New York Clipper (Mar 1915)

M arch 27 THE 2SrEW YORK CLIPPER, 17 ilEMINISCENCES OF THE SHOW BUSINESS COVERING HALF A CENTURY. (Writttn Expresalu for Tub New Yobk Ci ii i ku i .. ... . HV ilAJO lt JOnX M . BURKB. , .iTOB's Notb: Major Bufke ^Tcn Mnri^ ^ y^,^ , ;., appeal to those atlll iMng of the "Old Line," and be presmed bj ttofi yrarf, 'wltb tbs "profeulon" of tht ttaco and Its drvotccs—lean bo long, (lienda ao natur. tbQt, In the tames of a dtcamT r*Terle, I will owJeaTor to recall a few of the lorely People Who Contribated to Hake Uanktnd IIsppr> la tbe imoke wrcatba I am maklni I can n* the dim, pait maoaierlal dara or genial llake (who, wtth Dan EVobman, I manocrd tit* Ont Aotora' F>ind tMDeflt). "SMnoal of l\ma" Cuitla, at the Po«r- teenUt Street Hieaitre: Harm Jarrott, Joo Uoofcer, IUttt Patoer, Tony Hurt, Ned liar- rlcu. Nell Aurseas, Jobonv WHld. (leorge ItatMoo, Oiarlry ViTlw, torn lUgn Qco. iicDoimad,_Win. u Itowron, Jamca W. Un- Dare Bawill. Jamca MeVlckcr. ^hn Norton, »°'' J!<* «"*»»o' the Dowew Ceorje MoManiu, CSiarlor f»opc, CharlOT "•dJ., ercntlve conunlttco of tbo pand D. 1'. SpaiiTdlDB, Oeorge Ooaale. I*at Short DarneT Vi. .'^i' I-«woll, Morrison SUnmona, NfaeA,,Ie, and loulsTflli' Brother jfohn rS? iJJ,",Kil"V "'i F*^"^ 9""^"." <Si'»* the Chlle-con-Carne Club); John Duff. John SlTf.^'*'"'"^*'', '<*'™ *' tonntcra yelwyn. Dob Mllea, Urtcr Wnllack!^hcoJorc c'J"'"SL ^^^f' 0>">«f«». I™ Nine. timet of mloitrelsr and drama: Bill Den ^Shades Of ?f\^r/X4'':ge«°i^^^a;'";e^^ fr':??:^mo.^^.Ay"^^rtS,Z dear oM Slnntlng on this I could write a boot I Colonel '■'"""•I cut this aliort. but I think It Im- T. AlIlBton PO'''?n' to »tat« tihat one of Mr. QpoTcr'a Brown, and f!^'''"? ^^'^ that predoialnont Itajre In na- tha t dcbo- lonal history, the laanentcd President Abiti- .MAJOR OUIIKC. nadr d r n - matlc editor, Harry Ash- ley! n n (I WUl Diivls, wh o w n 9 your envliHl correspond- ent In that 'way West city, Chl- cigo—when It was fifty cents admis- sion In Aay- tlme Just to visit and In- In^HSCt tbc linm Uncoln, who often sought a few hours of escape from the hurJr.burTy of condllton" by dropping In to sec ''oid ^ell." and In n I.Ik casy-cbalr In tbc office bide blnaolf from the oorcs of state In social converse or nn lioiir or so's quiot nap. - , — — . ... I mUht mention here that my ndvmturouq 'b"trc and star company, creating an atmo- splrit generally atttrarted mo to th? nr?n^ 5!]m"£ "J" ''fi l°g"™tion to Dayld Uelaaco. In and support WllUam and ERle In 'Th'e Lone Ilouse On the Bridge" and "Millie of Ihe Milking rail;" Matt Canning, John Al- buigb. In Albany; Dill Von Amlmi, In Troy; old Tom Carr, In Ilochester; old man Mecch and sonsh successors, at Buffalo, witli Tom Dnvy In Detroit, and old man Whitney |l''red's pa) to split tho perccntagoa or play (hp Michigan Fenlnsnlar Clrcnlt 1<he amokc curls fnune the raclflc Coast, rlicn you were greotcd by, -'Ah, Just from ihe Statea?" the days of 'fom McOulre, Mc- Culloiich and Jlarrett's Kroit nalston-tackol ..South bcfo' the Wah," Nclso Boymour, Itllly nice. Ad JtymSD, l>nncy Moore, of "l,un- noplUlly Arlington. Rph. Horn. Luke scboolcraft, Illlllca Manning and Kmeraon, Cool Burgess, Swnyno Jtuckley, Iho Morris loioriipcrBcu wiui mo equally iiirn i'Iiihh llrothers. Milt Barlow. Ocprgo WItaon, Hilly horso cihlWt of KhiHln Uoyora stuif of hiKh «eit. Ue stlll-blQomln|r Primrose, nnd the schoi)! gmdiiates nnil nrt-poslng. iilc-iiin- The rarllgn hn.i liiniod to x.ihrs. llin drram Is orer. Knct, not fnii-y. onils Ir. Not "back to the mine," Iml "l>:iik lo lliii West." "In tho West, tn the West. And happy to bo, Whoro tho mighty Mla^iourl Itolli on to Iho am." "Dill" baa acttled on the fnrlhr.