The evening world. Newspaper, March 9, 1912, Page 3

HE AGED WOMAN ASNECEISHELD ; District-Attorney’s Office As- Sumes Paralytic’s Care While Loss of Fortune Is Probed. CHARGE, IS EXTORTION. Mrs. Brown and Her Son Locked Up on Complaint Involving $149 Check. Mrs. Antoinette W. Brown of No. Wil West Seventy-sixth street and her fon, Newton Dav charged with Grand larceny from Mrs, 8. Newton Gmith, a wealthy bedridden widow, ‘were held in $3,000 ball each when ar- Faigned before Magistrate McQuade to- @ay. Mrs, Brown's handling of the affairs of Mrs. Smith has led to an investigation by the Districtadttorney's ONice, It developed during the court pro- ceedings that Mrs, Smith, who mys- teriously disappegfed from her board- fing house at No, 1% West Seventy- eighth street, had been spirited away by two representatives of the Distr! ‘Attorney's Office. They will not reveal ‘where ehe is, but have made arrange- ments with Magistrate McQuade by which Mrs, Smith will be questioned Monday afternoon. ‘The charges of larceny Brown and her twenty-two-y Gre the result of a check transaction of $119, which the authorities expect to use @s the opening wedge to uncover an alleged swindle that has reduced Mrs. Bmith’s considerable fortune until to- May she is practically penniless. Mre, Brown, who is a niece and former ward of Mrs, Smith, bas had practically the entire control of her aunt's person and property ence tet’ June. Mrs. Brown and her son were represented in court by Abe Levy, who said he would arrange to have them bailed. MRS. SMITH THE WIDOW OF A BANKER. Mrs. Harriet Wells Smith {s seventy- efive years old and the widow of 8. Newton Smith, one of the syndicate that bullt the Kings County railroad, and a member of the firm of E. D. Morgan & Co. He was @irector in many companies amd.a mem: ber of many clubs and socle' His father was a partner of Richard M. Hoe, the preas manufacturer, Mra, Smith comes of a prominent New Hampshire family. She and Mr. Smith were married in New York In 1877, and there ,were no children. He died in De- cember, 1907, at the old Plasa Hotel, from apoplexy, leaving an estate estt- mated at $00.00. His widow was to have a life Interest in this, and at her death it was to be divided among t! heirs, among them Mr:., Brown, who is @ Gaughter of Mrs, Smith's sister, New- ton Davis will ret about $20,000 under the will, it Is said. ie IiesKles Mrs. Smith's {acome from her husdand's estate she Is understood to have had a fortune of her own, Shy fs now alleged to be practically without money. Nor long ago, according to In- formation Kiven the District-Attorney, @he had £3,000 on deposit in the Metro- tun Trost Company. Only elght nains fo her credit, The has been told that for Mrs, Smith was not allowed to handle a penny of her money, and that sums have been extorted from her even ®y means of threats of bodily violence, The case was reported to the District Attorney's off days ago, and an invertixation \ n. It Is under- Stood that a lawyer describing himself As George Melraisoy insisted that an get control of . Who was his esiate of Mrs..5 elent CHECK FOR \ $119 THE BASIS OF ARREST. , eek for $119.89 wa es Trust Com- t Mrs, Smith as a 0. and that a detective was. on and when Mrs. Brown came in and Ztvund the letter, ‘ ) Tt is allesed The story 1% told that Mrs, Brown, vevally acvompanied by r son, Visited Mery, Smith every morning and Sie opened the om as (she y did, and found the check, she Mrs. Smith, and toid her to indorse it, Mrs, Brown said Mrs, Smith owed it to the nurse on a note foy $1.49, whieh Mrs, Swith was sure she had patd Brown insisted, saying that she would see the nurse got It. Finally Mrs. Smith fadgrwed the cheek, Mrs, Brown sald she would put it under a © vase on the mantel, where the nurse Pe ceuld find It. When the nurse came back she said Mrs, Smith owed her no money. The sheck Was noi on Lhe mantel, but ther a White «trip of paper looking Ike . The District-Attorney has the Mrs, Brown had indorsed It and had been deposited to her own ac. count with the Lincoln Trust Company in Fifth“avenue. - Janitor Bigmond Vogt, tanitor of the flathouse at 2 East One iundred and Nine- Aventh eireet, called up the dumbwatter shaft to Nathan Eisenberg and asked him to come down to the cellar, Elsen- berg found the Juntior sitting on a chair with a pund in his throat made by a , nvulance