St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-04
ODDS and ENDS
Among the Deserted Freaks at the
Dime Museum.
HOW FACES ARE BLACKED
Music People Discussed .-- Random
Street Gossip So Sturte-
wants Report.

more outsiders have received good
deal Of notoriety through the matter.
In the midst of all the excitement from
the scrimmage, everybody seems to
have forgotten the very existence of
| the unfortunate freaks and actors, who
| were engaged at the house when 1t was
| ODen and whose lot at present is not an
unhappy one by any means. These peO-
| pie were brought here on contracts and
| they naturally feel pretty chilly over
the situation. They are losing their
| time waiting to see what's going to turn
up, and of course for them, just at pres
ent. there is not the charm of a pay day.
| A visit yesterday to their quarters re-
| vealed them after all not SO unhappy as
one might suppose. They were all in
| large room where they daily congregate,
and from it's direction came loud sounds
of merriment. A detected looking
| monkey made faces, presumably at
Howard, in one corner. In another
| Bert RansOme was found writing
letter to the Clipper, telling of
the shameful way they were being
used; and, ''by the way" he said,
| pausing for moment in his writing:
IF you say anything about me, and
| i'll trouble, just put me down as muSi-
| cal comedian. For one thing it will
make Dockstader mad, because he is so
| jealous"
At the end of the room there was
curtain drawn partly across as a parti-
ton. AT that moment figure stepped
out into the center of the room,
and there he was. His cast
iron nerve as cool as ever
his blonde locks curling back over his
| forehead. Whit OF the pipe and a
hOw-de old man, and there he was,
| Dockstader, one of the original men,
bers of the family-celebrated all over
the country as eccentric comedians and
first-class minstrel men. 'NO, we amt
working by the day just at present We
are taking little leisure and SO on to
please Sackett & Virgins. That's
the ticket at present, but am
getting UP a thing or two while
l have time, and keeping in practice so
as not go get rusty" Lol presto!
change! he was gone. LO! presto!
change! he was back, and black as the
ace of spades. ''Now," said Dock chat
is what everybody calls him), "thOus-
ands of people have asked me how we
make up and how we clean off, and the
interest them most. Well, [
guess / will have to tell
you, and the people can just cut this out
of their Sunday paper, and the next
| minstrel show that will come along they
can refer back to it. and will then know
as much about becoming coon as any
end man who has scared crows from
falling off their perch. In the first
place, it's as simple as anything
in the world, but the first thing
is preparing the cork. This
is taken and put in basin
saturated with alcohol, which is set fire
to and the cork burns to crisp. Water
| is then thrown upon this and the whole
| thing shaken, the sediment drops to the
bottom, and the stuff that remains on
| top is what is used, that is the light por-
ton of the cork. This is taken,
strained and mixed with little glycer-
inc, becomes dry like powder,
and is carried in a box.
Now as to how it is used:
Just watch me-" He took pinch.
| big pinch, of it in one hand, and
dropped it into the palm of his other,
| then he saturated it with saliva, made
/ one of his funny motions, gave SWipe
| darkness was accomplished. The saliva
is what makes the velvety appearance
| minstrelS are all crazy to get. By
| Docks appearance, when he is on the
| stage, he must have some pretty rich
| saliva, for he looks very, very velvety.
ga simple little matter this" were
| his parting words, ''yet how many
thousands Of people go to minstrel
show and sit and believe us jays take
piece of cork, put it in the gas jet. and
then jab it on our jaws, burn our whiS-
kers off, and let out YELL" With that
he disappeared behind the mysterious
curtain mentioned before and nothing
would make him appear again.
Musical circles are extremely quiet at
| present. About the most interesting
| item from the world of song and Tyre
| being the fact that Herman Zoeh has
| inaugurated a new feature that will
| give pleasure to good many people.
| He has formed a musical club with
| eight of his most advanced pupils,
the Misses Nellie Bartlett, Ethel
Wheeler, May Williams, Jennie
| Vaughan, Beth Bragg, Emma RObb,
Grace Woodland and Blanche Strong.
| held every fortnight. and some member
| will play from memory. The first con-
| cert will be held tomorrow evening at
! ZOch's parlOrS, 1922 Nicollet avenue, at
| p. m. Herman Zoch's next grand re-
| cital will be held in Harmonic hall in
stead of at the West hotel, as hitherto,
| and will be given on the evening of
Monday, the 18th of March, at s o'clock.
The beautiful concerts that have been
| given of late by the Ladies' Musical
| Circle, under the direction of Carl Loeb
mund, are postponed for the present
| owing to the absence of SO many of the
| musical patrOniZerS from the city. The
| next one will be held on the 1st of May
| at the residence of Mrs. 4. B. Langdon.
M
There is levee of dirty looking loaf
| ers allowed to hang around and inside
| the entrances of a hotel in this city ON
| Nicollet avenue, which claims to be the
second best house in the city, that is an
| insult to the travelling public, who have
several times made complaint of the
nuisance. The sooner they are made to
quit the better it will be for the appear
ance of the house..
The minute warm day comes some
of the mysteries of the streets of Min
neapolis show up in great shape.
| Swarms of small boys blockade
the sidewalks playing marbles,
| and such herds of mOngrel CANNES,
are there No one knows where they
| come from, land it is a safe assertion that
not another city in the country could
produce so many vagrant dogs as mean
| der singly or travel in shoals
| through our thoroughfare. Over twenty
of these ownerless ours invaded
Washington avenue yesterday in body,
and terrible and bloody battle resulted
between them, and the newsbOys were
only prevented from participating by
| five stalwart policemen riSking their
lives in separating the crowd of CANNES
and kids.
&C. Sturtevant is out with his annual
report and he has done himself honor.
| The book is embellished with maps of
| every road that ever run into the city.
| honnanoI hofnra nd