Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-25
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THtEF POSTAL. INSPECTOR CoRTEL-
~ YOU, Of the Philadelphia district, who Is
a brother of George b. Cortelyou. once a
| newspaperman but now descended to a mere
| financier, 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 so long ago members of the Cabinet,
! Senator's congressman. Governors Mayors
and others in public office were deluged with
letters evidently emanating from an unbal-
anced brain The writer must have spent
all his waking moments inditing the mis-
sves, for there were busy days when ind-
vidual office holders received as many six
and seven each. Cortelyou was put on 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 was
weirdly decorated with newspaper clippings,
playing cards, picture postals and odds and
ends.
Katzenmuller admitted his identity, but
insisted on being called George Washington
Katzenmuller" 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 indigestible
pie, as you wrote, thus killing off both Sides"
said Cortelyou "but don't you see 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 sent
to an asylum, Cortelyou swamped daily
by his letters
WHEN 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 as poor the
proverbial 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
Hey. 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 one fore
noon they went to the boardwalk and pre-
sented a white feather to every man to place |
in his hat. Naturally, the men gladly ac-
cepted the attention of the pretty misses
But at noon a change came DER the spirit
of their dreams, for a town crier promenaded
up and down the boardwalk, crying in stem
torian tones
THE Order of the White Feather has been
established this day and is by all those
who afraid to come to the aid of their
country. Oyez Oyez!"
White feathers were NOT in evidence that
afternoon, and the recruiting offices did
land office business
TINE "On to Berlin" and "On to Paris"
i cries of the European combatants recall a
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 Poltava, where
Peter the Great overwhelmed the Swedish
army.
Napoleon had begun his Russian campaign .
and had crossed the River Niemen. Gear
sought peace, ana sent General
as an envoy to ask the Corscan
o go home like good little man and stop
annoying the mujiks No sooner had Ma
1oleon heard the proposal for peace than
le led Balmashoff out of the tent in which
hey had been comforting and said
My dear general do you think that l
brought my army merely TO look upon the
River Niemen? Won't you please tell me the
,est road to Moscow
There are many roads to Moscow" re-
1lied Balmashoff. For instance there is
he one Via Poltava. Charles of Sweden
ried that one"
A reference to history will tell you about
Ia apueon's "On to Moscow" trip
\ Tow that it is rumored that the United
~ States and Spain may act as arbiters in
he European struggle, attention is called
gain to that most democratic of monarchs,
Alfouso. Kingly dignity sits lightly upon his
tll 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
ny other citizen, and TO shave, a maid fur
Ished a piece Of broken mirror Then she
cgan 70 quiz the stranger.
You don't look like an ordinary traveller"
he said. Are you connected with the court
/ Madrid"
81 am" said the King
perhaps you know his Ma jesty himself"