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THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
Arc the Gould Young Ladies Going
Abroad?
Cruelty to Helpless Trees—How Re
peal Made the Silver Men Richer.
(Copyright, i
New York. Dec. 2.—Now itoisnreported
that the Gould children—that is, the
girls. Anna and Helen, with one of their
brothers-propo.se making a tour to Eu
rope together. The Goulds like Europe,
but they do not prefer it to their own
country. The publicity attendant upon
the rumors of marriage may have some
thing to do with the contemplated trip.
When the party will start is not defin
itely ascertainable. It appears that Miss
Anna would like to go south for a time.
Everything connected with the late .lay
Gould's children seems to reveal their
democratic simplicity. For instance,
they spend comparatively little upon
themselves, although they give large
sums to public and private charities.
Moreover, their friends are largely
among the poor. The Gould girls
are acquainted with numerous young
women who might be termed poverty
stricken. Hut it seems to be thought that
the Goulds have no aristocratic friends.
There never was a greater misapprehen
sion. These wealthy young people re
ceive visits and invitations from the most
exclusive families in New York, and from
persons who. if not as wealthy as the
Goulds, are at least rich enough and so
cially strong enough to be above the im
putation of an interested motive. Should
the GoUlds make the foreign tour, their
sojourn will certainly not add to the reve
nues of any fortune hunter. It seems to
have escaped general notice that all the
children of the lato wizard are patriotic
Americans.
THE KEPARTt RE OF A MILLIONAIRE.
The, fact that the present Anthony
Joseph Drexel took no trouble to deny a
report that lie intended buying a home in
New York is taken to menu that he w ill
do so. But the impression is wrong. Mr.
Drexel's permanent home is Philadel
phia, to which city he is, like his father,
warmly attached. He is at present
among the most admired of the many out
of-towm rs who now and then appear on
horseback in Central l’ark. He is deemed
one of the most expert horsemen in the
east, although his stable represents no
great outlay, considering his wealth.
It is noteworthy in this con
nection that young millionaires
like Mr. Drexel do not settle down
in New York as numerously as
they once did. Other cities now vie
with the national metropolis as good
places to spend a handsome income in.
Moreover, a good social position in New
York does not mean as much as a good
social position in Boston. Philadelphia, or
Baltimore. The latter cities are conceded
to be more censorious in matters relating
to a position in society than is New York.
Money continues to be the principal
thing with the (iothamites. No wonder,
therefore, that A. J. Drexel does not mean
to desert proud old Philadelphia for New
York.
SCHOOL GIRLS AND AMERICAN niSTORT.
As most Americans are aware the Vice
President of the United States has no
robe of office. It does not apnear that
even John Adams longed for insignia of
any kind when he became our first “sec
ond man in Home.’’ Yet a gown was pre
pared in this city for Mr, Stevenson by a
number of young school misses, who did
not learn how useless a work they were
engaged in until it was nearly finished.
They had confused the Vice President
with the chief justice, no very surprising
thing in young women educated in New
York. Strange as it may seem the grad
uates of female seminaries here are very
ignoranton all subjects connected w ith the
institutions of their own country. William
M. Evarts hasdone much to remedy this in
nublic academies, but private schools are
not so susceptible to this influence.
Samuel 0. Tilden's comment w hen the
honor girl of a graduation class in an
aristocratic private seminary told him
that the chief justice of the United States
was elected by the people for a term of
fourteen years has almost passed into
history. Koscoe Conkling was an enemy,
during most of his public career, to the
farcical system of “education” carried out
in New York boarding schools, whore
French only is spoken and Lindley Mur
ray is never even heard of.
CRUELTY TO TREES.
