The San Francisco call., 1895-10-12
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

"Hello, Sam" exclaimed Attorney yogel-
sang, extending his hand to Sam Davis, the
sagebrush newspaper man, yesterday after
noon in the Occidental. 'fI'll be up to Carson
when you have the Corbett-F -Fitzsimmons prize
fight. Engage me seat on account of the
Carson Appeal. and
"Mr Vogelsang,' answered the editor,
withdrawing his sunburned hand proudly,
''you will have to excuse me for questioning
your right to fix prize-fght within the bor-
ders of the battle-born State of Nevada. The
law, sir-yes, the law, sir-prohibits prize-fght-
ing where live, and we are all law-abiding
citizens. beg that you discuss some other
topic more congenial to me-"
"But, Sam, is it not all arranged that"
mot by a-great deal, Mr.. Vogelsang," an
swered the austere Sam, with q hitch on the
fourth word, "and it never will be arranged.
Some maliciously inclined sport, who does not
know our people, started the report that Ne.
vada wanted the fight and San Francisco went
wild over the possibility of having brawl next
door to California. I cannot understand why
people should heap such a variety of abuse on
Nevada. Do you suppose for moment that
we would have the fair name of our beloved
State blighted by such scene in the heart OF
our capital city? Do you suppose l could re-
main there after had been compelled by cir
cumstances to pollute the columns of my agri-
cultural and family journal with report OF
such brutal procedure as fight between hui
man beings for money2'
'What would become OF the Washoe Club in
Virginia CityT'
"Let me ask you, Mr.. Vogelsang, If the char
liable mining superintendents of the Comstock
could ever again sit down to play quiet game
of whist to see who would pay for new coat OF
church paint when the State has been turned
over to scrappers and bruisers.
9Th ink Of the thousands of honest miners
who would have to send their sons away to
school in some other State just to keep them
away from the influence of such incidents
Nevada sir, will have you understand, is the
one State in the Union where we never allow
q fight to take place. The law is clearly op-
posed to it, and we pass a new anti-prize-fght
statute every two years. There are so many
on the statute-books now that am unable 10
quote the best one offhand, but they are all
corkers. They are all ironclad. If a man
should advertise prize-fght in the Appeal to-
day he would not be able to get q dozen people
in the house."
''Is the circulation so small as that, Sam?"
"No. But would denounce the sport edi-
torially in the same issue that contained the
ad. and the people of the city would rise Ut
and lynch the principals. Really, Mr.. Vogel-
sang, you never saw such indignation as we
can put up in Nevada at moments notice
We are dead opposed to scrapping except in
cases OF horse-stealing, defamation of charac.
ter, maltreatment, cheating at poker, lying,
abuse of confidence, loud noises and wearing
umbrellas or plug hats. All of those things
are justification for fight, but the proposition
of prize-fghting will never be countenanced
until that last boxing layout that appeared in
Carson square up their advertising account
with the papers they beat in Carson, Gold Hill
Virginia, Reno and Genoa. We are dead sci
against it. The pen in Nevada is mightier than
the two-ounce nit"
Charles H. Riegel, who is the Taffy in
"Trilby," was discussing audiences yesterday
with Manager Stanton at the Baldwin "At
the close Of the first performance of 'Trilby
here was disappointed and made up my mind
that we should play to poor houses, because
the audience was SO quiet" said Mr. Riegel
81 was very much mistaken, of course. San
Francisco audiences think good deal
but don't say much. They applaud al
the right time and show that they
really appreciate the good points, and thai
helps an actor wonderfully. An audience has
as much to do with making a performance
success as the performers themselves A little
applause at the right place is much better than
a great deal of indiscriminate demonstration.
have often gone on the stage feeling badly
out of sorts and soon been braced up by find
ing an appreciatiye and sympathetic audience
''The way the people dress, the general ap.
pearance of the audience has considerable
effect on actors, too. That is one reason why
l like to play in the South. The ladies always
wore evening dress, and so do most of the
men,"