The sun., 1894-12-26
IN A VICTORIA MUSIC HALL,
THE WAITER WAS A DLNDEs
STRAIGHT FROM THE BoWERH.

He cot = ssIary asa 80 Couid ARora -
Tell the Trutk-CaIIing Out Beer saa
Cigars, Gentsi" Only One OF His Duties.
The traveller who must remain in Victoria,
| British Columbia, Of an evening while waiting
| 10 take the night boat for Vancouver. which
leaves soon after midnight, will ind various
| ways of amusing himself. The town is quaint.
| English architecture, English manners. English
| dress prevail everywhere. and about the only
| Yankee thing In evidence Is restaurant called
| the Boston, in which even English cooking
serves to emphasize the fact that the name OF
| the place Is calculated more TO catch the
| transient traveller from the states than any
thing else. There is a most interesting China
| town in the place, and some splendid bargains
are TO be found there, as well as the low life that
characteriZes the Chinatown Of the more ambi-
tlous city, San Francisco.
IL the town theatre in Victoria Is open the
wayfarer may count on an entertainment from
some stroling company of moderate excellence.
and an audience will be present that would do
credit to theatre in New York or London.
Victoria is the capital Of British Columbia, be-
sides being naval station. and the official life
may be described properly as almost brilliant.
The place has dozens OF fine turnouts that may
be seen any day on the streets, and the horse-
back and hunting parties almost common
as they are in any place OF moderate size and
pretensions in England. The town is gay with
COlOr ana lie, ana after 4 O'CLOCK IN the atters
noon no one thinks OF working.
should the theatre DO closed the traveller will
have to fall back on another institution for en-;
tertainment after he has done Chinatown and
the streets OF an evening. He will have to de-
pend on the music halls for amusement, and if
he goes to them in the right spirit he will gee
amusement But he must not be too critical.
The music halls Of Victoria are a cross between
the London music hall and New York Bowery
concert saloon. Indeed there seems to be more
them London.
The most ambitious music hall in Victoria
% that Il is s Called Dei@oaic5 Y Music % Hail. The The
name is oil there Is to remind one OF the WE'LL
known know New York institution: The traveller en-.
which is II long room exactly the same width as
the saloon at the & further @ end Of Of which & Is q
the saloon; and admittance behind them costs
20 cents. Tables and benches flll up the place.
announce something like this:
neappeernnce At this masnincent temple q ,mu.s-
Howard in refined and artistic .peciaity Of merit an
artist In every sense OF the word.
The magnificent temple of amusement" has
gallery ON three sides and boxes in two tiers
at the sides OF the stage. The upper boxes have
Cling and laughter that came from them TIN
Sun man who was present one evening early last
formers and their friends. when the young wo-
men. and old ones, too. for that matter, were
where the orchestra was supposed to be was, a
piano, on which Prof; Hicks, the :. leader Of the
work OF the evening. He had not only to play
all the accompanments for the songs. but be-
Whe Sas By he
Of a wreck Of waiter calling out:
The audience consisted of perhaps fifty per-
sons, among whom the jack tars OF the naval
dommsteI Tn There her were hair dozen Ghnsmen
also i,a ana pnRpS psTnRSpS dozen tonrlsts The ieery
%FRi@sa MhS nn egS ons
artists was unable To appear. and the walter an.
nounced the fact from The floor; and when one Of
he performed his duty he called OUT -,
'Gentlemen. what say is true, Miss Ed
munds is indisposed and sent us doctors cer-
tlhcate to prove IT, and yous'll have to git along
without her. You can believe II or not. but IL
amt nothin' to me, for git sal'ry. Beer and
So the evening began. The management had
enormous spittoon in the shape OF big flower
pot that stood on II stand at his right and saved
when u" one Of his siambanging solos or a song
was being rendered, The performers were all
ms IL they had done duty at some Of the grand
functions on the east side in New York The
Each Of the sang soms solo ABOUT
being good to your mother, or the little WANDER
each finished the leery waiter would wipe his
eyes pathetically and sing out in a hoarse voices
That was Invariably regarded by the per-
former as an encore, and then some alleged
feet Of the tars and the grins Of the Cinnamon.
The La Monde sisters, who were announced as
superb duo" whatever that might be. and the
waiter came around TO THE Sun man and said:
don nssd ta my nS' sSsfc IL ii git
sal,ry: Beers and cigars. gents"
national airs at Ills time, and the walter went
over TO two Chlnamen; leaned on the tsbie.
eyes, thrust on out lis chin and Kissed at them:
Beer and cigars gents"
The Chinamcn took the hint and one OF them
family.
=, The waiter started TO get them, and by that
erest s n in him. finland and % he winked as he went along
and whispered; Remember. git sarry."
Miss Flora Flor Hast HASTINGS made her hrst appearance
and got the usual encore, and then the programme
announced that The Sisters La Monde would
turned out to be another song. instead OF a skirt
dance. and Just as they were singing about the
was seen to go up TO n group OF the tars and
whisper something 10 them. Instantly they
lie then went upto another group and they van
ished. II was getting mysterious, and The SUN
thing Thin W Violent rShea he caught the waters eye.
What's up - asked the reporter: ,.,-
this way. | gt a sal'ry, and these sailors have
just got time 70 git back To the barracks before
arrested to-morrow. and then they won't git
shore leave for three months. II go and tell
they'll come back again, and SO you see we git
their trade. ltsag2od move, but it's nothin' to
When the evening over and the manage
ment had "A announced new faces for next week."
the audience slowly filed out The manager met
TIE SIN man at the door and said:
Pretty Observation-Disclosures, don't you think -
you have is "A dandy"
You bet he is" said the manager. "Do you
know where he comes from"
mo"
why, no comes from New York. straighs
from the BUwcry and he gets a salary"
A Human storage battery.