New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-06-11
TOWN TALK-ABOUT PERSONS and THING&

| PERSONAL, LEGAL AND THEATRICAL.
AN INCREDIBLE SToRY.-Policemsn No. 100. whose
gaantry lately praised is apparently as discreet az
he is gallant He has his club in its appropriate
pocket for sixteen years. and has had NO occasion to
draw 1t for violent purposes He ought to be made dr
| master In club exercise for the whole force.
CURIOUS VOLUMES FORGOTTEN LoRE.-Among the
many articles in the collection Of "Tom" Dent
of the Phoenix Inn, Brooklyn, is an ancient and worn
volume IN which the issues for 1925, 1927, 1928 and
1920 Of BePs Lffein London bound together. 10
appears that the paper was begun in 1922. % four
page weekly paper devoted to sporting, theatrical mu-
steal and society matters sort Of pioneer Of the dra-
matic sheets OF the present time. An Anseeing Eyo
graocd the headings marvellous eye II was too, arts-
cally considered. Each department was headed by an
appropriate cut just as similar papers OF to.
day employ like devices. The engrayings were
| something cxecrabe. The second and third num-
| bers for 1920 have the heavy column
rules turned and 60 into the deepest mourning arst-
cally and edtoriay for His Royal Highness, Frederic
Duke Of York." Whether the mourning was for him as
the hepresumptve and the actual ruler OF England as
custodian OF his fathers person, or because he
had been something OF old sport" In his tme does
not appear by the etterpress accompanying the absurd
engravings showing him on horseback, looking like
farmer and lying in state looking like scarecrow Az
illustrating the state Of the arts OF engraving and print
ing sixty years ago. the volume is well worth examina'
ton Mr. Dent has another volume OF more recent date
but quite as curiousy suggestive. OF The Her- ForE
Weekly Caucasian, published in 1S61-62, In place OF
the daily Day Book suppressed by the Government for
is reasonable utterances The first number has an e1
panatory card in which occurs proposition which VIII
sound strangely the present generation OF newspaper
makers and readers The publishers say in an apollo
getc way: "By publishing only weekly we shall DO
enabled TO carefully collae the ne,rs."
THE FINES FOR GAMBLNG.-A look In the Court OK
Sessions the persons arragned and hned for policy
playing and lottery gambling revealed great variety in
physioguomy And It also showed that the penalty Is
being inflicted rot only those who sell bit on those
who are caught buying tickets and not only too on those
who keep the chops and houses but those who rent
them for illegal purposes. Some day large and repl
table landlord owner who does not inquire TO wnom
the agent his houses will be brought to the bar
and aned then there Will be cutlery against the
90 utrage"
HAyERLY's FiSAYcrAL TRoUBLEs.-There win be o
good deal OF genuine sympathy felt for John H. Hayery
and great deal OF hearty abuse heaped upon him.
now that this active theatrical manager has finally sue
eumbedto the financial difficulties which have been
pressing upon him for two years past Tho man Is asln
lar combination OF the visionary Spectator and prac-
teal pushing CT business His theatrical plans
were the biggest scale his quick Imagination could de-
vise and while the general scheme was visionary and
speculative the highest degree, the details were man
aged with great clearness and cleyerness His grand
idea and ambition contemplated the management, as
lessee or owner OF more theatres In all the largo
cities the whole forming circuit coextcnsige whtho
in which he could play the biggest stars and
combinations and large companies OF his own from ons
end OF the season other He had not the capital
to accomplish this purpose and had TO retreat Then it
was that he began find that he had made enemies MOI
only OF his rivals each city, but of the managers assoc
ciated with him. and with whom be was compelled to
dissolve partnership Haverlyisa man Of tremendous
and untirpg energy and viii not down easily at tho
first blow he gets.
A MILLIoSSAIRE's AMUsEMENTs.-Henry Hsvemeyers
son OF the Mayor is advertising his big iron pier az
Rockaway and toy hotel the Great South Bay
for sale The one great failure and the other
heavy expense to him. He built the iron pier when there
WAS expectation and reasonable 1ope that the big hotel
at Rockaway would be opened; IL never was aud the
pier never took enough money TO pay for single one
OF the iron spes on which it rests It is matter OF
notorety that Of the iron piers except those at
Coney Island and Long Branch have paid as Invest
ments Hayemeyers toy hotel" on Oak Island OPP
posite Fire Island and just the inlet from the
Surf Hotel. The Wawayanda Clubhouse was on tho
next one OF group OF islands In the Bay near this point
Mr. Hayemeyer took the house foreclosure sale Tor
debt due him and rehtted IL summer residence FOR
his family There thirty rooms In IL, and dur
ing each summer for four years past these have been
almost constantly filed with invited guests. In facr
MIR. Havemeyers huspitable nature turned the toy
hotel at Havemeyers Point" TRIBUSE correspond.
emit dubbed the place, into regular free summer
hotel He got little OF it, and 1t is not surpris-
ing Is find be now wishes let sell it to somebody for