Bulst and his handsome granddaugater. Roberta was ail in the world to her grandfather. She was a mere child in appearance, her hair down her back, and FIRE INSURANCE Alfred R. Conkling Tells the Legislators About the In- creased Cost. lose attention to the Buist sie Was noted by Mr. Bulst, but he ispected nothing until about Jan. 1 ast his granddaughter suddenly dis- speared. At the same time Cohen dis- vpeared. Then it developed that Cohen ad deserted his wite and that he and the girl had fled together. A bundie of love letters written by the child to the walter was found by Cohen's wife. For days the police of The iquiry into fire insurance mat- ters was continued to-day by the joint legislative investigating committee, Alfred R. Conkling was the first wit- ness. Mr. Kilng controls several million dollars’ worth of real estate in this city. He was examined by former Judge M. Linn Bruce, counse! to the committee. “In ten years," he said, “through th machinations of the fire insurance tru: the rates on my property have quad rupled. Fer every dollar I paid ten years ago I now pay four.” Mr. Conkling said he placed his in- surance through the firm of Douglas Robinson, Charles 8. Brown & Com- 1) chen and the child. A warrant charg- ing Conen with abduction was swora out in Philadelphia. Case Never Prosecuted. Ten days later Cohen and the girl were found in a Chicago boarding house, living under the names of Mr. and Mra. 4 , ri ama | PAY. whose leading member is a Robert King, Cohen was arrested, and | i other-in-law of Col. Theodore Roose- he and his child dupe were brought | | velt. ‘The witness testified that the same ie. ta declared she loved Cohen | Physical characteristics that obtained on ober: 5 madly and had induced him to flee with | "!8 Property years ago obtain to-day. her, Mr. Buist was threatened with a suit for ailenation of Cohen's affec- tions by Mrs, Cohen, and then the case was dropped, Cohen was never prose- cuted. Nia has been heard of Roverta De cae Tt was reported that she to agme seminary. —— ance Exchange. Admits Rates Are Too High, Edward J. Tanning of Milwaukee, @ Wisconsin fire insurance agent who testified yesterday, on being recalled |admitted that many of the rates pre- vailing to-day are unfair and too high, and that commissions paid to agents in many instances were exorbitant, | FOU He sald he knew fire insurance com- |? s that paid from 9 to 45 per cent. | dri of all premiums they collected. He said that theoretically the State should fix the rate. , “Why fot practically?” asked Judge “Bruce. “Governments as @ rule don't select fair and proper men to"— “Let us stop right there for a min- ute,” interrupted Judge Bruce. ‘Don't you think that the men now making S PROPOSED FOR 15000 LANYERS County Association Consider- | ing One Intended to Benefit . | Members and the Public. | Mothers ‘There is trouble brewing for the 15,000 or more lawyers in the greater city. The New York County Lawyers’ Association hae before it a proposed new code of ethics, And there'll be the biggest kind of a transformation if a hundredth part of said ethics is observed First of al! is the injunction to lawyers to observe “the strictest integrity.” Then comes the solemn reminder that lawyers “should not make a practice of) soliciting, nor employing others to 90- | cit for them, any professional employ- | ent, nor agree in consideration of suah nployment to bear the disbursements | f costs of litigation,” Another equally severe injunction reads: ‘ h “Hin (a lawyer's) compensation || ARC, with cream, may be coi 1 for with the client, but no aretuiniaa ¢ When hungry c! artied in the law, as on a pedes- is the provision of the pro- elevated to the bench he es new obligatic similar ones— hasn't been accepted Triple Hollday. ‘The ¢ w York Stock Exchange granted to-day the pe- tition of the members to close the Ex- change on Dec, 24. This gives the aa @ wiple holiday, RATE QUADRUPLED INLASTTEN YEAR He said he could only explain the | ¢ quadrupling of the