The Washington herald., 1918-11-26
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Special Correspondent OF The Washington Herald.
New York. Nov. 25.-Consider the
case of John Holub, a butler. For
several years Holub was master of
tormallties in the homes of the rich.
lie received guests of his masters
and as he passed the cocktails he
heard of big affairs.
And then Holub had a golden dream
and walked down the primrose path
TO Sing Sing, where he sits now in an
iron cell. Holub, living among the
rlch' saw money spent like water. ex-
NdSahce running riot, and he saw
that many of the rich men easily
evaded the law in their big plans.
90 ne dofed his buffers clothes and
began free lance Croesus campaign
IN IN New York. He first got hold of
WV from maid in the employ of
the same household.
Iheh he Openeu up an Office in the
lhlrty-fourth street district and ad-
Nertlsed for wives, next for business
opportunities, young girls to appear in
the movies-all with the idea of get
tlhg the prospects money. To the
women he made violent love and he
generally got the money. 'Tis a mad,
I mad world. my masters.
Inc former butler was an ignoram-
US and bungler yet his victims
! were women of some degree of posi-
/ tion and education. Most of them
were presumably versed in the ways
OF the world. One of his bits of prey
was mirable diCtu.-a woman novelist
or considerable reputa tion for her
knowledge of human character and
motives
He wrote letters to big men Just to
eet replies, which he skilfully used.
lie sent himself kilograms summon
ing him to Washington on urgent
business. To these he signed the
names of Senator Calder, f. H. Gary
ana others He had amorets estab-
hshed in expensive apartments in all
OF the exclusive sections. Most Of
them he had robbed and was keeping
( them with their own money.
flnally the crash came Holub
skipped, but was ceught in the South
and brought back, and in court his
! golden dream faded into the blank
ness of prison cell.
-Four new and hitherto unknown
playwrights broke into the Broad
way limcliEht this season with plays
on Broadway. Roland West was a
! writer of vaudeville sketches until
he saw a headline in a newspaper
I that gave him the idea for ne
Unknown Purple" John L. Hobble
wrote fourteen plays that were re-
( jected. His fifteenth "Daddies" is a
| hit. John Hunter Booth was a stage
' n 1,a
! Smiling" Frank Bacon was a char
acter actor. His play 'Lightnin'" is
/ ono of the hits Cf the year.
j Fd" Dudley has suggested the
bt st job yet for the Kaiser. At the
I Friars the other day Dudley broke
! up a good pinochIe game with the
suggestion that he tic the little
strings on the almanacs that arc
used to hang them on nails. He
/ thought it up right out of his own
/ head.
/ At this late day the peace ceIe-
/ orators are stiII on the job At one
cafe in the Forties they had to come
, tn" other day and take three vic
! tory enthusiasts to a Filbert Farm
until their nerves grow less jumpy.
The tahl" d'hotes still have a few OF
the h"Id-overs of the happy day
, when peace was declared. Many
men lost their Jobs over too much
celebration. Employers did not
mind a few davs laying off. but
when it stretched into a week or so
they cracked under tho strain and
! got new men to fiji the places.
Every body is getting ready to
max" a trip across the pond. The
rich man. poor man. heggar man and
Of course the thief are arranging
their affairs to get over as snun as
3 possible. At the Press Club the
! other night-ther" were twenty-five
, NE" at dinner table. All of them
expect to go across inside of a
month.