The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-09
LOCAL THEATERS WILL OPEN
. THEIR SEASONS THREE WEEKS
HENCE.
"ALABAMA' AT THE METROPOLITAN
s'The Woman in Black" at the
Grand-GOssip OF the Theatre
cal World,

With its apt alterations, as We used to years
ago.
AL the ebon aggregations that affiiet these
modern times
Are equally unworthy of our prose and of our
rhymes,
~ And l vainly pine and banker for the joys
that used to come
70 With the trumpets ump-ta-ra-ra and the big
bass drum.
Jack Haverly, here's hoping that some bright
prOpitious star
Beams kindly down upon you whereso'er your
interests are,
For my heart is warm a-toward you for the
JOY you gave me when
was little wambling tike and were glad
again
To see you marching up the street with your
dusky knights of song
20 BY George, I'd head the gang of boys that
whooped your way along,
~ And I'd stake that all our plaudits and &C
claims would overcome
r. The trumpet's ump-ta-ra-ra and the big bass
drum.
When Eugene Field wrote these lines
he expressed the feelings of a large
body of the American people, says Fran
els B. Talbert. Jack Haverly's star
doomed so grandly on the theatrical
horizon that when it suddenly disap-
peared there was a great void in the
amusement world. People missed gen.
ial Jack Haverly, with his Mastodon
Ministries and his many magnificent
enterprises.
In time they learned to do without
him, but theynever forgot the minstrel
king, and for years they have been
asking:
What has become of Jack HaverIy?"
- The question is answered at last, and
answered in a manner that will give
great qualification to the thousands Of
friends Of the old time Snowman.
Jack Haverly is on his feet again. He
has struck it rich in the mines of Col
orado, and once more rides on the top
wave Of prosperity. A few weeks ago
he was dead broke, a condition TO
which he was well accustomed. Today
he is rich, an experience that is not
new to him.
Few men, even in this land of Spec
ulators, have had such a varied ca
reer as j. II. Haverly. He started in
HE as trainboy on the Pennsylvania
railroad, where he sold peanuts and
newspapers and studied human nature.
In 1851, at the age of 10, he drifted
into minstrelsy in a small way. He
was an excellent mimic and had a tai
tent for management, and he soon be-
gan to make money.
He built up his company of burnt
cork comedians and singers until it
took commanding place in the amuse-
ment world His "Mastodon-40-Coun
'em-4O' minstrels Travelled over this
country with enormous success and
then took London by storm
The minstrel business was not big
enough for Jack Haverly. He branched
out in theatrical enterprises. He ac-
CURED large theater in Chicago, three
OF the leading theaters Of New York
came under his management he leased
opera houses in Philadelphia, San
Francisco, Brooklyn and other cities.
His name confronted you from every
billboard. Probably you remember
Haverly's Pinafore company that
coined money in all the large cities of
the country. 1t was quite as profitable
as the minstrels while it lasted. Then
he sent other Haverly companies on the
road and conducted the transcontinen-
tai tours of Mapleson's Italian Opera
company, at that time the greatest in
stitution of the kind in the country. He
estimated that from 1873 to 1880 he was
worth $4,000 900.
-, At the zenith of his prosperity Jack
Haverly announced that next season
he would control so theaters Next
season he had no theaters at all The
bubble had burst, and the great amuse-
ment promoter disappeared from pub
lie view
49, HaVerly was very liberal in the days
OF his success, and the daring spirit
which made him commanding figure
In the amusement world led him to
speculate in other fields. He invested
~ largely in Colorado mining properties
and to these investments he attributed
his downfall
He had an abiding faith in them,
however, and during his eclipse he
went to Colorado to live. where he led
q precarious existence. He felt sure
that some Of his mines would pan out
but he could not get any one to invest
money in them, even during the first
Cripple Creek craze
When in the heyday of his prosperity
he had purchased outright a plateau
known as Bull Hill, nine miles west of
Cripple Greek. A short time ago he
appeared in Cripple Creek with his
corduroy trousers tucked in his boots
and big cowboy hat pulled down over
his eyes. His mission was to interest
capitalists in Bull Hill. They were shy
at first but Haverly pleaded most per-
suasively and finally induced two of
them to look over his ,.'sholes in the
ground" & ssvr 81 e.4s,e
49,, They went to Bull Hill and finally
concluded to chance it. He gave them
half the property, and they agreed to
put up the capital to develop it. They
laid the land out into building lots and
named the town Haverly. In a few
days the working men struck ''pay
dirt" and when the news was noised
in Cripple Greek a rush began In 4S
hours city Of more than 1000 people
had sprung up on Haverly's old plateau,
and the place has since doubled In
population.
Haverlys friends say that he has al
ready made a quarter of a million out
of the. enterprise, and the best of it
is 1t will afford an assured and con-
tinuous income.
The Metropolitan Opera house will
open its season Aug 30 with a presen-
tation of that dramatic idyl. ALA
balna." AS this beautiful drama will
occupy the stage of the METROPOLITAN
during the G. A. r. encampment, it
will doubtless be witnessed by thous-
ahds OF the odd vetrans, for Alabama, -
is not war play, ii is reminiscent of
the tenderest and deepest feelings
aroused by the conflict.
But three more weeks remain before
the Grand Opera house will open for
the fail and winter season The 7ysual
renovating and cleaning has been done.
and the theater viii open it's doors
bright and clean Sunday night, Aug.
so, presenting for the, first time here,
Jacob Lifts latest popular success. s.Tha
Woman in Black" The fact that ex-
Resident Manager Kingsbury has been
selected to direct the tour of this at
traction, gives it an added interest
to ST. Paul theater gocrs.
The play is the work OF II. Grafton
Espse1'y. It was given its initial pro-