The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-11
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HIS sTAGk;;
He Took 1t From Mlr]
in Johannesber MIL
Africa.
ANIMAL WON 1os NJ
ON
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Interesting Story I, nd
the Scrap Book d,p.
vile Arh
OF all the Robop,,,z

is possibly none more III
travel, adventure and
life than that of a VI
Taken as a class, the a,
william is a happy-go.luc "
in awhile one is encoldIE
methodical, and if one Ia.
glimpse at his scrap ID p'
terial in plenty for boil -
good yarns, The majof .
formers, however, do nor
BILE to keep scrap bod !.
only TO remember their 4 i
There ls now at one 0;a
hotels a man who carri,~ I
a scrap book covering AZ ]
life under canvas and A.,
three ont Of the four 3 =,
weeks ago he frat set n,
lean soil at San Francia !. :
working his way east ov, .
circuit as a headliner. !,
stage name that sound Y
tooth powder or a bn
what is more TO the poif.
has a scrap book alone
every clipping collected
twenty years, be it in . Il
German, or any other
tains at least twice the
the Mad Musician.
Where He Got y
on the stage, yasco q
name of Holt. In expla !
terday stated that be n J
racehorse in Johannesbel 4
rica. 81 was looking
catchy stage name, y ho 4
saw that a horse named 4,
tered for a race. The nj
fancy and | said to m9
lay a pound or two on 81
wins there will be luck il II
+ will adopt it, Well, ID
hundred and forty pound
his name, and have never
It's such a handy name n
only FIVE letters in IL Luc
had an unlucky day ino
his race. -
According to his won
book, Vasco has had
career. He was born al
land, and apparently CON
steal family, as he ha!
bandmaster in the Sixth
another connected with
Grenadier Guards band
sical engagement was -
ira. which accompanied
pauy to South Africa. 4
was too slow for him,
turned TO the circus
worked in conjunction
on the flying trapeze, 4
he missed the net. Ther'
attention to his preseu<
for q dozen years was Q
musical clown. For tv-
travelled with Fillis's
England, India, China.
Zealand and South Arr
is, by the way, the Bai
Africa.
1t is during this period
book is really interesiin
casion. while travelling y
from Durham, Natal, tol
Cape Colony, the vessel
typhoon, with the elepk
and Old Harry to pay.
steamer made port, afte
given up for lost for hye
He was in Johannesbt
famous Jameson rail. A
possession the battered
with bullets, with whicr
ers were first called I'M
rode in the last tram thni
to Cape Town, and was
border by the Beers, wno
the train and collected
the passengers. His "
day. however, as she
precaution to sew tnelr
her clothing.
In India, Vasco was tra
cial train to Mysore TO 3
ance before the Mahar
suite, when the circus tr
the old American trick Q
to pass another tram on
The result was a huge 81
forty people were horr1pI}
the menagerie was scat'
the landscape. The SUP
up of the panic-strlcken
and tigers was decldeo'
strenuous. ~
Shortly after this. va
vaudeville and for sevei
one OF the features m q
provincial music halls.
mined to make a tour OF
his scrap book records
tions 10 a musical evenin|
Derby hotel in honor OF
Vasco. Accompanying
containing the names OF .
liquids calculated TO noH
way. Coming right up
precious book contains
and interview On the oer
co.'s American debut, %nIc
in the Sunday San En-
month ago.
Vasco is a very enter
and the only thing tina.
like about America, so
cannot get /" Good old
draught.
"Strike me blind,
when you pay a bob
small Bass, you ave se'