The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-06-16
OBJECTS OF ART
OF MANY LANDS
IN ELWELL HOME
Wide Range of Whist Experts
Taste Shown in Furnish
ings and Collections.
MODERN AND ANCIENT.
Oriental Tone Prevails, With
Love of Luxury Indi-
Gated Everywhere.

Joseph Bovine Elweli, the MUIR
dered whist expert. died as he had
lived, surrounded by things Of beauty
and art culled from the four corners
OF the earth. His house at No. 244
West 10Th Street is filled to the brim
with his collection of paintings, rare
old furniture or excellently made cop
les of rare old furniture. Of japanese
and Chinese porcelain and pottery and
OF Oriental rugs in deep blues. deep
reds and deeper puppies.
The mans taste ran to the sensual
and the outre, but even so. it was
catholic, embracing all forms Of art
and the art OF many widely different
nations. And through 1t all. from top to
bottom Of the house. .there runs the
senuous strain that played such
large part in the mans life before
that fateful shot put an end to his, en-
jo'ment Of all the beautiful things he
had gathered around MIN.
Elwell was found dying in a mas
sive chair of the Jacobean type in
what he called his downstairs re-
ception room. The blood that flowed
from his wounded head smeared and
spattered the prune- colored velour
that had been used to upholster the
chair and clotted on the rich hang
ing fringes. Under his feet, as ne
sat there unconscious before death.
was a thick Oriental rug of dark
blue and tan, masterpiece Of the
rug weaver's art.
EGYPT, CHINA AND JAZZ IN THE
MUSIC ROOM.
Upstairs where the detectives who
have turned the house upside down
i'm their search for possible clues to
the murderer have made their
headquarters, the first place the
it there is barely room for the mas
sive square piano, with its brocaded
cover; n photograph os the most
expensive sort, a jazz record still in
place; a lampstand Of black onyx, a
massive chair, sister of that in the
reception room below, and q great,
colorful picture of an Egyptian dane
ing girl-vivid, seductive, so alive that
one can almost hear the sequins on
her scanty dress jingle as she dances
Under foot in this room is a dull
red and gold rug from ancient China.
breathing of the Tci-pai dynasty.
maybe-or ut least looking as If It
did.
Opening out Of the music room is
10 Ar
jarring note, for a great monkish ia
BILE stands in the centre and one Won
ders until the butler explains that 1t
was put there temporarily until the
master could have 1t moved to his
country home. Save for the monlSish
table, the dominant note of this room
is Oriental, limiting Of sandalwood.
samolus and the multitudlnous odors
of the Far East. A large japanese
cabinet carved with the deft skill of
the Mikado's people and gilded richly
stands in one corner. There is almost
an overdose OF color in that cabinet,
and the eye turns to the heavy chairs
with their restful. dull tones, only to
be overstimulated once more by the
massive vases and Jars from the Orl-
ent that stand on the mantel.
A Japanese fgurine holds a hand
some lamp aloft and on q writing
desk Of mahogany are q number of
Chinese and Japanese and Hindoo
figures, dogs, wrestlers and dragons.
on either side of the mantel stand
huge urns of Egyptian pottery.
One corner of the room Is devoted
10 books that tell, il nothing else did,
of the tastes of the man who lived
among them. All the books on whist
and bridge are there, as Is Oscar Wilde,
a full edition; "The Mystery of the
sudden Arrow, by Anna katherine
Green, and "Queed," the latter dog
cared.
in another corner Of this room stands
a heavy teakwood Jewel box. secured
by massive and ancient lock- 1t was
this that burglars broke open when
they invaded the house some months
ago.