New-York tribune., 1907-08-01
" POET LARIAT" SALE.
An old CURIOSITY SHOP"
Nurture Of People and Things at
P{OOdgOOd Cutters Home.

oct as Mdlh INitH Cdile" Aiii.' ~ N''N
"Innocents Abroad is up at public auction ana
the frst days sale occurred yesterday at his farm
in Little Neck. Long Island With everything on
the block from spinning wheels and carriages TO
silver gohlets ard stuffed pheasants. the sale was
remarkable in that # brought S,S15 yesterday into
the Golfers of the estate And at a-S the highest
bid was ONLY SSi a of coral tewelry pur-
chased by Mrs. \. NJ. Mcknight 9. i;ayslde
The gathering of buyers was mixed as the arti-
cles sale From the summer colo lles along
the Long Island shore they came, as ell as from
the farms the neGhbornood Representatives.
Of Fourth avenue antique stores were there also
Taken whole. it was a Sather1ns tIat "ouli
have pleased the poet
The queer crazy. old white house with its ram
bling vcrandas and its long porte cochere, orna-
nented by carved wood eagles and Shields was
turned. for the time, into a circus The side sho"
might be placed the tents across the tree shade1
lawn In two round top tents We're the al l'ie'
oF furniture the mahogany and silver articles IN
laid with pearl They will he put up at &ucuon
to-day, but the crowds yesterday were permitted
and invited to go through the tents and lcoK over
the gems of the Long Island poets collection.
When the sale opened at 10 o'clock Yesterday
morning the grove Of naples and oaks about the
old Cutter home was filed with all sorts OF veh-
cies. from the farm wagon to the latest mode! OK
French motor car. \ great crowd of persons. rang
ing from the Nassau County farmer to the New
Yorker ont at his country place. lined up When u
L. Van Nostrand and S. NJ. Van Allen, the auc-
tioneers. started in on the sleighs and CARRIAGES
with which the barns were filled RUSSIAN
droschky knocked down to A. p Wright; OF
Little Neck. for 81 %, while puns or tal'adlf'il
sleigh. for
After the se;ghs and carriages had been put on
sale in all their shabby many patched decrepitude
the auctioneers turned to the collection of spinning
wheels and churns. These taken away AT
pric-s ranging iron, a fve-ceu1 niece to a dollar
Meanwhile the crowd had been increasing. and the
lawn became black with persons whose motor cars
and carriages filed the grove. The auctioneer then
turned TO the more valuable articles on the list
HIS SAFE HAD SECRET KEYHOLE.
While he was taking these up Richard Smith,
executor of the poets estate. took the newspaper
reporters through the house and showed them the
safe in which the silver found after Mr. Cut
ter's death The safe great iron box studded
with bolts picturesque Mr.. Smith pointed out
the fact that of the bolts was made to slide
the kcyholc and cover it SO that TO the aver
age observer the safe was lacking Keynote or
place of entry
The silver that had been found in the safe was
of all from the fastest output OF modern fac
tories queer hammered pieces from Indian work
shops Among those who picked up bargains was
J. W. Ahles. Of the Produce Exchange. who mo-
tored from his summer place at Bayside and
bought silver gobets at 81 % and two 'toddS
spoons for % cents. The toddy spoons were
unique in that each spoon had hollow handle. 50
that they could be used ''straws' with which 10
suck up the drink if desirable.
After the sale OF the silver the aucton"ers t'"N
uo a lot Of towels and trousers and napkins that
had accumulated under the eccentric poets man
aRerlent. These knocked down In quantl-
tics to secondhand and other dealers.
break in the nonotony came when the poets false
,eeth we're put on sale \ toothless old woman
from Little Neck bid 81 - for them But there
came forward Gus Brown. the o!d gold KING
"a his cards describe him. His place of business
is No 210 Atlantic avenue. lf'Nhi4l. ~ N''
the tooth a bid Of 81 30 and said 20 the report
ers some wealthy Brooklyn citizen will be using
the teeth within week
As the crowd gathered around L seemed there
was no end to the variety of articles that were 20
he sold. Stuffed birds were mixed with bed Quilts
Lid ufters followed quaint Old guns and uniforms
Of the Revolution
II vas known that Mr.. Cutter had been col
leCtor Of dolls, and several women had come from
New York to bid on these. The most 'oriuAa'" was
Mrs Laura b Starr, who Is A magazine writer
She purchased for SO. after some spirited bidding
a group OF dolls representing quitting party.
