Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-06

Copyright 1899, by Frances b Johnston,
times had a last caught up with the enter
priSe-tinancial success attended the new
management from the start That was en-
inently satisfactory to Mr.. Hanna. but he
wanted to find out just how the money was
made, so night after night found him on
the stage talking with the carpenter, the
property man. the stage manager and
everybody else employed thereon. As a re-
suit he soon began making suggestions
about this piece of scenery or the method
of operating some particular mechanism.
why don't you do it this way?' he would
begin, then outline his idea, and close with,
Would that be an Improvement"
If the carpenter, or whoever he might be,
thought the idea a good one he would say
so; if not, an argument was sure to follow
until one or the other was convinced that
he was wrong. Sometimes it would be the
carpenter, sometimes Mr. Hanna But
Hanna must have carried his point a good
many times, according to the stories told
of him to this day back of the Euclid Ave-
nue. Opera House curtain. These recitals
also tell how Mark knew just about as
much about scene shifting the rest of US
fellows
Nor was Mr.. Hanna long in forming ideas
of the kinds of attractions that he wanted
at the opera house. This was shown in
1852, when his nephew thought it would be
a good thing to book a wrestling match be-
tween duncan Ross, the Scotch athlete,
who was then touring the country. and a.
Detroit wrestler of the name of Nc
Laughln.
Mr., Hanna held different view. ITS
hot the right sort of thing for the opera
house. he said. Don't book it,
The nephew ignored Mr.. Hanna's advice
The match was booked and pulled off,
few weeks later the opera house had A new
manager.
A Happy Medium.
Senator Hanna's attitude toward his en-
ployes is neither stand-offish nor off-hand
Many coal miner or a street railway
conductor can testify to the fact that Mark
llama has slapped him squarely between
the shoulders as he sang out cheeriIv.
Good morning. Bill" But not one has ever
had the senator crack jokes with him. A
joke is never looked for; but when an en-
ploye meets Hanna the former knows bv
experience that he will be asked such cues
tons as these:
We'll. is everything satisfactory"
How is the famly?"
See any way in which the service might
be improved?'
mo kick coming, eh?''
As a result of his show of good will
which also not infrequently makes itself
evident in the shape of comforts and deli
cacies. if the man has answered that his
wife or a child is i'll, the senator is IA
military known among his thousands of en-
ployes as Uncle Mark
When Uncle Mark" gives succor to any
one-which is pretty often-he does not let
his left hand know what the right doeth"
Some years ago. when Cleveland was
experiencing a particularly severe winter
one of the city's leading charitable organi-
cations was kept bountifully supplied
with coal that the poor suffered very little
from lack of fuel For a long time there
was much mystery on the part of many of
the organizations officers as to who was
furnishing the coal. and when the secret
did leak out it was through the over-ex-
uberant charity worker through whom Mr..
Hanna was supplying fuel.