The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-26
SIMON LEGREC SULLIVAN
AT The HOT SPRINGS

John Il. Sullivan, after a tempeStuous
tour on the road with an Uncle Tom s
Cabin company, landed here to forget
his sorrows and boil out the cause
Sullivan made a fierce Simon Legree,
and the savage temper in which he con-
tinually kept himself in order to do JUS
tice to the part led to many quarrels
with Little Eva and the downfall of the
show. John L., when the time for play
acting had passed, felt the old spirit Of
gallantry coming back, and getting to-
gether $25 he shipped the female mem
bers of the company to New York and
hied himself to the healing waters oil
Hot Springs.
Sullivan came in silently and went to
tho villa of friend of thirty years, Hor-
ace Hughes. Hughes does not run a
SAM arIum for the cure of alcoholism,
but - rather a promoter of the disease
on a large scale. His place is so stu
ated that a carriage must be taken to
reach it and that before daylight leaves.
To Sullivan's mind it presented the re-
treat ideal.
Hughes says that Sullivan came to the
house and greeted him as though he had
just returned from a walk around the
garden, instead of renewing a conversa-
ton that had been broken off two years
before because the former champion be-
came tongl!c-tied.
Il want q room; the best loom in the
house. 1t must lie as quiet as the back
yard OF a Fourteenth street house ut
twilight. Send UP the drinks every ten
minutes. Nothing but whisky. When I
want something TO eat l will kick a hole
in the wall. If l don't do that, send uo
no feed on your life. See?''
Sullivan was given room and for
three days he saw no one Then Muldoon
90 and fpin 70 h.
in shape, for it was limited that perhaps
the Uncle Tom" show might be pulled
together again.
1T wasn't Little Eva's fault altogether
that the theatrical scheme went up in
smoke" Muldoon says. John got to
taking a little too much of the redeye
and then overacted his part John is a
conscientious actor and he doesn't do
anything by half. When he started in 10
do the Simon Legree game he came to
me, and, laying his hand affectionately
on my shoulder, he says, Billy, hence
forth | ana going to be different man.
/ am going to be the most savage, blood
htristy, marble-hearted tike that ever
roamed down the pike. l am going to
make the kind of Simon that would
make Henry Ward Beecher go cold
told him that Henry Ward Beecher didn't
write the book, but he said that made no
matter, that he had undergone the trans
formation, and that l had better duck
when l saw Simon coming.
He played the part conscientiously,
and when he hit slave it was no false
howl that the slave let out John said
ne wanted realism, that kind that the
critics write about, where an audience
is knocked out in two rounds and can't
come up for an hour after the last round
is. over. By and by all the slaves quit
the game, and Little Eva and John had
falling out. Eva said Sullivan was
brutal, and he says to her, That is what
the part calls for. I think I am the fierc-
est brute that ever played the part For
lack of slaves, harmony and money the
show went TO the dogs"
Muldoop nursed his charge at Hughes
villa for day or two, and then felt that
the big fellow was in proper shape to be-
gin treatment for the removal of all the
stage and real wine he had consumed at
the various points in the whisky belt at
which the show had stopped. So he took
the eX-champion to Bath House row In a
hack and stopped at the Maurice bath
house, the biggest and finest in the city
and the headquarters for all sporting
men who find the springs good place to
seek out a soak
Sullivan was little obstreperous He
declared that he was not ready to have
all the good stuff that he had absorbed
boiled out; that such waste was sinful