The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-02
REyELIN MORGuE.
Handsome New York Actress and
Companions Have a Grew
some Dance

New York, Aug 2.-The occupants of
two cabs which dashed through East
Twenty-sixth street at daybreak and
came to an abrupt halt outside the
massive iron gates of the main en-
trance to the Bellevue hospital grounds,
sang the popular ballad, Sweet Rosie
O'Grady," without tune, but with mark
ed emphasis. neat foot, clad in a
purple satin slipper, peeped from a win
dow of one of the cabs. The owner of
the foot moves in aristocratic circles,
and is well known and popular ac-
tress, who can be known temporarily
as Miss Prim.
At her side, his patent leather clad
feet thrust through the opposite win
dow of the cab, sat a young man, his
he Joined with uncertain measure in the
singing of Rosie O'Grady,' he vigor-
ously piled a pear1-handled Japanese
silk fan.
"Revelers from the 'Tenderloin,' -
unused the only policeman on the block,
as the party rolled by. Yes; direct from
the "tenderloin. The midnight revel
had started with a quiet little dinner at
Delmonico's, attended by journeys to
the roof gardens and the smoking par
Iers. Inclusive of Miss Prim the party
comprised three, of New York's best
known young men-sons of sires promi-
nent in their day in the metropolis
members of the younger fashionable ell
ement.
the second cab, resembled Charles
Bates, otherwise Fatty The others
had been introduced to their fair COM
panion as ELudlow Hall and Randolph
B. MARITIME.
AS the cabs approached the hospital
gate the singing of Rosie O'Grady''
was changed to an impromptu ditty, the
prevailing line of which was:
We're bound for the morgue to see the
dead men,
Gatekeeper Cramer. doing in cor
no al hn n oil 10 IL
gate, aroused by the singing, says he
never before saw such a handsome wo-
man She was magnifcently attired in
light summer silks.
The party asked permission to visit
the morgue. The gatekeeper said it
could not be given at that hour, but the
jolly quartette pushed by him and in
Vaded the house of the unknown dead
They were fairly inside before Keeper
Armstrong was aware of their presence.
He was then startled by the woman's
laughter and the sounds of tripping
feet, as they danced to a whistling ac-
compartment and the clapping of
hands
out of sight, exclaimed Mr. Bates
counterpart, and at that juncture
Keeper Armstrong, inflamed with ang-
er, darted into the circle. The quartette
of jewellers subsidized instantly.
With mock gravity Eddy hat still
in hand, addressed Keeper Armstrong
and introduced his companions. He
then requested that the party be shown
some CHASTITY contents of the refrigera-
tOr-like boxes.
80 yes" exclaimed Miss Prin, clap
ping her hands with anticipation Let
US, do pray, see Guldensuppe's body"
Gathering her dainty skirts above her
ankles Miss Prim followed the men into
the morgue room, arranged around the
walls of which. are the big, iced-filied
refrigerators containing the bodies of
New York'S unclaimed dead.
The actress bent over each body and
peered intently at the face of the dead.
She was respectful While the bodies
were in view, but when the CHASTITY ex-
inhibition was at an end she again burst
into laughter and tripped gaily across
the morgue room.
stop iti' commanded Keeper Arm
strong. You all must leave this place
at once. This is not dance hall Get
out! and Eddy" Hall and Miss Prim,
arm in arm, followed by Mr.. MARITIME
and Mr.. Bates double, made their exit.
The revelry of the night ended with a
challenge and swim in the East river,
in which one of the men was nearly
drowned.