New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-13
HOYT NECKLACE FOUND.
BY YOUNG SALESWOMAN.
Girl Receives 500; Father to Sue
for $500 More.

The 500 600 pearl necklace lost by Mrs. Col
gate Hoyt, wife Of the banker. of No. 70 Park
ave. on April ., was found by Miss Harriet
Schade. She returned the gems on Monday 10
Mr.. Hoyt. who handed her 500.
Miss Schade lives with her parents at No 30
East Thirty-ninth-st. Her father says $500 re-
ward was offered for the return of the gems
He declared last night that he had written to
ask Mr.. Hoyt for the rest Of the reward. which,
if he did not receive, he would sue for The girl
has been chosen belle of all the balls she has
recently attended by reason of the magnlncenr
gems she wore, though she is very pretty.
Mrs. Hoyt was in the shopping district the
dav she lost the pearls. She also passed through
Fifth and Madison aves. between Twenty-eightn
and Thirty-fourth SITS. on that day, and was not
certain where she lost them She thought for
time that a woman in a Gainsborough hat who
had seemed to her to look at her in peculiar
manner had the gems. and after she lost them
she went about the avenue looking for the
woman in that kind of hat, but could not find
her The loss Of the gems made Mrs Hoyt Ill.
and reward of $500 was offered for them This
reward was made 5000 for two or three days
and then reduced again.
Miss schade is an attractive girl of seventeen
years. She is employed as saleswoman in a
department store IN the neighborhood of
for luncheon daily and 1t was about three days
after Mrs Hoyt lost the gems that Miss Schade
while walking through Twenty-third-st., on her
way to luncheon, found them. That $4,000
worth of pearls should lie In the street for any
length of time the last thing Miss Schade
thought OF and she believed the gems imitation
when she picked them up They were in the
gutter and partly covered by dirt. but she saw
them shining and pulled out the long string of
precious stones.
Miss Schade showed the gems all over the
store that day. and delighted her girl compan-
ions by letting them hang the pearls about their
neckspOn taking them home, the family thought
them hardly genuine. but watched the papers.
They did not notice any reward offered for
pearls and Miss Schade took them to Charles
Hoeninger jeweer Of No. 529 Third-ave. He
at once told her the gems were very valuable
and all genuine. He said there would surely
be an advertisement in the papers for them
The girl took the gems home with her, and
for days picked them out of her dressing case
to admire them. She had her picture taken
with the stones about her neck and she wore
them to several parties and receptions she at
tended There the girl was the centre OF OBJ
servation on account of the pearls
Hoeninger saw the advertisement in the paper
and informed Miss Schade who went with her
and his wife and daughter were at home and
Mrs Hovt Immediately identified the necklace.
Miss Schade said Mr.. Hoyt handed her roll
of bills which she said, she thought amounted
to $500. the reward offered. and she went away
with her mother.
On arriving home. Miss Schade said she FOUND
the roll of bills contained only 500. Her father
said Immediately that the full reward ought TO
be paid.
..I thought it rather small of Mr. Hoyt, said
Mr. Schade last night, not to give the fun
amount of the reward he had advertised 10 pay
SO at onoe wrote to him asking him TO send
the young lady the rest of the money. S4oo
have not vet heard from him. but II do not and
ha ras,,ses TO pay the amount. shall certainly
sue him for the money he has held back"
II was said at the Hoyt home last evening that
Mrs. Hoyt was I'll None Of the rest OF the fam
fIv could be seen