The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-06-10

hoases. the whole proceeds Welding Sill
500. one NIGHTS performance alone being
over $500"
FORESTS engagement with Mszure-
SO 600 fCr four weeks-was arranged, IL Is
believed, by Senator Tim McCarty. 1t was
a velbal one, and II may be interesting To
FecaL some Of the incidents connected with
It anil Its failure. The great trsgedian
brought with him John Mccullough for a
riefding man Miss Lily, a slender slip of a
girl, as lngenue, and Joseph McArdle as
business man and general factOtum, and by
whom Forrest placed great store. He was
Forests financial agent, and to him
the tragedan confided the whole manage
ment Of his dramatic engagements, etc.
"A bout 1S49 acA rdle was a conspicuous fig
.ure 10 New York life. He was captain Of
the dandy militia regiment or the period,
and il is pretty ge orally conceded by In
siders that it was be who started and man-
aged the Astor-place Opera-b ouse riot
on the 10th of May. 1649. when
Macready played Macbeth at the thea
acus in THE Gladiator" at the
Broad way. From that memorable time
MCAUdle accompanied Forrest everywhere,
and he was recommended as reliable and
zone who studied the tragedian,s Interests
.. more than his own. In fact. Forrest said
lie did not know what to DO without him.
After the actors death he was for time
in charge Of the Forrest Home for aged
and INDECENT actors.
Forrest also brought with him in his own
PROPER person a perfect Pandora box OF
physical ills, and it was apparent from his
disappearance on the stage OF Mcguire
Opera-house that the engagement would
be a failure, and that his splendid voice, his
only remaining stage gift, could n OF save It..
he sat during lost of the scenes, the SCI
alica would not allow his standing for
any length OF lime, he could not kneel
win o n from IL
matte govt, and for the same reason the
HIT of a sword when he had occasion 10
use that weapon had to be enlarged to
bring it In touch with his almost rigid
fingers. In fact, ne very nearly realized
o.; his own Old-tIme stimulation OF Lear where
tie discroT ned King said to his daughter:
Pray do not mock me,
:. lam very foolish, fond old man,
~ReuTscore and upward, not an hour more or less;
.: Aid to deal plainly
Lear 1 am not In my perfect mind.
The people of San Francisco, forgetting
the lapse of time, had expected TO see the
Forrest that they, some of them, had seen
lin other DAYS, but they only saw mag
nlhcent ruin.
Everything had been done by his Phila-
delphia and New York admirers residing
in San Francisco 20 boom" the great
Edwin Thrice-told tales of his triumphs
in me East filed the columns Of the news
papers. and the tickets for the frat per-
!OtufdnCe were puJ up az puDJc auction.
robert y. Tiffany, the halter, whose store
=. was Cd the south side Of Washington
street opposite the ODera-house. played
over again the old game. for Mcguire
: that the halter Genin did for
Barnum when that prince of humbugs
brought Jenny Lind TO Castle Garden.
. New York, in September, 1S49. Tiffany pre-.
tended To give $500 for first choice OF seats
. (Geniu gave 5000. and when he walked
. into his place on Forests first night tine
house rose to him." just as though be had
really paid $500 to see the ravages time
and disease had wrought in the once
.. brilliant actor.
The first week of the engagement
dragged heavily on, and At its end Forrest
found he could 90 no further Mcguire
c0nsented that he should try the GevseTs
for time, and there was an understand
ing with McArdle that IL his principal re-
covered the engagement would be carried
out But, unfortunately, the contract was
only a verbal one.
1t was Ct the Geysers that that practical
Joker, the late Tom Wand. membe Of the
firm of Hunter, Wand d Co., wholesale
HOuOr-dealeTs, and a State Senator, in.
. Obliged himself in his faYorite pastme al
the expense of the great tragedian. A bout
- mile and quarter from the hotel OF TIL:
celebrated sanitarium there are two well
sDrings. one glacial in its GOODNESS, the
other nearly 90 Fahrenheit. or the boiling
point The com biuation OF these two waters
whereby the temperature is averaged 81
asto be made beaTable to an Invalid, results
in q valuable bath for persons afflicted
with sciatica and rheumatic govt as FOR
rest was. and ii was by the use OF thest
modern roofs of Bethesda that the actO
was cured. lie DduIged 10 the bath ever,
morning 1t was Joe McArdles special
commits sion to proceed TO THESE wen
springs at dawn and connect the cold win