The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1891-11-26
HE MAY RISE AGAIN
Is Gillig to Re-establish the
American Exchange?
so SAY REPORTS FROM LONDON.
The Once Prominent Finanoier Now
Running a Drug Store in Brooklyn.

He Made n Trip Abroad Recently and IL
is said Negotiated for "a Lease of the
Victoria Hotel. London-At one Time
Proprietor ora Bank with Branchos All
over the World.
NEW YORK, Nov. 26 - A reti-ea
United States naval officer recently =
turned from London brings the rumor,
interesting whether true or not, that
Henry F. Gnlig is soon to start an
ether American Exchange, more sor-
EeeuH than the hrst, in ths worlds
metropolis.
While this story Is EoihR the rounds
Of The clubs and the American. solSny
in LsndOA, sX-Banker and s1-Ameri-
san Exchange Proprietor GilliR iS
Hsskly sompoundiRg prescriptions in
an APsthsoAry's shop in BrsOklyA.
Few people have lad any idea what
lad bscSms Of Gillig of late years, and
still fewer knew that he was in this
part sf the world. Fer sSms timS past
Gillig has bsOR living IA RroAxville, an d
the drug store in Brooklyn, Of which
he is proprietor, iS at number 1877 Bed
ford avenue, on tho eernsr Of North
Sixth street The painted sign on
the drug store reads: lotto Gill
lig, Druggist" Otto GilliK IL Henry
GiliE's brother, and he is now in Bloom
ingdAls Asylum, suffering, it ia said,
from Softening OF the brain, or some
similar trouble. This sad Aniiction OF
his brother has given the OK -hnsncier a
chaucs to keep busy in these, his days OF
obscurity, after the worldwide fame that
was his in the pAlmy days when the
American tourist found branches of the
American Exchange Bank at almost
every stop over station on the globe
girdlinR trip. Those wsro the days
when the headquarters Of the bank and
of the American Exchange were at the
junction Of the Strand and Adelaide
street, London, near the ChAring Cross
STATEN. Then the Paris branch was
started AID after that still sthsrs
St CeHsssAtiAoPls, Calcutta, Mol
bsuEss. Hsag Kong Tskls, and pretty
nearly SVsEyvhsFs slss Of any RSss On
the HAp ol ths EAStsTn HsmisphsRs
whsFs american tourists sat fest.
Travellers have not Jet forgotten ths
lE1UFisRa RAEaiseSRos Of tks Ex-
skNAgSs. The erEt hsoP Of tho London
Exchange, after GilliE bought sas tks
prsVioaa SWRSrS was tuTAsA late the
banking rosm, ARa tho siRsulay apart
nasAe was 6ttSa mp ~ tASuSh aillionH
WSTs bahiAa the SSnRsFa. OR tbs next
seeT nksVO was tso reading room; on
the thiTd 1o0R we're the tourists writing
ARd SoAsultatisR rssmE, sAd SILL above
that was Proprietor 9illlR'S foroa of
eleYks Ne ontOrtAinmsRt was teO Law
ish for Glllig to bsEto upon = distin-
EuishSd American. GaEFy Ward BsSchsF
wAs HiVaR reception that made Lon
den gasp In AsCeRishmsat Suppers
Rad thsEtsR parties were osamon
thiAgS, en- the Fourth Of July patriot
ism ran riot, and eli was for
the entsrtAinmsnt Of American traV-
slSFs, and Rddsd additional luSter so the
fRms Of miue host Gllig, The kozAs OF
the Paris branch OF the Exchange was
sTsR more gorgeous than thAs OF Lon
dSn, aud in all ths cities the Institution
was conducted on the same Priuoiplss
Senator HAUley and other American
capitalists had allowed their names to
be used Ia connection with the enter
priss.
Then came the gathering OF the clouds
and the burbtiug Of the ttorin. It's
effects wers far-reaching snd affected
many, both in London and America,
and when tho storm cleared away moth
ing remained OF the American Exchange
and its mu,titudiuous branches but
vacant rooms and signs which read,
''To let"
CLING tumbled from tho pinnacle
down, down, down, until now he is
looking after the finances and other
affairs Ct this Brooklyn drug store,
which, alas has no branches in Bombay,
Hong Kong or Toxic
a. 4. 4
again, PheniV-like, out OF the Brooklyn
drug storeg That is what they are say
ing in London, though some laugh long
and loud nj the suggestion. Why TIA en,
did ex-Banker Gillig quietly 20 over to
London last summer aud come quietly
home again about Sept. II
Soon after Glllig came back to the
Brooklyn drug store from London,
stories began to float around the English
city that he was arranging to lease the
Victoria Hotel at $50, 900 a year, az an
American hotel and Exchange. Another
report was that he was about to engage
q suite Of rooms for the sama spu rposs.
Americans over there began to AJAX one
another, "sre the old glories TO bs re-
VlVsd?" The very msmory Of Gilig's
bounteous rspssts caused lips to smack
and tongues TO moi6tsu, Giilig himself
| givos no fign, either to prove or deny
tho stories.
People who know, either from exper-
iencs or report, Of his wonderful per-
suasiys powers, are wondering whether
ho will really get on his feet again, and
once more come within the focus Of the
| public eye as he was ia the days when
he WAS proprietor OF n bank with
branches all over the world; owned tn
Grand Hotel in Liverpool, and backed
| Lawrence Barrett, Jack Haverly and
Salvini, as side investments.