The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-11-22
.PENCHANT ON ODD PETS
MADE FRIENDS WITH THE
MENAGERIE.
Well Known Personality Now i'm Ho-
nolulu-Has Deserted Her Annual
Friends for Dan Cupid.

quietly and easily taking in the local
sights from time to time, are Mr.. and
Mrs. r. ID. Long now on globe -rotting
tour and temporarily staying here be-
cause they like Honolulu and think it
good place to take rest before re-
Stunning their journey.
Under the not so very long acquired
title of Mrs. Long. lies the identity of
an extremely popular and well known
| personality in the theatrical world as
well as i'm the social world of Denver
| and Colorado.
Mrs. Glitch, the vivacious and hand
some proprietress of the summer re-
| sort near Denver known as Fitch S
| Gardens, first founded by her late hus-
band. was for long the target of the
matrimonial aspirations of many who
were fascinated by her personality and
| perhaps additionally attracted by her
wealth.
| Eltch's Gardens. is one of two charm
! ing resorts about three miles from the
Denver postoffice, easily reached by the
cable and electric routes and great IA
voTites with the citizens and the tour
lists.
Both have theaters in which every
year famous stock companies play. The
| Denver stock companies have been for
! years regarded throughout the States
as ranking high among such combina-
| tions and no expense was spared every
season to induce the best talent to come
| to Denver for the summer season by the
! bait of high salaries. Sometimes both
resorts ran dramatic stock companies
| AID the competition was keen often
Elitch's played a season of light opera.
| There was always room for both and
| the resorts paid well. Elitch's of lade
years perhaps taking the lead.
| The Denver populace are very true to
their favorites and year after year the
same companies would return almost
intact to the gardens playing the win
! ter season, often with little change in
their cast, at the Avenuo, Pittsburgh or
some other stock house. Everybody
liked to play the summer season at
! Denver and looked forward TO the en-
gagement. Jennie Remark favorite
| leading lady for many seasons seemed
| almost a fixture for a while. Madge
| Carr Cooke, remembered here with the
| Frawleys, was often in the cast Will
Ingersoll, clever light comedian and
| leading man alternated for many years
with Walter Edwards in the leads. Ed
wards playing the heroic roles and In
gersoll the comedy. Edwards too SEEM
| ed to be fixture. Regularly every sea-
! son he returned to the Gardens, Jennie
Remark left Henrietta Crossmann
came and went but Edwards remained.
Rumors that the handsome leading
man was more han a little epris of
! the fascinating widowed prOprietress
| took definite form. Herr Ferdinand
| Stark, head of the famous Stark's or
chestra, blonde and handsome though
ranging towards embonpoint in his
| liking for lager as substitute for ice
| water came next with his Hungarians
| and brought the heavy artillery of his
personal charms and brilliant uniform
to bear, combined with his decidedly
excellent violin playing, to bear upon
the widow.
For a time it looked like a race be-
tween him and the handsome leading
| man but Ferdinand fell by the wayside
! and went back to Hungary on the pro-
ceeds of benefit given him by Denver
and it's musicians.
There We're other rumors, plenty of
them 1t was bruited abroad that Cap
| tain Bethel proprietor of the opposition
resort would have been willing to joir
forces. There were whispers of million
aire mine owners from Cripple Creek OF
railroad men, real estate men, a whole
army of rumors and personalities.
Through tan Mrs. Glitch moved hei
| way apparently interrupted and unflus.
tered. She was not the kind of womer
TO get Mustered. Besides the theatre
the resorts and other attractions in
had lake with boats and a searchligh
but no shade and Elitch's had trees ana
cosy hooks; but both had the manegerit
and the widow seemed to find more at.
fractions in her beasties than in mer,
humans. Lion cubs, even when they
grew up to be truly lions and lionesses
We're but so many pet kittens to her
Perhaps the way she handled them
made certain admirers stop and medi.
| a a hnr
curber of unruly instincts, certainly
her power over the lower animals eX.
tended over the higher ones. She haC
a pet Kangaroo pet deeer, an Ostrich
that she drove on occasion harnessed vi
to a light cart and which was one of the
! features of the Mountain and Plain fes.
! tVals until somebody fed 1t with toe
many souvenir buttons, including those
advertising the Yellow Kid which prov.
ed too much even for the stomach of ar
ostrich to bear.
Articles illustrated with pictures OF
Mrs. Glitch, surrounded by her pets
often appeared in the various Sunday
papers throughout the States and hen
identity became quite famous through
not merely her own handsome person.
atty and her fancy for odd pets but
by reason of the admirable way she sol
we'd the difficult problem of running
successfully a popular" resort and
| making 1t accord with its title.
Mrs. Glitch invariably attended to hel
own business affairs. Always acting
| with womanliness, ii was a shrewd mar
that got the better of the manageress
while she proved accurately that she
could gauge the public taste. Finally
both resorts came under her control ant
remain paying institutions.
The lion cubs and other wild animal.
she has known appear at last to hav,
been permanently supplanted in her af
fections. There are no out Of the way
pets accompanying Mr. and Mrs. Ions
on the present trip. She may renew
her acquaintanceship with wallabies
and kangaroos or tame a duck billed
platypus when she arrives in Austria
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