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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 1900. jg Y( 20 A GROWN UP FAUNTLEROY. FOOLING THE WILY BURGLAR ALVAREZ'S HARD FIGHT. DOUBLE LIFE And DOUBLE DEATH was clear in that respect, but after a few of them got fooled through building on such empty conclusions they got wise for fair.

You know what Abo Lincoln used to say about fooling part of the people part of the time, etc. Well, just so was it, after such people as myself in the past, for instance, became educated up. to conditions. We began to go slow, and to entertain a most profound and wholesome respect for a strand of wire, let late you. She has the fifty thousand we paid her I 'She has fifty thousand." I replied, 'hut it came from our company.

I insured Patten 'Then she must have a hundred thousand. Better 'No; fifty only what came from our 'But we paid her 'Perhaps it was the widow of another Julius 'Perhaps. My man died August 'My wife's former husband died February 10, 'Strange! Must have been another Julius Patten. My man died in Harlem. Prior to his death when I insured him cashier at the Bloomington Machine 'So was my man.

But my man died six months before yours did. Proof death We compared notes more carefully but only with the result of thoroughly mystifying ou: selves. Finally taking a cao oroiL iu l.i logs ieart ancl inability to surmount office of the Bloomington Machine Works, lhe huuc ireii aun, one obstacles that coutin telling our story to the president, in which I uaUy present themselves. Good luck and bad set forth the plight in which my wife am, also have to be considered, myself would find ourselves if the mystery soraetimos aI1 unexpected happening operates often importuned him to have it developed. At this time Alvarez had little belief in his capability as a singer, ami he thought that his Triend's regard lor liim was responsible for the high opinion of his voice.

Beside, his throat was not very strops, and he was threatened with bronchia! trouble. His friend, however, persisted that Lis oi'inion was not colored by friendship and. linully, in response to the continued beseech ir.s of his room mate, Alvarez went to Professor A. do Martini, a wel knowu Instructor, who at or.ee confirmed his friend's opinion. The young man immediately gave up his instrumental work to devote himself to the cult or' his voice.

His thorough musical training made it possible tor him to advance very rapidly, so that a long course of study in conservatory was not necessary. Under 'he vocal instruction his chest began to on; an and soon all evidences of bronchial aifviicn disappeared. He first intended to enptis. comic opera. Then, as his voice improved and developed, the desire tor grand opera was born, aad two years later he made his first appearance as "Faust." The sincerity acd earnestness which marked his early efforts soon attracted uncommon attention to and in a short time he was engaged as the lea ling tenor for the Grand Opera in Paris a i a salary which has never been paid in Fiance since the foundation of the Academy of Music by the Grand Hoi.

Although Alvarez has held this high position for eight years. management has given him leaves of absence at various intervals to sing ia other cities in Europe aad America. Once while oa a lour he Fang before the Bey of Tunis. Alvarez relates with much amusement that the Bey said prayers on his beads almost throughout the iinire opera. At the close however, he honored him by creating him an officer of the N'icl Iftika.

which carries with it handsome decoration aad many privileges. Up to the present time Alvarez has sung in forty five grand operas, in eleven of which he has created parts. Notwithstanding his many honors and his great success artistically and financially. Alvarez remains very much an ordinary human being. He has no hobbies, no capricious ideas and is approachable at all times excepting but for a few hours before he sings.

It not taken long tor him to gain the enviable reputation of being one of the most modest and unassuming singers ever heard in New Vork. Music lovers and opera patrons who have met him are charmed not only by his agreeable personality, but by the evidence of democracy and freedom from affectation of any sort. A recent acquaintance speaking of these traits said: "In private life he is one of the most unprofessional of professionals 1 have ever met." This is all the more remarkable from the fact that in Paris, the chief tenor of the opera and the acknowledged star of the company is lionized by the entire city. Apart from his appearance on th stage at the Metropolitan Opera House. Aivarez has made no bid for hero worship since his arrival here.

On the contrary, he has shrunk from going on exhibition or frequenting places where ho might be too conspicuous to the general public. His apartments at Fouret's were chosen in preference to ia suite a larger, more elaborate hostelry up town, as his mode of life there is no different or more exclusive than that of a prosperous business man. With the exception of a light luncheon in his room on the day that he is to sing, he takes his meals could not be made plain or it the president would not clear it up. That the old man was much distressed was plainly evident. He shuffled about for a while and finally admitted that what we had to tell only made the matter worse.

Patten's resignation from the employ of the company had been forced. It had been discovered that Patten was leading a double life and had a wife in Brooklyn and another in Harlem. Here was a revela tion. Indeed. Ouestions jostling each other rushed Id on my mind tumultuotisly.

Vi ho had I married tQe keynote of his success is easily his indom the wife, the widow or the victim? If Patten itable will power, perseverance and determina had risen from the dead after February 10, tion to succeed in spite of all obstacles. The Insurance Agent's Story. BY SEACOAL. The insurance agent, reaching forward, picked with care and pood judgment a cigar from the box. looking it over carefully while we waited his reply to a remark made by one of us relative to a question asked of him, while he was on the witness stand in a law suit that day.

