The times., 1898-09-18

town and nav had no Wurk 1or Sucn q
long time would be highly please if you
take me to travle with you since have no
hom and il you wer wiling to take me
writ to me or send for me so that can
know. If you are not reddy for me now
send for me at the next place you get to.
/ am of no actres but can bend some and
am quit a musischian with ottoharp mu-
six can sing some and be wiling to
lern to act If you wud only take me
wud come with you. anser sun. Your
obliged Miss -
1t is needless 10 say that Mr.. Brown
did ''anser sun and that the young lady
didn't travel.
Jack Hirsh. who has been doing some
exceptionally clever work here for the
Rogers Brothers, has a fund of stories to
which one could not do justice with less
space that would be afforded by forty
eight-page edition. One of the best of the
lot concerns an experience one of his
stars had last season in San Francisco.
1t seems that Max Rogers is a great ad-
mirer of the manly art of self-defense.
and when one of his friends, knowing of
| this weakness for the squared circle, in
| Vited Louis Harrison and himself to at
tend a bout that evening at midnight in
| a certain local clubhouse, ne was wild
with enthusiasm. When the Information
was conveyed to Rogers the comedian
| had finished his performance and he was
| so delighted that his makeup was re-
moved in less than half the time ordina-
| riIy consumed in that operation. After
| leaving the theater their guide led the
way around one of the prominent ave-
! nues and stopped at a dark and grew
some-looking hallway, the door of which,
on being opened, disclosed narrow
! flight OF stairs which the trio imme-
diately began climbing.
Up and still up they went, finally
! emerging on roof. over which they
1 started, lodging innumerable wires and
! clothes lines on the way, and finally
reaching a skylight through which pro
truded the end OF a ladder. Here the
messenger called halt. Boys" he said,
] you are making altogether too much
noise. You had best take off your shoes.
: The request was complied with at once
and the two sportsmen continued their
journey in stocking feet. At another open
stretch they We're informed that their
light clothing might easily be seen from
I the street and were forced to remove not
/ only coat and vest but trousers as well.
! In return they were given long black
. sheets that covered them partially and
. iilC pdiAS INV ioibiI SNCAi dh oiiDA :
range. Holding their cast-off attire In one
hand and cropping blindfy with the other,
! stubbing their toes and barking their
shins against obstacles that convinced
! them that whoever lived in the house
must have moved his entire worldly pos
I sessions to the roof. Rogers and Harrison
glided through more matches and hall
I ways until the entire trio brought up be-
! fore a heavily barred door upon which
| the guide gave three distinct raps.
A noisy conversation that was being
] carried within stopped Immediately
| and some. one asked. who's there?"
| The conductor mumbled something that
| none of the others could understand but
which must have served as pass word,
] for, almost at once. there was rum
| bling of bolts and a clanking of chains,
| broken only by the whisperings of those
| beyond. Finally the door was opened and
| the astonished. half-naked, bare-footed
| pair were pushed. with their clothing
| under their arms, not into the sacred
precincts of the club house ringside but
out a leading thoroughfare. under the
| glare Of a hundred electric lights and
| into the arms of score of more of
| friends to whom their host had tipped
| the fact that several "tenderfoot" come
dians were to journey that night over
| the housetops.
| All of which Hirsh guarantees on oath.