The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-09

and lady, Mr.. Hord and Miss Shipp, Mr. J. A.
Young and Miss Lemond, Mr.. George b. Yandes
and lady, Mr., and Mrs; J. B. Elan, Dr. W; n.
Wishard and Miss Wishard. Mr.. and Mrs. F. NJ
Dice, Mr. and Mrs, J. NJ. Wright Mr. and Mrs
W. Il. Coffin, MIR and Mrs, Frank Coffin, Mr.
and Mrs George Tanner, Mr. and Mrs. V. r.
Malott, Mr.. and Mrs Charles Wolcott, Mr.. and
Mrs. Mansur Wright, Mr. Walter Bradshaw
and Miss Sue Martindale, Mr.. II. S. Frazer and
Miss Lee Beatty, Mr. and Mrs. John NJ. Butler
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Spann, John @. Spann
and Miss Spann, Mr.. and Mrs w. j. Mckee,
MIR. and Mrs George Sullivan. Mr. and Mrs A.
|. Fletcher and Miss Emily Fletcher, Mr.. and
Mrs q. r. Root, Mr. and Mrs G. E. Coffin, Mr., and
Mrs. s. P. Sheerin, Mrs. M. V. Adkins, Miss
Adkins, Mr.. F. NJ. Finch and daughter, Mr.. j.
Mrs. A. c. Harris, Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Mick Mr..
y. N. Morris and lady, Mr.. and Mrs. D. G.
Brown, Mr. J. II. Turner, Mrs. Turner, Mr..
Hicklen Landers and lady, Mr.. Jay Voss and
Miss Voss, Mr. and Mrs, Berg Apologize.
RECEPTION To MR. IRVING AND MISS TERRY.
A reception was given to Mr.. Irving and Miss
Terry, at the Denison last night after the per
Torrance, by MY. James McHenry, railroad
magnate of London who has long been ae-
quainted with the illustrious actors, and who
came down from Cleveland yesterday, with
party of friends, in the private car
of President DevereuX, of the Bee-line, to wit
intimate friends were invited, and there We're
only thirteen present, the party besides Mr.
Irving and Miss Terry, consisting of Mr.. Henry
and Edward Mcnamara, of London; Mr.. and
Mrs. w. H. Tailers, Thomas p. Fowler, and
James A Remy, of New York; c. H. Greer, of
the Cleveland Leader, and Brans Stoker Ii. J.
Loveday, and j. H. Palser, of Cleveland
A RECOLLECTION OF MIR. IRVING.
$50 see Mr.. Bradshaw, at the New York
store said friend to the reporter. yesterday; she
can tell you something about Henry Irving, the
actor; they were boys together in London" The
reporter did so. ''Yes,n said Mr.. Bradshaw 81
knew Mr.. Irving when he was youth in Lon
don. He was born in Somerset, but when
knew him his parents lived in Throckmorton
street, London, near the Bank of England He
is nine years older than I, so that when he
a young man was still small boy. I have
run many an errand for his mother He was
an only child, and she was very proud of him.
He was far from being handsome, but bright,
manly fellow with good heart in him, and we'll
liked by everybody, particularly the children
thereabout. His name you know is John Henry
Broadribb. He had his mothers pluck and per-
severance, and So beginning at the bottom, he
has come to be the first actor of his day. Many
and many time have L heard his mothers
warm praise of him. John is going to be
great actor she would say; he will be at the
very top one of these days They were in the
common walks of life and all her thrift and
saving was for John. But the fond and conf
dent heart was stilled before the son fulfilled the
mothers prophecy. She died in 1864 What
proud woman she would have been had she lived
a few years longer to see his triumphsl
'She would now and then, as l was in her con-
fdence, give me little theatrical readings when
her heart overhowed, and say This is the way
my John would read this He was a clerk in
the East India Company's service until he was
about fourteen and it was after that l used to
hear from his mothers lips the story of his hard
trials and struggles as an actor in Scotland and
in the North of England. Looking at him, last
night it was hard for to realize that the great
years ago.
Il called on him yesterday, at the Denison
House, and told him who l was. He was glad
to see me, and with thousands of miles of land
and water and dreary waste of years between,
we talked of the by-gone days and dead friends
of long ago.