The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-03
FOXY QUILLER" HERE.
He Is an Expert Mathematician
on Insurance Matters.

Richard Golden. the same Richard
Golden who scored in his down east
play. "Old Jed Prouty,'' which was seen
in Topeka last season. is at the Tnroop
hotel. His name, as written on the reg
ister. does not bear any Of the wild
fiourishes attributed to the profession.
There are no wild flourishes about
Richard Golden.
Right over IN that corner" said the
clerk when State Journal reporter
asked to see the ground plan of Foxy
CUTLER" ''Er-yes, certainly. Take a
seat" said Mr.. Golden an instant later,
as re carefully removed his eye glasses
and waved them toward vacant chair
Interview? Well what shall L say?
Might say l lost my diamonds in New
Jersey, or fell through ferry boat, but
1 won't"
It's up to you" said the reporter.
Il have no plan of campaign mapped
cut You might say something about
your present company, ana your move
ments since you were here as Jed
Prouty.' anything you were thinking
about"
Mr.. Golden raised a finger and care
fully smoothed the red crease left by
his glasses. 4 was thinking about the
way l made things look to an Insurance
man few days ago. he got me staIl
ed, I dug up the professional blue book
and gave him some figures that pune
tured his case. 1t was like this: ! met
this party. a gentleman who represents
an Old-llne insurance company of the
east. The company had a new scheme
one warranted to pay a both ends. and
he wanted to sell me $4,000. We looked
up the rates. and found that he wanted
to charge me about II per cent more
than other people. I asked him the rea-
son, and he said it was because l was
an actor, travelling all the time, and
more liable to accidents. Then l began
to show him
Il am acquainted with the profession,
and I know something about it. I showed
him that out Of the POGO actors travelling
across this continent from one side to the
other every year, only four had been killed
in the past ten years by railroad acct
dents l also cited him the case of an
eastern tunnel accident where a dozen
1 residents of one small city. people who
did not travel once a year, We're killed,
people who would have been rated Il per
cent lower than actors. l went on and
gave him some more facts about the pro-
! fession. That n very small per cent of
actors were drunkards. That only two
actors have been convicted of murder in
the past ten years, and one of them was
4 proven insane. That Here Mr. Golden
being in his pet line. the manipulation of
per cents and figures, got away from the
reporter who had been putting numerals
on his cuff and a lot of interesting sta
tistics about the profession were lost.
The profession is not like it was. a
collection of mOuntebanks. who were prac-
| tically nil because they neither voted or
/ paid poll tax, or any other kind of tax
( for that matter" said Golden. There are
e. people in my company" he waved a
| hand toward the stairway, as if to imply
that they were in the house and ready to
back his statement, and I know the
majority of them have fine homes and
own them. They are moral. and tenn
perate During the time I have been with
this company I never saw a member take a
drink of anything stronger than beer, and
very little of that"
During his talk Mr.. Golden seemed to
take an interest in statistics. He failed to
allude to Foxy CUTLER or the success of
the play. He would emphasize his re-
marks by tapping the listener on the
shoulder and then hastily brushing away
the ash which Jared off his cigar. He
has a business like appearance, talks rap
/ idly and looks like he was in good health
and enjoyed life. Golden will be at the
Crawford tonight in the comic opera
| Foxy CUTLER"