Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-07-11
THE GEORGIA WONDER.
She Creates an Uproar at WalIack's
Theatre, New York.


On Tuesday night Miss Lulu Hurst did
all her usual tricks before large audi
dience at wallack's Theatre, New York.
At last an old gentleman in the front row,
with a red face. who had been breathing
hard and trying to make the top Of hls
head smoother with a silk handkerchief
concluded that he had solved the mystery.
he arose and said impressiYely: "She's
got electricity stored in her shoes. want
her to take OF her shoes and stockings,
and then we win see how she does it."
The red-faced man smiled satisfied
smile, as though he had solved the prob
lem, but the slim man in the swallow
tailed suit did not agree with him, and
said kindly: ssrm sorry, sir, but the
young lady does not take OF her shoes
and stockings on the stage"
The spectators laughed, while Miss
Lulu looked daggerS at the man who had
limited that her shoes were big enough TO
conceal electric batteries. A young man
on the stage, inspired by the elder ones
example. got up theory OF his own
and announced in loud voice that the
stage was charged with electricity, and
he could feel it in the bones Of his feet.
His idea won little favor, and he sat down
and kept his feet off the floor. The packed
house had become impatient and showed
anxiety for more wonders, so Miss Hurst
cOntiL ued her exhibition.
A tall gentleman, with a pink in his
coat lapel, had been on the stage from the
first, and had been among the most I'M
successful in his efforts to defeat the
Wonder. The man who felt electricity In
his feet even accused him of being an ac-
complete. But he was not. When the
third or fourth gentleman had been thrown
from the chair he walked to the edge Of
the stage, and, while trembling with ex-
citement, said:
This whole business is a fraud from
beginning to end. Anybody here can do
anything that she has done. can do all
these tricks myself. Why don't she hold
a cane still, or press a chair to the floor,
If she has this wonderful power? Pll
hold the chair and let her try it."
The tall man tried to say more, but
everybody was yelling at once. The slim
man was screaming in hiss ear and waving
his arms, and the very blonde man began
to look dangerous. For at least i've
minutes perfect uprOar reigned. Every
body who had voice used it, and Miss
Lulu alone stood calm and self-possessed,
In the midst of wild uprOar, in which
everybody yelled, whistled, stamped,
shouted and groaned, and which seemed
calculated to shake the nerves of an
unsophisticated Georgia girl. Finally
the slim young man. whose shirt front
was now ruined and whose hair was
tumbled, succeeded in obtaining mo-
ment's silence.
81 wish," said he, in a voice that
seemed rather nervous, shat the audi
ence would tell me what they want"
The audience were entirely willing. and
did so for five minutes more. The only
words the slim young man could dlstln-
guish were "dude," ''chair," "cane," and
''Sling her out" Then the tall man, who
had become calm, and who proved to be
DR.. w. E. Forrest, began to speak. No
body heard him, but at the end fat man
was sitting IN the chair, and the doctor
was getting ready to do what the Wonder
had done. He did it. He put both hands
against the sides of the chair. The one
toward the spectators was passive and
idle, as had been that of the Wonder, but
the other, not in sight, grasped the chair
with firm grip, and with great
ease threw the fat man on
the floor, just as Miss Lula's
right hand had done. Then the crowd
yelled more, and the slim man made mo-
ton to retreat, but was prevented by the
men on the stage. He walked dejectedly
back and said, ''Let him hold chair and
keep men from forcing it to the floor" A
man in the balcony constituted himself
umpire, and said everything must be fair,
and the tall man must grab the chair the
way the girl did. When he had done so
half dozen men, including the slim one,
pitched for the chair, but could not force
it to the floor. When the crowd came to
for the last time the lights were turned
down, and the Georgia Wonder, the slim
young man and the very blonde young
man had disappeared.