The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-14
The Ticker, Not Jealousy, Drove
Fair Lillian Home.
Wall Street Better Than Tour
ing at 81, 800 a Week.
12 SPRING BONNETS
Purchased by Miss Russell
While Shopping.
Edna Wallace Hopper Says
There is No Goodness.

New York. April 14.-Stocks held by
Lillian Russell:
Bought at. Present price.
Anaconda Mining 43
Utah Consolidated CNot quoted)
Highland Boy - Foreign mining)
Alvjno ..---.,..... -. (Not quoted)
Stocks held by Edna Wallace Hopper:
Bought at. Present price.
Federal Steel 1890. 30 60
Electric Storage -. SO 10
Anaconda Mining =. 40 43
The cheerful click of the stock ticker
has lured Lillian Russell from a profit
and percentage of the receipts of the
Casino La Belle Helene company
were never less than 81, 900 and some
times high as 81 800 per week. In
country up to May 81 seats had been
bought in advance at 50 each-for while
in the larger cities there are said to be
some who do not consider Lillian in
the light of novelty, the cOuntrymen
were clamOring for her.
The man who does Mr.. Lederer's fig
uring at the Casino says that Miss Rus
sell had a sure thing in La Belle
Helene" amounting to an average of
S1,500 weekly for six weeks to come.
He declared yesterday that this tidy
had made 100000 in Wall street within
two months. with profits still piling up.
TWELVE SPRING BONNETS.
When Miss Russell returned from a
chased twelve new spring bonnets, and
was starting for Delmonico's to dine
last evening. she said:
Pray excuse me. On the subject of
my leaving Mr.. Lederers company 1
will mot be interviewed"
That is why the amount of Miss Rus
sells winnings on the stocks above
named is in doubt.
Edna Wallace Hopper, who spent her
first day back in the town which con-
talns Wall street bowling about in her
electric blue brougham adorned on it's
doors with her monogram, was more
generous She permitted herself to be
held up on Fifth avenue in the after
noon long enough to say:
Tell you about my stocks? Ger
tainly. Why not?" And she did. Did
l come back to watch EN-? No, indeed
They're all right. They're taking care of
themselves-good care. too.
1T is ridiculous for anyone to saw
that La Belle Helene closed in Wash
ington Saturday because Miss Russell
was Jealous of me, or was annoyed on
account of any excitement Occasioned
by my Orestes costume. There were
no such demonstrations in Philadelphia
as the correspondent said. That's all
exaggeration. Why, even in Toronto,
where theyr awfully strict, my Orestes
dress was accepted as claSsically cor
rect and there was no trouble al all.
NO QUARREL WITH LILLIAN
Miss Russell closed the company.
There is no GOODNESS between US, [ as
sure you, yet 1 can't tell you just why
she left. L called on her just now, and
We've been out buying hats-here's one
of mine, now; isn't it a beauty? ct
was) So you must know we have no
quarrel. But there was lot of money
waiting for the company through the
country"
Here Edna Wallace Hopper sighed.
but it was not very deep sigh All
trace of it vanished a another reference
to the stock market.
When the subject was brought to the
notice of Mr.. Lederer during his strug-
giles with his Man in the Door, Eng
fish chorus girls at rehearsal, the sigh
he heaved was long and deep.
The closing of that company is
tremendous loss to u.s. he said. ''At
present do not care to say whether 1
will or will not bring action against
Miss Russell for breaking her contract
The man who does Mr. Lederer's fig
uring says the loss to the Casino COM
pany will easily reach $25 900. He thinks |
Miss Russell could hand that amount
over to Mr. Lederer out of her Wall |
street winnings and not miss it.
Miss Russell is pretty square in the |
long run he added; maybe she'll give
us a tip on the market that will even |
things up"
About fifty members of the La Belle !
Helene" company are looking for an |
other engagement. Perhaps they'll go |
into Wall street.