New-York tribune., 1903-01-18
WOULD LIKE TO GET HIS ALBUM BACK.
MR. SHIEBLER'S REMARKABLE COLLECTION OF
AUTOGRAPHS OF CELEBRITIES

the purpose of his call to the secretary the
latter after a consultation with the Queen said:
Her majesty desires to know il you win
grant an audience to herr"
Mr.. Shiebler replied that he had not expected
such a great honor. The former ruler OF the
Sandwich Islands. after looking the book
through carefully. said that she appreciated the
distinction Of being enrolled with the nlustrious
of America. Her secretary Immediately went
to the nearest stationery store. and buying an
autograph album declared that he was going to
collect names himself
Carrie Nation signed her name when IN this
city on her first visit to the East. Her name
at a distance looked like a hatchet. and below
she wrote. Your defender
II was after the appearance Of ''Ianru'' on the
stage of the Metropolitan opera House that
Paderewski asked to write his name in the
Shiebler album He took a great interest IN the
book. and. besides his signature. he wrote four
bars of his opera Among the pages the pianist
and composer found the name Of Kubelik. who
had written alongside his name a few bars from
Mozart. The album also contains the name Of
Josef Hofnann. who after signing his name
had penned a selection from one Of his
mazourkas.
Victor MaureI the French barytone. showed
by his autograph that he is artist well
He wrote his name with a French sentence. the
letters of which he arranged like the spokes OF a
wheel In company with Maurel are the names
of Sembrich. Schumann- -Heink. Nordca and
other stars of grand opera. Nine Nordca
kept the album for some time. and Mr. ShiebIer
began to wonder il il might have gone astray,
when he learned from the soprano that she had
been doing a little mission Iry work among her
friends, and had only obtained some more names
for MIN. Maurice Cirau also became greatly in
terested in the album, and secured the sigma
lures Of several opera singers that the album
had never succeeded in reaching before
Mr.. Shieber never had any difficulty in OBJ
tanning the signatures of the Presidents. Hav-
ing secured that of General Grant one time
when he here in the city. he found that the
Presidents who succeeded him all gladly ac-
cepted the opportunity of adding their names
The names of Wu-Ting-fang and Ii Hung
Chang written the same page. That OF
the dead VicerOy written first, and when
Minister he selected the page where his fellow
countryman had written his signature with the
remark:
II don't want to get lonesome, not even in an
autograph album"
Several master engravers and designers n the
employ of Mr.. Shiebler have decorated many OF
the pages of the album with color sketches, In
Guiding one Of a street scene in Rouen. The
book is bound in red morocco leather and as it
is eight by ten inches in breadth and length
with width of two inches. it makes impOs-
ing volume.
II think that I will recover the book eventu-
ally" said Mr.. Shiebler yesterday zone would
not want to keep the book without exhibiting
1t to his friends. and in this way the Identity
of the owner would leak out. Only vandaI
would tear it apart and try TO sell the pages
1t is of far more value TO me than to any
else. for it's career and my own are more or less
linked together The book will come back to ms
somehow"