The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-02-10
New YoRR, Feb. 0.

New YoRR, Feb 8.
0F certain mysterious placarded no
tices are entitled to credit, san
culinary bombthrowers are after
u some of New York's noted mil
lionaires, and today the police are after
the real or pretended anarchists.
The placards are written in Latin.
The first millionaire to discover that
he was perhaps marked for the fate
that Russell Sage so narrowly but
neatly avoided was good natured, pop
ular Chauncey NJ Dspew.
Mr.. Depew lives at 43 West Fifty
fourth street. His butler was early
astir yesterday morning When he
went to the front stoop he was startled
by placard right under the electric
button of the door bell, in place TINT
no one would ever think of warning all
TO post no bills" The butler is not
college graduate, so he could not read
the subject matter inscribed on the
card. but lie was well enough up in the
sign language to perceive that an il
lustraton in black and white was
meant to represent deadly bomb with
q smoking fuse. Close the bomb were
the letters 81 c. p" and cross. Tue
placard WAS about foot square and
pasted tight to tho house
In Dr. Depew's house the message
Was translated. la the original it
read
Frates- Remiuisce exemplum Valiant
gloriosum. Mors diveti. Hic est homo
a. nuf az ltND
IMPEMo COMlUNIs POPULL
The translation off red was;
Brothers Remember the glorious ex-
ample of valiant. Death to the rich
man. This is a marked man. Warn all.
BY THE WILL OF THE COMMON PEOPLE.
Around the corner on Fifth avenue
the Vanderbilt palace. stretching from
Fifty-frs to Fifty y.second streets, was
not likely to escape the observation of
any wandering anarchist, and it did
not.
Private Watchman Ryan. about
dawn, says he saw something white on
a brown stone fence column. 1t
proved, Ire says, to be a placarl. the
counterpart of the one said to have
been attached to Mr.. Depew's portal.
The Vanderbilt warning WAS glued
carefully and smoothly as if by one
who had unlimited time to do it, and
the wstcnman, who WAS scarcely out
Of sight of the spot, he saws, all night
cannot understand how or when 1t was
attached
SIGN AT THE AsToRs
The most natural course of thought
in the millionaire connection would
lead to the Astors, aud the busy an
archist is supposed to have meand4r4 d
next to 374 Fifth avenue, which, ac-
COrding to the city directory, 10 the
residence of John Jacob Astor. Really
his sister, Mrs. Drayton lives there.
Her butler, John Alton. says he found
placard on the front doors that was
the same as those already described.
1t is said that the peripatetic anar-
chi5t also billed his warning on the por
tails of John d. Rockefeller, II. NJ. Flag
ler and others.
The grewsome warnings, howe YER,
have not resulted in an exodus from
tho city of the marked millionaires. As
q matter of fact they and the police ns
well looks upon the placards us the
work Of a practical joker, though, as
n joke they do not deem it brilliant
success
Mr. Depew was away from home
when the butler found the notice on
the door. The butler did not show it
to Mr.. Depsw's mother.inlHw but turn.
ed it over to Mr. Depew upon his re-
turp bnrna loat nvapfpg NJ nnp,,y
read it and laughed heartily.
Take it away was his only com
mcnt; "burn it up"
Mr.. Dppew is in Philadelphia to-day.
not, hover, through any fear of having
his slumbers disturbed by the noise of 8
bursting bomb.
SLOANE REMEMBERED
Part Of the placard still cliugs to the
post Of the Sloane mansion. II ia almost
undecipherable, however, thanks to the
efforts to remove it. Itis written slowly
and with great care on n sheet of com
mon note paper. So little attention was
paid to 1t 10y the butler when no found
it that he did not even mention it tC
the members Of the household But
buth no 10 hob di oA ptlb III lIdlll'
him IT looked like the prank of n smal
boy--a bad hoy, at that.
Sergeant Deagan looked upon IT as
the work of some crank, but II puzzled
him to think so many placards coult
he posted and the culprit escape dstec
tion.
"There are eighteen policemen do
ing patrol duty in that noighborhood "
he said, and any number Of private
watchmen. 1t would bo a bad plac,
for an anarchist to play any pranks.
he added grimly,
Captain Schmittberger of tho Tender
loin precinct shared the general police
belief that tho placards wore the work
Of some harmless crank. No complaint
he said. had baen made at his station
by any of tho men whose homes had
been decorated.
Nearly all Of the buffers simply
scrubbed off the notices and said moth
lug about them to their employers
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