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Show oo ALBERT L. RARKES DEAD Now York, Feb. 9. Albert L. Parkes. for more than fifty years a theatrical manager and writer, is dead or complication of diseases at his home here. Fit? was S5 years old. Mr. Pnrlccs entered tho life of the stage in 1859 ns manager of the Nelson Nel-son sisters burlesque company. Later ho was associated with Barnum. As manager ol the famous Woods museum mu-seum -in New York he -presented the Cardiff Giant sensation, i For manv vcars lie was known to stage folk a .'"The best dressed man on Broadway.'' 4' - M, Y . iitfHI |