The evening world. Newspaper, January 4, 1913, Page 9

( “Ww ILL you step into the bar-! room? ‘The privileges of the Alimony Club are yours.’ Ie was Theodore Roberts, the well known actor, talking. Ife had taken | Op apartments in the Alimony Club tn the Harburger Bullding in Ludlow street the day before. Sometimes th undianity the hospitable lodging hou of Sheriff Harburger by the name of | the Ladiow Street Jail, There 1s no Accounting for tastes, | The barroom was a room with per-| Pendlcular bars, ‘These were just as w00d as any to a man who had made | New Year's resolutions. Mr. Roberts | had made the resolutions, For six | months Js on the water wagon. Hej; fe taking the Harburger cure. | | | “I would take you up to my rooms,” Mr. Roberts continued, “but my man is out this afternoon making necessary purchases and I'm afratd the apartment te hardly presentable." Mr. Roberts's application for member- ip to the exclusive Ludiow street All- | mony Club was signed by his wife. | bhe club. It's like going Into the Eagle: or ‘delonging to Tammany—something | to her actor she took care of all his money, and now when he hasn't any more money she bas provided a home for him at said the new member of the club. “The mem- bere of the club are @ delightful lot of fellows, and they gave mo @ royal wel- come last night. We had music and singing, played cards, chess and check- ere Gene Johnson, the Warden—er, I should gay the manager of the club—ts extremely hospitable, He sings well, too, If @ man wanted to leave here, Gene wouldn't hear of !t. He simply wouldn't let him @o. I had to complain this morning of my bath. I like a hot assured James, my man, that would be ne complaint in the future. “It io extremely quiet here, as you mugt have noticed. It never gets noisy, T have Geen assured. I like quiet. I love the twhight and I like to write by the Might of @ tallow candle at times. Instead of the @ectric light last night 1 nad’ thndle. A atrenge thing hap- nene@. I don't betleve in ghosts, T have little faith in dreams, and I have never been strong on spiritualism. But I leave It to you to make what you can out of this oocurrenc “T ha@ been reading in my easy chair by the eoft candle light 1 read until 1 felt drowsy, then blew out the light You can't imagine the sensation of blowing out the light of a candle. It brought memories of camping out, of & erude dut delightful hotel in a pretty mountain fastness, of @ night on board my yacht. I atood in my bare feet on the eoft Persian rug looking out through an aperturé through which streamed the rays of an electric lamp on the street. But for the electric light I could have imagined myself a thousand miles away Would Sulzer Disappoint ents? Cons: One hae to be vouched for to get Into | oe ll ¥ esl | THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1913. > em: “New York’s Most Exclusive Club? Why, You Need Affidavits to Join the ‘Alimony’ ’’---Theodore Roberts like it, Mra, Roberts has been very kind | nd playwright husband, | from civilisation’s centre. bed. “Tired nature goon yielded to the em- brace of the downy couch. I slept, or thought I did. Above my head fantastic shapes were woven out of the air, The figure of @ beautiful woman floated above me. Her face wae near to Tt was a@ beautiful face, No, it was not that of my wife, I confess I was startled. I closed my eyes, then opened them. The woman and the beautiful face were still there. I set up and the face disappeared. I tay back on my pillow and it came again to me. I looked about. I saw @ white figure waving In the rays of the electric light. I wondered if I were eeping things. “T recalled that I had been told that the gentleman who had occupied my wulte before me had been addictel to the use of morphine. But no. There was a tug at my wrist. Involuntarily I wat bolt upright In bed. The beautiful face faded away. I suid aloud that I had never believed !n spiritualism and then asked if anybody was there. No answer came and I got up. The figure in white was stil waving toward me, and then I saw again the outlines of the other. I followed the vapor-ltke form and it led me to the candle. The wick was still burning and the smoke from it had formed the spiritual form I had seen floating above my bed. The figure in white was my shirt. A strange His New York He Certainly Would Not! REDERICK MOORE, associated F Press Correspondent Pekin, who has Just armved tr New York from Constantinople, where he ered