The sun., 1908-07-29
MELIN, A FIGHTER, SELLS OUT
TWAS HIS SALOON R0CKEFEL-
LER TRIED 10 BUY.
Grosshop Opposite the Entrance TO the
pocantico Hills Estate Goes to Yonk.
ers Liquor Dealer for Ss COCOON King
Said TO Have Orered ~ 500 Long AGO.


Said TO Have Onered 81 500 Long AGO.
TARRYrowN. N. Y, July 2s,-If John d.
Rockefeller had q bidder at the public sale
to-day Of the Anchor. the saloon which
John Jacob Melin has run opposite the
entrance to the Pocantico Hills estate for
many years, the agent did not proclaim
his presence from the housetops. Mr..
Rockefeller himself is reported TO be at
Bar Harbor, Me-. where Mrs. John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., is said to be staying with
the new baby. He is not expected at the
Pocantico estate till September is. His
usual proxies in local real estate deals are
Howard w. Nichols of Tarrytown or w. II.
Hoyt Of New York.
But 1t was one Adolph Picker, who says
he is a wholesale liquor dealer OF as War
burton avenue, Yonkers, that got the Melin
property yesterday on a bid OF 5000.
Picker, it is reported. is thinking Of putting
in dance hall at the rear of his place. By
the terms Of the sale Picker has to pay
down half cash, out Of which Melin settles
an 81, 800 mortgage held by w. W. Vreden.
burgh Of Ossining. In addition he will
have to put up for the license. quarterly
payment of which. on the basis Of $500 per
ann,rm comes due on August 1.
The only other bidder at the sale was
Bayard Coutant. son Of DR.. r. b. Coutant.
one Of the best known physicians OF this
v icinity who acts more or less as Rookie
eller's family physician when he is. at Po-
@ antico What he wanted the property for
nobody knew exactly. Young Coutant
himself was full Of stories Of how his father
had sold seventeen acres OF nearby property
to Rockefeller at 81 OC0 an acre and OF how
somebody else up on the hill had got 5000
an acre.
Coutant ducked In with bid OF $50 more.
Picker topped that by sl0O, and Coutant
went him another hundred better.
Then the bidding seemed to stick, The
auctioneer, William Richards Griffiths OF
NeT York city raised 1oasa ns pu. in
Judge Robert F. White. Don't you 60 30
fast. Yer a-gittin' $40 for this, an We can
afford TO take yer time about it. White,
one OF the village characters, hadn't any
wanted to string things along for his friend
to show up from out Mount Vernon way.
Griffiths waited minute for the Judge to
make good on his blum. His hammer was
just about to descend when Picker shouted
sForty-seven hundred dollarsi' Coutant
faltered out aand fifty which was boosted
again by Picker, and 90 1t went tall young
Coutant was beaten;
Melin Is 90 years old, though he doesn't look
more than Is, and he wants TO retire. He
married for the second time q couple OF
years ago, and his wife is anxious for him TO
return to Sweden, where they. were both
born. He will sail as soon as he has sold
OH 'twenty-six lots near his saloon. Tho
second auction will come of two weeks
from to-day, at which time he will also offer
for sale houseful OF old furniture, turios
and antiques.
|, According TO reports II Melln had cared 10
cell out eight years ago he might have got
$500 for his place from MIR. Rookefeller.
He held OF too long. though, and the offer
wes withdrawn. .---.l., :,