The sun., 1919-01-29

doubly remarkable inasmuch as my hus-
band had 10 keep the subject covered
with his Winchester rife all the time he
was painting It,"
What callbre gun Clivette had to use
to defend himself after the chief saw the
finished product never was learned b,
the visitors. although Oscar Cesare did
put pointed question TO that effect. BY
this time madame was leading the way
down to the coal cellar Soul Light
Shrine" She paused in the curio shop
only long enough to call attention to
nineteen framed PENCIL sketches, all
original drawings by Leonardo Da vinci
and Sir Anthony Van Dyck." she said,
which Clivette would sell "for $500
for the lot" or a single original Da
Ninci or Van Dyck at a knockdown price
&2,90e less than Clivette charged for an
an undisputed original Clivette. But II
should be remembered that the Clivette
gems were hand painted and much
larger.
by the "souI Light shrine.-
Here we have the world famous Soul
Light Shrine" (Mme. Clivette speaking.
everybody now being in tho whitewashed
coal cellar under the sidewalk. Still
pointing. madame kmpressively indicated
big painting Of something or other.
which might certainly have been taken
for another original Clivette IL madame
hadn't explained that the picture was
painted sixty or seventy years ago. ac-
cordng TO the great authorities Of Eu-
rope"
You sec those holes up there p asked
madame. as again she pointed TO two
or three coal hole vault lights, which
Int yrfA ~
South Brooklyn vault light factory
Those were slave holes. In the olden
days the slaves were dropped down
through those holes and kept In bond
age in this very cellar. See those chairs
fastened to ancient staples in the walls, :"
cried madame, as she touched the links
OF metal which to-day curiously are on
sale at Hammacher, Bailey. Banks. Bid
die Schllemmle's hardware store in
Fourth avenue. Those chains prove
the historic fact that this house was
once slave market.
And in this very cellar" madame
continued. Gen. Washington and his
Generals used 10 meet and plan their
greatest campaigns
Madame snapped OF the electric light
suddenly to show the visitors that the
Soul Light Shrine"-the big picture
that looked like an original C1ivette-
was luminous in the darkness. And after
lengthy lecture on the miraculous
qualities OF the printing "Old Oscar
Cesare." once the lights had been flashed
on again, was stupid enough to suggest
that the shrine" was Just a tumble Of
phosphorlc paint
Little Radium in Art.
No" corrected Madame. severely. II
the manifestation be material l prefer
to believe that the artist used rRdium."
But listen, Madame" said Killjoy
Van Der Weyde. who is a materialist,
the Curie dame didn't get radium out
OF pitchblende until the year Spain blew
up the battlesnip Maine"
g.. What Is always was" acclaimed
Madame solemnly. IF radium is now
IL was when the Soul Light Shrine was
painted. Just so is truth an eternal
verify which. in the last analysis, may
HAP"
Pas home" interrupted Alta Gil
vette from the top OF the cellar steps.
Sure enough, pa had come back with
the copy OF the journal which he had
Zone out TO buy almost six hours earlier.
Immediately pa started IN upon a lee
ture that made ma look like a deaf
mute
And furthermore concluded Pa Gil
vette In "A peroration that ran from ~ "a
yesterday morning up to the street floor
OF the Art Mecca Nathaniel Haw-
thorne and Edgar Allan Poe were but
two OF the many literary lights who
used 10 frequent the bar that once oc-
cupled the room in which We are now
standing. Thomas Paine. author OF The
Age OF Reason, lived in the attic up
stairs and o. Henry wrote most OF his
stories here Also
How the Real Party Started.
Nov. just one minute, mister" cried
Bill Van Der Weyde who had been
swallowing stuff throughout the evening
and now was all fed up-Bin Van Der
Weyde, by the way. being the president
OF the Thomas Paine National Historical
Association. Would II interest you to
know that Thomas Paine lived at 400
Blocker street and died in house that
stood at what is now SO Grove street?
Does 1t interest you to learn that Paine
never lived In this building-that this
house wasn't built until after Paine
died %
=, Were not interested In the slightest"
hollered madame. m's!eu for the moment
being speechless with rage.
We'll. perhaps it might interest you
to know" chiined in Mrs. Oscar Cesare.
who until about two years ago was Miss
Porter. that you and your printed cir
Cular are all wrong about o.. Henry
having lived here l lived with him in
the same house from the day I was born
until he died. He never lived in Green
witch Village" concluded Mrs Cesare,
who Is the only child of tho late Sidney
Porter, the short story writer who
gained immortality under the pen name
OF 80. Henry"
call a policeman, Pa :" shrieked Ma
Have these takers arrested. O. Henry
had a son but he never had daughter.
Alta, look up the telephone number for
Police Headquarters,
Never mind the telephone number,
Pa" excitedly chartered Alta, who
proved Immediately that she had d.
gested the contents of the telephone
directory in addition to her readings of
Shakespeare. John Greenfield Whittier
or whatever his middle name is--Emer-
son. Ralph Conner ct al. ut says on
the cover of the telephone book. Pa, In
an emergency. to get policeman, say
TO operator: 81 want policeman"
And instanteN Pa done like she said.
From the Charles Street police station
house came Patrolman Francis Aloysius
McCiovern. sweating profusely. to listen
TO the cries OF all the Cllvettes. who
were yelling so tremendously that even
Greenwich Village began to button on
clothes and run to the scene. Paul and
Daisy Thompson. armed with cameras
and flashlights, arrived at the noise
fourteen minutes before Officer McGOv-
ern got there. But by that time the
Ccgareg Van Der Nevdea et nj had