The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-08
new YORK CITY GOSSIP
cHILDREN,s COURT JUSTICE
TEMPERED WITH MERCY
Dutch Government Agrees to DistN5u-
ton of Estate to American Heirs
Morgan and Yerkes interested in
Movement to Repeal Tax on Art.

1 ~ AhSPOdi j ak OH ARK
NEW YORK, Sept. Sixty chill
dren, the accumulation of five davs',
record of juvenile crime in the big citv.
were arraigned in the chiIdren's court
when it opened its doors for the first
time in the interests of that mercy
which is the handmade to justice.
! Atleast twenty cases We're dismissed
| as too trivial for consideration. and less
than dozen We're given final decision.
The great majority were postponed till
Friday, when investigation has proved
the best course to pursue.
If any youthful offenders felt the
! harshness of the law, they did not find
it in the face of Justice Willard H.
| Olnstead, but in the decree of the So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty
| to Children, which kept them from any
| communication with their parents or
! friends. In two instances this caused
a scene before the officers succeeded
| in ejecting the indignant relatives from
! the building.
The court building, which was the
| old Charities headquarters at Eleventh
street and Third avenue, has been made
! as attractive as possible with the ma
| terials at hand. Every one of the big
oak seats was filed with spectators
and the space before the judges bench
was thronged with friends of the chill
dren and the representatives of the
Children's society when the crier called
the first case.
Dutch Estate Goes to Heir.
| The Dutch government has consent
| ed to the division of the Povie estate
| in The Hague, valued at $14,0 000 00,,
among nine heirs who live in America.
| Five of the heirs live in Brooklyn two
| in the borough of Queens and the 9TH
| er two in the West. The heirs are gath
| ering in New York now, and they ex-
| pect that the property will be handed
! over to them in a few weeks.
| The settlement of the estate is the
| outcome of a contest inaugurated by
| the American heirs about twenty years
| ago. The Dutch government was at
| first adverse to handing the money
over to the American heirs, but they
| proved their case.
Nicholas and John Povie were the
| forebears Of the lucky Americans who
will shortly receive the money from
Holland. The family originally came
! from Alsace-Lorraine and went to set4
! tie in Holland in the early part of the
last century. They located in the low
lands outside of The Hague and es-
| tablished farms.
The Povies took example from their
neighbors and reclaimed most of the
| property which was under water by
building dikeS and filing in the land.
The government showed it's appreci-
alton by giving the Povies a crown
grant to thousands of acres adjoining
their property. This was also reclaim
ed from the sea and the Povies were
| considered very wealthy. The Hague
spread out toward the property and
soon 1T was cut into building lots and
today is very valuable.
Cooke Buell., one of the heirs, is a
Chicago lawyer, and all the heirs have
assigned their claims to him so that
the transfer of the property can be
easily accomplished. A firm of Man
haitian attorneys has also been retained
Wants Duty On Art Repealed.
Having in view the repeal Of the duty
| on paintings, statuary and other OBJ
| jects of art, an organization is now
| being formed to which most prominent
men in the country interested in art
are lending their influence.
1t is expected that an appeal for
aid will soon be made to the presi-
dent and to congress in the form of a
petition, and strong efforts made to
influence individual members Of senate
and house.
Among men who are taking great in
terest in the movement is Charles T..
Yerkes.
Mr.. Morgan has more than a million
dollars worth Of paintings stored in
London, Paris and Berlin, he not bring
ing here one of the pictures he and
Mr.. Yerkes bought. They are in his
offices in London, and will remain there
until the law is changed.
That a man has wealth and incli-
nation to pay 100000 for a picture
is no reason why he should pay another
$4,000 when he gets it here. Heat
least great many have looked at the
matter this way-simpIy leaves it
abroad, where Europeans continue to
have the pleasure of looking at it in
stead of Americans.
Duty is not levied to protect artists
in this country, for the works of an
American artist abroad come in free.
This movement looks very promis-
ing, and with such men as Mr.. Nor
gan interested in it, 1t ought to be sue
cessful.
Historic Trees Fall.
Three walnut trees, which have
stood at White Plains road and De-
milt avenue, in the Bronx, >for more
than 100 years, have been cut down
to make way for public Improvements.
The three trees were the survivors of
thirteen walnut striplings, planted
there during the Revolution by an
uncle of Paulding, one of the captors
of Maj. Andre. At that time that sec
ton of the city was divided into large
farms, one of which was owned by
the planter of the trees.
When the farm was cut up into
streets and avenues, through the in
fuence of George j. Penf1eld, father
of Civil Justice William w. Penfeld,
the trees were spared, although they
formed an obstruction in the side
walk. When plans were formulated
recently to widen the White Plains
road sentiment had to give way to the
practical needs of the community, and
cut down the trees.
"Mr. Roslyn" Is Dual.
'Mr. Roslyn," under which euphon-
istic name Mrs. Harry Payne Whit
ney and Mrs. H. B. Duryea hid for a
moment the fact that they had a rae
ing stable, made their debut at the
Sheepshead Bay race track and won
the very first race in which an entry
of theirs appeared.
Alonzo was the horse, a white-leg-
ged chestnut, who, with Cochrane for
a rider and only a burden of ninety
seven pounds, was thought so good
that the crowd, rushing to bet on him,
fairly swamped the bookmakers.
The secret of his ownership was
kept so close that more people look
ed at the two young matrons-Mrs.
Whitney in a dream of filmy white;
and Mrs. Duryea in grave poem of
severe black-than at the leggy chest
nut, despite the colors of the Jockeys
uniform, which are about the gaYest