Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1889-01-10
QUEER CHRISTIANS.
OstentatiOus Piety of the Electric
Sugar COmpany's Promoters.
ROBERTSON WON'T TALK.
He Says He Has Been NIisrepresented by
the Newspapers. and Declines to Say
Another Word-The Promised State
ment Has Not Been Made.

New York, Jan. 10.-An extremely inter
esting element of the Electric Sugar Refining
company affair is the alleged strong religious
sentiment that swayed the minds of several
of the principal officers of the company.
Old Elisha Smffen, the master mechanic in
the factory, is so very religious that he would
not talk business on Sunday, and would
rather so hungry than buy food ON the Sab
bath.
Old Howard disturbed the neighbors when
be lived with the professor i'll Sixtieth street
by chanting psalms and hymns from sec
ond story window almost daily 1t was
afterwards learned that his prayers were
loudest when Friend was giving ''faken
demonstration in the cellar Howard used
to also mount the city hall steps on Sunday
and pray for the mob that gathered around.
President Cotteriil has been regarded as a
pious man. Charity was his forte. He
could not pass a beggar in the street without
giving him or her penny
And now it turns out that Treasurer j. u.
Robertson is Christadelphian. 1t is queer
religious Sect with headquarters in Birming-
ham, England
The Christadelphians are supposed to be
very pious people, who reject the doctrine of
NIc DclitNG III titS Opu blie FdbncI
accept Christ as co-equal with God, but
separate person, and think the Holy Ghost is
but All influence. They employ no priests or
ministers, holding that all believers are equal.
After death they think the good are endowed
with Immortality, and the wicked annihi
lated.
The handsome young treasurer of the COM
pany looked very pale and worried when a
reporter called upon him to CLEAN some ad
ditional information. There were number
of reporters there anxious to chat while
with Mr.. Robertson, but he waved them
away majestically with one hand as he said:
~ positively refuse to talk with you gem
tlemen. ! have talked too much. After the
way l have been misrepresented and the as
sertions that have been made in the papers
absolutely refuse to say another word.
just then Detective Rutland of Inspector
Byrnes' staff came in and took Mr. Robert
son on one side. The reporters looked anx-
ious, fearing that their mine of information
was going to be summarily taken away, but
he was not. He returned to his desk and
resumed the opening of his letters
The reporters were abashed.
Finally one young man plucked up suffi.
cient courage to say:
"Mr. Robertson, you look agitated What
is the matter?n
81 decline to answer
"Are you Christadelphian n persisted the
reporter
II have read that story and decline to dis
cuss the subject" he answered
"Have you heard from Mr.. Cotterill to-
dayp'
"Yes.n
"What does he saygn
II decline to answer. / wish you would
let me alone l will not talk any more.
After the manner in which the papers have
written the affair up / won't say another
word. have been advised not to do so''
"Who advised your
81 decline to answer
Then for fully five minutes there was a
dreadful silence. Mr.. Robertson read his
papers. The reporter yawned and gazed
with great appearance of interest at the
rain falling outside.
Then reporter asked the treasurer if he
had seen the statement published in Brad
streets since 1885 warning their patrons to
beware of the Electric company, as it was
liable to collapse at any time.
Il know nothing about Bradstreets. /
won't say word" was his monotonous re-
| joinder.
Then he was reminded of the statement he
promised to make, which brought the sharp
reply:
II have no statement to make. The state
ments were grossly misrepresented in the
newspapers"
Neither would he say how or in what Iar-
ticular he was misrepresented The reporter
proffered the use of his paper and pencil for
Mr.. Robertson to state how he had been mis-
represented, and to make any explanation
he might have TO make, but he only an
swered;
II have nothing to say