New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-15


Of his he would be a sight The smooth mug and the
pop eyes and the bat bad enough and when you
combine them with his tourist clothes and the rough
AMI ready you don have any trouble IN pick
in him out of a crowd.
Do little things like that bar him from mngln with
the Twombey- Crane push, though? | don't know
how he stands on the other side; but here he
circulates with settlers free If his title
dated back to Billy the Con, instead of havn been
handed out at the last Jubilee. And it amt Just
because he's so rol,n in wealth, either, though they
say he gets income like beef baron. They seem
to think he's cunnin
''Of course says Pinckney, hes an odd genius,
always doing the unconventional, you know; but he's
a good sport. He has been everywhere and done
everything from shooting things in India to racing
ponies in Buenos Ayres And he inherited the tablet
business, you know, from an uncle
That helps some don't it? says |. But what's
his latest stunt that hits you SO humorous?"
AND you never know what's going to amuse
that set. | couldn't see anything so comic in
it. Seems that while Sir Beasey was down to Palm
Beach last March he meets an unlno yn that he
takes great fancy to- Shes a Mrs. Montgomery
Baobs, widow lady-Nevada or otherwise, he don't
quite know which. Shes mysterious in her
movements appearn' only and then at the Casino
and hotel concerts, but not exactly mingn with any
particular bunch. Then all of a sudden, Just he
gettn good and int rested she does the vanishing
act.
Well that had Sir Beasley goin' for fair He organ
lies drag-net hunt for the mysterious Mrs. Mont
gomery BabbS. He tries to pump the hotel people;
but they claim they don't know thing, only that she
station.
Sir Beasley rushes off to Hot Springs on a false scent
then Cape May, and nlly lands back in New York
to watch tle steamer sailings Meanwhile he holds up
everyone he has a spealln acquaintance with and asks
EN- if they happen to know such party. And nobody
does never heard of her
From Sir Beasley's description she's Al charmer.
Not that she claims she's any Maxine Elliott far
looks go. It's the cute way she has with her that
pleases him. her snappy brand of conversation and the
general classiness of her get-up He can't understand
why such really smart party as that shouldn't be
all the visitn lists of his friends here unless happens
that she's of the American colony in Paris and
don't often.
Why. he had all his crowd stirred up aSkn each
other who she could be; and then day what does
he do but with a whoop that he's found her
Yes sir, right here in New York! He gets glimpse
of her sailin down Fifth-ave. in a swell brougham,
chases her a taxi, follows her into jewry shop, and
discovers that she's been lvin here all along. What
do they know about that eh?
Well, they kind of smiles and says there amt any
answer. They explain to each other how Sir Beasley
is such an original character; besides, he
seen to understand that New York society is really
very exclusive, after all. So when he springs his
luncheon invitation EN- they just indulge in another
smile Still, Sir Beasley don't get wise. They don't
know Mrs. Montgomery Babbs, eh? Well, it's about