Show how rachel met her death rachels death blow was dealt by her performance in los as horaces Ro races at the walnut street theatre in philadelphia when the thermometer was several degrees below zero and when not a fir firo was lighted in the house except in the stars dressing room but raphael r felix elix tile brother of rachel was to blame for that catastrophe iio he had taken the theatre in its entirety assuming all tile the expenses of heating lighting etc and he thought it probably a mas ter stroke of economy to suppress tile the furnace fires or possibly lie did not trouble his head licad about them but ut rachel awoke the next morning ig gasping with pneumonia and his saving in fuel resulted ultimate ultimately lv in tho the death of his great sister I 1 was present at that last representation and I 1 shall never forget it the cold was intense in ill the house as well as on tho stage opposite me sat mrs james rush then the acknowledged leader of philadelphia society wrapped in an immense ermine cloak and she told me afterward that even in spite of that fur ga garment ament silo she stiff suffered ered for days af afterward t erward from bronchitis caught on that occasion A young philadelphia society beauty a debutante of the season before caught like rachel her herbele belf a fatal cold and died before the winter was at rn an end new york world |