^t ami Inst of tho frontier. In tho foolhlllg of tlio Itncky Mountains, on the edge of tho VolinWHtono rark, where ho practically lives over agnlii • on bis "lUO" rnndi, lltty i.aii-s from Cody City, the old buntcrscout life, ond wKli tho ■-" - — • - gtay away embodied In nt In the beat bai.inri'il liorse show over held In lata DunTcr Midwinter ag's and J. M. Mooro's strings leading numborloaa Western litirHo «how stnblcs tliat hnvo cbaliengod compiiri- fOD with and won ribbons from London, .New York and all tho fnmcd ezhlblUons, iienliy IntorHpcrscd wltb tho equally high i'Iiihh then youngsters, I/)u Dookstadter, .ind Iho peruonlal Al. Q. Field, wcro but a few. Then Ihe ring kings: 1'. T. Marnimi, Vticlo Jlmmle Ualley, nnd tlio Solid Miildnnu, tbo placid W, W. Cole, Ueorgo Coup, Hon Cos- lollo. Jim Hutchinson, old John Itnblnnon, .M. II. Lent. Jim N'lioii (n creator), Nnthnn, Jiino. Cooper snil Angcvlne (the Kig Kinir), .Iim Wilder, Adnni I'orepnugli. Krouping rnulncs, the height of IIvIiik >'t'nli>- turo possibilities—n fcsluro tlinl liiis niiuli> u profound suecc.u of th;tt WrHlcni Imni, bred and developed flcenic ninrvnl, iIk< Si'II.s- I'Into Clrcna. t)n tho orcasioii of W.vnmini; Djiv. whi-n (tovcmor <"iirlsiin iiiul llip IntNlniiin- nf (.•cl.i. rado n-ceivod nnil ciili-rlniiu'd tlu" covi'mur and Irglslnllvu Imily of Wyoming, llip old iT.iircKur.i of Crosby's Opera House, Wallace lIuiiio H nrcltltectural model, ercurslons dolly froin tlie surrounding country; when on tour, ilio Itinerant acquiring the acquaintance of TiiK CLirrEB man, oiKfa /rood report sent In, Iclr ns great a Joy and triumph as was given lilin liy nnanclal success, T^ej >wouln all line, to view the real war Bpcctncles. I ha5 the honor of being one of three civilians thnt iTcre present at the Battle of Port Stevens, on the occasion when President Lincoln hlro- ^^i,L'"^- 'il^^I " occasion when Washington ma surrounded and st- e^Posc^ himself upon the outer foruamtiona and wns sternly com- manded by aeneral JlcOook to retire from Ills erposcd position. In company with a friend, I wns on horsc- ^^°ISa"'^. t°. White,House porch, when President Lincoln, the night bofore his ossAsslnaUon, spoke on rcconsrtructlon In a most coiiservatlve way. This was the night </f the big lllumdnation of Wa^inrton cclc- brAtlng the fall of Richmond. Naturally, during the last few years nt the lllll Brady, Joe Grlsmcr and other skilled ilramatic connoisseurs In art raiuea—when Marcus Mayer was a popular California State lojUlHtor—n local nolltlclnl factor to the ox- tent thnt It seomed he sidetracked prcnlden- llnl po.<islbllltlcs for the drama: John IHper, who wns the John Stetson of the mining camps of Nevada, with Ylrglnda City ns n con- irc. nbcn It was a real "goldflold:" Joe Proctor, then the theatrical nabob of Sacm- rrtento, Maryavllle and rubo Dam, with Siinkpspearenn standards, and the "Jlbenal- nosn.v" ns sttndbvg, and Bcldin Irving (wltli Ixinisc Dillon nnd Harry Ralnford and aunt In tho compnny), touring from the tom-ns of |{'>rkrnrd, Jollot. Raoln(\ .Madison, La Cmsse. I'ond du Ijc, Prairie dii Chlen, Dubngue nnd river rliles. 'way back to Sioux City, vlr- Ing with old Plunkett, the Northwest mnii- joln me in protesang that you'shoild give tbm ro I hVd tbe «rr<rf S^^^^^^ , ,„ - - - - " 1110 .such a latter-day kid career as '■ forty the greatest cclrt)ritJc8 of Sat ttmpiSiuAVJ Provniting on the clUicns of the „r.r," thereby cutUng oIT .ficeJue of' the nnd poIltlMl. and I ^tacs^d tt^ isolated prnlrU; to.'