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Yahoo
20-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
In One Ear: Millionaire prince
Financier John Jacob Astor III, 67, grandson of Astoria's founder, died unexpectedly on Feb. 22, 1890, in New York, of heart failure. According to The Evening World, America lost its 'chief of millionaire princes.' It's estimated he was worth around $200 million at the time of his death (about $6.9 billion now). A glimpse of the man's character shows in a story in the Feb. 23, 1890, edition of The Daily Morning Astorian: ' ... Several years ago a distinguished Astoria clergyman, on a visit to New York, called upon the millionaire, told him of the city by the sea founded by his grandfather of precisely the same name as himself. He suggested (Astor) fund or endow an institution of learning in the city that will perpetuate the name and fame of the Astors, when their scattered millions will have been forgotten. 'The millionaire looked coldly contemptuous at the reverend gentleman when he had concluded his kindly plea, and told him he would give him an order on his cashier for $100 (about $3,500 today). The Astorian disclaimed any desire to pecuniarily embarrass the munificent patron by the acceptance of so princely a sum and bowed himself out. 'The millionaire lies dead in his marble palace this morning, and his millions lie idly in the massive vaults, as cold as the clay that so lately clung to them.'
New York Times
06-02-2025
- New York Times
Human Torso Found in Suitcase in the East River Near Manhattan
A New York City ferry captain on Wednesday discovered a suitcase drifting in the East River that turned out to have a human torso inside, according to an internal police report. The captain, who was aboard the vessel Susan B. Anthony, saw the luggage floating in the water late Wednesday afternoon near Governors Island, a largely recreational area just off the southern tip of Manhattan, according to the report. Unable to fish it out of the river, the captain called the Police Department's Harbor Unit for help, the report said. Officers from the unit pulled the suitcase from the water at around 5:30 p.m. and, after seeing what was inside, brought it to Pier 16 on the East Side of Manhattan, about a quarter-mile south of the Brooklyn Bridge, the police said. The authorities have not been able to identify the remains. A spokeswoman for the city medical examiner said the office would perform an autopsy to determine the cause and manner of the person's death. Reached on Thursday, the ferry captain declined to comment. The discovery of body parts in New York City's waters is uncommon, but not unheard-of. A human head was found in Jamaica Bay in Queens last May. Then, in August, other human remains began to wash up on the shore of Brooklyn Bridge Park, just steps from its early-20th-century carousel. Over the course of several weeks, officers found a human skull, leg fragments, vertebrae and two feet inside a pair of construction boots, according to another internal police report. News reports of such discoveries date back more than a century. In 1900, the body of a longshoreman was found floating in the East River just below East Ninth Street in Manhattan, according to an Oct. 1 article published that year in The Evening World, a turn-of-the-century newspaper. In another case, authorities in 1967 pulled a man's body from the Hudson River, according to a New York Daily News article from Aug. 19 of that year. The police later identified the man as 62-year-old Joseph Robert Juliano, who had Mafia ties.
