Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-25
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! PASSED BY I1E CENSOR
CH1EF POSTAL INSPECTOR CORTEL-
| ~ YOU, of the Philadelphia district, who is
| a brother of George b. Cortelyou, once
| newspaperman but now descended to mere
| fnancier is a busy man. Cranks, black
| mailers and black handlers are his special
| forte. He has saved hundreds of people
/ from the clutches of defrauders and, incl
| dentally, has helped solve few mysteries
of Which the newspapers know nothing even
to this day.
Not long ago members of the Cabinet,
Senators, Congressman, Governors, Mayors
and others in public office were deluged with
! letters, evidently emanatng from an unbal-
anced brain. The writer must have spent
all his waking moments nditing the mis-
sivos. for there were busy days when indi-
vidual office holders received many as six
and seven each. Cortelyou was put the
case and the hunt began. Suspicion soon
narrowed down to George Washington katz-
enmuller, a Pennsylvania. Cortelyou and
aide called on the man. His room was
wcirdly decorated with newspaper clippings,
playing cards. picture postals and odds and
ends.
Katzenmuer admitted his identity but
insisted on being called George Washington
katzenmuler" every time addressed. He
confessed sending the letters but argued that
they contained no threats and were sim
ply advisory the postal authorities had no
right to interfere. knowing him to be in
the right, Cortelyou tried moral suasion.
"I know that you have the right to advise
the settling of differences between capital
and labor by making both eat indigestihl'
pie. as you wrote. thus killing off both sides"
said Cortelyou, "but don't you men in Of
flee seldom get letters from strangers, their
mail being intercepted by secretaries. So
why not send the letters to me and l will
forward them"
For year, until Katzenmuller was sent
to an asylum, Corteyou was swamped daily
by his letters
yTTtIEN Alfred G. Vanderbilt was a stu
w dent at Yale he had in Vanderbilt DOR
mtory suite of rooms the furnishings OF
which cost $4,000. A few doors away roomed
a student who was working his way through
the university and who was as poor as the
provorbial church mouse The latter was
no respecter of mere wealth, and had a |
habit of borrowing anything he needed, from
a razor to dress suit
"Hcy. Vanderbilt" he shouted one evening
while dressing, lend me the scissors with |
which you trim your cuffs will you, old |
MANI"
ITO STIMULATE recruiting for the British
i Army in France, certain girls in Brigh-
ton, the well-known English watering place.
resorted to a clever device. Early fore
noon they went to the boardwalk and pre-
sented white feather to every man to place
in his hat. Naturally, the gladly ac-
cepted the attention of the pretty misses.
But at noon a change came DER the spirit
of their dreams, for town crer promenaded
up and down the boardwalk, crying in stem
torian tones:
THE Order Of the White Feather has been
established this day and is worn by all those
who are afraid TO come to the aid of their
country. Oyer! Oyez!'
White feathers were NOT in evidence that
afternoon, and the recruiting offices did
land-of1ce business
TINE "On to Berlin" and ION to Paris"
i cries of the European combatants recall
story about a certain gentleman known to
history as Napoleon. First, however, be it
said that Charles XII of Sweden was the
original "On to Moscow" man, and that he
came to grief on the road at Pultawa, where
Peter the Great overwhelmed the Swedish
army.
Napoleon had begun his Russian campaign
and had crossed the River Nieman, Car
Alexander sought peace. and sent General
as an envoy to ask the Corsican
20 go home like good little man and stop
the mujiks No sooner had Ma
1oleon heard the proposal for peace than
ne led Balmashoff out of the tent in which
hey had been comforting and said:
MY dear general, do you think that !
brought my army merely to look upon the
River Neman? Won't you please tell me the
oest road to Moscow"
There are many roads to Moscow" re-
olied Balmashoff. For instance, there Is
he one via Pultawa Charles of Sweden
ried that one"
A reference to history Will tell you about
Iapoleon's "On TO Moscow" trip.
NOW that it is rumored that the United
~ States and Spain may act as arbiters in
he European struggle, attention is called
gain 10 that most democratic of monarchs,
Alfonso Kingy dignity sits lightly upon his
still youthful brow. An example of this has
ust come from CASTLE, where Alfonso spent
week more or less incognito. He put up
n an old inn where modern improvements
we're unknown. one morning he went into
he courtyard to make his ablutions like
my other citizen, and to shave. A maid fur
lished a piece of broken mirror. Then she
,egan TO quiz the stranger.
You don't look like an ordinary traveller"
he said. Are you connected with the court
Il Madrid?"
II am" said the King
perhaps you know his Majesty himself"
II do"
What do you do for him?"