New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-10-11
Mr.. WUERSTEfN rs CHEERFUL il.
HE SAYS HE rs NOT WORRIED AT ALL Ky
TIE SUITS AGAINST HIM AND THE TALK
AROI'T HIS AFFAIRS.

oscar Hammers,ein is still cheerful. He sat yes
tcrday IN hs little Office at Olympia where ne sun
spends good deal OF time. even II he doesn't own
f. and laughed about the stories OF his precarious
financial condition and the suits for various sorts OF
damages that are plling up against him. He has
Transferred n house IN One-hundred and twentieth
ST. TO his wife and ne has transferred Olympia TO
her and he has given leases OF his theatres TO his
sons Arthur and william. All that he acknow-
edges vet all this makes him not sad.
Il am not worried about all those things" he said
Yesterday: what am worried about ia that am
on Roster e. Biars bond for $1,000 They paid me
$4,000 to re, out OF there. II was paid In two
checks Of $500 each and John Roster signed the
second OF them on the very day that he died Then
I had n mortgage on the building for 10000. and In
order TO pay that or. with interest. they borrowed
ssJ 600 from the United States Mortgage and Trust
Company and 500 00 from George Ehret. But when
| went down get my money the United States
Nor, gage AMI Trust Company would not advance
the cash unless | went on the bond. Well. needed
money at once for my building here, and there was
nothing else for me to do. SO my wife and are on
that bond for s22J.0
Mr. Uammorstelns attention was called 10 the fact
that there was n rumor current that he was in dan
ger OF having to ma Ike an assignment, that I've would
not Do able Fay salaries next Tuesday and that thu
Now-York Life Insurance Company. which holds
mortgage on olympia for 100000 soon going to
begin TO make things unpleasant for him 1T Is all
and there is no eucurnbrance 1t but this one mort
gage OF the New-YorS Life Insurance Company for
5000 90: there H. second mortgage. The interest
on that one all paid up and there Is no more inter
est due till January. an not In any danger OF an
asslp nnient and there Will be no trouble about sal
,rl.s | am done with these things. | have got them
off my mind. They do not worry me any more,
and I am going ahead with my business and getting
m big show for the Music Hall next week. NV
denis amount to something like f5jlOD and shall be
,hrud,ntlv able discharge every dollar OF them.
XII ihiF ak about being In debt for from 5000
IN sfN OGO is absurd There is not word of truth In
There ia a peculiar point In regard 10 the alleged
20, tionshIp between the transfers and the leases
uhirh have caused much talk and the suits which
have been brought are threatened against Mr..
Iammcrsten The order Of procedure for these
ltors MS set forth by the counsel for Of them.
il 70 re verdict If possible and then, il the Sheriff
Gnds that Mr. Hammerstcin has nothing with which
,n s,r,sfy the Judgment. to examine him in supple
meniarv PROCEEDINGS i'm order 10 establish II possible
hot he has serrcd his property for the purpose
~ ev,ding payment of damages and finally TO
,ba, Tho transfers be aside But appears that
,here is a new law which went into force October
whcreby this setting aside OF the transfers Is a
"a So Tor n Jury and not case for Il judge simply
And ali these trials the suits in the first place then
Tia sunulcm. ntary proceedings. and finally the
I'm regard TO setting aside the transfers. promise
whole succession OF those theatrco judicial proceed
ines which are always such "A true delight TO the
n,ibllc AS far surprising the general run OF such
mini ions olympia surpasscS an ordinary theatre.