Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-25
DANIEL DREWS
DESCENDANTS ARE
ANGRY OVER BOOK
Mrs. Clarence I%lIingwOrth and
Brother Condemn B. Whites
Work as Wholly Wrong.

h Book of Daniel Drew" the
story OF the millionaire and picturesque
character. by Bouck White, headworker
at Trinity -Neighborhood House, Brook
lyn. was today characterized as unre-
liable. prejudiced and unfair by the
granddaughter of the old 1nancier, Mrs
Clarence IlIingworth. of 1899 Broad
street.
Daniel Drew. the founder of Drew
Seminary, partner of Jay Gould ana
Jim Fisk. has been taken by Mr.. White
as the subject for a book published by
Doubleday, Page & Co, and the son Oh
the principal character, William Henry
Drew. of Brewster. is seeking some
means of having the book suppressed
Today Mrs. %Illingworth, daughter OF
W. H. Drew and granddaughter OF
Daniel Drew, discussed the matter with
a reporter for the EVENING STAR.
She had read the book. was greatly an
noyed over it and was sure that 1t was
full of incorrect statements. She breez-
lily commented on it, and refused to be-
lieve that her grandfather had left any
material in his own handwriting from
which such a work could be compiled.
The author claims that his chief source
of information Is an old diary of Drew's.
"a daryl" exclaimed Mrs. Hing
worth; why grandfather couldn't
write except to sign checks, and he had
NO time for such a thing as a diary.
II do not want to get into hot water
over the matter" she said, but this
man has written from an imaginary
point of view and given grandfather
the worst of it. He did not hope that
the guests at his golden wedding were
as hungry as a meat axe He did not
have the modern education that we
have; nobody did then. but he certainly
was not so erratic in his talk as Mr..
White has him.
while he was writing SO much about
him why did he not tell some of his
good qualities? He did not mention
the fact that when the Prince of Wales,
now King of England. came here on a
visit that grandfather went down the
harbor on board a yacht with such men
as william Aston; nor when the prince
went up the Hudson on the steamer
Drew, my grandfather's boat, that my
father was called upon to go on the
deck and represent the prince at the
different landings and receive the
cheers meant for the prince. My father
resembled the prince greatly at that
time of life. and did it to give the
prince a rest.
white did not consult any members
of the Drew family. There IL some
graft somewhere. and l do not know
where he got his facts. He did not
buy them from any member Of the
family, as we all have enough for
a new hat occasionally, at least so far
as / am concerned
The oook is written in the first per-
son, purports to be a personal diary.
resurrects old scandals Of Wall street
and litigation threatened by the son,
threatens to rake over the Erie railroad
war in a most thorough manner This
story" said the son, lis going to stir
up Methodism and hurt Drew Theolog-
ical Seminary, which he founded" Mr..
Drew admits some of the picturesque
stories of the book, but says hat even
those which nave some foundation in
fact are carelessly and enormously told.
MY father" he said, was illiterate,
DuL liz was IOl WlChSu nc idu AcSP
moral nature and a kind heart. He
never did the cruel, heartless things
that the boob makes him do. The i'm
preston given in the tale of the looting
of the Erie Is all wrong. From first to
last, the book is full of careless un-
truths. He could write, but nobody else
could read 1t, and when away dictated
homely letters to telegraph operators
for my mother"
One of the passages in the book to
which exception is taken by the rela-
tives of Daniel Drew is what is said to
be his address to guests at his golden
wedding. Here it is: II hope you are
hungry as a meat axe, every one of you.
1 want you to put inside all the pork
and potatoes o can carry away. l
don want anybody to be under my
roof tonight who can't play a good knife
and fork at meals. So, set to, get your
nose in the ranger. brother, let me see
how much oats you can get outside of -"