The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1920-03-18
PASSING Of NOTED
THEATRICAL HOTEL
RENDEZVOUS OF SPORT ING
WORLD IN BALTIMORE TO
BE WELFARE CENTER.
SALVATIONIsTs GET IT.
Will Convert 1t Into Hotel For Work
ing Girls And Maryland
Headquarters.

the theatrical and sporting world, for
the Salvation Army has taken over
the hotel and will convert it into head
quarters for this division, with a hotel
for working girls, an auditorium and
other features to be added.
For quarter of a century, when
it was known as Riellys Hotel, the
four story building has been the gath
ering place of the moths which fitted
and fluttered in Baltimore's white
light" district hundreds of noted act
ors and actresses have stopped there
and pugilists whose names are ia
miliar to hundreds of thousands have
gathered in its barroom to discuss past
victories and future events.
Now the hymns of the Salvationists
will echo where once the merry Tilt
of rousing songs sounded and demure
working girls will tread the halls
which once resounded to the clatter of
the high heels of the chorus girls.
In a way the passing of the hotel
is tragedy in the life of Joe" Tip
man. 1t was his ambition, when he
bought the hotel last August, to make
it the clearing house for the sporting
world. Himself the hero of hundreds
of prize ring fights and known in all
the cities of the United States and in
the large centers of England, Joe"
wanted to establish a hotel where
nh lcniapc on oi+ nit
might always find friends and where
his companions of the squared circle
would find congenial company
But Joe" fell foul Of the prohibition
law. Last November he was sentenced
to four months in the City Jail,
punishment which his friends say he
took because he was too good a sport
to throw responsibility on others.
While he was serving his term, Briga.
der Escott, of the Salvation Army,
learned it might be possible to pur.
chase the hotel, new structure built
only few years ago to replace the
oEe destroyed by fire.
Through the good Offices of Warden
Lee, the real estate men who nego,
tiated the sale were admitted to
"Joe's" cell and the bill of sale was
signed.
Down from the walls have come
the pictures of celebrities. The glass
case containing the boxing gloves
Joe" wore when he fought Battling
Nelson" Tommy Feltz, Joe Cans, Ter
rible Teddy" McGovern, "Packey"
Mcfarland, Young" Corbett, Dixon,
the colored fighter, and those he wore
in the ring in England, has been re-
moved from its place of honor in the
barron, which soon is to be converted
into a Salvation Army Saloon, where
hot drinks, soft beverages and lunches
will replace the exhilirating drinks
that formerly were served.
Out from the vault where it has
been safely guarded has gone the
book of autographs containing the sig
natures of men and women known to
the stage of today and of the past
Sarah Bernhard, the Divine Sarah"
wrote her name in it and not many
pages away are tba eignatpras Of tha
DoIIv Sisters Robert Nante1re rama
Is inscribed in the mn bool, CO arc
the names of FarDia Rrice pou, IN
the nubIic ave in conractio, ,,,i,b tho
master nindn case in New yorl,. of
OLGA Pe+rova Alice Rradv Frsn1,
Tf0nav "CentIar,er Inn" Corbo+t
Bert Williams Icon Frrol and o scora
of other noted actory and ,o+rassos
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