New-York tribune., 1906-07-15
Miss Fothergi11's Press Agent
By FRANK x. FINNEGAN

flames THOMAS MGILLICUDDY. manager
OF the talented emotional star, Miss Flora
Fothergll, presenting an unequaled dramatic
repertoire, with the support of an excep-
- Lonally strong company of artists, was in
despair. Neither the talented emotional star
nor the strong company of artists even the
name and fame Of James Thomas McC1ilhcuddv
manager, had made that appeal to the tickle
public which permits of the prompt liquidation
OF hotel bills the conclusion of satisfactory arrange
1nents with suspicious district passenger agents
or even the weekly peregrination of the ghost
There's nothing else to it, Bud" announced
McGlllcuddy as he sat IN conference with his press
agent IN the commercial House, the two-dollar-a-day
hosiery of Prairie City; you'll have to turn some
kind OF trick here TO stir EN- up, or else smash
she goes These people IN the hotel are yelling for
their coin ike a bunch of Indians and wev got
TO Jump to Lawton from here. It's up to you"
Robert j. Sinclair, representing McGillicuddy's
Empire Dramatic Company, scratched his chin and
looked thoughtful q" 1t would take dynamite to
STIR up burg ike this he declared This town
Is dead and don't know it .
Well, give EN- dynamitel' ordered McGilli-
cuddy, IN the same offhand manner in which he
hired juveniles at forty dollars week and ordered
paper from trusting printing houses. That's
what we've got press agent for, guess. You hand
EN- out something IN to-norrows paper that Il
make this waTt the prairie up and take notcei
Why don't you try a runaway marriage? Fother-
gil viii stand for It She run away with the
kid that joined US last month. / think she's sort of
stuck on him anyway, and if we have to go through
with Il they might get married IN some town around
here"
hat Tlght DO, SAID Sinclair obviously; but
i would make better story If she could run away
with the mayors or the heir the Prairie City
Rolling Mills. Suddenly the press agent was smtten
with an idea. He struck the table with his fist so
snlartly that McGillicuddy sat up with Jerk, and
then he announced: I've got it
Well, let 5 have It, ordered the manager
Talking about the heir to the Prairie City Roll
ing Mills reminded me-, said Sinclair of a story
heard last night / was loafing around the Palace
saloon with a young fellow on The Prairie CITY
Times. and the talk turned old man Robinson
who built the mills and cleaned up fortune out of
them. He died year ago and left it all to a SON.
It seems that the old pioneer in this part
Of the country and when he came there was scat
tered settlement where now the imposing front of
Prairie City looms. When the old man moved
here from the East he brought his wife and baby
girl. That all OF twenty-five years ago. The
baby carried off by the Indians fine day and
never heard OF afterward He spent a lot of money
after ne got rich trying locate her; but there
nothing doing, and the son came in for all the
money"
The press agent, with calm smile of triumph
leaned across the table and placed his hand the
worried managers wrist. What's the matter with
Miss Flora Fothergi being the long lost heiress of
old man Robinson long were in town." he
demanded.
McGilhcuddy stood up, looked at Sinclair in
admiration and thrust out his hand Bud he
said. you're a Won