The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-21
'DELMAS GOT S25,OO0
ronrUrH1NG OF THE COST OF THE
 TFHAw TRIAL.
Inonxest Tn Fate Of PittsburE hus teuaonafrs Was. Unprecedenfeo' whaf New YoFk Pays An
 nxally for Amusements.

Ner Yprk. April 2o.-(speciaD-Now that the Thaw case 3s all over TOT tnS time being 1t is known that the pria. did not cost the Thaws as mucn ssost every one had been led to believe ft would. This does not nea" '""s they got on light.
 The public has been told that one oi the i've lawyers for the delense. oe phin M. Delmas. was to get Tee ol Sfoo, coo Some folks thought this was an exaggeration and cut the figures ,n half but no one dreamed that he wouid take the case for less than sbo.oo0. develops now that he got only s25.ooo. But with the Delmas fee reduced 10 this amount the arial would propaoiy cost In all about $275.o00. of which tne Thaw family probably paid apout si7b. .ooo The four lawyers, who aided Mr. pelmas, will not get less than s15,o0o each. and some of them VIII ask for more.
 Before these lawyers were hired s25. 900 had been paid to the hrm or Black. Olcott, Bonynge & Gruber wno insisted upon a straight plea of insan- fty and would not proceed with me case with any other defense. The de- fence had the benefit of the services of eight medical experts at the trial and these men charge very high fees. Then there was the hiring of detec- tives and the immense amount Of out side work to be done, all of which was very expensive
 while the Thaw jury was out the telephones in the newspaper offices were kept busy. In one office alone, ana 1t is by no means . popular news paper, 2,000 requests for Information were received. The Beekman telephone exchange, which handles the bulk of the newspaper business. reports that the number of newspaper calls xceed- ~ nrAvtnng ever held in this city. Strange to say, most of those who wanted 10 know Thaw's fate were women. The number was almost as large as when President Mckinley lay dying at Buffalo.
 The Theatrical Season.
 The theatrical season just closing has had many more successes than failures and above all, from the box ofiice standpoint, it has been profit able. ..
 There were sixty places of amuse- ment open in New York throughout the season and at every place an aver axe of eight performances a week were given. That would total PAS performan- ces in the week. Although n dozen of these might run up to over $1,000 performance, the remainder would not average that. If the grand average was struck at $6,oo0 a week. it would give a total of s1s6,ooo, which, calcu- lated for season of forty weeks, would give the comfortable total of money spent on drama in New York or one year sT44o,ooo.
 Where the Money Goes.
 u ts estimated that about half of the city's theatrical receipts goes to the landlords of the theatres. It may be said that they are the only sure winners fin the business. No matter whether or not an attraction succeeds they get their money just the same. And they get high rents, too, for the demand for a so-called metropolitan run for every attraction is so great that even the dingiest and smallest theatres are always rented.
 Between the landlord and the per- formers stands the house manager. His Income, of course, must come out of the difference between what he gets and what he has to give up. Nearly all the house managers make a good profit because they will not take . doubtful show without a guarantee The expense of the house manager Is about S1,000 a week, including light heat, stan and orchestra The produc- ing manager, oftentimes does not fare so we'll except when he has a big suc- cess. Then of course the money is coming in both ways.
 With the landlord and the house manager out of the way the rest of the money is cut several ways with the bulk of it going to the producing manager