The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-20
TEVKSBURF HAS The GILSEY.
FINDS 4 HiVEN THERE AFTER
HIS YEIRS or TROJ Bile.

Better That Dead Ones Do Nat bloom
Again He's q Partner. Mr.. DOuthitt.
Lewis C. Tewkshuy, who has heen
known and inquired after in many lands,
has broken from comparative obscurity in
another spot. This time he appears as a
hotel proprietor AMI the hotel is the Gilsey
House, at Broad way and Twenty-ninth
street. Te~wksbury said yesterday after
noon that he and Job y. Dodthitt, who
runs "A decorating establishment at 27S
Fifth avenue, were now the sole owners OF
the Gilsey House lease and had been for
three weeks.
Tewksbury did not appear 10 he anx-
ious TO discuss his new venture to any
tiresome extent and slipped away at the
earliest poss IDLE moment, remarking snll-
ingly:
"We are trying to brighten the old place
q bit"
About the first thing that Tewksbury
did in this process of Frightening up was
TO remove some buckets that used 10 stand
in a niche on the grand staircase. Iewks-
bury didn't like the looks of those buckets.
To be sure, they were there only TO be Of
use in dOusing an incipicnt blaze, but some
how or other they appeared redolent OF a
pasta Wall Street past that preceded
a long and ~troublous exile from New York
and all its gay, gay things.
The Broadway Hotel Company il the
name of the corporation that now holds
the Gilsey House lease and Tewksbury
and Douthitt are il. Manager Duncan
will remain in his old place. Ii IL declared
on authority that the change meets with
the approval of al" Smith, who is a MEM
Der of the old guard that has made its head
quarters at the Gilsey for 80 long.
Tewksbury has had one Of the storIniest
careers of any man upon whom the New
York limelight has beamed in the last
ten wears. He has apparently been elected
to the Amalgamated Association OF IRE.
trievable Dead Ones dozens OF times ana
the "~bloodhounds of the law" have often
been unleashed IN his trail. But here he
Ia again. smiling, suaVe and apparently
prosperous.
the sos from Manchester. \. H., ana
it il reliably asserted that when he left
the village ne was shy. Up the re he ran
a drug store. Down here he opened a
brokers' office and made money from the
start. He was always a great beileNer,
was Tewksbury, in advertising at the
right time. He made money even through
the bad year from 1893 TO 1895.
But a lot of knockers who were jealous
of his success complained about his methods,
They said he ran bucketshOps-les sir,
thew did. The Consolidated Exchange,
on which he had a seat, ordered him TO show
his books. He declined TO do il and the
exchange thereupon suspended him. Two
years later, not being able 10 use his seat
on the exchange. he sold it.,
But that didn't bother Tewksbury. He
opened a grand big Office at p Broadway,
lavishly furnished with scalps and things,
with branches in the Sturtevant House
and in West Eleventh street. In the two
branches women were always managers.
One thing about Tewksbury, he always
made money. whoever else didn't. And
these Offices prospered greatly until 1850.
Then one day the firm of Lewis e.. Iewks-
bury went 10 pieces, There wasn't any
company. Te~wksbuFv was il. There was
something less than 81 900 900 owing.
Tewksbury had seen il coming and had
si~destepped. He couldn't be found, though
the Sheriff searched long. Nor did he
leave any property, though he had onoe
owned a splendid house at 20 West Seventy
second street, and many fine horses, in
Guiding the famous racers Robert j. and
John r. Gentry.
Mexico got Tewksbury next. He made
money there, toe Of course. II was govern
ment contracts this time. Then his wife
sued him for a divorce. She was a Mrs.
Greenhut, widow of a Peoria d~istiller. She
got her divorce, and two years later Tewks-
bury bobbed up in London with a new
wife, who was Mrs. Violet Aubrey Butler.
Both she and Tewksbury were arrested
in London on a charge of passing worthless
checks. Last spring Tewksbury's former
wife had him arrested and tried on a charge
of stealing from her $40, 900 worth of Govern
ment bonds. Nine Of the jury thought he
did il but three thought no man would do
such a thing to his wife, so Tewksbury
got off,