The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1890-04-24

the ability Of the most compel .fit
actor, and each man in this instance,
and each woman too, was exactly wha.
the part required them to be Lastly,
it was bright and oesn-there is IN it,
from Erst To last, no word or act that
a loving father might not like his little
daughter or son to hear or sec. In
this last respect 1t challenges criticism,
aud is credit to out modern drama.
Wilson Barrett the great English
actor sees tendency since his return.
to wholesome drama. "The
County Fair" has been running here
for months; the same may be said OF
Shenandoah. Then look at Dennan
Thompson; crowding the Academy of
Music year after year with the Old
Homestead, and finding the parquette
and boxes filled with reverend looking
folks that you met at the Methodist
conference in the morning. | don't
say they were ministers or perhaps
deacons: but / would make an affidavit
that they looked wonderfully like
trustees and lay delegates. As the
curtain went down on Wednesday
night stout old countryman with a
white crayat on turned To his wife who
was evidently from the hayseed Sec
ton, and said An this is a theayter;
I never wuz in one afore, but by
juwhilekins, Mariar, I'd sooner come
here than go to prayer mee.in'.
"shoo John, how You talk" said
Hsrlar as she hustled him out of the
house. All the places of amusement
have done well; though the Italian
Opera had set back on Wednesday
Patti took ride in the park and
caught e)ld, that cold cost manager
Abbey several thousand dJllars. He
has plenty of duplicate singers, and
could easily have givea another opera,
and goodSne but he is not that kind
Of manager--he preferred to personally
stand the loss TO breaking faith with
the public. lie is one manager in "a
million.
The week will long be memorable
Tor the convention of telcgraphic e .
perts who met here on Thursday, for a
trial of skill in sending messages by
lightning; like lightning. 1t was a
wonderful sight to an outsider, moi
deep in the mysteries of the electric
brotherhood and sisterhood, when
, Fred Catlin, the protector of the tour
nament. sat down by his instrument
to make the opening speech Tick,
tick, tick (roars of laughter), tick,
tick, tick, tick tremendous applause. :,
As Catlin rose from hls seat-a country
operator grabbed Inc by the hand and
said wasn't that the best speech you
ever heard. / shook his hand warmly
aud declared that | had never heard
anything like it before in my life.
The tournament was a day of surprises.
1t was fair trial of speed between the
sexes, and regret to add, that my
own ungallant sex, left the ladies far
behind with record of 2S0 words. in
five minutes, against 2l7 by the best
female operator. That morning a
freckled faced fellow from Hartford,
Connecticut, arrived in town, and he
created no especial furor as he got of
the Hartford and New Haven train at
the Grand Central depot; nobody
knew him, and nobody cared about
knowing him, he was simply Pollock
from Hartford, nothing more. But
IN the tournament his turn came at
last There was no sensation what
ever when he sat down at the key. A
Biri Ill REQ Jersey ana bright spring
hat, said to her neiehbor-Who is that
tellowl She snappishly replied,
don't know, they say he's from Hart
ford, aud she went on chewing her
gum. There was j. w. Rulssor with
his record of 248 words in five min.
utes, surprising all previous records; /;
and Catlin, 24l; Gibson, 23S; and
many other champions of the key.
When Pollock touched the instrument
old operators jumped from their seats
as if struck by charge of dynamite.
Many tried to follow him, but lost
their heads and fell by the wayside.
Time was called, and b. Il. Pollock
passed under the string with record
of 25S words in five minutes. Oh.
what howl there wasl Then there
went up cry that it wasn't good
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