The evening world. Newspaper, October 2, 1911, Page 9

“BEGGARPRINGE.” LOOTEROF RH, GOES TOPRISON Names of Many . Prominent and Wealthy Families Used by Clever Swindler, mchmeeapinn -HAS A POLICE RECORD. Most Fantous Ruse Is Offering of Faithful Dog in Exchange for Money, ‘William Edgar Finlay, “prince of beg- ars,” whose aliases include the names of many of the most prominent families of this country, and who has posed in various roles, from hint club hostier to wealthy clergyman, was committed as a vagrant to the Workhouse to-day for‘alx Months by Magistrate Mur Tombs Police Court ig dae! He hag obtained hundreds of dollars from persons of position and wealth, He represented himself as a scion of some Promjnent family, an impoverished dra- matic star, tutor or church organist. He frequently offered to sell his pet “dog Fidele. he recgmed séntenices of six ain the Workhouse for trying to sell Fidele. On pne of these oc. he took her wit@ him. The dog w small yellow mongrel, James Forbes, secretary of the A: ation for the Prev: sent out circulars that caused the un. 4oing of Finlay. Some months ago Mag- {strate Frederic Kernochan wrote Forbes that several members of the Meadow- brook Hunt Club had been appr by @ man who sald he was fo; groom under Samuel Wille the Hounds. He asked for money to help him buy crutches. He been maimed by @ horge's ki trate Kernochan denounced hi! Impostor. Forbes sent his descr and picture to members of the club. A8SKS FOR MONEY TO TAKE HIM TO HIS SICK CHILDREN. Nothing was heard of Finlay Saturday, until |} and Com- . 1 Han. pany, shipping merchants, over Square. He asked for money to take him to his wife and four fick children in Montreal. Ue was told he ould see Mr. Grace on Monda: morn- ing When he turned up to-day Super- intendent Stephen F. De of the Mendicaney Association arrested him. Worbes appeared against hi hi “he said in cou xpert grafter and beggar to « r the notice of our soclety, He had palmed himself off a of old posing > has app Winthrops, i Adamses. At other sented himself as actors, He has a prison two an five years In house terms f “He hgs posed a clergymah who had pirked. people who lunch. "HK most famous to sel! Fi he would all woman mem Prevent offer to p ‘ his boloved dog. In the midgiee tale he would preak has repre- co-star with great luis pocket aid” from rich to stay for, He has obtained him begged Kk was his offer nbby sult, |, As a writ He money. he is a wonde years ‘old and the son of a Sa Springs clergyman, tonk since dead.” did not deny Forbes's 1-4 Carat, $10 1-2 20 3-4 1 ie wel i Hi (stand the teat ‘al early ne id_ntices of will be ow CHARLES A. ene’ Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry. 190 Broadway New York Open until 6 P, M., Gaturdays included, This Business. This Revolution of Mer- cantile Business. Started fifty years ago in he old town of William Penn, where was born our National Independence. . Now grown to be the largest business of its kind in New York. To mark the Jubilee Year '—to mark it in Merchan- dise, which is the heart of the business — to show hat we have here today, lwe have prepared certain special lots of goods, which by the grace of manufac- turers, with many of whom we have dealt these fifty, years, we shall eel at ac- tual cost of making, or close to it. “Good-will offerings” they are—good-will taking the. place of profits. Each day different branches of the business will speak in their own merchandise, emphasizing the fact that this is “A Store of SpecialtyStores”’ Willtaes “Re Groce: ond ‘Com. j—Each branch and section of the business specialized.; —The merchandise in each store specialized upon by our experts as though each was the ONLY store. This Jubilee Merchan- dise is entirely supplemen- tal to dur,regular carefully gathered stocks in both buildings—which in them- selves represent a half cen- tury of doing the day’s work a little better each day. In nowise will their selling interfere with the usual gdod service of the store. The Silver Court in the Jewelry