^•hold tho fort" till "clvlll- vcarf," thereby cutting oIT twelve of' the yrnrs that elansed since mydcbut In tho at- mosphere of the tbeatrc; for it was piftv- TiiNKD YDAns 100, Qfter a history too long lo lip related here, covering some tumultuous e.tiicilcnces at the theatre of the Civil War of qiiitc on adventurous kind, at a time when nil u-na not "quiet on the Potomac," that I cnlpicd the thcntrlcal world. In fact, as on (.rplinn boy. the war had put me In the cate- gory of what wouhl be called the "Irregu- lars." " l.oatiug a chapter behind and making a riit across fields for reason, I would state 10(11 1 knew and a;dmlrcd a voung actor named Frank Danig*. Frank bad beeniOlaylng In Richmond; be- come a captain In the Confederate Army, and n-ns cnptnrcd In 1863. Being a Washington Do.f, and possessing considerable dramatic niilllty and a personality that waa very at- iraollTe, with a family to support, on being paroled he Joined the slock company of the old .National Theatre. The ipetfy prelndlce of maaklnd at tliat Ume equalled In Intensity now evidenced among the profound profes- soH of progressive civilization at present la slnir double<lccker war-cataclysm howls on [hlB now "distracted globe." This resulted m he rallying of pro and antl-Bangslte foctloas, and for a ehort time the theatre was the sceoo of demonstrations agalnit the SpuUiern actor, fully equalled by those In Ms favor. My personal .friendship for bim, Hpurred by the enthusiasm of youth, caused mo to espouse nightly tho cause of a man view. In which, for two days, from dnwn to moonllglit. In solid phanlnnz, from curt) to "irb of wide Pennsylvania Avenue, pasaed the flower at the United States vrternns, with their serlcd ranks nnd tattered bnttle JJf?' orpcnicnced, tried nnd pfllelcnt nrmy In eilstence. niimhcrlng sevcrni hundred thousonds over a million men „.At the close of the wnr in 1805 I startnd Ttest. with the same spirit of adventure In- stilled by the conditions then existing, wltb the Intention of accompanying Oencral Cloy Green Smith, of Kentucky, appointed gov- ernor (to succeed Thomas Francis Maher) of the new territory of Montana. A very active Indian war rendered such n trip Im- possible, and It was there and then that I began to Imbibe the Western Interests with which I have been associated for many years. St a time whea tbc most nromlncnt men nn the frontier—the Great American Desert— were Generals Sheridan. Custer, et al., on tho one side, and Red Clond, the terror of the plains: Sitting Bull, Spotted Tall. Tall Pull, Reindeer, etc., on tho Indian side, nnd the pathfinder for the one and the trail- flndcr of tbc other was that remarkable, pic- turesque and effective scoat, "Dairalo Bill" (Col. W. F. Cody), And It wns then that I became Imbued with nn Interest In the Western subject and tbc personality of a leader with whom I am proud to have been Identlfled for so many years. Wltb an appreciation of the limitations of space, and a terror of the blue pcndl, I will. zntinn on her liimlnoua wings" should avlaic lo their nclghliorhood, and Jack linngrlsli. n.iinding and maJalng Denver a marvelous dr.inirttic centre, ac^mulntlng so mueli wealth ns to Invade the Fnr Flast, then slorwly ri'trent tn tlic then frontier resort of dlsnp- iioiiitod forty-nloers, tlic gold camps nf the lilack Hills nnd Deadwood. Wlhcn on a visit. In 1801), to Ixis Angelos, Its evident naturnl sift.i were voted valiipless on account of the predominance of the Spanish " 'dobc liwcller." old I'loo. thp Innt of the Spanish alcnldes iH-ing sUII n locol fnctor. Hut what a tmna- foimntlon sccno now, eclipsing anything Uiat the older Vnc^tHn nnd Charley Oetx ever produced, but that the present Mlcbnpl An- ;.'i lo of the stage, young Vocgtlln, could pos- sihlv