Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-02-18
GRAVE AND GAY GOSSIP FROM
NEW YORK'S MADDING WHIRLPOOL

hardest. For instance, alongside Of a
Pole will be stationed an italian, and
next to them will be put an 1rishman
and a negro. Race pride does the rest,
and the pace set to try each mans
endurance opens up big hole I'm the
black wall ahead Of them.
These Are Strong Arguments
One of the morning newspapers Of
New York presents what it declares
are the two most powerful arguments
for the election of United States SEN
ator by the people. These two argu-
ments are found in photographs of
Senator Platt and Denator Depew
Motor Car Toys Are Hired Now
There are grave reasons for suspect
ing that there is shop in town where
motor car toys moy be hired by the
evening, just as dress suits are rented
out over on the East Side for the
weddings and the "civic balls" A
whole lot of the people who were at the
two motor car shows-one at Madison
Square garden and the other just
around the corner at the SiXty-ninth
Regiment armory--went down on the
subway but they dressed the part just
the same-goggles for the gentlemen
and long wells with Happy ends for
the women. The limitations in the
rented motor car toggery had the pro-
fessional line of talk down pretty pat
themselves. They knew the Christian
or given names of all the little steel
springs and brass contraptions that
look like the works out of a dollar
watch and cost about as much as a
building lot in Yonkers.
Gaiety Girls Coming
Klaw e. Erlanger have completed ar
arrangements with George Edwardes to
bring his entire London Gaiety COM
pany to America the coming season.
1t will be the first time an organization
has been brought intact to this coun-
try from the Gaiety theater. The
company, numbering more than 100
persons will appear for a period linn
tied to ten weeks, beginning at the
New Amsterdam theater September /,
and for this brief season George Ed
wardes is to receive one of the heaviest
guarantees known to theatricals One
and possibly two cities outside of New
York will be visited before the COM
pany returns to London.
In the Gaiety company is Edmund
Payne, Familiarity known to the Brit
ish theatergolng public as Teddy"
the drollest and best liked comedian
of his class in England. Efforts have
been made to induce him to visit Amer
lea before this, but his long term con-
tract with the Galety management has
precluded his appearance here. Other
well-known comedians in the company
are George Grossmith, Jr., and Fred
Wright, Jr., both tavorably received
here in the past. Gertie Millar, Connie
Eddis and Olive May. all favorites with
al al, 11A
George Edwardes is to bring over
sixty show girls of most pleasing and
magnetic personality. 1.-THE Spring
Chicken" the present Gaiety success,
which has run for more than year in
London, will be the musical comedy
vehicle to exploit the cleverness.
beauty and grace of the organization
The Newsboy Tells the "cop"
This conversation was heard by a
man passing through city hall park,
between a fat policeman and small
newsboy:
II tell youse, cop" shrilled the boy,
cit takes a smart man to be crook.
"Oh, g'wan, you midget"
at does, tell youse. cop. Any duff
fer can be a cop. but it takes smart
one to be crook, it does"
Follows Dream to France
On La Touraine for Havre today a
dressmaker Madame Marguerite Calise,
sailed on curious mission She is
going to France to verify dream
which has required so persistently that
she believes that it has some founda-
ton in fact. The dream in effect is
that her father recently deceased.
buried chest of treasure in the gar
den of the old home in st. Omer, the
department of Disc, France. Madame
| Calise said that her father, who died
December 4, 1904 was of rather a
misery disposition and was supposed
! to have boarded a fair-sized fortune in
gold and bonds saved through years of
| toll on his farm. None of the money
| could be found after his death and
| Madame Calse was left with nothing
except the little farm. This she sold
| Immediately for a few hundred dollars
| and came to America. She settled in
| Pittsburg and obtained employment as
| a dressmaker. Her remarkable dream
| came to her on the night of the ami
versary of her fathers death. She
| seemed to be looking out of the window
| of her old home at midnight She saw
| her father leave the back door Of the
! house with a shovel and lantern in his
hands. She saw him go to an old tree
| in the garden under which she used to
| swing as a child and dig hole in the
| ground. Then she saw him return to
the house and reappear with heavy
! chest in his arms. This he carried to
the hole and carefully buried, obliterat-
ing all traces.
New One on Millionaire
THE Pittsburg millionaire at the
Waldorf" has become the official goat
in New York for all stories Of the gay
old sport" variety. Here is the latest
tale: At the Waldorf they are telling
of Pittsburg millionaire who is over
| 20, and the way he fooled his son and
nephew on a recent visit to the city of
the great white way. The two young
men dlned with father" every evening,
and then watched him take the eleva-
tor to his quarters. TOO bad father
has to go to bed at 8 every evening,
said the son. Wonder if he goes to
sleep right away, or if he'd like us to
stay and talk to him." Lets go UP
and see," said the nephew, feeling the
full grip of compassion. They found
his shoes outside the door waiting for
the coming of the bootblack, and there
was no light in the transom. Poor
old man, he does not have a very good
time over here thew chOrused Then