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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-20
CITY NOT CONFISCATING GAS.
Advised to Fay 80 Per Cent. or Brooklyn
Union Co.'S ClRiu4 Pending Settlement.

The Brooklyn Union Gas Company, which
has the contract for lighting the streets of
Brooklyn, has appealed to the city authori-
ties for payment of at least a part Of the
money the city owes it. The company is one
Of those with which the municipal gov
refused to make a contract for
public lighting in July, 1905, on the ground
that there was collision in the bidding
and that the prices charged were too high.
As a public service corporation the COM
pany had to go On lighting the streets, and
the only remedy il had in the way of recov-
ering money from the city was 10 sue and
prove that its charges were reasonable.
Then again last July the new gas law. pro-
viding for a charge Of 10 cents a thousand
feet to private consumers and Is cents for
public lighting, Vent into effect, and the con
stitutionslity of that act is being tested by
the gas con panies.
The company claims about 100000 for
city lighting for the period between July l..
1906, and October /, 1908, and foresees
financial difficulties IL IL is CON PEELED to
continue supplying ms TO Brooklyn for an
indefinite period without any pay.
Mr.. O'Brien sought the advice of Corpo-
ration Counsel Ellison. Yesterday Mr.. Eli
o sent an opinion 10 the Commissioner to
the effect that he might safely pay 80 per
cent of the company's claims, providing
the payment was accepted without preju-
dice 70 either side in the pending litigation,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-20
HOPES ~ MR.. PLrWMEWS WILL
That the Estate WIZ Be LARGE some nay
Than when Tie Died.

John F. Plummer. who died on December
10. left a will, filed for probate yesterday :
dist his estate among his sons
Franklin A., Howard A.. and John +. Plum
mer. who are also named a. executors
with full power to dispose of the estate
in accordance with what they kno TO
rave been his views.
The sons are directed by the will To repay
to Albert +. Plummer. their uncle, a loan
Of 8 900, which their father saws was can
cellsd bv his brother in a kind and hrotheriy
spirit, but which forms an obligation that
he testator considered in honor binding
In naming his sons as executors Mr. Plum
mer wrote:
MY confidence in their integrity. ability
and loval affection to their mother and
sist ers leads me TO place this trust in their
hands. Nv executors will at all times,
I feel sure, give full and deserved love,
attention and devotion to my beloved
and devoted wife, their mother, giving her
such protection and comforts during her
life as nav be possible and practicable
Bv another clause he expressed a hope
that his est ate would enable tho sons to
make a cash payment TO Mrs. Plummer
of $40. 900 for her judicious use" and later
to set apart $50, 600 to be held in trust for
her. Of which the income is to he paid her
for life. On her death the money IL TO
revert to the children.
1T is nv confident hope" wrote Mr..
Plummer also, that my lawsuit for SER
vices rendered by agreement against
Joseph II. Hoadlcy and the Internal ional
Power Company, Of which he Is president,
when settled by due course Of law or other
wise will yield a large sum OF money 10
nv estate, to be used for the benefit OF
nv wife, Emily +. Plummer, and all my
children and their then living issue.
81 nave further and like hopes a. to
substantial benefts to come from my m
terests in Alaska, o undergoing reor-
CaniZation. This is TO come from orthrough
INV friend Thomas =. Newell. or his sons,
as promised me, for long and loyal service
and cooperation in our mutual interests.
See recent letters from Mr.. Newell.
THE same conditi ions apply 10 my inter
ests with the Right Honorable LorN Thur
low, Privy Councillor. of SO Egerton Cres-
cent, London, s. w, England. See recent
INV life insurance Of $40 1000 should
furnish money for immediate wants. Other
interests may materialize
He expressed a hope also that his sons
would see their way to giving 1000 eaoh
70 Charles s. Milliken and DR.. Bralnerd II.
Whitbeck, sons-in-law. Inc VIII con-
Our experience of the past few years
is posi- i've reminder of the great imports uce
Of wise economy at all times and in every
way acting Independently in all personal
matters Of ANYBODY or their opinions.
The will, which was filed by Dos Passos
Bros, attorneys for the executors, was
executed az Observation-Disclosures on
july ? last. Mr.. Plummer failed in business
in 1890.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-20
LAW DRIVES Art TO COVER.
BASE TRADE HAS BEATTY nan
ISHED FROM TIRE CASUAL VIEW.

