New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-15

every other of the stockholders had fetched his
near and dear in FREE, too.
Everyone of EN- had passed in from eight to seven
teen persons about thirteen average; and some
of EN- had brought their kin from the country and
Others had paid small debts with free admissions
Then there were the eighteen band boys who PLAYED
outside before the show and their girls and girls
ters tweny-our in ALL and the furniture dealer who
lent the stage-setngs and his family, nine; the
stable fetched along himself and hve special officers
and the wives of three of EN-, TO speak of the
eleven anonymous persons who had lent the props and
the gang from the depot and the landlord and dining
girls, and the mayor and family and the press
them editors seem to have craze for big famIlies-
and the clergy and their wives and little olive branches
making altogether including the baggage-man and his
folks the ushers and their best girls, the boys that
passed bills, and Others that don't recollect
matter of between four and five hundred dead
heads.
''No show manager on earth or in the waters under
the earth would stand for anything like that and this
hoped onto Lysander Gees wishbOne like a
hyena. Lysander hoped key Chacobs, and
key grinned more like dried lemon than ever, and
said he'd been instructed by the stockholders to pass
them and their folks, and spOsed it all right bcuz
Lysander had passed in hisn. The manager of the
show beched forth fire and smoke. and stayed over
the next day Manager Gee for the money that
to have been taken in.
'Lysander tried to get the rest of EN- to pungle UP
pro-ratty but they refused, and all jumped onto him
for his Encouragement He jumped back onto them
for all buttng in free and they wanted know how
it arrived that he had riparian rights that they didn't
have.
THE show manager held him 10 his contract
which key Chacobs had made a good one.
and Manager Gee had TO claw the money.
Then Gee haughtily told the rest of the stockhod-
ers that they knew much better how TO run the
thing than he did he the management over 10
anyone of them; but they declined the honor Next.
he tried 70 repudate his contract with Ikey but kev
and a lawyer showed him that he bound with et-
of brass and the rest of the joint-stoc company
with him. And, since. b'cuz there is lawful
been giving key rent for opery house that they
don't
"Althouoh the nineteen best citizens had declined
the cement they each decided 70 make the
best o., a bad matter. In the three weeks following
the op ming date nearly everyone of the twenty man
ayers had gwen time 10 various entertainments; they
had promised the house four church festivals nine
eoCutoniSts a fair by the band boys. the ire1len'S
ball six lectures by preachers three temperance out
bursts a school commencement four public nstalla-
tons by lodges and one thing and another-amount-
ing to nearly forty dates, all in the first three
weeks.
Everybody wanted a whack at the new Operv house
None OF the managers consulted with each other and
everybody got dates.
We'll, then--Aw, YOU can guess how it went. The
managers fell with each other. Everybody who
had dates got mad at the people who had the same
dates.
The trouble got into the churches and the news
papers. The band broke up, and the fire COM
pany went 10 slaves. Nearly everybody in town was
mixed up in it but and Ikey Chacobs. | was an
innocent bystander, and key just wearing his
cracked-lemOn grin 1t nearly ruined the town.
There squabbles all the while and fights now and