The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-03-14

x,h;,aastnhia'. Company. and his brother,
Watson p Howe. who is called excess
harxawa'' by the members of the COM
pany. cpaid not be found yesterday after
noon or last night. The police were asked
10 assist in locating him. and at mid
nigh. Cant. Sullivan stated that he was
satisfied Manager Howe and Brother Wat
son r. Howe had skipped. This Is the
opinion OF the forty-one members Of the
company. including that clever and YER
sa..le comedian. Joe Cawthorn. who plays
the star part
II is believed that Manager Howe earned
away fully 81 100 as he has avoided pay
ing salaries. while the company has been
doing a good business. In Great Fans.
Mont February y. Howe received as ms
snare OF the receipts $500; in Anaconda,
ss35: in Butte. Mont. $3.50; in Spokane, SSs!,
and in Seattle $sSS.95. making total or
s.7sos5. He has not paid any salaries
out of this amount. the actors say, ana
comparatively little for expense. 50 the
estimate of 81. 400 is. II anything. TOO low.
Manager Howe failed to pay a bill OF
$50 10 A. A. Seagrave. proprietor or the
Occidental hotel and another OF about
III
These bills were consolidated last night
and all of the scenery and wardrobe o.
the company IS now tied up.
The disappear nee of Manager Howe did
not become known to even the members
OF the company until yesterday afternoon.
They congregated at Yesier wharf TO go
to Victoria on the Kingston and after a
while they commenced TO wonder why the
manager did not appear. At last inquiry
was set on foot, and 1t was learned that
Manager Howe and his brother could not
te found anywhere. He had left can
at the Occidental hotel. where the con-
pany Is STAYING for $50 yesterday morn
ing. stating that he intended to go out
and look at the reindeer After the
investigation got well under way II was
discovered that he had ordered his trunks
brought down from his room Saturday
night before the performance was over
The trunks were placed on the sidewalk
and they have disappeared When the
Howe brothers left the hotel Is not definite
ly learned. porter said that he Thought
he saw Manager Howe go out about $50
o clock yesterday morning, but others at
the hotel think that he left when his
trunks went and did not come back at
ell. 1t is supposed that he took the first
train out of the city yesterday morning,
but the direction he went is still IN doubt
me disappearance of Manager Howe has
placed the members of his company IN
very annoying position They nave not
received salaries for some time. and among
them are several people who stand very
high in the theatrical world. Joe Cav
thorn. the star comedian. was with the
company at A salary OF $50 week, yet
Manager Howe is reported TO nave put him
of by various pretexts FOR nine weeks.
1t is also said that the enhancing little dan
seuse, Miss Lilly Collins, has also been
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manager was putting big rolls OF bills
down into his inside vest pocket and telling
the company that he was not going 10 pay
salaries at present so he would be certain
TO have enough TO set the company back 10
New York from Vancouver, Il. c., after
Joe Cawthorn closed his engagement.
Then there Is Elvia Croix-Seabrooke, who
plays the part of Modest Ruth" so charm
ingly. She has been looking, they say for
a salary day. Olga Lambert was anxious
TO have the salary due her. Then there
was William IL. West, VINO has the part
OF "Fatier William PEN drawn down to
d fine point. A salary day would have
made him smile even II he is a Quaker.
1t is said that the members of the COM
pany were practising that insinuattng song
''There'u Come Time Some Day for the
benefit Of the manager, but he got away
before the day came.
The company opened in New York city
December -, with Joe Cav thorn In the
star part. Mr.. Cawthorn said last evening
that he agreed 20 play with the company
two weeks, but that Manager Howe kept
entreating him TO stay, and now he wished
that he hadn't. After the New York en-
gagement Philadelphia came next From
there the company jumped west, playing
Chicago and Kansas City. Cawthorn was
gcing 10 leave in Kansas City. but Manager
Howe put up strong entroaty and so
Cawthorn went along TO Minneapolis, VOW
ing that he would quit the deal there.
Howe pleaded agaiU" said Cawth1n.
and finally agreed to stay with him I'M
I'll Fargo was reached. When we got there.
be said that II | left the company would
dIshand. ! did not want 10 see all the peo-
pie left without means so told him that
rather than leave them IN that condition
would 20 along to Vancouver Howe said
that when We got 10 Vancouver he could
get low rate east and would have no
trouble"
Members OF the company showed a Post
Inte3ligencer reporter the figures on re-
ceipts from Great Falls to Seattle TO show
that Manager Howe had plenty OF cash,
but kept putting of the company on the
salary question by saying that the rail-
road people were pressing him. As one
OF the company said AZ the Occidental last
night: Howe would slap his pocket when
he refused a payment and say. i've got
cash. boys, but / am keeping 1t. so there
viii be no trouble about getting back to
New York from Vancouver
II is believed by Mr.. Cawthorn and 9TH
ers thst Hove was giving the railroad peo-
pie the same song as he WAS giving them
and all the time slowing away money for
AIS own use.
Il am sorry 20 say" said Mr. Cawthorn
LAST night. that I believe Manager Howe
has skipped out and left forty-one people
IA 4
slicn q thing. but ] cannot explain his dis
appearance IN any other way. He had
plenty % money. and guess he must have
gone of with al least s.. $50 He has not
been seen since Saturday night. He left a
call at the hotel SO that be could so out
and see the deer park"
The company win probably be compelled
20, disband The scenery and costumes are
o%1ed by r.. \. Herile. Of Philadelphia.
manager OF the Globe Ticket Company. A
telegram Was sent him last night 10 the
effect that Manager Howe had skipped
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