Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-05-27
OF GENERAL INTEREST

OF GENERAL INTEREST
The disclosure concerning the career
of the bogus Count d'Aulby de CATCHY,
now on trial in Paris for swindling
wealthy patrons Of art by means OF
fraudulent masterpieces, are rather
humiliating for the scores of American
mlllionaires who have been filling their
homes galleries with fake Rembrandts,
Rubens, Nelasquez, Gainsboroughs, etc,
paying enormous prices for cheap copies
or worse. Artists and connoiSseurs on
the continent have long been aware OF
the fact that clique of unScrupulous
swindlers, principally located in Paris,
made large fortunes out of the utter ~
norance, stupidity and vanity of rich
Americans. In fact nearly all Europe
knew of it, only the American victims
remained in blissfuI ignorance. 1t Is
well authenticated fact that there are
more alleged Rembrandts and VelasQuez'
in the possession of American collectors
than were ever painted by the two mas
tiers. In view of the fact that practical
ly every single canvas painted by these
two artists is known and accounted tor,
the gallibility OF the American collectors
is really astounding and can only be ac-
counted for by their gross ignorance on
matters of art. New York is the prin-
cipai market for fake Masters in this
country and some of these fake special
lists" are doing a lucrative business.
A couple fresh from England made
their first trip down Broadway recently
and stopped for luncheon with a friend
who has an office in one of the tall build
ings. In the course of conversation the
woman wanted to know whose monu-
ment occupied the central place in the
front of St. Paul's chapel and whose
! grave was marked by the large sarcoph-
agus in the south part of Trinity church
yard. Her host confessed that he had
passed both places daily for many years,
but did not know, and no one in the big
office could give him the information.
Friends were called on the telephone,
but they also gave up the conundrum.
he returned the visitors jotted down the
names of Capt. Lawrence and Gen.
Montgomery. When it was all over the
boy askeS: "Who were theyY and was
Immediately sent out on an errand.
Now that Wall street has dressed itself
ID sombre garb, with the stock exchange,
the banking house of ]. p. Morgan & Co.
and other commercial institutions draped
in sable and purple and flags half-masted
on all the principal buildings, the Ameri-
can Spectator is asking How much did
King Edward make in his operations in
the street," The answer most readily
reached and from the most authentic
sources: about $5,000,000 or f1,Q0O,-
600 sterling, during the declining years
of his life" And then King Edward
plunged" in the New York stock mar
ket; he did it in truly regal fashion. On
flyer in Steel common it was re-
ported in Wall street today that prior
to the panic Of 1907. the King cleaned
up a clear $1,000,000. His. activities
| were not all confined to Steel, but the
King plunged heavily in both Union
and Southern Pacific, and made vast
sums of money out of his trades.
The fight to determine the value of
the jewels, wearing apparel and house
furnishings of the late Mrs. Caroline
Webster Schermerhorn Astor, widoa Of
William AstOr, will be renewed in the
offices cf the state transfer tax apprais-
err. The result will decide whether
| $1,726, 1920 a sum set by Appraiser
Yereance after experts had gwen esti-
mates of the personal property, Is Il
I correct figure. This estimate. which
showed gilt pariOr chairs to be worth
! only $3.50 beautiful lace curtains 50,
strings of pearls and magnificent dia-
mcnds to be mere limitations, caused
Surrogate Cohalan, to whom the report
WAS made, to reject it.
Sunday baseball is not only to be al
lowed in New York city, but is to be en-
| couraged. Mt the professional game,
but baseball as played by boys in the
city parks. The announcement came
from the park commissioners office to-
day that the recent opening of the park
tennis courts on Sundays is an entering
wedge for other sports, and that the
baseball field will be the next to be
opened to the public.
1T may be looked upon as throwing
| Il Las i
sioner. ''but l believe a great good can
| come from this step. We intend to have
all the Fairgrounds as we'll as the parks
| open to the public on Sundays as on
other days. The use of the parks is
| never more needed than on Sunday"
By a narrowing adventure in Rich
mond, Va, with fire and cold, stephen
Green's hair turned III night from coal
black to snow white. More than that,
Green's locks, once kinky, as is the char
acteristic of his race, are now straight
as any white mans. Green and com
paniOn while hunting in the woods, lay
down and slept before their camp fire.
Green awakened with his clothing in
flames. He ran four miles through the
snow for help, tearing off his burning
garments as be ran. When he reached
help he was almost nude.
In a pancake eating contest, William
Rudy Of Elyr4a, Ohio, succumbed to the
superior capacity of William Myers his
fellow employe at the Eyria iron and
steel plant. The men ate to decide
wager Rudy quit at the twenty-ninth
hap-jack. Myers had eaten thirty
at that time. The winner said he was
nowhere near his limit when his oppo-
nent quit
William Allen, deserter from the
Twenty-ninth infantry, now stationed at
Fort Niaga ia, is having lots of fun with
the United States officers and soldiers
at the fort these days. Allen crossed
Niagara river to Canada three weeks
ago, taking his bugle with him. Since
then each afternoon when the bugle