Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-04-02
PRICELESS ART IN
DEAD MANS ROOM
LOST REmsRAsoT AND CHRIST
on CROSS ~ oURER ~ \
oIscV ABODE.

yesterday 20 SOS Cas- street. che ding.
lost % a dinEy roW % north side room
INK houses In tWo-doiiar a week
room. top aoor rear. ne found what he
{ had been Ia such haste 10 get to-an-
other protected litter % unframed age
cracked canyases reported TO MIN as a
veritabie mine OF old masters.
The room Was the one in which
Louis Heiimnu. septunEenariau re-
.eIuse. died on Friday after stroke %
paralysis. when Bishop left u he car
riea vlfh him paintings the value OF
Ahieh Do had been Informed. Vas sew
erai hundred thousand 90 dollars.
Among them vas lost Rembrandt
Solomon and the Queen % Sheba-"
Another vas Apollo and the Muses..
variousiy credited % Auuihaie Caracci
and 20 Rubens. stu another was a
priceless old drawing by Albrecht Dur
er-~Christ on the Cross
Al these paintings had been ia Hell
mans possessions for many years.
with . fortune az his elbow he had
often gone without food
Iu their report % his death che po-
De-. 20 the Elst Chicago avenue sta
t.ou set down Hciiman as a superan-
ruafed and uusuccesEfui artist. He
really vas rather a c1nuoisscur and col
.iecfor o. paintings however. and on
occasion o. dealer
y a. MacEas Of $3.50 Ellis avenue
Tor many years a friend OF Heilman
and himself something OF an art con
n1.sseur. told Ga" public administrator
uf Ifr value OF fHr paintings left ur-
. guarded iu che old mans room. Mac
Eae had been iu So Louis when Do
learned % uc.luar death and had
hurried 20 Chicago.
Heiiman lad made aE much of o.
r1nhdautr % Macfse az he had OF ans
person De- had met ir hia 81 year resi-
Ierre lu CEIrasu Tho old collector
raa % noble German family. had
cgf au ties UirE fIT farhsriand. and
had come 90 Amrriea after au uufor-
.uaar~ love affair while making
bare fivirE bv buying and selling pie
fur-a. boz bad fallen short 90 financial .
success because Dee could not force .
himself tp part With far finest pictures .
that came iuto blH bands
IfacRar accompanied the public ado
milistraf1r and hiH assistants Co cine .
Caes street ruemi1s house.
q have been in fhis room a thou
saud times before l- said -iF all.
ways looked ftie same aay. dirty and
neglected. with cguEeEcE stacked Z.
asaiuFf ttr walls hv fae dozen He'll
man Heiimau l@ used t1 be /
told me that che paintings De- had
kept Tor himself we're she cream or
something like 10000 be had handled
Mort % hls pictures. although be-
had started many uow successful art
lists on the road Goo fortune hy bus InE
their early efforts. Boz found in places
Which he called lis mines The
Rembrandt Doe brought up years ago
from Nru Orleans. THE price be- paid
Cor &C. would have kept him lu luxury
fp- years set NaE fEr Jess than .tr
value. He.imau mi=lf have sold Dr.
several times Tor prices ranging from
$50. 1000 fr $4,000. tlr Ee had NOT
bought 90 to sell
What uttIe EuoH % HeIimaa--
private affairs Q learned iu this room
EtE sears ago last Dar'sfmas. had d
come 90 visit him. bringing prrs"nf.
De- vas not the Hrsf prF.Tuf OF the day
FaU. Before him on -1s fioor vuE
box vhich had come from Germany. o.
-1ntaiucI a phouoErapf and three rec
rrds. the boxes % which acre marked
Ei1. Zvct and 'urri'
fife asked me- 10 knew how Co op. !
-rafs tf~ machine. FOR ausavr d |
snlud 20 and slipped ON che record /
marked 'E.r There vas au 1rchc
.rai Introduction and then g. vote. |
ans q recognized IiFimwel' Go was
ur call 90 tEs fatheriaud. . glanced |
.f Heiimau. iis VAS cgiuE the ma-
shine to- stony silence. not much im
pressed. apparently. So G slipped oH
tc second record "a wax one such a.
had made myself at home
This time there NEH no music \ III
i'radluE voice spoke THE words came Z
1rft iu q torrent OF duplication. Ill
ulId understand fhr tone and could
.e- thr drift ~ shat vas being said.
wen though Euev titsic German
some ore vas pleading with Heilmau
% come home. it eah a verbal mes
aEe-and e. never uas finished.
-fteiimau jumped az tlc phouoEraph.
rafched on she record and crushed
. under BIS heel H. mashed Helm
.~h.' TOO. and the fhird gnpIayed rec
"a
-Pvrsetiy Do gave me Just a glimpse
{ his yout1 Sic had then been away
rom home almost affy years. 90. had
pc because. after hls student DAYS. be
al been Tilted The iiitinE turned him
OF only against bis former sweetheart
ut bis ovu family and his country
The photograph record -his broth
- voice vas his first letter from
one Hos his people had got track
Z bin ] never learned but his bit
'ruess remained after all fhe years
II told me he never a0uld set foot |
Germany aEaiu.-
The public administrator has CON-
uaieatsd with Hslimau's brothers
no are stearns ship owners Ia liam
arg and wealthy. FOR the old man died
tessate. In the meantime the Rem
-andt. the Caracci-Rubcns. and all