New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-06-11
PERSONAL ITEMS.

"Rodman Wanamaker, forty-three years
old. added another 81, 900, 900 to his life in
surance He was said before to be the
most heavily insured man in the world and
now he carries a total of si,500.000, most
of It in the large companies of this coun-
try. Rodman Wanamaker is the son OF
john Wanamaker and yice-president OF the
great mercantile concern.
Miss Helen Whittier Andrus, daughter
of Congressman John L. Andrus, of Yon-
kers one of the weal;hiest men in the
House, and Henry Homer Hobbs, famous
az left tackle Of the Yale football team in
1905 and 1903, eloped Congressman An
drus did not know thing about the wed
ding until it was all over and said he had
not consented to II.
THE trustees of Dickinson College elect
ed Or. Eugene Allan Noble, of Goucher Col
lege, Baltimore. as president. to succeed
DR.. George Edward Reed. resigned.
DR.. william Pierson Merrill pastor since
1895 Of the Sixth Presbyterian Church, OF
Chicago. and Moderator Of the Chicago
Presbytery decided to accept the call OF the
Brick PRESBYTERIAN Church Of New York.
The salary offered is 10000 and a parson-
age at No. II East 37th street
at meeting of the trustees Of the pro-
posed women's college for New London,
Conn. Morton +. Plant. the yachtsman, Of
fered to endow the new college with $1,000
coo provided all their income from that sum
should be used for defrating the running
expenses Of the college.
Daniel O'Reilly, former deputy assist
ant District Attorney under Asa Bird Gardi-
ner, and later one of counsel in the Harry
X Thaw and Nan Patterson trials, was SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for five months
by Justice Davis i'm the Criminal Branch OF
the Supreme Court. OReilly had been con-
vic;ed Of criminally receiving $4,000 of the
SIS. 900 in securities stolen in March from
the brokerage firm Of Aaron Bancroft & Co.
wv. f. ID. Stokes, proprietor Of the An
sonia Hotel was shot and severely wound
ed while In the apartments of Miss Lillian
Graham and Miss Ethel Conrad, on the
fourth floor Of the Varuna, No. 225 West
seth street. He was hit three times. \
quarrel arose while he was negotiating with
them for the return Of some letters he had
written Miss Graham.
'Elizur Yale Smith, Of Lee. Mass. was
arrested by q Chicago detective at West
Park. y. Y, near Kingston, charged with
an irregular transaction IN Chicago Smith
Is the Youngest son of the late Wellington
Smith, OF Lee, a wealthy paper maker and
\ direct descendant of the founder Of Yale
University.
Leopold Dreyfus. president of the whole
sale clothing firm Of l.. Dreyfus & Co, shot
and killed himself in his home in South
Michigan avenue Chicago, after making a
sensational confession which revealed the
existence Of an alleged arson trust in Chi
cago. Dreyfus admitted having employed
members of this trust to set fire TO his
establishment in South Market street, and
pu. the police on the trail OF its members.
Following his death the police began Il
systematic effort to break up tn. gang of
professional incendiaries.
Joseph ID. Bren, treasurer. accountant
and cashier of the University of Minnesota,
who reported that he had been held up and
robbed in a ravine near the campus of s13.-
OO) belonging to students. was arrested. 1t
transpired later that the university accounts
show "A deficit OF about $4,000
If the recommendations of a special
committee of the Board OF Estimate made
10 that body are adopted a board of in
ebriety and a system for the regulation
and reclamation Of drunkards will be es-
Ia blished by this city. The report of the
committee, which was composed of Borough
President McAneny and Borough President
Cromwell. estimates that the expenses of
maintaining the board Of inebriety would
he about $4,000 a year. and TO establish a
home that would care for five hundred in
ebriates would cost s450,000."
1t ought to FIJI a long felt want for still
another place to 90 besides home" sneered
Eury Man