The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-12-19
TIE GETTYSBURG ASSOCIATION.
Answer to General Van wyOl,s Attack.

answer 10 General Van Wyck's Attack,
ITO TO the Editor of the Herald:-General Van
Myck, on Thursday last, made an attack in
congress on the Gettysburg Association for
creating and endowiug a home for our disabled
solulers on the battlefield of Gettysburg, in
which he stated that the immense collection of
olamonds offered by the Association, and
stones" suggesting thereby either "paste dla-
monus" or California crystal, General Van
,SS1% My0K also also said That a farm spoken Of In the
prospectus of the Gettysburg Association as
being worth 100000 was not worth more than
S6OVO, or one,tenth part OF that sum. In reply
ing, one of our first Jewelry firms, under the
Metropolitan Hotel, who had the diamonds on
exhibition for over a month previous TO the
transfer of the gems to the store OF Mr.. John N.
Genin, the well-known halter, under the st.
Nicholas Hotel, have issued the following
card:-
DIAMONDS OF THE GETTYSBURG ASYLUM ENTER
PRISE.
Our attention having been called to n statement Of
Mr. Van WICK in Congress - the effect that the da
mOnds etc. of the Getty burg Asylum "wOrtn'
sver may be the merits Of the XssocstSn Itself this
part pay Of hS IN & Is whoy Ns3n5 % u truth Sy oS
time we had ample Opportunity OF sHtlsyiSg our
largest collection OF ne stones ever combined together
" BRoWN & sPAULDING, Jewellers.
Nos. 5Ss and $40 Broadway.
Similar testimony In regard to the value and
purity of the stones has been likewise furnished
by Messrs. Henle Brothers, diamond importers,
of No. 26 Maiden lane, and j. Hermann, ula-
York-probabiy two Of the largest diamond
houses in the world in their respective lines OF
business.
General Van Wyck's assault In regard to the
diamonds having been thus ef1ectually disposed
of, his attack upon the value of the farm is not
less effectually Squelched, for ex-Recorder James
M. Smith, one of our most eminent lawyers, Is
out in card which says:-"The statement OF
General Van Wyck as to the farm is
equally true ss the statement about the
diamonds. 1 have refused $4,000 for the
farm, and since l owned IL l have laid out
over $4,000 in improving it. The taxes
on it were $500 last year. On the place
there is q water power of great value. was
offered $4,000 for the water power and saw mill,
with twenty acres Of land attached, and the
whole farm is nearly six hundred acres. Then
again, the farm is stocked with horses, cows,
oxen, sheep, and all the necessary farming
utensils. 1t lies within two aud a half miles of
a beautiful village, and there is home market
for everything. Such falsehoods cannot injure
the Gettysburg Association. General Van
Wyck has been deceived by some lottery swim
dlers, and the matter ought to be traced to its
source"
1t will thus be seen that General Van Wyck
has to pick his flint and try again before he
can successfully impugn the reliability OF this
popular and benevolent enterprise for furnish
ing home to the disabled and rippled soldiers
of our recent civil war. No doubt, as eX-Re-
corder Smith suggests General Van Wyck has
been deceived by some professional lottery
dealers, who want all the profits OF this busi-
ness for themselves, and hate to see any of it
going (as nearly half million of dollars must
now go) for the permanent reliet and benefit of
our heroes with only one arm and one leg left
IN. Y Herald, Dec lS.