earried the/ man to the Marlen Hospital In # dying eondition. Last September his wife left im, taking their two children and since { he hes made many threats to kiN ayes to ving handed it to | FORTANG NES” Seno A tor ,|She May See How She Appears When She Is Swear- ing at the Grocer Through the Phone and Rep- resenting Herself to Be Or How Quickly She Lea 3 THE LENTEN Her Absent Employer. rns She Doesn’t ‘Have to Shine Shoes Here as in the Old Country, and to Ask the Boss to Lend Her His Motor Car. women who have family has gone t interruption. The first shall be last. Before we hang a table cover over the Lenten Looking Glass to put an end to its revelations we must make way for some young waited long and patiently for their turn at the mirror. Come, all you Delias and Friedas and Lizas. 0 the theatre and you can primp and pose before the Lenten Looking Glass without fear of I promise not to waste your time by calling your attention to the dust under the bureaus or the festooned cobwebs on the chandeliers. And I won't say a word about your constitutional aversion to keeping the icebox clean and in order, of the other little every: kitchen. nor about any sister despots of the day foibles which you share with your ‘The first thing the Lenten Looking Glass will prove to Delia is that her talents and equipment are exactly suited to the tasks of domestic ser- vice which she holds in contempt, and that ehe is not a mute, inglorious Bernhardt doing menial and unsuitable work for $25 a month. Bhe will see how much better off she fs in surroundings and wages and op- portunity to save money than any other woman of similar capacity, Delia never has to worry about where the rent is coming from, and the price of beet might soar to 80 cents a pound without affecting the purchasing power of her Income. She can let ber mistress do the worrying about these little trifles— and she does, AMBITION OF A HIRED GIRL TO GO ON THE STAGE. I had a Delta not a fong time ago who was possessed by a burning am- bition to become an actress, She was forty-five or so, and had, perhaps, seven teeth; but one morning she paused in the manipulation of the car- pet rweeper to remark, “Do ye think, ma’am, that you would have influence suffictent to get mé@ a position on the stage? It's always been my ambition to act. In Ireland I used to recite at ail the National picnics, and when the Healey boys met ine at Bilis Island 1 asked them if they thought I could get wid here for reciting poetry, But they ald no, such talent Was not appreci- ated {n this country and that I had better look for a place as cook.” ‘The sole equipment possessed by this aspirant for theatrical honors was knowledge of an interminable rhymed idea of the life of Mary Queen of Scots, of which the most extraordinary lines told of Marty's pre-eminence at the French court, when I was informed she was “the wedded wife of # Dolphin.’ . No laty could compare with her, stately throng She mored the fairest of the fair tm the proud court of ‘Bourbons. Now, it was precisely this dream of future dramatic triumphs that kept this particular Della from doing her work well, And similarly, if Frieda thinks she is a thwarted prima donna, or 14za belleves that she 1s destined by her beauty to be another Lady Hamilton, she {# not apt to have much energy or good-will for washing dishes and mak- ing beds, EIGHT-HOUR DAY WOULD BE A GRAND THING. Once in a while some woman reformer arises to advocate an “hour day for houseworkers. From the point of view of the employer, more power to her! But !f anybody can get elght hours of work out of any queen of the kitchen I would be delighted to have the recipe, In nearly every artment hotel in New York each maid Is expected to take care of ten cpartments, averaging two rooms and a bath, rooms snd ten bathrooms a day, This is hard -work of whieh no privileged ruler of a sevea-room apartment bas Of all the reveals other things to Della be ambition that prevents application to hereal.” the dull routine of every day, That is twenty) eggs from the family icebox and calls her attention to the legal aapects of such little presents. £ know of one small family who were charged for ten dozen eggs in one week because of the cook's mania for bestowing eggs as largesse on all her friends. Who Is that airy creature we discover at the telephone in the Lenten Look- ing