The San Francisco call., 1897-03-10
THE. UNEMPL DYED
AS ENTERTAINERS
A Successful Performance
at the Auditorium
Last Night.
Songs, Dances, Athletics, Reel.
tations and Feats of
Legerdemain.
They Cleared Over a Hundred and
Fifty Dollars on the
Scheme.

The unemployed realized about $50
last night from their theatrical entertain
ment in the Auditorium.
The house was not very large. but very
nice class of people was present and there
was nothing except the remarkable num-
ber and diversity of acts presented to in
dicate that there was anything unusual
about the occasion or the purpose OF the
show.
1t was g variety performance made up
of as many variations as there were par
ticipants. There was everything, from
clever acrobatic feat along through songs,
dances and recitations to things that were
simply interesting because they were sur
prsingly inane. There were some good
acts, some tolerable acts. and some that
would not have been endured elsewhere.
But everything went and everything was
applauded from the efforts of the pretty
baby girl dancers to the men made up as
imrossibIe tramps or Indians.
Following is the complete programmes:
Lindsley brothers on the triple horizontal,
bars; Miss Wainright, ballad; Julius korto;
walking the globe: Miss Dentt, reciiaIion
sleight-of-hand tricks; BABY Laramie. song !;
Mrs. Crosse, dramatic reading;, Thornhll l.
tramp act: Dan Dougherty, black'face mono
logue and baton drill; Professor J; Lombar-
dero's stringed quartet; Senorita Matildita,
castanet dance; Nelson and Williams.
humorous knockaoout and boxing act;
Baby Lewis, dance: Melchodie, Indian act:
Harry Deviere, musical sc;: an d among others
that took part were Richards and Rand. Zsn-
fella Brothers, Torrance Sisters, Matt KEN,
Professor Galando w. T. Baker. Miss Adis,
Ewald Andow, Nine Andow Russell He'll
anali and hndon, Ha willard brothers Bisseno, Miss
May Walton. D lie and Dalton, May Loveland'
Oracle Grace, Ric ard Leona, Mrs Leona, y.
B. Barton and Ethel Graham.
At the end OF the performance Z. ID.
Davies, vice. president Of the unemployed
and one of the well-appearlng men who
composed the CORPS OF attendants and
ushers, appeared before the footil2hts and
m ade an address in which he told briefly
of the object and the inception OF the
benefit for the unemployed and the relief
and the generosity they have met with.
In the forenoon there was parade OF
the UNEMPLOYED, 400 strong, through the
principal downtown streets and out IS lar
as Van Ness avenue, the object being by
means of appropriate banners to adVer-
tise the evenings entertainment.
The boulevard fund yesterday passed
the $4,000 mark, the amount being now
$5233, but this is very much slower than
the committees hoped the collections
would be made. In two or three days
some men may be put to work
on the job, ex-Mayor Sutro hav-
ing yesterday given right of way
under specified conditions through his
property, and the committee having
agreed to the conditions which state that
the boulevard must be completed in
eighteen months and no sew rs must be
laid in the street during the first five
wears. The deeds are in escrow.
Several new cases OF distress and SICK
ness have been reported to the unem-
ployed headquarters. The men there
have supplies enough on hand after the
contributions of rice from Chinatown to
last another day.
Adolph Sutro yesterday told thestreet
Com mittee OF the Board of Supervisors
that he would have a deed prepared with
out any conditions included for the strip
of land through his possessions for the
boulevard. He said that he did not wish
10 make a gift which should entail upon
him any great expense. He would give
an unconditional deed. trusting to the
Board of Supervisors not to compel him
to construct a sewer.