New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-23
THE PASSING THRONG.

Miss Maude Come who is lecturing in this
country 10 raise funds IN aid of the Boer cause
paid unexpected visit 10 New
FINDS MUCH York yesterday, and when seen at
SYMPATHY the Fifth Avenue Hotel said: I
WITH THE find I deceived in
BOERs belief that amount of sym
pathy with the Beers exists here
IN America have lectured in every instance so
far to full houses. and almost invariably people
have been turned away A Cancelled lecture is the
but shall resume my tour at Cincinnati to-mor-
ing on March S. as must return to ireland where
We have an ant-recruittng campaign in progress
All the information I receive from the United
Kingdom leads me TO believe that recruiting there
IS extremely unpopular, and that the volunteer
below their expectations. Rosebery has publicly
SAID that II might be that not more than nifty thou
sand would volunteer. and has warned the public
not to expect greater number Of eHltstments hut
get ten thousand The way the militia has been
maltreated has not tended to make the army pop
service within the Boundaries of the United King
dom: has now been compelled TO go into active and
l think absolutely Illegal service in South Africa
taken on board the transports hSnicuffed and
under threats of their officers with loaded re-
volvers. II IS ike leading sheep to the slaughter"
viii NOT fight ana I cannot believe England viii
gam anything by such methods"
At a dinner at sherry's the other evening. the
conversation as was natural at this time. turned
on the Molineux case Advo-
HAND Gates Of MoIineux's guilt and limo
WRITING Cence both being present. an inter-
EXPERT esting pro and con argument was
NESS in full swing. when Miss Ethel
Barrymore the actress brought it
a sudden close by practical and pictorial argu-
Tnent which was convincing at least those who
witnessed IT, Miss Barrymore, after taking the
ground that she did not think it right that a
mans life should be lost through the testimony OF
lief as 6ersonv can initiate The bsbdWrti t7 Of
others that il will deceive Not only O
this, but if I continue the imitation for day
two. on one or two occasions I have done my
handwriting naturally assimilates the pecuarities
OF the handwTltlhg 1 am trying TO initiate, and II
is win difficulty that l get back TO my own style
again"
wrote without hesitation or especial eToTt On The
back Of a dinner card the names Of John Drew
Other SIGNATURES OF hose whose handwriting She
familiar with. and started the card around the
table. The limitations were seemingly perfect. and
st sYfr 9a re- al we're Ts e to make an n 5e
ligent comparison They did not betray the slight;
thai PagcuaT daneF party d let 9 ~ Ws ws
guilt in its collective mind.
Colonel E. L. Bonner of Missoula Mont, who is
himself wealthy man, speaking yesterday Of
the wealthy men Of Montana, at
SOME the Waldorf-Astoria. told the fol-
ExACTING lowing story: Some years ago"
CRITICS said Colonel Bonner. Before either
this hotel the Holland House
had been built. when Old Delmonico's sun was
and NETWORKS life and gayety centred at
Twenty-third-st and Fifth-ave.. I happened TO fall
in with group Of Montana men at the Hoffman
House, consisting Of Marcus DAILY, W A Clark.
EX-GOVERNOR 5. T. Hauser, Colonel Broadwater and
Louis HirschfeId. In the company, in addition,
were Smith NJ Weed and other prominent
New-Yorker, whose name has slipped my memory
The talk turned the merits Of New-York
hotels and one after the other the Montanlans
spoke OF the hotels at which they were staying
and each and every had some word OF blame
TO bestow or his particular hosiery. When the
last criticism in I began TO laugh, and Weed
NJ asked
laughing at, and 1 told him that here were a
lot Of men passing criticisms on what were &C
who TO my personal knowledge, had spent at least
a third OF their lives subsisting on beans Wnlch
they had cooked themselves. and whlcn necessity
had compelled them to eat sitting on the ground,
lacking, they did, tables upon which TO place