Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-02-06

Terror. a gawky country boy. who commit
ted all manner of silly FRANKS to the dis
comfiture of his neighbors and to the huge
joy of his audience.
about the Terror. He made boorish love-
to a shy village maiden. his own daughterI
by her stage mother. his other daughter.
Tonnina, named after her godfather. the
famous clown. Tony Denier.
Yesterday afternoon and last evening
there was no Terror in the play. The Ter
ror had played every night up to Friday
with a g%rinning face and a breaking heart.
He sang rollicking songs which made hisu
listeners shout with Siee. while under theI
white paint his face was distorted with
anguish. He danced lightly and gracefully
but his mind was laden with despair.
He did not see the audience nor hear the
applause. He saw only the interior of his
Paterson home: he heard only the sobbing
o. a mother over the deathbed of her frstU
bern. The blazing lights of the playhouse,
tie bright. ripping music of the orchestral
were not for him. \ dimly-liShted room,
the pallid face of his son, Were all he saw.
The mirth of the clown was lost in theI
knowledge that the boy, Ernest. whom
he had tenderly reared to the threshold oil
manhood, was rapidly slipping away into
eternity.
But He Sang, Danced.
joked and frolicked five nights OF the week.
hurrying back to Paterson to sit at theI
bedside of the boy through the night and
all of the next day until 1t was time toI
start again for New Brunswick and becOmsI
the Terror of the little play.
ed the reporter in the little white housed
with green blinds on Union avenue. Pater-I
son. yesterday. a grief-stricken Terror WITH
voice quivering with anguish.
1.-The manager of the New Brunswick the-I
alter telegraphed me this morning not toI
disappoint him at the matinee to-day. orI
this evening. But DR.. Meyer was here and
r1w Nv nnnr hny- has 1nSt TnnSEiOIGnPSS-U
He does not even know me. and L ~ouldn
leave him.
and 1 telegraphed Mr.. Mum. the manager,
to cancel my, engagement. He answered
So did the best i could until to-day. thenI
I gave out. He t~elegraphad me twice toI
come on, and the doctor wired him that itI
/ went my boy might die while l was|
away. The two girls and my brother are
doing their best. but it Is hard work to|
make people laugh when death is hovering
so near your own loved ones
OId-Time Clown.
Mr.. Adams Is one of the best known|
old-time clowns and pantomimists in thai
country. For years he was with Barnum.
and later was in partnership with the elder
Adam Forepaugh in a famous Humpty-I
Dumpty revival. He was born and grew up|
among circus people At s years he did it'll
srandfather of the famous Meers sisters. to
be regularly taught all the branches OF ths
circus business.
His grandfather. Thomas E. Cook, the|
great circus rider of three-Guarters of al
century ago. died two months back at thsI
age of Sc years. He was buried from the|
Paterson home. His father was CharleS|
II. Adams, a famous clown of n generation
ago. His cousin. w. W. Cole. is associated
in partnership with the Barnum q Bailey
circus. II
Mr.. Adams has made people laugh in|
every city in the country. as his fatherI
proud of his family and his dearest hope|
was tina his son would carry on the family
calling to another generation.