New-York tribune., 1900-07-22
THE PASSING THRONG.

Lee Harrison. the actor has f1st returned rro1,
Europe. and has brought back number OF good
stories He was amusing some OF
ANECDOTES his friends with them the HoR-
BY AN man House last evening Mr.. Har-
AMERICAN rtson said that he had great difi-
ACTOR. Guilty with the French tongue. and
IN order to get something 10 eat on
the channel steamer he had 70 wait for some one to
give order Presently Frenchnan called
waiter and said; "Garcou." then followed a lot
OF unintellIgibe words. and the order wound up
with what sounded like ''poulet s'u vous placit~
All" said Mr.. Harrison. I've heard Of that be-
fore" and so calling waiter he ordered 'siI vous
pacit-" The waiter bowed. spread out his hands
smiled and finally retreated 10 corner. the ab-
solute rage OF the hungry actor who hurled 'su
placits" by the score after him Just then
another guest came in, and Harrison. by giving him
undivided attention, learned the 'poulet He then
en- cooked as o1I he Fre1Sh GIov Row - So0l
Harrison said that after he arrived in Paris he
noticed a great crowd before house, and by good
luck, meeting Frenchman who could speak
pigeon English. made out that 'Ze grand Presi-
dent Loubet was wizn and would soon be wizout"
French Executive Presently ushers with white
wands swept back the crowd and the President OF
was looking the other way. however. and an that
ing for look at his face the actor leaned forward
and said, oh. President President II had the
But his satisfaction was short lived for on turning
;sT+ 81 - i IIl y ~ ~ 81 90 L...l, -
do it?" ne hissed oh currIy explained the
American ''in New-York. where we pass President
Mckinley twenty or thirty times a day a term
o. profound respect we always ADDRESS him
you for tribute 70 ". Loubet' and the mollihed
erenchInSI e removing ms nat with true sans
in kind. and then shied around the nearest corner
without undue delay.
John Adair Of California who was in the Trans
vaal at the time Of the Jameson Raid told an
amusing incident that occurred
REMINIS- there at that time the Hotel
CENCE OF Imperial yesterday. As soon as
JAMESON's Jameson was nabbed" said Mr.
RAID. Adair, they started in and ar
rested the Reform COMMITTEES at
Johannesburg. Military law was proclaimed and
a strict censorship established at the tele-
graph Offices. AT that time Harold c, Bolce was
acting as correspondent for some American papers.
apb @ n % to ns m az a. tb 6se SJ tn @ { 5s
day. The censor had issued ironclad law that
no code words were under any consideration 70 be
passed. and this il that got Bolce into trouble
snresd bsse vas very lPo[ta1[ ana ne & nad
he thought, and no doubt rightly, that the impor-
undoing. as the case proved
In this introduction he made use OF the phrases
sub judice' and 'ex cathedra-' The operator read
the copy over and handed It
BOER REFUSES back 10 Bolce. Can't send Il.
TO SEND CODE he said Why not?' asked the
MESSAGE" astounded correspondent Can't
do it, that's all; we've strict or
ders TO pass o code words and he pointed out
the offending sub judice and ex cathedra- at
the time fixing Bolce with Tve-caught-
you-in-the-act' eye. Bolce passed rapidly from
wild explanation eXhOrLatiOn and fervtd prayer.
But all had the same effect the Boer official
He sternly pointed out that those words did not
exist in either the Boer or English dictionaries.
therefore they must be code words. O. E D. Final
" a compromise was effected. and telegram to
the Government at Pretoria sent asking that
Bolce's cable be released Back came the unc0m-
promising reply, Under circumstances send
cable. Find what "ex cathedra' and sub
judice' mean BOce gave IL up that, wrote
another story that would offend, but alas! he
had wasted much time that his news had stalled.
and his cable arrived here too late 70 be OF use
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