The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-26
LIVE TOPICS AMOUR roWN.

a pen in his hand, and ostentatiously made a few
attempts to write before no threw the pen down
with an exclamation OF impntioncc. lie made
no further attempts to write, and waited until
the mar beside him had finished. As the mnn
who had been writing started to leave tho
place the other stepped up to him quickly.
won't you DO kind enough to help mo with
thisl" no said, turning toward tho desk. Il
have forgotten my glasses and I'm IA blind as
q bat without them. II you win help me with
this order, 1 will be able 10 get 1t Off without re:
tut Hns t ,bs my y. otf,oe Sb to get sSar my glasses h %C, w ! T hi
kind enough to write them down on the blank
for me-"
man. The man Of whom he had made the ro.
quest glanced at him, and, apparently satisfied
AN ANN at thS 5ssTi' in St t 1ns s room ma S' sTesbe 20 Ir, the
conversation, and stepping up to tho desk
where the men were standing put his hand on
the. arm Of the one who had already begun to
You can do that If you want to-" he said.
,Thcre is nothing to prevent It Il yon want to.
But would advise you not to fill In those
Names"
plainly what the attendant had said, and the
b su Si s9 b mSS9 'o no reply S{ lm The eod man Ss., with the r BSn
no droppcd the pen, and. without a word OF ex-
PLANTATION, walked out oil, the room. The man
moment later without having made another
effort to get tho blank flled out.
at may have been al right" tho attendant
having seen that follow In hero before. But that
sort Of thing does happen hero whom 1t Ia plain
that something Is crooked and l give the came
advice to every ono l see at it."
One Of the most striking sights to be seen
uptown now il q young Englishman whose re.
markable appearance attracts the attention Of
everybody who sees him, and as he spends most
Of his time In front of tho Hoffman House he is
a.. -.lA,~ alt 500 IL ht-~ t.l- ---
spicuous. When he leans up in front of ono
of the white pillars there seems to be little
moro than a few inches difference in height be.
tween the man and the pillar. He is almost 8
feet o inches high, and his lateral development
is so slight that no looks like a streak Of gray
choviot against the building. These natural
peculiarities are accumulated by certain habits
of dress. About his gray felt hat he wears ono
the heads OF foreigners. His extreme slight
ness Is almost In as great contrast with his
favored with a strong English accent, Is fro.
quently raised In tho uptown cafes: 1t has dis
seminated the information that ho has Just
come from South Africa, where he took an &C.
tive part in tho troubles incidental TO the Jane
son raids. lie, was on the way to the Klon-
not explained by any other reason than The fact
that he is enjoying himself here. His ingcnu-
Has " led some Of fH the ms men n'' Who n havs n mtT him
uptown to conclude that he might be O very
profitable man To know. When they met him it
Impression, for the elongated Briton proved to
be quito as sharp % any of them: He was not
only able to take care of himself, but he COM
PEELED some OF tho men who had expected to
ind him very easy TO keep their eyes very wido
open.
A woman came into THE Sun office the other
day and introduced herself under a name
which was quite unfamiliar.
II was the first woman to do the Shaker
Dance" she added, "at tho Gaiety Theatre
years ago."
1t was after this description that she finally
mado 1t clear who she was by naming as her
husband a comedian well known here. She
had got n divorce, this was followed by a scan.
dial, and the woman had entirely dropped out
Of sight. But she told a remarkable story OF
her subsequent career.
after l got my divorce" she said, II wai
absolutely pcnniless. My only support now
comes from a woman who is kind enough &c
take me into her house and give me for the time
a few days after my divorce I got from a
small town In Florida an offer of marriage from
a man had never seen; He said that he was 9
would come to the town in which he lived. He
said that he had read my story and sSmnpa,
went to her and told her the story. She con
sented on the strength Of his letters to let me
pnbiic Ivy m anqnss' to the them man sG Si after the nha c ss'
mony his daughter came to me and told me he
hadn't a cent, and that he had suspected ! had
money and gone into the marriage for that rea
son; / went TO a hotel that night, and l never
spoke to him as long as lived in the town.
! taught dancing, / went out as a nurse. wa,
an actress, for one thing, and tho circumstance,
diesd people, s o against HGst me- ne 'p But so / ara as u llFt go
friends enough to find employ mont. By that
saved enough after two years to come back e
to train ballots and do the work for which Their
was no possible opportunity in that little South
This was the story of a woman who, sine,
q theatrical scandal several, years ago, hat
Wholly l dt1HPPse 6,,i ont Of PUBLIC MI,h r ! s she ! !
help her over the difficulties In which she say
she finds herself at present.
A liveryman who has the carriage priyileg
at q large uptown hotel is dissatisfied with tn
unusual profits which the holders of such priv
iloges are supposed to make, and he has latel,
attempted to limit tho opportunities of tn
the nsishborhood With a petition which state
nuisance passing through the street in scare
Of fares. The hotel liveryman circulated tn
PETITION Petit f ipbd aosm. KGox from ib h9ui Ss to o h2nse' R Su
merely to free himself from the rivalry of tn
private drivers, tho signers were very few.
According to q Boston despatch, Ann O'Dei
Diss DeBar the adipose spook ~priestess VIII
SHARED Lawyer Luther X. Marsh several year
ago, and has since bobbcd up In various elite,
has suddenly left Boston for New York undo
circumstances which indicate that q prolonge
residence in the former city might be uncon
Portable for her. When Diss DeBar made he
public exit from Now York. after a term o
Blackwel's Island, she grayely. announced he
some OF her believers in this town took he
seriously. For, six months Mt least nothin
was heard OF this adventures, and then II W,
man who answered her description turned u
In a Western city as a teacher Of theosophl
There H. little doubt but that this woman wa
Dlss DeBar. and later her dolngs IN Chicqs
career in this city. The notoriety which sL
: gained In the Marsh case has limited her feel
OF endeayor for tho most part to small towr
and as she is a woman Of ingenuity and abllit
/, 1t Is safe to assume that her various cnte
0 prisos have boon attended by losses on tho pm
0 OF her believers. Her personality, ia, so COZ
5 the police she can hardly escape observation
artist, whose wife she was at tho time she m,
{ New York, and so far IA Ia known. no has n,