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| RoGeRS PeET COMPANY | Broadway Broadway at 13th St, “The at 34th St, i Four Broadway Corners” =~— Fifth Ave { at Warren iN WITH TEN MILONS AND APALACE HOE John H. Morrison Falls Heir to Vast Estate of Eugene Hor- wn, N.Y. ton of Middlet “How would you feel if you went to Bed a poor boy to-nieht and got up to-morrow morning worth $10,000,007" Thomas Watts of Middietown, N. Y¥., attorney, and @ompanion of the Ia MUIti-millionaire, John H. Morrison of Middletown, who, under Mr. Horton's will, gets the bulk of the vast fortune, Including | @ $2,000,000 palace, the ghow place of the town Mr, Morrison himself was out of town when an Evening World re- Porter sought him in Middletown, “It would do you no good to see him,” said Mr. Watts, “He wouldnt talk for publication—he couldn't. He hasn't found his bearings yet. He Is simply dizzy with the great responsi- Dilities so suddenly thrust upon him. he added with a was speaking of n of an Interview for publication would frighten him epeechiens.” nit was that the at- torney and friend asked the question quoted above. And, reader, how would you feel ff, having been mai! a multi-millionaire over night, everybody in the town of | in New Yor 90,000 inhabitants, here lived most of your were saying | you deserved all the good luck that | uld come lorrison doe Probably Mr. w St, but the fac to you t kr himself up to his greatest passion, |'! me te, and $150 for three colored aqua: he was, long before It was known | y wae a game of pinochle at io{ “at Mr. Horton put into it the tints of the wreck of the battleship Ra- great wealth, one a corner with three old cronies | Property, should become Mr. DMorri-| miliies in Gardner's Bay, L. 1. in 1798 Poe ea eee eiocd him |228'8 ‘That payment had not been| “A colored print of the Battle of the Sad bese Bes | OF Un renee) ail et ee yo nade when Mr, Horton ‘lad suddenly | Constitution and Java went to 1 a loved young men in Middletown, wo weeks ago last Sunday. Kennedy ad the, 6 Were ee for ugiy | Eugene Horton was formerly phing Of the ; opt by Bil! | member of the 7th Regiment in New| \thedral, » | leared him to | ie too; old nt Major of Ist to Sommer PEOPLE LIKED MORRISON AND Mr. Horton | ST ANS RAGE Aker MEO EEGS na. ! WANTED HIM FOR MAYOR. for him opposite the |)" runy informed of Mr Horton's va-| Eastern railroads this year may run | 4 Everywhere t hear storie how he hac ody and an open pur serving needy—how that be used in t was building omnibus for tu be going In | and for the evening ple gions of people who cara of their own. Ie deen offered the Mayoralty {| elty, but has always de reet you can nature— or every: | for the de- » automobile business he served a free y who bapp by a as ure excur- id not afford has repeatedly of the Eugene Horto Bradstreet at $2 ‘Watts says the ‘was because he erous nature ‘was bomell Me and with a re arities that n the most said Mr » never s man, nor one vrities in his | set a cent | earnestly to c known a mo: instan “One a Dr. Behultz of the Home here | wanted to € » home to ac- commoda men who were on his w e to me, asking that 1 i POOR MAN AWAKES 7"° residential ed the is he was to acquire of the most respected he th you had| self as ‘A hat we gladly give our! name to! A value we're proud to call our own! Is there anything more we can say for the Rogers-Peet | soft hats and derbies? | y You remember, of course, | that our salesmen are stu-| dents of the art of pleasing and of hat ‘‘psycho!ogy,”’ the | test just now being how the | folks home size up your) new Easter “bonnet.” It tt faile to pass muster, try again, or get wour money back! Gloves! We sell all good | sorts of gloves, and make good if by chance any go) wrong. Ten cape. Mode color Mocha. Mode | color buckskin. Wast.able Mocha in a | handsome otter brown. Gray Mocha also London Smoke Mocha, Gray | Suede. Silk, w-Made Millionaire’s Home A Granite and Marble Palace) 0 as sub-d time | Mr. Horton asked me to} on Presbyterian Church, a memorial) legos Tervae (The See if I could buy a@ tract of land ad-|/to his father built by his mother. | ..