The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1893-04-27
A JUVENILE HORDE.
NEW YORK YOUNGSTERS SEE A
THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE.

Six Thousand Street Urchins Swarm Into
Metropolitan Playhouse and Make
Away with Everything Portable Within
Reach--A Pandemonium.
Fully 5000 shouting, screaming, chat
tering, cheering youngsters attended the
performance Of "The Scout" given for
poor children at Niblos, and outdid the
I Indians as regards noise and drowned
the reports of the pistols with their en-
thusiastic yells.
Such an audience has never before
been inside the walls Of q playhouse.
There were boys there with dirty faces,
and boys whose natural color did net
give one an opportunity to see il they
were dirty or not. Little girls were
there, too, some white and few black.
and they took as much delight In tho
performance and made as much noise
as the boys.
The doors of the theater were besieged
as early as 1880 o'clock, and by $50 there
was tremendous jam about the Broad
way and Crosby street entrances. Once
the doors were opened there was no use
trying to collect tickets. The boys sim
ply swept everything before them. In
an incredibly short time every seat con-
tained at least two occupants, and every
available place from which the stage
could be seen was occupied.
The boys hung on the posts like mon
keys, occupied the stairs, stood on the
radiators, and if it wasn't for the ten
big policemen who were there to preserve
order there is no knowing what they
would have done. The youngsters talked
to each other from all parts of the house.
"Hay, Yallerr' shouted one urchin
across the gallery. "Did you see me
brudder?" ''Naw," came the answer.
"Hnlly MOI" shouted back the first
speaker, sme mudder will slaughter
me-" "Hi, Red" shouted another young
ster, "where's Mixer "Oh, he's down
In the parkay eating CATS" came the au-
swer.
It was 10 o'clock when Congressman
Timothy J. Campbell came before the
curtain and addressed the boys. At
least he tried to tell the boys to be good
citizens, but they heard him not, and he
concluded in pantomime.
One little girl wearing big red hat
occupied chair all by herself in the or
chestra. "Take off your hat, Magg
shouted the little one behind her, but
she paid no attention, and in an instant
that hat was sailing down the aisle.
When she got it back it was in ribbons.
and to quiet her cries policeman lifted
her into box, where she spent most Of
her time sticking her tongue out at the
other girls.
How the boys cheered when the cur.
tain went up! They applauded DR..
Carver like mad, and when he threw
the villain in the big tank they yelled
furiously. The comic Irishman and the
Aarky pleased them immensely, and they
mafyeled at Or. Caryer's aim when he
broke all tho bottles in the saloon with
rifle balls,
The actors soon discovered that 1t wal
useless to talk, as they couldn't be heard
and they went on great part Of th,
time In pantomifne. No villain was evel
more heartily disliked than Cherokee,
Jake, played by Mr.. Sommerfield. ON
boy in the gallery threw half eaten ap
pie at him. and an Indian picked 1t al
and finished it. In the fourth act erie
came from all parts of the house h
throw Jake into the river. There wa
tumultuous applause when the horse fel
through the bridge, and there was NOR
when the play was over. It took jus
seven minutes for the house to empty
and It seemed a miracle that no on
was hurt. Had one boy stumbled whil
coming down the gallery staircase th
result would have been appalling.
After the house was emptied Manage
Comstock went in and viewed the wrecl
Every other row had q broken seat, an
In one place an entire row was demo
ished. The urchins broke open the oper
glass machines and carted of the glasses
and in some cases took the machine
and all.
"Well," said Mr.. Comstock, "the
had good time, and don't care as lon
as they left the four walls and didn't g
hitrt.n--New York Herald,