New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-14
Old Musee'S Sl,000,000
Family Made Wanderers
by Auctioneer.
WORLDS RULERS
BRING $23 APIECE
Colonel Roosevelt and Cleopatra
viii Spend Summer at Coney
ISLANDS, for Whitman.

sleet storm sotbing outside the door
for chief mourner. tn old Eden Musee
yesterday gave up the ghost, an army
corps OF wax figures, bales Of costumes
and tons Of fixtures. and passed from
an improbable reality into a tradition
Of Manhattan.
Under the auctioneer'S hammer the
81 100000 worth Of glory that was the
Nlus6c realized less than 100000 yes
terday. Last night. with her one-time
psnopiy distributed among score Of
theatrical moving picture am cheap
museum concerns. the old building lay
with its windows closed in death.
On the l1;h he work of dissolution
begins. and by next spring sixteen
story Office st ctIre will rear itself
where once upstate and Jersey folk
drank deep OF thrills.
Theodore Roosevelt and Cleopatra
vii spend rcxt summer at the seaside
together. S. ". Gumpertz, Of the
Droamland Company, at Coney Island,
bought them, with most Of the Cham
Der Of Horrors exhibit and much OF the
Musee's other stock.
There beside the beach. with the roar
OF the sea and tn, ballyhoo men re-
placing the rumble Of crosstown cars,
II . best Of the wax statusry will spend
their declining years in humility,
dreaming Of the time when they were
headlincrs in a puppet world and 1t
cost 80 cents to view them, instead Of
the lowly dime.
World Rulers Bring S23.
f, NAV be hattering JUNCTION to the
Colonies soul to know that he brought
$3.50 at the auction with Washington,
Lincoln. Wellington. Napoleon, Richie
lieu. Julius Cesar, Bismarck, Queen
Victoria. Garit adj and half dozen
others thrown in for good measure.
John Purroy Mitchell, Marshall +.
Wilder. Anna Held, William Jennings
BRYAN and others Of Prominent Poo
pie. Past and Present appealed to the
bidders only $3.50 worth. Twenty-siH
Rulers OF the Worli' were auctioned
off for $500, about s23 per ruler.
II was in the Chamber Of Horrors
that the greatest atrocities against
.entimen. were committed. In vain did
the auctionecr ,9aii ana beg for fitting
prIcos after the manner OF auctioneers
since ~ bid in the APPLE Martyred
Christians, various messy forms OF eN-
ccution. Hindu Suttces, bomb tnroWers
and President Mckinley at the moment
Of assassination each brought only so
Patriotic pride did force the buyers
IN run No the price Of The Surrender
of Lee" to 500. but the purchaser got
Herewith almost ,uough soldiers TO
6ght the Civil War all over again. The
Spanish Inquisition,' which Musee Of
Gcials saw cos, $4,000 when new,
brought only $50 yesterday for four
teen figures and a large assortment of
pinccrs. thumbscrews. racks and other
instruments of conversion. Fletcher
Bomharding Vera Cruz. which until
the late Mexican unplcaSantn IS was
known as dewey BombardinG Manila,
fell into the 50 class.
Whilman's Hair Black.
For twenty years Mare Antony has
stood with his mouth open, while Cas-
sius. Brutus and a mob waited below
the dais. daring him to say it. Yes
terday the whole crew sold for S2lJ,
and Mares chance has gone forever
"The Field Of the Cloth OF Gold and
THE Coronation of George w brought
the top prices of the sale $50 Tor
each group. For his money the pur-
chaser of the coronation got the King,
the Queen. all the crown jewels and
rcgalia. the Archbishop of Canterbury,
the Duke Of Connaught. an Indian ra-
iah and various attendants Bidding
on The Field OF the Cloth OF Gold"
became lively after the aucuoneer had
Informed MS audience in a Perlmutter
accent that it was imported from
French md was designed in Mes
soneer's studium.'
Enshrined in an imposing marble
mausoleum of real canvas, Governor
Whitman take it from The catalogue
looked out upon his people from be
meath wig Of coal-black hair and
matinee-idol eyelashes. Not once did
his august gaze wavcr, even when he
went under the hammer for 81
somewhat moth-eaten tiger. with
hungry expression, which crouched IN
front Of his throne, brought So, IN
which Albany may or may not see a
political omen.
Thomas A. Edison sold for SO. Goe-
thals for So and Mutt and JEFF for $40.
George and old Mr.. Washington. in the
moment of the cherry tree argument,
stirred patriotism 10 the extent OF SIS.
Charlotte Corday was balled out for
S25.
Heads Cent Apiece.
In the wake Of the big groups came
the odds and ends Of the museum.
Enough heads, with no visible means
of support, TO have made sansculotte
turn green with envy sold for five and
two and one cent each. Arms and legs
and wax bodies in a state OF fearsome
ACKNOWLEDGMENT would have gone for a
song. had any one been brazen enough
TO chant over their mutilation.
Only one delegation among the no
less raucous voiced audience OF Hy-
man karp. auctlonecr. sorrowed over
the passing of the Husce From
Golden's Bridge. y. Y. Joshua Hunter
man. his son. Charles, and MS daugh-
ter. Charlotte. journcyed TO town yes
'erday. Drawing the sleet and wind. to
visit the world in wax" Their amaze
ment when they broke in upon obse-
quies instead Of an entertainment was
profound.
"Why. saw this show two years
ago" lIunterman announced. never
heard that the place had failed. I've
talked TO my children and told them
about il. and We came to-day "a sort
Of Christmas spree. Is - lucky the