The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-03-09
COLONEL BEL. WIN
HELD AS vAGRANT
Virginian and Former Railroad
President Was Begging on
Broadway.

New York. March S.-Down and out
pgnhandlins at Broad and Thirty
fourth street. Colonel w. Wayne Bel
YIN. once railroad president, who
member of the Lotos Club. was ar
rested last night when he begged a
detective for money, and to-day was
sent to BlaclSwell's Island as vag-
bach's cards III his pockets. and also
letter from James T.. Gaynor, n law
yer, OF 80 East Forty second Street,
commencing him to Mayor Gaynor.
Early in January Colonel Bclvin got
out OF the workhouse. lie appeared
in Jefferson Market Court about De-
cembor / and asked the magistrate
to send him up.
the West Thirtleth Street Station,
picked him up on vagrancy charge,
the colonel said Mr.. Lauderbach once
was his attorney. The lawyer said
over the telephone last night.
Yes. it may we'll be so. The other
day In Wall Street n man who had
evidently seen better days and had
some evidences OF breeding about him
came up to me and said he was once
one of my clients. l gave him a coin
and passed on
The letter from Ar. Gaynor to the
Mayor said Belvin would like to be
employed by tho city. Anything you
can give him you may charge 10 my
account" This letter was dated Jan
uary %. and Bolvin said he had been
intending to present il. but had not
done so.
The erstwhile railroad manipulation
Is nfty-three years old, and Vir-
Sinian. He was graduated from the
Virginia Military Institute and went
through business school, and then
engaged in tobacco farming in his own
state. But year after lie took this
UP he went TO Seattle as Il civil en-
gineer.
This brought him into railroad work
and he became associated with Henry
Willard in building the Northern Pa
cinc. soon he was president of the
san Francisco and Eastern. ana during
his incumbency laid 100 miles of track
and then sold IL to the Southern Pa
cific. He went TO London in 1883,
opened banking house, and for eight
years was well known in English
banking circles. But failure brought
him back to these shorea, and he be
president of the Port Angeles and
Eastern Railroad. from Port Angeles.
Wash, 1S6 miles southwark to Port
land. Ore, and also president of the
British American Finance Company.
lie was Interested in all sorts OF min
ing enterprises, and put money into
Tonopnh, Goldheld and other Nevada
camps
Europe his wife obtained divorce on
statutory grounds. The correspondent
was said to have been the wife or an
Ohio state Senator. The referee found
that even while Belvln was II railroad
president his income was less than
$4,000 a year, and he owed his tailor
$1,000.
The referee said he borrowed money
from his friends to pay his dues In
the Lotos and Coney Island Jockey
Clubs. and 1t was alleged he had even
pawned his witc's Jewels.
The Waldorf Astoria had him ar
rested in 1899 for not paying his bill.
Beivin threatened the life of David III.
Aloffatt. OF Denver, then at the Wal
dorf, saying the Colorado man owed
him 100000. Monatt went 10 George
G. Boldt, told him the story and Mr..
Boldt demanded that Kelvin pay his
bill at once and leave. II was At night.
and Belvin said he did not have the
necessary s143 With him and could
not cash a check. He was arrested, and
discharged In tho Police Court on pay
ing tho bill. He brought suit for $780,
600 against the hotel management
The next time he came into The pub
lie prints was In May. 1901, when he
Was arrested By the Buffalo police for
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