The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-12-05
0. HAYEMEYER DEAD
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Office in Wall street, as regularly as one
day followed another. at $50 A. NJ, and
he seldom closed his desk before o in the
evening. H. was while in his Office in the
spring of 1897 that he was arrested on n
charge Of contempt of court in refusing To
answer certain questions put to him by
members Of a committee from the United
States Senate appointed to investigate the
methods OF the sugar trust. Upon this
charge he was placed on trial before Justice
Bradley in Washington on May rs, 1897.
A verdict OF acqUittal was ordered.
Mr.. Havemeyer was married twice. His
second wife, still living. was Louisine
Waldron Elder. sister Of Mrs. Samuel T.
Peters and Of Mrs. Henry Norcross Mum.
His town house was at I Eas. Sixtv-siXth
street, and he had a country home, Palmer's
Hill, at North Greenwich. He owned the st.
Paul Building At Ann. street and Broadway
and the building at the corner of Prince
street and Broadway, where the old Metro
politan Hotel once stood. A few years q
MIR. Havemeyer added to his holdings OF real
estate nv buying the old home of Gen.
Grant. which adiOined the Havemeyer
town house on the east. For this Mr.. Have
meyer paid $50 600. He also owned the old
BlATr0 lOfhlATu InADSiOh az Fllth dNNIlNAT
and Thirty-sixth street.
His real estate hobby. however. was
down on the shore Of Great South Bay.
just south Of Islip. on what is known as
Bsyberry Point. Mr.. Havemeyer bought
about a hundred acres Of land down there.
and under the direction of Nathan +.
Barrett, a landscape architect, he spent
a large sum in improving il. The land
- lgsA-I s~A. Nnn villa EfNAa
and through the property two canals.
one of them 2.1OO feet long and $50 feet
wide and the other loo feet long and 800
feet vide, were dug. These canals give
everv villa a direct water route to the bay.
Because OF these ms and because all
the houses as they were built were 10 be
Of Venetian style the place was called
the Modern Venice"
Mr.. Havemeyer gave much to charity
and he made frequent gifts to the town Of
Greenwich. One of these was a school
house which cost $3.50, 900, and another
was an organ TO the First Presbyterian
Church Of the town, which replaced the
organ given by William NJ. Tweed.
Mr.. Havemeyer was near death in 1897,
when he was stricken with appendicitis
at his Greenwich home. Two years ago.
while ON a Western trip with his family, he
visited che Portland mine at Cripple Creek.
Col. An explosion occurred so near the
partv that his daughter Alkaline was cut
and bruised and tho other members Of the
family narrowly escaped.
Merrivale, where Mr.. Havemeycr dice
was his favorite place for rest and secfusiOn
and for the hunting 1t Afforded. The estate
comprises about 500 acres. which was mostly
wild woodland when Mr.. Havemeyer bought
il a few years ago. He then stocked the
widest parts WITH quail and imported
game birds OF various kinds. and had part
| of it cleared on for a toe farm. The
house on the place is a small stone lodge with
no p~retentiOns to style, but is deliberately
furnished.
AT Merrivale Mr.. Havemeyer kept several
valuable brood mares, and there are
at present a number OF promising colts.
He bred for road purposes only, and had
good results. BE bred much fancy stock
at his Greenwich place, where his fancy
cattle, horses and SouthdOwn sheep have
always attracted much attention. He ex-
hibited at the fancy stock shows, and was
occasionally an exhibitor at the Horse Show.
| A few years ago he bought h fast team
Of trOtters, Harrietta and Miss Ida, which
went a mile In 7:1SA over a dead truck.
The American Sugar Refining Company.
largely the creation OF Mr.. Havemeyer.
and formed in 1897 as the Sugar Reflneries
Company. TO control the majority of the
sugar refining plants in the United States,
has interests in the National Sugar Retin-
ing Company and is said to have acquired
an interest in the American Beet Sugar Com
pany. The company owns more than twenty
! Eve reineries In New York, Brooklyn.
Jersey City. Philadelphia. Boston. New
Orleans. Sc. Louis. Portland. Ore. and San
Francisco. In 1909 Il manufactured Sl.Os
per cent. Of the sugar consumed in the
United States. II has %. 900. 900 preferred
and s4s.ooo.ooo common stock. Mr.. Have