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“FADEUKEDREAN \ Appraisal Recalls Romance and | _ Tragedy of Traction Man’s’ Vast Fortune, vey "LONG FIGHT IS ENDED, * ’ -4ess Than One Million Is Now | Left of the Financier’s Big Estate. Fhe filing leet Saturday of the ap- Praienl of the estate of Charles /T. Yerites, who died Dec, 9, 198, brings Up again one of the strangest of finan- Nt HT i Hy ti | zag8 bets 3 ? GOLDEN HARNEGS. Bet in spite’ of her wealth and her weld phemict hed deen tranger tO luxury. then young Mre, Yerkes did mot tT ARR le thet had astonished the *, i? ft pet a BL Bak FF 235 eyz z E z 8 i> ges i fr 76 = “3 a] Py i ree ‘abroad, for he had begun of the antiquated ‘He was doing {t well, @uch sound business princi- the papers were hailing him as Pi enefactor. For with Yankee Quickness he had adapted bimeels tu a publie epinion which considers pubijc reervice the duty of the raling clase in atead ef the private snap of the poll- clan. i ‘Mr. Yorkes'e artistic tastes also ree P@eunded to bis oredit in English minds }and he received letters and introduce | Honk which ensbleg kim te secure many fic examples of the Kagilsh, the Dutoh Wemtgh Home' and Famous Art Gallery: ve ene av, 30 ; Of Financier Whose Big Estate Has Melted Away ay % tant + ee im? de, ee ee eee a fy Yi LP ae ge Ee ’ 14, 202 6,000 MOURNERS ($750,000 SF 1 POOLE RS POR 6a s eae + ny AT FERAL OF | BY SUE TST. WITT MARTYR, ON ERLATION ; —e Mrs. Pankhurst Arrested as|Oxnard Tells Lobby Hunters She Starts to Join Escort to He Paid Out $20,000 a Body of Miss Davison, Year for 23 Years, CROSS . BEARER . LEADS.| SENATORS: IN A ‘CLASH. Some “Boo-ing” and Hostile| Reed and Nelson Have Warm Feeling Shown by Crowds— | Words Over Testimony of Marchers Cry. ‘‘Cowards.” A Beet Sugar Witness. LONDON, Jue 14.—The Suffragettes, WASHINGTON, June 14—Hegry T. militant ag well as non-militant, joined in paying honor to-Gay at the elaborate funetal of @iis Emily Wilding Davieon, who her death while Oxnard, the milligmatre Vice-President of the American Beet @ugar Company, teatified to~tay before the #onate Levby Committee thet he estimated “he had ? Lorrain, Bougerea tet. Many « public gallery might envy euch @ lst. tanglements into which he had got him- elf reached New York, and even found @venue home, but only six carriages fol- lowed the millionaire to his 960,000 tomb and these contained the detectives as well as the mourners. And yet this man bad possessed unusual personal charm was forgotten. The pepers were filled ‘With eteries about his women end a great New York minisjer proached @ sermon érawn. from ‘his on the: IN THE ART GALLERY, Goeth came the startling announcement that his widow had married again. The again denied, but of Gan Francisco, He a hotel clerk and a miner, He Was fifteen years younger than his was, however, atill a hangs at forty. the new master of the Fifth ave- Bue mansion spent scarcely elx weeks he went permanently, followed by the rumor that he had demanded a settie- ment of a million dollars. The couple ‘were divorced almost more hastily than they had been married, and the bride resumed the name of Mra. Yerkes. The bridegroom disappeared for @ time, but last winter he was again before the public as co-author of the melodrama “The Deep Purple.” ‘The bride was in no position to set- tle.@ million dollars upon any one even had whe so desired, for the tani of her affairs grew worse as time went on. By beginning the suit to break the will she had relinquished her claim to the house, which bore the burden of = . LOY Ssine- & PAINT ING IN THE Géaur SRIES MURPHYS TO SUNIMER IN BlG TANKS-TO WHICH have made him recognised aa @ bene- factor to ert end with great financial and executive abilities, went to his grave unregretted. And the millions) which seem never to have given any one ‘any real happiness faded away like an evil dream, eee ed SAYS LOVING HUBBY TOSSEO HER OUT OF WINDOW OF THEIR AUTO. Dragged Her by the Hair and Blacked Her Eye,-Also Charged by Mrs, Watson. ‘That her young millionaire husband finger, MOTION PICTURE NEWs, M, Robinson, a motion picture photos- rapher of No. 145 Weat Sixty-sixth