Glass? Mr. Jones Is downtowmr and Mrs, Jones has gone to a tea, Yet, if we stop to listen a moment, we will hear the voice of Della as follows: IMPERSONATES HER EMPLOYER OVER THE TELEPHONE. “In this the grocery? Yes, this is Mrs. |Jones—J-O-A-N-S—Mrs, bilthering fool. J-0-A-N-8, I want ye to send me t imported sardi —the very best sardines,\mind, and some {imported rirawberry jam—the best in |the store. And be quick about it now, you stupid devil, or I'll know the reason why!" Oh, Mra. J-O-A-N-8, if you could |hear your haughty impersonator swear in your name, if you gould hear the *pelling and the syntax for which your tradesmen hold you responsible, you might stoy at home a little more, Of jcourse, when you see the “imported strawberry jam” and the “very best ye sardines” on your grocery bill you'll know who got them, but you won't dare ask. If you do blunder upon tite Indiscretjon the fair Delta may swear at you, At any rate, she'll say: “Bo you want to starve @ poor girl, do you? And this Lent! What should 1 be eating but sardines, anyhow? I'll be relieving you of my presence at the end of the month!” Ah, Della. Della, Gaze long ami peni- tently into the Lenten Uooking Glass. Do you mind the ‘famtly you left in despair the day after Christmas be- cause you didn't Mke your Christmas Present? Stop dropping the disnes a moment to look at the stricken coun- tenance of the niasier of the house, the distracted bearing of your mistrese as she expiain: On, dear, I don't know what to do. The cook didn't like her Christmas present and she's leay- ing and the house is full of guests: Granted that she gave you a knitted sweater instead of a gold watch or a dozen pairs of silk stockings—but what do you expect of these Americans any- how? DIPFERENCE BETWEEN THE OLD COUNTRY AND THE NEW. In the old country you shined the shoes of all the men in the house and you carried coal scuttles and made Grei Don't you remember asking your gasp: Ing miatress for the shoe king i first time you got a place in New York? And yet three months later you left that place, Della, because of the master's reply wh you @eald: “Can I borrow the machine to have me photo taken in?” Take a good long look im the Mirror of Meditation, Delia, After all, America has ite advantages. You get enough to eat and enough to wear, and you are able to save 20 much money your ere envy you. And that Lent. fie eats Saerde s cea ' . x 4 , , ~ THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, MAROH 9, 1913. LOOKING GLASS ¥% e Is Where the Queen of the Kitchen Gets a Look at Herself—Last of This Series of Articles by Nixola Greeley-Smith. Copyright, 1912, by The Press Pubtishing Co. (The New York World). — AS THe PAUSERES 4. 5688p ORIED me’ Sue's Lemus Aue WHE HOUSE Pure OF CAN § BORROW HG MACHINE TO WAVE ME PHOTO .\ STAKEN iN? TAX] MBE INDIAN GUIDES URGES ALDERMEN! DESERT EMPLOYER 1 3 Owners Eager To Offset Criticism Due To Use Of Cabs In Holdups. Supplies in the Heart of , the Barren Lands. The taxicab owners are organising a defensive campaign. The chief taxicab companies in this city are not at all pleased with the criticism to which they are subjected by their patrons, and particularly by the Police Depart- ment, a recent utterance from the lat- ter being that there are two hundred crooks driving motor cabs here. So a committee representing five cont- Panies 1s occupied to-day with drawing up a petition to the Board of Aldermen asking that body to formulate any pro- vViujens it sees fit to regulate and im- prove motor cab serv The commit- tee 1s empowered to state to the Alder- men that the companies will be glad to follow these provisions and do all they can to better conditions in behalf ot the public. The appointment of the committee was made at a meeting last night at the New York Athletle Club of repre- Great Bear Lake. afety, as he is believed to be withou supplies, Osbon at street, c No, 18 Bast agent at Fort Smith, Jan. 15, and says that two Indians a@ month before to Fort Great Bear Lake, left Mr, he was too hard. Mr. 1909, to spend four years in explori treet and I,” he wrote, “are de Pending on procuring game along th way.” ‘The Indians appear to have eaid noth ing of Street Anthony tle Club, saya that 600 tons of provi fone were shipped to Mr. Radford a’ in service in the city and there Is ttle question that their action in