New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-08-06
A DESERTED VILLAGE TO BIZ SOLD.


summit ~ j., is advertised TO be sold under
foreclosure of mortgage on next Wednesday.
decree fol- the sale having been obtained from rom
Chancellor Runyon. The foreclosure proceedings
we're brought at the suit of James d. Fish, Receiver
of the Globe Mutual Life Insurance Company oil
Fe,tyIlie is known in the surrounding country
az he Deserted Village" 1t is uninhabited except
bv occasional tramp5. whose presence There makes
the visits OF the curious somewhat hazardous III is
situated in romantic valley between summit i
and Fanwood over thirty years ago DaVlu feIt.
n New York statOner, bought a tract OF GOO acres
there and started two large paper miIs' lie
erected twenty-four cottages, church for union
services a school house and country store lie
lSo built for himself handsome house. Inc
VILLAGE 1ourished for number OF years Finally
Mr. Felt sold the whole place to MI townsend,
the sarsaparilla manuiaotureI Inc latter IN tllne
hecame financially embarrassed and borrowed
$50 600 from the Globe Mutual Life. givlnga
mortgage on the entire property. Being unable
TO meet the interest on the MORTGAGE, tpe con- ON
oDerat:ons in the mills ceased and the working
people moved away to seek employment III other
towns until the place became silent ana deserted.
The oloperty has rapidly diminished in yaue, the
houses and mills and machinery gong to pieces
When the Globe Mutual Life failed some years
AGO il was worth many thousand dollars more than
81 present The sale of the property Will be held
at the Court House III Elizabeth
MAYOR DE BEVOISE'S PROPERTY SEIZED.
The complications in Long Island City are be-
conInp more serious. 1t was ascertaned yesterday
that Sheriff Alonzo b. Wright had levied upon the
uerSOnal ELECTS Oh May OF llcuiy >. l'C al
nyesti CATION resulted III the discovery tnat TWO OF
fine MAYORS creditors, ID. De Kremer ana Lewis Col
We'll. had obtained judgments against him Tor
ii 100 IL Hls debt 10 De kremer Is %23G ", and
" Colwcll 1868 IL. DE Krcmer obtained his Judg-
ment in The Brooklyn courts on April 10 and Col
vel on June %. The Mayor has repeatedly prom
ised the sheriff TO settle the whole matter, but
IS he did not do 50, executions were obtained III
both cases. A deputy has been placed In charge OF
the Mayors personal property, consisting OF Dill
lard table several wagons aud carriages, three or
tour horses, and some COWS. One Oh the horses Is
"a d 10 be worth 800. All the rcal-estate formerly
belonging to the Mayor, aud eveI the furniture
i'm his mousse 1t is learned, Is mortgaged to Ills
wife Rumors were rife III Long Island CITY, yes
teTday that the MAY had left the place never to
return He has not been seen at the CITY hall Tor
three days, City Clerk Moran states that he
think that he is at Long Beach.
TX Police Commissioner Williams has made
serious charge against Coroner James Robinson
Mir N ilhams declares that the Coroner, accom-
named by ex-Ju dge Anthony Miller, 10 his
pIare of business at Bowerv Bay soon after the
arrests were made,o booksellers on July =, and
urped INN not TO interfere with pool selling. They
tod min he says that the other two Commission
ers NlessrS McGarTy and Armstrong were Ill favor
al the pool ROOMS. Coroner Robinson, he declares,
emphasized his argument ny drawing large roll OF
bills from his pocket and Offering III To ME-
| Williams. The latter says that he refused Tue
money Dut afterward dictated letter 10 ms Assoc
| cate COMM ssIOners saying: W hateyer acuon
YOU gentlemen, take IN the pool-rooms snail not
further interfere"
Coroner Robinson said to a TRIBUNE reporter last
| evening that Mr. Wllllamss statements regarding
| the attempt to bribe hun were " internal lies"