Evening star., 1903-08-29

age as twenty-three which was no doubt
S, SorreS1 inlet us see: When Lillian
Russell married Teddy Solomon 'w,x
PACK yonder in the fog of years. she gave
her age, if theatrical tradition is of any
value. as twenty eight Consequently.
twenty-three plus
However it is said that the only ma.e
person who actually knows Lillian Rus
sells age is Tony Pastor. the vaudevills
manager: A slender young woman in
tights, Miss Russell-whose name Is Leon
ara. and whose mother Cynthia Leonard
was one or the original woman suffragists--
appeareo at Pastors New York Theater in
Duriesque ,,uri back in-well the reconstruction
peiIou uown south was just about under
way at the time, anyhow. Lillian Russell
sun looks weii on the stage. but of late
years she objects strenuousiy when the
electrician throws the spot light full upon
her: Under the well-mellowed lights al
Weber 4 Fields Mass Russell preseats an
lhHhnteiy more ravishing spectacle than
she does, for example seated in n grand
Slanu pox at the Sheepshead Bay races on
q July afternoon. and closely veiled no
na',er now nigh the temperature may be.
All OF this. however, Is trip afieid 1t
was only intended to point out at the out
set, that all eloping young women are not
necessarily raging beauties. no matter
wnom their mothers may be. and no mat
Ter. IN addition. what the sepia- -hueJ
Az lawn papers may say to the contrary.
Big Figures Used.
Up at Saratoga the other afternoon. q
man who is pretty well to do and who
"hen ne talks at all. always knows what he
is talking about. said this:
III had all over $50 600 that vo,,. Co
and-So. mentioning the name of an ex
ceedingly horsy member of New york.s
Jsunesse doree. has lost on the ponies at
l cared to be- S'e'
II was remark well calculated to pre-
sent a fair line upon the magnitude of
the betting on the thoroughbreds at the
Spa this year. In addition to tremendous
betting however. there has been a very un-
usuai amount of welching at the springs
during the racing season this year. and the
bookmakers haven't been the welchers.
either.
Only week ago a young fellow who is
connected with notable western family
executed a WEIGH for no less a sum than
$5O.OO. With this youth II was the old sto
ry. He got into the game over his head.
ana tnen made wild effort to recoup and
make good his indebtedness to the book
makers on one race. The horse upon which
ne depended to pull him out finished an un
lovely fourth in a field of four. amid the
norrlnc mutations of those of the crowd
.Iat hao pet on the 30 to shot that won
the race: The young man Immediately left
the track and took the first train for New
York. and when the settling-up time ex
pired-the bookmakers only give their cred
If
| ed as a welcher. The young mans rela-
tVes are now engaged in framing I'M
means whereby he may be hobbled for the
next few years. and IL they determine that
TINS part OF the programme is practicable
| 1t may be that they will get topetber and
square his indebtedness to the bookma kers
considerably meaner case of welchng
according to the bookmakers' view of it.
was tnat or rich New Yorker who has for
some years maintained a racing stable Of
| his own. He Is one of the shining stars of
the so-called clubhouse contingent The in
cident happened along toward the middle of
the saratoga meeting. The New Yorker
| bet 10000 on credit. through his commits
sloner. on horse that was to run against
the redoubtable little Hermis Hermis won
the race In stroll the horse that the New
1orker mad bet on. finishing second
The bookmakers paid off on Hermis of
course, but late in the afternoon, near the
close or the days racing, it was found by
.ne stewards that owing to the fact that a
new partnership between the owners of
dermis hadn't yet been officially registered
at the Jockey Club, Hermis would have TO
pc disqualified and the race given to the
morse that had finished second Happenine
as it did, this was a mere technicaIity ana
the only racing man who took advantage
OF 1T was the New Yorker who had bet the
slo'oo, on credit. on the horse that finished
second. He took the ground that the bet
ting always follows the decision and the
purse. and resolutely declined to make The
SIo,ooo good 1t is true that in ordinary
SoSCo tLic OtttiUS QOeS 10IlOW the decision
and the purse. but this was a very excep-
tlonal case. In which the decision was made
known long after all of the cash bets on
the winner had been redeemed by the lay
ers Moreover, all of the credit bettors in
cludtng the heaviest plungers made good
their losses to the bookmakers on the ba sis
that Hermis had won, on the day following
the the aecls'on OF the stewards disqualifying
the horse, thus leaving the New Yorker as
the solitary welcher on the race. Turfmen
OF repute have as little use for welcher
as they have for an habitually strong
armed jockey, and they have already made
things so unpleasant for the New Yorker
who took advantage of a racing technicaIity
to avoid the paying of a straight gambling
debt that his racers are now for sale and
IL Is announced that he is going to get out
of the game.
Home for Life.
A "Raff1es' in real life was discovered in
gentleman burglar corraled by the New
York police the other night They got him,
red-handed, on the roof of house he had
been Shredding of its valuables, and he
gave them a pretty good battle of 1t until
he was overpowered. He was found to be
an accomplished man of thirty-five or So
master of several languages groomed to
ms hngers' ends and as quiet and well-be-
haved chap. withal, 'as ever slit wea-
Zand or scuttled ship" He had furnished
very handsome home with his plunder,
and many thousands of dollars worth Of
jewelry, silver and gold ware and works of
art, all belonging to long list of New
Workers whose homes he had burglarized,
were found in his plant. The police say
that in his daylight hours of leisure the
gentleman burglar occupied himself in
translating into English old Spanish Ital-
ian and French verse. and his library of
English literature of the Elizabethan period
was found to be an unusually ample and
well selected one. The chap explained his
midnight departures from his home to his
wife by telling her that he was in the stock
brokerage business. and that be liked to
get down town early to get the first reports
from the London stock market. He was a
familiar figure on Broadway and at the
matinees during the theatrical season, and
1T is even said that at the time of his ar
rest he was slated for membership in one
of the best clubs in New York. Hundreds
of well-known New Workers in many lines
of activity recognized in his published
rogues gallery picture a man whom they
had met and liked. There are already
enough indictments against this taciturn
Raffles to keep him housed by the state.
according to the most moderate computa-
ton. for little matter of three hundred
and fifty years. c.. L.C.
His pack- Acf