The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-12-08

skst, One Of The women was the law
yerthousemaid. and on his Homecoming
froua long day in court she reportcu
thata young woman was waiting for
hmm the stoop, and would not 10 away Till
shea d spoken with him. He declared that he
woh not see his visitor, butt the same breath
wit making this statement with the manner
Of icurmudEeon, he inquired about the walt
inswoman in q way that showed no had
nollsmlssed her from his mind. In that was
th clue to the character-R rough-and-grun
errior. but q kind heart easily moved by an
otr's Groubles. Seating himself and Rrun,-
big that he was entitled to an, even.
ierest himself in 6iS newspaper because Of
. was permitted to come in and tell her story.
ole he with moist eyes, oelloWed - ,h hst
armed out from her pockets a few dollars and
noney had come from, h, builisd her for offer
Ing him such q sum sun Ihe witness anissrd dhq bon wss
FeiephoninE to sandy Hook disclosed the
fact that. the boat had passed the Hook,
and his order Q, a tug to go In pursuit.; Win re
seller for the bS,,. defS %sssos SRd the in w ,onroP
%!ssavls ss'a the ad 5sySrsS3' d is Mi 's Svss
ner employers neglect OF neT ITetnly -WHue
scenes from Boncicauit's The Long strike"
had been telescoped and located In New York.
slang. The part OF the lawyer was thus pracli-
eally Moneupenny. which was played so finely
In aIi, the two women were little more than
feeders" for the actor, and y 10 man could have
m wisS Almost ss.,s,"n sse any i .pesoh M'i he 'T pcin @tpG the
contrast etween. his. surly manner and
real kindliness disclaiming all credit and
easily stirred by his visitors tale. that very SEN
siderinG that the sketch was fragment
dIs,in shS drawn raw t AND va, % rsadiiy u ,"nai %S.
None of the seceders from the Legitimate" to
the variety shows has made the change more
pleasantly. Perhaps the time may come when
the favored place In vaudeville programme that
comes Just before the iutermission will be ac-
corded to this actor.
Tho first choice Of n box for the Rose Coghlan
matinee brought 5000 at the auction sale yester-
day afternoon at the Empire Theatre. The pur-
chaser was Col. Thomas z. Ochiltrec. The high
bidders after that were actors and theatrical
managers. Lolita Crnbtree. L. s. Willard.
Joseph Jefferson, Agnes Ethel. and Al Hay
man paid 500 apiece for boxes; Denman
Thompson. $40; Charles Frohman. Isaac B;Rich.
Joseph Murphy. Georgia Cayvan. ana Julia
Marlowe Taber. $50. The first choice of seats
was spiritedly bid for. and E. S. Wood got It for
$50. He took two. Isaac b. Rich was the next
buyer. Of two at $40 each. and Joseph Muir
The price fell to $40 a pair. at which rate Henry
@. Barnabee. w. II. Mcdonald, Georgia Cay
van. Richard Harlow. and Frank Hubbard In
vested. Among the purchasers at S25 q pair
were De Wolf Hopper. Henry Miller. Francis
Wilson. Thomas w. Keene. Olga Nethersole,
Alexander Hermann, w; +; SIM; Charles E;
Ford. Samuel +. Nixon. Robert billiard, and
the Rosenfeld brothers. Abram H.. Hummell
bought q half dozen seats or SO at $40 a piece,
and among others. who went in at tha; rate
were Robert billiard and Wilton Lackaye.
After that the ticket spectators became bid
ders, and about all the parquet. as well as the
front rows of the first balcony. were sold before
the bids dropped to the regular price of SO per
chair.