The evening world. Newspaper, April 14, 1903, Page 11

Segrae AKE THE WORLD LAUGH. HOW SOME NEW YORK WOMEN : _jA MODERN’ |MEN OF TO- DAY WHO MAK. PAY THEIR POKER DEBTS, was followed by the bell boy. read the Inscription on the eechine ting and scented a possibility of black- ‘The Jewelry had been pawned in fn assumed name, so the bell boy fol- ‘The next morning she was surprised by a visit from her mes- senger to the pawnshop, who threatened to expose her foolish act to hor husband if she did not give him a suMclent Amount to pay for his silence. The employing of bell boys and porters in the capacity of pawnshop go-betweens has more than once led to innumerable thefts on the part of these attendants, Knowing that the pawnbrokers are nc- customed to ladies '}, 3. - LEANDER. = Se eee ee ie wall oe winning, Pretty, stylish, @ good comrade, accomplished, and worth $100,000 in her own right. 40 him justice, he had fallen in love “jwith her before he accidentally found leut the fact of her riches, but as he it out, that was no objection. eae ‘and Miss Draper had met } et @ little, out-of-thte-way town on the ‘ |) GPeenke of the Missitsippi. He was © + | Daawyer, making about $1,600 a year, and ys lazy, cheerful existence he was lead- , as he admitted. + They parted at the close of her visit Bovth without any | understanding. Fs ctyadsworth had been perfectly business- "(Ske about his proposal, made before the fact of her fortune had been dfsclosed. Ho still said that if she would marry him that he would not be obliged to do ‘ ganything ‘80 ridiculous as work, and Pi fhe and she could live ideal lives. Miss Draper asked for time to con- ‘eMer. This he cheerfully assented to. Jt was June 16 when sho loft. “Make SacAony, HIM READING A NEW sixty days," eald Wadsworth, p OMEDY To ‘7 ,/a8 the train pulled out. ; ‘NE MANAGER; ‘On Aug. 10, he got a letter from Miss Draper which read as follows: “I am coming up from New Orleans on the Miinols Central. ‘The train stops at, - Newton for ten minutes. Will you take the ferry and come over. I wish to gpeak to you. MARY DRAPER. ‘On the night of Aug. 10, Wadsworth was at the ferry landing. It was a warm. night, and he was dressed in a Qupeersucker sult which weighed in the aegunces. Ho looked at this watch. It was eB o'clock. train on the Central was ainflue across ‘the river at 10. He looked ~~ et the road on the river bank and a darkey going by on a mul. “What time does the ferry come over?” Base called out. , eee, done’ busted, boss," was the. ee ain't gwine run her till “HE WAS @ Switcerase tty - THE ST LOUIS Ra “YaROS" ILROAD ‘Watewrorth meditated. “I told her ing could stop me," he mused. \ yeu, Wadsworth, here is the time te make good. If Leander couli make ix miles, I ought to go one.” stopped not for brake, and he not for stone. He swam the River when ford there was none."’ hummed Wadsworth, as he wrapped his “Yow shoes in a handkerchief, put his “@uit together, tled it with nis soft hat ‘in a bundle and fastened the entire kit geourely on his head. It weighed about “€hnee pounds, and Wadsworth con- ‘Wravulated himself on the Ughtness of @ammer clothing. Then he looked up at “the etar-strewn night, and the great ‘moon ‘slipping by, and waliced into the “eurrent. ‘8° Brom where he stood to the other ° hore was a full mile, but the #trength °°ef the current was such thet he had * witely calculated on swimming dieg- ““enelly ‘across the river and landing “~igome distance from the shore et New- "ton? He ‘had reached tne midxile of the river and the full volume of the current “reached out and clasped him with the P\ ee of @ wrestler. He eased in his ME THINKS AS A FIDE (CTOR ** stroke an@ }et the ourrent take him % @ BY HIMSELF. | Gawnstreant, working hie way gradually OCE ™ toward the Iinote shore. It seemed to ome ee fe tae tha pteeomth of ths: water: oC ting, and@ that he had pessed the it Ca ae was Sommensne to ire a le. was a long swim. . Before the Lllinols Central got to Newton Miss Draper had been talking |‘‘The Earl of Pawtucket’s’’ Author Drifted by Easy Stages [rom of? the conductor of the Pullmay. ‘"Wp stop at Newton for ten minutes Switch-Tending to Play-Writing, 1 flon't wo?" she inquired, “Yes, ma'am," sald the conductor. to “There's a ferry there, I believe?” (was Miss Draper's noxt question. UGUSTUS THOMAS, the pleywright, wit, ex-newspaper man, artist, i “een running now,” said the con- after-dinner speaker, politician, semi-soclalist and club fellow, is met just a little too rotund to be called a many-sided man, despite the - °jnits