The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-05

chair and walked to the hotel window
and looked at the snow falling in the gas
hgnt Tor a little while.
Then he turned around and told the
board Of trade man that he'd take the
the money in further1ng a summer
garden scheme, from which he broke
just even, without making a cent. He
handed the board of trade man back the
$4,000 In a lump at the end of the sum-
ner garden season.
''Hayerly'S patience and forbearance IN
dealing with men under his direction who
formed bad habits Were remarkable.
don't mind saying that / had one expe-
rience at first hand OF Jack HaverIys
kindness in this respect.
1T was one Christmas week when the
show struck st. Loo. was one Of the
main baTitone5 OF the outfit, and nay
work was going so well at that time that
they featured me In the advance notices
a good deal more than / deserved to be
featured, considering that / was har-
um-scaruTn sort Of a yOungster at best
In those days.
''Weil, it was Christmas week, and ST.
Loo was my home town, and / met up
with friend who happened to be just
and locked arms and started off to kick
the Stats out of the old burgJ
My friends manager had to cancel
the week and / didn't show up al the
LiltdLcE EUSllSSS at al. cXQO@e1
myself lot that week while tflree-day
blizzard was raging, and on Saturday L
woke up in my hotel room to find that /
couldn't move In my bed without suf-
fering.
They sent for a physician and for
Jack Haverly, and they got around about
the same time. The medical sharp told
me that I had about the cutest dose Of
infiammatory rheumatism that he'd
stacked up since he had begun practice.
'. hen i asked him if he couldn't fix
me out so that / could leave with the
show that night he laughed at me and
tod me that I'd be playing in big luck
If got out of that bed within less than
three months. So there I was, stranded
and on the fiat Of my back. and, Of
course, after that whtzz with Emmett,
without the price Of a shave or a shine.
That's when the boss, Jack Haver1y,
came to the front for me. He sat along
side my little old bunk for an hour or so
and told me not to worry, and then he
sneaked a. $50 bill into a fold Of the bed
clothes and got up to go.
You,H be all right soon, SON., said
ne and When you get your legs again
make haste to join the show, wherever
away, leaving me pretty sore on myself
for having turned him up the way had.
AT the end Of the week / got from
Hayerly, who was with the show in Chi
when I called the hotel proprietor NJ to
settIe he told me that that was all right
that Haverly had attended to all that
Right on top Of this 1 got letter
from my mother, who was living up
North, and to whom had always sent a
quarter Of my salary, saying that she
mad received the regular remittance from
Nix Haverly. It was two months before
l got out of that hotel bed and all during
tnat time Jack Haverly sent me my
three-quarters' pay, sent my mother her
one-quarter, forwarding a check to the
hotel man for my keep and wound It ali
n - HI II
knew anything about 1t.
II Joined the show In San Francisco
when / got well, and when / tried TO tell
HaverIy what thought Of his conduct
band and he famed me out of the office
The job was a big lesson to me.
I'm nearly all of the big cities Of this
country there used to be some ex-min-
strel man that had gone all to the bow
Vows from dissipation, and Haverly was
forever shopping around on the quiet,
hunting these poor chaps up and straignt-
ening them out. 1t hurt him and acfeG
him to see man down that he had
known IN better days.
When he mad 1t he was always slip
Ing a 80 or $50 note into an enveloe
and shipping It along to these unfortu-
closed or anything like that But the re-
cipIents Of these envelopes always knew
where they came from.
Jack had his pensioners Of this sort all
that hit him the hardest when his wealth
slipped out Of hts grasp was his aDso-
lue inability to keep on helping the boys
that mad permitted Themselves to get
down.
zone morning about fifteen years ago,
while HaverIy was still In the big game,
he dropped into q Detroit saloon to get
a drop Of bftters. He heard come husky
singing proceeding from the back room
Of the saloon. 1t was an old minstrel
song, and HayerIy recognized the voice.
He stFoIled into the back room, and
found there sn old-tine burnt-cork man
whom he had employed years before url-
I'll the man became so useless through
drink that he had to let him CO. There
was the tattered old-tfner croaking out
old fTst-part songs for lot Of guyfng
young fellows for the drinks.
Jack took the man in hand and led
him TO a. clothing store, when he logged
him out in a. fine suit and oVercoat, and
rugged niTn generally IN a complete out
fit of everything that man wears. Then
he took the oId-tinaer to q good boarding
vance for him, handed him ten-dollar
note, and told him that IL he'd try and
take a brace and be good ned see IL he
couldn't place him In JOB IN the cusi-
ness end of one OF his shows,
THAT same night the poor devH showed
up at the stage entrance where we were
performing. He had spent hts $40 and
done the reliever act with the clothes
pearance In a bum linen buster and a
straw hat and only one shoe.
'sHaverIy shook his head nournfully
over the spectacle the man maze, but
dropped everything, put the unfortunate
into a. carriage. and drove to the board
ing house with him. He engaged a doc
tor to fetch the man around. and the old
timer really did take brace.
when he had got himself into Some
sort Of shape HaverIy sent for him and
gave MIN employment IA business ca
pacfty under his own eye But 1t was
no go.
Whisky had got him and he fell down
.dtsastrously. IfaverIy had to discharges
him, but he paid him his salary. until ne
died az the result Of a prolonged spree a
couple Of years later
II could go on for week" concludsd
Of the big-hearted things HaverIy did,
and always on the quiet; but what's the
use2 Everybody that knew the man
Knows that they didn't mold 'em any
better or finer than Jack Haverly."
HIS LEGAL STATUS.
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