New-York tribune., 1903-03-02
ANSONIA GHOST FOUND.
CREAM ITS UNDOING.
Sleep Returns to the Apartment
House filter Long absence.
And the cat came back.

And the back.
The ghost Of the Ansoria. the magnificent apart
ment hotel OF w. f. d. Stokes, in broadway. DE-
tween Seventy-thrd and Seycnty-fOUrth sts. II
found. 1t is not has not been at any time white
1t was has been and will be. till dissolution
shall set In. black and the preIiminaries OF the
dissolution will be carried out by the Bergh so
ciety to-day. Once before this ghost doomed
to extinction from the world of flesh. for II was
has been and is still ghost of material concrete
bone and blood-but the workings of that deep laid
plot will be laid bare presently.
No shall fearful imaginings perch like
demon changengs beside the pillows OF dWeIi"rS
In the Ansonia. No shall stealthy. occult
blood congeaing footsteps and ruStlings SOUND
through tho frescOed ceilings. while bated brcdthS
and rising hair give token of the fear they inspire
No more shall the walls give forth clawing SOUNDS
as though entombed alive therein. were seek
ing freedom.
Vision shall he normal again. No white shapes
will bPckon from tho darkness: no incantationS. II"
sorcercr's bewitchmcnt uncanny formltSs
things shall bcckOn and Gibbrr with hcrrih GRIM
aces. yet utterng sound. for the ghost Is found
Now to the coming of Tie ghost and how II cam"
make the Ansonia it's abiding place"
II lean and hungry ghost when II S"u"h'n
its rappngs on tho door "f Mrs. John Edward
Smith, who lives the sixteenth floor Naturally.
being ghost sought he near TN" Broom
stick Drive possible. Mr. and Mrs Smlth At"
Christian Scientists. hc formerly being first reader
of the First Church Of Christ. Scientist In PouGh-
keepsic TIL" ghost. therefore, made the rlRh'
SGIe
was the ghost welcomed, though families VII" he-
clare their ghosts not allowed to have apart
ments in the AnsOnia. and it Is against the mouse
rules to harbor them.
Mrs Smith minIstercd unto the ghost. and 1t
thrved and was gradually becoming dcmesticated
Opposte the Smiths front door is the front door
of Louis F. Jalladc the architect who designed the
Ansonia. OF the ghosts presence Mr. Jallade DC
came aware. Is said that he convinced Thomas
GIL a halIhuy. that ghosts had no place In d "eI
tod rt
spred 10 relCgate the ghost to its proper naDtatlo
I.nred from its happy homo was this ghost' ahi'
like the genii of the Arabian Nights. it was put
in a box Gill took the box and went to see now
the North River looked at night at Riverside Drive
and Eighty y-fifth-st.
He returned anon without the box. And the
Smiths mourned in secret for their ghost
On the next dag every family in the house mad
it's own particular hhCst. Mr. Webb. the manager
| had complaints Plaintive cries, weird gurslings,
smothered yells scratchinGs and cla"ings. thump-
| ings and teaIngs and wailings. resOunded OIL III
the Silly night and Morpheus fed the house
| though not morphine Mr. Jallade and Gill alone
| displayed a contempt for ghosts and were silent
Ugly rumors began t" circulate Stories OF work.
men buried i'll the walls were woven.
So on Friday Mr.. Webb at the head OF a search
ing party consisting all clerks off duty several
haIlboys ard the house detective. made a still
hunt. One by the seventeen floors Of the hotel
/ were gone through block end to block end
| No ghost. They spent nearly the whole day. and
| when night the ghost was as lively as ever
About o'clock, after all the patrons had dined
and left the main dining room on the hrst MOOR the
walters put out the lights and left the Over
| this room is a dcme, which circles out from the
third floor. About midway between the second and
third floors is gallery, where the orchestra sits in
! the dinner hours. The musicians had gone last
| evening and Theodore GordOhn. the leader OF the
| orchestra. had remained to gather up some music
| AS he started down the stairway leading to the
| dining room something grfpped in the semi"dark-
ness the calf of Of his legs. With bound ne
/ leaped forward.
Now! Now. The Ghost: Its got ne! Shades
| of Faust and Mephisto. il has me by the Leg!
With thump and bump. shout and cry OF saints
and angels protect me- the musician took the
| stairs pumped a table and burst through the
| heavy swinging doors into the main hallway OF
| the house with the ghost screnely perched on MS
| shoulders. into the midst Of crowd which arose
| hastily to make room The ghost disappeared
! through a ventilating shaft
! Then the manager told that the ghost nae
been found. The house carpenter. with his Kit OF
| tools Il piece of copper wire. a pitcher Of cream
| and a champa gnr basket. called The ghost
| had CraUlcd in over the ceiling above the STUDY in
Mr. JaIl&de-s apartment. In the wall on the Sew
| cuty-fOurth-St side OF the twO-fOot section
| was cut out. ON a network Of water pipes was
placed tn" cream. and ahOUt It Coiled loop or
| nn, copper wire. The SliOsI was hungry. and he
| soon caught sniff of the cream. FIC descended
| step by step. finally took to Tapping up the
| cream Then the Wir" Drawn taut about his
body and IIc was caught. He was put in the chdHl-
| paCnc basket Hc mt to the West sixty
eghth-St. police station AMI request made tina t
| he be kept there Hnth to-day Nhen ne CoIiu ~
| given t. ihC B@T@n SOcIft!