Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-15
THE TOPICAL TALKER.
The Big Bass Voice at Coney Isiand-seme
Actors Way of summering-A Blue Pup
That Nobody Wants,

The Big Bass Voice mt Coney IsIand-seme
Actors Way of summcring-A Blue Pup
That Nobody Wanfs.
WHEN you step from one Of the Iron steam
boats on to the new iron pier at Coney Island
you will probably hear very deep and mellow
bass voice say: "Step lively! Move along
there" When you take the boat again you
will encounter that same rich voice as you pass
through the last turnstile on the pier. 1t comes
from some part of the internal economy of a
STOUT but not very tall man in navy blue and
brass buttons. He is ticket taker for the
steamship company, and his smooth, regular
featured, rather jolly face has shone at the
same place for several summers. The voice he
possesses Is not natural; it couldn't be. Prob
ably he acquired it after tremendous cultiya-
tion.
/ When he isn't saying in his sonorous yet
mellifuous tones: Come along now! All right,
sir; pass right alongr' and adding new gloss
to the rather faded glories Of the Isle Of Coney
he is bad bold villain or a blum, big-hearted
papa in some stirring melodrama. Two years
ago he travelled with the white Slave"
through the country. and played small part
reasonably wen. His voice is his principal
stock in trade on the stage as it is on the pier
never heard the equal of that bass voice. The
echoes of it are ringing in my ears now, and
curiously enough make me ravenously hungry.
I suppose this is the result Of parallel men,
ories of the sea air those vocal echoes call ny.
When that voice comes to Pittsburg again
mean to let the public share the delight Of
hearing IT with me.
WHAT do actors do in summer
Many, nay most of them. enjoy the vacation
as the rest of us who are lucky enough to know
what long summer holiday is. OF those who
do not follow the beaten path there are the
actors who spend all their earnings as they go
along, and so have none left when the season
closes, and there are those who manage to
throw away their earnings In the first two or
three weeks of the vacation. Both these
classes finally drift on TO Broadway In New
York and snatch precarious living there, how
/ can hardly say, though the ways of the
Rialto are tolerably well known to me. The
lunch counters suffer terribly; SO do the
pockets of actors. managers, theatrical agents
and others who have money. and are foolish
enough to get within reach of the birds of prey
A great many country managers, as the
New Yorkers call all managers of theaters
without the limits Of the metropolis, get to
New York in July and August. They have to
plunge into the theatrical pools between Twen-
ty-sixth and Thirty-third streets, and they are
generally played for all they are worth by the
penniless gentry on the lookout for suckers
But SO many Of the country managers now
leave their booking to dramatic agencies that
victims are scaroer on the new Rialto than
they used to be on the old.
So =
THE other day a well-known Piitsburg law.
yer was surprised by visit from an old client
who had left rather large bill unsettled for
long term of years. The attorney was still
more surprised when the visitor pulled out q
check book and wrote out a check for the full
amount due. The passage of money between
client and lawyer always clears the air and
brings out the sun. On this occasion it also
brought out the whisky.
Things became extremely pleasant. The
lawyer told some of his best stories, and not q
single time did the client fail to laugh in the
right place. 80 it went on till the conyersa-
ton turned upon dogs. Both men proved to be
dog lovers, and the layman excited the law
yer's interest by describing fne litter of
Skye terrier puppies.
"rn give you one," said the visitor
effusively.
that's asking too much, old man." said the
lawyer.
"Not at ALL pll send it down tomorrow"
"But the dogs too valuable. I don't see how
can accept 1t"
"You must" said the owner Of the Skye
puppies; but the lawyer went on protesting
until the former said: You're welcome to
one, Pm sure; they're no sort of good to any
body"
That clinched the matter. The visitor left.
Next morning very weary-looking puppy
arrived by boy who fed precipitately as soon
as he had put the animal down. 90
There is, or was yesterday afternoon, blue
pup in Diamond street office which anybody
is welcome to take away. 1t is as the donor
said-no sort of good to ANYBODY