The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-22
STORMED THE ALIAS
Carnival of Madrid Victims
After Their Pay.
GHOST REFUSED TO WALK
STRONG FEELING AGAINST PRO-
MoTERs SHERIDAN AND TALBOT.
Suits Have Been PiIing Up Against
Tlsena-SaItair People Not to Blame
Failure Said to Be Due to Lack
OF Patronage.

Then-saItair People Not to Blame
Failure said to Be Due to Lack
of Patronage.
| Two hundred is the number of poor,
deluded supers, not to mention the
horde of older creditors, who yester-
/ day formed in a solid phalanx in front
of the Atlas block demanding pay for
/ their just labor.
Each man had blood in his eye, and
an oath on his lips as he spoke of a
rank fakirs and 'grafters" of the first
water.
Their names are Frank Sheridan and
Frank L. Talbot, and although they
claim that they are nothing if not up
right and honorable, the crowd gives
! them the marble heart, and asks that
! they try to avoid romance when speak
| ing Of their honesty.
| From early yesterday morning until
p. m. the hungry supers watched
with wary eyes the office of the above
gentlemen in the Atlas block, they
having promised that all participants
in 1.-The gorgeous pyrotechnical romance
The Carnival of Madrid would be
paid in full So yesterday they came,
countless as the atoms that people the
suns rays, but in the language of the
''profesh," 1.-The ghost walked not
There were poor, i'll fed, i'll clothed
little fellows who had rehearsed a
couple of weeks. and then working
bravely in the face of the fear of be-
ing sacked" had honestly earned a
50-cent piece nightly; there We're little
girls; there were older ones with pinch
ed faces and tears in their eyes; there
were eXpressmen cabmen, stage hands,
all waiting eXpectantly, all embracing
the chilly illusion that that ghost
would walk.
Every one of the two hundred had
from So to $50 coming, and a little after
8 p. m. they made a rush up stairs,
and waited, heaping curses upon the
dishonored pates of their erstwhile
managers.
CLEARED THE BUILDING.
The janitor. who didn't care for such
a bedlam got a sign up on the door that
the money would be ready at p. m,
and this with the aid of a copper,
cleared the building.
About 4:30 Sheridan was seen making
for the Saltair Office, and de gang
trailed on behind him.
SHERIDAN TALKS.
Here he was seen by The Herald
man, and said that 81, 900 had been at
tached on a claim of $216 by the Utah
Lithographing company, and that when
that was released they would be paid
Then he left, and a few minutes later
it was found that he had not stated
the facts, as will be explained below.
SALTAIR PEOPLE IN NO WAY RE-
SPONSIBLE.
The Saltair beach people are entirely
and completely exempt from any con-
nection with the affair, and the eXpla-
nation they gave was as follows:
Mr.. Sheridan and Mr.. Talbot should
be shown a little more clemency. They
made no money out of the affair, and
the secret of the whole thing is that
patronage did not foot up with the
estimates beforehand, and consequent
ly these gentlemen lost on the deal.
THE Saltair people guaranteed the
fireworks money, which amounted to
$1,000, and agreed to advance a per-
centage for running expenses. The
two men drew from the company to the
limit Of the percentage due them, and
in fact when everything is figured up
it will be found that the limit was a
little overStepped.
eff there had been an average of
5000 paid admissions daily the boys
would have made expenses, and every
thing would have been paid, whereas
there isn't another cent due them from
the company
PETERSON NOT TO BLAME.
On o. F. Peterson rests a great deal
of the blame according to the creditors,
buL this is a mistake. He is the pos
SCISSOR of a contract which states that
he is merely an employee of the two
grafters who ran the show, and as
such was to draw a salary as cashier
and secretary. In accordance with his
office, he signed the vouchers, and now
the rumor is going the rounds that he
got the money
The fact of the matter is that in
cash, fixtures, ETC., he dropped $3.50 in
the affair, and yesterday began attach
ment proceeding against Talbot and
Sheridan for $741 on note given him
by the two named men, for interest,
attorney fees, and salary. This will
probably give him the scenery, fixtures
and the money what isn't coming" Mr..
Peterson has q. clear but sad record.
In his dealings he has been known as
SlIdIS LllOIWdIu young man, DuL IN MS
Thespian ventures which he has al
ways had a liking for, i'll luck has at
tended him. He worked for a long
time in the Western Union, then went
on the road backing John S. Lindsay
and lost money, and then went back
to the Western Union, and again his
wheel Of fortune has whirled the other
way.
1t seems that on the contrary the two
stars who shed their effulgence over
the glittering carnival did not buy any
chips as starter, but watched the game
in the hope of picking up a stray
punk while the other fellow did the
risking.
Their first play was that they each
had 81, 500 with which to defray current
expenses, and that everything would be
all right In this way tneir first
suckers were about eight young men
who helped them on the grand stand
and stage, and whose bill amounts to
some $50 1t must be admitted that Mr..
Peterson was sucker, but there are
others below.
Now Sheridan and Talbot say they
tried to pay expenses with the advanced
money, but there are several who think
differently. Although they owe a score
of establishments in this city, the West
ern Bill Posting company are perhaps
the heaviest lOOSers having haen NAV