The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-11-25
Films Showing Missing Commits
siOner Sent to All Parts
Of Country.
QUICK RESULTS EXPECTED
Friend Thinks StOver May Be
Victim of Attack Of
Amnesia.


be seen on 10000 moving picture screens
on Thanksgiving Day. within week
thereafter 10000. 900 Americans will know
how Mr.. Slower looks, how he walks and
what sort Of gestures he makes when he
talks
They will learn too that New York wants
to know where its Park Commissioner is.
and II any one of the 100000 has seen
him he will be expected. to send word TO
/ the City Hall. This IL the legend which
will fash on the screen before Mr.. Stover's
likeness appears:
New York-Friends OF Charles B..
Slower. Park Commissioner Of New York.
who mysteriously disappeared on octo-
ber 16. have not had a trace Of him since"
There is no definite request for in
/ formation. but the friends OF Mr.. Slower
and the managers of Pathe Freres. who
are sending out the Aims to help in the
search for the Commissioner. have no
! doubt that Mayor Kline will soon hear
from some one who has seen Mr. Slower.
Reels Already sent Oat.
! The moving picture men have already
sent out the reels to their subscr ibers
throughout the country. They went
through a big lot OF films showing folk
dances in the parks OF New York and
children at play in the city Fairgrounds
to hnd nlms in which Mr.. Slower ap-
, peared.
| They found him in many Of them. cut
out the parts that showed him best. pieced
them together and fixed them so that the
/ reels will run az a single set OF pictures
The films are sent out for release on
ThuNday. aN regular number o: the
"Pathe Weekly" reels depicting current
events.
]. f. Lavery OF 80 Reads street. one OF
Mr.. Stover's Oldest friends In New York.
closed the arrangements for the film dis
play yesterday. Mr.. Lavery fears that
Mr.. stover has met with some sort Of q
tnishap which has affected his mind and
made him forget perhaps that he Is still
Park Commissioner OF New York.
'Stover was SO devoted 70 his du;.es
and was SO wrapped up in serving the
Park Department" said Ny LaNery yes
terday. that he certail-y is not staying
away II he has any idea that his absence
is interfering with the business OF the
department,
Suagests Attack Of Amuesis.
Therefore the one conclusion that can
best be drawn IN the face OF the wide
publicity given 70 his disappearance is
that lie il a victim Of some mental aher-
ration such as amnesia
This might result in his forgetting his
lie of the past FOUR years and in his
looking on himself as a private citizen.
You remember that Mr. Slower used 10
come and go when he pleased. like a
bird. You never knew when he was going
TO pack up his bag and go away, saying
nothing about Il to anybody. A blow on
the head or perhaps his grief over the
death of Mayor Gaynor might have erased
from his mind the fact that he had duties
here and would make him think that he
had his old freedom back again"
Mr.. Lavery has been carrying on a
Gliet search for Mr.. Stover ever since
the Commissioners absence stretched ou.
beyond the limits OF reason. Nothing has
been heard directly from Mr.. Stover since
November Il. So Mr., Lavery began an
nqu.r? in the banks to find out if the
Commissioner had been drawing any
money for travelling expenses since h,
went away. He hasn't found that Nj
Stover sent Tor a cent Of money after he
vanished, but he has come upon number
OF interesting things.
Sent Checks to Pay D~hts.
1t appears that Mr.. Stovcr made out
fiNe checks on November II In Phlladel
pha. dated them November lS and sent
them in letters under the latter date to
private creditors Ia New York One was
70 Robbins Gilman. head of the uuivar-
si,y Settlement, settling Mr. S,over's debts
at the settlement house. Another WAS To
Morris Rosenfeld photographer AT ll6
Nassau street who had taken park pic
tures for MIR. Stover. Though the letters
and checks were dated November 10 the
Philadelphia posImark was two days
earlier
From what Mr.. Lavery has found from
running down the checks II appears that
Mr., Stover settled up his private affairs
on November II and either did not know
that he was two days away from the
calendar or else for some reason not vet
revealed misdated the letters. A letter
with tho same confusion Of dates reached
Louis i. la Roche now in charge of the
Park Department in which Mr. Slower
asked him to attend to few park mat ,
tiers. "regrettIng that his travels would
keep him away for few days longer"
Mr.. Lavery said that letter to ian
office on Beekman street" provided for
the settlement of private AFFAIRS then
pending.
Mr. Slower was suspended yesterday
as Commissioner OF Parks for Manhattan
and Richmond, II was said at the Mayors
office that II Mr.. Slower returns and has
"A satisfactory excuse to give to Mayor
Kline he will be reinstated.
Mr.. La Roche and Police Commissioner
Waldo talked TO the Mayor yesterday
about Mr. Stover's disappearance. Mr.. |
Waldo will send out 10 the police of other
cities the regular forms OF inquiry for
missing New YorkeA
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