Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1892-03-25
a VISITOR TO MANY LANDS.
A Pacific Coaster Expresses His Pref
erence for His First Love - The
Ivy Leaf"
New YORK, March II, 1897.

New YORK, March II, 1892.
ED. STANDARD:
Received your letter of the ID this
morning it having been forwarded
from Detroit and met me as | reached
the big town from 4 tour | had lust
completed through Florida. TO say
that | was elated at hearing from you
would but half express my feelings.
1t was enough to turn one from the
verge OF the grave, and just having
arisen from a bed of sickness where
have been wrestling with the grip
made it more enjoyable than ever. /
am sitting in my room today looking
out on the lonely landscape and wish
ing ] was once more back in the glori-
Gus country OF the Pacific Coast. /
tell you, Mr.. Murphy, since we last
met have visited every part OF Gods
green earth that is worth seeing
Have been all through Europe, Asia,
Africa Chat is the parts that white
men have any use for in the show
business), South America, Mexico and
the different Islands, and when /
make the statement that the Pacific
Coast is the best country on the face
OF the earth l am only stating what
any other reasonable person will say
who has visited all the countries
named. When / think how people
used to speak of "the States" when it
was raining in Oregon makes me
smile. Oregon and Washington are
good enough for anybody, and when
any young man or woman thinks of
leaving that country to make their
homes in the Eastern States they are
certainly acting very foolishly. Sever
al times OF late while riding down the
Hudson have had to laugh at people
who would remark what grand scenery
there was on the river. A man who
would call the Hudson grand after
seeing the Columbia is certainly lu-
matte. To use a street expression, the
Hudson "Ain't in it."
SO like many either newspaper men
you have eventually become connected
with the show business. 1t is surpris-
ing how many have drifted into it.
Olympia should feel grateful to you
for constructing an opera house for the
city, for most certainly it was badly
needed.
Since writing you have had to
change the route of the company and
cannot tell at this writing when we
will be there but will let you hear
from me soon as possible. The show
l have, the "Ivy Leaf" is one of the
grandest ever on the stage and will
bring you good one. In the play
OF the "Ivy Leaf" we use a trained
eagle which in one scene picks up
live child i'll its talons and carries it
across the stage to its crag where the
child is rescued by the hero of
the play after desperate fight
with the bird, all in plain view Of the
audience. You can imagine how
thrilling it is when the eagle sails
away with the child and the child cry
ing for help and the men coming to
the rescue with gun. During this
scene the audience sat spellbound
and while the fight is in progress not a
word is heard, but so soon as the hero
steps forth with the child in his arms
the audience raise as one man and
give one of the grandest demonstra-
tions OF approval you can imagine.
l enclose you notice from a Boston
paper that you can form better idea
OF the piece. Will write you again re.
garding date. In the meantime let
me hear from you at the Howard Ath-
en@um, Boston, Massachusetts and
state your sharing terms.
Bessie King is this season with
Peck's Bad Boy company. She had
the misfortune, short time since, to
slip and sprain her ankle and has not
been able to work for some little time.
She has been unfortunate since leav-
ing Oregon having entirely lost her
voice, and as an attraction at the
present time she does not amount to
much. 1t is to be deplored for she
was very promising. But Jennie
Winston has gone the same way, and
presume there is no exception to the
rule.
Yours very truly,
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