Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-28
LOT OF A LECTURER
Not Always the Most Pleasant One Of
All the Bread Winners.
SOME OF THEIR FIGHTS WITH FATE
An Attorneys Knack of Remembering
Apt Biblical Quotations.
WORK RUSHED IN THE CRIMINAL COURT

1nS bOStOn 1Qeal banjo, MdnuOlln anu
Guitar Club. that was to have appeared here
Friday night, in the Y. NJ. c. A. course, but
was prevented from SO doing by injuries,
more or less serious, received in a railroad
accident, have had to cancel a number of en-
gagements, and disappoint ever so many peo-
| pie, said j. E. Brockway, the Pittsburg
agent of the Slayton Lyceum Bureau, in his
Office in the Penn building, yesterday after
noon.
''They were to have appeared at Beaver
Monday night, before the Beaver county
teachers, who will be in attendance at the
institute in session there next week, but as
it will be impossible for them to resume
their 'concerting' before the last
of the week, the Amphion Quartet,
of this city. will fill the engagement. Prot.
Hillman, Superintendent of Schools of
Beaver county, has just been in to book
them, as he had arranged to have some at
traction each evening during the institute.
AS it is now, he has quite a list of cefebri-
ties, with the Amphion, Monday night; DR..
T. S. Henson, Tuesday night; Wednesday
night, Hon. George r. Vending, who will
deliver his famous lecture, i'Saul of Tar
sus." and Thursday night, Hon. Henry
Hall.
TALL HUsTLING SOMETIMES NEEDED.
mo, this storm hasn't interfered with our
entertainment people to any great extent.
The last storm, however, necesitated some
tall hustling on the part of some in order to
keep engagements. DR.. Henson had to drive
m ha MT in
Clarion counties, so as not to disappoint an
audience. Did he get there: Indeed he
did; he's a man who usually gets there.
Amusing instances in our business? Lots
of them. But it wasn't our bureau that
booked Bob Burdette recently for a lecture
and neglected to notify him of the fact. No,
we never makes mistakes, you know, though
We have partially booked Bill Nye for an
evening here in the Y. NJ. c. A. course in
March, and he is protesting rather vigor-
| ously against it, with signs Of relenting. In
letter received from him this week he
says: L presume you know that your
| bureau has gotten me into fine
scrape in Texas, making four or five cities
there for me on courses with DR.. Talmage
and Sam Jones, without a scratch of au-
thority, so now the Y. NJ. c. A. of Texas is
writing me by every mail, and presenting
its woes, with the money in the bank and
the old Ned to pay, and am not on the
road this season at all, but will lecture only
in New York, Brooklyn and possibly Chi
cago.' 1t is probable, however, thar he will
keep the engagement here, though not pos
tive as yet.
GOT IN THE WRONG TOWN.
GA funny thing occurred not long ago,
when Rev. Russell Conweli was booked by
some bureau TO lecture in Titusville, and
word was sent to him that he was to lecture
in Oil City-a mistake, of course, which the
reverend gentleman discovered when he ar
rived in Oil City and found the citizens
very unresponsive and ignorant of anything
concerning his lecture or himself, except by
reputation, until one well informed man
an editor, l IthIuk-said he had seen. lecture
announced by him in Titusville paper for
that night, kilograms confirmed the fact,
and with the audience by that time as
sembling, a special engine was obtained,
and at few minutes after o'clock Pastor
Conweil stood on the Titusville platform. j,
Sometimes it is close shave for troups
and lecturers to meet their engagements. but
it is seldom they fail. We have the Park
Listers Instrumental Quartetin our bureau,
aud one night last winter they were bound
from Altoona to Greensburg, and when they
arrived in Pittsburg, discovered their bag
gage had been lett behind-which means
volumes to women. They telegraphed for
it, waited till the late train, telegraphed the
Greensburg people to that effect, and by
special permission of the conductor and
baggage clerks, transformed the baggage car
into a dressing room, and when the train
reached Greensburg they were driven to the
hall, in the full glory of evening toilet,
out further delay.
MANY WOMEN ON THE ROAD.
1.-THE number of women on the road is in
creasing every dav in the various roles OF
reader, singer and lecturer, and they de-
mand as much money as men, ior merit re-
ceives its compensation nowadays. whether
in man or woman. As rule. women are
more moderate in their travelling expenses,
make their railroad connections Just as
methodIcally, get up just as early in the
morning and give even better satisfaction
than men. Nella Brown Pond commands
the largest price, 1 think, of any lady on the
public platform. She receives SO night
aud all expenses. She's a sister-in-law of
Major Pond you know. Mrs. Livermore is
in greater demand than ever, but her fail
ing health prevents her from filling many
engagements. -.s..'f. -s-'
'Yes, any number OF people try to get on
our list, and seem to think that when they
succeed their fortune and fame is made,
when in reality we cannot afford to take any
one until they have already made name
for themselves. Most public-speaking men,
especially ministers, have the lecture fever,
but they must make their reputation before
bureau assumes the responsibility of max.
ing dates .or them. The only Pittsbprgers
we nave Oh our list are Prof. Byron w.
King, Rev. j. B. Koehne and Erasmus
Wilson" .--,t ---r-