Models In Art School In Fourteenth street
Must Not Display Themselves In the
windows and Maybe They're Not
ain anyhow the Crowd Has Zone.
Art got a bunch yesterday afternoon
that she ought TO withdraw discreetly
from the wide second story windows of the
Thomas School of Illustrating at . West
Fourteenth street. The temporary injunc-
ton granted by Justice O'Gorman to the
Bedell Company-a firm that soils women's
cloaks and suits across the street from the
art school and which asserts that il has
been gravely displeased by the throngs
of art lovers that spend the Afternoon and
evening with backs TO the Bedell show
windows. was served on Benjamin +.
Thomas before his afternoon classes had
assembled.
Consequently the tall model named Efie,
who is said to eat lemons all day to attain
the internally troubled expression Of the
Gibson girl Of commerce, had to do her
posing IN a baok room, and Maude, the
Christy girl with the tin skirts, had nothing
TO do at all except to keep her %pompadour
from being ruf led by the ceiling. Both
Enie and Msude said they we're in the origi-
nal -Florodora" sextet.
Prof. Thomas in the meantime carried
on telephone negotiations with repre-
sentativcs Of the camera squad, 30 that an
interested public Of art lovers could learn
from the papers that publish pictures
viii accompanying text how innocent
the school is of wrongdoing.
Say, il we amt got them wax fgger
girls in the windows across the street sold
cred to the third rail, I'll go back to dramatic
art" declared Maude. "All we do here is
to stand near the window with a lot of lights
on us snd posing just like we do for Dana
Dana Gibson, ~yknow-for the black and
white class. Sometimes we're rugged up
in circus clothes-but mostly we'rc in dee
collytay evening harness for the class in
fashion draw ing.
Far be it from me to talk like | was a
hit with myself, but just betW cen friends
I'll say it amt the glad rags tina blocks
traffic over the way. Why, when / Joined
the original 'FlorodoIa' sextet in Gin
climates l said to Fisher:
" Fisher. l gotta have stage clos like
I'm used to wearing in my owl social set
at home in Poughkeepsie, or | don't go in
the sextet.'
my dear Maude,'" says Fisher. Won
could go out on the stage IN an old Mother
hubbard and get your picture in the Sun
day paper three weeks r!nning.' After
the first night none Of the sex et was
speaking to me.
And now, when I've left the stage for
something genteel, il makes me sore to
think anybody objects because a lot OF
men stand across the street and miss their
dinner to watch re. But the wornen's
cloak sellers didn't like IL, and 70 one day
up comes two sad cops and tells Prof
Thomas for heavens sake to pull down
the shades. We all told the cops to honk
away, and while passing the BedeIl shop
to tell the boss to pull doNn his oW n shades
over the wax ladies in his window.
We went right on here making art-us
as Japanese butterflies one night and Car
mencita another and sometimes as Indians
when along comes their legal gent with a
typewriter library telling how many kinds
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-20
RECEIVERS FOR WIRE COMPANY.
New Haven Concern Unable TO Meet Notes
Duc TO Holding Company.

New HAVEN. Dec. 1.-Two receivers
we're appointed to-day for the National
Wire Corporation Of this city on the appli-
cation Of the National Steel and Wire Com
pany of Portland. Me, the holding company
for the local concern, on the allegation that
the New Haven corporation owes the hold
ing company between two and three million
dollars.
Henry L. Hotchkiss, president of the L.
Candee Rubber Company, in this city, and
a director in the United States Rubber
Company. and Leroy Clark of New York,
president of the Maine were
named by Judge Thayer as receivers. Each
gave a bond OF $50 900.
The company employs 1000 hands and
started in business in 1898, being organized
under the laws of Connecticut. In the petit
ton for the appointment of a receiver the
plaintiff alleged that the defendant owed
many notes long overdue in addition to
obligations about to mature.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-20
PILES CURED IN q TO "a DAYS.

PAZo OINTMENT Is guaranteed TO cure any
case Of Itching. Blind. Bleeding or Prolr-dtng pilos
N ITO u days or money refunded. S0a-Ads.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-20
w. u. Murphy ChanIer's Secretary.

Lieut. Gov. ELECT Chanler announced last
night that he had selected w. b. Murphy
of Medina for his private secretary. Mr..
Murphy is chairman of the Democratic
committee of Orleans county. He was for
several years a man in Buffalo
and became private secretary TO W. J.
Corners when Mr.. Corners was elected
chairman Of the Democratic State com
mittee. As a rule the secretary to the Lieu
tenant Governor serves only during the
session of the Legislature, but Mr.. Chanler
said last night that Mr.. Murphy would be
associated with him continuously during
his term of office.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-20

Payson, president Of the students. ~organiza-
ton, the entire engineering school and COLI
lege marched through the newly annexed
campus giving yells and singing.
In the evening the students again met
before the library and with torches and
a band marched through the Schwab estate.
stopping at the site of Fort No. 8, wbers
speeches were made. Then came a bonfire
and a feed.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-20
CoI. Cotton for Collector OF Customs at
Manila.