For months past there lias been com
plaint that New York's soil seems pecu
liarly deadly to such ornamental trees as
are planted In the few gardens on Man
hattan Island. An occasional milliuniare
in Gotham indulges in the luxury of a
garden, and trees for it are procured
either from the nurseries or the hot
houses. But they all wither and die in a
season or two in spite of the utmost gar
dening skill. The result has been the
growing of trees in huge tubs, wherein
prepared soil has been heaped. The trees
can then be put out doors or kept in the
house, according to circumstances. New
York is tilled with such arboreal pets,
and their existence has given rise to an
agitation. Jt is conceded by the best in
formed arboriculturists that vegetable
life is as sensitive to cruel treatment as
is animal life. It is not humane, accord
ing to late theorists, to cramp the roots
of developed trees in tubs, or to imprison
them after the present fashion among
wealthy New Yorkers. The Yander
bilts. at any rate, agree with this view,
and they do not now put forest trees in a
hothouse. However, there is no law
in New York state concerning cruelty to
trees, and the heartless millionaires can
not be summarily dealt with.
BISHOP COXE’S SECOND LETTER.
The second letter of Bishop Coxe to Sa
tolli, papal delegate, has been eagerly
awaited ever since the appearance of the
first. It seems lo be overlooked that the
aged prelate takes the position of one pro
fessing the same religion as Satolli. and
hence his letter cannot he inconsistent
from that point of view.
Bishop Coxe. speaking of himself re
cently, declared that he was very old and
not long for the world. Yet he is a very
hardy man. with a clear, ringing voice
and no member of any hierarchy
is able to draw a larger audience
in New York than lie. The prelate is the
best living authority on the growth of the
Episcopalian church in the United States,
his favorite comparison for the (lock being
in that hibical figure, “A city not for
saken.” One of the most curious tilings
about this bishop of Western New York
is that although his warm friends are
numerous and powerful, his enemies may
be classed in the same category. This is
perhaps due to the partisan nature of the
venerable old gentleman, who never tem
porizes about anything, but always takes
one side or the other of any controversy.
THE MODERN CAVE OF ALADDIN.
The money now being spent ip New
York for the purchase of jewelry for
Christmas gifts exceeds in amount an v
expenditure of the kind ever witnessed in
former years. Eight hundred dollars Is
e very ordinary price to pay for a bangle
01 bracelet. The favorite now has
Oiamonds alternating with sapphires ru
bles or other precious stones, set in a
I'ombination of from three to five gems
The jewelers had a fashion of displaying
“Som a , Se, M arUcles with sucl > 'emends as
Sold to Mrs for ?10,0(>0,” but it is
use o'r nn ertC ’ and l ° vulpar t 0 Permit the
use ot ones name in this wav. Even ar
srdfnioj. °. r '* itlar J' use have become extra
ct, dinar} in price, biter pitchers, heavy
and exquisitely’ worked, it is true, and
holding, say two quarts, sell for SsOO.
Punch bowls of the same pattern are
$4,000. A popular article at present in
New York isa silver traveling clock which
cost $750. Trays fetch SI,BOO. Even such
a trifle as a tumbler fetches, if made of sil
ver, #25. If not well made it goes for sl2.
Silver vegetable dishes bring readily
from s7."> to #SOO each. One of the best
known of the New York jewelers is au
thorityfor the statement that silver is
greatly in demand for all tableware.
(Jold, it appears, is deemed unrefined
when lavishly displayed. The conse
quence is a brisk demand for pig silver.
These enemies of the “gold bugs'’ who de
clared that the repeal would throw silver
miners out of work seem not to have cal
culated upon the present state of affairs.
Silver is not so high in price as it was a
few years ago, but the demand for it,
especially in Now York, has increased ex
traordinarily, and promises to increase
still more.
It might even he said that repeal has
added to the wealth of the silver men.
David Weculer.
BYRNES’ “THIRD DEGREE.”
How Confessions Were Obtained From
Dangerous Criminals.
Dramatic Scenes in the Frivate Office
of New York's Groat Detective- TJ
gcr and McGloin on the Mental Rack.
From the New York Press.
The details of two eases concerning two
famous and important criminals are fa
miliar to me. And modifications of such
scenes—intense, dramatic, horrible be
yond conception to the men who in that
little room are forced by a subtle force, a
moral magnetism to convict themselves
with their own uncontrollable words—
are not infrequent at police hcadquar-.
ters.
