New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-05-04
NICOLINPS EXPENSIVE HABIT
MIR. MAPLEsoN WANTS HIM TO PAY $4,000 FOR
PLAYING BILLIARDS.

AIR. sAPLEsoN WANTS HIM TO PAY $4,000 FOR
PLAYING BILLIARDS.
stalwart figure walked with o military
sde into the Office Of the NewYork Hotel yesterday at
epm, and with flowing hand wrote in the register,
"J II. Mapleson. New-York" Ten minutes siter"aru
he was found in his room putting the nnsnns
10 his toilet for dinner.
"well" said he as his visitor shook hands with him.
ahere we are once with and rumors OF wars
all around us. It's terrible, is 1t not Here's The
Times on one hand with sensational
heading Patti sued by Mapleson,'
when the last thing in the world should dream Of doing
would be 10 sue that good little soul had good
cause which have not. Then The Herald publishes
tissue OF fasehoods telegraphed from Boston under the
head OF Mapleson surrenders' What on earth pos
sesses your esteemed contemporaries, can't imagine,
dear boy"
"Well what's the truth OF the matter I"
"Its all in a nutshell. l have brought suit against
EIeoni in the first place, and not against Patti You
know billiards have turned poor Mes head. He's
playing all the time and have been paying him
for learning how to make ninety-three caroms
a day. don't want to get anything out OF him. only
sing as his contract calls for You eco II am TO pay
siosson. Ii would come cheaper you know"
sSS How much salary did Nicolini draw e
HIS salary was included IN the $4,000 night pald 10
Madame Patti believed he claimed onethird OF that
or when he did not sing was bound 10
merely as a matter OF form The whole thing Is atrhe
anal am
about it, am sure, however. that Patti understands
the matter fully. She often told me that she wouu
stop Niconis billiard playing and lock mp his cue IL
The other matter is outrageous. Last Monday re-
papers for the week before sent checks to them all
on Tuesday Thursday got back the recepted bills
for dinner when two ruttisns burst into my
room and said they had sDv Fes
crime Have murdered any one OF given German
~ Conf
and collect claim OF The Borld for 1902 with interest
and as my fish was growing cold had to give them $500
on Si02 for seventeen hours and a-half and
left them covering al 1ne one np' mem Pab e
egraph The World to see II the bill had been paid The
back Yes So that the whole thing was
ages amounting 70 cents and night it through all the
Wnst az Ra h@ to tell his
hirelng make 1t hot for Mapleson haven't been
poitcs SO 1t can't be that you know"
MT Mapleson afterward said that Madame Patti would
Coysnt Garden fer she had signed the contract he
had never known her to break one.
ArTRA OTIoNs AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
The Metropolitan Museum will be reopened
today The Poe Memorial will then be unveiled.
Saturday was set apart for private view Of theadd
tons which have made to the different collections
The Poe Memorial designed by r. H. Park and placed in
the museum by the actors OF New-York is in the main
hall on the right hand side of the entrance 1t consists
of female figure representing Poetry placing wreath
about bronze bas-reef Of Poe. Opposite this work is
placed bust Of viscount Exmouth, by Thorwaldsen,
entby Henry E. Pellew. A bronze statute of cen,
faur designed by Barge and lent by p Avery arrived
too late the catalogue The loan collection OF
modern artists has received two valuable additions.
Richard NJ Hunt lends two small paintings, one by
Jean Francois Milet, representing "susannsh," and
another BY Thomas Couture. entitled "a Couresan"
The gallery OF old masters has been enriched by Carlo
Dole, loaned by Ex-Governor John L. Manning; por-
trait Of the Duchess OF Portsmouth by Sir Peter Ley
loaned by A. Oakley Hall; portrait OF John Jay, by
Gilbert Stuart, loaned by Augustus jay; and
painting OF Christ In the Garden
OF GethseDane, by Gurrchio da Cento, loaned by
Richard NJ Hunt Nathaniel Jarvis, Jr., contributes
fine painting of the Raising of Lazarus attributed TO
Titan This painting has already been exhibited at
Chickering Hall
General al Cesnoa's collection of Cypriotc antiquities
has been rearranged and enlarged The Curum pieces
have been separated from those taken from the Ombs,
and two nc collections OF Chadean cylinders have been
added One of these collections from Cyprus
other from Chaidea and has been bought Bernard
Maimon. The latter collection includes the famous
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS cylinder found by Mr.. MaimOn IN the
ruins OF Sippara translation OF inscription on
the cylinder has been made by j. r. X Connor of the
Jesuits' College at Woodstock, Nd. Judge f. f. Far.
man. formerly ConsulGeneral at Cairo, has given a
valuable collection OF Egyptian antiquities, including
c0ins bronzes porceains and scaTaboi