WASHINGTON, Dec. Is.-Col. George r.
Cotton, now head of the customs service
Of Santo Domingo, has been made Collector
of Customs at Manila by the Philippines
Commission He held the place prior to
his transfer TO Santo Domingo. When the
existing arrangement for the collection
of Dominican venue was made President
Morales OF Santo Domingo asked President
Roosevelt TO designate some American to
take cha rye of the work. Col. Cotton was
selected. II is not known who will succeed
him in Santo Domingo.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-20
Loving Cup for Judge RosalsLy.

Over seven hundred members. or prac-
tically the entire Lincoln League, as the
Republican organization in the Eighth As
sembly district is known, Toasted and made
merry at the Broadway Central Hotel last
night in honor of the election Of their col
league, Otto A. Rosalsky, TO the General
Sessions bench. Charles II. Murray was
POSTMASTER and on behalf Of the Lincoln
League presented Judge Rosalsky with Q
silver loving cup.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-20

BOSTON. Dec. la.-Eire this morning
destroyed the studio building at ia andife
Iremon street. causing a loss roughly esti-
mated at $40 goo. NJ
The studios, occupied by many of Boz
tons well known artists, contained many
valuable works, which we're destroyed.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-20
UNIVERSITY BOYS CELEBRATE
Over the CIT Of tie Schwab FstaIe-Gheers
for MacCrscken.

The students at New York University
showed yesterday their appreciation Of Chan
cellcr MacCrlcken's efforts which resulted in
the gft of the Schwab estate TO the univer-
sity | , hearty applause at the chapel exer-
cises. When DR.. MacCracken appeared in
the chapel every student cheered. The
Chancellor responded by a short historical
sketch. After the exercises the student
body gathered before the libra ~. where
cheer after cheer was given for the Chan
The L'Anse sentinel., 1906-09-15

rault the most annoyance by the per-
sistency of his infatuation was Kesler.
He would not hesitate to make love
anywhere He showered kisses as
well as presents upon Mrs. Verrault.
When dining out he could not restrain
himself In falling upon his knees at
her feet and kising her hand. He
would write the most gushing love let
ters of all the group OF infatuated
dupes.
II find myself speaking your name
when l awake" he would write, and
then go into raptures over her beauty.
The burning love missives were a
source of much merriment at the daily
cabinet sessions of the love troupe.
Actor Keene would read them with
the greatest gusto and accentuate the
most tender passages. Keen said the
letters could be made into thrilling
love drama, and he had good mint
to do 1t himself.
The Wall street broker, F. j. Syme
whose name was used In connection
with the fuel scheme, was an unwill
ing victim, 1t is said, Of the syndicate
He fell in with the fuel idea, believing
that the company had acres Of fertile
The L'Anse sentinel., 1906-09-15
STOMACH PAINS
Or. WIIlIams' Pink Pills Brought Re-
lief. and Cure for Splitting
Headaches as Well.

DR.. Williams Pink Pills, remedy
which has been before the American peo-
pie for generation, is still accomplish
ing wonderful results as is evidenced by
the following interview with Mrs. Ra-
chael Gardner. Of Wilsey, Kans.
cit was very strange" she says, II
never could tell what caused 1t and
neither could anybody else. For long
time had bad spells with my stomach.
The pain would commence about my
heart and was 30 deadly agonizing that
would have to scream aloud. Sometimes
it would last several hours and would
have to take laudanum to stop it. Be-
sides this had headache almost con-
stantly, day and night, that nearly crazed
me, so You see suffered great deal.
And when I think of the agony I en-
dured it still makes me shudder.
Doctors did you say? Their medi-
cine made me sicker. couldn't take it
and kept growing worse until friend
advised me to take DIR. Williams Pink
Pills, and I did. I began to feel better
and was soon wholly converted to this
wonderful medicine. 1t did me more
good than had ever hoped for. kept
OIL with the pills and now recommend
them to all who suffer-"
DR.. Williams Pink Pills have cured
severe cases Of indigestion, bloodlessness,
influenza, headaches, backaches, lum-
bago, sciatica, neuralgia, nervousness
and spinal weakness. The genuine DIR.
Williams Pink Pills are guaranteed to
he free from opiates or any harmful
drugs and cannot injure the mos. delicate
system. At all druggists, or from the
DIR. Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady,
NY, postpaid OH receipt of price, 50
cents per box, six boxes for $3.50.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1906-09-15