concert, following suggestions from the Board of Aldermen, would greatly improve conditions. While not ene of the representatives at the meeting last night would say that the five companies are to form a combination looking to the control of motor cab service here it is @ fair sup- Position that this will be one of the results of the meeting and of other meetings which are to be held in the near future. As far as any change in rates 16 concerned, one of the men at the meeting said that this was not dis- cuseed in any way at last night's meet- ing. “We came together,” he said, ‘to de- vise some plan whereby we might pro- tect ourselves againet the criticism which has been showered upon us late- ly. The taxicab robberies caused most of It, of course, and we feel that it is an Injustice to us if the public thinks that the chauffeurs of taxicabs are a dishonest lot, We want ‘to overcome’ criticism and we will do anything pos- sible to !mprove conditions,” The meeting has had the effect of alarming the independent taxicab ow who seem to see in it the beginnt of their end through the cutting of ——_—_ 18 £200,000, Jseophine Mali Anderson is sole heir to thhe estaie of her husband, the late Eugene Anderson, who died at his home in Amityville, L. I,, on March 2. Anderson, who had been declared by the courts to be @n incompetent, left accumulated income from a trust fund to the amount of $100,000, according to Attorney James Richards of Amity- ville, Bled the will. Mr. Richards ye entire estate is worth inne. of Hudson Bay. but there ts no indie: tion that he ever received them. a1 and ethnological collection fo MILLIONAIRE BOND LEFT Will Bequeaths Big Fortune to Nine Relatives, (Special to The Evening World.) NEW LONDO! of the late Frank 8. Bond, » member of leading clubs of day. Ninety-elghth street, New York, laims to be the wife of Mr. through an agreement she Bond entered was not referred to in the will, + wh Bhe 414 not attend the funeral. ventory & “Very large peat er? hatte to mine welativess cir ore { WARTI WS Harry Radford Left Without News reached New York to-day of the desertion by two Indian guides of Harry V. Radford, explorer, naturalist, fellow of the American Geographic Society ‘and the Arctic Club in the heart of the Barren Lands between Hudson Bay and Fears are felt for his The information camo to Capt. B. 8. Twenty-third former secretary of the Arctic b, in @ letter from A. J. Bell, Cana- It 1s dated me Resolution, and sald they had Radfom, slipping away while leep because he worked them Radford left New York Feb, 2, ton. He intended ultimately to make his way sentatives of these companies: The Uni-| across to Dawson, When last heard mtolen two Ful versal Taximeter Cab Compan from he had with him a whtte compan- Liam belle ch fay oot i ae worth worth worth worth Connecticut Cab Company, th {lon 7, George treet of Ottawa. ‘This|Ss "Broadway, from a W. D. sioan de-|||' 5@¢ to 75e $1to $1.50 $1.50 to $2.25 $2 to 9 York Transportation Company, the Cab] letter was written last July 9 from Fort} ji very automobile. . and Tax! Company and the Mason-Sea-| Resolution, and sald that he and Street|” “7 plead guilty to the charge made $1 50 $2 $3 $4 $5 man ‘Transportation Com) They | Planned to leave that point with tWo| against me," maid Golden when he was o control a large majority of the taxicabs arraigned. ‘I've spent most of my Iife worth worth worth secretary of the Arc- Chesterfield Inlet. on the northern end Mr, Radford was making an elaborate ALLEGED WIFE NOTHING. Former Reading | Railroad President's Mareh 9.~—The will formerly President of the Reading Railroad and we York, was filed for probate here to Marlo Louise Morse, of No. 15 Weat Bond and Mr. into twelve years ago, ing @ box of pink and white carnations, hie favorite flovers. She Jeft them at the Bond home after a heated talk with Henry R. Bond, nephew of the dead The claimant appeared here on th Gay of the funerel of Mr. Bond, bring- It fe believed that the estate will in- tt te tet ’ Ee ey ap Fy ve is # , $20,000,000 EACH TO.AGED SISTERS OF MSS FLRNSS Authoress Grace Furniss, a Niece, and a Nephew Left Out of $40,000,000 Will. Because he thought. he had t@ i an extra trip around the Belt ling Mule,” 90 Drivers’ boss, O'Toole asserts, committed a ry drowning in the Bast This is the only explanation the @ can give why @ team that érage aroond