the Bulgarian war, told a good story on Gov. Fulzer at the Lotos Club, where he Is staying for a few days until he etarts for China, Back in Sulzer’a early Congreslonal Aaya Moore was a Washington corres- vondent and was waiting for an inter- fuw one day when ho saw Sulzer come ve re SNom the Representatives’ chamber and uf greet two New York constituents “Howdy boys,” enfa Congressman Bill. Tha boys were plearcd, “Bill,” sald one, “there don't seem to be anything doing and we gotter gt away, When're yuh goin’ to peak?” Ril allowed there was a rather dull sion, That's tough luck," said the second sonatituent, “we just wanted to hear ou make a apecch Sulzer pulled his forelock, until the special gallery ou go up there,’ Ui) make a speech enid TiN, “and ‘The Speaker wis intoning consitar |« appropriations, whiel were passed with capens rintlon for the Phe custoinary ny) conaul in the ‘Transvni! avout to be passed, wien Sulzer strc dows ¢be aisle in warlike attitude, Ho al thought came, Ie produced ttekets for | ad 4 1 a] it wan sald of Gate on when he refereed the aght Mt into the appropriation hammer end |tongs, demanding that the En, bh ‘Government pay for the consul, he was of more service to Engiand than the Untted States. The subject of Eng- land and the Trai led to the Boer war, Now waving his arms and ghout- ing and now with a hushed and break- Ing volee that seemed to mourn the graves of heroes dead, Sulzer spoke for half an hour and retired in @ blaze of |mlory, After which the House promptly Voted against him | Outalde the New York constituents met him. “Well, how wan it?” asked Sulzer, xelatmed t eaid Sulzer, “drop in when you're down this way again.”’ “eT HIS Luther McCarty must be some ter sald Tom Sharkey. “I wonder !f Tom ever recalls his fight Jin San Franclaco wit Bob Fitas!m- mous,” sald an old-time sporting man ‘as the door of Sharkey's aleonolle palace vsed upon him and hig friend, “You | Know Tom was awarded the fight on a! j foul and there was consideraote sean: | the dal over the Wyate Karp, IT WAS THE FACE OF A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN—NO, iT WAS NOT THAT OF MY WIFE.” olub, Wasn't it?" thet time he will lave saved $1,309. ‘Theat means twenty-six weeks of al!. (mony. may need. will be free from all trouble. unqualified pleasure. the olub I have found interesting. congenial.” “We treat our fine, “Once @ month they ha When James R. Keene Bet on His Favorite. Gead financier and turfman, was | A LTHOUGH James R. Keene, the known as the nerviest of Wall! Street operators, he was anything but & betting man on the race tracks. He dearly loved to win valuable stakes, and he won nearly everything In this line except the classic English Derby. Hie horses rarely carried anything but an infinitesimal wager. Big wagers Were. few and far between with him, One day when hie Ben Brush colt Besom was making hie racing debut at Sheepshead, Mr. Keene visited the pad- dock in company swith his trainer, Jimmy Rowe, and inspected the colt minutely. Keene was very fond of Noonday, the colt'e dam, and he talked proudly of his expectations of Besom. The colt had worked exceptionally fast, @nd the race looked as sure as eure things can be regarded on a race track. The result of the conference with Rowe was that Mr. Keene decided to make one of his rare bets, $500 on Besom to win. The news of the Keene w created almost @ sensation in the ring, and the price against the colt went tumbling. The race run add Besom lost by an eyelash. He went out with Berry Maid and the two raced atride for atride like a team. When It was Besom's turn to stride, lils nose showed in front, and when it was Berry Maid's | turn ahe showed @ ecant advantage. So {t was all the way, Mr. Keene watching the contest through his fleld glasses without @ murmur, The crowd was on ite toes, Ae they passed the Judges it was Berry Matd's turn to stride. Then th of Mr. Keene's eye at the tin lost the verdict, and the Vice-Chairman of the Jockey Club lost one of his few wagers on the turf. Fitzsimmons conte: hi inion and Kowalaky ed an attorney na: ‘The Colonel was a great character in San Francisco. He hada line of talk that ran as smoothly as a light running sewing machine. And he loved to talk. They used to say that he talked himself to sleep. Hut that was 80. The Colonel had the sleeping sich nens. Why, I've been talking to him myself when he'd fall fast asler Kowalsky did a lot o in the newspapers about Wyatt