Arizona republican., 1911-09-07
A BROADWAY STORY
Once Upon a Time Duke" Clarence Brown Used to Light Cigars With $ Bills and Receive Champagne Sham poos from Actresses-Now He Is Raising Chickens in New Jersey and He's Happy.

The last place any one would cX- pect to find Duke" Brown of Broad way-Clarence Brown, the spendthrift son of the late Commodore Brown. millionaire yachtman. is Sussex, x. J. For Mir Browns career and love af- fairs on the Great White Way dur ing the sos. with a breach of prom ise suit by the beautiful Fannie Ward made his name known on both sides of the Atlantic. But now he is in the little Jersey town with his three little girls and his pretty wife raising white Leghorns and shipping eggs to the market.
 In fact the evolution of the once famous sportsman into a successful farmer living. as he says. high and dry on the spring water wagon" will be a surprise to all the old Broadway crowd who once made the street merry at his expense; for in all the history of New York "Johnnies' no one has yet ever beat the pace for lavishness and generosity set by Duke Brown.
 He was dubbed the Duke If Broadway" one night at a gay sup per party by Nina Harrington, then playing in The Duke of the Chap pies" Mir Brown wanted to light a cigar and he used a five-dollar bill as a taper. So impressed was Miss Harrington that, pouring a glass of champagne over his head, she dubbed him the Duke of Broadway" and the name always stuck.
 It was at this same dinner that he met Fannie Ward. After courtshlp of three years. she sued him for $lOO.- 900 for breach of promise and her mother asked $5O,OOO more on the ground that he had deprived her ot her daughters support in causing her to cancel theatrical engagements. me suits were never tried.
 He hasn't forgotten it, he says; ne wouldn't change anything if he had 1t all to do over again, for to quote the man who has evolved a sort of Broad way philosophy of his own: It LOOK me fifteen years to learn the empu- ness of bubbles and Broadway, and those fifteen years I have put out at compound interest in experience, ana expect 'em to work for me the rest of my life Even Broadway, as bad as it is. did me a good turn when | sickened of it You see, Bohemia IS all right if a man makes It an cpl sode instead of the whole thing. l was Iuckv-a hundred to one shot m the human race. l beat 1t Tn the mex of time. when most men would be out of commission now, and in the dreSs of Broadway I have had enough "l Broadway and Bohemia to last me ull kingdom come But I cannot say l regret any of the experience.
 "See these kiddies? Well. there IS nothing on earth like kiddies. They make man wake up with start to the real value of living. And say you know having little girls of your own makes q man feel differently about all women. I want these three httle girls of mine to grow up to kno" there is only one kind of woman good women
 So interested has Mir. Brown be- come in the egg industry that he per sonallv packs every egg that he shlps and each day lets the chickens in and ont of their runs. 'I went up to New York for three days last week and, by love. I wanted to get back next day. I thought of that egg packing and | hated to leave 1t to anyone else to do and. besides. these kiddies and wife seemed long way off. was mighty glad to get back home. - New York American.
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