The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-10-21
Some Gossip Gathered From
The Gay American Metropolis

| NEW YORK, Oct. 21.-The geneal-
ogist who constructed John D. Rookie.
feller's family tree seems to have
blundered somewhat, when he tried to
prove that the great oil king was in
truth a descendent of real kings, a
sprig of the House of Plantagenet
He OvershOt the mark, when, for the
sake of earning royal reward, he
attempted to link the humble family
of teutonic origin from which the oil
king undoubtedly came, with the de-
cadent Plantagenets of England. He
neglected to take into consideration
the fact that there are other geneal-
ogists, equally clever and having &C
cess to the same records. who, not
having been consulted in the matter,
feel at liberty to subject the findings
or alleged findings of their more for
| tunate competitors to merciless scru-
TINY and criticism. Under the cir
cumstances it was easy enough to
prick the bubble of John DIS alleged
| family tree and turn it into a huge
| joke.
! Apropos John DIS royal ambitions
|
i! has quite neutrality-suspicious. since he
learned of his august ancestry-adop-
| ted a new style of hand-shake. He
has always been quite democratic in
his intercourse with the members of
his church and has been in the habit
of shaking hands with them before or
after the service. His new style of
shaking hands is said to be perplex-
ing to his friends who do not quite
know what to make of it. Some of
! his most intimate acQuaintanceS
think, that it is not a manifestation OF
the natural reserve of a scion of roy
atty, which caused Mr.. Rockefeller to
change his method of shaking hands,
but merely his desire to protect his
hands from altogether too vigorous
pressure and from any injury to them
which would make it impossible for
him to play his beloved game of golf.
A tragedy of rather unusual human
interest caused considerable stir in
the tenement district on Charlton
street, Newark, the other day. David
LaskOwitZ, the owner of several ten
ement houses, visited one of his hOus-
es to collect the rent from his ten
ants. A few days before he had Or
dered the eviction of one of his ten
ants, a married man with two little
children, who was dying of tubercu-
losis and who was one month behind
in the payment of his rent. Charita-
BILE neighbors took in the family and
a few hours after his removal the pa
tient died. The hardheartedness of
the landlord who had driven a dying
man and his poor family out of their
home for the sake of few dollars.
had caused considerable hard feelings
among the tenants, especially among
the women, who sympathized with
the widow and children of the dead
consumptive. When Laskowitz arriv-
ed at the house, the women surround
ed him, calling him murderer" and
"bloodsucker" and threatening him
with heavens vengeance. Laskowitz
retreated and slipped quietly away
through a side street. He had walk
ed about two blocks, when he felt so
weak that he had to sit down on a
doorstep. Suddenly he pressed his
hand to his heart and toppled over
onto the sidewalk. A doctor was call
ed, but when he arrived he found Las
kowitz dead from heart disease. The
women of the district feel quite GER
tain that Laskowit's sudden death
was the punishment for his hard
heartedness.