the city should run away, “The Mule” gained his name atul disposition. To-day Re hooked with a new horse to stir Mfo into him, When Bleventh and “Avenue C was reached he to go Into the barn, as was his fo it was intended to have the but Boss O'Toole instructed Jerry Fasie to have the team Tt developed toxtay that Mise R, C, Furntas, daughter of the late | into. ‘Wiltiam Ponsonby Furniss, a West In- | emok dian merchant prince, left a will, when she died, a few weeks ago at her home, No, 2% Madivon avenue, that diaposes of her share of a 40,000,000 estate to her two sisters, Margaret EB. Zimmerman and Clementine Furniss. Mre, Zimmer- man fs seventy-two years old and Mise Clementine Furniss ts eighty. Only a week ago.an lication was made to the Murrowate for the appoint- ment of a temporary trustee of the e@- tate. It was supposed then that Miss Sophia Furniss, who was trustee of her in her father’s estate, AN efforts to find a parlor when me ie. Mr, Sperry called had died intesta' will, it was said, had proved fruitless. In the will filed for probate with the Surrogate to-day by Lord, Day & Lord, no mention is made of Grace Living: ston Furniss, the author, who le & niece of the testatrix. Likewise, there ‘¥ no mention of William Ponsonby Furniss 2nd, a nephew of the dead woman, who appiled to the Surrogate for the appointment of the trustee, Miss Furniss not only left her all to her afsters, but named them as sole executors of the estate, with power to dispose of any of the real or personal property. The «reat Furniss fortune was amassed when William Ponsonby Mur: niss ran @ fleet of ahips out of Porte- mouth, N. Hi, for more than thirty years. He died in 1871, His wit left his property to his widow, three daugh- ters and three sons, with a Vite ewtate, the survivors to get the shares of those who died. His three sona are dead, and the passing away of Miss Sophia Furniss leaves only tho two sisters surviving. On their death the propetty wili be distributed among the next of kin as though Furnias died intestate, Whether the filing of Miss Furntes's will to-day will precipitate a contest on behalf of Grace Livingston Furntes and William Ponsonby Furniss 24 could not be ascertained to-day. The nephew's motion for the appointment of a tem- porary trusteewill come before the je again Monday, but what ac- view of the ep- not known. A YEARS ATE CAUGHT AGA AND SENS GLAD OF I Timothy Golden Admits Steal- ing Rugs Addressed to John D. Jr. From Automobile. Here Is the Great News Promised For Monday The Largest Purchase-of “Paris” Jewelry That Has Ever Come to America To be Sold Exclusively at A little bald-headed man with thin Ups ‘and tired oyes wae arraigned to-day ‘be- fore Magistrate House in the Centre Street Pollce Court to answer charges @ larceny. He was inoffensive in ap- pearance, but possessed of a police rec- ord that covers @ period of forty-one years. Timothy Golden was the name under which he was arraigned and he gave his age as sixty-five years. Golden was arrested to<lay by De- tective Griffin and Policeman Mead at Broadw and Park Row. He was charged with the theft of @ box of chem- jcals and fifty dollars’ worth of clothing from a delivery wagon. He also In New York and Philadelphia At Half and Less Than Half Regular Prices 25¢ 50c 75c $1 worth $3 to $4.50 $4 to $6 9% to in prison and I suppose I might ae wot finish it out there. I'm getting old and I'm mighty tired of the at FINDS, AFTER ALL, STEALING DOES NOT PAY. “Tt doern't pay—thia business of steal- ing—but when one once gets started on the downward eifde tts mighty hard to get back on the straight and narrow again. “IT wae an orphan and I've never known what it was to have a home or any one that cared much whether I went to the bad or not, I used to steal t r ttle things and I was lucky and didn't sale. Nor can it bought in any othe fet caus Then 1 tried (me areeen||| American Shop today et less than double the before I got nabbed the firet th I Kot out of prison I started at the old tricks again and now--well, I'm just a wagon thief." To the older members of the Police Department Timothy Golden ts a well known oharacter, He was first arrested for burglary in 1871 vy former Police In- apector McLaughlin, then a patrolman. Between 1871 and 1801 Golden was ar: Be (aa Monday—the Day! Wanamaker’s—the Place? Time—8.30:in the Morning !—taysaew