New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-02-22

and pummelied him. Remorse has often over
| taken for that for he smaller than I
and not IN my class fighter"
Five or six years ago Mr.. Hewlett at
deaths door. A council of physicians was be-
ing held, the patient supposedly being uncon-
scious and rapidly sinking
Does he crave water?' asked ore doctor of
another.
Not by darned sight" shouted Mr. Hewlett;
Il stepped drinking water back in the sixties
Ii during that same sickness that one of
the local newspapers wrote his obituary to have
it ready for when he passed away Mr.
Hewlett afterward saw proof of IT, and enjoyed
the joke on the paper immensely. Il fooled
YOU didn't II" he used TO say with great relish
Draw poker is his delight. One year ago he in
vited in several of his women friends TO help him
spend pleasant birthday anniversary. This
was the starting point of his recent party Those
who were not invited last year. when one would
meet him. said that they felt sighted, so he de-
termined to give them all blowout" 1t is
said that last year three four of the younger
widows led into social game of poker
with the old man. Through hook or crook they
did him up" and he was few hundreds the
loser that night He has some good poker max
inns He always advises young never to
play when any wants to have the limit
above So Because he says IF some one
wants to have the sky the limit, he is after your
money, and don't want a social game If he is
after your money he is nothing better than
professional. Keep away from him.
When asked how he came to give a widows
party, Mr.. Hewlett said Down in Connecticut
1 used to visit friend whenever went
there on business His home always open,
and whenever L went there he had few others
in for social time After he died used to go
there just the same Two years ago the widow
gave a little party for me, and all the guests
widows l thought it would be nice to give
little party year ago and so l invited in
few widows. Every time 1 met widow after
that she asked me why ] had not invited her.
Good Lord, / didn't suppose / knew many
widows, So many asked that i finally made
up my mind that if 1 had another birthday
1 would invite every widow I knew. l never
thought it would be such big undertaking.
don't believe one stayed away because the news
papers said so much about it, either. Why can't
a man have widow party without every one in
the country talking about it? Why 1 heard
from a friend in England who had been
reading in some paper about it. But that hasn't
bothered the widows-nothng much bothers
them. They were all my friends and every one
came who could possibly do So
Mr.. Hewlett assisted in receiving the
widows by his granddaughter, Mrs Hamilton
Sanford. The drawing filled with
bowls and vases of flowers. principally red and
white roses and delicately tinted tulips. In
front of the wide double windows bank Of
palms Upon an easel not far from the spot
where Mr.. Hewlett stood to receive his guests
WAC the portrait of his dead wife, and close to
this stood a table covered with pink roses, a
touching tribute to the sweetheart of years gone
by. The dining room was in red. 4 long rope
of smilax twined around the ribbons which
closed the doors. Fastened to each corner of
the tabIeeIoth were long ropes of feathery fern,
which rose 10 form canopy below the chande-
lier. The scent of hidden hyacinths and narcis-
sus filed the air. About twenty-five were seated
in the dining room at
In the parlors a lively scene being en-
acted There were all kinds of widows Some
past the threescore and ten mark, and
others had the bloom of youth upon their races
and wore stunning gowns. Not in the land could
a happier man be found than Mr.. Hewlett
Girls" he shouted, Just enjoy1 yourselves
Dance if you want 10, and If you get hungry go
into the dining room. Don't go away thirsty by
any means"
Along toward evening Marshall Durston a
grandson of Mr.. Hewlett, dressed in Widows
weeds made his way into the house, and was
introduced to the host as Mrs Balm, of Phila-
delphia." Glad you came" said MI Hewlett.
Go right into the dining room and nave some
refreshments.' The disguise was perfect, ana
the aged host never suspected that ne was peiHs
duped. Afterward he said:
You can't keep up with these smart young
fellers: they will get the best of an old man
every time
Carnegie isn't in il with me-" chuckled MI
Hewlett He is d library man. / am Wid-
ows' man, Ell? Another widows party! NO.
sir. 1 have only given one IN elghty-tW Two, years
and won't give another in the next eighty-two;
II do ANYTHING next year, it will be an old
maids party. They ought to be taken care Of
Old maids would be pretty gooo' Out "iuo"s
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