The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-30

Johnson and Slavin Ministries Barlow
drifted into the drama, playing Uncle
Tom and similar roles, and Wilson con-
fined his attention to Southern terri
tory, where he met with fair success as
a star
In 1888 Primrose and West. who were
then so well fixed financially that they
felt justified in billing themselves as
the millionaire minstrels, started into
business, and for several years they
We're consistent money makers.
Curiously enough, shortly after the
10Th anniversary of the partnership of
Primrose and West was celebrated by
the minstrel jubilee at Madison Square
Garden, it occurred to each that they
might increase the earnings of the firm
by parting company and going on the
road at the head of separate organiza-
tons. Evidently the scheme was not
as profitable as had been anticipated
! for Primrose and West had many con-
situations after the season was over as
to the style of entertainment they
should give during the present season.
Primrose wanted to give an old time
minstrel show, and West insisted upon
giving a modern spectacular entertain
ment. Unable to reconcile their differ
ences, the two men who had been part
ners and friends for q years separated
and rivalry sprang up which became
very bitter Lew Dockstader became
Primrose's partner, and by all accounts
the organizations has been faring very
we'll
| 1t was quite late when Emily Rigl
| the once idolized danseuse, and now
| justly popular emotional actress,
| tripped. into the eastward bound Pull
| man car at Chicago, and. proclaiming
| her identity, produced the bit of paste
| board which entitled her to the sole oc-
| 10,
| About Town." The tide of human travel
bound for New York had set in heavily,
| and the spirit of the late eminent phil
anthropist, George NJ. Pullman, I'M
doubtedly rejoced to observe that the
| car was oVercroWded.
Even from the despised uppers is
| sued Sonorous snores and WheeZings and
asthmatic gurglings which indicated
occupancy and the sweet slumber which
knits up the raveled sleeve of care.
Miss RigI, having surrendered her
ticket and made hasty disposition of
her bags and bundles, disappeared be-
hind the curtains, which became wild
robement, and then hung limp and mo-
| tionless. Miss Rigl, like her fellow
| travellers, had sunk to rest.
| 1t was possibly an hour later when
! the lynx-eyed conductor, passing
| through the car, was greatly scandal
d
| protruding through the concealing dra-
| peries of lower 7.
He was cold, austere man. some
| what advanced in years, and with old
| fashioned notions of propriety seldom
| entertained by experienced and world
| ly persons of his calling.
Lower I, as he distinctly remembered,
| had been entered by still young and
beautiful woman without escort. A
mans leg is lower Z was, therefore,
clearly inapropos 1t required no COM
| plicated process of reasoning to estab-
| lish that fact.
| He hesitated about making a scene,
and a great wave of sadness, white
| capped with sympathy surged over
| him, for he had daughters of his own.
| Yet he had a duty to perform. There
| was the mans leg, thrust boldly, I'M
blushingly, almost tauntingly into pub
| lie view, as if utterly regardless of the
| extent to which the beautiful lady,
who came without escort, was being
! compromised.
The conductors face grew dark and
| stern His code of moral ethics was
| simple and old fashioned. but ineXor-
| able. Pullman car must not be de-
| graded to the level of a fashionable
| caravansary, where no questions are
asked and the obliging clerks are af-
tiicted with convenient attacks of fail
| ing eyesight.
And. therefore, the aged conductor
seized the mans leg and pulled it. The
| next instant he found himself seated
| with great violence in the aisle. The
mans leg was still in his grasp, but
| the rest of the man was missing.
The crash awakened Mr.. Fitzpatrick
the celebrated monopede trick bicycler
| who was snoring serenely in upper 4
| and parting the curtains he projected
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