FORCED TO CONFESS.
On each of these interviews in the pri
vate room of Thomas Byrnes hung the
escape or conviction of a murderer. One
of these murders, from its novelty of hor
ror, made such an impression on the pub
lic mind that many people will remember
it. The baggagemen of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad, at Baltimore, received a
trunk which had arrived from Brooklyn,
and stood it aside when no one called for
it, among the many which aro always
waiting for owners to turn up arouud a
big railroad station. In a few days an
unpleasant odor made them look at the
trunk with suspicion, and it was finally
opened by the Baltimore police. In
it was found the dismembered body of a
man. As it came from Brooklyn the case
was put in the hands of the New York
and Brooklyn police. It was a difficult
one, and therefore enlisted the active in
terest of Inspector Byrnes. He found
that the body’ was probably that of a man
named Bolles, who had disappeared from
this city', and suspicion pointed to one
Unger as the probable murderer. The
two men had roomed together, and in tho
room, now without occupants, were found
a bloody couch, a bloody meat saw and a
bloody hammer. Blood was also spattered
on the walls This was evidence, but it
was not of the kind that convicts a man
of a capital offense. There was no positive
proof that Unger siied the blood.
lie was arrested and every' possible ef
fort was made to find proof that he had
committed the crime of which his captors
were morally' certain he was guilty, but
to no avail. It was evident that he was
likely to go free unless ho convicted him
self by a confession, which seemed
scarcely probable, as he was a phlegmatic,
dogged German, who would say nothing
at all except to repeat denials.
This was the problem which confronted
Inspector Byrnes. Unger was looked up
in one of the cells at police headquarters.
Not far from it was a room of about the
same size as the one in which the murder
was committed. Inspector Byrnes had
every particle of furniture in the murder
room taken to the room at headquarters,
ami in a few hours the latter had been
transformed into a very good duplicate of
the scene of the crime. Then the in
spector went to Unger's cell.
“Come with me, Unger,” he said.
Unger looked up defiantly and stepped
out of his cell. The inspector gave him
one more chance to avoid the dreadful
ordeal which had been prepared for him.
Unger stuck to his denial of all knowledge
of the crime. By this time the two men,
walking slowly through the corridor,
were opposite the door of the counterfeit
murder room.
“Let’s go in here and talk the matter
over,” said the inspector quietly, and
opened the door.
Unger stepped in unsuspectingly. For
a moment lie was dazed. Byrnes in the
meantime bad seated himself on the’ only
chair in the room. No seat was left for
Unger except the blood-stained couch.
“Sit down, Unger,” said the inspector
calmly. “1 want to talk to you.”
Slowly, with a great effort to control
himself, Unger sank to a seat on the
couch. Byrnes spoke casually again
about the crime, making no reference,
however, to the furnishings of the room.
Unger, white and trembling, did not hear
him. His eyes wandered furtively from
one familiar object to another: liis body
twitched with excitement; his nervous
tongue sought vainly to moisten lips dry
with a sudden fever. Still Byrnes, ap
parently unconscious of his companion's
agitation, droned on in slow talk. Unger
dropped one hand at his side. It touched
a big blood stain on the couch. That
was the last straw. With a yell of hor
ror he jumped up from the awful seat. In
five minutes he had told to the inspector
every detail of the crime. He was tried,
convicted and sentenced to a long term of
imprisonment. Byrnes had given him the
“third degree.”
THE CASE OF M’GLOIN.
Another equally interesting case was
that of McGloin, a tough, who killed a
Frenchman. There was even less evi
dence against him than there had been
against Unger. Everything was supposi
titious; but Thomas Byrnes’ suppositions
in matters of that kind are likely to be
not far from right. Ho was reasonably
certain that McGloin was guilty, and that
there had been three witnesses of the
crime. The names and whereabouts of
these probable witnesses he knew Mc-
Gloin had also pawned a pistol. Byrnes
guessed that it was the pistol with which
the crime had been committed. But lie,
had not a particle of proof of any one of
these things.
