Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-12-28

He Has Gone the Road Travelled by Tony Hart
John Mccullough and BARLEY Campbell.

He Has Gone the Road Travelled by Tony Hart
John Mccullough and Barley Campbell.
VIM. J. Seaman, the actor, will not act again
this season. 1t is matter of grave doubt if he
will ever again appear on the stage. After a
long and vain effort on the part of his manager,
his friends and his physicians to control him,
it is now confessed that his mind is affected in
short, that he 10 a sufferer from paresis, the
disease that has sent to an asylum and to the
grave Tony Hart, John Mccullough, BARLEY
Campbell Charles E. Blanchette and other the
atrical men Of note. Seaman is in New York
Last Wednesday afternoon Scanlan's illness.
which had for weeks asserted itself in various
unmistakable forms, assumed a very grave as
pect. He was unable to play. The theater was
closed, but at night Seaman appeared Mean
! while rumors Of his condition had circulated,
and some OF them had reached tie actor To
tine intense anaZement OF his audience he in-
terrupted HE performance TO make II rambling
and fiery speech. denying that he was crazy.
My minds all rightr' he declared. Its
my stomach that has gone back on me-" lie
| asserted that the newspapers had originated
the story that he was insane and made other
| strange remarks before he was induced to 49,
| sumo his part.
THIS week he will go into retirement, which.
I. Is feared. may prove to be OF long duration.
FOR the present he will be under tie charge OF
his manager. Augustus Pitou. at the latter
house, where he was taken yesterday In his
lucid moments Seaman has begged his wife,
! for Gods cake, not to put him in an asylum;
SO he had clearly foreseen the end. His wish
will he respected. his manager says.
Manager pl;ou was seen Just after he had
left his star, and he was in n most detected
mood. When askeu ii the report that Seaman
had succumbed to paresis was true. ne re-
Piled:
Ives. he's gone. completely So His mind is
lh.4ln I. 70 al Il
I'm all unnerved''
In response to direct inquiry Mr. Pitou
said that Seaman victim OF paresis.
why. you can hardly imagine the shock 1t
gave me, he said, when l was hastily sum
moned to the hotel early this mornin,; to at
tend Seaman. He had been attacked in the
night with one of the widest Authorizations
imaginable, and. what's worse, he had raved
and acted like an out and out maniac for the
first time since he had been stricken with the
fearful malady.
Il learned upon arriving at the hotel that
he had rushed down stairs into the main cor
ridor, and CAUSED great CONSERVATION among
the hotel employees and others present
by his wild movements. He became
SO rloleGt that it required half q dozen men 10
hold him. He imagined that he was being
pursued by some relentless enemy. Much as
hate to admit the fact, ! must Though per-
fectiy rational at lines, his mind IL COM
pletely unbalanced, and there is 10 telling
when lie u ~ fly of the hardle- l deeply re-
greet Scanlans state, as much as if he were
one OF my own family"
Mr.Scarlan's present nalady first manifested
ltseIf more than two years ago. while he was
travelling through Texas Hr was subject then
to attack of fatigue anG depression, the re-
suits of which wer= quickly remarked by those
who acted with him, If rot by those before
whom he acted On several occasions during
his tour through the southwest the perform
ance was delayed lille he was recovering from
one of his spells. His manner of living uu-
douotedly Is Tie cause of his impaired health.
Flushed with success. young robust and "a
popular man wherever he went, his habits be-
came reckless and he dcfed the laws of health
1t Is no secret among his nearest friends that
ne has been excessively fond of the gaming
table-a fascination that was not more costly
to his purse than it was ruiIous 10 his physical
system.
1t is told Of him, as illustrating his endur-
ance. that he once gambled thirty-six hours at
one sitting. There were other excuses TO fol
low naturally in the train of this ,ne. some of
them of more serious import; but as to those
his friends seem disinclined to talk.