The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-01

itations. Sometimes she would act as
Well as recite the part, and the war;
denis wife would often criticise the
enunciation and the gestures that were
the forerunners of the acting which is
now winning the praise of the public
and the attention of the men who are
paid to pass judgment in print on
dramatic performances.
1t was a long time before Fatty
could see any sense in such a wanton
waste of time, but, little by little, he
came to understand. And, long be-
fore his daughter was ready to try for
public success, he, too, used OCCASION
ally to go up on the roof and listen to
the recitations. Later still ne would
take the book and read a part, and he
lived to be proud of her success.
The hours thus spent by Blanche
Walsh were among the happiest of her
life while she was living in a prison.
There were others, quite as happy, no
doubt, and certainly as profitable.
These We're the hours when she was
studying the types of East Side life
which she came in contact with when
ever she stepped from the family apart
ments into the prison or out upon the
street. Consciously or unconsciously,
she must thus have laid the founda-
ton of her character acting; it is in this
way that she must have acquired the
knowledge of human nature which she
displays in her work; it is because of
what she saw of the women prisoners In
the Tombs that she can assume the
part of a hopeless and dissolute woman
prisoner so faithfully on the stage.
One of the most painful features of
her life on the East Eide was her faith
er's nickname Fatty" Undoubtedly
she saw his personal shortcomings
clearly, but he was her father-kind,
generous, and, after time, full Of SYM
pathy for her.
And 1T was because he never could
shake off his nickname so long as
they lived on the East Side, that she
urged the family to move out as soon
as she felt sure of success.
Walsh didn't like this, but he yield
ed, and for a short time lived some
where uptown" with his wife and
daughter. He couldn't stand it long
though, and he passed the last two of
three years of his life in a rented
place near the Tombs, where he could
meet daily the men who knew him,
who called him Fatty" to his face,
and who knew and appreciated all the
fine points of New York's local poll
tics.
That a girl born and bred as was
Blanche Walsh should now be playing,
with distinction, the leading part in
Tolstoy's Resurrection" is a fine ex-
ample of the possibilities in American
life. 1t is also a rather tough nut for
the hard and fast believers in heredity
to crack.
AccaSding to a New York newspaper
that gives much attention to business
and financial affairs, the destinies of
all the great trunk railroad lines are
now held in the hands of four men,
one of whom is William Rockefeller.
1t isn't so very long ago that this
man was known chiefly, and almost
solely, because he was the younger
brother of John D. Rockefeller. Even
to-day he makes little noise in the
world. His name is a rarity in the
news, and his picture is printed very
infrequently. He makes no after-din-
ner address, he cuts no social figure,
he endows no hospitals, colleges or IL
braries: he is not devoted to church
work, in any spectacular way, at least,
and he is seen in public so seldom
that he would pass unnoticed by 999
in every 1000 fairly wide-awake and
well-informed New Workers.
Yet in the inner circles he is known
as great personal power. In the Sc
we're stone-faced building on lower
Broadway given up to Standard Oil he
is supreme 1t was he, and not John D.,
who organized the Metropolitan end of
1.-THE biggest trust" and until John D.,
Jr., came TO mans estate 1t was Will
liam who did whatever there was of
detailed work that had to be done by
one OF the royal blood, so to speak, in
conducting Standard Oil affairs.
Though much more approachable
than his brother, it was william
Rockefeller who devised the present
system OF keeping out of the Rookie
Teller private office practically all call
ers without the risk of offending any
or turning away any one who might
have something Of real value to talk
about.
Ever since the installation of this
system IL has been almost as hard to
see a Rockefeller at his Office as IL
would be for a camel to pass through
the eye Of a needle.
The visitor at that Office seeking one
of the "heads" r. always received po-
liteiy, almost deferentially. He Is in
variably told that the particular
Rockefeller sought Is not IN at present
and not expected soon. VIII the yisi-
tor state his business fully that II may
be explained 10 Mr.. Rockefeller when
ever he comes inY
Then the attendant draws out 4
note book and pencil, srd N the VIE
TOR Is willing 70 talk, al that be says
ls taken down IN full, sten3Efap hloally.
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