, 1885-08-05
JACk HAEERLN.
The Famous Snowman Interl lew Ell IN
Cheyenne.

Cheyenne.
When the train arrived yesterday from
Denver, a man below the medium height,
and of slender build, wearing a gray suit,
a white plug hat, and a short, red nous
tache, jumped nimbly from a car and
hurried into the Railroad hotel dining rooms
for dinner. A LEADER reporter recognized
the man as a former acquaintance, and
almost anyone would have known him to
be Col. Jack Haverly, the famous amuse-
ment caterer, so familiar has his face be-
come through the medium of the thou
sands of pictures of him which have been
hung up, pasted up and strung up,
throughout this country and England in
the last eight or ten years.
The LEADER man laid for him and
caught him after his meal was over and
had a long talk with him. lie is an ex-
ceedingly pleasant gentleman and talks
Just as he does everything else, with a
rush. His f%avorite company, the United
American European MINISTRIES are plaping
at the Tabor Grand in Denver this week
and the rush to see them has been SO
great that hundreds of people are nightly
turned away from the doors of the opera
house, unable to obtain even standing
room. Col. Haverly has large mining in
terests in Colorado. among Others a
twenty stamp gold mill at San Miguel
He is now on his way to San Francisco
and will go thence to Eldorado county.
California. where he has lately purchased
an interest in Lucky Baldwin, famous
Nashville mine, which has been lying idle
for a time, but upon which work will
shortly be started again. Speaking Of the
show business Col. Haverly said it was
much more remuuerativc to him than
mining. He neglected it for a year or
two for Wall street aud mining schemes
and they came near using him up. For
months he almost lived in Wall street and
would sometimes be rich and sometimes
broke, but he finally got ont Of that aud
went back to his show business which he
knew all about. He now has four shows
on the road and one stationary. They
are one minstrel, one comedy. one tragedy
and one dramatic company, lie has
also a theater in Philadelphia and
is building AN opera house in
Chicago, which he will open ON
the 18th OF September This IL opposite
McNicker' theater, in what used to be
! Hershey hail, which is being %rrmodelel
throughout and enlarged for Col. ~llayer.
ly's purposes.
Colonel Hayerly is forty s.x lcarr old
and says he is going To live To la ninety
at least, and he looks it.. He has been
twenty-five years in the show business,
and has always made success in that line.
He has several other great companies in
minstrelsy, opera bouffe and grand opera,
organizing now for next season. and will
return to the east shortly to give personal
attention to them. His great minstrel
company, which Is now at Denver, will
PASS through this city Sunday going 10
the Pacific coast, and it will play here two
nights and n matinee returning. which
will be on FRIDAY and Saturday. Novem-
Der 18th and Nth. This company is com
posed of sixty performers, selected FINN
both sides of the water.
Yes said he, negro minstrcsy is a
distinctly American institution, and
confne the Englishmen to vocalism and
music, placing the comedy in the hands
of the Americans.
Don't you think ininstrclsy is on the
wane in America p
Not at all. The only thing hat will
cause it to lose its popularity will be the
extinction of the plantation negro. There
will then be nothing to mimic, and no
matter how perfectly the minstrel initiates
the negro, the younger generation will
not understand or appreciate it. But
minstrelsy will be popular among Ameri-
cans for many years to come. 1t affords
opportunities for vocalism, and the pub
lie always loves to hear those simple bal
lads.