Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-01-15
QUITE READABLE.
FRESH THEATRICAL TOPICS CRITICALLY Dis
CUSSED.
The New Vaudeville Club is Proving Quits Success
ful-lhomas o Ssatrooks and Bcurks Cock
ran Were Young Fellows TOgsther-Ihs
Latest About Plays and Players.
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Spsnoy telegram to ne Rs0ister.
NEW YORK, January 14.-Twsnty
years ago hotel bearing the same
name as the town It adorned, stood
close by the tracks of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford Railroad, in
the village OF Mount Vernon, fourteen
miles from New York city. Mt. YER
non was then a big, struggling settle
ment, occupied chiefly by commuters
who then, as now, went daily to bust
ness in 1.-The city," From the needs OF
these the balance Of the village dwell
ers drew their living.
In those days, twenty years ago, the
rambling hotel was kept by a young
man who was the center OF a coterle OF
the eligible youths of the town. One
of the bright lights Of this young
bachelor was a bulky youth whose
head was big and adorned by heavy
mop OF brown hair. An Irishman he
was, deep-voiced and l0onine in his
movements. His wit was quick as an
electric spark, his repartee as bright
and the velvet of his intonations made
| oratory of his utterance. His road had
been wide and thorough and when the
coterie was gathered the young Irish
man was its light and life. Many were
the times when In those old days gath
I ering in the ow-ceiled barroom OF the
hotel By the track, lent him inspiration,
and the young orator astonished his
comrades with his brllisncy.
To be sure, he had been school
teacher over among the marble Quarries
OF Tuckahoe, and he could be 'well
posted" He had quit bang apedagogue
! in Tuckshoe TO study and then practice
law IN Mt. Vernon; and while they APP
pauded, they said that bsing . lawyer
he mad right 20 spout glib. Had he
/ been unable to do that he should not
have nailed his little tin sign-board be-
side the big entrance door OF the hos
| telry. An. what was the name on the
/ little sign?
Nv. Bourke Cochran, Counsellor-at-
! Law"
What! The brilliant Congressman OF
| to-day-the man who made that master
full plea to the Democratic National
Convention last summer, the one who
Just the other day had q United States
Senatorship within his reach. Yes, the
same w. Bourke Cochran.
And in those days there came occa-
sionally as one Of the coterie younger
man, welcomed always cordially, but
somewhat "out-classed" by the older
bachelors, OF whom Cockranwas one. The
youth was ever Immediately neat. He
must be, FOR he was employed in the
! bsnk-the leading bank OF the village.
He had begun as a lad by sweeping
/ out" but he had ambition within him,
and he rose 20 be assistant to the cashier,
who was one OF the Cochran coterie.
! Then came symptoms which plainly
/ foretold that the young assistant must
| go. One OF the directors OF the bank
/ lad a son and the son must have a place
So, no stepped into the place The other
/ had earned.
What then?
The young assistant determined be
would an Sctor be and he began In that
! profession, as he had In the bank, 'by
! sweeping out"-that Is TO say, he COM
/ menced away down. Then he worked
hard and doggedy. 1t was not a ques-
ton Of personal disposition alone; it
was a matter OF must with Dig nj.
/ Parents there were living, and the
! Young man was their stay and their de-
pendence. he touched comedy finally,
and people saw that he could DO conf
CAL Work-he was glutton Il work,
and the Investment of effect brought
finally a slowly increased dividend Of
success and dollars. He pushed his
personality and his ambition along mp
! through various efforts until people
said: He's good"
Until recently, however, the young
man had never with his own hands cut
coupons from his own popularity. He
! had hired IL out 10 others at so much
per week. He had never fully gathered
the profits from his hard earned and
persistent endeavor.
! But now the time has come and night
I " the ducats OF public VINO laugh are
| falling into his basket. A splendid new
/ play house in New York had been open
| ed by foreign woman who failed to fill
| IL. Mrs. Bernard Beere could not domi-
nate the stage OF the new Manhattan
! opera house, nor could her voice reach
/ into the crannies of the cavernous audi
/ forum.
She Quit and a brilliant spectacle
moved up behind her memory, the vast
place became Ghght with spectacle and
the crowded cavern before the stage
was airing with laughter.
And who was the leader? The star?
! The youth of the Mount Vernon bank
twenty years ago, the neat yonngster
/ who was welcomed in, but never was
quite one Of the Cochran coterie OF
( bachelors in the hotel by the railroad
tracks.
And his name? Thomas Q. Sea
brooke, King of 1.-The isle OF Cham
/ payne"
There is satisfaction IN telling Of fnal
/ success earned by years Of hard buffet
/ ipgs. and the case OF Seabrooke is in
Point. In the days twenty years ago
/ he was not known at Seaorooke. The
20" that ne uses as the middle letter
OF HE stage designation was then and
| is the initial OF his family name.
OF this mans work In the comicsl
opers. from which be is now reGping
rich returns. earnest commentator
NAV bs said. he ia the monarch OF 3
! lonely isle where nGught but champagne
is known as beverage.
He is ''busted" and in kinsly tatters,
with an army Of two tattered soldiers.
A Yankee vessel is stranded on bis
shores, and the store Of water therefrom
! comes into the isle as curious fluid,
which soon commands fabulous price
per measure. The kingly Golfers are re-
plsnlshed, and the King marrles the
New Bedford. Mass, woman, who owned
and sailed the wrecked craft. Princely
inebristy followed, aud, just here, Sea
brooke 'does" scene which never has