The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-23
DR.. HANSEN BREAKS OFF.
HE rs GOING BACK TO NORWAY
AFTER ONE MORE LEorURE.

New Yorkshire Managers Attach Hin FOR
saO. o Damage. for Breach OF Contract.
Dr.. Fridtjof Nansen has been generally sup
posed to be making a successful and satisfactory
progress through the United States and Canada.
for tho past three months, l~ecturing on his jour
ney OF exploration, "Farthest North" In fact
his supposedly triumphaI tour has been bur
lesquod in comic publications. the high figures
Of his roputed profits from his achievements APP
parently supplying the actuating cause OF the
carioature sketches. His American tour was
begun auspiciously. Tho American Geographic
cal Society on the night Of his arrival at New
York gave him q reception in Chickoring Hall
and publicly presented him with the Cullum gold
medal. This American welcome was followed
by the attendance Of large and enthusiastic
audiences at his first lectures in tho Academy
OF Music, brooklyn, and the Metropolitan Opera
House. A little later there was n reception in
his honor at Washington. and he was received
at tie White House by President Mckinley.
When he reached Illinois tho degree OF LII. d.
was conferred upon him at Galesburg by Knox
College, which followed In this respect tho
course of Oxford and Cambridge. President
Findlay in announcing tho conferring of the
degree expressed the wish that it remind the
Doctor that no was as highly appreciated on tho
Western prairies as In furrowcd Norway or the
more staid communities of the studious East.
Whatever has reached the public during tho
course OF his tour has indicated that the explor.
er was riding on the flood tide OF appreciation
and financial success. But Unexpectedly Or.
Manson returned to Now York yesterday and
there came simultaneously tho announcement
of his final lectures here. In Jersey City to-
morrow. and in Carnegie Hall next Friday
evening. to DO followed by his departure for
home on Saturday.
Also came notice of the filing of an attach
ment against him in an action by his managers
to recover 100000 damages for alleged breach
OF contract. The papers were served on the
First National Bank, and 81 900 deposited there
In DIR. Nansen's name was attached. DIR.
Manson himself FASTENED over to New Jersey to
spend Sunday with some friends who had visited
him at his Norwegian homo last year, and who
live at the Highlands. He left his secretary
here. with instructions that he wished to say
nothing on tho subject of his difficulties with
his managers. Before going. however. he put
his interests for the remainder OF his stay here
in tho hands OF Major J. b. Pond. 1t is under
Major Ponds management that he is to appear
at Carnegie Hall on Friday, notwithstanding
that the hail had been engaged. and is still I'M
der engagement. for two dates next month by
the managers with whom he has got into
trouble, Messrs. Hoard. Horner. Hathaway &
Pardeo OF the Redpath Lyceum Bureau OF
Boston.
Mr.. Hathaway was here yesterday at the
st. Denis Hotel, but after attending to getting
out the attachment he went back to Boston.
Tho attachment was taken in tho name of
George II. Hathaway and Richard Heard and
was put in the hands of Deputy Sheriff Roberts.
The others of DR.. Nansen's managers. It ia said,
are In Chicago and are expected here on Mon
day. DR.. Manson loctursd In Chicago on Thurs
day evening and came On to ew-So7k-as-ano
l aShe could.
Tho dispute with his managers grew not d.
although il is under that that they seek To re.
S eotss, put ont o. re pew az TO the terms Of
DDnn' ss ss sas Rrl estsass' a into as II Is ssa fU win 'f his
1895, 10 deliver a this country and Canada sE;
gross receipts Of each lecture, TO DO paid imnie-
diately after the lecture, and the managers
stance less than S1Oo or abon. $500 a lecture.
There was a clause providing for o renewal Of
In the t iHs'r soan iF at Ma .e's So s;.s psrsi T ths. St tSs
removal provided for was agreed to at an early
date. according to The suns Information. and
off. At the first lecture in Brooklyn the Acad.
envy of Music was crowded, and tho Norwegian
age Of the Attendance. At the second lecture
thore. howe yer, the house was not full and the
y in evidence. The doctor went as far West as
Ct. Paul. and there 1t was expected that the
scandinaSy im t would ID turn ont in large nnmGers
there, as at the second lecture in .BTooklyn. the
auditors were not SO many as 1t had been sup
Or. Nansen has up. to date delivered seventeen
lectures Ss tnr ss IN all. U Really al i Il 's sSoald be Sr said s,ifaI{ shat Se
has given siTty.seyen, ,repetitions of the same
l of IRE f inli fhis point OH i nf RssrasP'. q one s,s cause use
peaf sne AMI His S agents 'f have in IN some nls i IL.
stances tame , gone nr to ~ newsp s5er SSil Ices, and Go n;
as no should receive; thai, the papers did not
Justified in believing that they would. A re-
minder that papers publishing news. telegraph
samo l9 isslu eSa tWie not ws ss w siFSsstss ati to print the
th When aeo, u came on his 70 se ess %: selIs. Of Of Pf sStgssst It. to
As long as he drew. $4,000 or $4,000 houses or
the receipts fell of Il did. Or. Nansen claimed
his guarantee under the continuance of the orig
day that his managers held that under the renew
al he was to receive only the 55 per cent. of the
Gr9ss t teI paP the eSs Suarante y alter itere t Iss s IT, ag afty
lectures; and 1t was added that when he was not
paid as he thought he ought TO be no cut loose
from the managers and, refusing to deliver any
more lectures under their direction, took the
train for New York with the intention of sailing
the original intention to bring his tour to a close
with q series Of lectures IN this city. 1t was In
Engaged Carnegie Hail for two evenings in
February. Somebody gave the doctor q mint
that he ought to have an interview with Major
Pond II he had any time on his hands before
sailing and wanted to make some more appear
ances In this ne:ghborhood, and yesterday morn.
ing he called on Major Pond. Major Pond. how.
ever, declined in the afternoon to talk about tho
DOCTORS difficulties. His interest in him cen
tired In. next Friday evening. tho last appear
ance of tho great explorer, Fridtjof Nansen. IN
America"
It is said in some Norwegian circles that Nan,
sen has found some fault with the hotels whore
his managers, have put him up-according TO
the contract the managers paid all the expenses
of himself and his secretary and valct-Rnd that
he has been, made the object Of some Yankee
guying, jollyiDg. or roasting by them or at their
Instance. His secretary, MIR. Chaplain. denied
that. the managers had put the doctor in any
hotels that were not OF high enough class to DO
satisfactory. although he said that perhaps the
most fashionable had not been selected.
In the suit which Hathaway and Heard have
brought in the supreme Court, and IN which Tho
attachment was issued. the plaintiffs say that
the agreement with Nansen provided that II he
failed TO perform his part of the contract he
should pay $4,000 liqnidated damages. They
say that on Jan. 10 ne refused to deliver another
lecture on the terms of the contract. The at
lachnent WAS obtained on the ground that nr