Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-16
QUEER COMBINATION
Burned-0ut Philadelphia Market
Keepers Move Into a Theater.
GABBAGEs AND COMIC OPERETTA.
One Quaker Customer Refuses to Enter tho
Frivolous Place,
BUT MAKES THE DEALERS COMETo HER.
Temporary EIpedIsnt Which Furnishes Some
Langhable sltuationA

The burning Of the Philadelphia market
house two weeks ago has forced the dealers
to repair to the Casino, favorite summer
theater. The result is number of decided
ly queer combinations. Produce, live stock
and fancy scenery are jumbled together in
decidedly chaotic confusion.
PHILADELPHIA, March 15.-With its
orchestra box full of push carts and oyster
shells, slain hog grinning Way down front
in the parquet and stage arrangement that
would seem odd even in q bad drama Of
DIR. Lands, the Casino, Philadelphia
summer. house of light opera, opened for the
spring season yesterday as temporary
market house.
A large and disastrous fire destroying the
Broad and Columbia Avenue Market dur
ing the night nearly two weeks ago, the
marketmen arriving next morning found to
their horror that even their weights and
measures that it had taken scientific discus
sion with the inspectors to get right had
been destroyed. A scene of confusion fol-
lowed, whereupon q committee of market
men consisting of P. j. Brennan, II. Hine-
man, L. Lesser, A. j. Pusey and f. Northaft
was appointed to secure new quarters. The
committee decided upon the Casino, few
doors above the site Of the late market, and.
after negotiation with Mr.. Blackburn, the
owner, which is not down in the ibretto,
secured it temporarily at 800 week and
the refusal of the place until June at the
price of S47 900.
OPENING SCENE.
The scene opened yesterday upon the
marketmen moving into the Casino and its
formal opening as a public market The
cast is 80 large that it is not confined to the
stage, but is scattered all over the house.
Outside on the boards is still announced
Admission 10 cents, but the marketmen
say it will have to come down. They state
that the admission is free, but remain sim
gularly silent about the cost of getting out
The box Office is full of harness, and is
occupied by a discounted harnessmaker,
who feels that he has grievance. The
whole stage is set with the severest scenery
of pine boarding unpainted, and presents q
joint tailor and plumber shop in rivalry to
the Little Tin Soldier" The complica-
tions arising are just as amusing, two-ineh
pipe the size Of dude legs often being found
modestly hidden in wide trousers.
From both the lower boxes were seen q lot
of cabbage heads, but the manager swore to
reporter it was not done on purpose and had
no significance. He said he would take
them out and put them down in the front
row to avoid publicity. The butchers all
have stalls down front on the middle aisle
and say they feel quite English. The
comedian of the company is butcher with
q bald head, from Bucks county, who is
tearing out part Of the orchestra box to get
nearer the stage.
A CROWDED HOUSE.
- An, 4,,-a ..ok,
and yet the house is crowded. A lot Of
mutton heads nicely dressed may also be
seen in the parquet Among other charac-
ters are "Carroty," a huckster from Hes.
tonville, who believes that the late fire was
incendiary and looks upon the most inno-
cent private citizen with suspicion. The
old lady who is opposed to going into a
'play theater" under any circumstances
has her marketing brought out to her on
Broad street by her exasperated egg and
butter man, whom she reminds of her long
patronage with bitter Heproach at his de-
generation.
Gushing spinsters now languidly insist
upon sitting down in the family circle and
having their butcher and milkman come
and take their orders. Over in the south
east corner is set pretty fishery scene, with
real fishermen, real scales, real fish, and the
real odor which is left out of so many of our
best fishery scenes. In the background is
the notice: Smoking prohibited only on
the balcony" A lot Of bad eggs, so much
feared by the common run of actors, were
present and caused no alarm.
The floor is laid in tiers, and fat butcher,
forgetting this in moment of abstraction.
stumbled at the first sharp decline and was
sent forward on dead run down the middle,
aisle with his cleaver raised threateningly
in the air. The plumbers boy saw him Just
as he was about to clear the orchestra box
and with wild shrek fed back into the
flies. This little bit of comedy business
caught the house.