The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-01-25
MOSES. THE MAsCorrE.
Why Manager Jack Bought New Bill
Trunks and Pays EXCESS Baggage.

why Manager Jack Bought New Bill
Trunks and Pays Excess tiaggago.
Manager Sam T. jacks huresque company
recently made jump from Pittsburg to Cincin-
natl, and the manager chartered sleeper for
the ladies' convenience. just as the train pulled
out of the Union Depot at the Smoky City
young woman dressed in black entered the
sleeper, carrying bundle tightly held to her
breast. She looked woe-begone and i'll.
The manager sent messenger to the intruder
to inform her that the sleeper had been char
tered for the burlesque company's sole use, and
that if she wished to journey to Cincinnati she
would have to enter the other car. The young
lady in black told tale Of woe to the young
woman messenger which won her sympathy.
She said she was out Of funds, was going home
to her parents young widow, with heart full
of sorrow and an empty purse. Her story was
told to the good-natured Sam, and after a solid
expression of his sympathy he told the girls to
make room for the traveller.
Morning dawned, the call was given, and as
fresh as Aurora every one of the young ladies
leaped up except one. That one was the occu-
pant Of lower s, and the scream that came from
here drowned the noise OF the train whistle.
Mr.. Jack was called from the adjoining car, and
soon discovered that the young lady in No. 8
had awakened to find that the lady in black of
the night before had guue off and forgotten
bright little boy baby. He cooed and knotted
his fingers around the neck of a nursing bottle,
and, AS the ladies agreed in chorus, "Looked just
too sweet"
The manager was in quandary. What
would he do with this latest addition to the
Porter census ? He did what any man would
do. He asked the ladies, and they, in chorus
agreed to adopt it, and they did, They agreed
also that it was mascotte, and they called it
Moses just because "they found it SO funny
they say
Now for the sequel When Mr. Jack was
down Walnut street in Cincinnati the other
day he purchased four extra bill trunks, and
now he is kicking about excess baggage, and
all because each and every one of the young
ladies In the company, determined to become
mother to that little mascotte, stole down town,
too, the other day to buy 1t baby clothes. There
is scarcely ''what you may call it'' left in
Porkopolis now Every spare cent of their
weeks salaries went in pinafores and panties.
The property-man is wild. He was handed
twenty-three brand-new nursing bottles by as
many woud-be' real mammas." Every dressing
room is loaded with rattles, tin horses, and
what-nots of every description. The girls are
crazy. Moses is more in demand than ever the
illustrious patriarch Of that name was. Each
of the girls has her baby, and is tickled to death
in consequence.
Every night since the baby was found Sam
TURNS 'em away" and he says he don't care If
the mascotte takes as many trunks as Baby
Mckee; he is the mascotte, and has come to
stay. There is going to be a part written for
'baby," and he Will be nursed by all the girls
at intervals during the first part of every night
in the mean time. That is what the twenty
three bottles were for.