The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-01-13

pay everything-an amount-only take
me there. They say that I am ashamed
of them. 1 will show them
! well, she got her way. I thought
it was sheer lunacy; but Nevada was
willing to pay the bills; so we went.
we had to leave our private car sever
al hundred miles from Austin and take
common coaches on a narrow gauge
road that climbed over the mountains
and walked with it's head down like a
fly About four or five stations before
we struck Austin people began to come
aboard the train
Did Emma Gomez they'd ask the
conductor and he'd point out our crowd
They would go back and tell the people
on the platform, and everybody would
howl for Emma until Nevada would 90
out and talk to them and shake hands
with everybody she didn't kiss A good
share of the crowd went to Austin with
us, but it wasn't anything to the or wa
that met us at the station. Everybody
in the town and the country round had
turned out, and they were the que2rest
crowd / ever saw. Miners and cowboys
and Indians and ordinary conventional
people, all shaken up toy ether, and oil
wild with excitement BY that time |
| was glad we had come. | WAs having
the time of my life--at somebody else
expense. Talk about enthusiasm! j
I never knew what it was before and l
never heard anything like the shout that
went up when that young woman stepp-
ed off from the car. Everybody yelled
her name and cheered ana, cheered, and
she stood and threw kisses and laughed
and cried. There wasn't any fake about
it. I wouldn't have belle Jcd there could
be so much genuine fell lg anywhere
inthe world-it gave M 1 well season.
ed manager, q brand new thrill up and
down my back.
"There was only ore carriage in Aus
tin then: and Wa had to drive cutie 4
distance to the town Nevada and l
had the carriage, and the rest of the
company went along in big wagons.
Then came the crowd on horseback. in
wagons and on foot. We drove along
ficklish mountain road at gallop
and every little distance along the way,
there were bonfires burning. Say, it
was great. Nevada didn't get any rest
before evening. The crowd wanted her
and it would have her She must have
kissed all the children in Austin and
good percentage of the grown people;
and by Joe, she acted as if she liked it.
| had thought / knew her. The minister
and /, with the assistance of the whole
populatio numbered the seats and
made out tickets. Tickets sold at 81,
but the house wouldn't begin to hold the
crowd, and almost any old price was
offered for seats. When the doors were
there was a stampede There were fifty
men to every woman Most of them
kept on big felt hats and wore their
trousers tucked into high boots. They
didn't pay any attention to the aisles-
just walked over the high backed seats.
/ stood in the pulpit and it was funny
to see that mob playing leap frog over
the seats and making for front pews re-
CARELESS of the numbers on their tick
cts.
Nevada had some of her SWEETEST
clothes with her, and came out blazing
with jewels and wearing a Paris gown
that had cost her $1,000. | never exI ect
to hear anything again like the greet
ing they gave 1er; and know sh ~
never again sing IS she did that night
she sang and sang until her voice
literally gave out and the crowd saw
that she couldn't keep it up any long
er. Then they cheered and started for
the stage in bunch Nevada spread |
out her hands and told them that If
they'd wait until she went and put on |
a heavier, high-necked gown, she'd |
come back and kiss them and give every t
lne of them piece of her wedding cake |
to take to Austin. She ran off to the |
dressing room and in a little while |
came back in dark gown. We brought |
he cake in big pans, and she fulfilled |
bottle her promises. The crowd was |
wild with delight and would have
it up all night if their Emma
hadn't told them she was worn out
"The next worning the whole town
urned out to take us to the station and.
hough that was fifteen years ago, /
believe the mountains must be echoing
yet with their 'Good-by, Emmai' Ne
ada said she wouldn't have missed that
,isit for all the money she would make
hat season, and it was by long odds,
he most entertaining experience I've
lad in my career as manager"