Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-05-28

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stream she made a great to do. wringing
her hands and things like that. The steam
ship people. of course, exact no fare OF
persons thus accidentally taken away
from the land and their loved ones by
covered that this young woman's clothing
was all carefully packed away In the
trunks of the chum, who paid her fare for
the voyage, and that. when the steamer
reached England the accidentally trans
ported young woman gaily stepped ashore
and began to prowl over Europe with her
friend Thus the cruel suspicion that the
pair of young women had worked the job
for the benefit of half-rate was aroused
in the midrifs of the steamship people.
They have investigated other cases since,
and now they are claiming that the "acci-
dental' folks all cheerful and ingen-
ious grafters who have the soldered-fist
habit and hate to pay fares when they can
think of some way of getting out of 1t.
Wherefore the rule recently promulgated
by several of the steamship lines that all
persons who are careless enough to permit
themselves to be taken out to the vastly
deep accidentally have got to pay their
fares all the same, just as IL they had
really intended going a-sailing.
Stranded in New York.
1t really seems as If some new kinks in
the panhandling line ought to be developed
along the Great White Alley called Broad
way flilS sulDUltf, WITH DOCl room
people and perhaps a few more actors than
that out of work and lining that cheerful
thoroughfare, waiting for something to
turn UP. OF the two sets. perhaps the pool
room crowd out of work still preserves a
more prosperous look than the actors for
the pool room gang has been working up
to within quite a recent time, whereas most
of the theatrical ioungers of Broadway
have been lounging there for months. or
ever since the backbone of the disastrous
xrnG hpnl H.
What hawk-eyed lot all of them mingled,
make upon those Broadway corners of the
Tenderloin. The laundry money, - the
cahes, as the Uncle Tommers call their
meals: the price. Of occasional shaves and
shines and even so frivolous a thing as
room rent-these are promlems confronting
them all, and the police OF New York are
predicting that ere long many of these
hawk-eyed ones out at elbows will be
wrapping handy little pieces OF gasplpe In
newspapers and faring forth to see what
they can do for themselves on the dark
streets with the belated and WOODY ones
for victims. 1t should be remembered that
this particular army of 10000 unemployed
and non-produeing men belong to classes
VINO will only do the things for livelihood
that they want to do; the lounging hams
Will act and nothing else, and the shut-out
pool room men Will toy in some capacity
WI II the herse-racing game and that's the
only thing they will do or could by any
possibility be brought to do. Therefore.
there not being enough acting to go around,
and the horss-racing business being snuff ed
out altogether except at the tracks. the
wise cops are predicting that the gaspipe
and sandbag methods of obtaining required
increment are going to be unusually popu-
lar in New York during the approa ching
term of heat.
A very large, numbering affair on wheels
sort of a cross between decked-over
prairie schooner and travelling wax works
wagon of other days, is now sheltered
md bad
Lillian Russe.i s Far Rockaway chateau
Inc huge contraption has got back steps,
ana there are cute little windows of more
or less opaque isinglass built on both sides
OF 1t. 1t was delivered at Far Rockaway
on freight train. and the natives down
there got around it and looked it over and
scratched their heads a good deal about
1t, and then gave II up.
However, III easy. The large numbering
affair on wheels is Liil!an's new bathing
machine la Angiaise. Fact. 1t is said
that as age and curevless matronhood ad.
vances upon the airy, fairy Lillian of the
antique years. she IS Becoming exc eedingly
particular about some things. One of EN-
Is sea bathing. She likes to battle in the
sea- put she has never been able to take a
sea bath without an audience lining tho
sand larger than any crowd that ever
went to see her at Weberfield's This Is
said to have been intolera5le to her Far
be 1t from anybody to say that one of the
reasons therefor Is that it's hard to make
up for bath. The given-out reason is
that the girthful Lillian of today regards
sea-bathing, as we practice 1t in the states.
you know, as immodest She thinks the
English scheme is much more conducive 10
the preservation of the proprieties.
Lillian Russell at the Seaside.
The large, numbering thing on wheels VIII
be rolled alongside her porch. the marvel
ously preserved Lillian will bound into 1t
by way of the rear steps, with her bathing
suit on, and then the huge vehicle OF NOV
ing-yan proportions. will be rolled down to
and some distance into the sea-to a point
where The water will be about I'D to the
songstress' kn-that is, to the bottom Of
her bathing skirt. Then she Will bound
down the steps and splash around in the
soulful sea for a little, little while. Then
she'll climb back into the modification of a
furniture van be wheeled back to her own
portieo, and skip lightly out of the thing
and up the steps of her home. All of which
has made a number of actresses around
here so jealous that they are ordering
bathing machines OF their own on rush
Dressler are going to have EN- for the
beginning of the bathing season. and Anna
Held, who intends to be around New York
a good part of this summer. has already
ordered one.
In the meantime. the natives of Far
Rockaway are quite angry. They feel that
they have been stung and cheated for they
have been watching Miss Russell in the
water for so many years that they feel
that the bathing machine is going to de-
Drive them this year OF ono Of the most
suggestive associations of their childhood.
: C. L. c.