The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-09-02

which BooEe won. and the two. thought they'd
have q little fun With Booze's name. Jhey
Eent up sgsln1t =, PSho my steer S9 Y. Y M SRe sn the
votes we're counted. and they acted on that
Zip. They cut out their regular
ssga. %nf @ GsaGSid w % ff BOOZE was made ny
he tG6Ys sun -ddc'pitss The, FAC, iha{ Booze him
every once In n while the opposition candl-
date would beckon 20 Booze, to come oyer 70
him and be drunk up, Weil' Mar apy1ma rns. peSe
pie, hut when Booze began 10 get altoReuler
100 zhamefully treated on that stage me way
the audience proceeded TO mes we WE pea
nshame. The curtain had todrop andthe i2lts-
in front had TO have their money PICK, or ,nsedd
those people TO raze the opera house TO inc
ground and fire q yolley over, IL
There wa, stu another disturbance "a q
small Maryland burg over a mouologi1ts as
respectful hand ling q the name 81 M9Id
which happened TO be the surname OF another
gentleman who was making the race tof me
House OF Representatives, The monologlsl had
To- stand for quite q fuslllade OF Invalid egg. ana
cabbages that had seen better DAYS beiofe ne
made he best Of his way 10 the wings,
got his. coming and going and both ends IRON
!he middle Gnt " LeSyehT bs ma nm I%r 'Twiitikh
respect TO one Of the prominent ciilnens OF the
town. That citizen was Cot; -, X, Anthony
the owner and editor Of the local paper. An
tEony was a politician as well as q newspaper
man, and a big gun in the state. He was man
Of such strong character that he made n hehPol
or other would take n shot or so at anthony,
He got plugged up q Rn, ia a w wno, on IoI IN , ,he
aoHr1s ., ms t 'n sbc gr.a ~" hddy VIZ 6f T ~ y
folks. afact which this puddin head ~ q variety
actor might have ascertained had he taken any
Leavenworth 2 few days after one OF col An
thongs political enemies had chased him n few
miles. with q pair Of win iorty-hves and he
able to get something out OF the Incident 50
he made NJ 10 look like Anthony. and made his
entrance by running back and forth across the
stage at q dead lope, with one Of the scene
shifteTs blazing away with two shooting irons
from the shelter Of the wings. Well, he qleered
the show and when he made his appearance a
took possession of the person of the idiot who
had thus irreyerently impersouated he Colonel,
the bottom Of a disused'well and permitted him
TO feteCt down there for four emily hours THIS
happened In midwinter. When they finally
hauled the blthe yHp up they gave him a little
brief advice on the subject Of ovc~r-cNubeTRnce
IN his manner OF handling The names and phys
ical peculiarlties of people he dldn,lknow any
thing about, then each of Anthony,s people
handed the ham a swift kick, just for luck, and
turned him loose.
played in a heap Of luck when lac escaped death
M The hands Of Il New Orleans stag audience
that he had Infatuated. Now, If there's any
one legend that every man, woman, child. and
dog in New orleans implicitly believes, it1
that amiable fiction about Gen. Ben Butler
having collared the spoons and silverware Of
New Orleans citizens when he was the boss Of
the game down there during the war, Well,
this variety actor happened 10 hail from Bos-
ton. the stamping ground OF Gen. Butler when
the latter was alive. and he knew In, his own
mind that that New Orleans story about the
spoons was all one hasheesh fairy tale, and he
could hardly wait until his show broke into
New Orleans so that he'd get a chance. TO ex-
press this opinion Of hi, publicly, He was
doubled up with another chap In a Mulligan
sketch, and he induced his partner to make
some ~alhnsion before a big New Orleans stag
crowd to those spoons that Butler was alleged
10 have Appropriated This gave the lunattc
his opportunity;
don't behave there liver was a silver spoon in
M Who'll state av Iouse-eana-
We'll that's as far as he got He saw from
The scramble toward the stage on the part OF
the gang in front that there was going 20 be
something doing, and he didn't get a chance
TO wash OF his makeup until he was on Queen
and Crescent train. bound up for Cincinnati.
There's plenty of good stun lying around
loose and available for variety performers
who have chinny parts concluded the man
ager. without their mixing in with the affairs,
political or otherwise, Of the folks In front OF
them-but a whole lot Of EN- who don't know
this will be executing hundred-yard dashes
before election day rolls around, Just the same.