The sun., 1890-05-11

better line Tor the canal might be obtaine
without encroaching upon his premises. In
merrment. in the course OF which HOOK sea
ed himself a. the plane and revealed ne & hos
the last verse Of which ran:
lam very much pleased with your tare
Your GsIiaEs g. as Si,i, prime as & y.ur rS sSok'
And I'm MIR. Theodore Hook
There IS another version OF this story
all events IT is worth repeating. Hook an
David Terry, the actor an ancestor Of Ellie
Terry, made their way into a gentleman,
tSif being "a admitted to the drawing g room i wa
taken Of them. Hook was the ruling spirit
and before the host discovered him he ha'
Of Of guests S by his saies Of droiiery The maste
felt rather at a loss. Hook replied with
suavest and most fascinating terms, actualll
preventing any interruption to his discourse
mistaken both the house and the hour at which
they, oughtto have dined with friend. ms
ov ns the hSe q" dnnS hour S2T Ra
been long past and n guest will such Q flow o.
spirits as Hook possessed would with his com.
his own table. The pair were therefore per.
suaded to remain to dinner 10 d9llRhtiui a
SoGn met before @ and an G so much %rh and oty
had never TIL now enlIyened the mansion.
Hook regnfS suprems ne mpT9T;seu d y; n. on ID hs S
sSRfh' sSf f0''A'a the 'u0nu'' o. -0f'Y An1 n,n
Years passed away without any one with q
talent for hoaxinC having stepped into tho
shoes left vacant by Hook. until OF sudden
the late Edward 4. Sothern' the &C actor, tn the
tice hand" at tho business. and le soon de-
yeloped into an asc3mnlished workman; Ioditl n;
Hook. and as consequence. his hoaXes were
not carried on on quito SO extensive scale.
CH5 rnSE m the tme when they
were penetrated. He was usually assisted by
some choice spirits, the chief Of whom was his
as ready for the carrying out Of a harmless bit
Of fun as he IS to put his hand In ms pocket ior
the relief OF the distressed. There never was
grain of malice In tho composition OF either
Sothern or Florence aud whenever they took it
into their heads, which they did quite often, to
Awake the rert and ninb!e spirit OF mirih,
1t was only to create laugh and indulge in
bit OF pleasantly, which. of certainty, loft no
sting behind. In a conversation which the
wSr GGeS N sed % oEst 5ns b
self like King Lear, and insisted that many
hoaxes were attributed to him In which he
really had no hand. II was IN that respect
dog that had been given II bad name. And
then he went on and his own words nre given
going to- Tfo now 10 10 D9 to % You
how those things become enlarged by the
public rehearsal, how they are as the snowfall.
which becomes greater and greater the more
1t is rolled will tell you the true story. When
In the heyday OF my success as Iord Dun
ttDH GDion Paelc Railroad kindly loaned me their
own car from Omaha to san FrSnGiseo ban dO for
|sFe nsDs5 5E bSsg 6gs Tossn cRs4 Tb9 b9
was was then engaged in, pouring out some
Of my fIareL lie evidently thought It Tas ts
gals and the claret. The Westerner left.
and as he PASSED out of the ear the conductor
there. az the car was private one, and on this
the man returned and apologlzed. We had Q
Laugh eyer the assr Ipeaer cigar ana
Now to show you how this was colored up:
The newspapers had it tTo we. q Or three days
had terri.c struggle with him in the cars,
and in a Sir Charles CoIdstream sort of a way.
with Gays him the seeSr1ted
sSroSsss I'd qSsSit sss on &S tSa
trial was honorably acquitted and carried
through the streets on the shoulders of the |
5ne ep and s tt apd
tireworks." There was merry twinkle In his
eye. as he thus tried to hoax the writer. but
we'll knew that Sothern had hoaXed the news |
papers in the matter. having concocted the
i to San Francisco in advance OF his reachipg
that city where It's publication caused for him |
2 greater notoriety than before. It was an
Ingenious and successful attempt at free ad- |
1ertising. which had the desired effect.
And on YES he ra;tiSd On Tith his sqrpris-
les story. About that shall not tell YOU a
mall lie. That sell or hoax or whatever
Use yog1 may choose to call it, was | presume.
York club. When was lad at school in Eng
and | put an advertisement in the paper that
way was April and my birthday The was born
n Liverpool April |. ls2Gl-Nanderdecken the
flying Dutchman. would fly FROM the
t, Luke's Church, distance OF about a mile.
This wild eXtravagance q my pocket money
urned out to witness the flying exhibition and
NJ OF a sudden. when eNpectation was at its
liEheSt an and the the people pc teGinninG to show un-
II three fellow sehoolboys shouted OUT Isn't
I, the lrst Of, ,AprilT Immediately the crowd
ante!i A. Biso hoax sprang from He the little tile
tory which have IuSt told. but had no per-
Se @srUV WIFI H If on IN eG bs
'lue eyes. The hoax was, you see. thai on
ertain day Prot: CanteIl A. Biglle would fly
he top Of tho Astor House and repeat. The at
empted feat startled the entire community.
the Ra er
ad at length been invented, else why should
man be rash to h%zard his life
7hole city seemed to have turned out to wit
ess the feat of the daring adventurer. So
TedI WAS lue LlTOQp 10 Se6 Inc WOuuefIul per-
that Broadway and its vicinity were
npassable: and the windows commanding a
lew OF the church steeple were thronged with
aRer spectators straining their eyes. and
1hereyer there was q
"Jntty. frieze,
Buttress, or coIEn of vantage,
ou may depend. 1t was taken every advantage
!. Why business was brought to u standstiIl:
Vail street was in ierment, and tho bank
irector. tho: stock kbroker. and the speculator
Or the moment forgot the question OF gain.
o absorbed were they in betting ON tho sue
ess or failure OF Prot Biglie. The hours
and no professor appeared. when
began to dawn on the minds OF tho impa-
entity awaiting thousands that tho whole
llng was sell and so It was. Tho hoax was
lken in good part, but assure you. sir that
was innocence itself: ! was not one of tho
erpetrators OF it: oh dear. no.
" And then there was that operate hoax you
now. Think OF me having anything to do
it'll that! 1t was q capital but very cruel
ractioal Joke. As understand 1t. somo 4,OJ6
lrds we're issued tor an amateur operate ler-
at. | think. tho Fourteenth Street
heatre. 1 received card, you know, marked
supplementary, as did dozens ol my friends
hose cards were gotten W In the finest STYLE
I'd enclosed In perfumed envelopes. They
ere. of course. sent to the 6lite o, tho city. G
hen the night OF the presumed performance +
.me 1t ruined in torrents; carriage after ear =
nge drove up TO the door Of he theatre with "
dies and gentlemen in full dress, and when
o carriage doors wero thrown open, to tho I
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