| Show i PAST THEIR PRDIE j Celebrities Vlio Show Signs of Old I A Colliding Beeclier JUno t Ami IJomier i I Roscoe Conkliug passed a group of I politicians in front of the Fifth Avenue hotel a few days ago and note was made of the changes time and age are surely i making with the great lawyer and statesman I states-man He walked slowly partially from the pompous manner of the man but a degree of feebleness was noted in the legs His massive shoulders are rounding round-ing out and the fingers of time have got a decided clutch on the color of his whiskers and hair Deep lines cut their ugliness around his eyes and furrows are i cnvornlv drown nrniiml bin Trmiitli TTio dress is i still marked for expense u and fit but the emphasis of his former brusque businesslike manner seems to be growing tired Few men now raise their hats as they used to when he passed them New York city is the best place in the world for being idolized and loved with a vengeance for a while and being as suddenly left when one little dreams of it Surface interests surface fidelity surface friends are all one may look for in the precious New York public hENRY WARD HEECHER Trembling hands are those the Rev Henry Ward Beecher uses to turn over the hymn book and the Bible The noted orator of the Plymouth pulpit is aging rapidly and he makes the most juvenile effort at throwing it off ever seen among men His hair is as white as snow his face is as red as a boiled lobster his neck in thiCk nml InnfiAsHlinPfl find his from bling i i body bestrays that i his years are infirm in-firm and fast falling into the yellow leaf Mr Beecher does not wear his age with dignity His assumption pf boyish manners and attempts humor are sadly pointless and undignified He wiggles about on his legs when trying to appear young and destroys the very honor of his years The Beecher before the trial and the Beecher of today are vastly different in appearance and manner FRANK MAYO I Off the stage away from the kindly delusive I de-lusive flicker of electric light the good timehonored countenance of Frank Mayo looks old The same flood of quick brain energy gleams in his handsome eyes but the youth and taut manliness of the heroic actor is yielding to the waste of vitality The disposition to sociability is another noticeable want in Mr Mayo that i was never there before Like Ned Buckley Buck-ley Harry Edwards and others he is headed for the sunset and autumn of life and the springs and summers are far behind be-hind him Mr Mayo is a great theatrical attraction in New York city What an old friend may see off the stage in his growing old is not at all discernable in his acting As Davy Crockett he holds a place in the history of the American stage tnat will live when he has laid off I his mortal costume I ROBERT HONNER Robert Bonner of Ledger fame the I publisher of Fanny Ferns writings and the owner of so many noted horses is by I no means as young as he was once Mr I Bonner is not a handsome man he never was If anything he is directly the I reverse of handsome but he has made the name of Robert Bonner and The New York Ledger known the wideworld overlie over-lie is showing his age now His step is slower the auburn hair is thinned out his eyes look dimly out from deep wrinkles his head is bent forward his whole figure thick set and clumsy where formerly it was rather on the dapper order with mettle and spring enough for I a dozen men The Ledger property is a bonanza and Mr Bonners wealth apart I from that is immense On the shady side of life these people I that the world has known of for fifty years or more will soon drop away Few have I lIed such busy lives as Mr Bonner or done more to bring talent to the front in literature He was the good genius of Fanny Fern and of many others who were the new brooms that swept things clean at that period Many live to point to the publisher of The Ledger as their salvation from want their help in time of sore needs and the mainspring of final success It is said that a man who loves horses always possesses a kind heart and i liberal nature There is no discounting I Mr Bonners love of horses Flora Temple Tem-ple and many others were his special prides and loves in horseflesh and Maud S now holds the first place in his stables S F Chronicle |
