Evening star., 1923-03-28

Ihe mysterious ways of the elusive
Mr.. Marshall" alias John Kearsley
Mitchell, Philadelphia millionaire, men,
the sain Dorothy King, Broadway
butterfly, yesterday furnished squads
of newsgatherers at way stations
from Washington to Philadelphia,
with a battling drama OF real life en-
titled The Triumph of Stotesbury
Strategy over Scribbling Starte-
gists."
The first scene of the first act is
the Union station concourse at 8 am.
on the morning of yesterday 1t was a
typical spring morning. A man with
a cane and spats walked up and down
the concourse He was the early jour-
nalist pursuing his vocation and a
hunch that Mr.. Mitchell might meet
Mrs Mitchell and her father. f. T.
Stotesbury, in the Union station early
IN the morn. An hour passed and the
second scene of act one was the same
as the first except that two other
cane -danglers and one newspaper. man
with bulged out trouSer knees and
Shell-rimmed eyeglasses joined the
first
Forty Join First Prowler.
The third scene was at 1890 on the
afternoon of same day. Two score
Joined the first prowler. All We're
chatting excitedly and trying to. fig
ure out that Mitchell was coming in
10 board the private car of J. Leon
ard Replogle. steel magnate, which
was parked on the Baltimore and
Ohio tracks for journey north. A
whistllng shrek. changing bell, a
rush for the gates, and Train No. Sc
from the southland. bearing Mrs.
Mitchell. her daughter, Frances, and
r. T. Stotesbury. arrived on the low
level platform. 4 man rushed down
the steps and hoped on board the
private car.
The newSmen outside the bars were
Joined by strategists who had accom-
panied the car from Alexandria and
Richmond, Va. buzZing. whispering.
to telephones to tell the world at large
that the much heralded meeting be-
tween Mr.. and Mrs. Mitchell is at last
an actually.
Car Moved TO Upper Level.
The private car was moved to an
= upper level, and attached to an express
for Philadelphia The news men buZzed
again. one keen-eyed strategiSt, who
looked more like a healthy truck driver
than knight of the typewriter. out
lined the problem. There were two
trains ready for Phiadelphia-the b.
the car be attached to? More buzzing.
Then came the solution. Mr.. Stotes-
bury's private car was an official car
of the Philadelphia and Reading rail-
way. This road and the b. & o. are
first cousins Zoop. The scribes
fiocked to ticket windows and bought
B. & 0. tickets. One gentleman, how
ever, who halls from Palo Pinto county.
Tex, buys both. He is a super-strate
gist
Then came another tip. Mrs. Doug
las Macarthur, a sister of Mrs. Mitch
ell. left town early in the mornin &
and one in position of authority, prob
ably a bell boy who had interviewed
the parlor maid of the family. at the
Wardman Park Hotel home. spread
the news that the Cromwell Brooks
home, Just outside of Baltimore, is
being reopened after years of shut
tered windows. Why? Could it be
that family conference was to take
place there. unmoleSted by prying
newspaper men from various organs
of limelishting propeusities? The
two-score chewed over this. The
more they chewed the more savory
the morsel became. AT the end of
the chewing it was foregone con-
cluSiOn.
First Act Curtain Drops.
The curtain for the first act dropped
on the swarm heading for the smok
ing room of the b. and O. Baltimore
and Philadelphia express. which