atreet, recelved severe lacerations of the trousers in eacaping the charge of an infuriated hippopotamus while taking clone range views of wild antmal life in the Zoo, Mrs. Mu and her cute little ten- ton son hate to travel. Much as they lke thelr summer home just outeide the Mon house they become so accustomed during the winter to loiting around in ithe. tepid pool inside the building that i spent on an average of 20,00 @ year ia Waeahington for the tnst twenty-three yeare in Sehak of the Geet sugar in- @ustry, He declare@ net @ apent had been apent iNegalty. Mach year, Wher he was at his home tn Washington, he de- Clared, he came to the Capitel to watch legislation and see his frieiée among the Genators. Senator Reed’ demanded that the wit- eae give the names of Senatora who. were his "Most all thd Genators,” replied Mr. ou need not include me in that Oxnard. Mat," declared Senator Reed, “Well, 1 call Senator Overman one intentering the King’s horse z t aE tf +; il ii 1 fos g2ih3? ij if i % i iy i. iE fF 3 TAKEN FROM STATION. A crowd of men and boys at the rail way station boo-ed and jcerof ad the pody of Mies Davison was transferred from the car to the hearse, and the retorte® with cries of ever attended any of Mr. Oznard'’s on- tertainments, fd informed the committee te the railway atation, where it was on- trained for London, Arrived In this city, the Sody was met at the railway station by the vanguard of the huge procession. Lenders of the Women's Soola! and Political Union, with the con- sent of the relatives of the dead woman, took charge of the casket, an@ the funeral was under way. Four deep and in squads alternately clad im Diack, white and purple, with mourning bands on their sleeves, the women marched, suffragettes mingling with suffregists. MILITANT HEADS THE CORTEGE CARRYING A CROSS. ‘The cortege was headed by # militant bearing @ cross and then came the body of Miss Davison in an open four horse hearse, surrounded by a guard of honor composed of militants who have been hunger stri! in Holloway Jail. On casket lay a W. &. P. U. banner, wutfragette badges and a scholastic cap. Next came fifty white robed you ® $250,000 mortgage. She wished to go on @ trip around the world and to take several friends with her, but there was not ready money enou; for thi, So the woman who had for years known the luxury of millions found herself ¥ living on sufferance In a home that was Yerkes bequests. The will gave{ enough to pay her servants, Her iter, Mra, Yerkes wea nda were social climbers like here r through a window of their car is one of the allegations y made by Mra Katle L. Watson to-day in asking the Suprem Court for a separation from Thomas B, Watson « jr. of Baltimore, Nagsau ‘1907, For @ time they lived in Sedgwick .| Yerkes began a eontest to break the each te the wife, her step-s0n, Fecel ve during her lifetime the income,from half the estate after other dequests of age, CITY TO HAVE GALLERY AND HOSPITAL, \ The howse and its contents was given to Myre. Yerkes fer Hfe, but upon her dente {t was to revert to the city as the Yerkes Gaflery, with an endowment of $78,000 to support it, The rest of the | fortune was to go 40 found a great Yerkes tree hospital in the Bronx. ‘The estate consisted of controlling tn- terests in the Chicago Traction Com- and various shares in New York cor- Porations. ‘But scarcely had the will been filed when trouble began. Only @bout $4,000,000 worth of the property could be found, and against this there were outstanding debtw of $5,000,000. Large amounts of cash believed ty nave been in the New York and Lonaun offices mysteriously disappeared. Under the advice of friends M will and to obtain her. dower rights, She aleo brought suit to remove the exdbutor, Louls 8. Ow: who had een for years Mr, Yerkes's privai retary. The securities shrank rapidly in value, although It had been known for | Brong, la moviag to country hom: n charges that the auto- If who had never suceeeded in peney, Ove" trating the charmed clrcle, and they | ‘Mer Daw fell away from her as her prospects! Mrs. Belimore. | ft takes more than ordinary patience and prodding to propel them