The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-18

WEBSTER


/ The Cosmopolitan Comedians. the
vaudeville show that played in Music
! Hail, last Saturday afternoon and
evening, is no more. The company
VAS left nearly stranded at the City
/ Hotel, where ii had been stopping
since its appearance i'm town. The
managers and their assistant have
Sona, leaving behind them a few un-
Iaid bills, salaries to all of the COM
pany and orchestra and a big bunch
of hard feelings.
/ The company landed, Saturday
morning. save street parade at noon
performance in the afternoon, street
concert and another show at evening
! The performance was good, but owing
/ TO the Indictment weather the atten-
dance was rather slim although quite
number braved the clements The
entire company stopped at the City
+ Hotel, and, this morning, was to leave
/ for Wilma ntiC, Conn, where they
/ were booked to play, tonight.
/ l1oWard Boulder and Martin Griffin
We're the managers and financial men
OF the company. They also did a mu-
! steal act, which was received in town
! with favor. Thomas Wilson exhibited
the moving pictures and was also tick
/ et-taker at the main entrance. The
three have disappeared and members
of the company and orchestra say they
are behind three weeks in salaries.
| Bculden is a New York man; Griffin
comes from Philadelphia, while Wilson
! is Fitchburg man. While in town
| Wilson met friends, but he never di-
| Nulged the fact that a sudden exit
was to be made.
| The managers in leaving the COM
pany cleVerly outwtted it. Over some
! pretense the trio did not come down
! to supper until all of the company
We're in the dining room This was
| last night AS soon as the guard on
! duty reported all was safe the trio
sid out of the hotel and made for the
electric cars which they took to Wor-
| cester. The members of the company
who We're left are still looking for
them. They promise to get satisfac-
ton if they find them.
1t was later ascertained that the
managers had gotten their baggage
out of the hotel and over to the rail-
! way station early in the morning
without the knowledge of any of the
! members Of the company. They had
also telegraphed Steward Bryan, lead
| er of the orchestra, not to come on.
Inls was not found out until today.
| Usually on Sundays some of the com
Pany invariably 90 to the depot and
feconnoiter for just such table, be
occurrences. as nearly all of them have
been left stranded before. Yesterday,
however, the rain prevented them from
uolng SO. Had it not rained the trick
would probably have been discovered
in time to prevent it,
! one of the company stated that the
managers owed the orchestra about
$3O0~and the performers about 5000
They had not received pay but once
IN IN fopr weeks The management paid
Mr.. Lueth, proprietor of the hotel, S25
before it left, but they were still in
debted SIS. The performers and nd or or
chestra did not receive a solitary cent.
They claim that the treasury had
enough money to settle all hotel bills
and to transport them to Boston Be
fore the day was over the company
succeeded in raising enough money to
get to their respective homes. The
Management favored the Lemonte sis
tiers by leaving mileage for them to
Boston
Those who were left behind in town
We're Mr.. and Mrs. James Marlowe
Ida LemOnte, Gertrude Lemonte. Rich
ard Plunkett Merrill Dodge, Will
Meals Arthur Evans. Ernest Hill
dwight J. Weston. Ben Johnson and
Harley Huntoon. The company intends
to post the dramatic papers of the
country concerning Boulder & Griffin
the uecdiHpeu managers.
=. Patrick PrOut, tax collector. has set
December q as the last date that per-
sons owing taxes can pay them with
out some kind of a civil suit. MI
Prout says that all unpaid taxes on
and after that date will be collected
according to law.
Miss Kathleen Leavitt Of New Bos-
ton, Conn, who has been substituting
as soprano soloist at the COngrega
tiCnal Church. in place of Miss Daisy
Gage Of Worcester, will probably be-
come the permanent soloist at the
church
The Lyceums Stars of Boston, gave
a musical and instrumental concert in
ODD Fellows Hall, Monday evening,
under the auspices of Maamexit Lodge,
No. III, l. o. O. T., and a large at
tendance was present. The artists
comprised Miss Jennie Trecartfn. So
prano; Miss Rosa Weldhorn, violinist
Arthur Shepard, pianist. and Curtis
Morse, impersonator.'
1t is stated that Miss Nellie Rowell
a local school teacher. whose resig-
nation takes effect January l, is soon
to be married to some out-of-town
man.
The selectmen held their weekly
= meeting in Town Hall Monday after
. noon