Store now + presents a very large and carefully se- lected collection of Sterling Silverware for the Table For wedding or other personal gifts, or for enlarging one’s own silver chest. Five piece tea sets ranging from $100 to $235. Three piece coffee $21.25 to $77. Candlesticks from $8.50 to $31 pair, Trays from $9.75 to $49 e1ch; a great variety of vegetable dishes, fruit and nut bowls, compotes, vases, basket: read trays. sets from An exquisite chocolate set is of Creom Lenox China deposited with silver, $34.50. The Dutch Silver has largely been added to by a recent shipment from Hol- land, including tea ware, candlesticks, baskets, bowls, pitchers, spoons and other cabinet pieces. Souvenir Spoons include, in addition to popular New York subjects, representa- tive designs from all the countries of Europe, includ- ing Switzerland, Russia, Hungary, Scotland, Spain, Italy, China, India, Greece, France, Germany, Holland, England, Denmark and Nor- way. In Sterling Silver Flat. ware there are ten open stock patterns ranging from the si dignified colonial now strong favor and in some ornate designs, partfc- ularly one elaborate pattern, Chests of Silver ranging up fro $49 for a mahogany chest containing 30 pieces, Main floor, Old Building. rose Formerly A. T. Stewart & Co, eee Periods Represented in the Furniture Tudor Elizabethan Jacobean Chippendale Stuart Adam Georgian Hepplewhite Cromwellian Sheraton, including Italian and French Renaissance. And the French Periods OF FrancisI. Louis XIV. HenrilI, Louis XV. Louis XIII. Louis XVI. Napoleon 1. Price William and Mary walnut dining-room suite, 6 pcs., $863 William and Mary walnut hall or library table, 395 William and Mary inlaid walnut library table, 236 French Renaissance walnut library table, 225 Italian Renaissance walnut library table, 800 Italian Renaissance oak library table, 650 William and Mary mahogany combina- tion reading and writing tebl 170 Louis XIV pair gold arm c! 495 James II tapestry arm chai 145 George I mahogany arm chair, 98 James II pair oak side chairs in blue velvet, each 38 Queen Anne walnut arm chairs, 4 Italian arm chairs, one pair, walnut and gold, each 130 Louis XV gold table, marble top, 675 Louis XV three-piece gold suite, 460 Louis XVI antique ivory enamel suite, 9 pes., 1199 Adam decorated white enamel suite, 3 pes., 700 Adam bedroom suite, decorated in gray enamel, 4 pes., 455 Louis XV gold cabinet, 350 Louis XVI gold cabinet, with marble top, 500 Wainut and gold chest and platform, 550 Louis XIV pair of great arm chairs, walnut and gold, each 325 Walnut and gold table, 750 Louis XVI pair gold jardinieres, egch 195 Louis XV walnut and geld bedroom ite, 10 pes., 2626 Louis XVI walnut and gold bedroom suite, 9 pes., 1448 Walnut and gold arm chair in blue silk, 165 Walnut and gold chaise lounge, 255 Three Circassian walnut and gold stands, marble sop, each 105 Hazel bedroom suite, 10 pes., 1199 Circassian walnut, and gold bedroom suite, 9 pes., 1545 Mahogany’ bedroom suite, 7 pcs., 953 Empire tables, one pair, each 140 Walnut and gold upholstered arm chair, 90 Walnut and gold dressing table in cane panels, 295 Walnut and gold dressing table, 325 Hazel bedroom suite, inlaid, 6 pes., 920 CARPETS We shall sell to-morrow—in the Rug Gallery~-12,361 yards of car- , woven by one of the highest class mills in America, Odd patterns the sense that there is not a ereat yardage in every pattern, But the designs are beautiful and the as- sortragnt is a wide one, Axminster, $1.25 grade, 65¢ Axminster, $1.65 grade,$1.30 Eody Brussels, $1.50 grade, 90c Also, Tomorrow 72 Rugs High Grade Wiltons To a public that has been surfeited with offerings of inferior woah Wil- tons,at superior prices, this small of- fering of choice worsted Wiltons, at about wholesale cost, will come as * a welcome surprise Sixe 6x 9ft, $18,50 Size 8 ft. 3 in. x 10 ft. 6 in., $32.50 Sized x 12 ft, $35 Fourth Gallery, New Building, aa ance WORLD, MONDAY, OOTOBER 2, 1011 paper $431.50 197.80 118 112.50 400 328 85 247.50 72.50 49 19 37 