The evening world. Newspaper, March 5, 1913, Page 5

FLL cuRTD HEAR’ FRM QUZZED Co. Says He Knew Little of Their Operations, IS NERVOUS ON STAND. Women Hear With Groans That Assets Are $150. its, men bearing the unmistaka- ble stamp of mechanics, women modish= ly attired, young women still clutching their stenographers' notebooks, other worn hands and freely mended cotton dresses—customers all of the stock brokerage firm of McNeil, Adams & Co, of No. ® Wall street, which was thrown into Involuntary bankruptoy Jast Week, crowded United, States Com missioner Glichrist's courtroom — th noon and overflowed Into the halls dn an effort to hear Frederick Adams Russell, president of the firm, tell what had become of the frin's a Not one of this oddly assorted lot has deen returned a cent of the earn ings, which were invested In sul) glow- {ng hope of profit. This hope they ex+ F pressed over and over Maybe he will tell where some of our money is.” What those who were fortunate enough to get inside saw was a youns- ‘ah man, partly bald, who sat twisting and writhing in the witness chair, bit- ing his nails, tearing up blotters Into tiny bits and scrawiing fantastic flg- wes on a pad, They heard him give astammering, halting answers, many of them so confused and vague that he had to repeat himself over and over; but each time he made a point those withis the court retailed the news over their shoulers to those waiting eagerly the outside. It was not very cheer- those customers seemed to have ® profound ignorance of the vital af- faire of his concern. He swore, in fact, that he did not even know the amount of the capital stock of McNeil, Adams & Co, ONLY ASSET HE CAN PRODUCE 18 $160 NOTE. “We find you owo your customers $200,000," began Joseph Steinberg, at- torney for the receiver, William Blau, “You told me yester: that you had @ jarge amount of assets at your home and that you would produce them :o- day. Do #0, please.” “Here are all the assets I found,” eaid Russell, handing a paper over to the attorne: contents. It was a note for $1, pay- able to McNeil, Adana & Co, by Harry D, Rockefeller. Somothing like a groan Tan through the massed customers. One woman began to cry, chokingly. “How many customers did you have?" Russell was asked. “I don't know. I never did know, in fact” “Did you tell me you had an account with Henry Clews?" asked the attorney. “Yes, about six months ago." “Then if Henry Clows & Co, Insist they never had an account with MoNeil, Adams & Co, they are lars?” “Oh, no,” Russell put in hastily, “The account was not in the name of MeNell, Adams & Co., and I don't be- Neve Henry Clowe' it had our firm on its book: “Did you use a fictitious name for that account?” "Oh, yes, We often did that, But I don't remember now what name we used with them.” HEARING I6 ADJOURNED TO HUNT LITTLE RED BOOK. Russell, in reply to questions, declared he remomberd a transaction with Dr. T. J. Bartley, who deposited with MoNeil, Adams & Co, two certificates, each for twenty-five shares of Shannon Copper stock to be used, 90 the McNeil receipt showed, as collateral security in the doctor's transactions through the firm. Russell said he put the stock up as collateral with the brokerage firm of W. A, McDonald & Co, of No, 8! New otrect. The attorney then confronted Russell with a statement from the Shannon had deposited the stock with MoNeil, Adams, as collaterel, it had been sold, “Who ordered that stock sold?” the attorney asked, “I suppose the doctor did,” Russell replied. “Then if Dr. Bartley says he dti not give you orders to sell—which statement he has made to me—he's wrong?” *T think #0," replied Russell cau- tlously. An adjournment was then taken un- til Monday, to give Russell a more thor- ough opportunity to hunt for a certain red book, which, records of the firm show, contained the list of all the cash and securities deposited with McNell!, Adams & Co,, and the disposition made of ¢hem, This book has suddenly dls- appeared, and Russell stated to-day he did not know anything about it. ile didn't remember it even existed, he anore, SannaRanaalennaa MATTHEW ARNOLD ALWAYS YOUTHFUL, (Prom the London Chronicle.) Matthew Arnold, unlike Tennyson, had no need to brood over the flitting of his hair, Mrs. E. M, Sellar, in her Recollec notes her ast ishment at Arnold's youthful appearance when he was over 7 “His hair was un- touched by time. meeting him in Bond street, what he was doing in that tasilonable thoroughfare. ‘I have been at Doug- jas's, he replied, ‘having that perpetual m@ipacie, my hair, cut.’ " I heard that a frien sked hin Shabbily Dressed Men and) Doctors, haggard young men in thread- THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 56 President of McNeil, Adams &) and older women with big, red, work- | ‘The lawyer opencd it and read tts| DR. FRIEDMANN GETS PERMISSION TO USE HIS SERUM (Continued from First Page.) them @ trial? It 1s more than unjust—it is inhuman, Why, when two prize- fighters enter a ring we put in a ref- eree to see that they get fair play, And we don't give the same sort of treat- ment to a inguished German acten- hy can’t the epapers or some other organizations get together, get him a hospital, and send thelr men to keep close watch on each case, and then report to the world whether this man really can cure or his remedy is @ fraud?” CAN’T RENT QUARTERS TEST, BANKER FINLAY SAYs, According to Mr, Finleyg Dr. Fried- mann has made @ place where and be cured. With the hospital doors barred to him, he has sought tn vain to rent offices in some down town ‘building, Mr, Finlay is @ real estate man, but his efforts to help the doctor have been vain, He sald: “We simply have been unable to get @ place to which consumptives might come. Every accessible place we have tried to get has e.ther been refused to Us offhand, or taken away from us after we got It, “And while all this talking 1s going on, with Dr, Friedmann idle through no fault of his own, people are dying. I read of one death yesterday of a boy who waited in vain for Dr, Friedmann, To-day It came right home to me. The daughter of the postmaster of Little Neck—Miss Miller—was a consumptive. I had promised to take her to Dr. Friedmann the moment he opened his office. My wife had urged it on me, and T had planned, to-day or to-morrow, to bring her to town in my car, This morn- ing she died.” Mr. Finlay turned to @ great pile of letters before him and showed: them, ‘They were all addressed to Dr. Fried- ‘mann In care of Mr, Finlay, “Theso letters are from all over the country. They come in thousands, all asking me what hope there is in the Friedmann cure. And I have to disap- point them all—for I answer every letter —by telling them that New York won't wive Dr. Friedmann a chance to show what his serum can do." Dr, Lederle, Health Commtsstoner, | was in favor of gtving Friedman a | chance to demonstrate his remedy, but the Board of Health decitned to allow him to try it on patients. COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY IN. VESTIGATES. f the County Medical i ne | Finlay, Dr, F. F. Friedmann and the Friedmann bacitt! from persons who have the doctor and the banker, Two letters, |which Were recetved by & woman su | Mixed With Sulphur It Makes Hair Soft, Beau- tiful; Cures Dandruff. The use of Sage and Sulphur for re- storing faded, gray hair to its natural color dates back to grandmother's t She kept her hair beautifully darken glossy and abund Sage Tea and Sulphur. Whenever her hair fell or took on that dull, faded or streaked a rance this simple mix- ture was applied with wonderful effect But brewing at home is mussy and out-of-date, Nowadays skilled chemists do this better than ourselves, By asking at any drug store for this male to-use product—called “ Wyeth’ * Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy"—you will SOLVI\G THE HIGH COST OF DRESSING. DSTHER, ITS GLADYS HUTTO, 8 foe sir Ar many tomnbers “of the aus WhO PARTS. TSAR TE GO ef RIGHT ALONG Ww 1 ier ot bay o4 it ha , ins iene AND J HAVN'T A aly is | & poastility also that the | ferer from tuberculosis In Brattleboro, came into the hands of Dr. Brooks H, Wells, president of the society, to- day, and by him were given to The Evening World. The woman, a patient of a Brattle- boro physician, a close friend of Dr, Wells, first wrote to Mr. Finlay when the presp wires of the country were burning with the news that he had offered a million dol- lars to the young father of the marvel- lous new serum that was to wipe out the white plague, To letter Mr. Finlay replied as follows, under date of Jan, 90, 1913: My Dear Madam favor revelved, Dr. sailing next Satumfay. 1 expect him to arrive here about the 10th of February. Upon his arrival, and we complete negotiations, 1 will gladly consider your application, which will also have to be approved by the doctors making the test, If you are accepted no charge will be made. Under no ciroumstances come here ‘until you hear from me again, Sincorely yours, C. E. FINLAY. The woman waited for some time. She read that Dr, Friedmann had arrived and she wrote again to Banker Finlay. Your esteemed Friedmann is FOR | BANKER'S CIRCULAR DENIES | “CONNECTION” WITH DOCTOR. ‘This time the repiy came M the form ingeré *ffort to find jof a fac-simile typewritten letter, dated sufferers might come) Feb, %, and it ran: Acknowledging receipt of your esteemed favor of recent date, I beg to state that Dr. F, F. Fried- mann upon his arrival here from Berlin stated that he would not accept my offer and would not en- ter into any competition for a prize; that hie mission to thie country was to treat those suffer- ing with tuberculosia and that his charges would be in proportion to the financial responsibility of that patient; that those who could not pay he would troat free, T have no connection, financial or otherwise, with Dr, Friedmann, ex- cept that I wish him success, I have therefore turned over your letter to him an@ suggest that you write direct to Dr, F. F, Friedmann, Waldorf-Astoria, New York City, and make all your arrangements with him personally. Yours very respectful CHARLE: Even to the signatu the work of @ printing press, The woman f wed Finlay's advice and wrote to Dr, Friedmann at the Waldort. So far she received no reply. ar HERRICK RESIGNS POST AS AMBASSADOR TO FRANCE. French Foreign Office Has Re- ceived No Information as to His Successor. PARIS, March 5.