surpass. On and on—until the smoke pictures tell of the days when the little world of players became broader—aye, colossal, and then the dnys nf the Frobmans (Dan and Charley), of Al. Hayman. Klaw & ICrlanger, the liar risen, tho Lleblers, Joe Wober and I^w I'leida, creators of a special stylo of Infec- tious hilarity: Mske, Cort, Pltou, Dllllng- linm, the ^Huberts, Fred Zimmerman, my Juvenile confrere and companion en cheval; ct al. Kscbewing consecutlvencss. In these •Irenmy pictures I can descry scenes among tlic fumes when the actors' rendezvous cen- lre<I nround the old Bowery 'I'heatrc, At- lantic Garden, the Spring Street, nround N'lbln's, then farther up to Amity Street and Iho Grand Central, then "way up town" to I lie never-to-be-eqitalled "old RIalto," Four- lecnth and Union Square—a players' Bo- COL. COUV AMI MA.inU nilllKE;, MUl.LNd ON ALIIBIirA, lUM. •lui: iioAit AT r,i>MO!VTo:v. We must not forget tlio pencllor's—^Tnny Hamilton nnd Jack, Cbnrlcy Uaylor, Ocorgo 0. atarr, Charley Uay, I/OUIh la Cook, Ullly Diirand, Charley Btowc, Jay Rial, ai sam- ples ; and tho national sawdust favorites, when quip. Joke, story and song, with the ringmaster as a feeder, were a nereHslty— Dan Rice, Joe Pontlnnd, lien Maglnlcy, Johnny I'altersnn, old Dan Gardner. Johnny Ijudlow, Billy Ilurke, Bob Butler, Pete Conk- lln, and old Joo Meyers, who conquered I'^uropc. The dignified Cliarlcs Whentlor, tho one and only ISdwIn Booth, tlin gnicunil Cliarlei Kechter, tho classic Ualvlnl, Jim Wallnck, that greatest of all-round nciora, Ned Uaven- fwrt; later, the aeathotle Rlcliard Mansfield; tbe fortunate dramallc authoralchemlnt, Charles Barras—these nro but a few of tlio scout's prcHpiU'O jiiid lu'rHiuiiillty wiis nIhiiliMl In by (luvtriiiir Ki-iiiliii'k, nf Wytmiliig iih fullnwH: "Vuur liifcri'Kt!! iiiid our liilrrcHtH nrp IdpnlLcnl. ♦ » • \v,. imvi- only uiic bone of I'onleiitlon belwppii un nnd Ihiil Is Ihu clnlnt wo botli muko to ( nlinipl Wlllhiiii K Cody, (lolling riglit diiwii to It Imwpvi'r, I lie boys of (.'olcirndn anil Wyoming IhiIK know tli.i; IlulTiilo Bill iii-liniga to iinllli.'r Hliilf, inn tu the AniprlCMii initloii Hii. In lenllty, we linvo no dilfnpin'p iit nil." Ho you can nro how ajiitllcnliip lln' reiiinrk is lo "llllj," and. In this IiihIiiiup, Imw arliinl —"still 111 Iho rUig." With pipiLsnnt niMnorlpM of tlni iK'st flfty- Ihrco yearj In the world's lilMlory and nat- Isfactlon In, to mo, my m-w Hold of oiidravor, tho old basic foundation of nniiiHi'iiipntH, of whnQ7 mrmVHio™?ri„'i,r»" ^,,1 " space, ana a terror or tne Olue pencil, I will, leenth and union Square—a players' Bo- ^-narics iiarras—locso nro uut a few of tlio "'o, oia onsic lounaauon or nniiiwinpMlH, of for hiS^h<.,„„r„^U».V "''^ns briefly as possible, erplala the connection liomlan land that caa never bo duplicated. Passing throng that memory dotocU In tho e»ch and ovory class, tlio Joy klnilprgnrten <!il>rb»,''ii!ph? o.,"''''??.^~r.'''™^ ?? of this rarly atmosphere with the fact that, nnd wiiero I have lingered, when as a rosi- Hitting crowd, mingling witli whom was a "f mankind from chlldliood to old Mgd -tliD oiorKpy, iJie Silver King," and his truly ■- •^•^ — — - • ' -' — — •- • •— -i ■ — -■ ... v.. .. classic "Mark Antony," excelling, as It did, •n vigor, action and eloquence, This brought me Into olo .1.1 ... me Into close communion HI" the great, capable, versatile enfre- prcnciir who held tho managerial reins In lac realm of the drnmn, Lconnrd Grover, On whose staff I enlisted. He was then n iJomlnnnt factor In tho dramatic, operatic, and In the, at that time, primitive variety, 1.0W viudovUle, line of entertainment: ,i man