The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-01-15

who has for many years boon one OF the
great purveyors OF amusoments for the
metropolis. He came here, bright
Yankee lad without n penny, and has
by steps risen 10 the position he now
holds In tho theatrical world. lIe was
q bartender in tho old ST.. Nicholas
hotel in tho days before the war, when
tho mixed drinks Of that cafe We'd for
fashionable favor with the 81 glass
brandy sold at Holt, on Broome street.
Ho became n protege OF Commissioner
She'd Shook. through whose advice
he went into theatrical management.
His first venture was in partnership
with Bob" Butler in the Theater
Comiquc, variety house at No. 5l4
Broadway. Shook built tho Union
Square for Butler 4 Gilmore, who ran
1t 10 a variety theatre. The style OF en-.
tertainmont there was only changed
when A. NJ. Palmer, the librarian OF tho
Mercantile Library, was put in charge.
After that MIR. Gilmore was interested
in Gilmore's Garden, now the Madison
Square, and in the Cosmopolitan, now
tho Broadway Theater. He is at tho
present time manager OF Niblo's Tho.
ater and ono OF tho managers OF tho
Academy OF Music. Neither Of these
houses was profitable last year.
Mr.. Gilmore has figured in many liti.
cations. Tho law firm Of Levy, Friend
4 House has now IN action pending
against his brought on behalf OF Mr..
Bull. the door keeper OF the Madison
Square Garden, who claims to have been
assaulted because he refused TO admit
Mr.. Gilmore, whom he did not know,
without ticket. Mr.. Bull declares
that it was only the presence OF Mrs.
Gilmore that prevented him from retail.
iating in kind.
TIE GILBERT WILL CONTEST.
The will contest to which Mr.. Gil.
moro referred in his interview was one
OF tho most sensational OF tho many
tried before Surrogate Daniel G. Rollins.
Mrs. Gibcrt's will was made in Janu-
airy, 1854, by ex-Judge Dittenhoefcr,
while the woman was on her death bed.
Her brother, William ]. Swart, and
three other relatives opposed its admis-
sion to probate on the ground that it
was executed under undue influence.
that Mrs. Gilbert was OF unsounu mind
and that the solo legatee was not her
son.
Some OF Mrs. Gilbert's servants testi-
fed on the trial that she had always
called the boy her son, and that MIR.
Gilmore was constant visitor OF the
house where she lived, No. 100 West
Thirty-eighth street.
When Mr.. Gilmore was called to the
witness stand he swore that he had
given about $1,000 year to Mrs. Gill
bert. Hero is IN interesting fragment
FROM his examination:
Q. What is your relation to the boy
named as lesatee? a. The tcstatrix
told me that was his father.
Q. Don't you know? A. How could
! know? I can only say what Mrs.
Gilbers told me.
Q. Don't you know that he is tho
child OF another woman and tina. you
are his father? A. No, sir.
@. Have you not told friends that the
boy was the son OF another woman?
A. No.
Q. Where was he born? A. Mrs. Gill
pert went 10 the country peloFe MS
birth in 1872 and returned to tho city.
afterward.
Q. What does he call you? A. Papa.
@. What did he call Mrs. Gilbert? A.
Mamma.
Mr.. Gilmore said Mrs. Gilbert had
told him that she wanted all her money
to 90 to the boy. He had answered
that his desire was the same, and that
he void always care for William. Mrs.
Gilbert did not want a penny to go to
her relatives-not even her old clothes.
She once told him that she wanted him
to throw her brother out OF the window
in case the man ever came into the
house.
Surrogate Rollins admitted the will to
probate on January 8, 1885.