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Show I TALK OF NEW YORK 1 , V ft 4 ;I; l:J J; 'Gossip of People nnd Events Told $ In Intcrcstlnd Manner. X SLL Jf Fair Estate Reported Settled Again NKW YOIIK. Mrs. Wllllo K. Vander-bllt, Vander-bllt, Jr., nnd Mrs. Herman Oelrlchs mist bo breathing easier than thoy lave for soma years If It Is true, as 'eportcd, that their lawyers havo ot 'list settled with the last of tho heirs )f tho late Mr. Charles Knlr, Tho latter lat-ter was tho brother of tho Indies men-loned men-loned nnd with them equal heirs of Mio cstnto of tho lato bonanza king nnd United States Senator J. O. Knlr. It will bo remomberod thnt the atu Charlie Fair nnd his wlfo wero victims of an automobllo accident In franco nnd that after tholr deaths a dlsputo aroso as to which died first. If, ns Mrs. Charles Fair's relatives contended, con-tended, tho wlfo survived her husband, hus-band, ovon by n minute's tlmo, thoy woro rightful heirs of tho wlfo's share In tho husband's estate. If tho husband hus-band lived longer, or tho sanio time after tho accident, Charles Fair's fortune for-tune went to his two sisters, Mrs. Vanderbllt and Mrs. Oelrlchs. Tho sisters' law)ers mudo no less than three settlements with tho only known relatives of Charles King, bo-Ing bo-Ing forced to succeeding and moro favorable fa-vorable settlements owing to renewed reports thnt iMrs. Fair, as a matter of fact, outlived her husband by half an hour. After tho latest of theso threo Settlements, which wns for a relatively small sum, 1260,000 I havo hoard, tho sisters divided Charles Fair's estate, probably not loss than 5,000,000, bo-tween bo-tween them, nnd tho matter wns thought to bo closed. Thon appeared a brother of Mrs. Fair, who was supposed to bo dead, ono Frank Preston Smith of Newark, who proved to be not only altva but kicking. Ho nlBo demanded a settlement. settle-ment. Whnt troubled the lawyers of Mrs. Vanderbllt nnd Mrs. Oelrlchs was the fact that this troublusomo lost heir had been In Franco making Independent Independ-ent Investigation and claimed to havo amplo proof that his sister survived her husband not less than 10 minutes nftor both were dashed against a tree upon being thrown from nn automobllo. automo-bllo. No figures have been given out by lawyers on cither sldo as to tho amount thu Bister's wero compelled to settle with tho latest heir, but It Is rumored that tho sum was large. Mystery of the "Man in Black" Solved WHO Is tho Man In Hlnck? That has boon tho mystery of tho "Wall street boat" of the Sandy Hook Stoamshlp lino throughout the season. Tho Man in Dlack has out-Wllklo out-Wllklo Colllnsod "Tho Woman In Wllllo." Ho has set 300 brokers guessing guess-ing and has kept thorn guessing ovory morning and every aftornoon as they mado tho Journey from the Jersey shore to tho city nud vlco versa. Every attempt that has been mado to fathom tho identity ot tho stranger has met with failure It tho attendants on tho boat hnvo known thoy havo kept the secret well until now. Approached and spoken to, tho Man In Dlack, as ho has coma to bo known, has mumbled mum-bled Innrtlculatoly nnd has walked quickly away. Who Is tho Man In Hlnck T Tho question has been asked and unanswered fully a thousand times by tho Wall street men this season. Tho search for knowledgo ot thq man's Identity has arouBcd ns much Interest ovon among tho holdors of staterooms state-rooms as havo market discussions, races with passing yachts or Lnwson's ndvortlsamcntB. lSvon moro. He Is about 50 years old, of stoopod shoulders, Blight build, mouselike Taco, furtlvo walk and twitching hands. His attiro Is always black, even to his tlo. A black dorby is pulled down over his eyes. As soon as tho boat that carries tho Wall street men to tho city In tho mornings steams away from tho Highlands pier tho Man In Hlnck nppears. No ono has seen him nt nny of tho connecting trnlns. No ono has seen him walk down tho long wooden wnlk to the landing. Yet ho is always on hand. With his hnnds clasped behind him ho walks around tho boat. Now and again ho drags out a .chair nnd sits down. Soon ho Is up again, however, nnd walking around tho