riircly equipped for the limes — In fact, fstonislilngiy so for one so young—iwlth an i ncrsy and a discernment really marvelous When one considers the scope of his cnter- lirlses He had the National Theatre, In "iislilngton, playing clock companies nnd •Jlnrs: the Alexandria war-camn 'rheatre, the incmln. In Baltimore; the Chestnut Street nicalro. In Philadelphia ; tho Olympic, New > oi*: soasomLble rentals of the Acadomles of .Music of Pblladelphlo, New York and lirooklyn and the Boston Theatre, with Max Marotzek s Italian Opera Company and n (.oniinn operatic company, with such stars nn llnbelman, Herman and Ronconl; and ■Max Slrakoscb's concert tours; a linguist innt could talk to contraltos, sopranos. Wssos, tenors, ogents, with a suavity of iiinnner and a managerial diplomacy that nililpvcd n tronqulllty surpassing the pro- ■ " pouring of oU upon the waters. He (■oiiid lend an orchestra, detect a falsetto. In ••oiro or Instrument, besides employing the !"," s"S£''^9fulIy as a drmnntlst. evidenced by lis Treasure Trove," "Our Boarding dimt in iManbatlan. for over forty years. Tiierp, msny and many a time, as memory I'pcnils. I have seen a coterie of gifted mor- tals—Joe Jefferson. Charles W. Couldoak, Charley Thorne, Harry Montague, Lester Wallack. ' Billy Plorenco (Bhrlncr founder) i Frank .Mayo, A dreamer of Bhokespearo but a suc- cess in .Frank Murdock's "Davy Crockett," Murk Twain's "l>uddln'hcad Wilson;" dash- ing Mark Bates (tho sterling artist—Marie's gifted Apollo mate), tho Vokos family, the corneistone sensation of the Union Squaro; .1. B. Studloy, "good old Jaok" of Bowery Immortality, first Impersonator of Fred Maders' dramatization of Ned BuntUne's House" nnd other plays. At that time It meant something to make lasts by telegraph, transfer actors and •■i<;ires.sM from city to city, from play to play, yion the repertoires were of one-night dc- iiiaiiiis; besides the occasional spectacular iiroilnctlons, with such stars as Hdwln For- ' s . Lharlotto Cushman, LucBle Weston, K. •• U.-ivcnport, Mrs. D. P. Bowers, J. W. Wal- lack, Dan Setcbel, John Wllkce Booth, Avonin •.K'iiC'3, Charles .Matthews, John B. Owens, •■a lies E. Murdock, Julia Dcane Ilaync, Ned •■ ' ams, a bright light In legitimate comedy ,, .'Im""?, I. t«KC<l7 (Hamlet), or the ro- " a itic (like Enoch Arden); the Bntcmnn •vsiers, Mrs. Farren, Mrs. John Wood, lately ii'ioascd nt elgbty-ifour years of age; Mr. iV',' Barney Wlllloms, In Celtic roles: 1 lily Florence and wife, rival family '"I .'"'."•J" Yankee portraiture; later, the -— ~ v — •TiL'innl Bob Brlerly and Oppenhelser: tbe Oclgrnde, and Cracow on the East, '"xnns. oiivo and CecU: the pre eminent to Inverness and Olnsgow on the Ni ;'"iiii Drew, and Mrs. Drew, legatees of ' ' " ' "-- iTHiiinry dramatic gifts; Dan, patriarch of I"' Alnrblc family of histrlones; the petite ;;';Mn. the Maddern Sisters, I>oura Kecne, •Maorlcnn Cousln,"of historic tragic memory ; I'll nuthor-nctor-iproduccts as Dion Bouel- •iiit, nnd a host of others who carved their IIM IMPS Indelibly In the history of the drama In company with mv side pard. Bison WUl- Inm. I have vlalteo. not once but several times, and In ^uch detail ns to locality. In Europe, tlint m are tamlllanwlth every coun- try, klacdom. prlolpallty, capital city and town, tbe officers, as well as tbe royalties, and ncarlv all the mltltary leaders, that arc now figuring In tbe C0lO3.saI, hell-ralslng wnr now disarranging the social conditions of the Continent, and disarranging the future cn- rrcrs of many young men, as did the tremen- dous strife snd struggle that affected my mvn boyhood career, and I can now look bnck to It In contrast