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Show Twins Have Fun with Process Server I COUNT IONATZ and Count Carlos Gombossl nre twins. Their trlonds at tho Waldorr, which they frequent, say tho Gombossls look ns much ollko as two Hungarian hussars In uniform. Miss Loretta Phonney has begun suit In tho supremo court against Count Ignatz for $50,000 damages, alleging al-leging breach of promise. Her counsel, Louis Schwartz, gave tho papors In tho caso to J. W. Staff, a process server. serv-er. Tho other day Mr. Schwartz, his clerk, Korz Taffe, and Staff wont to the Waldorf cafe. Twirling bis mus-tacho mus-tacho and talking to friends, stood Count Ignatz. A little distance from him was Count Carlos, twisting his mustacho and talking to friends. As Staff, papers In hand, hurried toward to-ward Ignatz Gombossl. tho count grasped tho situation Instantly. "Do not bother mo," he said, haughtily, haugh-tily, waving Staff away, "I am Count Carlos Gombossl. My brother. Count H Ignatz, whom you seek, probably, Is H over thero." jH Ignatz strolled from tho cafo; Staff H hurried over to Count Carlos, who H grasped tho situation, too. HJ "Yes," said he, readily accepting tho H papers, "I am Count Ignatz Gombossl. H Oh, it Is tho young lady's suit, Is It?" fS To glvo his twin brother a good H start, Count Carlos leisurely looked HJ over tho papors, then, throwing thorn H on tho floor, rushed trom tho cafo and H ran at top speed cast on Thlrty-flrBt street. Staff overtook Carlos at Madl- H son avenue. HJ "Ah, you are not clover," exclalmod H tho count, laughing hilariously. "We H havo thrown tho dust In your eyes. I H am Count Carlos Gombossl," and ho H handed tho process server his card. fl But, seeing ono Gombossl run. H Schwnrtz and his clerk grow suspicious H and hastened after the other. H "Wo wlll'serve both," said Schwartz. H "then there can bo no mistake." H Thoy caught up with Count Ignatz H at Forty-second street. Staff rejoined H them. Ignatz, laughing, confessed to H his ruse and tho papers wero served H on him. HJ |