New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-21
Muxlow was unfriendly toward him, he had hidden
to keep out of his way. Mitchell was held In $1,000
SEEKING A DIVORCE AND HIS PROPERTY.

| FROM NEWSPAPER WORK TO PoBTGSE-TAKIsG A
wiFE From TaE STAGE WHO LEAVES HIN FOR
ANOTHER MAN.
| The daughter of wealthy merchant IN Cologne.
eloped in 1872 with her music-teacher, Otto Meyer
| and came to this country They were married ny q
Baptist minister IN this city and went 70 i've -
and, as Meyer could get no more music pupils. ooCn
he and his wife went upon the stage IN German
1bo was
| upon q German newspaper in Jersey City: The &C
Qnaintance led to mutual affection, and Mrs Meyer
as her marriage with Meyer was not legal. since It
! had not been recorded. ThereuDon Crola declared
that she was his wife in the sight of God and they
Shortly afterward Crola fell heir to fortune left
| by relative in Hungary, amounting 70 l2O'OO99
marks, or $40 O00 He took his wife TO Europe and
introduced her TO his friends and secured his prop
erty On his return to New York he engaged IN tne
tobacco business and lived in expensive apartments
| ner He bought pictures worth SO 900. and was
lavish in expenditures for his wife, In the early part
of last yesr Crola received IN his house Aloers
Reuter- q commission merchant whom he had known
| in Germany. While Croa was absent from the CITY
| on trips to Havana TO buy tobacco Reuter- and Mrs
Crola became intimate, and last spring. when Crols
returned from Europe, whittier he had gone to
get more money, he found that his wiie
| and friend had disappeared, aud that his prop,
| erty also gone. Detectives were employed auu
Reuter- and Mrs Crola were found living together
| at No. 200 Raymond-st.. Brooklyn. Croa visited
her to demand MS property. one uouIcu
marriage was legal as she was the wife of Meyer,
and refused to give up the property, claiming tnst
of the things were given TO her; ana the RESI-
earned by the care she had gwen Crola Wnen ho
was sick.
Croa thereupon instituted one suit for divorce
and another for the recovery of the property ron
his wife. The complaints have been hled In the
City Court in Brooklyn. Damages are asked 10 tne
amount of $21 $50 in the suit for the recovery OF
the property which described as sums OF money,
fine furniture, paintings diamonds silk dresses and
other articles of luxury. In her answer Mrs Croia
under the name of Josephine Reuter- sets up the
claim that the property is hers as the TlghtIul
owner. The cases Will come To trial IN March mrs
Crola is large, handsome woman. while the plain
tiff in the suits by means attractive IN appear
ance Her first husband IS an actor IN the 1hana
Theatre IN this city.
AN OLD TIME PICTURE-MOVER.
roRrY-FIvE YEARS EXPERIENCE IN HANDLING THE
Masterpieces OF AMERICAN ART-RECOLLEC-
TONS OF THOMAS RUSSELL.
There's man in this city whose business for forty
there ara to be exhibitions Thomas Russell is inya-
riaby hand. calling at the different studloS Win
truck full of wraps as If prepared 70 move the IN
mates of hospital. Every artist and dealer In town
knows him. He rates an artist by the prices which
his pictures bring, and handles the merchandise with
the care due to it's equivalent in Rreenbacks or gold
Both Russell and his assistant wear gloves, not be-
cause they aspire to style, but because picture
frames cannot be handled without them. Passing
down Broadway recently TRIBUNE reporter saw
the familiar cart backed up at the door of an art
store and the master picture-mOver handling pic
ture with the tenderness OF a fond parent =,
THE reason of my success, ehf" said the old man
in answer to the reporters question. g know OF no
reason other than that Pve attended to my business
and kept sober all my life. Yes sir, man needs to
belong to temperance brotherhood to get along In
our line Pictures frail things and it only wants
a shaky hand sometimes TO run hole INTO can
vas chip np frame.
Il guess its now nigh forty-six years." he con-
tnued ON further questioning. since L started IN
the business. was yOungster Of eighteen then,
fresh from the country, with plenty OF good wlll:
but with little experience. Things were different
in those days from what they are now, and IN con-
sequence Of my youth couldn't for the life of me
obtain license to run truck. In spite of this,
posted myself in Broadway and offered my services
10 the artists exhibiting their pictures at Clinton
Hall Nassau-st., and soon got plenty OF work 10 do
In the midst of my prosperity nv rivals III business
grew jealous and made complaint to Aaron Clark,
who was then Mayor. The license inspector came |
round and asked me for license. OF course had !
none. Well, was told to look for some other en-
plOyment during my minority, but somehow had |
and the handling Of costly pictures persisted in
running my truck. and finally with my brothers |
nHuence--be had already been in the business some
years and had retired-l obtained a license. From |
that day was as happy as butterfly"
e suppose you have known pretty nearly all the |
artists America has producedP
Indeed, you're right, sir, and noble and generous
men have always found them 10 be. It's TO |
Thomas Z. Cummings superintendent OF the Acad-
envy at Clinton Hall, that | owe much of my sue
cess The regular cartman Of the gallery went n |
debauch one day. think it was some time III 1887 |
and slit up one of the finest canyases bad ever
next day. and when the superintendent heard that
had never touched drop OF liquor he gave Inc the
position. 1t was after this that became acquainted
with all the great artists of the day. Let me see
there were A. b. Durand. president Of the Academy |
and landscape painter. the two AudubOns, the two |
Mounts and F. 4. Church, also landscaDe painters. |
Then there were George A. Baker and Daniel Hunt |
ington portrait painters. j. q. Chapman T. Addison
Richards. John +. Kensctt and a host OF others. |
Some of the names once famous are half forgotten
now poor menl while foreign artists are being wOr-
shipped. Now although such fabulous prices are |
maid for your Messoniers, GeT6mes and Landseers |
people in those days weren't whit less appreciative
than they are now. In fact, they patTonZed |
art quite literally as art lovers to-day. Buyers
wouldn't wait till the pictures got into the auction
ROOM and then bid high prices for them to show of
their wealth get their names in the papers. No |
they would go straight to the artists studio and
buy whatever pleased them there at the artists |
price. That reminds me of the sums John +. Ken |
sett received for his paintings. His studio con-
stanty full of people ready 70 pay almost any price
for his productions. He was right noble man and
many time he sent his patrons to the studios OF
humber and poorer artists"
Have you been employed to any great extent by
the artists of the present generatiOnP
by all of them. don't believe there's an Amer
lean artist Of any reputation now living whose pic
lures have not carted to galleries and exhibitions
reputation and also OF no artists at all-mere
daubers. I've generally found people OF this class
to be the most saDguine in their expectations. al
though !, Who am no artist, could have predicted
that their productions would never be accepted
anywhere"
NOPILOTS NEEDED AT HE'LL GATE.
The shipping merchants and members of the
Maritime Exchange Of this city united in O
movement to secure the passage of bill in the |
Legislature TO repeal the compulsory potage law |
so far as it favors the Hell Gate pilots statement
has hliahed and circulated m Damphl form