rates by laying it at| fe the door of the New York Fire Ingure | Piaiutes 4 i Ready to serve from the pack- something, this delicious food is satistying and nutritious. Post Toasties are dainty and sweet and ready to eat. “The Memory Lingers” Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., Battle Creek, Mich. oa FROM TRAPPER TO WEARER the rates are as unfair and inequitable Buy the “FAMOUS in their methods as could be made?” ; M4 je ncitien't. the men—the agents: it ts! KRAMER FURS’ the companies,” replied Mr. Tanning. direct from America’s ‘The witness said that oniy tate of- | leading manufacturers | ficials who served for life, devoting all| @ at our wholesale sales- |their time to fire insurance, could soom and save the properly supervise rate making. middlemasi’s ener mous profit. A. W. Neale of Cleveland, 0., presi- | dent of the National Local Agents’ As- sociation, testified that a thorough KRAMER FURS house-cleaning was badly needed in the fire | e fleld KNOWN “The r this housecleaning comes THE WORLD OVER the bet said Mr, Neale. “There { Aue . is @ preferred class, and the rest do SINCE “1873” I not kno now th are being discrim- | Gi INE RUSSIAN PONY COATS (not ‘inated against, This is shown by the sold by \retallers ae discrepancies in commissions.” i Mr, Neale sald that the only way toy put the situation in New York in the hands of independent raters would be price to pass an anti-compact law, This would result in abolishing the New | Complet iment from $6 50 to $5,700 York Fire Exchange, which now fixes and maintains rates, fining and expel- ling members who rebate or give a lower than the fixed rate, How It Is Done in Chicago. Lyman M, Drake of Chicago, hority on fire insurance, fied that the Chicago Board of Fire Un- ; derwriters fixed rates in Cook County, “How many stock companies are in Chicago?” was asked. “Two hundred,” replied Mr, Drake. KRAMER FUR CO. OF NEW YORK. 18 EAST 16TH STREET Bet. Biway and Sth ave., New York. Take elevator to wholesale salesroom, Q. Only stock companies are members of the Chicago Board of Fire Under- writers? A. Yes, Q. How malty of these two hundred stock companies are not members of the board? A. Only two. He said the rates were arbi reached by a comparison of ri ules throughout the country. cceaiicesceuts JACKSONVILLE ENTRIES. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Dec, 14 nee HUDSON RIVER TUBES Tube station platforms are warm and bright, ‘and fast trains run every minute or two to $3d St. Travel by the Tubes. Up 6th Ave Along 6th Ave. at 9th, 14th 19th, 23d and 28th Streets are stations of the 1. WIT; Mystifier, 111; ACE, Selling HES Son ih Me, 10) Liovnce apprentice shoran | ated three poi ‘notes five pounds Weather clear; track fast Appreciate The “Handiness” | for a trans¢ript of @ blotter record, and Miss McManus at his expense and then. | his story was allowed ti accompanted by a young woman mem- | = ber of his family, he drove to the East Fifty-first. street station to get a copy of the police report on the accktent. Lieut. McCullum told him he nrue: wet an order from the Pottce Commiasioner a s Mr. Seligman left to Headquarters, Identified by Brother. For severa! hours after the accident | the victim was not known, as she had no pronounced marks of identification about her. Fin: jam McManus, her brother, Wiil- for e faernitar ences BN epmatism James T. Tale, driver of the atto- iweteurs tz) and Lumbago mobile, took the unconscious gif! to the .' There is no ease so bad that noel Oil won't at least give relief. 0c. dhe ving he would go hospital, and then went to the Hast Bixty-seventh street police where he told Lieut. Green of dent. He said that he was Stern Brother: To-morrow, Thursday Exceptional Holiday Offering of | Men’s Fine Shirts of fine quality Madras and Percales, in light colors, Stripes and figures, pleated bosoms, cuffs attached, of a well known make, Values $1.50 and $2.00 Men’s Cape Gloves One Clasp P. X. 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