"Lawyers are permitted to do and do things in a trial which in any other relation of life would be regarded and treated as brutal insults," he at length said. "The question asked me to day with its insinuating tone was one that merited only the answer of the lash or the bullet. The lawyer in question knows the truth yet in the despicable hope of discrediting me ns a witness before the jury he asked a question in a manner to insinuate that there was something wrong in my married life, demanding, in which he was supported by the bench, a categorical answer and giving me no opportunity to set myself and my ife right by explanation. My case is a peculiar one and has a strange story back of it. "Twenty years ago.

in 1SS0. I was living in the Twenty second Ward, not far from Prospect Park, and was then, as I am now, an insurance solicitor. In the spring of that year Julius Patten moved into the same block. He was a striking looking man, more by reason of his forceful personality than beauty of person. His wife was considerably younger, of a marked beauty, of a modest and refined type.

How I came to know that Patten was the cashier of a large manufacturing corporation leaving a large salary, that lie was a native of Brooklyn, educated in the city of his birth, and had served in one of its banks until he resigned to take the position he then occupied, is of no Importance. Nor is it that Patten shortly after, becoming my neighbor, associated himself with a church of the neighborhood where he speedily acquired influence and took up the life of a good citizen, regular in his comings and goings, apparently free from all bad habits and evil ways. What is important is that I regarded hiin as a most excellent insurance risk and persistently followed him until I persuaded him to take out a policy for 550.000 in the company I represented them as now. "He was not an easy fish to land and even when I had induced him to take the first step so indifferent was he. apparently, to the consummation that I had difficulty in securing his examination.

Our examining physician was by no means popular with the agent, for he was over strict and severe. He was also notional, having an idea that he could determine a man's moral character by certain physical conformations, reports on which he insisted on making as necessary to a determination as to a risk. While reporting Patten sotmd in health with no predisposition to disease, suffering from no effects of bad habits, he put forth a supplementary report that my man was utterly without moral character, a conclusion so completely at variance with the facts of Patten's life and career that I laughed in his face. I pointed out to the chief of my department in the examiner's presence that when the doctor failed to find defects in the physical man, to console himself in his disappointment he bored holes in the moral man. However, the application passed, Patten was given his policy and 1 was happy.

"For three years we were neighbors. Theu Patten removed from the Park Slope to the Heights, into a house ho had purchased and i lSi'3, to die again August 19, was not my marriage invalidated? Was it ever a marriage? In short, was I a married man in fact Was not the payment to the widow now my wife by my company based on error? Was it my duty as an agent of the company to compel myself as the husband of my wife to restore the money? "The questions grew in number and became more puzzling the longer I thought. My friend brought me iuto action by proposing that we seek the Harlem widow and have r.n interview with her. The proposition was act ed on but it did not havo realization. The widow of August 10 was not to be found.

Her sister in law, the wife of her brother was discovered eager to air a grievance. What we learned was That having received the fifty thousand dollars from the company represented by my friend the Harlem widow had immediately disappeared from view to the great ai l. 1. pearance a letter dated Cincinnati had oec received from her, telling that she was trav i eling west with her husband, it being evident I that she had indecently married again. As a certain man acquaintance had disappeared about the same time her family was quite certain he was the one she hid married.

"The proof of the death of Julius Patten on August 19, 1S93. was indisputable cause, apoplexy burialplace, a cemetery in the Bronx. The proof of the death of Julius Patten on February 10. 1S93. was indisputable cause apoplexy burial place, a cemetery in Brooklyn.

Investigation proved the identity of the man who had died two deaths. The only satisfaction I received was that my wife had been married to Patten three years oe fore the Harlem widow had been. What was not satisfactory was the fifty thousand paid by the companies. If Patten had been alive on August IS. 1S93 the presumption was that he was alive when my company had paid the 1 money to my wife even if he did die February 10.

Therefore, would not the company be justified in demanding the return of the mo ney? On the other hand the company was1 oound to pay the money on the proof of Pat ten's death. That he had died on February 10. 1S93, had bcen abundantly proven even 'f ere certain he was alive on August IS. i 1S03. to die the next day.

But it Patten had; acquired the uncomfortable and reprehensible Theory of the Tailors' "Fake" Wire Alarm Upheld by the Ex Crook. Knights of the Jimmy Not Always Men of Courage Fear Electrical Appliances. The tailor had changed his place of business and the customer dropped in to see how the new place looked. It was the tailor's busy day, sure enough, but had the customer not known that his artistic abilities were devoted' to' the designing of the latest things In clothes he might have mistaken him for a most zealous electrician, for he was so busily engaged in stringing wires from doors to windows and from those points to nowhere in particular, but to every point iu general, that he impressed the customer as being in the throes of what might be termed an acute attack of "wire madness," Possessing some intelligent idea of the technique of the task at which he was engaged, the customer found himself at sea, as he endeavored to adjust cause and effect in his mind as determined by the wiring. Seeing possibly.

In the look of bewilderment that his customer was nonplussed, the tailor winked with a wink which was calculated to bespeak volumes of wisdom, as he remarked, sententiouslyr "I want to throw a scare into anv stray burglar who comes mousing around to weigh up the situation. These wires are only a bluff, but you can bet that if it could only be known it would do its work and is a good investment. I got the idea from one of my customers, a sporting man, who is up to snuff, and when he advised me to have plenty of wires in evidence in my store he told me that nine out of ten burglaries, being the result ot prearranged plans, it went without saying that one member of the gang always made sure of examining the premises during the day and' getting the lay of the land generally. He said that if there was one thing above another which would halt the average burglar it was that which defied his comprehension, and that nothing opened up to his mind a vista of probable capture red handed like judiciously strung wires and electric paraphernalia generally. You sec this telephone? Well, it's a dummy.

So is this messenger call. I haven't a battery on the premises. I have no toll to pay for anti burglar service. "My wires do their work quietly, with no fuss or feathers; an ever present insidious moral sentinel, bringing the would be burglar to a ful lstop at the initial point of his game. A watch dog he can poison; locks, to him, may be tritles thin as air.

