The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-06
Private Taken for an Officer
How Chape Holmes Masusraded as an Officer in San Francisco

the racing situation on the Pacific
coast. Williams was introduced to the
Chappie. who went by his own name Of
Holmes.
Other members of the Bohemian
club drifted along and there were
all around introductions. They We're
full of talk about the jinks at the
Bohemian club that night. Chevalier
was to be one of the guests.
Before separating at the Palace
hotel bar Tom Williams extended &
cordial invitation to Chappie Holmes
TO be one of his guests at the jinks.
Holmes, conscience stricken. tried TO
decline the invitation on the ground
that his full dress uniform was out
of killer, but Williams would have
none Of that and begged him TO at
tend the jinks in the uniform he then
were.
The Chappie made a start toward ex-
posing the way the thing stood with
him, but all hands We're talking at
once, and they didn't hear him and So
he abandoned the idea of showing him.
self up. He took dinner with Chevalier
at the Palace, and at IL o'clock that
night Chevalier picked him UP at the
Palace in his carriage and they went
to the Bohemian club for the jinks.
hemian jinks that night. Nat Good
win was there and did a lot of
stunts. Maurice Barrymore was there,
too, and told a new bunch of yarns. A
lot Of clever people not in professional
life contributed to the doings. The AL
bert Chevalier. the guest of the even
ing. got away with his coster stunts.
Along toward the wind up Tom
Williams, suddenly espying Chappie
Holmes at the end of the table, got up
and asked him 10 start something-teli
yarn. sing a song. whistle a tune.
stand on his head, turn fiipfap-any-
thing
The Chappie got up, dapper and fin
ished, and proceeded to give an imita-
ton OF Albert Chevalier singing coster
songs. He sang knocked En- in the
Old Kent Road" and ''Old Dutch with
such faithfulness to his model that
when he had finished the first song
Chevalier, amazed and yet pleased, ran
around from his place at the table and
grasped the Cbapie by the hand and
shook il enthusiastically, while all
hands shouted approval
Then, in response to the demand for
more stuff, the Chappie gave an imita-
ton of Lord Salisbury playing whist.
Lord Salisbury was a notoriously gruff
individual in a game of whist, and the
Chappie's portrayal of the then prime
minister's austere grouchiness and his
keenly sarcastic remarks to his part
ners in the whist game brought down
the club.
Then the Chappie gave limitations of
Irving. John Hare, Sir Charles Wynd-
ham and finally Mr.. and Mrs. Kendall
particularly Mrs. Kendal-that con-
vulsed tho crowd. The Chappie had
more than made good. He hadn't taken
any dust, in the matter Of enthusiastic
applause, from any Of the profession
ais present
And while all this was going on the
captain of Chappie Holmes Alcatraz
battery of heavy artillery sat at the
far end Of the main table, although the
Chappie didn't know that till later. The
captain. guest of the club, had reeog-
nized the Chappie the minute he
clapped eye upon him. But he was no
prig. and so he kept his peace.
In a uniform borrowed from a heavy
artilleryman at the Preside Chappie
got back to Alcatraz on the following
morning. That afternoon he sat down
and wrote letter to Chevalier and one
to Tom Williams, in which he told
them all about II.
peared at Alcatraz to visit the Chappie
on the following day. and for the re-
mainder of his fortnight's stay in San
Francisco Chevalier gave the Chappie
the time of his life. Tom Williams was
equally big, as distinguished from lit
tie in view of the situation. The Chap
pie, I'm multi, and all hands of the club
knowing all about it. shared in sew
erai of the links at the Bohemian club
before. upon the outbreak of the Span
ish war, he went to his death in far