The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-01-02
DElEY IS ATIAGHEl
The Bog Office Receipts ana Bag
gage Seized by a Constable
10 SECURE 4 MODEST BOARD Bill
Al che Fsd Lion Hotel, FittsppFgh.
Tho Matter Is Amicaply Adjusted
Each Party Paying Half the Costs
and Certain Trunks being Held for
secpFlty,.The MNsee also in Trouble,

Saturday night seemed an especially
bad time for theatrical enterprises in.
Wheeling. Tho Musee theatre, which
has beepip rather hsFdlipes for q week
OF 40, came to grief at last, and Henry
=, DlSey struck a,spag which may in
the end cause the collapse Of his opera
company. O, p. Kramer, proprietor Of
the Red Lion hotel, adjoining the Alvin
theatre, in Pittsburgh, came here Sat-
urday afternoon and sued in Squire
Ankles court for a board bill for meme
hers Of the company guaranteed by tn
management The amount was be,
tween $3.50 and $500, Bs,,btr .um
An attachment Yves issued on the box
Office receipts Of Saturday evenings
performance ot "PatIencep at the Opera.
House, and also on all the baggage on
the stage, Constable Lauchlln served
it, but the performance went on and.
nobody in the audience knew anything
After the performance Kramer and
Dixey's manager appeared in Squire
AFkle's court. II was learned from
their conversation that the money was
really owed by individual members Of
the company, but the manager had
guaranteed Il. Kramer said tina mems
bers Of the company told him they had
received no salary for several weeks,
Other members told an 1NTEIlIGENcRR.
reporter the samething saturdayInlght
Kramer held several trunks as secpri
ity. II was finally sagFeedr ithat he
should hold these, the manager guaran-
teeing payment otthe money due. The
suit was then dismissed agreed, each OF
the parties paying halt the costs,
Members Of the company say they
did a bud business until they revived
Patience in one night stands. They
think the business would ustifypaylng
salarlss in full, but the manager isttry.
ing to square up former losses on his
present profits, which makes it a little
hard on'the members Of the company,
excepting the star, who, as they say,
''always floats high"
The following from the Pittsburgh
Chfo1icl. Telegraph Of Saturday throws
new light on the situation:
'The Henry 2, Dixey Company,
which played at the Dpquesne Theatre
last week, was somewhRt shorspt mon
ey. Twenty members OF the company
stopped at Red Lion Hotel, on Sixth.
street, and ran up a bill amounting to
S166, which they could not l%iquidate,
stating that owing TO poor business they
had not been paid for six weeks. They
left eight trunks as security, promising
to sendfUr them, but when the trunks
were examined Tuesday 1t was discoy-
cred that they were empty. Proprietor
Kramer went TO Beaver Falls Wednes-
day, caught the company and secured
two ordersf for SS3 each on the receipts
at New Castle and Youngstown.
"Throe members Of the company, two
men anda female, stopped at the Stab
lighthouse, on Penn avenue, and thereisI
still a memorandum Of $32 hung up.
against them. They left two trunks,
but tho woman redeemed hers after the
return Of the company from McKeea-
port.
hard time with finty.hearted land-
lords, however, Dixey himself lived
high at the Duquesne, andwhen he left
liquidated his bill without trouble
Tho company spent Sunday In
Wheeling and leaves this morning Tor.
G%reensburg, Pa.