The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-10-30
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

some form the gratitude lac fet Tor the
many attentions that had been SHOWN hisi
To return all these In kind was out ~ the
question. 80 ne resorted to met ned quite
unknown here and especially striking in
view OF the social position Of the people by
whom he had been receivAd.
He put into the personal column OF q
newspaper a few well-t h lsen words eX-
pressing his gratitude to the frienos who
had made his stay In New York enjoy
able Some Of those who entertained MIN
are wondering " the ajority Of the perrons
ne met mere we're sucn regular readers
Of the particular kind of matter found
In The column he selected for his adver-
iiscnent that ne put mis- card OF thanks
there in order that they might not fail
10 ssNe Il.
The decorative shirt fronts OF the Opera
Club are not, after all, TO disappear from
the left-hand side Of the grand tier at the
Metropolitan. After tie subject hid been
carefully considered the management de-
cided that the club arrangements should
continue for one season more There
fore the artists will once again have the
sight Of club members TO inspire them,
and occasionally they will have hurled al
them hattering II inexpensive floral Offer
ings.
The old Vaudeville Club. from the ruins
OF which the present organization sprang,
used to give the artists tributes that were
more expensive; that u. they might have
been more expensive. Once IN an out
burst Of enthusiasm at the close Of a sea-
son Miss Bauermeister received gold
watch from the members who made the
presentation with some ceremony.
She really got a watch that night, though
she had TO give II up the next day, it being
ordered for her and the jeweller had not
been able to finish II in time. But 1t was
coming along all right in day or two,
she was assured.
In the same strain Of cordially that
inspired the club to give her the tribute
Miss Bauermeister returned the watch
presented to her. From that day she
has never heard another word on the sub
ject Miss Bauermester needs no re-
minder that time flies; but she was sur
prised and disappointed at the sequel TO
the presentation.
Many years ago there was printed in
Wall street a periodical named The Lamb.
The name suggests the kind Of periodical
II was Several prints of II were exhibited
the other day to some stock market friends
by man who helped 10 promote the publi-
cation and who has perhaps the only COM
plete file In existence. Two cartoons OF
Jay Gould were particularly striking. One
pictured the fnancier a. a shepherd before
whom was passing an endless flock of
sheep. The crook Of the shepherds stick
terminated in a barb, like that OF monster
fishhook. The sheep approaching were
heavy with wool, while these that had
passed were brutally shorn. In the back
ground was an immense mound OF sheep
bones. Another cartoon represented Jay
Gould sitting AT night in cemetery. SUR
rounded by tombstones erected TO the
memory of the properties he was accused
OF having wrecked, with here and there an
open grave ready to receive others. DO
these things represent the contemporary
impression of Jay Gould?r asked one OF the
newer stock-market generation, We'll.
replied an old trader in the group, Il
shouldn't wonder but they do; anyway
The name OF Gould stands to-day for a
very different order Of things"
When Justice Truax refused 10 allow
Walter Damrosch to hum for the benefi,
of the jury the other day he deprived them
of pleasure which has been cherished fc r
years by those fortunate enough to hear it .
Mr.. Damroschs talent as hummer il one
of his greatest musical gifts.
He is able, with the aid Of grand piano,
20 hum his way through the entire Nibelun-
gen Ring. and he has done that before nearly
every women's musical club between here
and San Francisco He huns Brurn-
hides warnings and sacrifice with ire
mendous emotion, and his versatile hum
imparts such pathos to Fofner's expiring
grunts that he brings tears TO the eyes of
hardened music critics. As Wagnerian
hummer MIR, Damrosch stands In a class by
himself
And he has other fields in which his ia tents
in the same direction are exhibited. At
the opera rehearsals his haunting hum
dominates the orchestra
II may he cradle song from -Manru'
or the mad scene from Lucia" Mr.. Dam
rosch's technique is equal TO either task.
The sustained melody Of Paderewski will
I've as perfect In its way as the forid bril-
liancy of his Donizetti humming
Justice Tr,iaN should certainly have
allowed the conductor TO give the proof
Of Victor Hcrher's originality tina, was
volunteered II wouldn't have hurt the
hummer and the jury would have been
cnthralled
One Of the invariabla attendants at first :.
night performances this year Ia a pale little
woman who walks cautiously TO her seat
and moves feebly through the dispensing
audiences There il the unmistakable look
Of youth about her, although her tired,
pallid face is in strange contrast with her
vivid yellow hair,
IL was only few years ago that she was
the most popular Of the young burlesque
actresses and seemed to have a long career
before her For various reasons she was
on view for only few years after she reached
the height Of her success. Then she was
compelled to leave the stage, and II is not
prohau,e that she will ever act again
The theatre audi forum might seem a
strange, retreat for one who must find there
so much occasion for regret. But IL is a
fact proved before her case that tho life of