os 337.50 230 599.50 350 227.50 178 250 275 162.50 375 97.50 1313 724 82.50 127.50 52.80 599.50 70 45 147.50 162.50 400 To Be Celebrated During October, in New York and Philadelphia In Appreciation of a Half-Century’s Unexampled Public Patronage We Could Have Nothing Finer for Our Jubilee Offering of Furniture Than the Superb Period Furniture Jubilee Merchandis In This Pooley Collection’, ., No. 5 A $260, 000 Purchase Being Sold for $130,000—| Each Piece at Exactly Half the Pooley Price For no furniture finer than this is made. Merely to Loah at It Is Educational Each piece or suite is plainly marked with the his- | torical period to which its Ko belongs, so that even those who are not thoroughly niture may inspect it intelligently. As we stated on our Saturday pages, this splendid furniture has only just arrived on our floors. sents the entire stock on hand of the celebrated Pooley Furniture Company, which will’no longer make furni- | ture except on special order, the organization being | given over to the production of the Pooley patepted talking machine disk record cabinets, samples of which are in our Victor salesrooms. The pieces are not only beautifully designed and of | the finest woods and materials, but are hand-carved and put together in a way that makes for beauty as well as durability. There are suites for drawing-room, library, dining- room, bedroom and hall, and separate pieces such as ta- bles, desks, chairs, cabinets, davenports, sofas, foot- stools and so on. The pieces are: Pooley Wanmerer It repre- | Pooley Wanamaker _ Price Price Circassian walnut dining room suite, 10 pes., $1552 $776 Oak dining room suite, 3 pcs., 480 240 Carved mahogany sideboard, 230 115 Louis XVI. mahogany bedroom suite, 572 286 722 361 65 32,50 798 399 412 206 98 49 150 Carved walnut library table, 215 XVI. walnut sofa in 300 150 am and Mary three ba: f 200 100 William and Mary pair side chairs,each, 35 17.80 Charles II. walnut sofa and arm chair, blue cushions, 3 pcs., 500 250 Charles II, walnut side chair to match 105 52.50 Oak library table, 185 92.50 Charles IT. oak writing desk, 130 65 Louis XVI. walnut and gold parlor suite, 3 pes., 325 162.50 Charles II. carved writing table, oak, 190 95 Louis XIV. carved mahogany arm chair, 185 92.50 Queen Anne writing table, r:ahogany, 60 30 Queen Anne sofa, brown velvet, 125 62.50 Queen Anne arm chair to match, 75 37.50 Louis XV. carved bedroom suite, ‘ 9 pes, 846 423 Queen Anne carved two-tier table, 60 30 Louis XVI. carved drawing room table, marble top, 800 400 Louis XV. Aubusson tapestry suite, 5 pes. 1300 650 Louis XVI. enamel and gold table, narble top, 145 72.50 Louis XIV, carved Circassian walnut library table, 1250 625 1 XVI. gold seat, ‘ 150 75 u XVI. gold arm chair with loose rt nm, 378 187.50 | Great walnut and gold arm chair, red damask, 475 237.80 Louis XVI. pair Bergere chairs, silk velour, each, 225 112.50 Marie Antoinette carved gilt chair, 158 79 Louis XVI. carved gilt jardiniere, 278 137.50 A competition open to all—on an even footing expense or any obligation to buy, with the chance of securing one of the world’s great pianos without cost. Fifth Gallery, New Building. “MY HOME”’ First American Competition of the Home-Making Arts Begun This Morning at Wanamaker’s free of The object—to learn the composite idea of home-furnish- ing, through the medium of individual ideas, with an empty eight-room apartment on the Sixth Gallery to furnish from the great exhibitic played in the Wanamaker Galler’ Books explaining the competition in detail can be had at the Guides’ Office, First Floor, Oid Building, the Piano Salons and the Bureau of Interior Decorations, on of home furnishings dis- JOHN WANATIAKER Oe nn ltt i ERR 8a a RRR 4 Puri t - THE WEATHER: Fatr. Tomorrow’s Includes Novelty Venise and Macrame ‘Laces $3 Yard for $5 to $8 Bands | 50c Yard for $1 to $3 Bands, Edges, Black silk Venise 4 to 10 inches wide. White and ecru | ree i i Venise, 4 to 10 inches wide. White ant ecru (let nd and Large Applique Motifs macrame, 4 to 