The evening world. Newspaper, March 6, 1912, Page 3

‘ HO MORGAN PY SEH $40 00 FR 1 0 BOOK? Financier ‘Said to Have Given Tremendous Sum in Paris ise» for Coptic Works. ‘“PIRST STORY OF SALE, “Evening World Representative Interviews Sheikh, Who Dis- { “ Closes Secret of Transaction. {*? (Rpectal Correspondence of The Evening World.) baeCAIRO, Egypt, Feb. 12.—J. Pierpont figura- “tlvely dragging the deck of his new and Fasgnificently equipped steam dahabeah Kargeh—so completetly have his “legs heen. pulled” by certain dealers in entiques. His recent payment of $7,000 a volume » for fifty-seven Coptic books or $400, jofer'the it, which viously rejected ‘aus by accredited representatives of Britisn Museum, the French Museum and |, «m-doxen or more leading colleges inuseums of Turope, has given ‘expensive Cairo a shock of surprise, for until this particular transaction Mr. Morgan was regarded as a shrewd buyer of such wares, “Before the snare was laid for Mr. Morgan anybody could have bought the identical books at $25 a volume from Sheikh Mohammed Said Ahmed El Gabry, ‘or $1,500 for all of them. Sheikh Gabry himself told a representative of The Evening World so as he sat in his flowing robes and turban upon the wide balcony of the Grand Continental Hotel. ‘HOW THE DEAL WAS PUT THROUGH SUCCESSFULLY. “Dhere being no buyer of the books @t $5 eacn, I afterward made an ar- rangement with M. E. Chassinat, direc- | gar in Cairo of the Institute Francais eologie Orientale,” ald the Bed- } ehiet while partaking of coffee and cigarettes. “Mr. Chassinat and tiquity dealer who has a place near the | Hptel Savoy took over the books from nie, making a small payment down. | | Later hey concluded the ale to Mr. Mé@ngan through Arthur Sambon, the Paris broker of the rich American.” “Did you got all of the $00,000 Mr, Mergan paid for the books?”.was asked. “Oh! Never,” replied tie sheikh, who speaks excellent English and {s the head of the particular tribe of Arabs who | have pre-empted control of the Pyra- inids of Guiza, five miles west of Cairo, “Lwas first paid $25,000, ‘Then I was pald some mcre money; but I am in 1ent with the other gentlemen to tion the exact sum I received. of the books were furnished by another member of my tribe, but forty of the fen sold to Mr, Morgan were mine. There enough money from Mr. Morgan for all of us.” READY FOR RICH COME-ONS FROM AMERICA, “Have you any more Coptic books to well?” was questioned, Have you any more millionaire ericans to buy?” was the quick re- “If so, I will find just what they t. They can have Coptic book: She Will Behold Rows and Rows of Wings, Expen- sive and Perishable, Which She Dons and Discards Half a Dozen Times a Day— She Calls Them Gowns. Many a Time the Shimmering Wings Are Singed by the Flame of the Perfumed Cigarette and Tarnished by the the Sparkling Cocktail. it away. Why should the little gossip that fi meditation? For her sins, of ummies of poor men or mummies tombs of alabaster—in fact, just they will pay for, My whole tribe Ing In the desert, The Egyptians ere burying for 6,000 years and only a w of the tombs have been uncovered, { Qtr. Morgan's books are not Eagyptia: Hie Egyptian antiquities after the Chri tian era, His books ure Coptic and were ywritten since the Egyptians stopped urying their treasure. They are of the uth and tenth century and were found je the ruins of St. Michel's Monastery in the Fayoum, an oasis in the desert three days by camel from Calrog’ ‘That Mr. Morgan paid between two hundred and three hundred times the actual worth of the books is stated by eminent Exyptologists. Dr. Brochart of the German Mus ‘The Coptic books bought by ¥ I estimated had a vaiue o! But I refused them at even th I understand Mr. Morgan s under t impression that bidding for the books against *h A wealthy man in his posi:! ‘only sees true values through va: ored glasses held up by those mea w are near to him.”” ft. E, A. Wallis Budge, director of Hgyptian section of the British tn London, said: “We did not tthe Coptic books at any price in antiquities are very often the ‘of the purse of the prosp2 Mr, Morgan's books are interest- 2 of the various beeks of the They have no special re are hundreds ff such books in Egypt." PECIAL BARGAIN MADE FOR A MILLIONAIRE. Clermont-Ganneau, a director of ris, sald: “Our uld have had e. 000 francs or $400,000 to Mr. Morgan was a special price made eran American multi-milionaire, ‘Quoted at $25 each the Morgan Coptic ‘books went begging for over a year in Catro, They were offered in vain to col- leges and museums, as well as the pub- lic, by such well known dealers in the ' Sharia Kamel as R, H. Blanchard, Dik- | ran Kelekian and P, Kyticas none of | whom figured in the Morgan transac: | ton, Sala Mr, Kyticas, a Greek: Ve all had the books to gell on com- mission for the Shelkh Gabry, If I had been offered as much as $5 a volume I Wwe Sheikh Gabry would have been than satistied, Since all of the ne known—largely through threats of Sheikh Gabry to sue for an equal share in the huge profits from the transaction—Prof, Chassinat has resigned as director in Catro for the French soviety, Chassinat is