Draper, any boats there?” sald | crehton catalogue printed above. “Some at Newton," was the conduc- “Gus is @ good fellow,” his friends say, and 60 say we all of us. He is a big, smooth-faced, rosy-cheeked eix-footer, and to corner him Wenore?” piel oo pace on any fair proposition is to win him your way, for, like all men big both don't think so,” was his answer, | mentally and phyelcally, he is tractable. He even consented to this inter- ape imuites, expecting any one over?" | view, providing he was not made to say “I did this, I did that.” He balks iAP sewhy, yea,"" sald Miss Drapes! “hat at the personal pronoun like all men do who are of modest mind. te—if the ferry was running.” We caught him in Kirke La Shelle’e office reading a new comedy to “Well, the only way to cross to-| the manager who put on his “Arizona,” that bully Western play of alkali night would be to ewim across, and it|/dust and sub ten kaly that Has he eabs ue a aie atmosphere, end the contemporaneous comedy, “The Harl "was the conductor’ tuiket, he went forward. e im Sep a ‘We sat and listened to part of the new comedy, but promiged not to At Newton she leaned from the car| PTint a word of the play or the discussion that attended its reading. But fn @ state of morbid fear, Yes, there| it read fine. = palacin jg oT ee ieee ee re Then we went over to the cafe of the Hotel Normandie and made Mr. @ame out on the platform,-and the Aret| 720mas tell us the story of hie life. word she said was: ‘How did you get His real name is Augustus Thomas, and he was born and ralsed in screw the vert The pit is broken, | Missourt. eet ine, TM a wee pres, In his teens ‘he was a switchman in the St. Louls railroad yards, wes the first time she had catlea| Hence his academic fraternity is the Order of Railroad Switchmen and his by ay other Dame stan Mr, Wads-| college cry is “Back her a length, Bill!” h her tee Asased psa But even in the days when he was the popular young switchman, envied by all the younger generation who hung around the freight-house learning to chew tobacco, he was addicted to playwrighting and used to square) concoct stirring dramas that taught great moral jessons. wim to These would be played for the benefit of the #elief fynd in Miller’s Hall, | over the Americus Cafe, with a cast of stalwart trainmen and an audience of the same, Then he got in the box-office of a local theatre and adapted Mrs, Hodg- son Burnett's little story of “Edithe’s Burglar” for stage purposes, bee ee Fs ey Smith, the man who now writes the Weber & Fields burlesques, matines girls. wanted for a curtain-ralser for the Madison Square Theatre, Up to this time Augustus Thomas had been bombarding the New York he could not show them, although he was from Missouri, and they never even answered his letters. So don't be discouraged, you who write plays. Mr. Thomas still ‘hae these plays concerning which he wrote the New York managers, but he says he hasa’t the nerve to show them now. He eee how bad they are. Although in those days he could not be convineed but what they were what the world awaited, for didn't the railroad boys applaud them vociferously? Nowadays Mr. Thomas coneides ‘ho J» telling this, but ting out the “I's,” according to promise) writes two plays tresh every fhe writes sovalgearhicatenbalvarobog vencalen we pe my MRNEST WGAFTEY. Interviews with Famous Humovrists— Written by Roy L, McCardell ana Illustrated With Bell Boy oe Janvtor a Emissary, They Often Raise Money on Jewelry and Furs, Ky DRAPER was well worth by the Caricaturist, Gene Carr, lowed hor home. sonar Reet bbe tral tt 2.-AUGUSTUS THOMAS. 8 the New York woman a confirmed wambler? This is the superlative degree of censure that has been As a smoker of clgar- ottes, a devotes of tho cherry-trimmed cocktail, she has come in for her share of the reformers’ criticism; but there are a few facts concerning her gaming propensities that have heretofore never been disclosed, and grim determination ** that possesses the feminine mind. leading New York pawnbrok whose uptown place graced only by patrons who have valu- able possessions to pawn, tells of con- stant visitatlons to this establishment of messenger boys, hell boys, porters and Janitors who come hurrying in with Jewels on which they are in a great hurry to raise money at once, vaults are rings and bracelets, brooches and pins innumerable, torn hurriedly from the fingers and gowns of some card-erazed woman, the game cannot be appeased even when her last penny 4s gone. The poor east side woman pawning her wedding ring for