Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-01-18
A COPY OF A BIBLE
BRINGS BIG sum
At BOOK SALE
IN GOTHAM
Gutenberg on Paper Is Pur.
chased for $27 500 and Will
Be Placed in Stock by
Dealer.
ANNE MORGAN SINGS
RAG TIME BEAUTIFULLY

Ncw York. Jan. iS.-The bis
feature at the Hoe BOOK sale
was an entertainment for The girl8,
who are members OF the vacation
savings fund Of the woman's welfare
department Of the National civic fed
GRAFTON.
\ Divorce Tor Waiter suydnm.
4 nnal decree of divorce was
granted Walter ispenard suydam,
Jr., wealthy Blue Point, l.. L., fisher
man aud yachtsman. yesterday by SUI
prcmc Court Justice Harrington Put
nam OF Brooklyn, sitting az River
head. The decree leaves young suy-
dam free 60 marry whenever and
whoever hc piCascs. but his wife that
was AIRS. Louise Lawrence suydam,
who startled thc public by her aston
ishhgly frank clopemcnt with Fred
die NOhlo. young Brooklyn affinity.
~ not permitted 60 marry again.
Nrrcst POO Chinese Gamblers.
More than two hundred Cinnamon
are under arrest here today as the
result at an INVASION Of Chinatown bv
an army of 1895 policemen lGtu last
night Tho spectacular raid was the
first open move in a war against gam
bling ana u ncttcd. besides the
last night was "a copy on paper
Of tho famous Gutcnborg Bible. the
first book printed from movable type.
II was sold to Bernard Qu9ritch, the
London denlcr for &9T.5O0. lie said
hc bought Il for his own stock. Ar
thur Hoe SON Of the dead collector.
quit az $4,000, Qunritch bought the
Hutch copy of che Gutenberg Bible Ina
London for j pierpont Morgan. pay
ing $29,5o0 but the copy was in far
better condition than the one sold
last night That copy was uncut, ana
there were some notes in 10 by Gutcn-
borg This one came from the Ash-
burnhan library and cost Mr Hoe
$4,000.
only fwenty-sevon copies On paper
are known To- exist AZ the end oi
Hoes copy there Is Latin inscrip-
ton. witnessed by notary. which
shows that the Bible originally bee
longcd TO John Nlicghct. priest of
the Cathedral Of Utrecht
Anne Morgan sang Ragtimc.
n friends oi Anne Mo. gan daueh-
ter Qf a. picrnont Mnrenn. never have
known her gift Tor the interpretation
al raE-tlme music. they should have
been Ia "a han on the fourth floor oi
the Engineering building last night
Ragtime music never got better ud.
v"rtisiue than when Miss Morgan, hci
head thrown back and her eyes dane.
ing, led $50 girls from thr East sid,
iu the churusos OF "Oh' You Boauti.
iul Doll" "Mammys shutnm Ounce
aud Tint Mysterious Rag." Mrn
Francis Bacon aad Mrs Charles Is
rucls, who also lifted their voices {,
the strains of "Aloxnndpr's Rnctim,
band,' almost hccume Jealous OF Miss
Nor CAMS knowledge of popular airs
The occasion Tor an the mcrrimcn
Wholesale arrests. the destruction o
more than "a score OF dingy gambun.
dcns
strange Incidents az EquiiabIr Hire
ono ~ tho strange incidents of IN,
Equitable building fire was tho dis
charge of revolver which lav "
somebody's desk. The bullet Whl2zcl
through the air ana landed "a bloch
away in an office on the nfth uuol
ui the American surety company
shNserapcr II narrowly missed ~,
head OF A. n Pitcher. q clerk for Ga,
surety company Pitcher lodged ant
as ne turned his head ne saw pnrk
age uf envelopes that was on hh
desk take flisht and land with
thud against tho wall of tho office
lie found g. bullet imhoddod in IA,
envelopes when ne investigated an,
viii keep h us q strange souvenir a.
the great fire.