The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-05
JACK HAVERLY'S WAY
TRIBUTE TO OLD MINSTREL STAR
BY ONE WHO KNEW
HIM
NEVER WENT BACK ON FRIEND
Instances of His Generosity and
Kindness, Wit and wisdom
Real Gentleman of
the Old Type.

Jack Haverly never went back on a
friend, said an old-tfre minstrel man.
I'D like to have about 10 per cent of
the money that he let his friends have
without ever accepting their signature
on piece of paper for 1t, and that he
never saw again. He was done by a good
many, but he always found some ex-
cuse for those that did him. He wouldn't
let them be hammered IN his presence
"A good many years ago a Chicago
theatrical man touched him for 5000 to
put some sort of stage scheme in
motion Haverly wouldn't even take the
mans note of hand for 1T.
Pass 1T over when things come your
way, he said when he lent the money.
The 5000 put the Chicago man on the
path of fortune He quadrupIed the
moEey inside of year, and three years
after ne made the borrow from Haverfy
ne was rich, while HaverIy himself was
on the financial rocks.
Ihls man never offered to paw back
nickel Of the $500 He was the kind
OF man who would have lodged Hav-
eriy had Haverly gone after him to COL
lect, but HaverIy did the dodgfng him
self SO that this debtor wouldn't think
ne was after him for the amount of the
borrow
A number Of US who were intimate
with Haverly had heard about this $500
loan, and one night in the rotunda of the
Old Grand Pacific hotel In Chicago we
began deliberately to knock the Migrate
In Haverly's presence. Haverly flushed
up.
"'oh. he'll pay it some time, he said
obviously annoyed to ind that the mat
ter was known
-. Well, he cleaned up $4,000 with his
Chicago theater and the one in Kansas
City last year said one Of us. That
Woulc have enabled him to come to the
front, wouldn't itg
iaverIy chewed On In urIlighted cf-
ga and fddled and twisted around.
Wen, said he, he's got an expen-
| s1ve family, and / understand he's been
paying r5as . up a. lot Of dead horse
this presumption himself. for the man
who borrowed the $1,000 had never been
known to pay dollar that he could
squirm out of paying.
"Haverly kept out of the debtors wav
for two more years, and all the time
| ne was getting deeper and deeper in the
mole Five years from the day upon
which he had handed over the $500 Hav-
erly sat down, wrote Ct receipt for the
through the mail
This touched the man on the raw
and got his conscience working. and half
an hour after he received the receipt
5000 and interest
" This may have been a little long In
coming; Jack, he said, producing the
check, but!
:" But you couldn't afford to paw tt
/ understand. said Haverly quietly.
he took the check from the man, tore
it into four parts, threw the scraps OF
paper into the fire and walked OUT OF
the room The amount would have been
big money to him just then, but wild
horses couldn't have forced him to take
cent Of H.
He never did take 1t. He was a
slayer, and when he brought his teeth
together with a click on any kind of p
proposition he stuck along with it TO the
fr:5sh. and never reversed move
Five or six years ago, when Haver!y
was Struggling TO get out Of the financial
bog into which his penchant for speculaI-
ing had led him, an incident occurred
that affected him, perhaps more than
anything that ever happened to him.
"a young fellow OF thirty or 50, who
was then and still is coming money On
the Chicago Board of Trade, sent hfs
card up to HaFerly's hotel room one
q Mr.. Haverly,' said the young fellow.
I hear that you could use a little -onney
now. Would $1,000 be of any use to
your
''HaverIy stared at his visitor wonder
ingly, and then his ruddy face creased
into a. smile. He doped 1t out that the
young fellow whom he didn't know at
all, was either slightly touched In the
head or slightly WOODY from dining over
heavily.
Haverly. for lack Of something better TO
say. That's better than dreaming!
The Board of Trade man smiled when
he saw that HaveTly had him charted out
as an eccentric or a jagster, but he re-
tod f1
Ten thousand?' said HaverIy then.
Yes. I could use ten thousand ] be-
lieve there are some places where I
could get it, too, If I cared to go after It.
But I don't care to-
% Well, you'll do me a favor IL yoTH
let me pass 1t over TO you az q loan.
said the Board of Trade operator. 'You'u
also do me a kindness he went on good
as If / were bughouse.
I'll tell you why I'd like to come to
the front with this little loan. Pretty
nearly twenty years ago, when I Wag
kid running loose around Cleveland, your
first minstrel outfit hit the town. 1 want
ed to see the show bad, bat there was
no possible way whereby could swing
'em at home for the price of q seat in
the gallery.
so another kid of my own age and
nailed the business manager OF your
show for a chance to distribute handbiIls
for passes 20 the gallery. He. gave ne
tribute. and from 7 O'Clock in the MORN
ing until IN the evening, without any
thing to eat, we tramped through the
snow and sIush of Cleveland, scattering
those yellow handbflls from house to
house.
When we waited In front of the the
ater to catch the business manager as he
went in sos to get our pair Of passes, the
mean cuss refused to recognize u.s. and
when we followed him into the theafer
he booted US down the steps, while the
boys of our gang. to whom we had been
Dragging about the passes we were going
to get gave US the boot
We were sneaking off, disconsoIate,
when you came swinging along, and we
took brace and related the affair to
you.
You took us into the theater. ASKED
the business manager IL We were the kas
that had worked for him that day, and
when he was compelled to reply that We
were, you got two box coupons. s<ated
us two urchfns into one Of the second-tfe.
boxes, handed each Of US s. note and
told us to enjoy ourselves.
That was the greatest triumph of my
life up to date. Now, I am not a senti-
nnenta1fst- But I've never forgotten that
little incident, and that's the reason why
I'd ike to have you use a. little bundle OF
money that don't want Just now and
wouldn't know where to put IT II kept
It.
'eHaverfy wasn't denonstrative man.
but this little talk got him rocking for
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