E Other people were talking about the ref: i experience tor my first night In ja—the Eugene Johnson, whom the members of the club call Warden for a josh, Is e@lways on hand. He, too, makes his home in the club. He says that the; members rarely go out for weeks and| months at a time. Mr. Roberts has de-| clared that he will not leave the hos- piteble quarters for six months, By meny et 90 a week, which he will not have to pay. When he leaves he takes) plays at sight and he can read notes. @ withdrawal card from the Alimony Chub. It will be his goodnight to all- “E expect to do « good deal of writing during my stay here," said the rotor. “I have ® play afl framed out, and In six monthe I cun finish it in fine shape. I will have my Ifrary brought down} arly next week, or that part of it T T will have A good rest and 1 00% forward to the next six months with ‘The members of Every one of them has a story to tell and each wants me to write it up. I will have no dearth of material and T am sure the surroundings will be very pris—our members sald Julius Harburger, the Sheriff. high Jinks and every Sunday they have « concert. Gene Johnson used to be a bandmaster. He plays the trombone, cornet and the: violin, I,don't mean all at once, Ie He can read them at thirty, sixty and ninety days, Every Sunday he hee a. | and at the club and the members have the time of their lives It's @ great, place, { invite you to spend @ month: with us; make {t three months, No! Well, goodnight." And as the door of the clud clangud after The Fvening World man the strains of songs were wafted out on the! air, The members of the Allmony Club were singing the chorus of “I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now?" New York’s ‘Chickens E “A CHICKEN.” ling and the feathers polished wo bright you car eee your ‘ein them, We have received over twelve hun- dred letters from chickens fn and around New. Yors asking particulars out this ball. These letters come fiom North, East, South and West, and j therefore we are sure of having all | localities represented, So great haa Ibeen the jut manifested that we have determined to award prizes in the most unique contest ever held in this big village. PRIZES FOR CHICKENS, | The Prettiest Chicken is going to get RA00000000000000008 The 8 head the aon t Was up to him to » too. as Just, rmy o! fighter take @ was law He Inded rable of his on that the most verbal ass owalsk ne Cotone sealed Kowalwsy used 10 have ld Balawin a suite of rooms in the particular woman | ’ Had Their Dance And Here’s the “‘Cluck! Cluck!’? They Answered VERY regular fellow will be at a prise of $60.00 im Geld, and she'll be this monster celebration because! picked out of the grand march by th:e? he will want to see the la: <t| competent judges, who will be entire style in chickens, and belleve us, they'll istrangers and therefore not influenced, all will be there, with the bells tink-/The prettiest girl 18 going to get the ! AND NOW FOURTEENTH STREET LIFTS ITS HAND AND SAYS “PLEASE, TE. Hotel on | speaking & the Great floor, 1 was @ ebort spriat) thea an swful snore sinote the atmos: | life Don’t Look for Onein the Dictionary, but the Mo- ment It Comes From Under Cover Grab It— It’s Permissible! BY CHARLES DARNTON. A” now it comes out—per- mise-se-uble! It comes out of Sam Ber- nard as the last werd in the English language that he knows so well and uses so little, Like his new motto, “Don't leave it undone, but keep it unknown,” it is the latest thing out. “Permissible” is to “All the Ladies” what “shush” was to “The Rich Mr. Hoggenheimer,” what “sufficiency” was to “The Girl From Kay’ what “Is it possible!” was to “The Rollicking Girl “A good catch twenty or thirty ‘declared the verbal delicatensen dealer, speaking from experience. “But it ni ght pI A word Is a only to make !t funny you And u's \d. ‘There's no use looking for You must wait until {t ghows itself outside and then ‘grab it. All the words in the dictionary ‘are ae serious as Shakesperian actors, but once they come frem under cover their whole nature Ie apt to change. Keep your ear open and you may catch a word that 1s good for a laugh at both afternoon and evening performances, 1 always write my own word—-sometimes more Mere than one. I'm vo-author of— ‘well, several plecee, Don’t hurt my the one in which But I do not 1 am one of our bumest little eo-authors, Now you know ie Do you happen to know that Sam Ber. rd 13 atso our busiest box-office