9 inches wide. filet and macrame insertions, ue motifs, $1 Yard for $3 to $4 Bands for 25c to $1 Insertions White ond ecru Veni: bands, edges anc large iSc Yard pp combinations, 5 to 9 inches wide. ‘amiliar with period fur- | piece suits. | The Juntor Gir/ Who wears sizes 13, 15 and 17 tail c nd party dresses, in the | For the White and ecru Venite, also Venise with fi'et and net | and Appliques 75c Yard for $1.25 to $3 Bands Insertions and Edges White and ecru Venive insertions and fine St. Gall narrow to 3 in en wide. . | applique laces, 1! ! st flor, Old Buitding, Macrame, end em Lot No. 6 The Standard American Storm Serge: Manufactured hy the American Woolen Co, Retailed from $1.25 a yard up. The Jubilee Dress Goods Offering— 80 cents a yard. ita regular retail price the All-Wool Worsted Storm Serge that ie Serge value in the United States. It is 56 in. wide, nd of fabric that A. T. Stewart himself considered For sound, substantial and standard value, at produced by the American Woolen Co, is conceded to be the and in quality, construction, durability and appearance is the one of the foundation piers of his great dress joods business, Black and the two best shades of navy blue. A limited quantity—and we regret that we are unable to supply manufacturers and dealers, Lot No. 7 750 “Piccadilly” RAINCOATS For Women at $6 For the $12 Grade Tan Double- Texture Cashmerette The “Piccadilly” is strictly business-like, as a raincoat should be, but full of style. Long, loose, and plain with a man’s coat sleeve, strapped at the wrist, and a high storm collar that hooks close up under the cin, Ventilated by brass eyelets at the arm-pits. There are but 750 of these Raincoats and, in order that as many as possible of our friends may benefii by this Jubilee Special we trust that each purchaser will be satisfied to take but one coat. Of course, we have none for dealers to resell at full value. All Women’s sizes from 32 to 44, Ready when the store opens Tuesday morning at 8:30. Broadway front, Basement, Old Building. Jubilee Merchandise Placed on Sale Today Lot No, 1—Pooley Furniture, (Kindly see notice | Lot No, 35400 hemstitched German huckaback above.) | towels—S3 a dozen for our §5 grade, 2500 fine Irish hand-embroidered fancy linens at half actual values—doylies at 20c, centrepieces beginning at 78c. irst floor, Old Building. Lot No, 4—300 pairs French hand-mede lace cure tains, $12.75 a pair for our $25 grade. Third Gallery, New Building. Lot No. 2—Sterling Silver Teespoons, at price of bullion. $2.85 for set of six, regular price $6. Pur- chasers limited to four sets, or two dozen spoons Main floor, Old Building We Announce the Formal Opening of the Specialty Store For Girls, Juniors and Young Women The garments in this Specialty Store have been designed, cut They ee and sewn with the young girl or young woman in mind dre youthful, girlish, charming, and have ‘‘made simplicity ag For Young Women Suits cut plain tailor Norfolk fashion or copied after F serge, tweeds and mixtures, and the handsome new tv Coats of odd English cloth, reversible fabrics, and polo cloths, fe with the new cane collars, are favorites ( Exquisite Debutante Gowns of soft chiffon or crepe, are imported directly from Paris or copied most wonderfully after French models. { One-Piece Dresses of serge, velvet, corduroy and er meteor, are cut on simple lines. Also imported and American-made hand-embroidered lin 4 es, and handsome three.’ ench m toned >! veloufs, ‘ hioned on polo lines or styles that rightfully belong Younger Girl Dresses of Gingham, Linen, Rep and Galatea, as well a silk and serge. Coats for afternoon and school wear, and frocks in batiste and voile. Sizes 6 to 14 We use the term “Specialty Shop" advisedly, for w study, realizing that styles for the older women, » 2 ee eee ¢ of corduroy, velvet, plaid) daintiest of little party, Sresses the object of a special © sasts, sults and they tre not styles for the young girl. Second floor, Old Building, Broadway, Fourth Avenue, Eighth to Tenth Street