The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-04-14


 Mrs. Adelaide Yerkes. widow of the late Charles T. Yerkes. Chicago and London railroad sxYagnate. When the latter died it was the general impres, sion that he had left q fortune of more than s2o.00o.000. In hts will he be- queathed the mansion with it's fur nishings, to the widow for life and provided a substantial allowance for her while she lived. Litigation insti- tuted by creditors of the dead man, whose estate was found to be heavily involved, wiped out much of the once large fortune and left comparatively little to be divided among those for whom he had made provision. He intended that his home, worth three quarters of a million, should ulti- mately go to the city as an art mu- scum, but all hope of this has been dissipated by the attitude of the cred itors. who are clamoring for their pound of flesh. Despite her troubles over the adjudication of the estate. and those that attended her ill-consid- cred marriage to Wilson Mizner, a good looking youth with a theatrical bent, the widow retained to the end her striking beauty of face and grace full poise of body. By many she was regarded as one of the handsomest women in New York.
 At meeting the other evening of ''The Twilight Club,'' Joseph Fels, a millionaire soap manufacturer, threw verbal bomb at the worlds rich men, that has occasioned widespread discussion throughout the city. In his audience were, Count Leo Tol- stoy, nephew of the great writer; Hudson Maxim, the inventor; Bolton Hall, the economist; a number of Jus tfces of the Supreme Court and other prominent men. He and other mill lionaires. he said, were legalized crooks
 "I haven't beat a single man out of a dollar. But I've been a crook. I've made money on created values. Six years ago I bought a piece of land near Philadelphia for $32,740. Now I could get close to $125,0o0 for it. Why? Because 5000 homes have been built in the vicinity of that land. A 1 trolley line has been run near it. The people have created values for me. did nothing. This is robbery. It is taking things created by the public for private use. But may heaven witness. shall return this surplus to have beggars in this land flowing with milk and honey? The United States | has enough land to support one thou sand million people. There is enough 1 land locked up as deer parks in Eng | land for the sport of the rich to sup
 
 natural owners. If we could do that this country would be so beautiful that you wouldn't want to go to that other paradise
 'In Canada they're fining people for holding and not using land. The re- suit is land is thrown on the market and 10000 inhabitants of these Unit | ed States are crossing the border ev- cry year in the Northwest to live in Canada. Your papers say they're com ing back to take over their friends and relatives"
 Determined to effect the freedom of her son, Harry Thaw, the murderer of Stanford White, from the Matteawan Asylum for the Criminal Insane, even | If it takes her entire fortune, his mother Mrs. Mary Copley Thow, is preparing another application to the courts. This will be the fifth time that she has sued out habeas corpus | proceedings for review of the con- | dftlon of Thaw. who is declared by the asylum authorities to be an in- curable paranoiac. To date all of her efforts have met with failure but she
 has not given up the hope that some | judge will be found who will agree | With her contention that the slayer of New York's famous architect has
 recovered from his old malady and is entitled to his liberty. The family according to recent estimates, have | already expended one million dollars in the vain attempt to accomplish | this.
 Four years of lodging the spies of the Czar, four years of constant fear | of capture and only fragmentary sleep and his health ruined, Mark Sieboff sailed on the steamship Venezia to surrender himself to the authorities at St. Petersburg and be banished to Siberia, the other day, Siberia, with all its terrors. he says, will prove a restful place to a man who has been bounded until his nerve has left him He never expects to return from the land of terrible exile but he says | that anything will be better than the suffering he has undergone here in | New York.
 Friends of the Russian collected the | money for his journey to St. Peters burg. His health has been such of late that he was unable to work and earn 1 money. Sieboff was arrested tried and convicted four and a half years ago on the charge of having a revo- lutionary literature on his person He was ordered banished to Siberia 4