Show I Harry Lauder Loosened Up I never has been a of THERE 3 Harry Lauders thriftiness It is isan Isan an Inborn trait Tace m e nut But with the great Scotch comedian con edlah heredity has not been aU all ts Q th asa as a toner toiler in fn the mi mines 1 s and m many ny years struggle of In and even evenIn evenIn In hIs present one haye made eco omy a habit with him There was a i time when every U ter ate anecdote was credited to the late John Stetson ot of Boston every stutter stutterIng stuttering Ing story to Billy Travers every wit witticism witticism df f the oratory to Chauncey M Depew S So nowadays It ItIs ItIs Is the habit of the genial jester with the thebon bon boa mot met of the Scottish thrift extrac to select the great Lauder as his object There Is however sufficient of ofa ofa a record to prove that Lauder while careful of his shillings and eager for the good American dollars that are now pouring Into his purse In a golden flood Is only mean I Here Is an incident related by Sam McKee the vaudeville ty of the New York Morning Telegraph So 50 much has been told ot of Hory Hary Lou Lau Louders Lauders J ders meanness that It might be Interred inferred no one would ever turn to him for aid ald Notwithstanding that Impression for foreign eign performers say he be Is usually the first man approached where money must be had at once The reason of thIs Is assigned as be beIng beIng Ing the knowledge that the Scotch comedian cannot possiblY assert he be would like to be obliging bAt mit really the money The point to be eon on d therefore Is whether he can be Induced to listen to reason A Joke Th That t Turned Soon after atter his arrIval lie he was ap approached preached by a p performer whom he had known for years and listening to along a al l long ng story ot of thwarted ambition was asked Harry can you let me ins have the price of a ticket to Chicago If you can do any good going to Chicago Lauder answered deliberate deliberately ly you shall go What time does the e next train leave The negotiator of the loan had bad not prepared for tor this and haltingly replied Oh theres plenty of trains FInd out the next one replied Lau Lauder Lauder der and then como come back prepared to start When ho he was making ready for the evening performance back came the theman theman man bound for Chicago and exclaimed breathlessly My traIn leaves Grand Central at Ive just time to make It Its never good to be in too great a hurry was the answer Besides Ive looked up Chicago and theres a train leaves at 1120 that gets there nearly six hours ahead of the one you Then too I want to go to the tho depot and wish you good fortune Walt Wait till I 1 leave the stage theres plenty of time About 1045 Lauder and his compan companIon Ion tooka took a subway y train for the Gr nd The traveler had no baggage but the comedian retrained refrained from corn com comment ment Arriving at the station he bought a railroad and PUllman ticket to Chicago and persuaded the guard to let both through the gate Know ChIcago Aboard the train he turned the trans transportation transportation over to the Pullman porter with the tho request that his friend should be well treated As the signal to leave was shouted Lauder pressed a bill Into the hand of the departing performer with the re remark remark mark To cheer you on the way Goodbye Three days later he received a letter of which this Is a part Dear Harry Until my arrival Chi Chicago cage cago was only a name to me I cant find anybody with enough money to send mo me back so I ant am still sUll here I never realized before how much you en enjoyed enjoyed joyed a joke yourself No one has han since sprung the railroad gag on the Scotch comedian |