He may possess the open sesame that enables him to surmount palpable obstacles', but that which mystifies unto a charmed circle across the periphery of which his instinct of self preservation bids him not to venture. Do you catch on?" The customer agreed to the logic of the premises; but as it occurred to his mind that it might have its limitations, he determined to delve a little more deeply into a subject, which, the more he thought over it, the more did it take on the dignity of a thesis. So it was that he made up his mind to pursue the subject to bed rock. Is the average burglar so readily stampeded by the presence on premises of a few strands of wire? The customer felt that his task would not be a burdensome one, as he happened to know where to find a human encyclopedia on the subject, in the person of one who may be designated as "the ex crook," one of the brands, by the way, snatched from the burning by Mrs. Eallington Booth.

When hunted up the ex crook was agreeably disposed and needed no leading, when he. had mastered the motive, so tilting back his chair he started in with an air which suggested that the lioor was his. "Yes; you're right in my pilot bouse! I'm able to give you straight goods on the subject. What you've been telling me about a party putting up dummy wires to scare off is, strange to say, a new wrinkle to mc; and 1 dare say I've been up against the game many a time in my day, and never got next to the fake, for that would please me on the jump, because when I could see a lot of wires arounrl a place. I wouldn't stop to investigate as to where their ends were; I would simply conclude that the owner of the place was a man that stood prepared to give me a big run for my money.

"I'd be apt. to say to myself: 'This party has been "touched" before, and he has been made wise; but he ain't got all the wisdom; there are others who have a little, and I'm one of and I'd sherry off and give him the goby. Would you blame me? I guess nit. "Say! All" this talk about desperate crooks, or, at least, a good part of it, makes me feel weary. Why, the average crooit is tne rankest coward you ever laid your eyes on, while he's at his graft; and the simplest thing under heavens will stampede him.

Of course. I don't mean the men who do burglary in the first degree. They are in a class by themselves and are pretty bad people to monkey with; but they're scarce, and not half as plentiful as some folks imagine. The 'comeback' is too fierce and tho strain is too severe for any but those of the toughest fiber. That was a good word, wasn't it.

That's the way you fellows write it, any way. Well, you can put it down for gospel that if a crook sees anything in his way that he doesn't understand he is going to give himself the benefit nf the doubt ancl nass. I've known the scrap ing of the branch of a tree against a neighboring branch send three 'crooks' sprintin' for their lives, as if the old boy was after them. "I've known a shirt to drop from a clothes line into a yard, and if a bomb shell had been thrown into the mob of four men who were trying to make ah entrance, they couldn't have made a quicker scatter. They lose their heads on short notice, particularly so If thev've ever 'done a bit' you know what I mean, served a term.

But the duck that goes into your bedroom and wakes you up by pushing a gun against your ear look out for him. He's wicked all through; dyed in the wool. He has weighed everything on the throw of the die. and he's a business man from 'way back. Don't try to throw a scare into him, ho won't stand for it.

In a case, such as I hint at, the best and wisest course to pursue is to give up; tell him where the stuff is, and if he overlooks anything, call him back and draw his attention to the oversight; and then bid him good night, after you've told him where the wine cellar Is; and turn over on your other side and go to sleep and imagine you've had a dream. "No; I'm not guying you. My language may be a trifle giddy, but I'm giving you straight, goods, and about the only way I can think of a scare into that sort of a jigger Is to havo three or four bottles of peach brandy, charged with prussic. acid, lying around, promiscuous like, with glasses, as If you had beer, it up yourself. That sco.ro will save a heap of trouble, time and me: and it won't be your fune rnl, eithtr.

"Another thing, most people Imagine that croedts go around armed to the teeth, at all times, ready lo shoot, at. tho drop of the hat. More rot! Tho fact, is, that, the average man i in the 'crooked' business is dead 'leary' of having a gun found on him. In case he Is ar rested, for It Is considered a handicap of tho worst Kind, in most cases, a crook stands lo piay the Innocent, dodge if he is stopped, and In some cases, his hluff will oarrv him through with Hying colors hut j. happen to have a gun on him, the affords sufficient ground upon which to i hold him, and oftentimes will be: the means reaurreuiiuu i niimner crime against him.

A certain crook who, were I to mention ins name, joti would recognize is a prize fighter arid all round lough mug, used lo give Ills pals a pain by the wav he used to carry himself when out. on noss. He used to tremble from head lo root, rind sweat big beads of pe.rspirai ion, and if a cricket cnirpeu in nis ncaring no drop his Kiss Elslo Leslie Among Her Many Treasures and Keepsakes The Actress, Who Is Now With Joseph Jefferson, Discusses Present and Past Successes. A trim little maid in black gown and while apron appeared at the door ot a West Bna avenue residence in Manhattan and Inquired of tho interviewer "Whom do you wish to see?" "Miss Elslo Leslie, if you please," presenting a card. "Step into the Turkish room and I'll sen it Miss Elsie's at home." The reporter waited in a little apartment furnished in the prevailing Oriental fashion.

