| Show A LOVERS REVENGE A College Boy Causes a Row Between Be-tween Lillian Russell And Attalie Claire He Sends the latter a Thousand Dollars Worth ot flowers Lillian Goes Wild Special to THE HERALD Examiner Dispatch NEW YORK Feb 20A young college boy of twentyfour is i the cause of a row between Lillian Russell and Attalio Claire The young man is Alfred Kayno and he belongs to Columbia college According to the story Jlr Kayne is very fond of Lillian Russell They are said to havo been very good friends at one time and then to have quarrelled Thereupon Mr Kayne thought out a schema of revenge His plan is said to have been AN ATTACK UPON MISS RUSSELLS POPULARITY by the presentation of flowers to her rival It was noticed that during the run of La Cigale in this oily Miss Claire began to receive many flowers Of course Lillian noticed this too but kept her peace On the night of the ono hundredth performance perform-ance of La Cigale at the Garden theatre came the great surprise Two or three days before Mr Kayno called upon John Scullen the florist of Broadway and amazed him by giving an order for 1000 worth of flowers which were to bo passed over the footlights Florists say that such an order was never before given in New York Mr Scullen filled the order and the stage of the garden was covered with ELABORATE FLORALDESIGNS FOR MISS CLAIRE Miss Russell received two lonesome bouquets bou-quets Mr Kayne had a terrible revenge Ho heard about it of course and it is said ho was filled witk delight but the young man was not satisfied Ho resolved to make another display on the night that the run of La Cigale came to an end but a happier idea struck him Ho would wait until the company opened last Monday niht in Boston The young man ordered a chariot of flowers It was five feet long and the polo was six foot long Ho had made also a huge cornucopia seven feet high with a mouth three feet wide Then there was a basket five feet wide filled with red roses and besides these FIVE BOUQUETS WORTH 550 EACH The total cost was more than 1000 They were sent on to Boston Monday Tao idea was to have the pieces placed in the lobby and the chariot was to be drawn across the stage The basket of red roses was adorned with crimson ribbon and labelled Harvard Har-vard The other pieces were covered with blue and white ribbon Columbian colors There was SSO worth of ribbon of different designs When Miss Russell heard of these gifts she was simply wild She used her influence and not a piece was lowed to bo placed in the lobby Kayne with four or five of his friends from New York and as many more from Harvard had secured the boxes and they were prepared pre-pared TO LOOK UPON LILLIANS DOWNFALL When the young man beard that the flow era wore not to be placed in the lobby he was wild too Across the street was a clothing store Ho ran over and offered ho merchant 5100 to allow the chariot to be placed in the window The merchant was very glad to have the flowers there without any payment The young men carried the hue boquets into the theatre and tossed hem to Miss Claire This is THE STORY OF MR KATNEs REVENGE md the bitter hatred that has sprung up between the two singers There are soma people who say that Mr Kayne did not seek revenge but that he was actuated by regard for Miss Claire At any rate ho will go down to fame as the man who sent more money In flowers over the footlights ban any man who over lived in New York |