(Quareh Chorus, joining t ve home, At frat he wouldn't} Sums of $10,000 go to several firat way Newt ell me what he wanted It for, but not] cousins and the remainder of the vs- long before his death he did confide] tate ho 18 & sec: earn, eon to me thit he had heard there were| a(c,t0 Mr. Morrison, who 1# @ second /rne following: Sopranos: to it, Mr Pacifico size, Te. Box of 50-$3.50 Imported from Porto Rico . Instead, L advised that he get one cal Hewspapers to publish the » jong Waiting list, en who could not find n in Dr, Schultz's Home, d to by'ld and endow t the idea was his own he was for it, but if anybody else sug- jwested it he was against It." MORRISON'S BENEFACTOR AN ECCENTRIC MILLIONAIRE id in the evening gay r vide a condition that, y ordained minister might 6 pleased in the pulpit, no o lecture in it Ho! si provides $600,000 for the erection and naintenance of @ hospital in that city Some] Also he gives $50,000 to the Webb Hor- jes, Mra. . Jones, M 8. Quigley, Mrs. T. Wilco: . Moran, Miss H. Smith, Mis: One of Mr. Horton's first cousins, not mentioned in the will, is John H. | 4 4 Yocum, One morning in C You see, so long as) Knickerbocker Athletic Club in New|rennon, Miss H. Shea. York Yocum complained of a head-| 1] Ogwaid, Miss I, Ly ‘che and Harry Cornish would have! Mocarthy. Altos, Lynch, Tenor, Mr. WAS] sromo seltzer which he had just re- celved by mail If the water cooler had It waa the contents Grant | iste on owned, the undorstanding penn |other ship three feet long, $225 f lored print of Perry’ hat when the factory could pay hack | so that the games he salad he so much had. 0 to a local church, rious charitable ente: f Mr. Horton's mothe ne will carry out. rises and thore/trains on “usual summer sched fe in Droadway. sity of conserving labor and tri reported back to! portation in the war crisis, This esterday that the (ne gist of @ notice sent yesterda: had We refusec | Presidents of the Bastern railroad. seale for pext sea’) A. H. Smith, Regional Director, Ucn with haute. | added that roads will not b to submit summer schedules for proval, provided they embrace unusual features, talker was ever to on’s contemplated | or’ the union voted jon pleture the Broadway strike v “I know,” said the Business Man, ‘My , Wife. She gave me a box on my birthday. “At first, I was a bit shy about them—you know the kind of cigars women usually give. “But the first rich, smooth puff banished my fears. “How did you come to pick out such excellent cigars?’ I asked, ‘Was it your woman’s intuition ?” “No, Dear,’ She laughed, ‘I’ve been reading the Ricoro ads, and it seemed only common sense to buy im- ported cigars at the price of domestic cigars’.” Sooner or later you’ll discover— 7 Ricoro isn’t purely a price proposition, It’s a quality smoke, It’s a beautifully made cigar of rich tropic fragrance and gentle mildness. ‘he popular prices of Ricoro are made possible because it is imported duty-free, A dozen sizes and shapes—prices 6c to two-for-25¢ according to size. nM Sold only in United Cigar Stores" Thank you.” “UNITED CIGAR STORES: Rev. J. cau the old | ‘Connell,’ Miss L. Tansey, Miss A. Miss R. siven him the contents of a bottle of! faritone, Mr. J. Kelly. Buses, He, ‘8 victory on Lake ai of which (o meet public convenience; but all | | roads should bear in mind the neces- quired On sole ai of rita ‘THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, MAROH 28, 1918, EASTER MUSIC SERVICES AT GORPUS CHRISTI CHURCH (ores ee ere Notes in Society Well Known Artists, Assisted by! The marriage of Miss Julla Romeyn 4 The ANH cPake j2abriskie, daughter of Mrs, Andrew Choir and Orchestra, Will Take jc. kie of No. 34 West 63d Part in Morning Ceemonies. re Raward Powis} In celebration of the feast of Bas fen Union aie tae |pluee ter solamn high mass and a fal to.m on at the Church musical programme will be given at .