Soft curtains in tones of red and yellow let in a mellow light, rugs and tabourets wero plentiful and from the mantel shelf a Ano photograph of Joseph Jefferson as Caleb Plummer smiled quaintly on the visitor. This Is the home of little Lord Fauntieroy. whom we loved and petted and took the children to the matinee to see, a few years ago. How many doting mothers with freckled faced sons of four or five years became addicted to the Fauntleroy habit. The velvet suit and sash were thrust upon many a protesting infant and he was bidden henceforth "Little Lord Fauntk ruy." Has Uecomo a Charm ing Younu Woman.

to address his maternal parent as Dearest, much to his disgust. But 'tis not the coat that makes the man, as was shown by the various hybrid specimens of tho little lord which were produced as a result of the craze. Elsie Leslie's beautiful natural curls, her aristocratic beauty and bearing, these were difficult of imitation. "Will you come up to Elsie's room? I ana her mother. Mrs.

Lyde." A soft voiced woman in whose face one perceived at once a resemblance to her much photographed little daughter held aside th portiere that I might accompany her. Little daughter no longer! A moment later, the writer was being welcomed by a tall, fair haired, well groomed young woman, with a complexion suggestive of milk baths. "You didn't expect to find me in curls and corduroy, I hope," she said, laughing in response to the reporter's exclamation upon th flight of time. "I have bcen with Mr. Jefferson's company for two seasons you know, playing Lydia Languish in "The Rivals" and Dot in ths on tho Hearth." Now don't ask ma anything about Fauntleroy (imploringly).

The public must.be satiated with all that has been writtenon that subject. At least, I am sura I am." "What about the recent mistake of a daily paper in mixing your identity with that ef another Elsie Leslie?" "Wasn't it dreadful! She is a foreign music hall singer and was in this country at Koster Blal's, I think, when I was playing Elsie Leslie As "Little Lord Fauntleroy." children's parts. Elsie Leslie isn't her rigbt name, by the way. She went to Australia and was divorced from a Russian nobleman. It is perfectly awful to get such things mixed up with Why I never was in Australia and I have not the slightest notion of golns into vaudeville.

I shall resume my seasoa with Mr. Jefferson iu the spring. He is resting in Florida at present, that is why I am not playing." Elsie Leslie's room is charming, the prevailing colors being green, pink and white. The wall in sage, with a border ot cretonne, having a white ground and largo irregular pinkish flowers with leaves of the same green, makes an effective ground for a few well selected pictures. Her bedstead of brass is canopied In cretonne of the same design, which Is also used for window hangings and draped so as to give a dainty effect to the outside curtains of lace.

A bookcase of highly polished mahogany, a dressing table and escretoire of the samo rich wood add to the harmony. "They belonged to my grandmother," Miss Leslie explains, proudly. "And you must let me show you my collection of old silver. See, here Is a patch box which belonged to Pes Wofilngton, and here a carved silver receptacle which was carried by a Persian and held the Koran. This curious old brass casket was removed from an ancient tomb in Egypt." Then, suddenly, "Now, don't forget to say that I'm awfully Indignant about the other Elslo Leslie, will you?" Upon receiving an asurance as totheexce lence of the wrlteh's memory she continued: "Over here, in this frame on the wall, is the original of a song dedicated to mo by Kale Douglas Wlggln, and here are a photograph and some verses inscribed to mo by Lawrence Ilutton and some others written by William Gillette, the playwright.

In this frame is the original sketch of Irving in 'The done by Blume. th artist; and. oh, you must see thl3 photograph of Mark Twain and the verse which he wrote for me upon the back of it." The latter chnrming bit. of doggerel Is sufficiently characteristic of the great humorist to bear repeating. Here it Is: ODIC TCI ELSIE LESLIE.

I II be your rrleiiil. your thrall, your Itnovo; I'll bo your elder brother; I'll be for love your very slave. Or anythlnr; you'd druther. MARIC "Well," said Elsie Leslie Lyde, "I believe I've told you all I car, just at present. If you come to seo me again, a little later on, perhaps," with a mischievous glance at hor mother, "but 'that's another Mr.

Kipling would say." Elsie ilesli'iiyde. How the Great French Tenor, "Who Is Now Singing at the Metropolitan Opera House, Won His Right to Recognition as an Artist of the 'first Class. The young musical student aspiring to a place in grand opera will find much that is encouraging in the early life of Alvarez, the French tenor, who is singing leading roles here this season. At the best there are but few smooth places on this road and almost from the sta the difficulties are without number and the requirements great. Talent, physique and health are the fundamentals absolutely necessary, yet many possessing all three fail absolutely by pure discouragement Yer.

largcy upon the quick success or ulti mate failure of a student; but for the one stroke of good luck that sends one to fame there are hundreds who have finally given up the struggle as a result of ill luck and bad fortune which has made their discouragement complete. Alvarez is one of the youngest of famous tenors ever heard, and while he is apparently endowed with many gifts of fortune, such as a superb voice, almost perfect physique, com manding presence and artistic temperament, Almost at the very beginning of his career Alvarez encountered an experience that might easily have wrecked his future. The circumstance, at least, would have had a re Albert Alvarez. tarding influence upon a student less resolute acd persevering. He had sung but a few times wrien h.e was engaged to appear at Lyons.

The residents of the city were much displeased that a young man, practically unknown, had bcen chosen to entertain them and they were not gentie in the manner of evincing their bitterness on the subject. Here, as in most clties in France, the opera is a municipal if not a state, institution, and the people are more deeply concerned in the choice of artists than if it were merely a private enterprise. In this city a great artist is given three chances to be heard and he is retained or released according to the vote of the patrons. When Alvarez appeared, therefore, almost the entire audience broke into hisses, jeers and shouts, and' it was some minutes before he could be heard. He had sung but a few nmes wnen a crowa of men ana boys begm whistling and the first act was continually Interrupted in this manner, "I shall never forget my sensations on that said he, relating the incident! to a friend.

