The herald., 1897-10-06
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Manager Wyatt Before the Supervis-
ors on the Pass Matter

The board of supervisors was not in
ordinary business session yesterday, but
there were more liveliness and fun than
If they had been.
Some time ago the new license ordi-
nance went into effect and one section
hit the theatrical managers to the ex-
tent of an additional SIS per month, under
the rev ordinance the theater or concert
hall license being put at SIS per month.
An evening paper on Monday evening,
in short squib, credited Manager Har-
ry Wyatt, of the Los Angeles theater,
with saying some rather unpleasant
things. For instance. it recorded the
not particularly notable fact that Su-
pervisor Davis during the engagement
of the Heart of Maryland" VISITED, the
theater. That he found the house
packed and at once returned to the
court house under the impression that
the theatrical business in Los Angeles
is a bonanza; and that then the license
was raised.
1t was also set forth that the local
managers We're informed that if they
sent certain number of season passes
to the court house the probabilities
were that the ordinance, so far as it
affected the theaters, would remain un-
changed. The influence was unmis-
taxable. The passes not being forth
coming was the reason for the license
being raised. The words actually put
into the mouth of Manager Wyatt were:
IF l am pushed in this matter, some
thing and somebody will pretty soon
drop"
The insinuation conveyed against the
supervisors generally and against Su-
pervisor Davis particularly provoked
a heated term in the supervisoral cham
Der yesterday, just as if the city was
being afflicted with recurrence of the
sweltering days of month ago. Man
ager Wyatt had been invited to appear
before the board and say out boldly
what he had been enade to merely in
sinuate in the newspaper squib referred
to. And he said it, all right, all right
First Of all, however, he denied that
the newspaper had properly set forth
what he actually did say. He denied
that he had either directly or indirectly
asserted that any supervisor whatever
had asked him for passes to his theater,
but he did claim that he had been ap-
preached in the matter. Mr.. Wyatt
stated that this parsonage had told him
that if he sent some passes TO the court
house the probability was that the the
atrical license section of the ordinance
would not be raised, and that when he
failed to do so the same parsonage, up
on meeting him, told him that he saw
how things hao turned out, and that it
would have been better if he had taken
his advice.
The supervisors were not content to
have the mythical parsonage run in on
them, and demapded the name of the
one who had advised the local managers
to send passes 10 the court house. After
some little demur Mr.. Wyatt said it was
Assistant District Attorney Holton.
The funny part of the little storm in "a
teacup is that that supervisor should have
been selected as the one member of the
board particularly active in havng the
license raised The record shows that
on the day the ordinance was passed
Supervisor Davis was the one mem Der
absent and consequently did not vote.
The other five supervisors, however, all
voted the one way-in favor of the pas
sage of the ordinance, theater license
section and all.