After she had acquired this cuflo she learned th''
,ho dolls had been especially made 70 produce
r;cture OF a quilting party In which the poets wife,
T-mrneIiue Alien the central HSur". and that
Zach ~ the dolls stood for some OF the
neighborhood. Mrs. Starr said that these queer
which Queen Victoria had n large collection
FARMER GETS TIN RATHTUB FOR CENTS
After these minor curtos. the silverwar" and sim
uar valuable articles came up for sale. The high
est price paid for any offer was $3i. by Mrs a
NJ Mcknight. Of Bayside. for set Of coral
iewelry The lowest payment was for a TIN bath
.ub which went to a Great Neck farmer foT i've
cents The bathtub was shaped Ike coffin. and
was Of the sort used in places where there Is no
running water ,.
II vas quaint sight this auction, for all about
-be head Of the man crying the sales hung rows
Of queer clothes. Uniforms peasant gala coats ana
fasbionaile garments OF century ago rubbed
e,,,oys in the breeze. At last these came TO the
flnclx There was one brown swallo"tail coat mat
the poet had worn on his visit WIN Mark "al's
Russia .o, -, o.,
mobile drew up close to the crowd TN front OF tne
,,o~,b 4 Young man. wearing goggles ana win
his busters collar turned around h'S ears sat
IN tho car inpassvely until the brown coat vas
offered When II was held up he hld ." cents I'I
;. am, =. went to HIM Taking il hurrlediy ana
refusing TO give his name he leaped INT" ihe car
and started Of in hurry. There was fum'r
that he waa a representative or Mark WAN anu
mat fo had come there expressly to buy the coat.
Tn atIuospheye Of a county fair was pronounced
hut Tn. finishing touch came "hen 'nere was d
rr,'nouay A horse owned hy' J. II. Hall OF West
i,,. rad b-en tied to a tree close 10 a statue OF
.,,ro-a carved in wood and taken from IN" Prov
of some old clipper ship. suddenly Inc morse
slipped its moornes and ran OF 'trousl 'Ie E!"la So
$40 an omen lot. Mr.. Hall thought wasp stuhg
r. orip,a but others in the crowd surmlSed lial
the sight of the wooden statue might nave had
something to do with it. At any rate me W"",eH o
F 10 9o1 Fast 34th street. for 81. Mr.. ober-
valdez said that he would use aurora as sigh
after the ia shon of cigar store lhGiah'
An interesting and exciting time came Wheh 'Ae
sar,rlere worked by Mr.. Cutters wife were put on
saia .fter much bidding. Mrs. S. IL L"wndes' 81
Northport paid - 50 for one sampler, VIM, tH M+S
NJ tho God Bless Our Home school <Aho'Il"r
..iot' which caused some high bidding was that OF
three French vases that were purchased bH tne
women on board the Quaker city when the lho-
cents" abroad. hlrs Miltoh a i'e ''US' ii'-
aIly captured them for SO so
.f,er ~ the bric-a -brac had heen sold. the hooks
,,,,nharing 600 volumes. were put on sale Whole
,ool, "a eee were disposed of at 81 each. Among
the purchasers who received carload OF BOOKS
and magazines for this sum was Guy N!choIs. an
octor who is a member OF the Players CUB ana Is
staying for the summer AT l-iite 49,. S,i;
nichols was much pleased at obtaining seVciaI
versions OF the Billie III LATIN.
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY HAMMERSTEIN.'
In the hodgepodge of articles was bust Of
Shakespeare which was offered by the aucuoneer
with a silk hat perChed jauntily on II. The hat
,cas thai which Mr.. Cutter had worn while abroad
with Mark Twain and the other innocents.' The