The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-07
LABOR UNION BOSS MISSING.
KOLB OF MARINE ENGINEERS
GONE SINCE MONDAY.

Members Of the Association Don't Think
the strike Had Anything to Do With
It-Started for Grecnpoint on Union
Business -G General Alarm Sent Out.
A. C. Kolp Of %sl East Fifty-hrst street
went to Police Headquarters last night
and asked that a general alarm be sent
out for his brother, George A. Kolb. score
tary and business manager Of the Marine
Engineers Benevolent Association, some
OF whose members are now on strike Kolb
has been missing since Monday, accord
ing to his brother, and his family have
been unable to get any trace OF him. He
lives at s2l East Thirty-ffth street.
Kolb left his home about o'clock on
Monday afternoon. saying he was gong
to Greenpoint on business. He didn't re-
turn home that night
At the headquarters of the Marine En-
gineers Association, 2s3 Hudson street.
it was said last night that Mr. Kolb had
not handled the funds of the association
and that his accounts were all straight
He was at the associations headquar-
ters on Monday morning, attended to
great deal Of business. an1 left at noon to
20 to his home for luncheon. At 1880 o'clock
other members OF the general committee,
who were waiting for him at their head
quarters. and said that he was going to
Greenpoint on important business in con-
nection with their difficulties
He did not say what the nature OF his
errand was or just where he was going in
Greenpoint When he did not turn up
for the meeting on Monday night his as
sociates became worried and sent to his
home. He had not returned there.
When it was learned on Tuesday that he
had been away from home all Monday
night. members of the association we're
sent to Greenpoint in the hope that some
trace Of him might be found. Their search
was vain and they then went TO Police
Headquarters and reported the matter.
requesting that no alarm be sent out in
order to keep it from being made public.
When Mr.. Kolb had not returned last
night his brother insisted that the alarm
be sent out.
Mr.. Kob is married and has no children
1t was said that he had never stayed away
is not drinking man. He is feet 2ia
inches in height and built in proportion.
The members OF the association do not
think that the strike could have had any
thing to do with his disappearance and as
far as they. or the members Of his family
know, Kolb had no personal enemies.
Mrs. kolb said last night that up to Sum-
day, the day before her husband disap-
peared, he. was rather gloomy about the
outcome of the strike. On Monday. how
that. the engineers would win. When he
left home he said he would be back in time
for dinner.
Mrs. kolb says that her husband was an
ensign on the Panther during the Spanish
American War, and later was first a. sis tant
engineer on the transport Grant. and chief
engineer on the trans ports Logan and Sher-
man.
A. C. Kolb had an idea last night that his
brother might have been shanghaied.
He also said: The employers q sociation
may have got him out Of the way. but do
not think so, as the feeling was not so bitter
as all that"
Mr.. Kolb is marine engineer, but for
six mont hs ha . done not hing but act g BUSH
ness msnag ger of the association. He had
about $50 or $40 on his person at the time Of
association hardly think he has been way
laid and robbed.
One man at the headquarters Of the as
sooistion suggested last night that Kolb
mi ght have gone on some tugboat In Green
work and then been spirited away and
kidnapped by the opposition. The officers
and committee members said that sug-
gestion was foolish
According to the police alarm Kolb has
light hair and heavy sandy mustache
Several of his teeth on the upper jaw have
been filed with gold and on his left arm are
tatooed cross and heart He wore
dark suit. dark gray overcoat and black
fedora hat. He had an open-faced gold
watch with his initials on it. He also had
his initials on his shirt In his pockets
when he left home were many papers and
documents relating to the association