from their Indoor bath into the munshine. Head Keeper Bill @nyder and Keeper Crowley, who has made quite a pet of ‘al'ph, succeeded to~day in coaxing {Caliph to the doorway, from which an | jnot hers, and with scarcely money, ‘pne wateons were married June 2, |!"provished runway stretche| to the summer tank-cage a few yards from the bullding. Robinson stood squarely in the path, his camera set to get a | good picture of Caliph coming head 1 girl, carrying laurel wreaths and ban- ners\ which were inserihed Fight’ On. God Will Give Victory.” These were ald to have been Miss Davieon's last words. Following the marchers were many carriages. A score of London's prom inent mintaters, some of whom took part in the funeral services, were in the firat few, and they were followed Commencing Monday, June J will hold: AN EXTRAORDINARY SALE 6 pany, the London Underground Rallway | tented, In court as len arew dim. Even their advice was not alwayo god RUIN BRINGS ON NERVOUS PROSTRATION. Ae @ final calamity her heaith broke} down and she had a sever tack of nervous prostration, While was still too ill to know what was going on about her, the London Underground Railways sent two detectives to the house to protect their interesta, Mra. Yerkes wae forbidden to take out of It en the portralt which Benjamin Con- @tant had painted of her. She pro- as she Was but the ef remained an she removed to a much lens prote! house at No. 871 Madison avenue, Four yearg the battle over went-on, and in the end the oth capitulated to Mra. Yerkes, ceived practically a third of the shrunk- ate, which amounted not to @ single million all told. A_ startling proof of the unrest which pillows th heads of millionaires as well as kin of a codicil revoking 0 servants. In his will » has left $5,000 to his vale twho had e Just before his deat): he had added ¢ » ine binson got his picture. That ts, !movile Incident occurred on May 8! Ro iinst in front of the Bellmore Inn. | he sot @ few tpches of film which will ‘After hurling her out of the car, she|*#ow Caliph approaching at full speed fi ed her across the|#"@ snorting with wrath. Robinson Ce Rulgfesigirriia’ did not wait for more. With hia tri- ‘On another occasion, Mrs, Watson | 204 over his shoulder the “movie” man #, he blackened her eye. heat @ hasty retreat, the angered Ca- 1 am penniless,” Mrs. Wataon con-|!'Ph cloes at his heds, Robinson cludes, “and have been compelled to} #crambled over the big iron fence pawn my Jewels to buy food, My|*round the hippo'a summer home just husband has given me very little|!" time. money and I therefore request that; Mrs. Murphy followed her son after the Court award me alimony.” Deci- | much coaxing, and then Crowley went | wiop waa reserved, jinatde the pen to put Caliph through desta: «EY some stunts for the beneft of (Robin- son and his camera, At the word of |STAGE FOLK HAVE LINER i oonnana Caliph opened. his’ tremeng: ALL TO THEMSELVES, | ove jaws and Crowley atuck his head eee | Into the chawm revealed. Caliph had They'll Sail the. Ocean Blue and Do | done the trick many times, but he was = not in the mood to-da: No @ooner Just as They Please for had Crowley inserted his head in the Three Months. vast cavern of Callplis mouth than the hippo closed hin Jaws, Crowley got Six theatrical people sailed away from! his head out just in «time, but one the Hamilton Ferry, Brooklyn, at 1 iinger of his right hand got nipped | o'clock this morning on the Anchor Line! petween two of Callph's mighty molare steamer Perugia, bound for @ cruise!" ana was, painfully mangled ithe Mediterranean, They have chartered | pile ae cual thé liner, and are the only passengers} on board. ‘They are Leila and Lorraine | CABINET SPLITS WITH DUMA, Frost, two of the “Sunshine Girl" com- . ——— any! F, D. McGinn, a playwright, Hen- ¢ Forthmian and J. A. A'ten and wite. | by suffragettes and sympathisers too to walk, The funeral service wee sald in At. George's Church at ¢ P. M, by the Re C. O. Bauergarten, fragist pastor, and the funeral sermon was preached ty the Rev, Cyril Hinscliff. ‘The march was med at 4.90 P. M. te the Euston station, where the body, in care of