The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-12-20
DID IDA RtGIIAN PAY
To be Itnmortailzed in Silver as 'Justtce'
at The Worlds FaIro

To be mmortaliZed IN silver as Justice
at the Worlds Fair?
Dramatic circles, and for that matter other
circles, III New York are laughing over news
paper speculation Oh a matter that very nat
uraiy affects Miss Ada Rehan, the charm
ing and shapely leading lady at MIR. DAILY S
theater.
For several months all the leading ladies
of the metropolitan playhouses have been
green with envy of Miss Rehan. Miss Ada
besides being very successful actress, has
been paid Il very marked compliment re
Gently by the management OF the world s
fair. Months ago it was announced that
an immense silver statue of Justice would
be erected ut the fair, and a representative
American lady was wanted to pose as the
model for the blind goddess. Besides beng
q representative American lady another
very important requirement i'll the model
was superbly proportloned form.
Trim and perfectly formed limbs, Shapely
and well rounded waists and stately and
graceful poses were absolutely indispensa-
| bic requisites in the fair model. At once
| there arose u whirl of speculation as To who
the fortunate and highly honorcd lady would
| be. 1t was an honor to be proud OF. 10 be
handed down to posterity and your grand
children as Justice" was n distinction that
any ambitious lady might coyet How many
| ladies hoped and secretly prayed that the
| honor would fill on their shapely shoulders.
Naturally enough the gentlemen who had
the beStowing Of this honor i'll their hands
looked to the stage for a model, for where
can be found more exQuisltely proportloned
females than on the sage! The discussion
and speculation as to who the favored lady
would be went OH for "a long while. Some
weeks ago the announcement was heralded
abroad that Miss Ada kchan would be the
model for the silver Justice" upon whose
pretty outlines millions Of people would look
during the fair. The papers joined in the
congra tuations to Miss Rehan, and said
shat no more appropriate selection could have
been made. 1t was also stated that the COM
mittee appointed to select the model had
sent out SlXty-eiGht measurements denOtlng
physical perfection, and Miss Rehan had
filled SiXty-tWo of them. OF the remaining
six she missed it only a fraction in each
She had laid all other applicants in the
shade. She was physically perfect-a Gre
clan model.
Miss Kehan was not insensible to the
high honor that had been done her 1t was
a great compliment, and worth pecks
OF money as an advertisement. Who would
not want to see the woman who was such
an ideal of physical perfection that she
had been chosen from great army of mag
nlilcent women for so distinguished an
honor. No doubt Miss Rehan has already
begun to reap the benefits of such fame in
increased houses. Anyway She had the
deep personal satisfaction of feeling as all
women feel when their physical charms
are praised. She and her shrewd manager
knew what the money value of the transac-
ton would be, and they laughed.
But the other day Miss Lillian Russell
she of other days than these, and she whose
star is on the wane, and who has been
charged, and an awful charge it is, of ac
tually growing fat. had herself interviewed
and Miss Rehan and her manager woke up
one fine morning to read something that
made therl sick And this is what it was
Miss Lillian told the papers that if she had
been willing TO have been bled to the cx-
font of che mia how h,D,, tI,,r
tee herself, and had all the hOnors and
emclunents that went along with the job,
which had made Miss Rehan so proud. This
only introduced what followed. for Miss
Lillian remarked further that in plain terms
the honor had been put up to the highest
bidder, and that Miss Rehan had bid it III,
but she. Miss Lillian, had been given the
preference She said tn" secretary of the
committee had approached Miss Cora Tan
ner and offered Der the honor and after that
divlnely formed lady had spent q day hay
ing herself photographed in all sorts of
poses the secretary incidentally let drop the
announcement that she would be expected
TO pay $1,000 for the honor She gave up
the idea. Marie Tempest, the English girl.
was approached in the same way, but Marie
being English would not entertain the notion
for an instant of robbing some American
lady of al honor, not even at the outlay of
$4,000.
So to back up Miss Lillian. these two ladies'
the whole story. 1t all came out in it's ugly
details. and Miss Rehan very wisely refrain
ed from being interviewed. She will pose
as the model for Justice but when the
people who visit the fair next year look up
at the magniticently formed woman they will
think of how she came to be there, and think
of what might have been if Airy. Fairy
Lillian had consented to part with $4,000
of her stuff. But after all there's no going
back on the fact that Miss Rehan is divinely
fair and stately as 4 queen.
THEY WORK TIE BANKS.
But just Now Are Under Arrest Mt Hunts
Vile. Ala.
Huntsville, Ala, December 16.-(Special)
f. A Wolfe and Mrs. NJ. A. Earle, who
seem to be professional forgers of bank
drafts, are under arrest here and every
thing points to their being the same parties
who figured in Knoxville, Tenn, two days
ago with a third party by the name
of Hoyte and also in Tocoma, Wash,
about the 9th of October, where
they got two banks there to cash
drafts on the Chase National bank, of New
York, for about fifteen hundred dollars.