| land IN Kentucky. He called at the
love palace many times to get point
ers about fuel. 1t Is said that the
broker invested considerable money
in the scheme.
Mrs. verrault Had
Real Love Affair.
Among the real love affairs that
Mrs. Verrault was interested in was
greatly attached to him. One day
after he had failed to call around and
see her at her Boston home she went
to his Office and created scene. The
lawyer ordered her out. The next day
Mrs. Verrault was taken to hospital.
Her nerves were all unstrung and it
was alleged she had taken bichloride
Of mercury in an effort to end her
life. -/
Mcclellan, the Philadelphia, has
been quite upset because of the fuss
he has caused in having his erstwhile
sweetheart arrested. The next day
after Mrs. verrault appeared in court
phoned to the West Eighty-second
street mansion. He got Mrs. Brown
on the phone and told her he was
sorry he had caused all the trouble.
II Mrs. Verault would return the pres
ents he had lavished upon her he
would withdraw the charge.
go on, you fool" was the snappy
reply. MRS. Verault doesn't care
what you do"
Mcclellan, the picture of despair,
hung about the house seeking a
chance to speak to his lady love, but
when Mrs. Verrault emerged from the
mansion she swept by him as though
he didn't exist.
The Philadelphia Lover
Kicked Over the Traces
The wall of all the overthrown suit
ors has been that they lost so much
money. 1t is this very thing that
has given Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Ver-
rault such keen delight. In one of her
merry moods Mrs. Verault said:
What a fine spectacle this Is, all
these men having me arrested because
was too sharp for them! They are
fortune-hunters, and Of a very low
type. They are like the foreign no
blemen who come over here to win
rich American girls, but they go 1t on
a cheap scale. They think the Ameri-
can women soft, and all they have to
do Is to look wall-eyed at them and
they will break their necks to hand
them money. They only called be-
cause they wanted to get homes where
they wouldn't have to work. really
think that / have done service to
American women in showing these
brutes up.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1906-09-15
SECOND HAND MAIL BOXES.
Why q Little Village May Have Big
Numbers In Its Post Office.

The man who was spending his
summer vacation in the country was
looking quizzically at the mail boxes
In the rural post Office.
II did not know this was such q
large place." he said. II thought 1t
had population of only about 1000,
but the mail box numbers run much
higher than that, and I don't suppose
every one in town rents box either"
The postmaster peered out Of his
little barred window.
II can explain that" he said. "You
see the country post Offices never
get new boxes, but we have those
left over when the city establishments
make over their Offices and get new
boxes. So you see lots Of country
places are bound to have high num-
Der boxes.
Although our numbers run over
1000. you won't find any less than
1000, some other country post Office
drew the lower ones. I myself would
rather get the big numbers, for 1t
makes us seem like bustling little
city"
The L'Anse sentinel., 1906-09-15

tages than he was able to afford sent
her to New York. Mrs. Browns
scheme to marry the girl to New
Yorker Of wealth was given rude
shock when the girl eloped with a
man she really loved. She met her
husband while attending regimental
ball to which Mrs. Brown had taken
her
Gregory Allen. who was one of the
buffers in the Brown-verrault house
hold, knew this young man and intro
duced him to the blue-eyed beauty.
1t was love at first sight. Three
months from the day of the meeting
Miss Mason broke away from ths in.
fiuencs of the love combine. Gregory
Allen had been very much smitten
with Miss Mason himself. When she
jilted him he got bravely over It and
Cell In love with Mrs. Browns daugh-
The L'Anse sentinel., 1906-09-15

generous tip came Keene's way. The
enraptured suitors of Mrs. Brown and
Mrs. Verrault regarded him as the
court jester. Gregory Allen, who was
an amateur sculptor, became asso-
ciated with the matrimonial trick
sters through his acquaintance with
George T. verrault, husband Of the
pretty brunette. He donned a uni
form and helped Keene in his job
as butler. Mrs. Browns four broth
ers helped In many ways to keep the
syndicate going.
George Mason was one of the pro-
moters of the famous Kentucky Fuel
and Alcohol company, which was one
of the side issues of the syndicate.
He made his father-in-law, William
d. Angel, of Chicago. vice president
of the concern without asking the
old gentleman's consent. When the
The L'Anse sentinel., 1906-09-15
DASHING WOMEN OPERATE
LOVE SYNDICATE in NEW YORK
WINSOME widows" SPIDER WEB CAUGHT ONE HUN
DRED RICH DUPES WHO WALKED INTO
1T WILLINGLY.
One Of the Victims Told His Story to the District Attorney
and the Syndicate Came to Untimey End
Secured 100000 While 1t Worked.