and sympathize with those 'viiaia the prcs«7it unfortunate affnlr mny create young nomnds. Ned Buntllne, .famed as a novelist, and un adventurous character hUnself, had !)iilplly visited tbe Western military posts, nnd bnd measured and fitted a real character. W. F. Cody ("Buffalo BUI"), probably for the flrst lime in history, associating n living person- age nnd actual hostilities, surronndings nnd conditions, with romantic story. This was dramatized nnd was a sensational success, making Sill pbenomcnnlly popular. The Grand Duke Alexis' hunt, the victory In the battle of Summitt Springs, and the dendlr duel wltb Tall Bull, the Jamos Oordon Bcri- nolt bunt, and nn Invitation for a visit ICnst as the-Journnllsts's guest nt the Union Lea<;ue Club, New York, transformed a dis- tant frontier character Into a iponlllvp, ex- isting personality, a human fact, crontirig a popnTarlly eclipsing anything In histor)-. As Gus Thomas^ old-time prototype, lUII Shskcspcare, has said, "there Is n divinity that shapes our ends," smootlily, "hew them ns we mny," so my Western omblllons nnd !ihort dramntic experience acted to attach mc to the following of the grand work of pdncnllog Ihe East In the dawning iin.ssl- MWtlea of the then vanishing Wild West- first, tliroiigh the stage nnd the dromn for Den Thompson, seven or olght yenro, nnd since, for thirty- house fomc; Ilcn Do Bar. Harry Langan.BoI two ycnrs, ■have I been nssoclnted with Tlic Smith Russell. Spaulding and Hanlcy, Dick Ifiin and tho Suhject. Ilooley, Hnrry Miner, Joe Wheelock, lorn In the curly stage, Billy was playing In tbe Kecne. Dllly . na; don. __Jlm Hardy. Charlcn Winter and Intermittently scouting, flefhtlng or bunting In the Summer. Joining every cnmnnign. winning eicrptlonnl honors In that of (;u9tcr In 'TO, guiding scientists, such ns I'roCossor Mhrsh, to such remote corners ns was the lUg Horn Ifais(n> tn geological and l)onc-huntlng research, touring Europe several I Imps, from Barcelona nnd Naples, Lnlbnch nnd Agraoi on the South, from Bordeaux to .4. —J — .1.. c., ortb, and nearly every city and town thus en- circled, and In America, from San Diego, Onlvpston. New Orleans and Jacksonville, to Ouelicc, Winnipeg, Bdmonton and Vancouver, nnd nearly every Intervening dty and town (many founded since. Ids perambulation started). While entertaining and oduoatlng nil notions ami peoples of Europe and Ajncr bevy of ooIltlcJans of claa.s nnd standing, from tbo days of Tweed, John Kelly, Klohard Croker nnd Sheridan flhook. convening to- fether on tho neutral ground of tlio Morton louse, and on army of social boulovardlen. as Larry Jerome, John Hooy, John Mavkay, Col. Matt OMirlen, of tho kind of wlinli)- souled men and first night patrniiH, n;i the genial Diamond Jim llrnuy of to-diiy. A long list. It Is true, but wluit i rostor could bo called of mnitalH oil wuithy of it lenf In memory-dcnr's reflective iilhiiin, ami u niche In tho hall of Tbenplnn fmiie. All, tboao were linlcyvn days, dreamy dnyn, wn.<ii from Billy Moles', around liarrv Fn'Pii- haunt's, .lop Sdimltt's, the Hungnrlnn, (Inn Luchow's, Dam's Hotel, the WcBtmliiHlpr, lo operatic stars and gour.nirtH, with Martlnctn's as a close 8rcon<l, was tho rentre vrexlii;; grounds for tlio dolpgnl-'s to the yearly con- ventions rcprosenling lliu Amanemmt wnrlil. In smokcland, I can sec In bat-relitf plc- turos of the good old ibiys when that gray "Buffalo Bill," pioneer of real Western drnmo, Luchow OS wiis the "Ooboroon" and "Uncde Tom' .MornttI s Italian C'aatlo of' Comfort, for of the Southern: Ii'rank Jktordaunt, a dra- matic raucer, as facile In "Othello," "In- §omar," toe deUcaite comedy of "Charles urfacc," "Cheviot Hill," aa unctuons In tbo humor of "Major Britt;" Fred Wardc, of tbe I'las&le; Hurry II«<wk, of Ihe farcical; the Irish patriots, Joe Murphy, Billy Scanlan and Chauncoy Olcott. Major Pond, at times arm-ln-arjn wiV\ llcnry Ward llccdicr, moving throuttli the throng tn the lOverott House: at otlicr tlmi's with John B. (rough, Ijocke (Petroleum V. .Vndby), of The Toledo Utade, or with Annie Dlck'lnstin, Mark Twain, dear old "Maraa Henry" Wettcrson, ShclLnbcrger (Mn. I*apt- :i!