The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-03-04
ELIAS DAYS TROUBLES.
The Impersonator Gets Lost in the
Small Town of Syracuse.

| Sometimes the men who stand be-
fore audiences and amuse them by re-
| lating the experiences of others figure
in happenings that are even more fun
| ny than those with which they con-
| ,ulSe their listeners. Elias Day, the
| clever impersonator, who made such a
| decided hit in Carbondale a few weeks
| ago when he appeared in the Smith
Singer course, is in just such fix now
| Last Thursday he was the star actor
| in Il comedy of errors that seems as
Iamusing as any of the good stories that
he tells" so well.
! Mr.. Day was lost in the town of
! Syracuse, n. Y, on chat day, while his
audience waited in vain for him.. Now
| if he would only tell the story in his
| own inimtable way it would be we'll
worth listening to. The Post-Standard,
of Syracuse, makes Il whole lot of the
| happening, dressing it up under d
double column display head. The
story reads:
1t isn't very often that full-nedged
| entertainment, given by a reputable
organization, gets lost in Syracuse.
| Such, however, was the case last night
| and Elias Day, q good-looking young
| mpersonator, who was to have been
| the star performer, tired his legs and
! strained his eyes in a five hours
| search for his hall and his audience.
| Then he left the city on the 1910 train
| for Allentown Pa, where he hopes to
| have better luck tonight.
This little comedy of unfortunate
events was not the least bit pleasing
| TO Mr.. Day, at least he declared so
before he departed from the city.
Neither was it very pleasing to the or
ganiZaton which had billed Mr.. Day
tC appear nor to the $50 or 200 per-
sons who had gathered to witness the
performance.
Day said last night that he was un-
der contract with the Brockway I.y-
ceum Bureau, of Pittsburg, Pa, a
concern which furnishes performers
for amateur entertainments, particu-
larly entertainments for the benefit of
hospitals and charitable Institutions.
He was engaged to appear in Syracuse
through his bureau.
A month ago, Day said, the bureau
received letter from III. II. Hancock,
who aranges entertainments in diff
terent cities on percentage basis,
asking that Day be assigned TO Syra-
cuse on the evening of February 27-
last night. The impersonator's fee was
enclosed in the letter.
AfterWard Day received a personal
letter from Mr.. Hancock, for whom he
has done considerable work giving the
dircss of the hall at which he was to
appear and advising that while he was
III the city he stop at the Hotel Mowry.
Day came on here yesterday from
Youngstown, Ohio. When he arrived,
carly in the afternoon, he went TO the
hotel, and later, when he searched his
card case for the location of the hall
and the name of the organization for
which he was to appear, he discovered
he had lost them.
Then the trouble began. He couldn't
remember the hall and he couldn't re-
member the organization lie searched
through the city directory and he
went on Wild goose chase up North
Salina street to a hall, the name of
which he thought sounded familiar.
When he got there the place was In
darkness.
Day was told at the Mowry that Mr.
Hancock, who had engaged him, had
left tho city, probably for Pennsylva-
mia, He sent telegram under crush"
orders TO the BroCkway Lyceum Blu
reau, at Pttsburg, but no reply came.
Then he tried the long distance tele-
phone, thinking perhaps he might be
able 10 locate Mr.. Hancock in Pitts
burg,
This failed and then Mr. Day gave
up the search. After Mr.. Day had left |
the city, it uanspired that the enter |
tainment was to have been given at
the assembly hall in the University |
block, under the auspices of the Wo-
mans Auxiliary of the Y. NJ. G. A.