Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-02-26
SPIRITS LURE
HEIRS TO SEEK
NOES FORTUNE
Descendants Part With SIS
Per to Get EOok-in on
Loot.
WILL FENCE IT IN

+heSe shores from France somewhere
back in the year 1853. According to Mr.
Luria. Mr. Noe was of thrifty Huguenot
AIestock. He took off his coat. rolled up MS
sleeves and embarked in the real estate
business When he died, again we quote
Mr.. Liriah, his estate embraced valuable
lands in New Jersey, Manhattan and
Staten Island"
An this and lots more Mr.. Luria ex-
plsiued to fifty trusting and expectant
descendants of old man Nee, foregath-
cred in a poorly ventilated mid Section OF
Miss McHugh's dancing studio, at "a
Park place. Newark.
ONLY $50 DID
NOT RESPOND.
chandelier in the mid section was
tastefully draped with watercress, with
pendant red pasteboard hearts. Behind
a desk on an improvfsed platform sat
Mr.. Luria himself clad IN brown checked
trousers. gray jacket and gates aJar col
lar Mr. Luria wore a carnatlon in the
lapel of the gray jacket and ever and
anon he lowered his nose for the purpose
of inhaling the rich fragrance Of the lit
tie flower The fifty wide-eyed descend
ants of old Pierre Noe sat with StTan-
gle hold on their purses awaiting the I'M
folding of Mr.. Lurias tale.
r.
was disappointed at the small showing OF
Noe descendants He had sent out 600 in
vitatfons. he said. Where were the other
$50 descendants?
The fifty descendants present looked
AT each other questioningly. One man
from Metuchen, y. J., stopped down and
peered under his chair He had dropped
his handkerchief.
For the benefit of descendants who
had not been able to put In an appear
ance at a former meeting which Mr..
Luria called ct Miss McHugh's dancing
studio. he explained that he had founded
what is known as the Noe TrfmbIe
, Family Association of America. ANY
descendant OF old man Noe. one OF whose
asdaughtsrs married into the Trimble
family. who wanted to become a mem
Der of the association would have TO
step up 10 Mr.. Luria's desk and PUNK
down s. initiation fee and, after re
celving a receipt for that. would further
oblige by an additional $40, comprising
the first years dues
Having separated themselves from SD
apiece. Mr.. Luria explained, the de
scendants would he In line for share OF
old man Noes property, tracts OF which.
Mr.. Luria intimated. are scattered over
New York and New Jersey with the Wild
40 ONE INJURED
N RUSH.
No one was injured in the rush which
followed to pay the initiation fee and
the first years dues. The descendants
crowded each other a bit and stepped
on each others toes aud politely elboee1
each other in their zeal to part with
their money Each Of the descendants
get a little rectangular receipt, pink as
s pelican's tongue.
When the receipts had been tucked
away n breast or breeches. according
To the sex Of the descendant, ME Luria
introduced the associations counsel, w.
7. WOodhead. Jr. who said he occupied
offices in the Prudential building. New
ark
There's land. valuable land, in Jer
sev~ that this association is going to
fence in" explained Mr.. Woodhend.
ITS Noe property to which none of
the Noe heirs have records enforce
able because the records have been
outlawed. We are going to fence this
land in. as I said, claiming il not as
Noe heirs but as members of the Noe
I-imb;e Family association
ssTben after we've established title
we'll sell the land we've fenced In
and every one who has paid his dues
in this association will come in for
his share Of the profits. II there are
only fifty members in the association
each member will receive one-fftieth OF
the profits
Mr. Woodward was asked where TINS
vast and valuable tract OF Noe land was
situated This be coyly refused to di-
vulge.
III told you where it was stu
ated." he said, Others might go in
and get If first But I will say this
The land is there. Your royal trus-
tees in this association went down
there on that land a couple Of Sundays
ago. You remember that cold Sunday
Well. we weat down there in that zero
weather and looked the ground over fcr
you and can tell you the land is there.
One of the descendants wanted to
know whether Mr.. I4uria had succeeded
in locating anything tangible in the way
Of personal property OF the late lamented
Pierre Noe. Speaking for Mr.. Luria'
Mr.. Woodhead said that the quest. as
yet in it's infancy, had revealed per
sonal property amounting to something
ike $3.50.
Gloom descended upon the descend
ants at this intelligence, whereupon Mr.
I.uria introduced Mrs. Louise Anderson
of Mount Vernon.
Mrs. Anderson is a widow. She said
So she is also a spiritualist she ad-
mitted that, too. Mrs. Anderson even
went further, came right out and said she
was q medium.
SOME AT WALL
AND BROAD.
''If this thing is done right we are all
going to get something out of it," said
Mrs. Anderson breezily and cheerily and
confidently. She spoke with assurance.
The descendants perked up and one Of
them, a male descendant from South Jer-
sey. got so excited he lit a cheroot.
- LET me tell you something" said Mrs.
Anderson. "Do you know that some OF
the property left by old Pierre Noe was
situated at Wall and Broad streets in
New York, where the Stock Exchange is
located? If that property is sold, ought
not the descendants of Pierre Noe get
share in it? I might as well be frank
with you. I'm a spirituaiist. L was
drawn to this meeting by the spirit
world. can tell you that something big
is going to come of thisi"
Mrs. Anderson similigly vouchsafed the
Information that she is widow, and
turning to Mr.. Luria she said
And you know he's widower.'
The forty female descendants present
laughed and applauded appreciatively,
not to say expenctantly.
And now if at any time l can help
line of business don't hesitate to call
on me-" 49,
Then Mrs. Anderson, the Mt. Vernon
spiritualist. sat down and Mr.. Luria got
up and said that while he was in no way
49,