Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-18
NEWS OF GRAVE AND GAY EVENTS
In AND ABOUT NEW YORK CITY

tied, but no one was willing to speak
with authority.
Miss Barrymore was said, at her
home in Park avenue. to be out of
town and a profound ignorance as to
her whereabouts was all that question
ing could elicit from the maid in
charge. II Is known that she was at
Windsor. VT, early last week. At the
same time a figure not at all unlike
that Of Miss Barrymore lowered at the
end of the darkcned hall and listened to
the questioning Of the maid. Mr..
Lawford hurrledly left the Empire
theater after his final appearance in
Peter Pan" Saturday night and in
quiries as 10 his whereabouts at the
Herald Square hotel were met with
singular and battling ignorance.
It was announced last week that the
engagement Of Miss Barrymore and
Capt. Graham of England had been
broken.
Real (Estate) Ghost
Up in the Bronx they are seeing
ghosts. According to respectable and
highly veracious citizens living in the
vicinity of one Hundred and Eighty
fourth street and Grand boulevard his
Nibs parades nightly much to the dis
comfort of the timld Policemen have
been instructed to watch for the specter
and to shoot it If necessary to lay 1t.
Real estate men, however, are laughing.
They say this ghost" business is one
of the newest and most novel schemes
invoked to obtain desirable property.
During the past two years, they say,
many odd schemes have been employed
by keen witted spectators to knock"
property they desired to buy. Alarmed
by some of the stories circulated timid
ntu no netp tn m ri w
holdings, and this ghost" is said to be
the latest scheme placed in operation by
some person who covets the house in
front of which the "specter" is in
variably seen.
Trust Bid Too Low for Hippodrome
A positive denial is made of the story
to the effect that the theatrical syndi-
cate maintained by Klaw e. Erlanger
had secured the Hippodrome and would
manage it next season. A personal
friend of John w. Gates, after an in
terview with the latter, made a state
ment that the big show house had
been bid for by Klaw e. Erlanger, but
that their offer had been turned down
as ridiculous" According to this man,
the firm of Klaw & Erlanger will have
absolutely nothing to do with the Hip
podrome.
Women Admire One Cop
In the past few months mounted
policeman stationed in the vicinity of
Park row and Ann street has been the
observed of all observers. AS silent.
as imposing, as immobile as a bronze
equestrian statue, he sits upon his
chestnut mare looking, as rule,
neither to the right nor left. This pose
may or may not be a challenge to the
thousands of young women who pass
him at the noon hour; but in any event
they have so read it, and the wiles they
practice to drag him from his aloofness
are deep. Feeding the steed with buns
was long ago discarded, but the silent
one has been known to blush under
concentrated giggling. However, all
this is beside the point. There was
jam in Nassau street today at noon
and not little excitement. Two driv-
ers were swearing at each other with
all the fluency of their kind. plainly
lashing themselves to the point of fist
icuffs, while the drivers Of other We
hicles crowded close and acted in ac-
cordance with their temperament. The
result was general confusion and block
ade. Another result was that the equeS-
trian figure came to life, sort of
male Galatea. A clatter of hoofs re-
sounded through Nassau street and in
trucks, pushing one horse here, draw
ing another horse there, adjurng driv-
ers in the language of field marshal.
And when traffic was resumed the
mounted policeman, stern, taciturn, i'm
mobile once more, returned to his post
And the group of admiring young
women turned one to the other. "Ain't
he just grand?" they said.
Hopes to Fool Doctors
Franklin Murphy, the famous Irish
athlete. who has been denied admission
into this Land of the Free because GER
tain doctors said he would be a dead
man in two years. was hot under the
collar today. Vaulting over a five-foot
fence on Ellis island directly after he
was told he would have to return to
Ireland he said with snort of disgust:
iii bet there isn't one of those doc