Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-01-13

OUT.
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, Jan. 12.-For four days the New
York police oficisls searched for Florence
Kaye Of 800 X street northwest and Jessie
March of $40 18th street northwest. For mex
pcrienced girls Of sixteen or seventeen they
haye displayed wonderful cleverness N keep
ing out Of the way Of the detectives. On Mon
day the two mothers took rooms at 1873 West
35th street in the very heart of what is called
the '.tenderloin'' district They have been here
three days and had found out nothing definite
about the whereabouts of the two girls. Mrs
Kaye told her story Of the chase to STAR cor
respondent.
matinee At Albaughs s. she said. ''and sup
posed they had gone there When Florence
failed 10 come home that night was alarmed,
because she WAS never away from home one
night before unless some of Us was with her
The next day got telegram IL said: Jessie
and are IL New York all o. h Don't worry.
Home Monday / went at once TO MIS-
March's house and found that she had recelved
. similar telegram from her daughter. VI
course all could do was to wait Mhen
Monday passed without any news OF the girls
we became even more uneasy and telegraphed
10 a friend here asking him to find the girls
Last Thursday he telegraphed 10 US tnas ne
mad rOunQ tlS E.rlS al Il nOttA OONn tOhA'
won't tell you the name of the place as 1t
would do no good. Il is place patronized
BY theatrical people. We came here as soon as
we got the telegram and went at once to the
hotel where the girls had been found But
some one in the house told them that detec-
tive had been looking for them and they left a
few hours before we arrived Mrs March and
remained at the hotel, taking rooms there, and
expected that the girls would, one or the other,
call there for letters. But neither OF them
tOlI usn t the hotel that when the
girls left they had gone toward Broadway. and
/ asked the policeman stationed on the corner
il he had seen two girls who seemed to be
strangers on Friday, the DAY they left the
hotel"
Then Mrs Kaye, with a very clever imitation
Of the policeman's brogue, went on to tell Of
her interview with the six-foot-two member
of the Broadway squad. He remembered the
girls and described them perfectly. de said
they had boarded an uptown car.
But try they would the two mothers could
find no further trace of the two girls.
Finally, became convinced that the girls
had moved up town. Mrs hye went on,
land we took these rooms here A telegram
came to the hotel the day before wo left. 1t
was addressed to one Of the girls and was evil
IDENTIFY in answer to a request for money. Inc
telegram was from Washington and read:
Simply impossible; very sorry But friend
OF ours in Washington, we learned, had sent
Florence so by express the second day after
they came here. Besides this Florence had
quite a sum Of money given her at Christmas.
We did not notify the police IN Washington
because we did not want the story
to get in the papers. But now 1
am so tired out and nervous that
i would be perfectly satisfied if l could lind
nv daughter and take her back home. II she
Is determined to SO on the stage Will see that
she does il right | will send her somewhere
to receive proper training and enter the theat-
rical profession in the proper way If she Is set
on it. All want now Is to ind her. L am very
glad she has had plenty Of money, and l am
satisfied that no harm has come TO her"
MRS MARGINS STORY.
Mrs. March told the same story. "Jessie has
always been stage struck" she said. ''and she
knew several theatrical people. An actress
named Kitty Warren was sick for while in
Washington and Jessie was with her a great
deal When she came here she used this lady's
name at the hotel she went to and IN that way
the girls we're able 10 secure accommodations.
Last November dramatic company Or
ganized In Washington and Jessie was engaged
as leading lady. But the company never went
out for some reason. They were to give a play
called Parted 1 believe. Their running
away was girlish freak, and 1 suppose they
became frightened and for that reason are
keeping out of the way. Jessie probably sup
posed that her brother was looking for her and
was afraid Of him, as she knew him well enough
to know he would be very angry with her."
FROM A DETECTIVES STANDPOINT.
Ward Detective Kent of the nineteenth police
precinct told TIE STAR correspondent that on
their arrival here Florence and Jessie had gone
TO the Smith House, at II Great Jones street, be-
tween Broadway and the Bowery. At the hotel
il was stated that the girls had represented
themselves as actresses out of an engagement,
but with great expectations. They had been out
each day and evening, it was said, but no one
had called to see them. except once. when two
handsomely dressed men inquired for them
when they were out, until Mr.. Page of the Gar
row Opera Company, the friend who was asked
by the mothers to hunt up the girls, called.
The girls left without giving any notice of their
intention They had no baggage aud toward
the last seemed rather respondent. The Smith
House is frequented almost solely by variety
artists, tattooed gentlemen and ladies and
Bowery dime museum freaks and artists.
POSSIBLY THE GIRLS.
By some mistake the number Of the house on
West 35th street to which the two mothers
went after leaving the Smith House. where they
remained as long as they thought there was
any possibility of getting trace of the girls
there, was given to the newspapers 135 ill.,
stead of 1913. as 1t should have been. little
before midnight Monday the people in the
house at i35 say two girls answering the de-
scription Of Florence and Jessie called and
asked for Mrs. Kaye or Mrs. March. OF course
they were told that no such persons were there.
1t was su-ulised that the girls had seen the
stories IN the papers and had gone there with
the intention OF finding their mothers. The
two ladies were terribly upset at the idea of
being 80 near their daughters and not seeing
them when they learned of this fact yesterday.
Both the girls are quite well known in Wash
ington. where they we're constant attendants at
the matinees- Florence is sixteen Years old,
with dark eyes and black hair, which she wore
in two long brs.ds down her back. Jessie is
seventeen and mas short. very curly black hair
and is quite tall and very slender Her face is
a very pleasing one 1t is an oval face with a
rather prominent nose and straight black eye
brows Both girls have but recently donned
long dresses.
"Holding Up" Herdie.