The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-01
STAR POLISHERS' PILGRIMAGE
FRYARS AT BELWAR MAKE THE
BISHOPS LAW BLUSH.
Men VINO Keep the Players In the Public
Eye, Their Friends. a s"rrel Marc and
an Accommodating Constable Have a
Memorable Day In various Jersey Parts.

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Down where the bar il located in the
hold of the good ship Sandy Hook, flagship
Of the Jersey Centrais feet. filed about 100
Friars and their guests late Saturday after
noon on their way to Belmar. y. j.. for tie
Friars' first annual holy pilgrimage. Last
might all the club and Stuhy Davis beat 1t
homeNard toward Broadway after spend
ipp a solemn Sunday Of clambakinR, near
baseball and things, and as they headed back
again toward the tall buildings they left
behind the so-called Bishops law of Jersey
torn into p thousand ~frazzles and screarr-
ing for help. The Jersey blue laws had
been Owed a bright crimson and there was
no need for lighthouses AZ any point along
the coast where the Friars had touched.
The active members OF the organization.
I, might he explained. are all persuasive
Young me who fight day and night, with
,vpewriting machines and sandbags as
,sespons, 10 keep bright the lustre Of a
s,age star after X. h f., or KIP. Bostock.
Lee Schubert. Fred Thompson or Charley
Rlsney has once started the star a Tying
across the dramatic sky. They work
while you sleep stealing necklaces from
Maude Fulton or announcing the engage
ment Of Ethel Barrymore TO the King OF
Sian They-well. they're press agents.
They took along all the dramatic critics
of town, too, for fear that some friar would
misc the boat and work the dramatic re-
porters for a bit of space during their
absence Also there were Marcus Mayer.
The first agent ever known TO wear a fur
lined coat. Paul Armstrong. the playwright;
81 Goodfriend. dean Of the profession and
the man who invented the lost diamonds
warn hack in the days when Lydia Tbomp-
son had 'em going in the Black Crook;
Mason Peters of Plattsburg. Mo; Hy Mayer,
Warden Wood and George McManus. rep
resenting the very fine arts; an express
wagon and a sorrel mare named Gertrude,
10 haul the kegs up and down h beach
from spot 10 spot as the plot shifted: Dram
rner critics Stufy Davis. Charley Henery
Payne, Hartley Davis. Bill Aulick and Rem
Wolf: Impressario Ray Comstock. Jack
Hammond, who keeps the New York Central
road in the public eye or out of it, as cir
cnmstances require. and almost everybody
else who is well enough acquainted to find
his way from Herald Square to Forty
second steet without having to ask ques-
tions OF the cops.
me OOllIntlId TOltl az ptItIIdI has a
license 10 sell only solid food on Sunday,
hut right on the front stoNp all the time
was Gertrude the sorrel mare I'M her load.
Saturday night and the Friars hit the hotel
simultaneously. The pilgrims were soused,
IA il had been raining on the wAy down TO
the hotel from the station. When President
Wells Hawks had seen that each Friar
had lot a room why they en- ga ged rooms
no one will ever know-Gawge the head
waiter announced that Dime was ready
in the ballroom, whereupon Stuny Davis
led the way ont 10 the stoop and Gertrude.
All around Gertrude's load they clustered.
and while the soup grew cold within the
pilgrims waited outside, each Vying with
his brother TO he the first man to welcome
the sun when il should sizzle out OF the
sea. Stories differ as to what happened
after this. Young Mr.. Lip keene stated as
positively az possible on the way home
last night that there was a big dinner some
place during the evening and that the fol-
lowing officers were elected for the com
ing year: President. Wells Hawks: vice.
president. Charles Emerson Cook; John W.
Rumsey. treasurer; Phil Mindil. correspond
ing secretary. and Frank j. Wilstach. re-
cording secretary: and that the old board
of governors was reelected plus Marcus
Mayer.
So naturally the only thing to do after
night fell in earnest, about 3 A. NJ, was to
go in bathing. II the pilgrims had waited
until dawn they wouldn't have been able
10 take a swim. Not one of them remem-
hered to bring along a bathing sIif, and the
Jersey bathing regulations are a bit Puri-
tanlcal.
N is said on good authority that at this
dinner and election during the night Wells
Hawks presided and that Paul Armstrong
made a speech that was sure one grand
effort. And then somebody got up twenty
Or N0.@ Ga lE@. f0-
and toothpicks, and things were followed
out along these lines in a general way so
that everybody would be sure to be on hand
promptly when the time came to go over TO
some other place and call on Looie James.
This place where Looie, lives il a long
walk from this other place that WAS the
starting point. Gertrude, the sorrel mare.
led the procession, and as il got under way
Constable Jim Hardness Of Belmar pinned
on his star and decided to 90 along too, to
see that there was no accidental breaking
of the law. From that moment until the
Friars started hack to Manhattan on
stable Jim occupied a good seat right back
Of Gertrude.
Looie James tried to get more than 100
visitors into his little cottage, hut it was
soon seen that two bodies of matter can
not occupy the same place at the same
time. Wherefore Iooie, aided by his wife,
who is known to theatregoers az Aphie
James served II out on the lawn. As an
immense loving cup. sizzling with cham
payne, was passed around among the big
noises of the hand, Constable Jim Hardness
kept his eagle eye peeled for law breaking.
IL Looie James attempted TO collect any
money from a Friar in return for a sip at
the loving cup Constable Jim said he would
be compelled to step right in and place
Iooie under arrest unless Looie could pro-
duce a license. As the host had no license
he made no charge.
Finally Constable Jim. who was now
holding the reins. said "Geet-ap" to Ger
trude and everybody started for some
other place. For a long time the pilgrims
marched in a straight line, chanting as
they walked. and at last they came to the
Atlantic Ocean, and SO they all marched
some other way. Billy Semple suggested
that as long as Wallace Munro. press agent
for Looie James. had got them TO call on
his star, what was the matter with heading
for New Rochelle next to call on Eddie
Foy, who il Billy Semple's star?
Then Jimmie Pooton. who When he
became a press agent after a long service as
secretary 10 Ward McAllister naturally
selected John Drew for his star Jimmie
said that the pilgrims ought TO head toward
the Ansonia next, back to Manhattan. and
call on Mr.. Drew. There was a long argu-
ment al a spot whore one road that led
20 some spot crossed another road that
led some place else. George Sammis. who
manages The Orchid, sided with Billy