Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-19
THE PERFORMERS LOSSES.
Talk of Benefit Entertainments-M Manager
Rocks Kindness.

ak OF pSheII ENTERTAINMENTS WdHaSeT
Rocks Kindness.
The performers who were giving the
show at the Bijou this week are heavy
losers by the fire, every person on the
program losing property valued all the
way from $3.50 to about $500 or $500. The
Luciers are perhaps the heaviest losers,
as Fred lost violin which he valued
at $500, and his sister Rosalie lost one
gown that cost 5000, to say nothing of
their other musical Instruments and
effects. Dixon, Bowers and Dixon esti-
mate their loss at $500, including a vio-
lin worth 500, and $125 worth of music
and wigs and costumes and a big stock
of street clothes that was in their
trunks
The Leonards lost their entire outfit.
including punching bags, costumes and
movable ceiling which was valued
alone at $3.50. They figure their total
loss at $3.50. Will Kilroy and Mae Brit
ton lost their stereopticon machine val
ued at $3.50, and some costumes. Frank
j. Shea saved his banjos, as he took
them to the hotel with him, but he lost
| a quantity Of music, which he cannot
replace. The loss to thinner, the Jug
gler, is peculiar in its nature. The stuff
was not very valuable from an intrinsic
point OF view, but it's owner had spent
a lot Of time and effort 20 get it to-
gether, and he was accustomed ia
handling it. He will now have to begin
all over again, and he has no idea when
ne VIII be able to get together the prop
critics suitable for his act. Gertie Coch-
rams loss is estimated at $780, and Mr..
Cook, her manager, lost a diamond
which ne left in his shirt front after the
show Thursday night. 1t was the first
tune ne ever left the diamond in thea
tire, and he says 1t will be the last Some
or the actors got their trunks back, but
the contents were for the most part
ruined by water, and as not one of them
carried insurance, their loss will be to-
tai
Some of them have no money to speak
or, and Manager Rock of the Worcester
theatre has kindly given them the free
use OF his house for a benefit concert
Sunday evening. All the members of
the company whose acts will allow their
appearance at sacred concert will take
part in the program, and they will be
assisted by well known local talent, the
worcester people who have been Sc
cured up to last evening being Mrs. H.
w. johnson, soprano; Delore Harper.
baritone; the Orpheus Banjo, Mandolin
and Guitar Club. The orchestras of
tne worcester Theatre, Lothrop's Opera
House and the Bijou will consolidate for
the evening. The members of the Bi1ou
orchestra lost their instruments in the
fire, and they will also share In the pro-
ceeds of the concert Under the cir
cumstances, 1t is needless to say that
the theatre ought to be filed
As Manager Offner lost everything he
had in the world except his night shirt,
and that is partly burned, and the
small amount of money referred to
above, some of his friends among the
newspaper men have taken steps toward
arranging a benefit for him in the near
future. The many friends that Manager
Offner has made by his untiring efforts
to give Worcester people good enter
tainments, and his signal triumph in
pulling the Bijou out of the mlre into
which it had sunk, will certainly be a
drawing card, and it is safe to say the
benefit will be a rouser.