The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-07-14
NEW YORK
MISCELLANY
A Southern Negro Poses as
of Indian Origin and
Victirnizes Many.
THE DUKE OF ESSEX STREET
AND HIS FLOATING OFFICE,
WHERE MARRIAGES ARE AT
TIMES PERFORMED.


of the day among New York's smart
set now congregated at Newport and
other fashionable resorts is the reve-
lation following the tearing of the mask
OF duplicity from the face OF man
who posed as Antonio Apache, al
legged grandson of the famous Indian
Chief Cochise For a time, the bo-
gus redskin, now known to be ne
gro and the son of former COOK
employed by Mrs. Russell Sage, en-
gagged in Beau Drummer career that
victimized many leading society
people of the metropolitan -four hun
dred" and once made him guest
at a dinner party given by President
Roosevelt.
According to information furnished
by William NJ. Carey, an artist,
"Apache's" real name is Tony Simp
son and he was once resident OF
Louisiana Coming to New York TO
aid his mother in the Russell Sage
kitchen, he attracted much attention
because of his close resemblance 10
the Indian chiefs painted by artists
who have never been west OF Hobo
ken. Simpson was clever, and the
frequent comments On his aboriginal
appearance furnished the inspiration
which later made him society lion.
Going to Arizona, he made a close
study of Indians and their ways, and
later returned to the metropolis to
enter his brief but triumphant so
cial career as the grandson of an
Indian chief.
Floating Law Office.
One of the novel sights to be wit
messed on the East river is float
ing law Office, Joe Levy, a criminal
attorney whose clientele is among
the DEMONS of the East side, and
who is better known as the Duke or
Essex street" has established offices
on a barge that runs from the Correc-
rection dock, at Twenty-sixth street
to Blackwell's island. Not only does
| the duke" undertake to save Grim
| inals from the cIuthes of the law, but
affords a floating haven for Cupid
| by performing marriages on short
notice The barge is made a promi-
nent object on the busy stream by
means of a faring sign which reads:
| FLOATING Law Office Of Joe Levy,
Duke of Essex Street. Marriages
| performed on this boat"
Whale Had Wooden Tail.
| Whether a third interest in whale
with a wooden tail is worth $500 1s
to be settled shortly by the New York
courts. William Muhlig, an engineer
| alleges that he paid that sum TO
| Christ Rebham and August Braun for
share in the big fish upon the as
surance that it was a real dead whale
that cost $4,000 to preserve. Later.
MuhIig asserts, he discovered that
the whale was a fake, that its tail was
made of wood covered with canvass,
that its inner anatomy was COM
posed of iron framework and that
the tongue was made Of cloth stunned
with hay. Unwilling to foist such
an imposition upon the public. Mum
lig brought suit 10 recover the $9OO
he had paid to Rebham and Braun.
A jury before Judge Lynn, in NUM-
cipal court returned a verdict in Ia
vor of the defendants, but the appel
late court has just granted the plain
tiff a new trial. Distinguished attor-
news will appear for both sides and
those for the defense will attempt To
prove that $500 is a very modest ana
reasonable amount to be paid for
third interest in a wooden-tailed mon
ster of the deep
The new trial was granted upon the
allegation that Judge Lynn's charge
to the jury had been unjust and nm
fair and prejudicial to the interests =
of Muhlig In his charge, the justice
said that the day Muhlig accepted
the, whale just as it was. stuffed fun
of straw and plaster; the day that
he put on a gold-trimmed sea cap
| tain's cap and invited the public in.
he was wholly and entirely Il party
| TO the conditions existing, and for
better or worse he cast his fortunes
in with the whale. He cannot come
| into court and recover from a defend
ant on any theory of fraud unless
YOU believe from the testimony that
! fraud was practiced unfairly upon
him without his consent or adnats-
sion"
To Move M~I---i@-
One of the most stupenduous engi-
neering tasks recently undertaken In
New York is that OF moving the
mammoth meteorite, which Robert r.
Peary found in Greenland from its
present resting place on the grounds
of he American Museum Of Natural
History to a place in the hall of me-
teorites This mass of iron weighs
thirty-sev and half tons and IS the
| largest of the kind known. In order
to get into the great lobby Of the
museum, the doors are being thor
oughly braced a solid pier of con
crete has been built in the basement
on a foundation of solid rock. which
will be used as the permanent rest
| ing place of the celestial stone. Ever
since ii was brought to New York the
/ giant meteor has been an object or
| great interest to scientists and lay
men alike and in its new position II
mill a1,,btIocc offract ryaOra affonffoA