Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-07-17

Lincoln j. Garter, who is now worth
a great deal of money, was eleven years
ago working for a salary of Sl2 a week.
He made his money in 50 brief time
in the production Of melodram3. HIS
first success was The Fast Mail,
which he produced in Chicago in the
Lincoln theatre, his entire wealth at
that time being less than S7CO.
Mr.. Carter comes from an Old the
atrical family. His father, w. J. Car
ter was an actor manager, travelling
around the country with a small COM
pany of players. He was 2.so strong
spirituaIist and while in Los Angeles
somewhere in the fifues was induced al
a spiritual meeting to wander 10 SAT-
Lake City He persuaded many OF the
players to join him on this perilou5
Journey, and when they arrived there
they gave a performance IN the sat
Lake City thetre. Carter became
Mormon and was soon afterWard made
the manager of the theatre.
When Carter junior was about eight
wears old, he was also baptized in the
Mormon faith. Soon after this his
father died. and he left Salt Lake City
to seek his fortune. He had various
exneriences in the theatrical line, from
property man to managing star IN one
night stands. He then conceived the
idea of THE Fast Mail" and being
quite a mechanic worked out the de-
tails of the sensational effect. He tried
to induce Louis Morrison TO invest III
the production an equal amount WIN
himself. but that gentleman dld not
think we'll of the undertaking.
When ne found that he was absolute
lv thrown on his own resources, ne
went to work with a will. He painted
his own scenery, made his own prop
critics. painted the bills which were 10
he nosted on the dead walls, not having
sufficient money to get them printed,
and nosted most of them himself. He
also engaged the company and reHears-
ed the play. bns ,s9l
---Tota no
cnnr Pleasant Sins is the name OF
new play by Wilson Barrett ana
Charles Hannah. 1t is to be pTouuceu
in London.
While the scoutship St. Paul was
coaling at Tompkinsville, n. Y. re-
Gently Captain Sigsbee found time TO
on nm to the Eden Musee just TO nave
3 look at himself as exhibited there IN
way ITS a right novel sensation,
ne remarked 20 a friend, this meeting
Yourself face &c face for the mrs. une'
I don't know that | quite like II. Inc
wa graph is worse, though. In .ne
raoving pictures you see yourself walk
ing toward yourself. At first slgnt !. 5
most alarming. 1t gave me cod Grill.
NV own tailor made the coat for that
wax doll, and l rather wanted 10 see
how the uniforms he made must nave
been docking all these years. Eltner
the doll is better built than | am or else
that tailor knows his business. The
coat fits like a glove. 1t would nave
been a god-send down in Havana when
was wearing borrowed coats after
nv own were gone The wax doll
rather had the best of me.
At the seventeenth annual meet
ing of the Actors Fund Of America it
was decided to take steps toward the
formation of a plan TO build sanl-
tarium. The idea is to combine under
the absolute control of the Actors fund
a hospital for the INDECENT sick as well
as a home for the aged and helplessly
infrm of the theatrical professional,
together with such other things as
shall be thought best. Louis Aldrich,
President of the fund. is the author OF
the project A meeting at which the
man is to be formulated will be held
december 20 at place TO be named
later.
Miss Nethersole's new play, which
Louis Parker and Murray Carson have
written for her, is called The Terma-
CANT 1t is a Spanish play and curl
ously allied to early American history
The London Daily Mail gives the fcl-
lowing sketch Of its plot: