The evening world., 1903-05-09
Police in All the Big Cities and
Special Committees Of Fellow
Workingmen Have Sought for
Him in Vain.
RELATIVES, TOO, IN THE DARK
Set of ostcrsibly for oreenpoint
and Since Last Monday Not a
Trace of Him Has Been Dis
covered.

With the police throughout all the big
cities OF the Union on the alert. and
special committees representing the diff
fcrent branches OF the National Marine
Engineers Beneficial Association In
each ono OF them trying 10 find some
trace OF Secretary ana Business Agent
George A. Kolb, OF the Greater New
York local, who disappeared on Monday
afternoon last. the National President
o. tho organization. Frank s. Jones,
Mas compelled to admit to-day that he
and his confreres we've up against a
stone vail"
The mystery is too much for me-"
said the chief Of the engineers. ~ have
no explanation to offer; not even the
suggestion of n motive as TO why Kolb
should he missing"
Kolb's young wife. his aged father
and mother and his brothers. who are
grief-stricken. are equally in the dark.
81 wish ] could offer a suggestion of
a motive that would help the police
or the newspapers to relieve my tension
and worry" said Mrs. Kolb. the wife.
to-day. 'It I could only do something
to help in the search. ! cannot. All
that there Is for me Is to sit here al
homo and wait. II ] go out for ] min
ute | imagine that some one may call
with information and that l will miss
it,"
Mnsons to Aid in Search.
Kolb is a member of Naval Masonic
Lodge. of New York, and to-day the
Borrowing wife applied to the Grand
Secretary OF the order to use the means
at his command in the search for the
missing engineer.
The story that Kolb had been seen
on a Thirty-fourth street car going west
ward on Monday afternoon. after the
tim he was supposed to have been at
Greenpoint, l.. l., is declared by Presl-
dent Jones to be false.
"A man who professed to know Kolb."
said the President. am TO headquar-
tiers yesterday and said he had met a
man VINO had told him hat he mad seen
Kolb. / told him to go and find thu
man and bring him to me and l would
pay for that information. He left prom
Using to come tack in an hour, and
that's the last l or any of my asso-
ciates have seen OF him. There's moth
Ing to the story. The fellow was simply
talking for the sake Of the talk
The circumstances are as mysterious
ns those in the case OF Charles Bilis-
doll, bookkeeper for Curtis & Bfaisdeil'
wholesale coal dealers, VINO dropped out
of sight. three weeks g as completely
MS II the earth had swallowed him. In
neither instance was the man a drink
ing man or financially embarrassed
set on for G~reenpoint.
on Monday morning Kolb was Mt his
Office, No. 2s3 Hudson street, attending
to his duties with his usual method ami
CGre. and meeting whatever appen
in connection with the b difficulties
through which his association Is now
passin. with a cool judgment. He de-
parted shortly before noon to go 10 MS
home, No. 1921 East Thirty-itfth street,
10. luncheon. His wife says that when
he left her In the morning he was In the
best Of spirits and his oheerfuiness ana
good humor had 10, abatcd when ne
returned at midday. ,u
to Greeppoint to send back two en-
gineers who had come from the other
end of the island to take the places OF
said he would persuade. them TO go back
and would pay their fares, No names
were mentioned and when Is tele,
phoned to President Jones about z
o'clock in the afternoon he did not say
who the men were.
IL is not known that KOlb went to
Greenpoint. No one can be found At
that place who saw or who knew lin.
No man answering his description was
seen on the ferry on either side OF tn,
river.
The Boston branch of the association
has posted n reward of 1900 and similar
action in all likelihood will be taken by
the local branch when II meets on Tues
day night next at Webster Hall. The
Advisory Committee OF the National
Association of Engineers meets INC
row in Philadelphia and action WI
PROBABLY be taken there. President
Jones left this afternoon for tn"
Quaker City To- report kolo's dlsap-
rearance officially.