now in Paris, His salary here was only 5,000 francst a year, We hear that he Is @ving ee the United States and there * There is something so charming and fanciful about @ butterfly that the first impulse upon seeing one alight before the Lenten Looking Glass is undoubtedly to shoo glass of truthfulness disturb the brief and festive life of the winged tattler of gardens? Why should the busy to tea be made to do penance before the migror of season, when she should bave ashes on her wings and repentance in her soul, What does the Society Butterfly, that gorgeous futility in the garden of a day. Wings made in New York and others from Paris and London and Limpid Liquid of terfly, TRA, aaa aR THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNE s% THE LENTEN LOOKING GLASS Society Butterfly Likely to See Cigarettes and Cocktails—Seventh of a Series of Articles by Nixola Greeley-Smith. Copyright, 1912, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World). 4 ween Throw away your cigarette, Many a butterfly hi to her own wings with on revelations of that uncompromising its from flower to flower or from tea course, and because it is the Lenten man-collecting butterfly, BurrerFwes’ SHOULDA "Ture. derstand that they mean hygiene as smouldering cylinders of flame. BUTTERFLIES THAT COLLECT MEN WITH NET AND CHLORO- FORM. gay little but- r pictures in who reverses ural destiny of being es about with a net and of chloroform secking whom she may collect and exhibit. and writing the variety and date of capture underneath. DAY, | PRACTICALLY FINDS MOTHER HANGING DEAD AS HE AWAKES. Woman Had Tried to Jump From Window a Few Days Ago— Father Died Month Ago. When Henry Goodman, eighteen years old, woke up to-day in the kitchen of the little three-room flat at No. 198 Fortyethird street, Borough Park, he saw en overturned chair on the floor and @ woman's body hanging by @ rope from @ pipe near the sink, It was his mother, Mra, Anna Goodman, forty- three years old. She had tried to kill Utttle but- set firo of those) of the window while holding the baby, Bernard, in her arms. The father died a month aga, On a table was @ note, written in Jewish. It ran: My Dear Children: I cannot stand this any longer. I hope you are weil and happy. Goodby. MOTHER, P. 8.—I am tired of this earth and I want to join my husband. Goodby all. The family 1s poor. Besides the oldest hoy and the baby there are John, seven- teen; Anna, eleven, and Bertha, nino, When the father died the buby was dos- AJ —o RT CIT MAROEH 6, 1912. RCHESON ISTE BY FOSS, MAKES PLEAFORLEMENG Governor Has Brief 'Chat/With Condemned Pastor During Inspection of Prison. BOSTON, March 6-Clarence V. T. Richeson had @ brief conference in the Charles etreet jatl to-day with Gov. Foss and eight members of the Ex- ecutive Council, which alone can pro- vent the former clergyman's execution for the murder of Avis Linnell. Richeson made no plea for commuta- tion, ‘The visit of the Governor and Council to the jail was one of inspection, which 1s usually mae at this time of year. Richeson's cell was inspected as were those in other parts of the jail, and the ex-minister was asked if he had any complaints, Members of the party stated after the visit that Richeson appeared in a nor- mal state of mind and health, although he looked very thin and pale, He had no complaint regarding his treatment and exchanged very few words with members of the party. Counsel for Richeson has made no ef- fort to obtain commutation, although the date of the execution is less than eleven ‘week rt te a WORE. AMERICAN TROOPS TO BE RUSHED TO CHINA WASHINGTON, March 6.—American | Minster Cathoun has called upon Major- Gen. Bell, at Manila, for more American troops for Olina service. Gen. Bell has informed the War Department and It ts expected that he will dispatch the re- maining battalion of the Fifteenth In- fantry, numbering about seven hundred 0 ‘Mentain at once. The Savings Banks pay, say, 4%. This saving tea saves 50% through double strength WQWhiteRose CEYLON TEA herself a few days ago by jumping out|— Dr. Kresky, the familly doctor, came with an ambulance and another phy- women, behold in the Lenten Looking Glass? She spears men with sweet | icrately sick, and ho {s still in serious @iances, drugs them with false First of all, she will see rows and rows 2 condition. ‘The oldest boy had been l sive and perished! Tows and rows of wings—very expen-| hopes, eventually afzing each vio- | watching his mother, fearing sho would oars and per: le wings—which ehe dons and discards half a dozen times| tim to @ neat piece of cardboard | 411) perseif, have— exclusively —the One Quality—the Best SS Spring Suit Sale Whipcords—Serges—Mixtures 15 Real $20 Value The World’s Greatest SILK STORE Fourth Ave. at 24th St., N. Y. Location: Two doors from 23rd Street Subway; One block east of Metropolitan Tower. YOU may not want to buy silks to-day but you will some day. Remember then, that you can Vienna. Wings of gauze and lace that transform her into a paper-white moth. Wings of orange and black, others dull reds and blues, and often pale, shimmering yellow that 1s like sifted sunlight, calls