actor? Hla first evening performance at the Lyric Theatre begina at 7.45 and ends when he rushes off to his dress- for his second teal J to well tickets. He brings to this voluntary part of his work wonderful enthusiasm and a true feeling for the two-dollar bill, Luring one from a very t night he crowded first prise, Her complexion, expression nd general facial characteristics will Gecide this award. ‘The Wistest Chicken will get the so:- ond prise of $88.00 in Gold. By “Mifty” we mean what the French people call “chic,” which means “cute,” “dainty, “fetching"—you know, one of ih that you she's gone and you spend the reat of went! That's the kind. Well, the judg: ‘Will have their eyes peeled. ‘Best Dressed Chicken $15.00 in Gold. It t@ not necessary to explain this ex- copt that we would like to say that Good teste will influence the judges in announcing their decieion rather than @ny lavish expenditure on @ costume. You might get a eix-doliar suit at a Seventh avenue place and look ten girl would look r Fifth avenue Smallest Chicken !s going to receive $10.00 in Geld. The girl to win this doesn't have to be #0 young, necessarily, dit she must be physically petite. A few other features to make you happy: The cabaret show, ball room Marathon fog ladies, barnyard hippo- drome, flight of balloons, Think of these chickens: Plymouth rocks, leghorns, cochin Chinas, speckled reds, orpingtons, They'll all be there! ecratching! So own corn! They'll all be t busy! Bring your up the broad staira to the first p Hoor 90k a drink and then walked Kunnel,’ 4 the gunman tn soft, purring "You have bi ing considerable talking about his me and inde | sou me one has wot to die becaune reputation is at stake. And, Kunnel (ve decided that tt mignt as wel be And the gunman unlimbered a forty Ave and covered the attorney, Kowalmky Ver sald a word, When Wyatt stopped re was a death-like silence, thone Va dash of and home| here 18 one junior officer In the Cunard} cursing hil 'ACHER!” [a ticket upon her. She \glanced at it with a practte ahe raised the objection: ‘This seat is too far back.” “Belleve me, madame,” the persuasiv treasurer assured her, “if you at any closer to the stage it would hurt your ears. “I'@ Ike @Wo of your beat se came from the next face that appeared at the window, Five dollars accom- panted the. cheerful apparition. Tne tokets, with n@ change, were promptly handed out, “Why du you charge me two-and half apiece for these?’ demanded the {indignant purchaser. “You asked for the best seats," ex- plained the rising young treasurer, “and I gave you the best 1 had—two in a bo: no #oone! ‘al eye th “Well, Vil be" — “Pleased, I hope,” put in the smiling genius of the box office. And that’s the way it went until the all-round actor tore himself away from the ticket rack and dashed off to his dressing room. Here I asked bim how he caught his catchwords. Usually 1 do it by New York’s Marin Smile at This Junior. i old German downtown who is shrickingly funny with Ing tt. and wok me down one day to see him. | He's foreman of a cloak making pli ‘I seen you once in a play,’ he told mi | ‘ana maybe you are a comical actor, ut know- yes? But the play tt was chust non- sense, Sometimes to the theatre I go, but most times I don't. Last week I Seen another play, the name I think it was “Pought and Sold Out." He meant face until the-proprietor came in with a girl who hag been promised a Job. , looking at hi "You All right, take your clothes oft “Then there wi another fellow, APT. W. R. D, IRVINE, R. N. R., commander of the Laconia, is renowned for his mild manner, jervice, hawever, who once believed mander on the seas, Tois junior officer, had joined the Pannonia, which Uhen commanded by Capt. Irvine, was the Junior's first voyage “In steam. The Pannonia was passing through the Straits of Monsina, Capt, Irvine was on the bridge. The Junjor had been Pacing the deck below the bridge in an xcited manner for several minutes. Finally, he hailed the captain on th foridge. Astonished, the captain looked down at the junior, “I think we're too close in shore, air,’ 4 the junior. ‘Oh, do you? How interesting!" re- Pied Capt. Irvine, and resumed his gac- ing of the brid This junior was later tell! |troubles to Sam MoNeil, now {of the Ausonia, MoNetl had asked him [how he liked his captain. had replied that “the old man’ was too Sarcastic to mutt him and related the Straits of Messina experience, MaNell Was petrified for a full