The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-19
NEW YORK CITY GOSSIP
MARQUAND COLLECTION TO re
SOLD IN JANUARY
Experts Declare That 1t Is Doubtful
Whether Electric Chairs KiII-HoteI
and Boarding House Trust With
Ten Millions Capital Being Formed.

NEW YORK, Aug. 18.-Tanagra
ngurines, Greek vases, Japanese art
OBJECTS, rugs of Asia, austere paintings
OF the collection formed by Henry
0uroon Marquand, are to be sold by
auctlon in the last days of January.
CataIoguers are at work at them. The
mousse In which they were placed in a
harmony so subtle that one forgot in
the charm of 1T their variety and their
antlmony, has the air of a bazaar.
IL is sad Art lovers said a year ago
Lhat New York had in him a happy
man. He had tt love and the desire
of the beautiful les and colors that
artists have made in the ages. He was
forming a monument of them, and
nothing else in this world vexed or
encnanted him. He died in February.
grleved at business reverses in which
ne mad fathers interest only.
Nothing Is to remain as he had 1t.
ouii' some of the works of Mr.. Mar
quand are to survive him for many
years. He gave more than $1,000. 600
IN money and in art objects to the
metropolitan Museum of Art.
MI. MarquandS treasurers are mag
innocent. The cataloguers are astonish-
ed at the treasures that thew find
among them. They were not all placed
70 startie one In the Japanese morning
room, in the Greek drawing room. in
the vast parlor Of the art lovers
house. Some were hidden in cabinets.
others placed negligently on shelves
Wnlch were seldom seen by visitors.
Inc experts have the pleasure of max
Ing discoveries perpetually. 1t is said
mat the collection Is worth more than
Sl,OoV,oOo. The limited edition of the
catalogue is to be beautiful and very
costly. The exhibition will attract to
the american art galleries the most
fastld1ous art lovers.
Does Electric Chair Kill?
That murderers sentenced to die i'm
the electric chair are frequently not
Killed by the electric current, and that
they would be buried alive if it were
not Tor the autopsy which follows the
eiectrocution, is the opinion of F. A.
Stratton, vice president of the West
chester Lighting company. of White
Plains, whose business probably has
brought him in the way of seeing more
men shocked or killed by high voltage
electric currents than any other man
in this vicinity.
He says: Nearly every week we
have men shocked by higher voltage
currents than are used in the electric
chair at Sing Sing, yet they come
around all right after a few DAYS
treatment"
Mr.. Stratton's theory is not a new
one. The question has been argued
ever since the electric chair took the
place OF the hangman's moose in this
state. But the experts who have dis
cussed it have had only their theories,
while Mr.. STATIONS statement is based
on actual observation.
DR.. p. j. Gibbons, of Syracuse, is the
only physician who has ever had the
chance to experiment on the body Of a
murderer. He was present when John
Johnson was electrocuted in Novem-
Der, 1893, and two hours after the man
mad been pronounced dead the physi-
clan gained access to the room in
which the body lay, and by artificial
respiration actually induced breathing.
AT this point he was discovered by the
warden.
Many physicians assert that the au-
topsy clause was put in the state law
to make sure of the death of the sub
ject.
Big Boarding House Trust.
Brooklyn Heights will soon be in the
grasp of $10,000.O00 hotel and board
ing house trust
The promoter Is Louis y. Horowitz.
president of the new Brooklyn Heights
improvement company. His associates
include E. F. Pelletreau and w. c. Boil
ton. They intend to incorporate a COM
pany with $4,000, 600 capital to buy all
the hotels and boarding-hous on the
Heights. Owners who refuse to sell will
be coerced by the usual trust methods
OF cut rate competition.
The first moves in the campaign to
capture the Heights were completed
with plans for the construction of a
tWelve-story apartment hotel on Gin
ton street, near Fulton, adjoining the
Crescent Athletic club house, and the
purchase of the Argyle, at Fulton and
Pferrepont streets. Forty-five proper
Hties have been made over to Mr..
Horowitz by investors who will take
stock in the new $10,000,OOO company.
Il intend to sail for Europe early
next week" says Mr.. Horowitz. 'eWhen
return in September, the new com
pany will be Incorporated with $S,0OO,-
600 or $10,000,00o capital. We interN
to buy the principal hotels and board
ing houses on the Heights The
Heights district is small and the ideal
home location. We believe we can
control it completely and that our COM
pany will be able to operate its hotel
properties with great profit"