New-York tribune., 1910-07-31
TWO MILLION FOR QUALEY
Promoter Said to Have Obtained
That Much in TWentyYears.
FORMER DIPLOMAT A LOSER
Mrs. Bull Goes to Rhode Island to
Push Extradition-HoW
Mr.. Hanf Fell"

Two million dollars, 1t is estimated oy
those who have been searching into the
life and doings of John Qualey, would fall
short of covering the amount that expert
on promotions has collected in the last
twenty years through his companies. more
than forty of which. after a short and
busy life, are said to have gone into the
hands of receivers. Charles l.. Craig, at
torney for Mrs William T. Bull, who first
divulged to the public some particulars OF
Qualey's activities. says he has found in
the last ten days that he has half a dozen
other clients who have had part in these
enterprises, while more than a dozen new
ones have come to him seeking redress
from the promoter.
Already nearly 100000 has been account
ed for as contributions from various well
known persons to Qualey'S treasures
Patrick Egal, Minister to Chill under
President Harrison, now adds $4,000 fur
nished by himself and his friends. The
Board of Trade of Neponset- Mass, where
there was one of the factories of the Mag
| nesia Asbestos Company, is said to have
supplied 100000 with the aid of some of the
neighboring towns. John GreenoUgh, of No
10 Wall street, is on Mr.. Craig's list of
Qualey contributors for $4,000 in mining
company, while the late Marcus Daily, who
was accounted of some shrewdness, gave
$4,000. Tom Campbell, brother of
Tim Campbell famous the author
of What's the Constitution between
friends?' is said to have let Qualey have
$1,000 in Washington racetrack affair.
Armenian Alleged Victim.
An Armenian, Tschetinian, bought s10.-
oF in of On
panies and is now in Europe taking a long
distance view Of a suit to recover H. ].
Hanf, of No. 161 Broadway. allowed 81
600 to the North Newark Concrete Block
Company. it is said, besides some smaller
sums for Quaeys family expenses.
Henf's manner as he tells his story bears
the marks Of an abiding dislike for John
Qualey. Mrs Hanf corroborates her hus-
band. The factory at North Newark
which is advertised to be sold at sheriff s
sale on Tuesday, was one of Qualeys as
sets in dealing with Hanf, as il has been
in various other companies. 1t seems to
have begun business about 1900 as the
plant of the United States Carbonic Acid
Gas Company, in which Mr. Egan invested.
Since then it has figured IN the Stone Age
Plaster Company, the Magnesia Asbestos
Company, the Magnesia Company of Amer
lea and the North Newark Concrete Block
Company.
Qualey, Hanf says, was introduced to
him by Charles Berry, of Broadway and
S1st street He came to me with tears
In his eyes, said Hanf last night, land
asked for food for his wife and himself,
He was walking Broadway without a dol
lar. ! took him in and fed him and intro
duce6 his wife to my wife. That was in
May, 1906. and by September I had got
mine. He played the sympathy game with
me- and / not only fed him, but gave him
money to bring his two oldest children on
here from Montreal, where they were in
school.
"Soon after I got acquainted with him
he told me about this plant he had IN North
Newark, and how he wanted to use it for
manufacturing concrete blocks. To make
the story short. fell for 1t and put up $1,000
to organize the company and start the bust
ness The building belonged to the Mag
nesia Company of North America, he told
me, and had a mortgage on 1t for soo,ooo.
but his wife and some friends bid it In
when it was sold, and I got 25 per cent of
the stock in the Concrete Block Company
for my $1,000.
"Money and QuaIey Gone"
"Of course, it wasn't long before my
$1,000 was gone, and he wanted more
money. So he gave me a bill of sale IN
twelve machines or making concrete blocks
and all the rest of the stock in the COM
pany for security, and L put up another
81 600 / sent Edward Bendit over to look
at the plant, and ne reported TO me that the
machines were there and eight thousand
concrete blocks. 1 saw the blocks myself
afterward.
Il was made treasurer of the company,
and put the money in the Fourteenth Street
Bank. Qualey kept calling for checks, and
7 sent them TO him. The next thing was
| that the money was gone and no blocks
| sold I waited a while to see what was
going to happen, and then went over to
Newark to see how things were at the plant.
The place was deserted. The machines
were gone. The eight thousand blocks were
gone. And Qualey was gone.
Il got o. B. Gould for my lawyer, and he
had a receiver appointed for the company.
The receiver reported that the company
owed $500 to a Newark dealer for sand.
There were no assets, he said. the ma
chimes had been taken away and the blocks
| had been sold to a Newark contractor and
paid for I learned afterward that the
couldn't find out where.
"Qualey claimed TO have been one of the
chemists in the Cronin case in Chicago, and
gave me as reference the Franklin Trust
Company, of Newark. That's how l got
mine ] took the papers to the District
Attorney last year when this young fellow
Kresser had his trouble with Qualey, but
that vas when they thought the Criminal
Courts Building was going to fall down and
they told me about moving the papers
around to one place and another, and I
never could find out what was done. All
I've got to say is-well. maybe you can
figure it for yourself
Esan Tells Of His Experience.
II met Qusley when he was secretary
of the Catholic Club in Chics co. said Mr..
Egan yesterday, land he began his rela-
tions with receivers with the Chicago
Drainage Canal job. / did not meet him
gain until 1898, after my return from Chilli
gas company there with relative Of Sem
ator Elkins. who is associated with the
Goulds. We both turned 1t down. and he
promoted the company in Buffalo. and 1t
went into the hands of a receiver.
Then he came to me again in 1901 with
a proposition for another company to make
carbouic acid gas out of dolomite lime
stone, with a plant at Newark. n. j. He
could charm money out Of a bra2en image
when he was feeling right, and l went into
the company. He was president and l was
Thomas h. F'eltneT. former