«:ton), .SaHb, the cartoonist, and, at ttmea, little (ien.^ral IVim Thumb oould be seen, wltb his high h.^t nnd vandyke board looking lip at and Jollying Big Bill Walley and Long John Allen, six foot three and four, without Ibolr high Imts. Jim O^Nclll, F. F. Mackay, J.. H. Stoddard, John Jenlngs, Dan liryan, Cbas. R. Thorne, Jim Collier, .McK'-c HanKlo, Tony Pastor, Jim Nixon, UuB Wllllnms, Hartley Campbell, Comedian Brown, of chop- rircus—I am pleased lo nay lliiii wlfth Ihu Old Scout aud Indian Alliance ■ will he, llilii year an last, with tliv most HiioTHsfnl or- ganlzatloii In llio "hlnck yenr of ihi' show ualneua" (11)14). Uio llnoly bnlaiipo-l, woll conducted Westom product, tlio "IIi'hI Knin- lly Circle Circus" cvr;r, the Hells-Klotn lliif- fulo Bill. Wfty venrs n«o (IHtini, as I stood on tlin baaks of tho .NtisHOurl, I tliouglut If 1 ci>iild ever cross the Urent Ainorlciin IhMcrt ninl reach Cherry (.'reok (.'amp (Denver) with iiiy «aatp, I wouhl be lucky nnd could bo liiipiiy, and hero 1 am revnllng In mninorlPH of tlio old RIalto, In tlio llo<-ky Muuiitnlii ci'iiliTiHit of mineral nnd agpiciiltiirai wwiltli niid hiii»t- lallvo scenic KramluurH, lioalthlaml'ii iiii.|n>iHi- lls. Dvnvor. Hoping thin reverlo will nriiOHp pluiiHiiitt inomorloa In Mm fow iiiitihiI who can oiihwit, "More I" I chwp, wiih my Ih-mI rcgnrils to nil, and ih tlmt old, mIho "iiHikiT out nt tlio gnmo" nnd rri-a.Uir of tlie I'liin'Hilini, "vIhm Kliy," Juke 'iViiini'ljaiiiii, .Molillp'a liraiiit lilil and a bouquet of beautiful and actresses, led by Elmlly Jordan, (Mrs. Agnes Booth, who ■Mdlpy I iientcd \-iios Perry . -lartlod Wnsblngton as "'Ogarlta, the Wild '.';>wcr of Mexico," In thai spectacle), be- •••li^s ranking with the greatest of her sisters ;" "'e slnndnrd—Mrs. German, deor Aunt Eloridge, then as fascinating as any ■IMP p,cwton sisters—In fact, nn nggregn- I'll with as many Idle as employed; then : '•entatlonnl organlintlon which wa.i. In- ' "^ •, a llttlo world In Itself. This llttlo ■•'irm wns so big that I almost forgot to || eiillon that our dear friend, WIlUo Crane, ■ ■'^ nationally famed as a basso In the Hol- .111 .liivpniic Opera (3>mipnny. and Blgnor "•riiL'lnl. the boy tenor (Johnny Chatter "ii.i. Harry Murdock and Claude Burroughs ■iTp among the younger members who grad- i:c<liand. ns Professor Bmorltus—Colone' fVxIy ("iBiiffalo Bill")—nnd by returning at Immense cxpen.sc from Biirope for the last of nil In<Uan wars, that of iflOQ-Ol. when our old companion Sibtlng'Bull, was killed, and Ii.nd the plensure of Doing in at the llDlsh forever of nil strife Iwtwecn tbe rod and Iho white race, also the honor to be one of the two last paislble Indian Pence (Mmmls- sloners (the other bclntr the distinguished veteran of four warn Uajor-Ocneral Jesse M. loc), irtien Sfalor-tJencral Nelson A. Mile; closed the last chapter and the last page and the laM paragmpb of three hundred years of Indian war. May none other ever sally the pivlllzntlon of wbtch we now claim posses- sion. This connection'brought me In association ns a by-product manager, for many long Stovenson. John Jock, Frank Sanger, Charley Backus, Jack Itlckaby, Charles