Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-04-19

4 The problem Of every manager In New
York who has one grain Of self-respect l
how to do good work and keep out Of th'
\ poorbouse at the same time can name
you a double score Of prominent sctori
whose artistic tastes kept their stomachi
empty for yeais until they took the dive
into popular rubbish.
The moment manager announces tina
he IS clean. ambitious and got SOM
pride 10 bis work, you ask him GLOW
( big Is yout bank account" What It cost
jim Hill 20 hold Shakespeare In the teeti
OF 2. frivolous public we shall never know
unless some enterprlsing reporter steal'
bis private account books What 1t ha'
cost Mrs. Thurber 70 keep American
opera on high ground a whole season
Only shrewd financial men can guess.
At tais moment there's not one theatel
out Of our twcnty-four that is presenting
scrious or WORTHY work. But there ar,
six Of them making an exhi1i ion Of ignO
rant and shspely girls who posturize, gig
gle ihythmicolly aud show their legs
These houses appeal 10 the floating
pOpulntlon--the hotel crowds, the idle,
gilded youth and the country merchant
who leaves his Obligations az home when
he comes to town 70 buy goods. The
press, with very few exceptions, treat
these shows with the same consideration
that II bestows on the most ambitious
and worthy efforts. The louder the ex-
bihition the longer the advertisement,
and criticism may be said to have given
way TO enterprise.
There Is only one way out OF this ruck.
II the theater Is of any educational or
sanitary value, on is worth preserving for
its lost art, there Is but one way to hold
Il in It's best estate against this deluge Of
sensuality and iriyolity, and that way is
for capital and intelligence to come to It's
rescue. When you think Of what capital
nas done for opera you wonder why some
OF the millionaires do notrescue the stage.
One of the richest men Ia New York
said to me last winter at the
Metropolitan opera-house; ave want a
national theater in New York with fund
of s 600 600 behind Il, where only the
best players aud the best Plays can be
seen and it will come 1t must not be at
the mercy Of the popular moods. Its
organization and character must guaran-
tee excellence, and then the great con-
sentative classes will be drawn to it.
It's in the air" he said, land 1t VIII
Gomez
Had Mr.. Edwin Booth been possessed
of pluck and ambition, he could have pre-
this matter
Just imagine what Booth and Barrett
and Joe Jefferson and Lester Wallack
might do If 1t had been given to actors,
as II Is sometimes given to other men, to
pool their issues."4
New York is very provincial in some
respects, despite its largeness. don't
believe there is town in Illinois that has
ever been so shaken up by travelling
show as has been this metropolis BY
Barnum's circus. We have riot about
)nce in ten years, but Barnum comes
every year. And Barnum has this ad-
vantage, you know what TO expect. You
never do with riot.
NYM CRINKLE.
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LOCAL POLITICS.
In the past week the only surprise In
ocal politics has been the resignation of
Joseph Pulitzer. His case
iptly illustrates fckleness of fortune with
political asprants. Fourteen years ago
Mr.. Pulitzer had u natural bent for poll.
tics. He and Col. VIM. Grosvenor Of St.
Louis were the moving spirits OF the Lib
pral National convention at Cincinnati in
1872 This representative body first nom
mated Horace Greeley for president So
active were Grosvenor and Pulitzer in the
of the Liberal political
wires that the convention was universally
dubbed and known as the "Bill and
Joe convention" After Greeley's de-
feat Mr.. Pulitzer drifted back to
St. Louis. Then he yainly sought NOM
nation 10 congress. His friends saw
hat he thought of it by day and dreamed
Df 1t by night. Gifted with a Conkling.
ike form, a sonorous voice, and fow
)f language equal to that of Carl SchurZ. |
lie was apparently just the man TO repre-. |
sent the old Frank Blair district. He
went To the Missouri legislature and ap-
1eared In constitutional convention, |
eaying an enviable mark in both places, |
out whenever he sought an entrance into
The national temple the doors were shut
n his face. He had already cut a
swath as reporter on the
Nestliche Post, and he now began 10
double 1t. He went into journalism like
man grading a ten-AcIe field of rye. !
" ithout money he bought newspaper t |
sherft's sale and swung his scythe with |
| vigor that surprised both his friends
md his enemies. The grain fell around |
nm In heaps and was raked and bound |
With consummate skill. Yet he was as |
ar away from congressional honors as |
yer. Making a fortune in journalism in |
81. Louis, he brought his Western swath |
% New York, and fitted his blade and |
iwung his scythe like man working bv |
he job. All his political aspirations had |
AIDED, and he paid strict attention
% reaplng the grain OF journalism. He
va no more idea If going TO congress
han he had Of going to the moon. just at |
hat time, however, the County Democ- |
acy and Tammany were locked in
leadly struggle. Each was trying TO
mock prop from under the other
Thomas j, Dreamer saw chance TO rake
II the points of the political compass.
There was quarrel over the congress,
ional nomination. Neither faction was
Wiling to concede anything TO the other.
,reamer induced one of them, as a stroke
4 policy, to nominate Pulitzer In the
'inth district, saying that the other fac.
Ion would be forced to indorse It, He
vas right, The nomination was in
orsed, because the opposing faction did
ot propose to be put In hole.
he great magyar was astonished.
he honor that he had valnly sought
or years had at last sought him. Its at
ractiveness was as great as ever, hut the