Morning journal and courier., 1888-09-25
TELEeRAPH1o JorrINes.

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La Blanche, the ''marine," was arrested In
New York city last night and taken to BuFa
/ 10 to answer for seconding one of the contest.
ants In the recent women's prize fight there.
CARELESS WITH THEIR JEWELS.
Women WhoCarry Around Thousands
ofDolIars Worth ofPrecious stones.
The care of splendid jewels weighs very
heavily upon their owners sometimes, and
the woman whose diamonds are too small to
be mentioned in the letters from the summer
watering places can console themselves with
the fact that all the crooks and sharps in the
country are not intently perusing such srtio-
les concerning them and laying plans to REM
der them diamondless, says New York COR
respondent.
Some women at these summer resorts who
carry fortunes about with them in their jew
ell cases are extremely reckless in the care of
them and send cold shivers down the hotel
clerks spine by coming sleepily at midnight,
dropping 500. 700 worth of precious stones
on the desk and making off before they stop
to see whether he is looking or not. One bold
snatch on these occasions would make hO-
tel thief comfortable for life.
The rich cottagers, however, are more care
full. They are aware that they are know all
accurately registered in burglars note books,
and 80 they take proper precautions. Near
" all the wall of their bedrooms, and theft
costly possessions are deposited there every
night. Mrs. William Aston and Mrs. Ogden
Goelet both have alarms attached to the
safes in their boudoirs, SO that the slightest
effort to tammper with the door will let loose
q noise that can be heard mile and Ia calcu-
lated to cause nervous prostrations in even
the hardest pilferer.
When any of the Aston, Vanderbilts, VIM
throps, Lornlord or Van Rensselaers travel, a
special courier is sent by their ieweler to
guard their diamonds, and he is responsible
for their safe delivery. He even goes abroad
with them, it being his business to go to the
Safe Deposit Company, give a receipt for the
jewels, see them safely in the captains safe
on board the steamer, take them out on the
other side and get receipt from the London
or Paris banker who has them in charge while
the owner remains in Europe.
Some women, however, will not trust their
most treasured jewels to the hands of even a
detective, and their methods of personally
transporting them are as varied and queer as
only feminine methods ever are. Mrs.
Paran Stevens, who is nothing if not original,
carries thousands of dollars worth of blazing
gems done up in brown paper parcel and
tied with white cotton string. Her argu-
ment is that thieves would never suspect
that 30 shabby looking bundle carelessly
fastened into shawl strap was worth carry
lag away. Mrs. Hicks 'Lord-whose eeusin By
the way is on the eve of of marriage with a
French duke-transports that superb $780,
600 necklace and some $3.50, 900 woth of dia-
monds in channels belt about her waist.
Mrs. Bradley Martin has some dear particular
stones that she carry in the little silk covered
hair cushion that served her as a hustle.
Now that pustles are disappearing she will be
obliged to provide new hiding place.
The cleaning of these jewels is matter of
much importance, too. Disraeli, in Lothian"
told of the jewelers. clerk who used to
go to the Duchess country place every
June to wash her pearls. a ceremony that
must performed on fair day when west
wind is blowing, SO that they might dry thus
on a sunny bank bank and preserve their fair
and moonlight radiance undimmed. The
cleaning of the famous gems of New York
ACKNOWLEDGMENT to hundreds of workmen
in this city, and only those are allowed to
undertake the task whose long years of fdel-
ity and incorruptibility prove them trust
worthy. The work of polishing and clean.
ing diamonds that are in frequent use must
be repeated four or five times every winter,
and the cleaner is sent to the house of the
owner with an assistant, who aids him and
perhaps also watches him. Now that dia-
monds are worth SO much at the watering
places, corps of cleaners follow the owners
into the country, and there are now at New
port as many as a dozen of the professional
diamond brighteners.