The Sunday herald., 1886-10-31
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
The Barthotdt Statue-Mrs. stewart ana
the stolen Skclcton-vttlnrd' Career
Stage Gossip.
special Corresnondencc.l

| Especial Corrcspondencc.l
| NEW YORK, October 9s, 1885,
have reason for believing that we shall shortly
hear from NJ. Barthod and the newspapers gene
rally protest and growl against the mutlla,on OF
the torch OF the statue OF Liberty for the purpose OF
| lighting II In manner not designed by the artist
and unadvlsed by the electricians who donated the
apparatus to the committee. When the statue was
designed electric lights not In general and sue
cessful use, as now, and the design was TO have
name thrown high above the torch. AS now altered
the electric lights will he seen through glass which
| has been inserted In the sides OF the torch. How
brightly they will shine, or how far above the torch
the lights Of the lamps will farc, nobody can tell
until Tonight when the lamps to he lighted for
the first time. hut understand N. Bar,hold was
much chagrlned and dissatisfied at the unauthorized
change which the Lght-IIouse Board has introduced
In his torch, and that the American Electric Manu-
featuring Company protested against the change as
having serious practical difficulties. Among other
claims the latter made, II was understood, was that
with the ten 6,ooo-candlepowcr lamps In the torch
no man who valued his life could he found bold
enough TO attempt TO repair one OF them should Il
| get out OF order. lie would he literally burned
| alive.
| The death OF Mrs. a. Il. Stewart cNci,cs comment
largely ON the probable distribution OF the Immense
estate which A. r. Stewart left her, and creates
wonder whether, now that she is dead, Judge Hilton
will make public the truth about the recovery of
|
grown considerably since Stewards death. Mrs.
Stcwart's share was then estimated At about 800
| 100000. II Is now probably sS00O0,oo0 They left
| no child to enjoy 1t, and It will hardly remain un-
broken among the many more distant relatives of
Mrs. Stewart OF course, large portion OF 1t will
he added to the Hilton estate, for the Judge was the
one adviser on whom Mrs. Stewart relied after the
death OF her husband AMI her brother, Charles =.
Clinch. 1t has long been known that Mr.. Stewards
body was never recovered, although Mrs Stewart
was led to believe otherwise. The one person, of
the several robbers who perpetrated the outrage to
| whom the place OF the secretion OF the body was
known was called Jake Ruby, and was known to
have been an Old burglar. lie had arranged to re-
veal the place and beray his confederatcs hut be-
fore he could carry out his design he suddenly died.
| The man who planned the robbery I met on
Dcy street only last Saturday. lie had
made several thousand dollars in recover
ing some OF the bonds stolen from the Manhattan
Savings Institution sotie twelve years ago, and
spent 1t all In organizing the theft OF Stewart body
| lie is the same man who returned the CONN plate
and other articles TO the police through ex-Postmas-
| ter Jones, of this city, who attempted TO arrange
with Hilton for the payment Of large reward for
| the body. The Judge refused to negotiate, and 1t
was then that Ruby, rndng no great reward would
lie paid, offered TO confess. The part he lnnocenty
took in the matter ruined poor Jones' Ills law
practice was entirely broken up, and remains so to-
day. The man who organized the theft Is flnan
cial and physical wreck. lie met Mr.. Henry Con-
quest Clarke (who, private secretary OF Governor
Yarmouth In New orleans, was familiar with the
mans career as an abductor OF young lady OF that
city, and myself on Saturday last, and seeing he was
the objec, Of our passing remarks he disappeared In
haste, trying to conceal his countenance The cvi.
dence to convict him was never complete; he was
lawyer enough to know that, and returned to the
city, where he is constantly under police espionage.
simultaneously with the transfer of the "Dutch
4 lNaat1A .sr,n,tp
: Whitelaw Reid, of the Tribune, the former reap
, pears In New York agent OF a syndicate OF Ger.
man bankers, who have employed him TO make in
] yestmens here on 4 wholesale scale. The careers
OF these two men have been remarkable, AMI they
, have been simultaneous AMI almost on the same
, fields. i first knew Willard in 1861, In Kentucky,
. where he had gone as New York Herald corre-
spondent. with the idea Of establishing q Herald
bureau in Richmond! His earthly possessions at that
time were his salary AMI his audaclty. lie employed
the latter In proposing to Gen. Tecumseh Sherman
s his plan OF serving the Herald in the South, and
was told that II he attempted to the lines into
. the Confederacy he would be shot as spy. There.
upon Willard got out Of Sherman's department and
, published the story that Sherman was crazy lie
made another attempt when Gen. Buell. was In com
mand OF the department, but never succeeded. Az
late as 1868 he was Tribune correspondent.
heard little or nothing Of him after that until about
= $50, when he was getting up guide book for emf
y.