them gowns, and she hasinearer she beholds « poor little 89 many of them that no pair of wings |drowned butterny, with broken and be- escapes oftener than two or three tli dragsied wings, Many and many @ & season from the sacheted twilight ef |little buttery has been drowned in a clothes closets, And, of course, at the |oooktall giavs, and they al! began by What she finally decides to take ts a Prosperous but most earthy looking grub, whom she weds and graciously permits to grub for her while she sweeps forward into new fields, awing- ing the net alluringly as she goes, ‘There 1s one other thought which the Lenten Looking Glass imight sugsest siclan from the Norwegian Hospital, bu the woman was dead, The ok works In a stationery store at Fulton street, Manhattan, f the seaso ings are tar-| 00, to the soctal butterfly and that 1s that} 9 Some women, whom Ufe con- In another corner of the mirror she! tain value because it Is really we | @emns to be just plain brown may see a picture of a fashtonable| stork of that belng’s baby blossom. It) 49 moths, mak Erillroom, where @ reguiar convention | !# not altogether futile and trifling Ike} x making th of butterfies with their best wings on|the human butterfly who considers} % the social butterfly, and othersex- |are smoking cigarettes with amateurish | Pabies @ nuisance and @ Lore, ‘i ist by laying out the wings, by |osientation, and her own reflection may| Th® ‘deal of the human butterlly| i stumfug tisene paper in the sleeves |send a whiff of perfumed Egyptian in|ee™s to be that the more helpless and | jy and taking it out again, her face. Do you think that a butter | Worthless she becomes the more sie} 54 Perhaps if the Soolety Butterfly gaxes|fly should smoke cigarettes and smeli| “Avo what we are pleased to term| i long enough into the Lenten Looking |of them, I!ttle butterfly? 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Geo, P, Ide & Co., Makers, Troy, Ny ¥o "HOMOSASSA TH 4 Spring’s Style-Message in Millinery x a * ° a while about these other women and | into a messenger boy. making some return for what th MH O f O N S to ponder the accident of life which A butterfly with chronio catarrh | ceive, a blue-bleoded coll: x pening 0 ur ew tore hag. made them moths instead of be of the throat is not @ pleasant pio- SEetee Lit oF A ee her i Devoted to Millinery Exclusively terflies. bi hen ¢ ¢ x) : THEN THERE 18 THE QLAGS saeeny rie yellow stains =| pinbons for those who give them care} 3, with perb array, egpress!y designed for walking, carriage wear or dress occations, si antennae is not an object to tion and maintenance. 3) embracing every modern idea of the leading European atcliers, Also conceptions WITHIN THE GLASS. inspire admiration or love. t unless it becomes fasiion- | % of our own, demonstrating originality and individuality as brilliant characteristics. % : hat littl a gt 1 able to hold human butterfly shows | 3: mae oe But what {s that little round gins} The argument that women have just} $” ont see what return certain | i ALSO A COMPLETE ST OF i) fille¢ witna Hquid topazes which stands|as much right as men to unsanitary| dutterfiies make to their wealthy bast a ed a OCK OF “ ” quite at the back of the Mirror of Medi-|things Is not so very good; for, even| collectors. | Untrimmed Shapes, Flowers, Foliage, § tation? The Society Butterfly knows| granting tt, the right is no right at ali,| A grub might take a certain p % PI Ribk Et ef quite well what it 1s, but she ts mot! ut few persons appreciate the hy. |, WOmtniess pd og glad 4 umes, Mibhons, Ktc., x gure for the moment whethor the liquid | gienic value of the Commandments and | M® Dan the ‘ oe nines are| attractively priced for opening days, nd Fi * fopanes are the pale green of Ceylon | of the mailer inhibitions that have|Dutterty exhibition, fut aw lilies, in) it y priced pening days, Thursday a riday. x or the orange of Braz!l—whether there's; grown out of law and custom and ex-| tne puman butterfly as a glided para-| % 24 Wi t 23d St Formerly 272-274 x @ Martini or a Manhattan !n the cocktail | periment. Yet morals, great and small, | site whose only visive purpose 1s to keep | 3 es e Sixth Avenue, x glass, But at any rate she sees some-|are much more palatable when we un-' other parasites away. MOSTRAR a HR SOOOG UDC OOOO REC and beating vainly and when she draws thing strugsling against the gl open up an antique shop, and we won- der if he will ke Morgan as @ Mr 3 Indice to buy the Coptic books through the praise show. ered upon him i London following his purchase last year of an ancient copy of Homer's Iliad. ‘Tho financier paid | only $4,000 for this really valuable book. | Registered Trade Mark & STYLE He also had two other bargains in an immense king's tomb, for which he paid | 33,00, and two second century medal- | Hons, which cost him $15,000. Because i ‘ou thi of his great luck !n these three lines of it right and when y think about your antiquities of Egypt Mr. Morgan was Spring Hat think—Young. If you want STYLE to the fullest—and quality beyond doubt—buy a Young and be assured of satisfaction. 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