The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-16
.LE|SHMAN FAILED
TO PAY FOR BOOTS
French Tradesman Has Difficulty
in Collecting From
Ambassador.
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sAGAN KING OF BORROWERS
Anna Gould's Husband Is Hand
ling Creditors in Mas
tcrful Fashion.
KING OF BORROWERS
Anna Gould's Husband Is Hand.
by VANCE THOMPSON


Especial Cable to The Times Dispa tell + !
Parls, January 15.--The question is
asltatlnS the French courts whether
tho residence Of an ambassador which
| Is not located In his accredited coun-s
try iB ex-territorial or not, and II the
ambassadors wife can be considered
tho same as common foreigner,
! Ihe subject Of an act which entities
| any creditor tc seize ana hold tho
goods OF stranger for nonpaymcnt, Of
deDt. and brought up by petition OF
Mrs. John c. A. Leishman for the can
collation. OF the order of seizure OF
o.ooD francs WORTHY OF lace curtains III
her house. so Avenue du Bots. for non
payment by tho dfaler who sold them
eighteen months aso, Is interesting TO
other creditors of tlfc ambassador
William Blake, a bootmaiker OF the
Rue Malekor, has a suit in Paris
civil court since June L. 1907, for about
s3o0 worth OF boots Furnished the
United States ambassador TO Italy and
his son. Jack.
1T is hard to believe said Blake.
Speaking to the American correspond
ent OF the affair. that an Ambassador
OF the United states would be diff
cult man TO collect from, but the fact
IL he Is one Of the hardest l ever came
across. with bootmakers or our class
bills are only rendered yearly. and 1t
Is not uncommon to have TO wait two
years for our money. We stand this
from people who we know will pay.
but whom we find some one who has
shownAnc inclination 10 pay or offers
no explanation Hhy he doesn't pay.
we have TO go for him, even IL he
Is United States ambassador.
have never heard from the afnbassh-
dor or his family one word explaining
their position. Every time call r.
cannot sec them. although knew
them all well before wanted ny
money.
Hncon Pnssc. II Along.
II wrote TO your Secretary of state &
and 30, a letter in reply signed Rob
crt Bacon. saying he had forwarded
my communication TO Mr.. Leishman. /
understand your government is not able.
10 purchase homes for your ambassa-
doris, but / thought IL would ut least
pay Il boot bill IL the ambassadoi could
not afford II. We ARE very careful
here in giving credit TO sons of even
great men, so MS TO obyiate any chance
OF question, so ] always sent the boots
ordered TO the ambassador personally
whether FOR tho son or father.
Most of the boots were sent TO
ConstantinopIe, Mn Leishulan COM
mcnccd dealing with ma In 1893 and
the only payment / ever bad WAS "A
check for sol francs. The balance sued
for Is 1856 francs. II j had many
more such diplomatic customers !
would have TO give up business,
Madame Anna Gould's navy husband.
the Prince dc sugan. claims to be an
Agamemnon among fnanciais-"for,
said the prince, 1t takes "A king of
finance to hold back an army OF husi-
cry creditors. pay off those unreason-
able ones who Will not wait and keep
going without infringing upon my ;
wife's fortune. For. be II understood.
i do not exceed my allowance.
sngan, King OF FInnpcIcrs.
Dc Sagan well deserves this repu.
ta.ion as king Of tinanclers, and the
best proof is that since his marriage
with Madame Anna Could she has
lived within her income. The prince
has handled their. creditors in mas
5terIy fashion, and George Gould, II
seems, has congratulated him on the
result De Sagan fl known to every
moncy-lendcr in Paris, and lived most d
~ OH credit for twenty-slH years be- y
fore his marriage. So one may mag
inc the magnitude OF his debts and
the generalship required to handle
such an army OF creditors
TO get $500 the prince had to sisn
for a thousand, and his papers had
become so SdluclcsS lHnt oiiS sNoes'si.
money-lendcr claims TO ha.ve bought
1t BY weight. He has. however, never
failed 10 keep record of all the vast
sums for which he signed and the ac-
tual amounts he received. This alone =
required good business skill. When a
creditor now makes Il demand The
prince calmly offers to pay the cSact
sum received, plus 10 per cent?. and
not tho sum for which he 81 Sned, Tic
usurous creditor dares not to go 10
court. Only one creditor has beaten
the clever prince. This Is Deber, OF
the Rue de la PaiN, famous jeweler
who got a Judgment for $4,000
against him The prince laughingly
says his wife has the best executive
guardian In the world in her brother
George. AS for his own family, It's
interests arc largely in the hands OF
the German Emperor, who Is a close
friend of the old bedrIdden Prince dc
Sagan. His fathers creditors may
flutter outside the ancestral walls. but
mono may enter, as the Emperor re-
itains handsome yearly income from
the Do Sagan estates in Silesia for the
old prince. who lives In Paris.
And now Madame Anna Gould's llls-
for when Ills aged father dies, the
Prusslan property falls to his share.
1t Is Interesting to note that the
prnceS most reasonable and beautiful
CREDITOR is Madame Crespln du Cast,
whom every one In Paris society said
no meant to marry.
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