decks, Ho never looks at anyone. HIb half-closed half-closed oyos are seomlngly always directed di-rected at n spot on tho floor flvo or six foot ahead ot him. .That ho is not In Wall strcot has been known. That he is not an officer The Value of Russell Sage's Estate flll'5 official appraisal of tho ostato ot llusscll Sage, now on file In tho surrogate's offico, not only discloses .ho valuo ot tho property, but also .hrows nn interesting light on tho extent ex-tent of tho call loan business for which Mr, Sago was host known In Wall street. Tho report of tho npprulsor shows that right up to tho day of his death, which occurred on July 22, 1906, Mr. Sago's treasury wns open to call to my borrowers nnd that It was no unusual un-usual thing for him to loan sovoral million dollars In a day. Tho axecutors, Charles W. Osborn and John P. Munn, on taking chargo Df tho cstnto, found a great many call loans still outstanding on tho dny ot Mr. Sago's death, somo ot which had been mado as far back as tho begin-alng begin-alng ot tho year, TtlB high-class restaurants In tho Wall street district, which nre patronized by brokers and bankers, report re-port n decided Improvement In business busi-ness in tho last month, In tho panic md post-panic period thoro was a narked frilling off In tho numbor of sustdmers who patronized tho restaur-ints restaur-ints and, cafes of tho bettor class in .ho financial section, but with the return re-turn of prosperity trndo picked up 'apldly. When business Is good and commissions commis-sions plontlful. tho broker takes a larty ot his best customers out to .unchcou with him almost ovory day, and, of courvo. foots tho bills, lie ants and his weokly bill for luncheons Is considerable ot an item. In bad times, however, all this Is changed. Whore tho broker's office was filled with customers In the boom days, It Is now denortod and the few clients on hand nro not usually in ' cheerful mood. Tho broker, who sees his dally office expenses eating heav-1 lly Into his capital, 1 In no mood to Incur additional outlay. Instead of tho morry luncheon party, ho slips out to the nearest restaurant and eats u frugal meal. or attendant on tho boat haa also been known. Every effort has evidently hcon mado to vol! tho man's Identity In a cloud of mystery. Threo weeks'' qucs-tlonlng qucs-tlonlng brought no light until a day or bo ago. It was learned then and tho solution will Bettlo many wngora that have been mado during tho season sea-son among the Wall street crowd-that crowd-that tho mysterious Man In Illack Is tho father In law of the man who controls con-trols the bootblack prlvllogo on tho Sandy Hook boats. Ho acts ns "spot ter" among the bootblack on tho vessels ves-sels nnd sees to It that the boys ring tho bell twico Instead of onco. Tho well guarded mystery has beon solved and tho Wall street commuters mny once again tako deep breaths. A partial list ot Mr, Sago's loans In tho six months provtous to his death shows the amounts he loaned nnd tho firms that camo to borrow from him. No ulnglo loan Is tor moro than $950,-000, $950,-000, Tho total nmount of theso loans, with tho Interest, which tho exceutors called In and collected, was moro than 129,000.000. Mr. SRge also owned large blocks of gtlt-odgod bonds and stocks, tho total valuo of which, figured at tho market ptlco of tho dny of Mr. Sage's death, excocdod $30,000,000. Most ot theso stocks and bonds nro to-day quoted nt lower figures than thoy would hnvo brought If sold at market prices on tho day that Mr. Sago passed away. Summarizing tho wholo appraisal, tho grosB personality Ib vnluod at $G 1.41 1,218 nnd tho gross realty at J1.9 15,500, a total of tGD.3no.718. As told ' to-day, tho stato will rccolve J0C7.538 from tho legatees as transfer trans-fer tax. Tho exocutors will come In for $395,030 each, ns against tho $25,000 each left by Mr. Sago to each of his 20 nephews and nieces, Mrs. Sage's sharo ot tho estato Is $03,778,-' 800. Wall Street Men on Full Feed Again Now, however, cheerfulness has supplanted pessimism tu Wnll street and brokor and office boy nllko nro feeling tin effect of It. So is the restaurant res-taurant keoper. |