The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-09-27
COURTS AND COLUMBIA OPEN
PROF. PECk Will ENDEATOR
To nom THE FORT ~ norm.
Miss Quinn. SuinE for breach Of Promise.
served With order 20 Appear for IN.
animation The Professor PhOtO-
Eraphed With Another Stsnographer.

Harry Thurston Peck the suspended
professor Il Latin ~ Columbia University.
and Miss Esther Quinn. a stenoGrapher.
who Is suing him for breach OF promise
10 marry. we're both in town yesterday.
Miss Quinn came down from Boston
and NJ the Grand Central station she
WAS served with an order signed by SUI
prone Court Justice Whitney requiring
her % appear Tor examination before
rrill on October 10 Miss Quinn has
until Friday To present "A second bill OF
particulars stating more definitely than
tho firsr, 20 which the Peck forces object.
the time. place and circumstances 81 the
alleged proposal Ia marry made 20 her
los the Professor. On October , the
board of trustees - the university will
hold their first meeting and although
II IL not expected that President Butler
will have returned from Europe by that
time Prof. Peck expects that some sc-
ton will he then taken i'm his case. for
although he has been suspended by the
trustees he still continues 90 draw his
salary and use the Office assigned to the
Anthem professor Of Latin In East Hall
On the campus College opens to-rnor-
row and the Latin professor expects
To be in his Office bright and early
The vacation has not been without
incident for the Latin professor Take
the Adventure % the Man in the Snuif
suit for example
II seems that in July Prof. Peck went
10 Boston town from his place in Maine
where he had been Ia collect evidence
in a lawsuit in which he h. interests
lie said yesterday that he wished 20 see
a former stenographer who had been EN-
plOySd IN his Office and who he says was
present at an Interview he had a year
ago with another yon.S woman He
found hts former sienogr, phcr. who by
tho way - not young. IN q t-' u overlook
ing the public gardens IL was very
warm day even for "A Hoston july The
shade cast by the willow trees that bent
over the wntsr Of the artificial lake in
the gardens lursd the professor and he
suggested that the business 81 collecting
evidence might he more comfortably
carried on beneath the willows. His
suggestion was adopted.
Now according To the professor, as
he and his former stanographer were |
sitting there a rowboat hoated past the |
willows in the artificial lake. At first |
~ seemed to be very ordinary sort |
of rowboat. without an occupant other |
than the stalwart and apparently in !
genuou- man who piled the "a r. and ~
would not have warranted "A second look |
II u had not had written upon II the fig-
IRE ~. The rowbosts number was !
IL and u was the 18th Of July. The \
struck Prof. Peck a. beInR /
And when for second 1
time that row boat glided past the willows
beneath which evidence was being se-
cured. and came a little closer. Prof.
Peck mulled over II.
But still tho rovboat showed no signs
n heing occupied by other than the
boatman. Then "a third time the row
boat approached. and IL came very near
Ia the willows indeed. so close that 10
seemed a. n u was going 90 ground at
The very feet Of Prof Peck and his former
according 70 Prof. Peck Instead he
sayz. there popped up from the bottom
Il that rowboat hitherto unohserved
camera ~ enormous proportions held
Jy "a Ratchet faced person IA a snuh
'olored suit
I was amazed aaid the professor
at his sudden appearance
,ut infinitely more 50 at what followed {
He aimed the camera directly at me
'taadiesi 10 for n moment .hnd then hang
vent the camera and Oh went the rowbnat
nd the man In the snuh colored suit
When he had recovered Prof. Peck
vent and saw some 81 his Boston staff '
Il lawyers about what YOU NAV legally {
60 Co persons who take your picture
While you are collecting evidence an the
public gardens beneath the willOws He
Ilso narrated the Adventure OF the !
Three S'Iitcases and the Adventure % the {
'la Saa ChtISetts Autograph Collector. all
y which were entertaining.