The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-29
By FRANKLIN FTL6S

MS Eplscopalian Vestments, knocked
the slugger down and out at the end
or four hot rounds, proclaimed the In
fanny of his brother and the purity of
ms sweetheart, and struck final pose
OF triumph with the girl on his breast.
To tremendous applause No. The
Elgntlng Parson" had a competent cast
Neil-trained supernumeraTies and
snowy scenery: but its melodramatic
progress was so swift as to be chaotic,
the effect was likt that OF a burIesque,
and the audience giggied-
On the same side of the same block
where L saw that odd drama in a top
grade vaudeville theatre are a mu-
scum and music hall. These three
resorts are incongruous in their differ
ent characters to be so close together.
They are in a shopping district and a
sudden raipstorm had driven many
women from a round of the department
stores into the decorously Continuous
variety house. making fairly fashion
able acknowledgement one to be appre-
ciative of The Fighting Parson."
As to the museum. IL wasn't of the
dime cheap kind-at that old-tirne price
we have only one in all New York-but
IL was half-dollar musee If you
please, with the 40 cents-of excess ac-
cent on the ee. And it had no curio
hall with a row of natures cruel Jokes
On humanity, nor a theatre with his
tr1onic freaks performing a drama
every hour, nor any other abnormal
OBJECTS or interest that were alive to
demand wages. Professionally it was
or g. kind with Madam Toussand's wax
works show in London. Commercially
l. was a cinch- The stage entertainment
II; the winter garden-in hot weather
II becomes summer garden with no
change except in name-consisted of
some moving pictures. some music by
an orchestra and an exhibition OF
trained birds Think of that you ten
cent showmen- Why, this rfusee gets
what you charge for admission for a
catalogue, without which the groups
or waxen effigies are mostly meaning
less, being numbered not labeled with
names So the visitor has to paw a
70 Der cent assessment on his original
investment in order to realize any val
oe- The man who gets the best salts
faction, / think, is he who goes in to
see the spectators rather than the spec
tacles- he obtains his moneys worth
easily; and am not saying that the
otnersN find 1t hard to: but TO me the
reward for an afternoon spent there
came or looking at a selected visitor
more than the things he looked at. He
was stranger working hard at the lob
of seeing New York and IL was a won
Ger that he had arrived at the mu-
scum with half a dollar left unpicked
from his pocket. He glanced with nm
suspecting confidence at the wax no.
nceman posed in fun uniform at the
entrance, and was but doubtful of the
fashionable woman in front of the first
alcove of effigies that he came to. His
shock of surprise came when he found
that a liVeried attendant whom he
asked a question of was a dummy. and
nc was covered with confusion when.
on poking a similar figure knowingly
ia the ribs ii turned on him grinning
man, alive.
BY That time the tourist was i'm
crushed condition 10 take off his hat
10 Mrs. Chadwick. Hannah. Elias. Nan
patterson and Dynamiter Rousseau. in
tire arrays of celebrities quite rs read
lily as TO king or a president. a gen.
eral or an admiral: and when he went
oCWn into the chamber of horrors he