The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-22
TEWKOBURY'S DREAM
 PALACE.
More Than Nine Days Wonder Even
 in New YOrk-Owner Had Meteoric

GuFeGFs
 Lewis G. Tewksbury, financier with a spectacular career in several of the worlds capitals, was arrested in this city yesterday on an old indict- ment for grand larcency, held against him in New York. Tewksbury, who was fashionably attired, seemed undis- turbed by his ordeal, and expressed the opinion that the matter would be amicably settled in a few days. He is slim and tall, and his youthful appear ance is hardly in keeping with his sensational career and worldwide travels.
 The man first came into prominence as the head of the banking firm of Lewis G. Tewksbury & Co. New York He had been graduated into Wall Street from a clerkship in a drug store in Manchester, N. H., and he devel- oped into one of the most daring spec ulators in the Street. At the height of his career he was reputed to be worth millions. He expenditures were lavish and his tastes extravagant. His New York house was considerably more than nine days wonder, accus- toned as that city is to architectural eccentricities. Although it was an inn posing edifice he modestly spoke Of it shis "bacholor quarters" but others promptly styled it the dream palace" Situated on the north side of the fashionable thoroughfare, this 1 house, a triumph of architectural art, had no windows in front up to the fourth story, the interior being lighted by immense skylight and electric ity. Unique to the verge of grotesque ness were the means resorted to for distributing the needed amount of il- lumination. Cunningly concealed mechanism supplied almost any color of light the fantastic whim of the moment might demand. In the bed- room of the owner artificial moonlight shed soft mellow rays upon the slum- berer. Tewsksbury always confessed a peculiar weakness for the romance of the mystic moon.
 As the visitor entered the ornamen- tai door of this residence he was es- corted by the butler to the saddle room. This apartment was filled with an inexhaustible collection of beauti- full accountrements of a gentleman stables, besides quaint and curious yokes and sadles of ancient and mod
 ern make. Here one left hat and
 stick.
 Beyond was the Roman garden, pro-
 fusely stocked with tall palms and rare
 tropical exotics, in the midst of which
 fountain kept up it's interminable
 musical plashing. Upstairs the thirtsS
 guest was regaled at strictly up-to-
 date and handsome bar, as complete
 even in the most minute detail, as thai
 discovered in a fashionable cafe. Ar
 expert barkeeper was always on hand
 to mix new and frequently wierd con
 coctions calculated to please the nov
 elty-seeking palate.
 In the basement was a wine cellal
 modelled after a celler in famous Eu
 ropeau monastery. It contained row'
 upon rows of the finest vintages.
 But in Tewksbury's bedroom crystal
 lized the wonderful realization of al
 Arabian Nightss dream of voluptu ousness Besides the mimic moor there was an important bed of i'm mense cost, sufficiently indicative of al extreme of luxury to invite the repos of a sultan. Other accessories wer
 in keeping.
 , His bathroom was the fit abode of sybarite. The bath was cut from tn
 solid marble and sunk in the flool From silver faucets there steamed ; besides crystal water of various tenn peratures, rare perfumes.
 . In the drawing rooms, library an . other chambers magnificent works o
 art were exhibited without end, whic
 it was estimated at the time had cos
 the owner no less than $1,0000O0. Tn house itself was supposed to be c f equal value, although it brought, but I fraction of that sum when subse
 quently sold to satisfy creditors z Tewksbury entertained lavishly, an a his musicales were considered epoch l marking events in the lives and ad S ventures of the favored few who wer s invited to partake of his hospitality.
 After time Tewskbury's bushes methods began to be questionable, an l as a result he was forced to sell hi r seat in the Consolidated Stock ES Ii change. In 1900 his firm failed an e he disappeared from New York, leaN e ing debts estimated at from $4OO,O - to $1, ,O00, ,OO0 His marital affairs wei e as romantic as his business career. Il
 was married twice. His present vii q obtained a divorce after he disaI @ peared from New York. He the . married Mrs Mary Gills Greenhu S widow of a well-known whiskey mel n chant. Upon her death he remarrie
 his first wife fin London, She WE @ then the widow of Guy T. Butler, a !, Indian fighter and war correspondent n who at one time was a partner o Tewksbury's enterprises in Mexit lea Her maiden name was Violet Aubre ), She was an actress and a native r California. Tewksbury says she is
 Paris with her mother.-Philadelph d Ledger.
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