—Myron T. Herrick, United States Ambassador following the usual custom of Ameri- can diplomatic representatives abroad in a change of administration, has sent '¥ {his resignation to President Woodrow Wilson. The French Foreign Office has not received any inquiry as to the bility of @ successor and non been definitely mentioned in con with the post. GRANDMOTHER USED SAGE TEA 10 DARKEN HER FADED OR GRAY HAIR n large bottle fe Some druggi about 50 cents, make their own, which iy usually too cky, so insist upon get- ting “Wyeth's,” which can be depended upon to restore natural color and beauty to the hair and is splendid for dandruff, a feverish, itchy scalp and falling | pair. A well-known downtown dru; 5 customers insist on Wy vd Sulphur, because, they say, it darkens so naturally and evenly ‘that now bod, tell it has been applied —it's so easy to use, too, You simply dampen a sponge or soft brush and draw it through your huir, taking one strand at a tin Do this at night, and by morn the gray hair disay pear after another POOR BABY, Scial Fat who happened to be) [ron and twenty-three out of thirty looal | Reliance or upon rome now boat races, a atter Which reste with the members Charles BOON Trial raves for the ae ton of a de faa 8 fender would prodably be held in case i there | Enwlar nd in thie country in bie schooner racing. wi the rig of the Hellance be altered to t Jauch a ait A matter of cons tommodore of the Hy, WHI call a mow ture which her dese reshoff, can best answ N. G, Mer Mr. Herres- take Imoediate action. | heft ly in Rermuda | J wholly upon the terms | > i lenge whether the atts | Plenty of Trouble, vm tie Mile deiphia Kecont Will be favoRable to an Wink—That Hjones te always {Mr PF to-day looking for trou! mg definite ay sail until the} Waa Yes, and Already has an patch Ie reve automobile, a motor boat and a wife RELIANCE MAY F AGAIN BE DEFENDER OF CUP. New York Yacht Chib- Members Favor Racer Which Is as Good as When Launched. ‘! hallenge from Household Economy Cough medicines, as a rule, Inrge quantity take one pint of granulated 1g pint of warm water and stir about # minutes, you have as good syrup as 7) money could buy. | ou will then put #19 ounces of Pinex ay cents’ or! in # pint bottle and (ill it up with the Sugar Syrup, you pt of the formal challenge It] Will have gph cough syrup a veal received with much terest to: at th w York ¥ . althouga official notifies! able of etter Was lacking. With Cormack vill be ackwowledged farthwith and the] could buy ready made for $4.50. Matter Jal before the next meeting of] Peeps partecly, | NA AIN | the us which hag already been 1] And you will find it the beat cough | for March 3 of the a - of Bit] coug! You can feel it take bold-—| pted | 94 ho | elit is & splendid remedy, too, for “4 whooping cough, croup, hourseness, Bie an Ore Sash asthma, chest pains, ete, ted compound of Norway white pine ex- t, rich in guaiacol and all the healing ter now, and no plans can be made for }pine elements, No other preparation the defense of the cup until the nature | Will work in this formula, of the challenge Is known. ‘This reci It ts Known, however, that the stoop} with Pinex and Sugar Syrup bas often Y fully, syrup you ever used—even in hoop 2 | ore usually stops the most severe cough in| | , jay that (after sic Thomas's challonts |" pigen iv the most valuable concentea- i] cub tts contents will probably be made | pa Hed to discuss the mat: | «for aking cough remedy » Which was the last defender | been imitated, but never succe: Wontinued from First Page.) = been on the ways at City Aguarantec of absolute satisfac a be ; or nine years and a half, Is in| money promptly refunded, goes with Success without risking the lives of the} condition as w she was | this recipe. Rone ara gist has Pines, or crew of the yacht while crossing the ten years ago next month. | will get it for you. If not, send to The | Ocean, which always has been the dan- r the club will rely upon tha Pipex Co. Ft. Wayne, Ind ger with the kind of bouts necessary | to build under the deed of gift. Had the designer not assured me of the perfect the men during the crossing I red the idea of | BonwitTELLer&Co. | ANNOUNCE FOR THURSDAY uging for the eup. CAPT. SYCAMORE LIKELY TO SAIL YACHT. Sir Thomas Lipton said that he could not give the siee of ht until the challenge had reached New York. Tie deed of gift, however, he said, provides for a boat from sixty-fve to ninety feet in length. A» to the skipper of his yacht, Sir Thomas sald: “You know, Capt. has been sailing Sh national ‘and local races in Europe for several years, and I have another of my American captains at my call. 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