"It was terrible. My years of study and preparation passed betore me like a swift vision' and my dreams of the future seemed suddenly to fade away. As soon as I mastered my emotions I realized that I still believed iu myself and. no matter what I might have been wrecked at this point had I Eriven wav to the desnair I felt at my first rpppnrinn There. This trait was manifested early in the life of Alvarez, although he possibly did not fully re alize the value of possession until the time of the incident quoted.

His mother. who has accompanied him on his American tour, relates many incidents of his battle to conquer the violin. Alvarez manifested strong musical inclinations at a very early age and was overjoyed when at 7 years he was given violin. He learned rapidly, but the strik jnL, characteristic of his work was his de termination to master the difficult passages. 1 Later, he took up the cornet and as a performer on this instrument at the agt.

he joinea the army and became a memher of the regimental band. Two years i he rP50lved to enter the competition v. ade of bandmaster. As his regi tr, tVio nnmlri that time he was transferred to the Caserne du Chateau d'Eau, on the Place de la Republique, in Paris. These examinations are held at the Conservatory of Music and are most exacting.

Here the conservatory is under the control of the government and the instructors are considered officers the state. Two tests are required of students engaged In the first part of the competition. Each man is given a solo for his instrument a week previous, and this he Is to play to the best of his ability, with all the. expression and delicacy possible. Next he must play at sight from a manuscript selection written especially for his examination.

In the latter test a professional pianist accompanies the student. At. the time that Alva rez appeared In this competition. Ambroisc Thnmnt. vac no 11 i 1 Vi i.

vt i i ion Th.i broise Tbcmas divided his time during tne ni YT row minutes nrnislnir the student for his cornet player in Paris. While ihus engaged he occupied rooms with an old school mate, who was also a musician, As Alvarz was in the habit of humming over I tlw.l,. rnna 10 1 1 i a part of a popular air. the friend became verv I enthusiastic over the duality of his voice and ed apart, for I rarely saw Patten. Two years habit of 'resurrecting' what assurance had the public I would continue to be later business took me to the Western coun any one that he had not 'resurrected' gain! lieve in nivself and would put forth my best it be over so harmless looking.

We used to try to keep abreast of things, but there is that about, a length or wire in a store, which sets a fellow guessing and suggests a heap of trouble, but what's tho use of making a long story about it? "To give it to you in a nutshell: I'd rather stack up against a Gatling gun than that same simple strand of wire with its momentous possibilities at either end of it. Momentous was another good word, too, wasn't it? I tell you! I'm Improving. So long!" FROM THE FRONT OF THE HOUSE Notes and Comments on Stage People and Those "Who Manage Them. Messrs. Liebler who are the managers of a play by Israel Zangwill which failed in New York aad went all to pieces in one short week in London, have addressed a circular to dramatic editors which shows that this enterprising and generally well meaning firm is determined to continue to insult all who failed to consider "Tho Zangwill Play" to be the greatest dramatic effort of the past season.

In a former statement, those who had dared to criticise the pla ywere referred to as "hired assassins," "a cafe coterie" and in other ways made to feel that they were of the Gentiles. Now the firm of Liebler Co. announces that "The Children of the Ghetto" (no longer "The Zangwill suffered at the hands of the Boers In London and the boors in New York. To this is added the following note: "We, Liebler are always glad to extend reciprocal courtesies to the press, and to this end keep complete scrap books of all matter printed about our attractions." That must be an Intc Testing scrap book, especially if copies of all the printed matter circulated by tie firm itself are included. This must have been a great season for the managers of Boston theaters, if the receipts during the earlier part of tho season came anywhere near those of the past three or four weeks, xhe Frohmau management announces that the sale at the Mollis Street Theater for the four weeks' engagement of Mrs.

Carter, ending last night, amounted to $50,000, while Fislte's management announces that this actress' matinee receipts during her three weeks' engagement at the Tremont were as follows: January 3, January 6, January 10, January 13, January 17 $1,972.75, and January 20, $2,085.75 or a total for these six performances of $10,958. On the last day of her engagement, Saturday, January 20, she played to $4,002.00, the largest receipts for a matinee and a night performance in the history of the theater, except during an engagement of Irving or grand opera, and this in spite of a heavy rain. With Mme. Modjcska and the Rogers brothers, also playing to largo houses, Boston must have fairly beamed through the box office windows. It has been said that James K.

Hackett's company must have been engaged by the yard, for there is no organization in this country which contains so many tall actors. One critic facetiously remarked that every male member of the cast "acted well with each of his six feet!" Anthony Hope's play, "Rupert of Hentzau," seems somehow to pre suppose the presence of large men. A hero like Rassendyll would amount to but little were he short of stature, and this is true of most of the other characters and also of Queen Flavia. Mr. Hackett himself is just 6 feet 2 and oE powerful frame.

He Is as straight as an arrow and his shoulders being I very broad and his chest deep he looks taller than he actually is. Arthur Hoops, who plays the title role, Count Rupert of Hent zau, is a 0 footer and an all round athlete. Brigham Roycc is feet 3 and a veritable giant, and the tallest man in the company is Sydney Price, who plays the aged chancellor, and who is one and a half inches taller even than Mr. Royce. Price is a striking looking man of Herculean build and his snow white hair (he is less than 40 years old, but is prematurely gray) makes him one of the most picturesque figures imaginable.

Mr. Hackett's understudy is Mace Greenleaf. who plays Herbert, the king's forester, and Mr. Greenleaf is just the height of the star. AH of these actors mentioned are built in proportion to their height, and five men of finer physique it would be hard to find.

