Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-19
HEARD AROUND
THE CORRIDORS
by THE EAvEsDRoPPER

%APT. HENRY e. LAWRE FENCE, fol-
l fifty-four years of his life a
bachelor, has been a well known
figure at the Angelus of late. When
ever the captain grows tired of life or
his lemon ranch in Whittier he comes
to town for few days.
For his joVial smile and a red carna-
tton he always wore in his button hole
Cap" as his friends called him, is
famous.
Yesterday he arrived with the red
carnation and the same old SMILE but
before the day had gone far 1t became
apparent that he had another possess
sion, in the person Of charming young
woman who has just become Mrs Law.
renee.
He has been threatening to get mar
ried for several weeks, but his ac.
quaintanceS in the corridor only
laughed at him and thought him up tt
another of. the jokes which he is fonC
of perpetra ting. When he announced
that he had become benedict no one
believed him until search of the mar
riage licenses and the appearance Of
the young bride of few hours revealed
the proof positive.
The clerk assigned Captain Lawrence
to the room he had been occupying
whenever he came to Los Angeles, bu
some things that will do very well for 4
bachelor are out of the question for {
benedict and another apartment was
engaged.
Miss Maude Fair, native of Iowa
now of Los Angeles, became Mrs H
c. Lawrence.
Captain Lawrence is one of those mel
who make their money in any out O.
the way corner of the globe and theI
ft,Is .in.,
Gold mines in Utah were the particula
Golfers and now their owner is enjoy
ing life on a lemon ranch and inciden
| tally I'm Los Angeles
"I'm like the old penny that alwayt
| turns up" he said to a few familia
"cronies" in the Angelus corridor. Z"
can't stay away from the Angel city fo
very long at time"
| There was a gathering of the Irisl
in the corridor of the Alexandria las
night Kelly was there-leave the
out please, there was not any In
in the "ould" country and Mr.. Kell,
thinks he can get along quite wei
without it in America.
wherever there's Kellys there
Burks and Shays," so 1t was not lonl
before the rest of the Irish arrived.
| ; Mr. Kelly, who by the way, has
Charles r. u. in front of his surnam
and is connected with the Continenta
rubber works of Erie. Pa, and John
Hollands of the Griswald Alumnuu
company, We're the center of the group
1t was Mr.. Kellys first trip to South
ern California, though Mr.. Holland ha
not been so unfortunate. on the wa.
out the two. who were travelling com
panions, had some interesting expert
ences and they related what was per
haps the most startling of them.
'Would you believe il. we We're ar
rested i'm Kansas City" said Mr., Kelly
and he added question mark Every
body looked credulous so he went ON.
1T was all because we Were riding II
an automobile ON q boulevard" put il
Mr. Holland, and then some one wante,
to know where on earth you could rid
in AN automobile II you could not rid
on boulevard.
That's all very well in any othe
city In the world, but i'm Kansas CIT,
! It is different. I'll tell you how 1t hap
pened." and Mr., Kelly explained.
when we got into Kansas City j. r
Whitman, who is agent for the Pope
Toledo motor car. asked us to take
ride with him. lie wanted TO show II
! the boulevard system. which is one o