Show MANSFIELDS START STAAT It 66 so s many mall years ago that Richard Mansfield was an on unknown actor In the tho company of ot A M 2 1 t Palmer Originally n a 1 dry goods drummer r for tor a Boston dry goods goon firm Arm Mansfield had hada a II desire to go 0 on tho the stage He wits was poor He lie lived In one ons room over OU a shop in Sixth avenue New Nets York and on oc oo occasions his hl comrades of Bohemia find finch findIng Ing mc In him from the table tabla at nl which wIlch he dined for tor CO 50 O cents cen hunted him up and knowing his poverty insisted on his dining with theta them One night at il athis athis his hla humble repast Mansfield cried Joys 1108 1 z HIM luin EO go 0 hag Ini to make my name Palmer has given me a 11 chance th nce In a 0 new play pili called A Parisian Ro Be Romance mance Stint yourselves In dinner anti and ci cl cigars cigars gars anti buy bu tickets In III tho tue gallery galieri to see ree eG Dick Mansfield Next night lie ho WAS Will not to b be found In either cither his room or the restaurant Kel Nd Kelly ly h u subsequently the famous sculptor and Abbey Abbe tho tue now celebrated painter set let out oil eli rl right ht Dick In search of ot him Anyway s said ld they ne we have hav enough money for tor a dimmer and poor Dick flick starve It was wan a 1 winter night They found Mansfield pacing up and down Sixth avenue Away varlets he cried Minis Mans Mansfield field rats eat no food this evening for tor to tomorrow tomorrow 0 morrow Is 18 tho the night when th the Ibe world will begin to 10 talk of ot him That oil all right Dick said itald Abbey but bitt a full tull stomach Is la better botter Think of tripe and n a mutton stew Blew We have bave tho the money nolley for tor the dinner and ond a pot of a ateo ale teo too So 80 Mansfield finally consented to come corns down don from tho the heights of Parnas larnas Parnassus larn sits sus and end accept tho the hospitality of Jf his friends Next evening they thoy climbed to tit the tho gallery of the Union Square thea theater theater ter Their chum WIll was cut cast for tor a II small character of ot Baron Darol Jle lie made rood good lilt hIs hi |