¢ ¢) , Jones Corpus Christi Church, One Hun- son ¢ Powis Jone dred and Twei first Street and No. 105 bast ! “tand @ Broadway. The Rev, J. H. ,Vard graduate, clas. 1901, Dooley, will be ‘ant of the — mass, assist nv. W. Gil Announcement is made to-day of artin as de B. del the ma f Mis Marte Martini ter of Mra. ry Mallon will be Master of Ceremonles. j 4th s to Sergt. The musical programmo, under the \oinnciy yi the weds direction of the organist, Mr. Po J. Vian Made night 10 Quigley, assisted by the choir and \iahya Wright le ates orchestra, will consist of the ¢ gned ar Newport News, He was for+ tions: miert White House im the E Priesta March, (Attila). «5. .0+: .ssreeeees Verdi presidential body guard, | Kyrie (Pint Wanlessscccsestrersesses seme | LA i Bg 4 en eldest son of THE WEBB HORTON RESIDENCE tod. Oren) | A the inventor, and Me 4 ! 3 Carolyn Hawkins, youngest Martini of Seminole Lodge, the Edison winter |came to New York to-day. She will home at Fort Myers, Fla, Only the |return to Washington next week and members of the two families were | will assist Mrs, Pinchot In organ\a- present, Mr, Edison is Chairman of}ing a local branch of the Woman's the Board of Directors of his father’s | rage Union League, many Interests, ponte — Mra, Andrew Carnegie tw a Sits, Raymond Roving of Chieage,| rouse, 1s Lenos, for eeveras pind who has been the guest of Mr. and | while inspecting changes being made Mrs. Gifford Pinchot in Washington, at Shadow Brook. A Message to Mothers OU know the real human doctors right around In your nelghberhood + the doctors made of flesh and blood just like you: the doctors with souls and hearts: those men who are responding to your call in the dead of night as ily as in the broad caylght; they are ready to tell you the good that Fletcher's Castoria has done, is doing and will do, from their experience and their love for children, Fletcher's Castoria { nothing new. We are not asking you to “The Masquerader” | an experiment. We just-want to impress upon you the importance a being Fletcher's, 4 Your physician will tell ye bes i he knows there are a num- ber of imitations on the is particularly interested in the welfare of your baby, ey of Mrs. Ada Jane Hawkins bride, Mase, were married at Genuine Castoria always beare the signature of Cntia 3 Q. Mrs. ni mgha HAI ine g{ 1ot been empty. Z é Dugene Horton, a bachelor and) \¢ that bottle that killed Mrs. Adame CRIMMINS SALE ENDS. 4 ast of his family, lived in the ae great pile of granite. and marble | '"d led to the several trials of Roland ——— Ps 3 Which “his ‘father, Webd Horton, | Molineux charged with mailing it to| Collection of Prints and Cartos ‘ Tue dagehd | Cornish, Bri G40 at Ancth Cor TN a AD built’ some years ago on South | “Orn rings 4,430 at Auction, pati iy ‘ Street at a cost, it is sald, of $2,000,-| WILL MOVE INTO PALACE] At the closing sale of prints and! ( 000, but he spent much o WITH HIS FAMILY. curios from the collection of the late where he busied him-| Mr, Morrison with his wife and|John D. Crimmins, in the Anderson | me vag, Pd vy Central | ‘our small children will soon move | Fite dest ight, Maz Williams paid rong adigatctowa