Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-11-14

responsibility upon himself without |
your authorty"' and he responded, |
HE would not.n She concluded, |
"That is all | wish TO know. We
consider you responsible for the actions |
of your AGENT After this | said.
"Gou have again broken your contract |
with me, Mr.. Eser. lIshall keep to
mine and perform tonight | felt |
that Mr.. Elser by refusing to sell |
tickets, had done me great injustice |
and that the rumor of our not playing |
must have originated with him in |
some way. That by circulating the y,
rumor and refusing 10 sell tickets he |
had deprived me of the chance of II
fifty dollar house, with the intention !
of saving his gas and his orchestra (?). |
| then determined TO have the curtain |
rise promptly, with my full company
dressed, and to play so much of "a
Friend rs would bring every member
of the company on the stage. This in
tention was carried out, and with my
full company ON the stage in about
the middle of the first act | announced
to the audience that we would not
play. We shall enter suit at once for
damages
Miss Gerald signilied that the above
statement was correct, she being with
Mr.. Clarke in all his interviews.
THE OTHER SIDE.
The reporter went TO Mr.. Elser TO
get his statement of the matter. That
gentleman ut first said he did not
know that he cared to say anything,
but was finally prevailed on to speak.
He said that Mr.. Clarke came in the
afternoon and he told him there had
not been any tickets sold, and said
further, II don't believe I'd play. 1t
wouldn't justify either one of us.
am willing that you should go before
the curtain and say that | have re-
fused for the second time to furnish
you an orchestra, and that yon
decline to show Tor that reason.n
| explained to him that last night
was not notified by the orchestr
until five minutes to eight, and that |
had done the best | could to secure
one, and nearly the entire audience
understood why there was none. He
said people wanted music, hut seemed
satisfied with the explanation. We
agreed that the announcement should
be made unless Il tifty-doiar house
WAS secured. He and Miss Gerald
came in about eight again and he said
| that he understood ! had refused no
] lSf'S Alltali NV l'Nispli0 llthtA7. iOlu
him il was not true. He said that my
agent had. l told him If it had been
done it was not with my consent. He
remarked that he would play anyway.
| made no reply but had determined
to go over and if there was no house, to
turn out the gus. One of the directors
told me yesterday hes.didn't think /
should allow another performance.
That it was play unfit for ladies to
see. There's only one thing the mat
ter with the play, and that is the
double murder. 1t should be triple
one, and should be performed in the
| first act.n
Mr.. Guimond, who has charge of the
ticket selling at the store, said he had
exclusive control of the selling. He
had not refused 10 sell tickets to any
| body.
He told the doorkeeper about 7:l5
that 1t "looked blue,n and the door
keeper said he did not know what
they were going to do. lie was i'm the
box when Mr.. Clarke and Miss
Gerald came TO him, and she asked if
he had circulated in town that there
would be no play. He replied no.
She asked who had, and he said he
did not know. She said somebody had
for she had heard ii in the door Just
then. She was very much ex-
cited, and said she was going
to play if there was only
one man in the house, and he was a |
dead-head. Clarke said it was II mean |
trick to circulate rumor for four or
live hours that they would not play,
and they intended to play. Miss Ger
aid said to come on and dress and they
lett, Mr.. Guimond added that
he had no instructions I'M
Ill S:l0 Under, taudlng that
the company were going TO play he
sent jim Longifer TO Mr.. Elser for in.
structions, thinking he would want it |
closed up unless there was enough to
pay.
The matter was the talk all over
town last night, and some interesting
things We're said.
The company left this morning at
| o'clock for Cleburne, where they ap- |
pear tonight. Thursday they are at
Temple, Friday ut Bolton, Saturday at !
Hillsboro and Monday and Tuesday at |
Dallas May better success greet them /
than herel /