Carl Ahrcndt. the Colonel Sapt. and Thomas D. Daily, James Otley and Edgar MaeGregor, while not of unusual height, are possessed of stalwart figures and would class as large men in almost any surroundings. Daniel Frohman, himself, is much above the average height, and as for Mr.

Hackett's leading lady, MiS3 Jobyna Howland, the Gibson girl who plays Queen Flavia, she is just 0 feet from the soles of her feet to the crown of her red gold hair. Speaking of the "Rupert of Hentzau" company makes it necessary to answer more than one inquiry which has been made concerning the reason why this play, which was seen here earlier in the season, should return to Brooklyn, when Brooklynites had been lead to expect that they would see Mr. Hackett in "The of Jennico," the new play which he has already produced in a number of tho larger cities. The reason is not far to seek. "The Pride of Jennico" will soon go into Manhattan for a long run at one of tho Broadway theaters.

It is of the utmost importance that it should receive full press notices and criticisms at that time. If it were produced for a week In Brooklyn, all the crit ics of the Manhattan papers would come over the 'bridge, and the later notices would be discounted. Business is business, but it is rather hard on Brooklyn, just the same. ALL FOB A TWO CENT STAMP. A Letter Delivered Seven Thousand Miles Away in Eorty Days.

It may not be out of place to give an illustration of the vast distances a letter may travel on the strength of a two cent postage stamp. Suppose one of the girl readers of tho Companion in Key West. has a brother In the Klondike region who has risked all to dig fortune from mother earth, and writes to tell him the news from home. She drops the letter in the post office at Key West, and it starts on its long journey. It does not, of necessity, travel in a straight lino to its destination, but must follow the twistlngs and turnings of the railroads! which have complete charge of it until the northwest corner of tho State of Washington is reached.

When it arrives at Seattle, it has passed through fourteen States, and yet, so far as time is concerned, but one fourth of Its journey has been accomplished. It now takes a sea voyage from Seattle to Juneau, Alaska, and from the latter place is carried, as I have already described, to Circle City. It may be taken from there by friendly hands farther into the Klondike country, anil finally delivered to the anxious who has been eagerly awaiting the arrival of tho next party from the nearest town In which a post office is conducted, in the hope that some one would bring him a letter. This letter has now travelled In the neighborhood of 7,000 miles by railroad, steamboat, stage, horseback and, perhaps, dog Klt tl and ha3 been on the road for nearly lorty days, without a moment's rest. Xo profit, in money, accrues to the Government for delivering that letter; indeed, ach letter sent to the Klondike costs the gov I r.PmP,,t fnr transportation manv tlmon thn amount of postage charged; but In such rases, should we reckon lho profit only in dollars and cents? Should vvc not consider also the happiness and satisfaction afforded this brotber as he sins by his fire, perhaps homesick and lonely, bin.

now with a loving smile illuminatins his face, as he reads and reads again every word his thoughtful sister has written about home, mother and father, and, perhaps, some one else whom he holds dear? When, finally, he placen his treasure under his pillow and seeks rest, he is happier than for many a day, nnd Uncle Sam, who has contributed so largely to that happiness, does not regret the small pecuniary loss ho bus sustained. Youth's Companion. try, where I remained nearly a vear. On the i after August 19 and was then in the flesh? efforts. I kept at my role and worked as day I took the trai" at Chicago to return "Concealing the reason of my inquiries I hard as I could along the lines I had planned, induced my wife or the one I hoped was and; with a fierce determination to be heard.

East, a I passer, tarougb the Rock Island sta treated as my wife to recount all the inci Through the second act onlv a slight disturb tion, I caught sight of Julius Patten in a re dents culminating in death. In the auee occurred, and during the last act they mote part of the waiting room. Thronged as recital there was nothing doubtful, undecisive remained quiet. At the end a few applauded the room was by passengers, it was, there mysterious. The next day I hunted up i me.

They allowed me to sing in peace twice me autuuaoi pnysician a most reputaDie aiterward and tne result was mat 1 was en practitioner. He was clear, positive and un gaged for the balance of the season. A year mistakable. He was the regular family later thev received my reappearance with physician; Julius had died of apoplexy short cheers. But I shall never forget how easily in the main dining room at the regular hours accompanied by his wife, mother and little daughter, Yvonne.

When friends or ac quaintances join him his manner becomes 1 most agreeable and cordial even toward thos, no sign of reserve, and w'n stories are order he has one appropriate to the occasion on the tip of his tctume. invariably briah enough to cause hearty laughter among the listeners. Only when the onera is discussed does he show a disinclination to express himself, and if forced to speak he has only words of commendation to offer, but of himself or his work, nothing. His favorite exercise is walking. A few days ago he strolled from the hotel to Brooklyn, spending nearly an hour on the bridge.

He is fond of sightseeing and Is especially interested in the tall buildings of New York and Philadelphia. KATE FIELD'S LOVER. A Sensational Romance "Which "Was Written About This Bright "Woman by Eugene Field. Editor Kohlsaat of the Chicago Times Herald, related a funny story, when in town recently, of the delight Gene Field took in teasing Kate Field, and how vexed she would be at the pranks he was continually playing upon her. "But the stcry that broke Kate Field's heart was written by Gene when she was In Spain writing up the Spanish in ISfto.

