The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-11-22
SURPRISED MIR. BUNNELL.

I His Portrait by Julian H. Sterling Hangs in the Park City Lobby | Bridgeport.
 ] Bridgeport, Nov. 21.--The most for
 cible of pleasant surprises recently sprung was that which G. B. Bunnell I met with this morning at the hands of Walter L. Rowland manager of the Park City theater, of which MT. Bunnell | is the owner. MT. Bunnell was liter l ally stunned. The surprise was really 1 the administering to MT. Bunnell of a dose of his own medicine.
 i For years he has been springing sur 1 prises upon the public and now he
 knows how it is himself to be taken 1 unawares
 All unconscious of what was in store for him he alighted from the train and hurried to the Park City theater. In the lobby stood group of men and as
 MT Bunnell pushed in among them he
 suddenly became transflxed with amazement. It was worth the price of admission to the best show on earth
 to see the countenance of G. B. Bunnell
 For once in his life he blushed. Then
 he turned pale. He smiled, stammered
 took off his hat, wiped his brow and
 then began to shake hands with every
 body-With a burst of questions he
 said:
 "Who did it? Who got it up? What
 does it mean? Tell me, somebody. Say,
 Rowland, you are at the bottom of this.
 Is it for me?" etc., etc.
 Then began the explanation, but as
 everybody talked at once it was some
 time before MT. Bunnell realized that
 his able lieutenant could do a surprise
 turn quite as we'll as he himself, and just for one moment he drew deep sigh, whether it was because MT Bun nell appreciated the fact that he him self would have made the occasion one for advertisement, which Mr. Rowland in his modesty had failed to do, or whether MT, Bunnell sighed because he saw in his lieutenant a genius cap able of surprising the one and only Bunnell. It was possibly this that touched him deeply.
 However Mr. Rowland certainly managed to give MT. Bunnell a great deal of pleasure and the latter express ed to MT. Rowland and the Park City staff his warmest thanks. It was sev- eral months ago that MT. Rowland de- cided to. present the proprietor of the Park City theater with a life size three quarter length oil portrait of himself, the same to hang for time in the lob by of the theater.
 Julian H. Sterling was employed to execute the work and he has just com pleted it. The portrait has been hand somely framed by J. c. Hubert, and it hangs In plain view, so that all who attend the theater can see it.
 It is six feet high and was painted expressly to harmonize with the sur roundings and decorations of the thea- ter lobby. As for a likeness it is for all the world George B. Bunnell, and every one has declared it fautess. The most astonishing feature Is that the | portrait was painted from a small the head being no larger | than mans thumb nail. Not one sit ting was given. Even that famous | breastpin by which MT Bunnell is known among theatrical folks from | Boston to New York has not been omit | ted, and glistens in all it's glory from the short front The portrait is one to attract great deal of attention, and is a picture that MT. Bunnell and his fam fly will highly prize. After hanging it for a time in the Park City theater it | is to be taken to the Hyperion, New Haven.