New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-20
METHOD IN HIS MADNESS.
MEIsELs TIP ON SUGAR LANDED HIM
IN A sANITARIUM
Ex-APpRArsER BUM. TO WHOM 1T WAS SENT.
MISSED A $4,000 PROFIT BY NOT ACTING ON
1.-THE YOUNG BROOKLYN MANS FRIENDS
SAY 1T WAS THE RESULT OF CARE
Full STUDY BUT HIS PARENTS
THINK OTHERWISE.

THINK OTHERWISE
Largely on account of the fact that Charles
Frederick A. Meisel Of No A Strong Place. Brook
lyn. examining chemist in the New-York Custom
House. sent a dispatch to ex-Appraiser Walter II.
Bum. urging him, last Wednesday. to buy all the
Sugar certificates he could at the price current
then. predicting an. immediate rise and conse-
quont benefit to Mr. Bunn Mr.. Mesel was ad-
judged mentally unbalanced by his family and
atves. and bundled off to private sanitarum
at Hartford Conn. there to regain his supposedly
lost equilibrium.
On Wednesday last Sugar selling at lSs and
had ex-Appraiser Bum acted on his former SUD-
orcinate's tip and bought one thousand shares OF
Sugar he would have been better off by $1,000 last
night.
And the young man who had the foresight and
temerity to wish to make a coup in Wall street Is
walking around the stting-rooms OF retrea'
for the insane. and doubtless wondering what use
brains are to young man.
This anomalous state Of affairs did not come 10
light IN Brooklyn until yesterday. Many OF Meisers
friends question the wisdom Of those who had MIN
sent away
Meisei was formally suspended from duty at the
Appraisers Stores IN Washington at. New forh. "
Friday Lately he had shown signs OF mental as
turbance He had been watched closely by MS CO.
laborers and when on Wednesday last ne seh' ','e
dispatch to MI Bum advising him to go 10 'ne
Exchange at and buy all the securl'es ne eo."
raise the money for. his relatives consoereo '" ~
had reached critical mental crisis. ana they 'ooh
the action referred to.
When Mr. Rose the chief clerk in the Appraiser
office was asked about Meisels case YESTERDAY nv
said he was satisfied. soon as. he saw MS ''e
gram to Mr. Bum, that Meisel was not IN niS
right mind Dr. Sherer. who Is at the head Oh Tue
chemical department. said he had noticed lot sew
eraI DAYS that Mr.. Meisel's mind was weakening,
He thought Mr. Meisel had worked too haru' anu
believed that a short vacation In the countr!
vvou,d helm him to regain his health MT Me,se, t
s twenty-two years old. He was graouateu !, aorn o
The school OF Mines. Columbia college, .n[ee lis
ago and has always been hard stuoent' LIS LIS
father is Albert c. NJ. Meisel a china%atet mv me
chant at No % Park Place. New-1ork ne h, ias ths
is wealthy When seen at his home last hisi'' 'e
"Please do not ask me anything ABOUT ,p my SUI
have nothing to say. he 10 Ill ana i" ''e
Some OF young Meses friends are ',1 as.Tnsm.u nry
WHY did they not" said one. let MN to, taHo ,r
Wool or two OF and see whether he was men.a,. ,
nnstrnne or not without sending him among peop, d
NJ ,insoInd mind? Meisel was nara stuuens, stu, an" his
ciosa thinker at whatever he concentateo ne
mind on and when after studying the sussi N.Y. w.
Let he concluded Il would be good unle ~, ~ w.
Runn TO buy II seemed as clear 10 nm as q P,V 80
lem in physics or geometry HIS oueai .ornes,ght on
ahsontely clear headed. and Indicated S,,
and good Judgment All ne needed was a rest "u'
On the other hand, Mr.. Meisels fanny seem !"
have acted on trustworthy medical adVice'