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HILTON'S WINE AND CIGARS
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| Al Trusted the late Jsdses Taste ana nessht
| Jehsnrisbers. Rare Madeira ssd Bssnd'ss
withest ssmp,ias -App,sjsch That W's
Al ef Forty Tears Oid ssd Other Treasures
Tho rare M,driras. sherris. clsrets. Rhein-
veins. brandies aud cigars which belonged tn
the late Judge Henry Hilton wero sold nj auo-
| uon Yesterday to q gathering of sppreciatNe
\ buyers They brought prices that would have
br-n high II paid for any other collection OF
| wines and cigars. but we're thought by the
| connoissenrs At the sale to hive brought priccs
| that were no more than fair when II was taken
into consideration that the entire collection
| bore the stamp OF Judge iIillon's taste. The
Judge let himself live while he lived. and any.
| thing that was good enough for bis cellars ~
| held TO be good enough for any ri the good
| liverS who outlived him. The highest price
] paid for any Of the wines was Oil bottle pnid
| by c. n. Arnold Of C. II Arnold 4 Co. for
| Johannisbercer Cabinet OF 1874. from p l.cden
| Of Colorns. blue label The lowest price vas
w CENTS bottle for part OF s2i bottles Of snl-
| scy private stock OF is4j. The rest u the lot
| sold Tor higher rrites.
Most OF the students ~ fine and rsre wines
| In New York were at the sale. Justice Triar
was there. and George G. I've Witt, j. j. Van
| Alen. John J. wysong, Buchanan Winthrop.
| Montgomery Ward. George X. Read. j. Cass
J~dyard and Peter Marie, and host OF buyers
for fine wine brokers and importers Her
man Oelrichs. between whom and Justice
rruax and Mr. De witt. there has been a shar
rivalry In the collecting of wines for many
years. was not there. SO far as those present
knew there was no one present representing
Mr.. Oelrtchs. Only few OF the well-known
connoisseurs did their own bidding Many
Of them made their bids through agents and
| brokers. but could not resist the temptation
to see the sale. Nearly all the cigars went
| to a client Of Alexander Morten Of Morten
Co.
There were 1928 lots altogether. They were
sold to Du Nivier h Co., through Townsend
| Montant. auctioneers. pursuant to the direo-
lions Of Horace Russell and Edward ID. Harris
70 close the estate. The auction was In the
third story loft of the auctioneers at 81 Leo n
ard street Seats for about fifty people had
been arranged at the back Of the loft and the
sample cases Of tho precious merchandise
were arranged about It on long tables. One
bottle from each case was exposed and stood
on top OF the case. Carafes OF the brandies
and sherres were exposed on top OF most OF
the cases Of those wines. so that the Intending
buyers might investigate for themselves the
qualities OF tho wines. Now and then one OF
Mr.. Montants audience would approach q
carafe and pour ont a tablespoonful into a
glass and sniff at It and taste II and hold II
70 the light. But there was very little OF such
Henry Hilton did al that work foi pe. r.
uptown hotel bought the first LOT. eleven bot
cs Of Planet g., GO ;bs bcognac q, - 70.
bottles OF Cognao Grade Fine Champagne,
,s2s brought 8 g., * large part Of it went to
The highest price, paid for the brandies was
paid by Mr; Arnold. who bid 80 a bottle for
Marie bid . a pin, for a 10, Of twenty-fSpr
bottles Of the same brandy and got it, Ihs
sG2ys pad Gfsss's s%s hoy BEND Tfe
key, to N.7s a bottle. which was paid by W.
%SyssnS iHs s6s de1sn Rs,ts of
Metropolitan, Hotel. were sold at t.7s a bot
the same hotel and forty ears old, and in in
such condition that It should properly have
The sD iSS ss ts ore STsuihs .han sI'
judge Hiltor's cellars fe had let his stock
vintases which he had bought and had found
after all not exactly To his taste The first 70
1856 Imported ton years ago. 1t wss "Gssf'ad
that Justice Truax. who Is something Of an on:
,as. Es rGsara % IN senea
asked why and said that they were sll vintages
OF poor yenrs, and the first lot particularly.
sSainst the $50 a case for, which, according TO
Justice Truav. thoroughly good qualities OF
Ghs,mpasns can erhS, be hSd y he open na,let
to t35 Some Of the lots al champagne were
sold snbeSt to leas?Te G ,nd two lots Of the 1871
for 50 case 1t was said to be good deal of a
lottery ramo 10 invest in lcakv champagne
even at that .prio~, for thrre was no telling
whether one bottle or all twelve had been al
fected by the Leakage
In the Hilton sherrie. were included four lot.
wines IN 1879; Some Of item had been bottled
more than Gfty years They brought from
. so TO . q bottle, Secretary Reuben Fox Of
was another heavy buyer Of the sherries. JUS
Ss Ss. 1usF "a Rhs q Of fs I'D ten
bottle for them; but let Montsomery Ward
stock The bidding was very sprI,ess. but but
bottles at the knock down figure of .? AZ least
forty men unEedb 19rwsrd wi,h orders for
three DOZEN The auctone eer's assistants ad
TO- go around among them shouting AN over
all sold Tor some moments nc before the buyers
MIR Morten's client got most of the Madeiras
The principal contestor for them was Mr. De
-Bual Madeira. is,s, Lewis F Herman" for rs
cents bottle lie was much disturbed when
told later that Judge Hilton had bought the
wine for use in the Kitchen because Of It's very
pronounced flavor At the time Of the sale
however. several of the gentlemen who were
near the gallant battery man became so irn-
pressed with his bargain that the auctioneer
was forced to start the auction over again and
the rest of the lot sold for o. 25 a bottle The
highest price paid for the Madelras was . rs
each for two bottles of old Wanderer Madeira
imported by Nathaniel J.. Paudng in 1870
MIR Parker outbid Mr.. De Witt TO get II.
The heavy bidding a. had been autici rafed.
came with the Ehen w-irs Justice 1rlax
stood NJ 80 that he could get the auctioneer's
eye Mr.. Arnold got Justice TraS in range
and then mnde sure OF a place where he could
catch Mr. Monfant's eve every time that the
Justice "a id "A word. The first lot sold WIS 10.
bottles Of "Johannisberg Cabinet Vein, gold
bronze seal Ieiden, label. imI or'ed in issO
The bidding started low and somehow stopped
al s?7S. Jrstic" Trax took the whole la4
bottles for the Manhattan Club cellars. II was
generally admitted thqt he got IL for from one
10 two dollars less than It could have been bought
in the market Justice Truax followed Mr..
Arnold mp TO the, $3.50 mark on the vine which
Mr. Arnold finally secured for sIl. The Man
haitian cellars also secured several smaller lots
OF tho Ehpin veins.
An 1894 Chateau Yu,,er Esrhcnhauer A "a