Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-02-22

siderations of sympathy for Mr.. Wiman' S
| family, with whom ne had been on terms
Oh friendship for many years and by the
piteous appeals for mercy which Mr.. WI
man made TO him.
Mir. Dun was led to believe by the gross
eAaggeraton OF Miman as to the value of
his interests on Staten Island that il was
possible TO realize something substantial tor
MS seheFai creditors, many of whom would
suner more severely than Mr. Dun himself
though IN not 50 large a sum-
Ia view OF the fraud practiced upon
tnenl' as Wen as upon himself, and the con-
Vlctlon that a man OF Wiman's had char
acter ought not longer to be allowed 10
masquerade as an honest man in this conn
Inunlty, and as an adviser and .xburta,. II
youth, and out of sense of obligation 10
the mercantile world with which he is so
closely Identified. he has decided thar his
duties require him TO expose Niman's con-
duct and to hand him over to the autbori-
ties, that he may be dealt with as the Jaw
directs"
Affixed to the foregoing letter were The
following names of Witnesses: E. W. Bull
niger, Ogden Brewer and r. ID. Dougla IS
Though Wimans alleged entertainments
were discovered exactly one year ago, and
covered period of five years, Mr. Dun kent
the matter profound secret and the public
had not the slightest idea of any suspicion
attaching to Wiman's integrity up to the
moment of his arrest last evening.
When Wiman was brought to the district
attorneys office he declined to say anything
about his side of the case, or to make any
statement for publication. He candidly
announced that he did not expect to give
any bail last night.
After Wiman reached the Tombs he re-
fused to see a reporter. and gave strict
orders to Warden Failon not to send any
cards In to him, as ne wished TO see no one
but his counsel Today, being a general
holiday none of the courts are open. Wi
man, therefore, cannot be brought into
court to plead to the indictments until Fri
out the city when the bulletins of Wiman's
arrest were placarded last night
Some of His Schemes.
Wiman was the originator of the scheme
that put IAN iron band around the water
front of Staten Island, and he became
director of it, when it developed into the
Staten Island Rapid Transit Company.
He was also the promoter and president CT
the Staten Island Amusement Company,
which owned the cid Metropolitan Base Ban
Team. This was a failure, and the property
at St. George is now used by the Staten
Island Electric Light Company, ia which he
was also interested, as well as in the South
Beach improvement Company.
He is a native OF Toronto, and in the
zenith of his power he used to give out
to newspaper men who called upon him
at Dun's Agency printed sketches of his
life, in which IL told of his having earned
his first fifty cents on a farm. and how he
went TO work in the office OF the Toron 10
Globe as devil" and finally became d re-
porter.
He was about nineteen years of age
according to his own biography. when he
wrote report giving statistics of the con-
dition of the crops in the province that
were SO much at variance with those
published by the government that they
attracted attention all over the country.
An investigation resulted IN Wiman's
figures being sustained. This incident, he
ha fret Sfa inc d.
rise in eminence
The biography stated that his experiences
in statistics attracted the attention Of r. c.
Dun & Company, and he was employed by
that firm. He next became manager of The
Toronto branch, and was sent TO New York
to take charge Of the business there.
In 1857 Wiman made a grand effort to
secure the title sir" and he got up a great
demonstration of Englishmen in New York
on the occasion of the queens jubilee
The Staten Island Amusement Company
was in a fourishing condition then, and
owned its grounds at ST. George and at
Erastina, named after himself The crowds
that visited the two places were so great
that the grounds were thrown open, and no
more tickets could be obtained. 1t was esti-
mated that there were no less than 2O0.0Oo
British subjects in Richmond county that
day. Elaborate reports of these proceed
ings were cabled by Wiman to Europe, but
the money was wasted, for none of the
British papers published anything that he
sent
The credit for the big demonstration was
given to Wiman, but the failure of The
notices to get in print resulted in he
queens attention not being called to the
honor intended to be paid by her subjects
in New York. and Wiman failed to get
knighthood. Since that time he has adyo-
Gated annexation, commercial union, and
other schemes OF ant-British tendency
He also helped. by his money and Influence
to found the British-American Association
of the United States
Mr.. Wiman is a married man and has two
sons and two daughters grown up.