Ft into the great Horton home. Recent: | trade of bone be French wallera dhe: Fipnt mine ig viaitad eae ot y Mr. Morrison has been making | tained as war prisoners in England be- Gnday with le fend: and atte good ta file factory which Me Hor- |tween 1780 and 1790, and $50 for an- lor a ute" | tf ‘ans- was y to is by | He ap. no with BUY i our rents are lower, Our volume of business (over 140,000 men buy Monroe Clothes regularly) en- ables us to take every advantage of cash volume buying. Come up—The remarkable merit and worth of Monroe Clothes for Spring will | quickly decide for you that for Easter our Clothes are yours, BOE G2nd - mapison NASSAU + ¢¢Rrankroar 5S CORTIAND’ = ** BWAY 14th ++ opp ACAD MUSIC 23rd cor BWAY | 34th sth Ge | 69th #7 at COL.CIRCLB fh 125th Cor. DONAVE CHRYSTIE +* at CANAL | Mo VANDERBILT Theatre in West 48%St. Monroe Clothes This Easter Don't worry about your new Suit for Easter— It’s Here—Ready for You All the new Spring models—in fine fresh loomed fabrics—that elsewhere are shown at considerably higher than | our price of $17. Thousands of Suits ,rand Topcoats to select from. Monroe Clothes are real Quality Clothes in every respect— Tailoring — Workmanship—Style— Fit—and Durable Service. Our $17 price for Monroe Clothes is only possible because— We are manufacturers and sell Mon- roe Clothes to you Direct. Our retail shops are all upstairs and Blue Label Monroe Clothes —P— These Crothét tiade of the tinest fabrics all silk dined will create areal sensation BRONX Berden Ave. 1490% BROOKLYN Court & Montague- Fulton & Hoyt- - §87 Fulton at Flatbush NEWARK-151 Market St ZAN Pe . a JERSEY CITY-Newark avatboy ventwos 19] |} PATERSON-220 Main St SATURDAYS TiIL10 YONKERS - Getty Square $9 "7 hes} Bb + ie . ALTEMATIONS cas ‘Lard PION | GUARANTEED: JOR). MONBY. REFUNDED {In the Wine and Liquor trade the gayest masquerader is the bottle label. It has as many fancy dresses as there are personal tastes and fancies. "Why experiment? Why run risks? Hygrade are of selected qualit guaranteed as suc teed to satisfy. ‘our money back if you want it. And besides, there are these economies to consider: _ Pe Bottle Bacardi Rum .~: . $2.10 b ° . cS Re a in Sootland) Martell Three Star Cognae . » « 0 Burke's Three Star Irish Whisky. . . . S39 Benedictine—Quarts | $30 Benedictine—Pints {| 2.00 Dubonnet (Wine ONGie seks Aristocrat Port . . 190 (Medium dry and frefty) Hygrade Straight laryland Rye. , 2.00 (A fine old Whiskey—Pull Quart) 4 Duff Gordon & Co.'s | Sherries (mported tn Glew veh pasty Mn } Valente Grande GH ee eB (Rich and frulty—16 yours tm wood) Amontillado Sherry . 2.50 (Very old aad dry—20 years im wood) Quality same as Always Quantity same as Always HYGRADE WINE Go. Look tn the telephone book Tot eddress of our eta in your neighburbuods 60 Stores in Greater New York Begin to Purify Your Winter-Blood Grandmother's Old-Fashioned Sub phur and Molasses Did It, But Not So Well As This Sulphers Tabiet—Sugar Coated. Through the winter the blood acew- | mulates poisons because you do pot | perspire envugh, because you do not \five in the open air, and because you eat more meat, mush and other rie) foods. Every spring we feel sluggish, constipated, liver and kidney ills beset }ur colds and chronic coughs, plain boils and carbuncles, all evidence impure, thick, sluggish blood. Sulpherb Tablets (not sulphur tabe Hlets) ure composed of extracts of | roots and herbs, combined with oak phur and tartar—and no, better phy \cleanser has ever Every spring thousands who already know their value take them to purify the system of Winter Poisons, Now is the time to begin, so you won't be attacked by serious ailments when Spring and $ come, Sold bs Jed tube wit ee ee es ee i