It was one of the most ingenious and sensational fakes ever sprung on the public." said Jlr. Kohlsaat. "The thing purported to be a special from a correspondent in Madrid. Having first, in delicate fashion, announced thai the Duke of Matano had offered his hand to Miss Field and had been accepted, Gene proceeded with the thrilling episode he had dreamed out. 'Miss Field one day arrayed herself brilliantly In a lovely silk costume in which red and yellow, Spain's colors, largely predominated.

She was to attend the bull fight with her lover. The arrival of Matano and his ducal equipage, splendid attire "and ceremonious attentions to his fiance were elaborately set forth. Mi6 Field, in her gorgeous robes, accompanied the Duke to the Plaza del Toros. 'Arrived at the plaza the Duke found the assemblage eo large that he would not deign to mingle with tho crowd that poured in at the main entrance, but bribed those in charge of the arena to let him pass through it with his bride to be. 'It was an innovation that took the people by storm.

The haughty courtier, escorting the lovely girl, the mingled glitter and gleam of his gilded trappings and her silken draperies enraptured the great multitude that sat on tier about the vast amphitheater. 'In this imposing manner the Duke, his inamorata and his retinue traversed the entire diameter of the arena. Tho first bull had not yet been brought in. and Miss Field and the Duke were, for the time being, the whole attraction. 'JUEt as the Duke made ready to assist his l.

dy over the barlcade a wild cry rang out from the throng, a shout of terror, not. of applause. 1 nrougn some mistake a bull had been admitted to the arena too soon, and, glimpsing Miss Field's dress, rushed for her in headlong rage. Miss Field shrieked and fainted with terror, but the strong arms of tho Duke thrust her quickly over the barrie where a hundred hands stretched upward to ro'ccive her limp figure, but her lover had no time to save him. and in the next instant the horns of the infuriated bull were burled ia his "Well," said Mr.

Kohlsaai, "this story was copied everywhere, and the sympathy of the world went out to the lovely American, who lost, her lover In this tragic mann: r. 'Only the othe said Miss field to mo a short time before her 'a youisg lady came to n.e nnd said: "Oh, Field, I have longed to meet you and tell you ln.w deeply I sympathized with you in ilie loss of your lover over in Spain, that splendid fed low who and was much frozen with when I cut her off and said "Rats!" Denver COMING OF BEAVER. rvur i Out for Mvny Years, the Oldfashtoned rur Has Beturned. Beaver furs have not been worn for a good uiiuy y. ars, l.u;.

more and more of them aru being seen this Winter, and they are distinct ly fashionable. One trouble with beaver is that, though ii. is a pretty fur, it is very warm and heavy for this climate. It seems to fairly ate heat, and when a heavy jacket of it once put on It is suicidal to change for anything else. is worn as jackets and capos.

It is not a fur that stout worm can wear, as tney ran iamj, wnicn jy arer tie had oeen summoned, under his eye and watch The undertaker told! straight tale: the physician had nor departed when he had been colled In to take charge; Patten's intimate friend had the direction of everything; Patten's friends ana reiair. es nad attended the tunera "Almost the same thing in the same deiail was proved as to death of August IS In Harlem. The variation being that Patten's relatives had not attended the Harlem funerai. There tho Harlem widow's relatives had. Headstones on which were inscribed the name ot Julius ratten marked the graves in two cemeteries.

"I could not ormg myself to tell my wife of the mysterious tning. In the meantime my friend, the representative of the other company any myself delayed the revelation of the strange matter to our respective eompa nies in the hopes that something would occur lu e.MJ.uiii cue mysLBrj. "So weeks drifted by. Business called me to Washington and my wife accompanied me as a first visit to the National Capitol. She had never seen the legislative halls, so I escorted her thither.

We were crossing the rotunda, myself slightly in advance of her, when she suddenly screamed. I turned in time to catch her in my arms before she fell into a faint, but I had time to determine the cause. "Julius Patten had passed. "In the demand my wife's condition made on me I could not follow Julius, yet I was distinctly conscious of hearing a capital attendant address Julius by a high sounding title. I conveyed my wife to our hotel and when she had regained sufficient strength to bear a recital I told her the strange story.

She was disturbed and" mystified, bewildered In fact. fore, with some difueulty that I could make my way to the part, of the room where I had seen Julius Patien standing. When I did reach it he had disappeared. "I had been home a month, perhaps, when I was told that Patten was dead and that the amount of his policy, on indisputable proof of death, had been paid to his widoiv. I v.

as much surprised and when careful inquiry revealed that he had died of apoplexy, under the care of a prominent, physician; that there was not a suggestion of Irregularity, and that it had occurred on a date some time prior to the day on which I had seen him in Chicago, as I had supposed, I was forced to believe that I had been mistaken. Th" widow was living in the house, ho had given to her and it was there I called on her. ostensibly to condole with her, really to pursue my inquiries. It was by this means that I renewed my aequaintonce with her. I think I have already said that Mrs.

Patten was a woman of no little beauty, and I will close this part of the story by saying that in less than eighteen months the widow became my wife. "Some time after my marriage a matter of some perplexity in our business led me to search the files of a newspaper for some years hack and my attention was attracted by the notice of the death of Julius Patten at a period six months subsequent to the death of the former husband of my wife, announcing It as having taken place at his residence in Harlem. Remarking the similarity of names. I dismissed it from ray mind, but it would not stay dismissed. It cropped up again that evening and I asked my wife if she knew whether her former husband had a relative of his name exactly.

