Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-01-12
AFAnLILY REUNION.
'Brick" Pomeroy oriticising Ills Ex.
Wife aud Her New Husband.


Sew YORK correspondent OF the Chicago
intsr-ocean.
There was a curious reunion in the
Pomeroy family the other night, II
was public affair, and yet the large
present knew nothing about
1t. Brick Pomeroy sat IN an orchestra
chair in the Fourteenth Street theater.
At present he is bald man OF farmer
like aspect and rather careless clothes,
quite unlike the neat IL not act
ually gaudy parsonage of hl-
teen or twenty years ago. I
recall him asa very peculiar figure in
Printing House Square about 1870,
when he had Just brought his Demo-
Graz from Wisconsin and turned II
into New York daily. He used 20
wear full evening dress all day long,
and in front OF his Office, on the genu-
inc gsllOws on which John Brown
had been hanged, he maintained
hand-orgsn grinder 10 keep up the
tune 10 which that martyrs soul IL
supposed to he ever marching on. AL
though Brick issued tOlerAble news
paper, and advertised 1t by various
curious devices, the enterprise was a
failure, and he went out of New York
ers' sight. Lately he
REApPEARFD AS A TEMPERANCE
LECTURER,
and during the presidential campaign
he Issued several numbers of "A weekly
journal In his old vein. Well on the
stage of the theater in which | have
locaJed him was his former wife az an
actre 3. Louise Pomeroy retains for
professional use the name which she
gained from brief wCdlock with tue
erratic Brick They quaTreled within
three months of the marriage and soon
afterward were separated legally by "A
divorce which she obtained without
opposition from HIM. She was then,
and Is still, Il handsome woman. On be-
coming an actress she struck out az
once as a star, and has remained one.
though hardly Of sufficient brilliancy
or magnitude o. shine IN the metrOp-
oils She has now come to town, how
ever, with company aud play than
which few worse have ever been seen
anywhere, thus practically defeating
/ her own attractiveness. ] found IL in
| teresting to watch the man and the
woman rs they saw each other across
; the footlights. There wss q flash Of
| bright color quite visible through the
/
| cheeks the Instant she discovered her
| ex-husband, but she controlled her
! nerves and did not let the shock affect
| her acting. Then she had
TO be Rugged by the mimic
( lover, lusty young fellow, who did
/ II thoroughly, but ! could not see that
Brick WAS ct all affected by that fea-
J ture Of the performance The import
! ant situation in
/ THIS DRAMA WITHIN a DRARA
came when Arthur Elliott, the nus
band whom she had brought from
| Australia, appeared upon the stage.
Bricks opera-glasees went TO his eye
like wink, and were held there while
he made long and critical inspection
| OF his successor. Under this ordeal the
actress betrayed no more disturbances
than before, and / will tell yOn why.
Elliott had the roll Of a shRky, ener-
waited, half-paraly zed old man, with
his face painted 10 suit the character,
ard altogether looking more like
the corpse st forthcoming funeral
than the bridegroom ola recent wed
ding. A fine object was he, truly, foi
proud woman TO exhibit AS hel
second husband TO her first husband
Brick smiled sardOnically and seemed
to enjoy the spectacle. What did Mrs
Pomeroy do? Nothing, 70 far as
positively know. But II ia a fact that
during one Of the recesses between act
boy came down the aisle Showing
photographs OF the star for sale, and h'
strangely hAd IN stock one portrait o
a g0od-looking man very conspicuous
~ Inscribed Arthur Elliott - TO which
he forced the attention OF Brick Pom
erOy.