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played Tom Blossom. Aunt Louisa IL
bridge. Georgia Cayvan and Joseph
Wheelock were in the COMPANY. Can
you complete the cast? A.. ID. l..
MAY Blossom, or Two Loves was
lasco at the Madison square Theatre on
Easter eve. April IL. 1884. The cast:
May Blossom. ...........G Georgia Cayvan
Tom Blossom. ......... BENJAMIN Magnify
Richard Ashcroft....... Walden Ramsay
Uncle Bartlett. .........W J, lie Moync
owen athamsy .Th9mss Whinen
yank. ....'....... Master Toinny Russell
I Is hor,b MIR, r,o, ;a,'' ws, Me-,
Hank blnster. KING ltrii'N
Hiram sloane. Joseph Ffdnk'u
f.ph. - J. LONG
Millic. Eita hnMkins
The shove is taken from +. Allstou
Browns "a History Of the New York
Stage (Dodd, Mead l903b Volume H.,
page 4:o. hut he Wolf Hopper did act
in MAY ErosSosr," lie writes:
81 took Tom whiGcn's place. His
part was called oven Hdih.trdy. |
played it all summer. | should think
II WAS ln' summer III - 'T 80.
The summer Of 1854. by the record.
In the Down Town Association there
II "a Autograph entitled "caloric Ship,
Ericsson. Buithcn. 2.2OO tons Built 10y
Jchn Is. kitching and associates. A.. Il.
Lowber, commander There IS no date.
The ship represented is brig rugged.
with a clipper bow, II has four very
small smokestacks, placed two forwIri
and two aft OF the paddle boxes. This
il evidently the vessel that your CORE
spondent referred to. The lithogTpph
gives other details of the dimensions Of
the vessel, but does not describe tho eu-
cincs. except 90 say that the diameter vf
the cylinders is los inches.
GHEWArpr DAVIS.
In reply Co the query 81 Nrchcr
Thornton IN regard to tho caloric vcs-
sol Ericsson. | would beg 80 state that
she was a brig risged paddi. vessel,
80 feet between porpendIculars, 40
foot beam. and registered 9.2uu tons.
The Ericsson WIS launched from the
yard of Pcrr!u., Patterson n StdgS,
Williamsburg. New York. In Seu'pm-
her, 1852. Her %caloric engines had tour
cylinders. each les inches in diameter.
and were built by iIogg 4 polamrt,r.
| New York. The Ericsson had a trial
Niip al '1HH''N' i''"' WV - 'I''N -
ten and 4 half miles an o and a
horsepower OF 600 was claimed.
\ voyage from New York u Alex
andria, Va. took place In March OF the
same year and was hailed Is H .
plete success. hut a paragraph In the
Illustrated Nctcs CNew York; oC April.
1853, says:
ut Is rumore that the Ericsson NH
have a few improvements made In her
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don 10 he despatched 70 Australia
TOWNSEND BUcNLEY.
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The figure of "A civil war soldier
called the Monument I'm the CrnCk'
stands in the Bronx River just south
Of Gun Hill road. II can easily b.
seen from the trolley cars which pass
over the river on an old plank bridge
at this point. When last saw the
statue Il rested In shallow water, It's
pase 'o,,m.'s nv, n"% ,S.."u Nv T,,'
which docs not anpe,r IN no very l4rre
faces to ths west and Is upright. a fact
which casts some doubt ON us being
"'o"" INV
A SAYS that there IS a criminal cour,
of appeals in England. som" Tim" ago
,herr "i,pe"'eu )" u o .
ranIorod he tive lnwcr conn, snrtanrire
a person to death. The item. after re-
citing the case, stated mat the criminal
.out. "ruo n,L .It,I,.I w.
PENDANT insane. but admitted h" com,
niitted the deed. Recently TIE So
stated 'na' OF ''re' '''rnIah7 ,rl'" anu
.o,nnar, Cos ,;fo .rd . thirJ Ia ao.,h
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