bread is not the sympathy-harrowing * who brings her mite to cast at her door, nding messengers "WE MADE FIR THOMAS uit us THE lea whose interest In loser was ostracized fro mthe pokes playing set entirely, and her name has y been stricken from the calling list of eh large number of women who heard, ob)) her action and considered her tn’ eh sume light men do a-eard sharp, Of course, the money could not be collected from her, so no public potion was taken, Only infinite scorn tollomee her, The woman could not imagine what had caused her sudden drop from faver, bot her ostracism is as complete «# though her action had been as signife cunt as the Tranby Croft scandal. “The pawnshop phase of the gambling manta among women {ts one which fs growing in importance every day." “Women employ messengers and bell boys with such regularity that we have on an average several calls every day," sald an uptown pawnbroker, ace handkerohlefs with the perfume stil scenting them, or perhaps a” Unge of cigarettes; lace neel furs, as well as jewelry, have been here by messengers who som ¥ make a malicious remark upon the prog ress of the game which ‘has deprived some fair player af her wearing ep- pare! “The jewelry which ts brought Gy messenger and bell boy to be for woman card-players ranges in from diamond rings, worth $75, to lets and brooches which run up dni thousand dollars, es “It ali depends upon the Imit of the game and the finances of the woman player, but the patrons of my place are all women of wealth. Few women Ps 5p) poverty written on thelr faces come this pawnbroker's bank, but the young matron with her “soaked to raise money In their rooms in the ¢amily hotels or apartment houses these women gather to try thelr luck at cards. At first It often starts with a Mttle friendly amo, ‘The money means nothing to them; it 1s Just the fun of the thing. The pas- time phase, however, soon disappears, and a real live passion for the game it- sekt supplants the former friend! When it comes to a woman parting with her very wedding ring the trivial phase of women's poker parties with articles to pawn, etolen goods are often accepted without temptation which fs thrown In the way of unprinctpled servants cannot be light- “The trouble about women playing poker Is that they have not the cool, businaes head of men that will keep them in check,"’ sald a woman poker ex- pert to an Evening World reporter. They ¢orget the practical side of the question and lose control of thelr rea- In one of the uptown hotels a lively and sensation-developing game was held not long ago. A party of four had met to spend the hours in a game with a One young woman, whose face plainly showed the inte jexcitement under which she was worl ing, stood her losses with the grim hope for- future gains that marks the Invet- Every cent she pos- Two others were In the hope that A COMPANY” “When a woman observes that she has & good hand she forgets the possibility of another superior hand being held by one of the other players. She bets high. If she is-raised her supposed gaming intultton” prompts ‘her to raise still higher, In consequence she loses every cent, and her messengers begin their lrfp to the Sign of the Three Balls. “The amount of jewelry that is pawned cannot be imagined, and souvenirs and the most sentimental tokens are parted with in the distorted vision which women assume in playing cards. “A queer incident happened not long ago at a poker game fn one of the fash- fonable hotels, when a wealthy young widow entered a game and lost seventy dollars. She did not seem to realize that she sent|the debt was-one of honor, and when she Jost rose from the table and passed it all off as a joke. She did not really ‘onsider the game in anything but the ight of amusement, but her sister play-| were of the sort with which act ers were enraged, and as @ result the! erty usually forces a woman to fifty-cent Mmit. erate gambler. sessed was soon lost. aimost as badly off. tuck would turn her way eho called the and taking off a diamond brooch sent him to the uptown pawn- shop for money with which to recoup her losses. The game continued, and Her jewelry was finally ngagement ring, in which was inscribed her name and that of her husband. was with a desperate hope «th this too to the pawnbroker. the young matron who had pawned every bit of Jewelry she pos: . down to her engagement ri left the apartments of her friend she MR THOMAS\ DRaw “Cone en]. here, but the state of mind whieh | prompts many a falr gambler tovpart with her Jewelry in her intense