One day, however, he had McGloin and
the three other men arrested, taking rare
that no one of the quartet should know
that the others had been captured ; giving
no one of them an inkling of w h.v he had
been taken into custody. This also oc
curred during Byrnes' term as inspector.
He occupied the room now used by Inspec
tor McLaughlin, and around its walls in
those days were the cases of implements
and mementoes of crime now on exhibition
in tlic mflseum across the hall, into this
foom where, as lie entered, a tall glass
case full of the ropesand black caps which
had figured in the city'sexecutions stared
turn in the face, McGloin was led. Neither
i the surroundings nor the fact that he was
to bo closeted with the famous police offi
cial worried him, however. He was full
of the bravado of the "tough.”
DRAMATIC PLAN.
One of the windows of this room looks
out u|ion the court yard in the center of
the building. Inspector Byrnes placed a
chair so that its back was close against
this window, and another facing it, with
only room for knees between it and the
easing. To the latter chair McGloin was
led. As he sat there he had a full view
of the courtyard. Byrnes sat in the
THE MORXTXG XEWS: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1893.
other chair, with his back to it. Close on
j Byrnes’ right was a desk.
Thus arranged, the plot began to un
fold. For ten minutes the inspector
; talked earnestly' to the prisoner without
good result. Then he touched a bell. The
door of the room opened, and an obsequi
-1 ous Jew entered, and, approaching the
desk, laid on it a pistol. McGloin s atten
tion was attracted by the noise of the
newcomer, and he turned to see—the pis
tol with which he had killed the French
man, and the pawnbroker to whom hehad
pledged it. Without a word, but keeping
his eyes on McGloin's, the Jew backed
out of the room. It was a good deal of a
shock to McGloin, but not enough to break
down his bravado.
“What in -—• does this mean?” he de
manded. boldly.
“Oh, nothing,” replied the inspector,
nonchalantly. “It is merely a pistol I
wanted to see.” Then he picked it up.
“il.mdsome weapon, isn't it McGloin?
Might kill a man, eh ?”
Then, laying the pistol down again, the
inspector went on calmly talking about
the crime. McGloin, beginning to feel
the mystery, the dramatic force of it all,
was getting nervous. He looked for a
moment at the inspector, but one long,
steady, searching glance from those pene
trating eyes made, him quickly turn away
and direct his gaze out of the window
into the court yard again. Thus relieved
of the strain of seeing disagreeable
things, he began to regain his self i>os
session. “A man named Barber saw that
crime committed,” said the inspector
quietly. McGloin started a trifle at hear
ing the name. Then Byrnes saw his face
pale and his mouth twitch, and knew
that Barber was being led across theyard
between two officers, and that McGloin
was watching them. Even this
did not break McGloin down, how
over. Five minutes later, though,
when Flint, the second wit
ness, was inarched between two blue
coats across the court, he s’arted almost
from his chair. “Sit still, McGloin,”
said Byrnes impassively. “Another of
those witnesses I spoke about, w as named
Flint.'’ From that time on McGloin
weakened. Then, having spoken about
Flint's connection with the crime, Byrnes
said, a few minutes later, "And the third
witness, McGloin, was Henry Farley.”
As the words left Byrnes’ lips Farley be
gan slow progress across the yard. Mc-
Gloin yelled all at once. With a cry of
terror, he literally sprung from his chair,
and, falling to his kness, clasped Byrnes
about his legs, crying like a child, con
fessing and begging tho inspector not to
have him hanged. His prayer was not
granted, however. He was executed a
year later in the Tombs yard, and tho
three “witnesses” were sent to state
prison for twelve years apiece. Among
those rope ends and black caps in that
glass case now is one of each bearing on a
bit of cardboard the name "McGloin.”
THOSE EYES.
