The Washington herald., 1909-03-30

New York, March Z9-The close sur
veiIlance which has been maintained over
the incoming trunks and other luggage
Of the American Line steamships since
the discovery on March 6 OF a trunk con-
tanning S,Ooo worth Of Iaces and dress
goods on the Red Star Line pier-a trunk
which II is believed had been sent over
from the American Line pier by rowboat
or trolley-resulted to-day in the biggest
ma the customs inspectors have made in
some years. The booty comprises two i'm
mense trunks, containing more than hun
dred fne princess gowns by the leading
Partisan dressmakers. and a quantity Of
lingerie. and other mysterious feminine
fumness Of French creation.
The appraisers haven't been through the
trunks yet. but they make a guess that
the stun is worth az least S5eo The
dresses and things were 10 be distributed
among a number OF New York dealers in
such goods The duty required by law
is 90 per cent. or some 5000
Brought In n Week Ago.
/ The two trunks. it is supposed. were
+ brought % this port on the steamship
New York, arriving here a week ago to-
day
4 On thursday Edward Wright. superin-
tendent OF the line, noted the presence on
the pier Of two trunks, unmarked and
4 not on the records. He tipped OF Gus
4 toms Inspector Benjamin Waring. and the
latter saw 20 10 that a good. sharp watch
was kept on the neglected and lonely
boxes. By the time Of the sailing of the
New York. on Saturday. everything she
+ had brought over had been called for and
carted away. except those same two
trunks. which had been tossed over IN one
side cut OF the way. and Inspector War
Ing had them taken 20 the place where
other -uncalled for stun goes. and noti-
fed Acting Deputy Surveyor Tierney.
There was little 90 go on inside tie
trunks or outside that would aud the in
I specJors in landing the c0nsIgnees or the
. shippers. The names OF the Paris dress
. maker rs-fOur il number. and all famous
in the w0sld Of dresS-at LAST were Sc
cured and then the sIeutbs got tle
rames OF few of the people ga thi, city
who evidently expected TO receive the
goods. All these SO FAR as discovered.
are dealers or dressmakers.
Somebody NOt on His job.
+ The careIessness with which $1,000 o-
So worth Of property was left lying about
FOR any inquisitive inspector 90 PICK TO
compels the belief in the customs serv-
ice that some confederate az this end OF
the line was not on The job wien Tie
/ trunks arrived. And now one OF ;ne
\ things the inspectors are trying % ma
+ OUT is who this missing confederate may
T have been
4 Purser r d. Williams. Of the -,.eri-
/ can liner 81 Louis. went before surveyor
+ Clarkson to-day and told about The suit
+ case which was found IN his ca-s when
/ the liner got into Quarantine sunday.
4 The suit case bore a label Mrs Ada
/ hutchins. care OF purser." NJ Williams
/ explained that It had been intrusted 70
T him by Capt. A. Hutchins. OF the Eng
+ lish army. 20 give 70 the captains wife.
/ who is 20 be d passenger on the -. Louis
/ when she returns 10 the other side On
I Saturday next The case was not 10 be-
landed. he said. and no attempt was
made 10 get il ashore
Deputy surveyor McKe0n said today
I that the dresses in the case were worth
/ not more than 500. ana that they had
/ been worn more or less