in the game reflects as much vital atte. guish as does the east side mothery ail who pawns her wedding ning (Bowery to buy food for her children.” — ‘The reporter was shown vaults on one such palo were disclosed a hoard of ual the aforementioned order. Few of “TEIE EARL OF PAWTUCKET He, WROTE ITIN THE STABLE . E. A. MORRISON & SON Special Sale of Foulard IN THE LATEST COLORINGS, 65c, Reduced from 4.00 and 4.50, 893 BROADWAY. ‘The Missouri instance was only a refresher, for, as stated, he was born and raised there. Mr. Thomas says It is the love interest and the atmosphere that make “Colorado” failed because the love interest was spread out too thin. It tried to portray heart interegt for four sets of lovers. he spent three months in the wilds of the Centennial State. prospecting, was in a claim-jumping melee, royhed it, lived on salt pork and bad biscuit and had a hard time generally—and the For “Colorado” slept in shacks, Well, others have made amends, which is mighty consoling. Mr. Thomas is forty-four years of age, “Editha’s Burglar’ was produced in 1886, and Mr, Thomas has been playwrtghting exclusively since. Up to then, after making a flying switch from the yard engine, he had been a man in the box-office and an actor. playwright in the world, but he says he thinks he was a fine actor. played leading man, Arthur Warburton, the much-put-upon hero, who is cleared of crime, and wins the girl who always believed in his innocence, despite the villainous machinations of Richard Throckmor%on, fiend in ‘human form, in the last act, He lives at New Rochelle and is thoroughly domesticated. summer he goes to a cottage he bas at East Hampton, L, |. there, last summer, he wrote ‘The Harl of Pawtucket.” He wrote it in the stable. That ls why he has made the leading char- acter, which D'Orsay plays, @ well-groomed man. Mr. Thomas {8 a reformed Republican, believes in muni@pal ownership, | has ¢light leanings toward Socialism and ie now an unterrified Democrat, He is a splendid speaker, political or post prandial, and it ts whispered— he didn't do the whispering—that he will be the next candidate for Mayor | of New Rochelle on the Democratic ticket, He can draw pictures, too, Here is one of himself he committed during ROY L, M'CARDELL. TRY PROCTOR'S " i POWDER tii Absolutely Pure | THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE He won't admit he is the best Sonne Bia: | (ast WEEK BUT ONE, : Gusrene @ Ce. me | mxhibiting in Brooklyn Apr BT, Oue § ‘Week 0 Amusements, 10 Beat fere in Years mos 4th Month. Henry W, Savage Preseuts Geo, Ade’sHit, SULTAN = SULU EMPIRE THEATRE, Kvge, $20, Mats, WED, THE UNFORESEEN Maton, 250.-50c. “ORESEEN (RAND §1 DALY'S Seiiet eum THE STAR (orn & Bway Bve.,8.15.Mate,,2.16 the I-less interview. THE YOUNGEST CHAUFFEUR. Matinecs Wed. & Bat . ‘ of ee RUSSELL in MICE AND MEN CRITERION THEATRE Bway and 44th at, Mats, Weduemtay & dasunday, CHARLES HAWTREY. NE wi SAVOY IHBATRE | HENRY MILLER. GARDEN THEATRE, AldcBTAR VAUDEVILLE. Then he took out a company to play it, and who do you think were among the merry band? Why, Della Fox—ehe played Editha—and Hdgar THE Lar CENTY iy EVBRetIan ’ . Nowadays Edger Smith looks like W. J. Bryan, byt in those daye—and you run such «| W have Mr, Thomas's word for {t—Edgar was a matinee idol. He was a wood ector, @ sim, handsome, ourly-haired darling of the gods and the Manhatt aN Bn a THE TPARL of ‘PAWTUCKET. AMERICAN | MATINEE DAILY THE ‘iiiistian Monday, 260. Natwk., MORE THA yery, near Canal Bt, i Charles Frohman saw “Edithe's Burgler” played by this little com- pany in @ small theatre in New Orleans. He said it was just what he)| MR. BLUEBEAR BROADWAY {"1 ry fF Presents the New Siueital te PRINGK OF PILSE ACADEMY of MU , Wis Bi & Hamond, Special Brice’ managers with letters telling them he had just the plays they wanted. But Ni ni ae Tinvoase & Gaston kK (ONLY) HAPPY SLC, Late = @ Irving Pi SUBURBAN = Monge 9H) PEO Prices, %.60.76.81 | MERALD sD 80 ge 8.10, Mat ig AGhinas® ivan ‘Wats, On LITLE LORD FAUATLEROY Mee suet bev athe. | ‘gaicat aso Thon. Shea—To-N! \RIE CAHILL, “NANCY eROwn,” Columbus, Ind., claims to have the smallest gutomobile and the youngest boy 4s Hubert Ogden, son of the manager. Ho is only three-and-avhalf years old, and he hae already | simple mechanlem of his auto wo completely as to be able to spin his native city without mehai 1 Western Union | ppg a Repedt gig ® band brake on tt, | mastered ti vA fis rece Hair mir fhtly, hes Tat ee the o ly JOHN A. 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