Ordinarily the superintendent does not
find it necessary to surround his seances
with prisoners with any of these little
dramatic accessories. The eyes and a
calm rehearsal of the details of the crime
which the culprit tip to that moment has
supposed are known only to himself, are
generally enough to bring about confes
sion. Different courses are taken with
different men. No keener reader of
human nature lives thau Byrnes, and this
helps him. He quickly learns those sub
jects on which a man feels most strongly,
and no such advantage is lost. He fooled
one big embezzler to confess by making
him refer the matter to his wife, who had
always thought him honest. The spot
where a once famous city official had
knelt on the carpet, after having confessed
to Brynes, and frantically implored his
protection, was pointed out to me. He is
a man to fear if you have done aught un
lawful—to avoid as you would avoid a
pestilence.
Another of the characteristics which
have made him one of the most, if not the
most, famous detectives in the world, is
his tenacity. Ho has a bulldog grip.
Failure does not discourage him. He told
me Thursday with an expression of im
mense gratification on his face, that
within a short time he expects to recover
the papers stolen fifteen years ago from
the Manhattan Bank. Those papers are
to-day valueless. They aro stocks and
bonds long since declared void and re-is
sued, but Byrnes in 1878, when those pa
llet’s were worth thousands, promised
himself and the officers of the bank to re
cover them, and he will redeem his prom
ise though it takes him fifteen years more
to do it.
LIVED WITHOUT LUNGS.
The Remarkable Case of Jesse Jordan,
of Portsmouth, Ohio.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Portsmouth, 0., Nov. 27.—The Ohio
Medical Society will have a report of a
case which it is believed will interest
every physician in the United States.
Last January Jesse Jordan, a well-known
citizen, was stabbed in the lungs by an
unknown man. The wound produced was
thought to be necessarily and immedi
ately fatal. But Jordan recovered appar
ently, and attended to business, then
broke down and lingered until yesterday,
when he fell dead. A post mortem re
sulted in marvelous discoveries. It
showed that the fifth rib hud been com
pletely severed aud the knife had entered
the pericardium.
The pericardium was found to be wholly
free from water. The object had attached
itself to the heart and become solidified.
A still more remarkable discovery was
yet to be made: that there was not the
"slightest particle of lung. Both lungs
were absolutely extinct and evidently had
been so for days, perhaps weeks.
This condition is attributed to inflam
mation, which is supposed to have de
stroyed both lungs. They were gone at
any rate. How Jordan could exist with
out lungs is a mystery.
SOAP ON TROUBLED SEAS.
Suds Found Very Effective in Calm
ing Old Ocean’s Rage.
From the Philadelphia Reiord.
Soap suds may supersede oil as the
agency in calming troubled waters of the
sea, aiid saving vessels from harm. Ex
periments have been made recently, and
the reports of co-operating observers to the
Hydrographic office uniformly commend
the value of the new discovery. The
German steamship Scandia, from Ham
burg for Philadelphia, made the experi
ment with the greatest success in one of
the wildest storms that ever swept the
North Atlantic ocean. While the sea
was running highest snap suds was left to
gradually drift over the vessel's bow. The
sea ceased to break over her decks, and
the vessel lay comparatively easy. Third
Officer Wendt had charge of the experi
ment, aud his report speaks glowingly of
the success attending it.
The use of suds is not intended to en
tirely displace oil, but. being cheaper,
heavier on the water, and the suds occu
py ing less space on the ship, it is likely
before long to be generally adopted.
Longfellow as the Actor Studies Him.
Here is a story, told by the New York
Press, that shall not be lost. The other night a
critic dropped into the dressing room of a
well-known actor by invitation, to discuss a
new play which the critic is getting under
way. Above the mirror in the actor's dress
ing room was a magnificent photograph, done
over in sepia, of the poet Longfellow.
Ah. ha.” said the critic, you are an ad
mirer of the poet?”
"Poet? What poet?” said the leading man
“Why, the man whose picture you have up
there."
•Oh: Yes; that—l use that picture for a
study in wrinkles.'’
The Maharajah Dhuleep Singh w as a cham
pion sportsman, and was generally reputed
to have made the largest bag of game on
record.
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