Evening star., 1902-03-04
MAJ. EsTERHAzY IN NEW YORK.
Recognized in a French Restaurant
Last Sunday Afternoon.

The New York Herald OF TO-DAY says
Shabbily dressed in a gray overcoat ana
slouch hat with hollow eyes and sharp
cheek bones almost protruding through
sallow skin, Major Ferdinand Wadsin hs-
terhazy. the man who confessed to the
forgery of the Dreyfus bordereau, sat at
table in a restaurant in Broadway, near
18th street for two hours Sunday evening
He was accompanied by a woman and
young man and was Immediately recog-
nized by Count F. Pangaert, who had
known him in Paris, and by a Swiss waiter
named Won ARK and the head waiter, Geo
+. Wahrer.
When Major Esterhazy entered the place
with his companions, Count Pangaert ana
Mr. Wahrer sat at table talking in
French and as soon as Major EsterhaZy
heard the accents of his native tongue ne
turned abruptly and looked at the men at
the table. 1nis attracted the attention or
Count Pangaert and, looking up, he i'm
meGiately recognized the fact of the man
about whom the whole world was taking
few years ago.
The visitors at once moved over to a table
at remote corner of the room where they
sat for nearly two hours. Major Esterhazy
with his back to the people In the room
The woman and the young man faced the
other way, and reported to Major Ester
hazy such fragments of the conversation OF
those about them they could gather from
the mum of voices.
Count Pangaert lives at No. 243 west
39th street where he was seen last evening.
He modestly omts his title from his name,
while in America but for many generations
his family in Belgium has borne the honor
able title. His passport. under date or Sep
tember, 1883, gives his name as "CheVailer
F. Pangaert d'OpdOrp,' which corresponds
to the title Of count, in England For many
years he has been a traveller, and has spent
known in this city. During the Dreyfus
trial he was in Paris, and frequently saw
Major ESterhaZy.
Speaking of the incident last evening he
said: There can be no doubt Of the iden-
tity. No one who had ever once looked into
the face Of Esterhazy, as did many times,
could ever forget 1t. But he has changed
considerably. He is now wearing an impe-
rial, which he did not do when | last saw
him, and he has allowed his hair to grow
long on the back part of his head, and
combs it over the bald part of his forehead.
But those eyes and the sharp lines Of his
face cannot be disguised. He is very much
thinner now than when he was in Paris,
and looks terribly haggard.'
The walters at the HOfbrau HauS were
enraged at the sight Of the man who had so
| moment he was recognized the head waiter
called one of his subordinates and said to
him, IF you will throw that man out
pointing at the bowed form of Esterhazy-
I'll give you five dollars and stand all con-
sequences" But the subordinate did not
understand the feeling which inspired Mr..
Wahrers rash injunction, and the guest
was not disturbed.
Count Pangaert believes that Major Eter-
haZy is here under an assumed name, and
| may possibly be in some business.
Major EsterhaZy declined to be witness
| in the Dreyfus trial in 1899. and later fled
| to England. where he confessed to being
| the author of the bordereau. He declared
| that he committed the forgery under order
| of Colonel Sandherr and his superior Off
| GERS. After making the confession Major
>Sfa hon tic inf -
| ing to the United States for the purpose of
| lecturing, but has never been seen in this
| country until now. Since his flight from
! France he has lived in comparative obscur-
| itX IN England.