Sunday morning globe., 1901-08-18
COL. TOM marshall
The Genial Proprietor of the Cele-
brated LOeSkan.
A COLUMBUS RETROSPECTION.
Tho Sailor Giant a Man Of Parts and Some EH
perlenoe-Ou Acquaintance With HIm-Th0
Romance Of His Beautiful wife and Her Ca
rser-Makos 100000 in Ten Years in Tho
Nations Capital

Col. Thomas Marshall, proprietor Of
the Losekam, on n street, opposite the
Ebbitt, is an Ohio man who has done
remarkably well in the nations cap
ital. Colonel Tom" as his Columbus
(O) friends always addressed him,
lived in the Buckeye capital quite a
lengthy period Of his eventful life. He
conducted the Hart Schraeder restaur-
ant, in front Of which our battle was
fought, Feb %, 1891, with Osborne and
his fellow conspirators.
Colonel Tom, however did not then
own the restaurant, but a man named
Hart Schraeder, to whom the Colonel
had sold out some time previously. IL
Colonel Marshall had been present
there might have been a few more bull
let's to account for by the State, for
the Colonel is a game man and knew
the writer as a friend. And when Col
onel Marshall recognizes a man as his
friend he will 80 a long way to serve
him. The writer recalls one evening
in his restaurant when couple OF
curbstone gamblers followed us In 10
pick a quarrel, although at the time we
we're entirely ignorant Of the cause
and of their intentions. 1t appears
that the notorious Allen o. Myers had
secured their services as bad men to
do us up by fastening an argument
on us and shooting or cutting at the
first expression Of our indignation. We
met the Colonel when we entered the
saloon restaurant, and he, noticing who
was following us, and not liking their
actions or looks, he engaged us in con-
versatiOn in which the gamblers, with
out invitation, presumed or attemept-
ed to Join, fatty contradicting some OBJ
servatiOn we made The Colonel touch
ed us on the shoulder as we wheeled
round on the gambler who had made
the offensive remark and exclaimed:
"This is my affair; you are my
friend; this is my house Then, turn
ing on the two bad men, he pointed
to the door and said "Ten seconds to
reach the street," That was all he
said, but his tall and athletic form
began to swell and his large and fear
less eyes began to blaze, and the two
gamblers. noticing the fact, reached
the door in seven seconds, three sec
onds ahead of time. When we left the
restaurant in a few minutes, we were
fixed" through the kindness Of Col
onel Tom" for the two bad men, and
they, suspecting the fact from our eye
and the cOOlness with which they were
sized up, left us pass unchallenged,
although we almost ground the toe of
their boots under our heel, for which
we were neither asked nor offered to
apologize. The Colonel stood in the
doorway of the restaurant until we
had passed out of sight, and the chief
Of police, John Murphy, hearing Of the
matter, ran the two curbstOne braYos
out Of town next day.
Colonel Marshall was a sailor in his
youth, and In that capacity saw his
share of the worlds sights. He is
stalwart type of American, being con-
siderably over six feet in height, broad
Of shoulder, and of majestic build. Dur
ing his career in Columbus, as in
Washington, he has never been known
to have the slightest trouble with guest
or stranger He is the most genial and
inOffensive Of men, and being a good
Judge of human nature, he is able TO
handle, in a masterful way, those who
might be inclined to be quarrelsome.
His place of business in Columbus, as
in Washington, commanded the best
patronage, and while probably he did
not make as much money in the Buck
eye capital as he is making In the cap
ital of the nation, he spent many pleas
ant days there until the event in his
life occurred which we are about to
narrate.
The Colonel married, we believe, a
second time, although on that we are
not clear, a beautiful woman, in fact,
one Of the handsomest women in the
capital city of Ohio, although we be-
lieve she was not a native Of Columbus.
The Colonel was immensely proud of
her and when she began to develop
dramatic talent he simply thought or
smoke Of nothing else. He treated her
like a princess, in his simple, sailor
like alteration Of a superior being
which she was not-and her slightest
wish was law to Colonel Tom. People
talked and gossiped about her, but
none Of this came to the Colonels ear,
nor would It be at all safe for any
person to even hint to the Colonel that
She was anything but the most beauti-
ful and the most talented woman in
the world. The writer and others who
knew and made allowances for this
amiable weakness Of Colonel Tom, hui
mored him. and we even went 80 far
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our paper. an exhibition of her dra'
matte talent. Any adverse criticism
would be a shock to Colonel Tom, and
nobody who knew his simple trust and
faith In his beautiful blonde could have
the heart to wound him. So things
went along. he lavishing money to pre-
pare her for a dramatic career and she
squandering 1t with the heartlessness
of a woman who failed to appreciate
the noble nature Of the man believing
in her pretended talents.
She finally induced him to send her
to New York City to complete her dra-
matte education, as she was now too
advanced for her Columbus instruct
ers and teachers. He rented and fur
nished a handsome fat for her in New
York. and came home to Columbus
with glowing accounts of what the
New York professors said Of her tai
ents.
For months this went on, the drafts
on Colonel Toms eXchequer increasing
continuously. and the unsuspecting and
big-hearted sailor never iinched, but
honored them to the last penny.
The Colonel was finally and rudely
ava xenad. however. to the imposition,
and then his generous spirit was deep
Nv wounded. He for a brief period lost
faith IN everybody and everything But
a man OF Colonel Marshall's tempera'
ment and nature seldom broods to the
extent OF wrechng his own or tne
lives OF others to whom he Is morally
bound. and his manhood soon reassert'
ed itself. with the result that IN the
ten or twelve years he has been IN
washington he has accumulated a ior-
tune OF more than s1OO 900, and Is hap