The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-10-13

them. a person would naturally Ihink
that thief having made a successful haul
Of three thousand dollars would have rest
ed at least for the day. Not so with the
thief who dashed into the bank at the cor
ner of Third avenue and Twenty-third
street and seizing four bundles Of bills of.a
thousand dollars each, got off with three
dropping thousand by the way
Yet two hours after he tried the same
thing in Wall street, that provel his bete
noir and now he stands good chance for
fourteen years in States Prison, If not
twenty. This and the robberies of Bedell,
the confidential clerk of Southmayd q
Cho@t, have given Wall street the livellest
shake it has had since Ferdinand Wards
time.
Speaking of robberies, a most singular
case has occurred in Brookly. The other
night young lady was arrested at her
fathers house for stealing some
diamond rings and pin from the store of
fashionable jeweler. The young lady's
father is rich and would have willingly pur-
chased fol her any jewerly that she needed
but 1t appears that she preferred to steal
them; one of the rings she gave to lover of
hers. rest of the jewelry she had on
at the time of her arrest. At first the sym
pathes of the ieweler were so worked upon
that he resolved not to prosecute her, but
on taking second look remembered her as
woman who had robbed him under SINH
lar circumstances year before, when she
tremendous effort has been made To hush
the matter up, but the discovery of the
previous robbery has steeled the jewelers.
heart, and now he is resolved to prosecute
her, as he says these fine ladies are the
most dangerous and successful class of
thieves. The losses in all the large stores
are very serious item in the years account
and it was only last week by some mysteri-
GUS process that couple of fine ladies got
away with two valuable seal skin sacques,
and they were never missed till the thieves
| got off safe with their plumber.
| 1t seems singular that the man who was
really the first to introduce Wagner's music
TO New York, now in the very height of
| the Wagnerlan craze, should be quietly laid
on the shelf.
| Twelve or fourteen year ago when Wag-
| ner was hardly known to our musical pub
| lie THAT is if we had any musical public)
| Theodore Thomas proclaimed from the hill
| tops that Wagner was the musical prophet
OF the future. Some looked incredulous,
others laughed, many doubted, but Theo-
| dore Thomas never for a moment wavered
in his faith, and when Wagner produced
Gotterdammerung at Beyrout, Thomas got
up concert the proceeds Of which were to
send American representatives to the open
ing. The result of his untiring efforts final
ly awakened an interest in the new musi-
cal dispensation, and from this grain oi
mustard seed sprang the Metropolitan
Opera House in all its glory. For years he
had reigned supreme in musical matters
and in all pertaining to concert or instru.
mental music his word was law. His man
ners, never of the mildest or most concilia
tory, became so autocratic and rude, thai
musicians began to look around for a new
leader and they were not long in discover
ing him in Doctor Damrosch, one of the
most distinguished musicians in the
country; and in the meantime Patrick
Sarsfield Gilmore had abandoned Boston
the scene of his early triumphs, and hat
made his headquarters with magnifcen
band right in Theodore Thomas bailiwick
ner operas at the Metropolitan Opera Hous,
on a scale of unexampled magnifcence Mr.
Thomas fully expected the baton but the.
quitely passed him by and Doctor Damroscl
got the coveted position.
Damrosch died early In the season anC
then it seemed impossible that they coult
do without Mr.. Thomas any longer, bu
again they passed him by, and Docto
Damroch's son, a noYice, was called t,
fill his fathers place. The young man
failure was conspicuous, and Theodor
Thomas thought his hour of triumph hat
come at last, but the management sent Il
Germany and engaged Anton Seidel, tn
leader of the Royal Opera House at Berlin
This last blow extinguished Thomas hope
and he has never been the same man since
1t is now announced that the grand orches
ira that he drilled with so much care TO
; years is to be dsbanded and scattered, an,
that Mr.. Thomas gives up the fight ant
leaves the concert field to his more youth
: full aud energetic rivals. He now take
; charge of the Brooklyn Philharmonic
where in years gone by he did excellen
service. There is no better musician in tn
: United States than Theodore Thomas to
day, and that he finds himself in his presen
self. The grades among actors ant
musicians are many and marked and ar
not easily understood by the outside world
Mr.. Thomas rude and overbearing manner
have made him enemies who haye FOLLOWED
him like sleuth hounds, and who haye los
no opportunity to harass and injure him
and now in his utter business failure hi
bitterest enemies may well be satisfied
nice little story about Lily Langtry is
that the cause of Freddy Gebhard's suddei
disappearance, when he cut-stick TO
Europe just after the loss of his horses b,
railroad accident, was that he wa
jealous of the Lily's leading man. and tina
he hugged her more than the requirement
of the play demanded in 1.-The Lady o
Lyons" and that the Lily appeared t
like it. The upshot was terrible row
Freddy said that he'd be blessed If he'
stand III and the Lily, who has temper G
her own when her blood is up, told him /
( go to-Jericho, and she would start 70
Halifax. Freddy took her at her wor
and left the next morning, his valet hay
ing scarcely time to pack his gripsacA
When the Lily found that Freddy wa
i really gone thew had To send for docto