Cnghlan, Borry and his pal. Fay I Billy Birch, Charley Collins, Maurice Barryinore, David Wamtxilit, George Fox. JIafUt. Bartholomew, Hill Wor- rell (Sophie and Jennlu's p-np.!). Hill Ash, James Tnayer. "Tbe Morelaml" was once nn arcolc Jester, palllnir wlUi Joh:iny Hart, u natural bubbling e^nng of iinctnuus humor. "Tho Moreland' I mean Is the dear Arthur, beloved Intcrprster and apostle of Klkdoni In the tabernacle, a x:ontrovenlnll.st nnd re- pnrtlsta on the itlollo. a source of Inspira- tion lo such splendid recnilts to the herd ni that most populor among the ' nccennirtiy popular Grand Einlted Rulers ns Kddie Leach; Jim Flake, Ke'.iy nnd Leon, John Ellsler, Ned Bulklcy, Matt Hnyd<;r (rbalr- man Actors' Reception Commllteo of the U-jn Francisco Fair lulD). Nat C, Goodwin, whose smile adds value to tbe Lot Angolos atmosphere; Billy Con- nors, of the St. James; Andy Dam (here, on Iho Bnuurt) ; I'hll Lehman, of Saltvllls: •■.Syl" Illckey, of Queen Mary's time; Ned Glunore, liugcno Tbmklns, Dan ILarklns, .llmmle Lonvl^ George Clarke, Stuart Rohson, i>ivpn Fawcott, "Itomoo" LcfllogwcU, Mlko Kennndy, Tommy Burns, John T. Raymond, Jlin llearn, R. M. Held, Ctaarloy Iloyt, Louis Harrison. Frod >f«ader. Dob MoWade, Pete Dalley. Steele Macksye; "young" Jeromo ICddy, "hufctling" Bob Orau, lorn ucDonoogb, nad tbe tragedian John, OUlo Dowd (Drron) —"Acrou-fbe-Oontln»Dt J. J. McCluiky"— Junius Booth, J. Newton Ootthold, Nat ung- Iian. Nats Salabnry, Johnny Webster, Bam nUFFALO IIII,I„ STILL nS TIIM TRAII,, 1014. ColvMle, "Soarf-pln" narrr nager). Sargent (Orst Harry Mann. Dob Mantell, Ned Rice, Harry Oreenwall, Hteve Flake, Tjouls AJilrlcb, John Matthews (flrst A. V. Almoner), Harrison O. balred kid. Jerry (>>]ian, "the nation's fuvor. Ite, 'Barney tho Guide,' <^[H.'rouJng the un- traveled In panoramic vlowu of 'Ireland As It la,' .ind with his Infcotlous lIllxTlau per- funallty, making one among tho really ilrst of tbs moTlnjE pictures," Charley Parxloe, Grimn, Dnn Sulley, Funny Flctdicr, myself and 6\1T Ilk lorded It In Fa^staff sty'o at Harry Cunningham's rjid Vaulmer's llcer Halle, near Houston Btreot, and thun rumin- ate tbrougb the pathways of time until the march of progrem loft tho canniing grouiiils of Itarrlcan k Hart, passing to the now I'lr,- toeratle Forty-second Htreot lUalbo. and tbo realm relgnra over, through hereditary genius of Celtlc-Ajoerlcan culture In Joyous dramatic literature, Intcrprotcd by a magnetic magi- cian of Momusdoffl, In the person of tlio once "llttlo GeoTvIc Cohan," and Id« alder* nnd abettors In catching personalities. Willie Col- lier and Raymond Hltc]ir<Kk. worthy of Vic- tor Herbert's Jolly Good Frlara rylhmnti* toast: "Here's to the I'rlara, Here's to them all. Out on the road Or here In tho hall." .Man. Kiys, "A innn hIi/hiIiI bo proiiter as a huM-licPii ns hu shoiild as n living noviT-wiiH," no In, fraltriinlly yours. John .M. Biihkb. P. H.—I luLve iMnlttivl n library of dotails, U'hiuli would have lippn IntoroHling, but how ijiany imges would It liiivu tnkiti If 1 hnd nt- Ipinptpd to inofiUon thp nrniy of talented, lovclir wuiMPH that nddcd brilllnncy to tlio histrionic word, whemvpr "Lady Htar" was « goddoai, every "Juvenile liiny" a queen, every "W:ilklng liudy" n prlnciMS, every "Old Woman" n dowager macron, pliaperon and ndviacr; thp imllet corps all Byuderus, nnd till! clioruH nil OllMon glrU. Tlion you could nci'iiae mu of "atlll harping on my daiiglitpr." AMERICAN DOLLAR FLAG olutfrUiun-fiii •nJriinpr'Ktf, 4M7Uft, Stwtd iltra. i*wrd ilriprt, 6-friol i^Jf! iron (M>lfl holtjrr, all cfmifilHe l/y «i- ^ prciion racrlplclUcroif oficf, $1.00. American Flag Mfg. Co., Ea»lon> Pa.