His accumulation OF several milions-in bonds and
Il | other paper-inust have been made between Isl,
and 1883. 1t had all to be surrendered except INT
"Dutch Castlen he had given his wife, and for whcf
Mr.. Reid has Just paid but 800 OOO-about half tn,
cost of the unfinished structure. 1 originally me
e Mr.. Reid shortly after my first encounter with VII
q lard. 1t was before COrlnth, and he there as
n war correspondent. lie had some property In Ohio
ID and owned some stock in the Cincinnati Gazette bu
fancy his pay as correspondent more than equale
n his income from other sources. He was Washing
,t ton correspondent OF the paper after the clos
e OF the war and until about 1861 when he became aI
Y. editorial writer on the New York tribune. ii,
y bought some OF Its stock at the time ON the expul
IN sion OF John Russell Young Reid became managin
IT editor. After the death Of Horace Greeley, who's
n brain had succumbed at the almost smultaneou
ID loss OF his wife, his defeat for the Presidency,
IN the knowledge that the Tribune had been sold t
william Ort0n and a syndicate of capitalists VIII
wished to make Schuyler ColfaX the editor, MI
ie Reid showed ME check for $4,000 paid him 70
four shares OF stock, and which, he sad represente
- his dissolution with the Tribune. ! fancy 1t als
N represented his sole possession In New York.
lr week later he owned nfty-one sharcs-a majority
If the whOle-for which he had paid $4,000. lie ha
accumulated still more snce not only OF stock, bt
rs money In large amounts. lie paid $4,000 for III
ie house he now lives In, and II cost as much more
n furnish II for the brlde he found In Miss Mills.
he suppose Reid Is worth million or more, which !
d. has made since ls'2 by personal Investments. Vi
lg Ike the meeOric Willard, he has managed to keep
all In secure Investments. There another thir
mt in which the two men were In direct contrast. Re
had very delicate constitution and had to take ca
r. OF 1t, and at fortynn he Is strong and healthy,
Ter not robust. Willard was OF magnificent physIl
IN and hardy constitution lie used them roughly al
els at n;ty he has by no means the health he once
as joyed.
he i had.a pleasant talk with Miss Minnie Gilmore,
hook
be poems. "Pipes from Prairie Land" have found
at be a much more remarkable production than h,
w been led to expect. One of the serious poens 'T
an River on the Plain, is remarkable for its desert
or tive style and the thought 1t expresses. Two III
D. lect poems, "The Pioneer Poet" and "At the Mou
rs Of the Tunnel" superior for recitation TO any
III Bret artcs, and both are decidedly original In dea
ry Miss Gilmore is not yet twenty-five These poer
he have been written since she left q convent sclG
IN three years ago. "A Boston girl by BIRTH" she
IN. | to me, "a Gohamite by adoption, Metropolitan
virtue OF our Bohemian, stroing life, 1t may see
ice strange that my rst work should be distinctive
the Western. The verses are simply the records
Of rose-cOlored Impressions received during my nr
q peep at life, when from the secusionB OF conve
school was transferred, for year, TO the wild fr
life OF the prairie. The country, which have low
from my youth up'-the primitive social atmosphe
herc-and, above all, the life on horseback which
Jp led, took my heart by Storm and have been resti
oy- under civilization ever since Literary habits? o
ted none; beyondthe inyeteraic habit OF scrbbling
Is fear have none" Miss Gilmore evidently does d
the recognize The excellent work she has done, and
OF he surprised, am sure, at the reception her DO
10y will meet She has inst returned 10 New York fre
nf ST. Louis, where she has been with her father, W
wv led the big band at the st. Louis exposition.
M ,ne THEATRICAL NOTES.
,sa- Mr.. Wilson Barrett, having determined to pl
ore "Claudian every night OF his present engagemt
me here gave the public taste OF his quality In oil
Ina pi.. '' ""'''y "',ein'o" i"s' W payinR y
OF snort ohe'act parts boih uhllke "Claudian" a
OF each unlike the other. one was that OF O grlzz
ar curate OF nifty, with mixed humor and pahos, a
an the other boy OF nineteen. full OF nre OF pass
O. and OF tragic temperament One gave his love aw
W. to younger rival; the other committed suicide
the | despar at not beInu loved Mr. Barrett mot n,
OF ,ooto, ho,,, ,,a a., I, 80, an, ,,, ,,,h ,, -,
on 'V'' '" '''o VI" man "H" '"o '""'", ""' P'"'
each WIN such cOnHuInnate skill hs 10 Justify me