St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-17

| of the same age. He started out in
| show life as one of p. II. Barnum's
much advertised Fat Boys in the Ameri-
can museum. When he outgrew the fat
boy business John put OH burnt cork
and calmly went on amusing the public
as fat mikstrel. He is now one of the
| lOllieSt fellows an the stage, and pilots
his own combination, The Two Johns
all about this country making lots of
dust.
John A. Herman is getting pretty
well along towards the sixties now. He's
provision dealer in Brooklyn. He
used to be one of
CHRISTY'S AND BRYANT'S BEST MEN
at various times. John i. DOnniker,
who used to wave his baton over Chris
tvs minStrels' orchestra, is still an Or
chestra leader in New York theater.
He is fifty-four years old. SO is Senator
Bob Hart-whoSe real name you know
is Sutherland. It's nearly thirty years
since he began to twirl the bones at
Buffers American museum and theater,
at 444 Broadway. Since 1878 he has
been off the stage, doing religious work
as preacher. He is whOleSOuled,
earnest man and used to be tirSt-rate
minstrel. John Hart is another old boy
who began to wear black thirty years
ago in New York.
George w. McAndrews, the Water
melon Man. needs no word from me to
tell New Workers who he is. Every
body knows him and everybody likes
him. He's still cracking his mule whip
and his jokes, although he's getting
well towards sixty. Lew Rather, of
California fame, is pretty nearly as old
as any of our guild, but he's still in the
bushes in San Francisco. His burnt
cork imitation of Camille, at Al Broad
way, years ago was a fine bit of acting.
Tom Waddee is sixty,three years old
quite one of our oldest boys. He
rarely blacks up nowadays, but his
cleverneSS sticks to him.
"Ad Weaver is another graduate of
444 Broadway whom New York will not
soon forget. He is fifty-five years old,
and still in the business.
'Old Bill Arlington, mere lad of
fifty-three, is funnier now than when
he began Smearing black on his cheeks
thirty years ago, and he still wears on
the stage the easy ilighwater pants he
wore at his first appearance. He's very
proud Of them.
-. l.. CarncroSs, who now manages
his own minstrel show and the Elev-
enth Street opera house in Philadelphia.
is another New York boy who began
here thirty years ago.
Charles Melville used to be one of
the sweetest singers in black genera
ton ago. He's eff the stage now and
acts as agent for dramatic companies.
Every one of the Worlds readers
will be sorry to hear that ill-heath
drove James Wambold from the min
Strel stage. He lives over in New Jer-
sey. Dave Wambold, the old San Fran
cisco minstrel favOrite, is also off the
stage because he is an invalid. He was
one of our best singers for thirty years.
He is rich and he takes life easy.
Richard NJ. Carroll, the prettieSt
York is still in the business, though he
has been at it for over forty years. He
is one of old Charley Whites pupils,
and was first known on the stage as
master Marks He has two sons in
the profession.
Freeman f. DiXey. another of the old
timers, retired recently. He was one of
the proprietors of the Eleventh Street
opera house, Philadelphia, and had
| served thirty years on the minstrel
stage. Charley Petrie, another boy of
| fifty-twO, has lately quit the stage. Nate
Lothian, who is one of BoSton'S best or
chestra leaders to-day, began as a min
Strel thirty years ago, but he hasn't
BACKED his face for years.
Jules Lombard and Charley Sim
mons are pair of fifty-one-year-old
boys who have just finished their min
strel career. Jules is living in retire
ment in Chicago and Charley is manag-
ing base ball club in Philadelphia.
Bill BudwOrth, an old-time favOrite, is
running furniture vans for living now.
Ned Harper, who was shining black
star about the same time, is running a
Harlem coal yard now. George Julian
and Charley Reynolds are contemporary
ries of the above two gentlemen, and
are now in retirement. SO are the fol-
! lowing, whose years all number about
fifty: Joe Murphy, Dick Parker, Frank
| Converse, Wash Norton and Bill Bern
nard, who is now thriving real estate
man in this city.