The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-19
u & L INARD LUCK
Members of ' Stranded Company
Scatter and Depressed.
SEEKINGA WARMER CLINE
One sinhs Girl Finds Employ
mentin a Helena Variety
leater = Trying to
Reach PocatelIo.
sEEKINGA WARMER CLINE

The embers of the defunct ~ & t.
compsy who are stranded in Amazon
da arhaving a pretty hard time of Ii,
and leir representative became a ia
milis feature yesterday around the
raiIad Office, at which he made re-
pea;d but always unsuccessful at
terSts to get the company farther
soih, where the weather is warmer
i'm Weiner, one of the members of
te company, came up from Anaconda
fsterday morning to endeavor to ar
lAnge transportation for the stranded
bnes to Pocatello. but while he aroused
a great deal of sympathy for himself
could not get the sympathy up to the
pitch where II touches pocketbooks.
Tomorrow is the Union Pacific pay
day at Pocatello and the company be-
lieves IL 1t could get there in time to
give a performance tomorrow evening
1t would take in enough money to put
1t on its feet and enable II to work it's
way back east.
Robert c. Hudson, business manager
of the Frederick Warde company, who
is an old friend of Weiner's, generously
offered to give him $50 out of his own
pocket towards defraying the expenses
of the company to Pocatello. This was
not half enough, however, and the
manager of the opera house at Pocatel-
10 was telegraphed to and asked If he
would guarantee the remaining SIS. He
replied that he would not, but that he
would turn over the first money that
came in to that amount. This PROPOSE
ton, however, was not of a sufficiently
definite nature to be accepted by the
railroad company.
At last accounts last evening Mr..
Weiner was endeavoring to secure an
advance of SIS on the company's bag
gage, and he hopes to be able to make
arrangements so that the company can
leave for Pocatello. The sympathies
of City Ticket Agent Lamson of the
Union Pacific have been aroused, and
he Is giving the company all the assist
ance possible in their efforts to get out
of Montana.
Mr.. Weiner stated at the railroad Of
flee yesterday that all of the trouble
was due to the fact that their mana
ger attempted to bride the dramatic
critic of the Standard to give them a
fiattering notice. He also said that
when their manager left them in the
lurch on Thursday evening he took
with him about $4,000 of the compa-
ny's funds. Selfridge left for New York
Thursday evening over the Great
Northern, and he gave no indication
then of having 81, or any very large
part of it. He told the ticket agent
that this was his first theatrical ven
ture, that he had lost $500 since he
had been with the company, and that
he had had enough of the business. He
bought a second class ticket to New
York for $3.50 and received $3.50 in
change. He said that he could not af-
ford to take a sleeper and that the
$3.50 would have to pay for all that he
got to eat between Butte and New
York.
Miss Vita Sayne, one of the best sing
ers of the company, left last evening
for Helena, where she has secured an
engagement in a variety theater. A
ticket was telegraphed her at Ana
conda yesterday afternoon. She ex-
pressed her greatest sympathy for her
less fortunate friends