The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-05-30
soME GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.

>, yo,v Nav as-Count Edmund Heineckc Won La
. .t hitter known in the neghborhood of Mulberry and
Houston streets Ed Heneck the watch tinker stood on
the deck of the Umbra at the Cunard line dock To-
day the happest all the throng OF smaty at
tired tourists bound for Europe But his Joy was tnsed
with sadness.
The count has been in exile in America foryfve
His term exile expired June and he started today ior
the old world to enter once more into the enjoyment OIL MS
titles,
when has lived watch repairer forty years
and is about his native land to become ruler OF
three castles with about $ooooooo behind him and an
income of $4,000 year it is not surprising that he should
feel Just little nervous said the count he stood behind
the gang plank where he had been waving his hat to many
friends ashore who had gathered to bid him godspeed.
| Count Won Larisch exled for fortyhve from
Prussia for killing Major Won Pona superior officer in
of arising the fact that both in love
with the He to this country and began
life waiter in New Orleans restaurant afterward
learning wachrepang trade. Up to the last day be-
fore sailing the bending the ooladen bench
in his dngy workshop East Houston street where he and
his only worked side by side doctorng
broken down watches and clocks.
Its like having tooth pulled to face all this after so
long watch reparer. the said 81 see in
fancy the faces of those busy wachehe little friends OF
my exile days-and tell you feeling of steals
fellow when he say goodby to them. They have
furnished support for all these and now am
give them up dwell in castle surrounded by
dens have to laugh And Count Won larisch did laugh
while tear shone in his
/,
myself there is much be thankful for and little
little regret have made money mendng watches,
ricd lovely here in New York have daughter who
married and who single and who helps patch
up the clocks and watches here in the shop.
There very interesting formalities must go
through before gain possession OF the the money
and my title will have to Jail for fourteen
days before get recognition from the officers of the
army This is because have served in jail in Ger
many 1t Prussia the time left there.
What will do first? Why will right back to
America and get my wife and and daughter and take
them Europe. | will close out the little workshop
! and go back live tai die in my native land
John Most anarchist will act in his play next Mon
day night the Windsor theaer the Bowery. Most's
play called The Strike The opens
factory Won Hartenstein The this
tory disconnected Led by old named Fischer,
they the point Of striking
The part OF Fischer is taken by John Most Fischers
in the barons factory falls in love with the baron's
daughter. While the marching toward the barons
Office demand higher and shorter hours the lover
the daughter in her garden and asks for her hand She
refuses.
Meantime the men, led by old Fischer have obtained
from the baron satisfactory terms
Just they departing young Fischer appears lie is
and appeals the settle the strike any
terms.
Young Fischer shoot the He arrested
ana thrown into prison
= The baron decides make example of him Old
Fischer beg for his sons freedom but the obdu-
and shoots the dead The strikers baron
palace and demoish it, They Stay who shows the
L least opposition.
The play ends with a speech delivered by the of
z Fischer. He predicts the final triumph OF anarchy.
81 -
The origin of the phrase nothing doing furnished
ri number OF wel-known sporting with subject for dis
ri cussion Demoncos last night The responsibility OF it
finally fixed Thomas Sheedy, the sporting man and
Fl brother OF Pat Sheedy the gambler One of the men in
the party Delmonicos this version of the
the nothing doing" expression:
Tom Sheedy and sporting writer for Chicago news
paper day in 1896 watching Louisville on
which they had single bet As the squared away
for home Sheedy that the animal which their
money beaten, Turning his companion said
It Come Joe let's home There's nothing doing here
today The day while the watching the
finish of and their horse winning Sheedy ex-
claimed Its all right today Joe there's something doing
After that the sporting of Louisville adopted
contribution slang
Dr. Raphael Levy of East Fftyhfth street is conf
dent that he entitled share SIS estate
of the late Jacob Moses Horwtz Francisco Horwitz
born in Chencin, Cracow Poland August TO- 1sea
About that time Emperor Nicholas was said to be dverne
himself by sezng children OF Jews and rearing them in the
faith OF the church Horwtzs relatives fearful that
their children might suffer similar fate deported them in
1894 two brothers and sister going Paris one Jacob
Moses, Horwitz, coming to this country
He found his San Francisco, where he amassed a
fortune He died than twenty years ago. it is said in
Mount Sinai hospital
c Press influence
n Waco Times Herald.