The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-03-06
UNCLE TOM SCARED.
Two Topsies and Lawyer
Marks Forced to Flee
to Save Their Lives.
ELIZA AND EVA bid UNDER THE ICE
All on Account Of an Enraged
Bloodhound, Who Tried to
Eat His Keeper.
ELIZA AND EVA BID UNDER THE ice

With the s'Uncle Toms Cabin" theatrical
aggregation that is stationed at Hoboken
this week for performance at the Hoboken
Theatre, there is a pack of bloodhounds.
one of which has emphatically demonstrated
that it is as savage as its manager desires it
to appear on the boards. The functions of
this particular hound, the name of which is
"Rube, y is to chase Eliza. the fleeing negress
over frozen ponds and brooks. The canine Is
a monster. possessing a mouth that extends
all over its face, well calculated to chew up
three or four Elias and a few Topsys at
one meal.
1t is the custom of the keeper, G. w.
Lonsbury, to chain "Rube" separately from
the others. This tends to enrage the dog at
times, and yesterday afternoon "Rube" be-
came SO thoroughly disguised that he began
to bark fiercely and snap.
RUDE FORGOT HIS PART.
Uncle Toms Cabin Company has not been
presenting as fine a show as the management
thought it should, and last weekJT. B. Smith,
who recently played the title role in
"Uncle Dan1, a Messenger from Jarvis Sec
| tion," was engaged to remodel the parts and
arrange for q better production. Mr.. Smith
tackled the job yesterday afternoon, with a
| rehearsal at the Hoboken Theatre, to pre-
I pare for the nights production. The play
had progressed nicely, Eliza was tearing
across the stage to a pond to escape being
transformed into mince meat by the dog,
when Manager Smith shouted:
tLet 'em loose"
At the signal two negroes slipped the
| chains, and two b~loodhounds, "Rube" being
one, darted across the field of moving ice
accent on the movingl. With a bound that
carried it almost entirely across the stage,
D,.l- ~ ~oIa d. da1i fnr n praona., h1A01-I
hound chained On the opposite side of the
stage. In a second "Rubes" teeth were fas-
tened In the dogs throat as he snarled
vicieusly.
THE COMPANY PANIC STRICKEN.
Panic seized the members of the company
simultaneously, and the two Topsies, Uncle
Tom and Lawyer Marks fled in confusion
from the stage. The flyer sisters vaulted
the orchestra railing and started for the
door. Unole Tom lodged into a box and
Lawyer Marks followed. At the time there
were twenty members Of the company on
the stage.
Several of the negroes grabbed heavy
clubs and with these beat sRube," but he
still kept tightly ahold of the dogs throat.
Keeper Lonsbury had been called and when
he came he shouted not to club the dog, that
he knew how to subdue it.
He caught a hold of the animals jaws, one
with his left hand and the other with his
rights duu dOueuiptou W WiohCn onOm dPaiu,
but for the first time he was unable to con-
troll him. "Rube" was snarling and was
shaking its victim from one side to another.
Lonsbury, to save the smaller dog. continued
| operating on "Rube's' jaws.
BIT H KEEPER.
Suddenly the brute jumped back and
sprang at Lonsbury's hand, catching it in
his mouth. The flesh was horribly lacerated.
Clubs were again brought into requisition
and finally "Rube" fell to the floor ex-
hausted. Lonsbury went to Kamlah's drug
store at Newark and Hudson streets, where
| the wound was dressed. 1t is a dangerous
| one and may prove serious. "Rube' is now
chained securely in the company's cars at
the D. L. & w. r. R. yards.