The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1891-11-07
RODE ON A HANDCAR.
Mary Anderson's Exciting Effort To IN
Engagement.

/ Mary Anderson's Exciting Effort To IN
| an Engagement.
/ Mary Anderson had To keep an en-
/ gagement mt the CARL opera house.
now the Hyperion, in New Haven.
says the New York Telegram She
had been playing weeks engagement
in the Elm city TO great houses. The
Yale students. as was always the case.
bought up entire rows OF seats in the
( largest house between New York and
/ Providence.
Our Mary told the members of the
company on Tuesday night" said the
chief tale-tcllcr. that there would be
no rehearsal on Wednesday, as she in
tended running down to the metropolis
20 do some shopping. 1t was just
after the season opened, and Miss An
derson left New York without n num-
ber OF little incidentals she needed.
AT 500 o'clock. just before the
curtain was TO be rung up. House
Manager CARL came rushing on the
stage with hair on end. My God
am ruined! Miss Anderson's train is
wrecked at Bridgeportm
He waved n telegram and called
for Miss Anderson's understudy 10
tell the truth, she didn't have any.
We had only just gone on the road.
and none of tho ladies in the company
could speak our Mary's lines The
house had 81, 800 or S2. 900 in it. 1t
was dandy, and poor old CARL had
good reason to kick.
Carl went before the curtain. and.
being n great favorite among the stu
dents, who were raising perfect Ned
with their 'Rahs' for Mary. pacifed
them with an explanation. But a
little matter like train wreck won t
keep Miss Anderson from playing
here tonight said Manager Carll
Good. good" cried the students.
Then there were songs by the students
that kept the audience amused and In
good humor.
Nine o'clock came and still no
Mary. but bets We're freely wagered
that she would play that night Is
the audience willing to watt? asked
Manager CARL. as he appeared before
the curtain with little speech again.
n uiS Suty L eS. went up.
''1t was five minutes OF 10 o'clock
when Miss Anderson appeared on the
stage WITH her arms full OF parcels Five
minutes later the play proceeded and
few minutes OF midnight the audience
went home, after having witnessed
one OF the greatest performances Miss
Anderson ever gave She told men,
hsar nF hn 1f L,u
10 New Raven after her train was
wrecked Just this side OF Bird -eport-
eighteen miles from the City of Elms
mo train could pass the wreck and
Miss Anderson couldn't reach New Ha-
ven with horses till nearly midnight
1T was $3.50 o'clock and our Mary had
just about give up hopes when a
bright idea struc!; her. 4 10: Of track
men and wreckers had come up from
Bridgeport on handcars. At four wheel
crank arrange .nent used by the rail-
road repairers along the line.
81 Will give $500 to the men who
will take me to New Haven on one of
those handcars. said Miss Anderson.
y. Nj. Shepard, the present general su-
perintendent of the New York. New
Haven X Hartford road was ut the
scene Of the wreck. He offered eight
OF his biggest and most muscular men
to Miss Anderson for her handcar.
She gayly mounted the little car with
her maid. 1t was a great ride and a
dangerous one OF course though,
Mr. Shepard wired ahead for clear
track. New Haven was reached after
the greatest handcar race on record.
The big, brawny Irishmen worked the
cranks like majors, and they got the
$500 too. Miss Anderson said il was
the most exciting ride she had ever
experienced in all her travels around
both hemispheres on all sorts of trains
and vehicles"