New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-16
ACTOR HOME; PUT IN JAIL
Crosses Continent Without Cash
Arrested on Wife's Charge.
MAKES JOURNEY ON A BET
Starts Without Money, but Elk
poets to Get Reward for Adver-
Using Panama Exposition.

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Using Panama Exposition.
Back again 70 home. sweet home" so
sang William Percy Denton-Cardew, an
actor. when he arrived in this city on
Thursday evening from San Francisco after
he had made the trip across the continent
on wager, and also az an advertisement
for the Panama Pacific Exposition. II was
a long trip and a hard one by reason oil
the terms Of the wager; and oh! how glad
Cardew was 10 get 20 Now York and see
his wife and children.
But he has not seen HIS wife sine. his
arrival IN town, and yesterday he changed
his song. for which he had written the
words and music, 70 read, Back Again 70
Ludlow street JAIL for within twenty
four hours after his happy homecoming he
vas tnkon there by deputy sheriff who
had arrested MIN IN a separation suit which
his wife had brough. on the ground OF
abandonment
The suit was great surprise 70 Cardev.
as Il was also TO his elder daughter. Mrs.
Dorothy Downs. and her husband. Richard
Downs. for although Mrs. Denton-Cardew
lives with them AT No. Ills Westchester
| avenue The Bronx. they knew nothing
| bout the action and greeted the happy
actor when he arrived here Thursday and
escorted him 70 a hotel. Mrs. Downs, ~
was said, was Frustrated by the turn OF
affairs
Arrested Outside City Hall.
The arrest OF Cardew took place as he
emerged from the City Hall. where he had
left with Mayor Gsynor's secretary an in
vttation from Mayor Mccarthy of Sar
Francisco asking Mayor Gaynor 70 visit
the Panama Pacific exposition, 70 he held
In 1915 Deputy Sheriff Mcdonnell arrested
Cardew on an order signed by Justice
| Gsvegan. OF the Supreme Court, and took
| him 70 the Sheriff's office where he was
unable TO give the $500 bond required He
was then taken 70 the Ludlow street Jail
| However. Cardew seemed 10 regard the
jail as good place TO rest, and jovially
remarked. We'll. I've got some cigars and
a deck of cards. 7 am the champion
pinochle PLAYER Of the Middle West, and
probably 1 will be able 70 get on a good
game"
across the country from San Francisco on
| April u last. It came about this way; He
had just returned from a vaudeville tour
Of California. While talking with some
friends at the Continental Hotel, in San
Francisco. he voiced his dissatisfaction
with the profession in general and said
that he would like 70 undertake trip afoot
70 New York. Frank Stanley. manager OF
D rtar Car
dew sing his way across the continent.
That sounded good 70 the actor ana ne
asked Stanley for his terms. They were
! that Cardew must not beg, borrow or steal
10 pay his way; he could accept engage
ments en- route. but must not seek any.
He also could accept transportation. but
must start OFF without any money. shan
ley offered TO wager $500 that Cardew
could not make the trip under those condi-
tons Cardew got Lew Dockstader, the
| minstrel 20 take the other end of the bet,
and ne started out on what was also 10
be an advertisement for the exposition. II
has proved that.
Three DAYS later Cardew began his walk
with a letter from Governor Johnson OF
i California certifying 10 the time OF MS
/ departure. The singer exhibited the letter
yesterday, with the added signatures Oh
the Governors OF ten states in when ne
| stopped on his trip. Part OF the way Car
dew sang with Dockstader's minstrel com
pany and in other places he sang his own
song, landing California, which he wrote
! himself and which was entitled The Land
! Of the Golden West" With the song ne
showed some lantern slides Of the exposi-
ton
Notified Wife Hs Was Coming.
Cardew sent telegram from Albany 10
MS wife. telling her the glad news mat No
would soon again De with her. They hah
not seen each other for twelve years, ahd
| IN the meantime he had been 70 Australia
\ and abe had brought a suit for separation.
charging desertion Soon after he left New
York a second daughter was born.
/ To show ,ust how much OF a surprise mis-
arrest was Yesterday Cardew told or let
ter he wrote his wife when he reached
| Cleveland on his trip eastward The letter
| told her when ia would reach New YORK
and was signed Your sffectionate nus
! hand" Downs his son-in-law, also tolh
what a surprise II all was 10 him and 70 ms
wife They had thought that everything
was harmonious In the family. Mrs. Car
dsw was Miss Annie +. Hill Her father
was Commodore ]. J. Hill. formerly mem
her OF the New Jersey Senate and police
commissioner OF Newark. Mrs. Carde"
said IN her complaint that her husband was
| 10 receive $500 for his trip across the con-
| tinent
| She said she asked for the order OF ar
rest because he was a nonresident ana
would again leave the city. AS for getting
| ,h. 20 100 Cardew was not so sure OF It.