But she knew of none. The following day found me in the neighborhood of the mtunifacturing corporation employing Julius Patten previous to his death. An impulse 1 neither understood nor could restrain led mc to it to make inquiries. To my surprise I learned that Julius had resigned his employment nearly a year previous to his death, a fact wholly unknown to his then wife, as I was well aware. As to the cause or reason of such resignation the presi fient of the corporaiicn.

who was my informant, was provokiiiRly reticent. On his part he was surprised it, hem of Patten's death and found in it an additional reason for remaining silent as to the resignation. Before I left him, however, he asked who had benefited by the policy on his life. I answered, 'His and was perplexed by the singular expression of his face. I had gotten to another part of the city before it occurred to me that tho president had, in his inquiry, named an insurance company as giving a policv to Patten other than the one with which I was connected.

"I should have dismissed it. as an error on It did not require much effort to discover that un man piaved hls obligators selection the man we had recognized as Julius was without incident and was then handed the known in Washington as another person and I unfamiliar piece, which he was to play at as a dignitary of great power and influence sight He jn 0n the task, and was from a far Western state, which had not just falrlv launched in the air when the pi many years before emerged from a territor ano stopped. Alvarez continued on alone, ial condition. I Tbo pianist broke into the accompaniment "That evening, shortly after dinner I was agan at th? wrong place, and after plaving a called on an urgent matter to a room In the ev. bars noticed his mistake and again hotel in which we were stopping.

As I en st0ppe(. Alvarez had bv this time caught the tcred the room Julius Patten rose from spirit of tlio composition and, unaided by the chair, advancing to meet me in the center of acCoriipanisl. he finished the reading. Am the room iiiinuue s'ceeiuB piemue uc said: 'I am a rich man now, having prospered plaving and presence of mind and denounc marveiously on the $50,000 my supposed wld inK" action of the accompanist, which lie ow in Ilariom received. I will return to each an oulrage, as the unexpected errors of the companies the amount of the policies might have ruined the future of young they havo paid, with interest.

Tell your pros man. ijp called an assistant to post the idem, that and let him tell the president of nara, 0f the accompanist, so that, ho could not the othn company. Tell thern to let the mat engaged to play at. any future competitor resi. not to stir in It at all.

Tell them if tion, whore a more disasterous result might they do not I shall use the power in my ensue bv reason of his incompetency. One hands to make them suffer severely. They w10 js familiar with the severity of those know how I can and that I have the courage u.srs can hardly appreciate the situation, to do li. The money will reach them to mor as it is wel! known lhat many good musi row. Now as to yourself.

You are legally rians fail at playing at sight through sheer married to your wife. She never was legally nervousness and an overwrought desire to play my wife, a. I had at the time I married her perfectly. If a student makes a few mis a wife who is yet alive. Another SSfi.OOO will takes, be usually goes to pieces and retires be sent to your wife as some sort of repara from the test very much disheartened.

What tion. Neither of you must mention this af might have been had luck turned to ry fair and Julius Patt.cn can remain dead, as ho Ood luck for Alvarez, for the incident is supposed to be. I will clear un tho mystery gained him extra notice and attention. Ilav V1 ..,01, Ul 1 .1,,. ,1 lluu uui met tation to talk about It.

1 am a profound and with the second part 01 tne. ooritosi. 1 pen a friend occupying a similar position in the i learned toxieologist, possessing some secrets only to those who pass the instrumental company named by the president. As it was I as to poison known only to myself. One Is a test.

In thin each student, is given 1 melody I asked my friend if Julius Pauen had hart which for a time I can' suspend anl 1 and required to wriie the parts for four male 1 I motion to be restored by an antidote. When voices. An additional and more laborious ponci in nis company. 'administered the subject takes on all tho task is to take another melody and write for replied my friend, 'I took his ap forms and symptoms of apoplexy. I took the it.

the full parts of all of the eev. ntcen In plication fifty thousand. Dead now and poll. drug on the 10th of February and the lftth of struments comprising a miliiary band. Al cy paid' i August.

1803. On both occasions I was varez was one of the eighteen out of 120 com steal thilv removed from the cemeteries and petltors who finally were successful in pass 'In whose favor was it I asked I restored by a trusty friend. That, is ing all examinations. Two months later ho this question in no little excitement. i "He went, out of the room.

All whom ho was appointed a bandmaster. After three 'His widow, of was the reply charged with obedience have been obedient, years of this hi left, the regiment to fits lhe figure like a kid glove anil seems hard jimmy and lly lor his Hie. niu fall over evcry ly thicker. Heaver is pretty for children's thing that lay in his way. Ho foil at one arid a small boy and girl brothor and i time Into the arms of an unsuspecting police sister 'have a satisfactory touch of it on man.

who embraced him on general principle!) their outer garments. These are both long and landed him for four years in Sing Sing, coals of gray cloth, the girl's with a cape "Your business friend and his fake when edged wilh lhe beaver, and a hat and velvet are all right, and his scheme goes every trimmings the' of the coat, while the time. round cap rf the a top like the coat I "It used to be thought by some crooks who nnd a broad band o), the beaver forming the I considered themselves wise that If they saw edge. 1 530 wire stretched from tho roof that the coast 'Pretty woman, quite young chance for some fellow, but she's disappeared from he ran on, glibly. I replied, 'disappeared as Mrs.

Pat tea to appear as my 'The ho exclaimed. 'I conffratu my wife prior to my marriage with her, in which she was wholly innocent that the law yor this day questioned me. not permitting mc to make an explanatoryanswer. When the time r.rt ctl.ill lllrocll him Tn TlicM 1 rt.il.',.! opcd atate of jt should be my duty trt shoot him for a human skunk." rV..