Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-22

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gave a hurried order to drive to s wash.
ington square,, North, and they we're off
The cab Mrs. Astor had taken went
down Fifth avenue. across Union square
and down University place to washing.
ton square. There, in front of the resi-
dence Of Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin 8. GUM
ness, where Mrs. Aston, were the photog-
raphers lined up once more. They had pre-
coded her in taxis and the subway.
Instead of alighting, Mrs. Aston had
her maid tell the cabman to drive
around to the back Of the house. The
photographers ran around and took up
positions there in the alley. Frustrated
again, Mrs. Aston gave instruction to be
driven uptown.
The cab continued on to the end Of the
alley to University place, turned north.
went as far as Fourteenth street and
then west to Fifth avenue. Here the
cab-driver was ordered 70 go to the Wal
dorf.
Upon reaching the hotel Mrs. Astor
and her maid got out at the Thirty
third street entrance and the maid paid
for the cab. While she was doing so Mrs.
Astor stepped into an automobile
brougham and started back for Wash
ington square al when she arrived
at the Guinness house she remained in
the cab several minutes, sitting we'll in
a corner where a cam5ra could not be
leveled at her. Several we're still poised
for action. Finally the door of the house
opened, the butler came out, opened the
cab door and Mrs. Astor almost ran up
the high stone steps. Her dress had
caught in the cab door, but she pulled II
loose. She had a book in her hand and
shielded her face with it. The door was
slammed behind her.
John Mccormack, the Irish tenor, who
made his debut at the Manhattan Opera
house recently, has already become a great
f~avorite with his fellow countrymen in
New York, reports the Tribune. Arthur
Hammerstein says that he was being
shaved the other day by an italian whom
he often pRtronizes and who is a great
partisan Of Enrico Caruso. Il asked the
barber" said Mr.. Hammerstein, what he
thought of Mccormack. He's a fine
singer, but he's not in Caruso's class re-
piled the tonsorlal artist, whereupon a
man who had been waiting to be shaved
jumped up and in a brogue as broad as
the East river retorted that the Italian
didn't know what he was talking about.
Though Mr.. Mccormack is one of my
fathers chief artists, didn't want a.
fight, as l like the barber and the Irish
man looked as II he could whip the whole
shop, so l suggested that the two tenors
were Of different type, Mccormack being
a lyric and Caruso a dramatic tenor. At
this the son of the Emerald Isle roared
out, 1 don't care what kind of a tenor
Johnny Mccormack is. 1 know he can
sing like hellr"
Timothy ]. Donohue, the Oldest inspector
OF customs in New York City, is credited
ny MS FELLOWS with possessing a nose
which can smell concealed diamonds and
other Jewels six feet away. "Old Tim q" az
ne Is known, has more seizures Of that sort
70 MS credit on the records OF the customs
mouse than any other inspector employsd
there. His duty is to wander aimlessly
ABOUT the steamship piers and 'frisk'' in
coming passengers, relates the Press. MANY
persons may not know what 'frisk" means
In customs house parlance. 1t is the art NJ
stumbling or brushing against a person 90
skllltnlly that the inspector can rub his
hahds over the pockets and person of the
suspect ana ascertain whether he has
smuSgied goods concealed in his clothes,
ana at the same time prevent the susnac,
knowing what he is doing.
In the thiryt-five years or lopSer thu,
Donohue has been at it on the New yorL
piers he has "frisked" thousands of Amer
leans and foreigners after thew bsya
landed and are awaiting to get their Ipp-
gage through the hands Of the other in
sPectors' If any incoming passenger stand
ing on a transatlantic line pier sees
snort stout gray-haited, gray-mustached
man quietly dressed, Carrying a cheap UNI
Dreila ueo IN the middle with a string and
stumbling about as II fresh from the back
WOODS ana looking for someone whom he
cannot find, that is "Old Tim" Donohue
In his eager quest he bumps against every
body; seizes overcoats by the pockets. rubs
his hands up and down passengers as he
trips over baggage. acts half soused. never
apologies and keeps right on. After the
inspectors are through with a passenger
whom he suspects he steps up and invites
him to go to the office TO be searched. II
is not often his suspicious are misdirected.
owing to the increasing popularity of
hotel weddings, some of the big New York
hotels are considering the advisabiity of
erecting small chapels to meet the demand
II is said that several OF the Fifth avenue
hotels Will announce before long that chap
els may be had for weddings, the same as
aAAA bbhAh ~ z LOT hOClGi events.
The nearest approach TO a chapel in any
hotel is at the Waldorf-Astoria, which.
with newly acquired fittings especially FOR
wedding ceremonies, will turn a room like
the Aston gallery into a chapel. Fifty
weddings are booked already at the Wal
dorf-Astoria for this season, and the fad
Is on the increase.
Weddings are also being booked upon a
large scale at the Plaza, the st. Regis and
the Gotham, where arrangements are now
being effected to turn any sort Of a room
into a chapel.
Many Of the chapel fittings at the Wal
dorf were used for the first time on No
vsmber IT, at the wedding OF Miss Made
line Teresa Kuser and Bentley II. Pope.
All the decorations were ecclesiastical.
the seats arranged in pew fashion and
there was an altar. Even the lights were
regulated to shed a dim churchlike glow.
and hidden chimes peaied until a few mo-
ments before the
watch for a Squeeze.
Philadelphia Record.