/ ter Lillian. 1t is said they are en-
gagged to be married.
Dashing Leading Spirit
Of the Love Trust.
Mrs. Brown, the guiding spirit OF
the love enterprise, is forty-two years
old and has had Kaleidoscope ca
reer. Her deep hazel eyes have
bewitching and dangerous softness.
She has a subtle grace and dignity.
Her hair Is of the blazing peroxide
variety. Tall and with a strikingly
symmetrical figure, she Is woman
who would Immediately attract atten-
ton. There is a shrewd cast in her
countenance, but 1t is tempered by
the melting languor of her eyes.
1t is easy to see from an observa-
tion of Mrs. Brown how she was able
to hold men in her clutches. She Is
a woman of keen wit, brisk con-
versationalist and one quick to take
advantage of every slight opportunity.
With her suitors she has been by
turns affectionate, adoring, gracious
and stern. She has a heart of steel,
but her admirers never suspected it
until they were violently Tilted.
Mrs. Verrault is woman of a
softer type. Her deep dark eyes, rosy
complexion and beautifully moulded
face give her an atmosphere of daz-
thirty, yet she has broken hearts ga
lore. Her chestnut-brown tresses con-
tribute to her bewitching beauty. In
manner she is the opposite Of Mrs.
Brown. She Is at once impulsive,
summing and lovable 1t Is said that
Mrs. Verrault actually fell in love
with few Of her admirers, but she
held herself in check because to love
was not one of the principles of the
extraordinary matrimonial syndicate
All her witcheries and graceful tricks
of manner and speech were put forth
| to lead her victims on to their doom
Youths Helped Along
the Game of Cupid
The youths who helped along the
! tricks of the love trust were scarcely
out of their teens. Robert Emme
Keene, who for some time played
small parts In Proctor's stock com
pany, was the old dest of the Group
He was quick to see the opportunity
offered by the matrimonial enterprise
when first he was introduced into the
household. Promptly giving up his
stage career, he entered into the af
fairs of the syndicate with all the
fervor of his ardent spirit.
In his position as butler many O
The L'Anse sentinel., 1906-09-15

New York.-If Robert Emmet
Keene, actor. wit and adviser In the
court OF love operated by Mrs. Izella
Brown and Mrs. George T. Verrault
had not used bad judgment and lei
James v. MacClellan, the obscure
Philadelphia grocer, into the West
Seventy-third street mansion. all the
fuss about the love syndicate might
have been avoided. 1t was Keene
who used to determine which OF the
eager applicants for love honor should
come In. When he passed favorably
upon MacClellan he let in the man
who, when ruthlessly rejected by the
charming Mrs. Verrault, promptly
went to the United States district
attorney.
The extent to which the love syn
dicate operated has amazed the dis
trict attorney. II is calculated that
in the three years during which the
combine ensnared its victims more
than 100000 was taken from them.
A census of the dupes shows that
they range from prosperous store
owners to millionaire Wall street
fnanclers. Probably one hundred of
them walked into the spider web.
Four women figured in the active
work of the love trust Mrs. Brown,
shrewd and fascinating, was the
schemer who kept the syndicate afloat.
writer. 1t was she who sent the cap
tivating love missives that won the
hearts of the susceptible dupes. She
attended to the correspondence of
both herself and Mrs. Brown.
Daughter and Niece
EE as Side Attractions.
The golden-haired daughter of Mrs.
Brown was conspicuous member OF
the combination. She did not make
love to any of the men nor receive
their attentions, but ii was handy to
have her around as milady's maid
The same interesting role was as
sumed by Mrs. Browns beautiful
niece, Miss Mary Mason. To the
credit of Mrs. Brown, 1t may be said
that she watched these two damsels
with the eye of hawk and never
permitted the slightest indiscretion sc
far as they were concerned. The two
girls when not engaged in the palace
of love had the time of their lives In
going about the country with Mrs
Brown.
The niece Is the daughter of a
struggling Boston storekeeper He al
ways held high regard for his sis
ter, and feeling that she could pro-
vide his daughter with better advan.