The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-05-13


erful element of pathos. almost TRACE
Perkins Williams, who was sent to the
Long Island state hospital for the in
sane the other day. after the supreme
court had been asked to appoint
to look after the estate of
the woman, which is estimated to be
worth considerably more than 81 ,00O,-
900. Miss Williams is now seventy
five years old. feeble and apparently
of unsound mind. Forty or fifty years
ago, however, when she was q young
woman, she was a we'll known figure
on Wall Street and brokers, bankers
and other financiers knew her we'll
and admired her shrewdness in stock
speculations.
Her father had been Wall Street
man and she had inherited the taste
for stock speculations from him. With
the modest fortune he left her at his
death, she began to speculate. first
and in a small way, but
branching out and becoming
bolder. At the time of the panic in the
early seventies she invested in stocks
and bonds which had reached bottom
prices and all through the years of fl
recuperation she held on to
her securities, selling them only when
they reached their top values. OF
course, she had some losses. but in
her largest transactions she was i'm
mensely successful. She accumulated
lor f1rt hnoiAnc h0ld3rU
large blocks of dividend-bearing securi-
ties, she bought valuable real estate in
New York. Brooklyn and in other cit
les in this state and in New Jersey. A
few years ago her health began to
break down and she withdrew from
Wall Street. 1t was not long before
she was forgotten. She retired to a
small delapidated and poorly furnished
house in Brooklyn. where she lived the
life of a recluse and miser ever since.
Among the rags, bundles of hidden
stocks and bonds, mortgages and other
valuable securities, representing
large fortune. Evidence was also
found that she had slowed away in
safety deposit vaults in Brooklyn, New
VI anu <AAOohy CT ASoSe A0iA q
lion more Of valuable property. For
many years Miss Williams never de-
posted or cashed the dividend checks
sent to her and large stacks of them
we're found in her howell.
One after the other the old land
marks in the heart of New York city
disappear from the surface, to be re-
placed by structures devoted to COM
mercial uses. The present generation
has not much respect or reverence for
historic associations when it comes to
gaining profit by destroying such land
marks. Within the week two such
historical landmarks were sacrificed
to commercialism-the old De Peyster
house. erected by Col. Abraham De
Peyster of revolutionary fame, about
155 years ago, and the fine old Scher-
merhorn mansion. which, about fifty
years ago, was built upon the Scher-
merhorn homestead, to replace the
more primitive original home of the
the noted Schermerhorn family. Both
buildings will be replaced by high loft
buildings.
Thanks to the determined efforts of
Collector Loeb and his carefully
watched officials the smuggling of
jewelry and other dutiable valuables
into this port has been greatly reduc-
ed. if not entirely suppressed. Now,
however, the immigration officials of
this port are confronted with the prob
lem, how to put stop to the snug
Cling of undesirable aliens, traffic
which has assumed astonishing pro-
portions recently. The task of the i'm
migration officials is perhaps even
more difficult than that of the revenue
inspectors. The smuggling in of gems
is usually done by returning tourists
individually, without the knowledge
and connivance of the officers of the
ship. The smuggling in Of undesira-
BILE aliens, however, is in most cases
done with the knowledge and CONN.,
vance of the ships officers. OF course,
the persons struggled are always unde-
sirable aliens; we're they not, it sure
ly would not be necessary to smuggle
the mthrough. The methods employ
ed show considerable ingenuity.
1t has been ascertained that the En-
glish Prison Aid society has for long
time been in the habit of sending En-
glish convicts to America. The socie-
ty succeeded in smuggling the men in
to this country by a clever arrange
ment of the officers of English steam
ers. The convicts were entered upon
the papers of officers of the ship and
received nominal pay, with the uRder-
standing that they were to desert upon
the arrival of the ship in port. Hun
dreds of the most dangerous criminals
are said to have been struggled into
New York in this fashion.
Another clever scheme was employ
ed the other day to smuggle two men
into the country, who would probably
have had great difficulty in passing