Evening star., 1907-11-09
LITTLE GRAINS OF GOSSIP
FROM OVER NEW YORK WAY
Awakening of Jerome and His
Prompt Retirement.
THAW IN DURANGO VILE
How the Young Prisoner Is Bear
ing His Troubles-Hetty Green
in Wall Street.

Special Correspondence of The Star.
| NEW YORK, November 8.
THE exanimate Jerome. of whom
| we all used 10 brag, emerged
from his studious torpc scence for
| a day or so last week. He beleaguered a
| few naughty-naughties of gambling and
| then other gamboling kinds in the Ten
derloin and Blackwells -Islanded them
| for inConsequential terms. Then he sent
! a telegram or two bearing upon the alb
reption Of Raymond Hitchcock. Finally,
| before relapsing into his customary os-
citancy-his apologists maintain that
this celebrated faineant Is victim OF
the sleeping disease. whatever that may
be-Jerome convicted an aged man
named Gillette OF perjury. This decrep
perjurar was involved. in minor degree.
in the late insurance scandals say
late because the insurance scandals
are dead and buried in fact, and seem
destined to be legally inhumed. perpet-
ually and absolutely, so far as Jerome is
concered The aged Gillette was a sort
of confidential clerk for Richard McCurdy
the yawning member of the routed 'hsuf
ance triumvirate-if you care ID can d
man routed who is living permanently
in Paris with half a hundred servants 10
answer his bell. At the Hughes lnsur-
ance investigation the old GilettH lark
on oath. testified as he was told by ms
'.higher-ups'' to testify. That means, In
essence that he lied as he was told TO
lie. He was very old and feeble and II D
had a considerable family and he was
used to his lifelong subordlnatlon.aho
so he lied. Jerome put him on triai TO-
perjury and got him. the poor OLD MN
now of the pool last week. 1t gave the
town a sort of jerky. unpleasant laugh
that conviction o. the decrepit Gillette
The town teens with sure-enough lnsur-
ance scandalizers-the top-s,de klnd. VINO
got the arm-ache from hauling down the
sUa9 They walk their dalliant way
blowing cool smoke-rings at the world
in general, impudent in their unhampered
affluence And this old man. crushed and
tossed aside his allegiance unrewarded
his loyalty scorned. is thrust into chill
6xs, probably to die-for he Is In the hnal
stages of broken senility-
To synchronize with this. they auctioned
off. last week, the $3Oo.0W worth OF BIZ
fouterie wherewith that same Richard
McCurdy ornamented his suite or rooms
in the insurance building. You would
have been surprised to see this stuf You
would perhaps have reached the conciu-
sion, looking upon IT. as many others
did that the man who surrounded him.
self with such sumptuously inappropriate
gear must during the later years of his
incumbency, as boss of a huge insurance
outfit have suffered from the thing called
delirium OF grandeur. There was a req
and gold throne. for example. upon which
this trusted man of business was wont
to sit when he felt particularly regal and
imperious-a pretty toy for man. sup
posititious business man. having the
handling o. the savings Of tens of thou
sands of frugal people. yes? Then there
were several splendid busts in bronze and
marble of Caesar, the sublime Julius.
Jaf a crrS9t1V ADMIRED OF NC
Curdy. The spittoOns were of gold fili-
gree The rugs were made on PERSIAN
looms that shuttled back and forth IN
Omar's time. The tapestries were, some
bought this stuff. and laughed over the
circumstances that brought about their
dispersal. A careless time and care
less town..
A Visit With Thaw.
Within the week 1 have seen Harry
Thaw and Evelyn Thaw. Thaw. reading
some letters in the Tombs courtyard,
looked fat. waxy, cell-bloated, prison-pale.
The odd light that always was in this
mans eyes still is there. 1t is the express
sion of a man hunted But he had it be-
fore ever he shot White. His face is
peevish and vaguely feminine. The dis
contented, exacting. quarrelsome faces of
American girls-Thaw's countenance al
ways fetches them before my mind. The
ruined young man is fiabby-looking and
run down, fo- all his waxy fatness. He
became intensely wroth when he read
that piece of Lombrosos in which the
Italian 'alienist' t''-whatever that fs-de-
clared. from long range, that Thaw is in
sane. Insane Thaw may be, but how
could Lombroso know 1t? Thaw stormed
over that piece Of charlatanesque writing
of Lombroso's, tore the paper into bits
and raved angrily, as. indeed. who would
not to become the victim of a long-ranSe
'alenist?"
Thaw was very angry, too. to hear and
read of the way the ''noble' English
family into which his sister married is
that family on account of the scrape her
brother is in. THE hounds is the way
Thaw alluded to them-I heard him say
that.
But. sane or insane, Thaw has made a
good prisoner and a game one. He is TAX
ing his medicine like little man He has
done a good deal for lot of other pris-
oners in whom he has become interested
paid for their trials. provided them with
ways and means, looked after them.
Molinaux by the way. had the temerity
to call at the Tombs a while back for the
express purpose of seeing Thaw' Thaw
emphatically declined to receive Molineux.
Tell him to go to the devil" was his
L
I am not Molineux''-whatever he could
have meant by that MolineuX, at all
events was clever enough to get out of
his scrape, whereas the impatient Thaw
still Is in duranCe. In durance he bids
fair to remain. to listen to the forecaste~s.
1t is said to be most obviously on the
cards that he will be declared insane and
put away as one in that condition. Then.
after a lapse of some years the world
having forgotten-well well, these things
are done in and around little old New
York.
Evelyn Thaw has become a wisp. a
wrath. She was riding about in a han
som cab shopping when I saw her. May
Mckenzie, her inseparable comrade, was
with her. Evelyn looks like the ghost of
the once pretty and engaging girl. She
would weigh. one guesses. about eighty
five or ninety pounds. Her face is hag-
gard, colorless. She looked careless as to
her dress. There was no sparkle in her once
velvety eyes. A dismal story this bust
ness. and one of the most distressful
phases of it is that in December it is all
to be gone over again, when the second
trial takes place
That Naughty "Niagara."
Howard Gould surrounded by a
group, was laughing saturninely in the