relatives, was placed aboard @ train for Morpeth, Northumbertand, Miss Davison's old home, where it will pe buried on Monday CAR SKIDS AND KILLS ONE GOING 50 MILES AN HOUR. Four Hurt, One Fatally, as Machine Turns a Triple Somer- sault, MORRISTOWN, N. J., June 14— Travelling fully fifty miles an hour, left the narrow paved road between Dover end low prices. onto the macadam, the car skidded, “diehed’ the automob! upended and turned over three times, driver wes killed and the other occupants of the car were in- jured, Ome of them may die from a fractured skull and other injurtes, Women's. Tweed . Travel in all desirable sizes, at ver foodicll cutting them off, as he had some time thut ihe Yerkes affairs e 5 # fare eae lok Gonditiont wh jheard of agplot to poison him, months before bis death Mr. Yerkes ' MILLIONS FADE AWAY LIKE AN EVIL DREAM. In the final settlement of the estate But he repited that his aff jthe priceless art collection, which his attention. would have been gladly accepted by ‘The city retused ‘the Metropolitan gallery, waa lost to (a Sap: menphet: ot: tap public, \The collection might have course of his mi gallery, a9 it did not wish to estabitsh | the & precedent for maintaining small gal-|Tenained there intact bad the mil- leries eoatiered throughout the city, '!Shalre given it to the city, but in ‘Thia clause of the Yerkes will-had been %/* attempt to perpetuate hin name copled from that ef @ir Rich: ' Wallace '” the building am well as in the pic- of London, which had sec tures ise loat even the memorial of a ; worthy collection In @ public galler: Karly in ik Mre, Yerkes s health ve- plenty of deck room, which will round for the six passen- going to fit up a tennis \c they get tired playing | tennis, they can rig up a swimming pook y will also string hammocks on deck. tain Buell sajled in command. It ® voyage of joy and rest, one al holiday for the next three the Supreme Court to-day to The Perugia has only accomodations | for eight first-class passengers, but she , f Hertfordshire, But the fortune of the Kpslish donor did pot consist of; watered stocks, ' WIDOW 'MIZNER's BRIDE WwW: : " en ITHIN Reafenin. © Mealy ater the meguete's, RI . i gan to fail and upon April 2 ahe died! , aes tog Of heart discase in her Madison avenue! S20 from Bon F) Hardesty. M home. The few hundred thousands shel note for $00,000, Th had secured by her long and bitter con-}19 the Metropolitan Benk on Fev. teat of her husband's will were dis-| isis, and when Hardesty failed to pay, triguted amons tier own relatives and Mets seye he made good the full (yg Vertes Cerwune queced ous of qsiel anounl 2 ee dita nnn etme eas Actes on ST, PETERSBURG, June 14.—A com- as apened between the Ri (fhe meinbers of the Cabinet have re- solved that nelthor the Ministers nor the heady of departmenta shall appear in the House pending the re-ratablish- meyt of conditions under which repre- sentatives of the Government shall be secure from inault bythe members of jthe Duma. The immediate cause of this d was a rechark made by M, Marko Reactionary member of the Houxe, dur- 1 nates, Walle an jarkoft cried out lerate).”” He addef an aliualon that his remark applied not only Minister of Finance but to all the of the various ‘departments of ‘The Ministers and of tin the House thereupon rose their coats and lett the piece i & trom beady. The car was of the touring type owffed by Reuben J, Budd of Dover, who rented it out last night and was when killed, injured wi Ad A travelling salesman of ie tm All Boule’ Hoe pital mortally hurt. William Grady of Dover, formerly proprietor of a le » slightly hurt; Mise Tdelle Heath, West Blackwe Dover, arm broken, indications of internal {juries which may prove serious; Miss | Mary Hen: nt leg broken, | | FROM THE FRITZ! SCHEFF SHOW, English Raincoats, White CI ois Lisle. Gloves coats; and Sitk, Misses’andSmall We Sport Suits and Coats and rate Outing Skirts, Misses’ Children’s Muslin Underwear a: Words and music of one of the song hits of “Mile. Modiste,” by Vie- tor Herbert, will be given io the Sunday World Magazine next Sun- ity 5 Order trom newedealer’ tn AMERICAN WILTON RUGS