New-York tribune., 1906-12-20
TEWKSBURY REDIVITUS.
Former Druggist, Broker, Banker,
Etc. No1c IN Hotel Business.

Lewis C. Tewksbury, whose financial ups and
downs have been extensive, into the lime
light last night of the proprietors of a
Broadway hotel Respiendent in a dinner jacket
of latest mode, with handsome pearls in his i'm
naaculate shirt bosom, Mr.. Tewksbury stroled
gracefully around the corridors of the Gilsey
House and admitted coyly that he had inter
est in the company that controlled the hotel.
Questions about his financial past and future he
waved away as immateTisL
The former exhibitor at horse shows denied with
some slight variation OF his usual serene calm
that he was merely the manager of the hotel
81 an not the manager OF the hotel" said he
Henry 5. Duncan is the manager, and he has
been for some time II Is perfectly true. however,
that John p. Douthitt, importer Of decorative
material at No 273 Fifth avenue, whom l have
known for twenty years, has acquired the control
ling interest of the Broadway Hotel Company
which controls the Gsey House and several
important hotels, and in which am Interested
/ shall live here and be here all the time
The broadway Hotel Company organized
last August Mr.. Tewksbury's statement was IN
terpreted by those who knew Of his former nhah-
ciaI transactions as his delicate way OF saying that
NJ Do,rhitr had financed this latest scheme of the
fertile Drained promoters.
M Tewksbury's last appearance on the public
stage was when he sued last May for some
$1,000 worth OF bonds which his first wife, Mary
Mills Cireenhut, who divorced him. said he mad
stolen from her He was arrested at Philadelphia
where he had been living at the BelleVue-StFat-
ford after having been intimate friend or
Adolpb SegaI VINO was arrested for eTnbezzlement
ia Connection with the Wrecklng or the ReaI t-s-
tsre IrIIst Company, OF that city.
To,ylrzbIry came TO this city from Ala1iCIlesleL'
~ ~ where he was a druggist In lsse- he De
ceyna a member of the Consolidated t-ACiiiSllse,
oTaned large banking Offices where he palo 4IpeiaI
Sterasts on deposits, took huge plunges IN stochs
sT5 Lived the life OF q OF millions he oWilsu
. an stable OF trotting horses. among them John
p Centrv and Joe Patchen kept blooded ouIQoss'
erd had house II No. 2S West lzd street WAIcLl.
DiIed full OF art objects, with huse HteIioI coL1
and a running fountain. was the tax OF the Town,
a. enterraiued Literally, but his nnanclaI NERVOUS
did moi suit some persons, ana ne SOLO ms
shin I'M the Consolidated Exchange IN 1883 ne sou
RE house for some 100000 and the horSes 1oI
s10o ClO and IN 1900 he disappeared Later ne Wda
dis@oyered IN Mexico doing large ana seemingly
Sof+abIs ha mixing business there, under the name
of T0uis Thorne he did business with tne Ae4I AeAl
car government, amassed fortune anu ssl11eo
his debts here $500, 80 .-.a-a5
rusiDegs there This fact was learned only because
IN, 1g0S he married Miss Violet Aubrey bnIsfs a
former wife OF mis-. who had been divorced ana anu
later married Guy Butler, an Inolan ngAlSE aLi1
war correspondent whom subsequently she III ~
vorcad When Tewksbury married her foE tne sec
ond time she was said to be worth $4,000; IA
London, in November of last year both IewksD4Iy
and she We're arrested the charge OF paSSsns
worthless checks. but were released on Dali dI5.
Butler TeWksbury subsequently aIrestS1 III
Paris on an extradition warrant, after Ie"KsDuIy
had come this country again.
The restaurant has been taken over by ColalzZ
4, FOrnara, who will make specially OF aLteI
theatre suppers- IL VIII be under the direct
management OF Carlo Cometti