minute, When he recovered he tnfo ed the youngster a lot regarding the relations of @ junior off) to his captain. That this litle yarn may be appre. jelated 1: may be said that the addre: tng of a captain on the bi Hoer is conaldered le a of a jun fan unpardonable offense, Juniors have lowt out tn the service for bidding good Morning to thelr captains without fret having been spoken to, Pheie. Kowalaky iad one of his at- tacks, Karp looked at him with eyes @id mouth wide open, He looked at his gun and vent over the lawyer to make sure the evidence of bls eae and | ea You, he was asleep all right. Karp slowly put the gun tack into his poc He reverently remov j ptoed out of ther cloning the door | Jafier him without the slighteat noise. Thea he ran all the way home and told x wife that he had just met the bravest man he had ever aeen in his Schultz," he recalled, “who played the clarionet in a Cleveland variety hou: And also ran a boanting house, twenty- odd years ago. He put in bis spare time luck, ‘For nothing,’ he you foollsh actors get much would say the week wondering which way she|Capt. Irvine to be the meanest com-|Mmoney, and I get two dollars a nignt, And for what? nobody sees it! body see it? I blow my head off and 1 ask you, does any- Not And I studied in te Dailey and I used to stop at Schults's—you couldn't keep Pete out of the place. ‘The old man ran a New York’ in the Joyous Daytime Gets Very Much Pointed Out to Joe and Lew nd kape from runnta’ Cerar or eomethin'?* the right man.” ne sata. ‘There's an |"! nanfed Miller Sam Bernard Believes New York Likes A Catch-Word on the Tip of Its Tongue {This was Dailey’ A drummer told me about him |" | was up. Grabbing a mallet, he jumped } tor the door and opened it with the ‘Bought and Paid Fdr.’ I kept @ serious | ** anger 10, and then bought everything = ‘gor | Bchults, who hated the world, leved ’ | ” i . } } " “ aa oie a OK WEBER and Lew Fieidy were; Properly rebuked, Joe and Lew sank °°% riding uptown in @ Caxicab a few | ack in their seats, The taxicab sped §** afterioous ago to attend # wed- jon, Suddenly there came into view a ® ing, The chauffeur was @ large, mil |inagaiticent synagogue, with gildel ° 7 tant Milesian with @ square face, domes and minarets, a beautiful sp a Joe and Lew, not familiar with the! men of architecture of the synagogue . aspect of New York in the daytime, | type, were evted In the buildings along | "Here," sald Joe to Lew, with a grin,” 2 * Central Park West, and asked the Hi- | "lp where { get one large Harp goat, bernian autour many questions. | Pay deep attention % Finally the chauffeur remarked: | “Rudolph,” he called to the chauffeur, Do yee think this ie wan of thim| “what is that glistening, ornate and - rubberneck wagging? How do ye think | striking structure on yon corner?" Ti be answerin’ your fool questions “That,’ replied the Iriah chauffeun, {nto @ throlley ‘without turning around, “ig Ca-ardimal Httle bar in a back room, with a free luneh to encouri trade, But business d ‘Was pretty bad. To make it seem worse ." t and made us promise that we would est everything in sight and not buy a drint. If anything could give @ man @ thirst ‘t was that lunch—rye bread, potchesse, /'% jwalted radishes—oo! But we ate it of it while Pete told funny at verybody but Schu'ts laughed. The only time he brightened up was when one of the party offeret to buy cigars, cue to say, ‘Never mind, I've got enough cigarettes for all s us. “Schultz looked at him with murder in ye, but nothing happened until after °% 12 o'clock when, some one knocked on the door, which had been locked. ‘Don't let him in,’ advised Dalley, against the law.’ Bi hearty greeting, ‘You come chust at the right time! I commence something: Dailey leaped to the rescue, took the oe in the place. Good old Pete! Even him, “Without knowing it, Schults, whose « ». dialect was worth going miles to hear, - eave me a lot of funny stuf@ that f a have used. I picked up many a word oA at his place, But you never know what | | @ word or @ phrase is worth until you~ bring it to New York. If it is god for anything New York catches {t quickly and then passes jt along until it ail over the country, A word im} t #o much! In some places you have to , hand it to them with a careful expla- , %j nation, but not here. New York knows ‘ et & good catch-word the moment it heare ‘ one, and it likes nothing better tha to have one on the tip of its tongue.” oa Farley's gar-rage.””