The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-09-27
COURTS AND COLUMBIA OPEN
PROF. PECk UILL ENDE or
TO nom THE FORT ~ norm.
Miss QuInn. sulnE for Brearh of Promise.
served Win order tn Appear for Pa
animation the Professor PHOTO
EraphesI Win Another StenagraIpher

Harry Thur-ton Peck the suspended
professor of Latin at Columbia University
aud Miss Esther Quinn. a stenographer.
who il suing him for breach % promise
10 marry were both in town Yesterday
Miss Quinn came down from Boston
aud at the Grand Central Station she
WIS served with an order signed by SUI
preme Court Justice Whitney requiring
her In appear for examination before
trial on October ~. Miss Quinn has
until Friday 60 present "A second bill ~
pa iculars stating more definitely than
the irs'. to which the Peck forces object.
the time. place and circumstances of the
alleged proposal 60 marry made 10 her
by the professor On October ; the
board ~ trustees uf the university will
hold their first meeting and although
IL Il not expected that President Butler
will haVv returned from Europe hy that
time Prof Peck expects that some ac-
ton will be then taken in his case. for
alt hough he has been suspended by the
trustees hs still continues 10 draw his
salary and use the Office assigned 10 the
Anthem professor - Latin in Fast Hall
on the campus. College opens to-mor-
row and the Latin professor expects
TO be IA his office bright and early
ne vacation has not been without
incident for the Latin professor. Take
the Adventure ~ the Man IN the Suun
sur for example
IL seems that in July Prof Peck went
20 Boston town from his place in Maine
where no had been 20 collect evidence
in lawsuit in which he Is Interested
He said Yesterday that he wished TO see
"A former -tenographer who had been EN-
V,lg as, ~.
present az an interview he had "A year
ago with another young woman. He
found bis former Stenographer, who by
the way ia not Young. IN \ hotel overlook
ing the public gardens II was n very
Warm dav even for n Roston july. The
shade cast by the willow trees that bent
over the water IT the artificial lake IA /
the gardens hrei the professor and b"
suggested that the business of collecting |
evidence might he more comfortably |
carried on beneath the Willows His |
suggestion was adopted
Now according 10 the professor, as
he and his former s'enographer were |
sitting there n rowbOat hoa ted past the |
willows IN the artificial lake At first
II seemed to be very ordinary sort .
NJ ro1boat, without an occupant other ,
than the staiwart and apparently in
genuous man who piled the oars. and II
would not have warranted = second look
Il IL had not had written upon II the fig-
ire - ] ne FoNboat : nhtnprF was
IL aud ~ was the 18th Of July. The
struck Prof Peck as being
And when for second
time that roWhost Rlided past the willows
which evidence was being
,ured. and came a little closer. Prof
Peck muled over u
But still the rpwhOtt showed no signs !
Z being occupied hv other than the
,oatman Then third time the row
roat approached. and II came very near
O the willows indeed. ~ close that u
,...rned a. Il ~ Wa- going t. ground At
M. very feet - Prof Peck and his former
,tsnogra pher bur u did not ground
,ccoring to Prof Peck Instead he
avs there popped ny from the bottom
4 that ruWbpat a hitherto tInuhs.rvei
,an@rt ~ enormous proportions held
" - Ratchet faced person IA a -nu' ,
,plor.d suit ,
4 WAS anna zed. aid thu professor
at hi- sudden appearance
)ut infinitely more 80 al what followed | {
L. aimed the camera directly az me, :
teadied II for a moment and then hang !
vent the camera and 81 went the rowbnat .
nd the man m the Snuh colorcd suit
When he had recovered Prof Peck !
vent and Jaw some of his BOSTON star
4 lawyers about what you may legally {
io to persons who take your picture | ]
v hIle YOU are collecting evidence In tho
public gardens In the willows He '
'~p narrated the Adventure ~ tho \
hree Suitcas@- and the Adventure ~ tho {
Ia -sa Chu-stt~ Autograph Collector. all
4 hIgh were entertaining