New-York tribune., 1885-07-10
HEIRS VINO WEAT 10 mr. URoNG PLACE.
AYNEKg JANss DTscE>DANis MISTAKE BROADWAY
FOR EAST DROADwAY.

''-'-'NNf "f'-N''
FOR EAST DROADwAY.
Botanic Hall, in East Broadway is weird
sort OF place. In the corners and here aud there
ag nst the walls pieces OF furniture ofOenta make
aud suggestive OF Jewish rites. On the walls hang
parchmeuts covered with oabastlc characters. Old
candestcks stand upon qncsr supports and to
speak of mystic candles made from magic The hall
IL filed with odor which TO be waited from
Eastern groves ana temples, but which more probably
up through tns chunks In the dilapidsted
whatever ghosts haunt Botanic Hall fed
Yesterday afternoon before tho fiery stream OF sunshine
Which poured IN AT the windows. There were other
ghosts however. who came To Botanic Hall for the first
time and braved the hot sunshine FOR several hours
like ordinary mortas. but yet they ghosts for they
lived their lives In long past and all their ideas
,cncI iunrLc Jsps and thry Inet I'm tbis ontof ,ne
place to talk about the untold riches To which their
kuship with the Dutch princess entitled them. and to
frame plans TO secure their own
at o'clock only three or four heirs had appeared
On On oil shn WITH wSc snd an aosr SoasIc with ma"
BLACK beard They put their heads together looked at
each other their -pectacle and talked In myster
Gus tones about great-grandfahers family trees
that had doubled and trpcd and auadruped The
last centuries and IN this millions and tens Of mill
ions Ol dollars were tossed about like bagatees. In
other part Of the hall under one OF the caballsc in
scriptions sat an aged female ghost with a wrinked
face and a yellow feather In her black bonnet She
tanned herself and doked by turns and the yellow feather
kept continually waving These the only heirs
present. Finally however another heir appeared OF
ample proportions which confined In
dress OF lowered SILK She sat down beside
the old with the yellow feather. and began
talk iU so excited manner that the old woman was at
last fairly awake. san the Attendance Of the heirs
not large. Two or three more appeared and when the
old ghost with the white beard assured them that i'm
pOrtnnt business to be transacted and that the
others would be along directly" they took and
waited patiently. AZ last the monoiony was broken
bddhcaied heir, with his shirt color wrecked and
his coat tails streaming out behind rushed into the hall
aud had few mnues OF excited conversation with .he
two ghosts the platform. Then IL announced
that a majority OF the heirs haunting the building
No. ~ Broadway acd where frightening all
the brokers by phantom Ike apparitons In
tho corridors aud on the sairways Then
the heir who the noweredsik dress spoke up she
too had been To No. Is Broadway and "it awful
without vouchsahng an explanation OF what she meant
by H. she went to explain that she had been every
where and had struck with the luminous idea
OF asking the sexton at Trinity Church where the heirs
were meeting In her Innocence she wondered at the
bus~qucness OF the sections reply. IL decided
that OF the heirs should be dispatched to No. IS
Broadway 10 bring his joint heirs 10 No 90 East Broad
way, and that In the meantime everybody should keep
cool ~ possible. However successful from pictu
rescue point OF view. from business standpoint the
nee ling failure, and the trustees OF the Trinity
corporation probably slept ms sOundy last night
before.