but in 1900, right about the time that olga was getting off, thanks to abe hummel of the obscenity charge, charles morse and his cronies, and i mean it in the most pejorative sense possible, got a near monopoly on the ice market in new york. they had control over about 80% of the ice supplied as of april. and i had not realized just how important ice was to new york in the late 19th century. no electricity, no refrigeration. obviously, no conditioning -- air-conditioning, no fans. so they got a monopoly and they jacked up the price of ice. they doubled it. and even the newspapers, which were generally sympathetic to monopolies, thinking of it as being sort of modern forms of economic management, they were three years. this is the case with the tabloids really work. but it was a terrible thing. ice crystals a public health necessity because it was the only way you could keep milk and food clean and protecting terrible infant mortality, old people die and all that. anyway, morse wants to get divorced. humble suggest a way to wiggle out of it and in setting this incredible chase across texas

she said of the lead actress, never was olga so absolutely unique or original exception or finished or brilliant in execution. okay, here's our third name, buffalo bill cody. and how often you go to the speech we have henry ward beecher and buffalo bill cody in the first paragraph. buffalo bill cody, we all know who he was, a showman of the west. he was also a man with a heart, and he fell in love with, frankly, a nasty little piece of work named catherine. he thought she was talented. no one else did, and he dropped about $70,000 trying to make her a star. she eventually dropped him, what i refer to as the obscure actress lottery by marrying the younger son of the great railroad baron. howard coulda family was so appalled by this connection that they invoked a clause in jay gould's will in which they stripped her half of the fortune. it's not uncommon in such cases this marriage was later followed by this divorce, and hummel acted for catherine clements. one of howard's previous interests, young lady was defended by hummel when she said howard coulda for breach of promise. you go on.