The evening world., 1911-09-20
Both NenNgtted and Pail to,
l. See Trolley at West Side
Crossing.
DAUGHTER IS BLIND.
Home Of De Guichainville,
Of Note, Filled
T.. With Strange Rubbish.

Through an ordinary street. car aoc.
oent ehere was brought 10 Light to-day
. cursously interesting family group
Strange wen IN the many-sded life Of
new York. where counts wait at tables
- men who have led battalious some
0Des had horses to water.
TWO men stood at Nineteenth street
sad Seventh avenue WAITING for a north.
sound Cal. One Of them was eighty
SeaU old. tall and having the distin.
ossshed appearance Of the old French
regime. The other Wa . man Of forty.
TWO Both were near-stghted. They
ntecaaculated the distance to the car
aod were knocked down.
The older man was taken to Bellevue
&Sospttal with his left leg broken and
. oad out on hAs head. Tho younger
~ unhurt. The police learned TIA. the
men wore Leon Le Metayer Masselin.
Baron do 0uichainvine, and his con.
Haoul. They also learned that the men
nvsd At No. as West Seventeenth street.
0Au0hTER BLIND AND NEVER
ANSWERS DOOR.
At that number a reporter for Tho
evening World found that an old man
and his son had basement quarters.
When the name wa mentioned, the jani.
tor asked:
"Oh. o mean the count"
No n wa apparently at home, for
knocking brought no response.
You might knock there until Gabriel
blew his trumpet and nobody would an
swer you unless the men we're at home"
said the janitor. The daughter. Eliza,
- blind n she never answers a knock"
The place was Uttered with cigar
stumps. old labels. bits Of broken UNI
brellas. ferules from canes and all sorts
OF trifing junk that one might pick I'D
In the streets. From a woman who
claimed to know the family story this
narrative was brought to the surface:
MANY. many years ago the profes-
sor's family LIVED at Ezreaux, in
Normandy A French King ennobied
the house and Its members held a high
place. Then circumstances sent the
titled citizens into trade. and they had
a large ribbon factory IN Bernex. After
the Franco-Prussian war the father.
son and daughter came TO Canada, WHARF
they had a big ribbon factory. Then
1t went to smash and they came to
New York.
0Ib MAN AN Az ON
OLD COINS.
"He was known as a high authority
on old coins. and a number Of numis-
matte experts employed him to decipher
ancient coins and TO write about them.
The elder man Is of the highest educa-
tlonal Attachments.
Every day for the fifteen months
they have lived In the basement in
West Seventeenth street. father and
son. arm In arm. have gone out al 10
o'clock. They wandered about seeking
the old junk that Uttered the house,
strange combination of artistic educa.
ZION and gutter refuse"
Leon lie Metayer Masselin. Baron De
G~uichainville. made valuable discover
les In his wi country as an archaeo-
logist. a g~cologist. a bibliophilist and a
numismatist. The Duke OF Veragus
conferred OF him the cross OF the Order
OF Isabella the Catholic. When the
Pourbons had no longer a chance In
France he sold his 5000 Roman medals,
his 5000 books and his few remaining
possessions. Among his treasures was
an autograph supposed to be that of
Christopher Columbus. II turned out
TO he a forgery. done In the sixteenth
century.