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Show SAILS WITH $50,000 FORTUNE Jersey City Woman, Once Called Demented, De-mented, Subject of Prayers by Friends as Steamer Departs. . New York.- Surrounded by a throng of fashionably dressed, men and women wom-en bidding one another adieu, and with stewards rushing here and there bearing great bunches of American Beauty roses and baskets of fruit, for favored voyagers, a little band of missionaries mis-sionaries held a prayer meeting in one of the drawing rooms of the steamship Kronprinzessin Cecilie just before the liner sailed recently, as a fitting observance of the departure of Miss Anna Vreeland of 137 Grand avenue, ave-nue, Jersey City, who was taking her fortune of $50,000 with her to found a missionary home in India. It was only a short time ago that relatives of Miss Vreeland, who is 50 years old, instituted proceedings to have a lunacy commission appointed to examine her as to her sanity. " She was possessed of $50,000 in property, which had been in her family fam-ily for 250 years. A physician, to whom final judgment was left, said she was not 'insane, but that he thought she was eccentric. |