The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-06-02
GArETY COMPANY STRANDED.
Dashed To Pieces on Rocks OF Bank.
rIIrfs.x At PORT lind Or


The American C;alety Company. yarfsb
Played an engagement AZ Corxlray's the
sser IN f41ts csts several weeks ago. has
fssna into baJhrvIyocy and dissolution a.
fae New Park tnesager IN Portland ard
the members have scattered 10 various
yHrsxc halls. w-srere they are uow perform
sng song and fiafpre acts. The Tl1errf,ssr-s
Of the company have IA narrowing tale
al GsSegfion and tiisIIilIsson b gegl. ard
shesr - manages, T. BsaaTregarxf WBS.netal
fgTrs as t9Te heavy villain. He stayed
with me coEsoern while d made money
bit left e IN sn inapfreoiafsve country
sown or Gray's Harhor, when the tide of
r. N0gfuEnes eBDe1l-
The company was organized IN San
Tr-asgc8sGo said Mr. Wills Ar-rY~rrusafy
one ~ tine leading members. we vert
dsrectly 20 Seattle and opened there. We
r.ayssd one week and I'D a first -sIa<ss bus
fyas. We all supposed that Wzluseth had
ucFsey He WAS very oyerbeaEIng ard no
pse 81 the company likesd him. but we sup
fosed that our salaries were certain. 80
We stayed.
AZ Tacoma we played one week 10
rspa business and then returned 20 open
o Summer garden IN Seattle. We were
rssniIg 10 Ccrfray's in Portland bat
tsarIped that the afultnoxnah Clubs enter
sasrars.rt was on. and II would b. no use
~ Gray's Harsoor % fiji On the week. AT
Hoqukam there was a poor house ar
Aberdeen. the secoTd nognJ Was bad. II
aroke Us WTmeuh Ieft the company in
my charge saying he would come 40 Port
hard and make arrangements for a good
pgegSsng al the New Park. He left We
have rae seen him since. He has dropped
hs fnuo the earth We were 10 80 from
sfysrie-sn 10 MonteSano, but could not
,,,rsa n xxassfes Ffyf.tg1n9fe TO eat
However Mr.. Clyde weatherwax. OF
that town, whom | had known before
bought us tickets TO Montesano. There
we plaved 20 a poor house and were as
hard up as ever at the end. We were
empty-pocketed again. We went down TO
the train at IL o'clock on the next day
ana expected Wilmeth TO send US tickets
Cor Portland. as he had promised. The
tickets did not come. and we stood around
the depot like ducks out OF water IL was
awful 10 De stranded In a town like that.
II meant starvation to us. However. Mr.
weatherwax came up that day and he
loaned as so 10 buy tickets to Portland.
taxing our baggage as security. Well. we
arrived there at last. but we found no
Nilmeth. We opened at the New Park.
not expecting to do much business. but
with the idea OF paying some OF our debts
and the $50 on our baggage. Two or three
members OF the company had deserted.
and repudiated the obligations. so the
performance was undoubtedly very bum.
Mr. William Ford. who managed the
ihsate- during the week. paid out money
10 everyone, and at the end of the week
our debts were as far from being paid as
ever and our baggage Is still held. 1t is
a. the theatcr. and we can't get II.
However. seven OF us are sticking to-
rether. three of the women OF the com
rany and four men. We are working in
The music halls. because we must. There
ore no other places. for us Wilmeth
mixed us after making as much out OF
The company as ne could. He must have
saved s6oo or 500 from the engagements
on the Sound for he paid salaries only
one week. In fact. We have been paid but
once since We left san Francisco. many
weeks ago
Tho American Gaiety Company came
into unusual prominence through the es-
eapades OF Lord Sholto Douglas With one
o. the women of the company. While
here they stopped at the Northern hotel.
and were greatly entertained by young
man who was mistaken for Lord Douglas.