Arizona republican., 1906-03-14

The line resolved not to stand it. All 1t wanted was a leader to give the signal for the formal opening of the riot The leader was not wanting. A lady left her place near the head of the line, though for all paIently practical purposes she might as well have been at the tail of it. and march ed along the breaking rank or the dis satisfied, melting them to insurrection.
 The clamor rose higher. What had become of those reserved seats?" Let some one in authority explain and ex- plain quickly. The explanation was forthcoming and if it had been made in advance much heart burning would have been avoided. It transpired that of the fifteen or twenty members of the cast who had been giving their time to the production of the play for weeks, several were not members of tha club and had no fraternal interest in the organization. Nor were they go- ing to receive any compensation be- yond the plaudits of the audience for their work.
 It had been thought by the commit tee of management that they should be given seats for their families and this thought was made to extend to all the members of the cast. Thus about one hundred of the choicer seats of the house had been withdrawn from tho entry under any of the existing land laws.
 This statement of the case was fully eXplana tory but it was far from satis- factory. The line now thoroughly dis organized, wanted to know what was the purpose of this histrionic effort. There was a sarcastic inquiry if the members of the cast had undertook to put the play on for their own amuse- ment; if they were going to occupy those hundred best seats and watch themselves on the stage and permit the hoi polloi to roost around on the backs of the rear seats to see what they could and hear what might happen to be audible; or was this a move in the dark for the benefit of the favor ed hundred of the -four hundred"
 The riot was resumed and Manager Berger of the Doris was demanded His experienced eye told him that something would have to be done and done 'pronto." Many of those who had bought tickets in order to be prepared Tor the reservation were showing them back and demanding their money. It was then resolved to declare all pro ceedings with reference to reservation null and void. All the reserved seats were to be thrown back into the pool and a new start made with a clean dia-
 
 their friends would have to take their chances with the world at large. There would therefore be a postponement of the reservation until today
 - Some numbers signifying the advan- tageous positions of those in the line when it broke up had been given out pending the Announcement and it was decided that those numbers should be regarded as sacred in the line that Va-.rg Fg, rf~r
 objection to the preservation of even that much of the days proceedings. The crowd wanted the numbers de- stroyed so that everybody could get off in a bunch this morning at the dipping of the flag. It was then re- solved that the numbers would be dis regarded, but later it was reasoned that those who had got up early or who had hired boys to represent them. should be allowed something for their trouble. It was therefore finally de- cided that those who had numbers might take the same place in today's line that they had in yesterdays when 1t was disrupted.
 The members of the cast spent the afternoon going about town gathering up the reservations which they had distributed among their families and friends.
 A member of the cast last night made the following statement
 "The error on the part of the com mittee was not d wilful one but q possible misapprehension of what the public would think correct under the circumstances. There are fifteen mem bers in the cast of Jim the Penman.' many of whom are not members of the Country Club, all of whom, however, have devoted an average of five nights a week in rehearsing in order to give the public the worth of their money. These members had all given their time for nothing and purchased tickets for the show and paid cash for the tick cts. Some who were not able to af- ford or did not care to reserve boxes believed as did the committee that it was only right that in return for the trouble that they had taken that they should be allowed to reserve advance seats for their families. The public. however, did not know of that fact and when the sale was opened and it was discovered that some were re- served for the families of members of the cast, believed that an injustice had been done them. The committee and the cast desires strenUously, above all things, to treat the public fairly and are very pained at the idea that there should be any misapprehension arise as to its motives. Upon hearing that there was an objection to these seats being reserved for them the members of the cast insisted that they return all of the their seats and that the sale be post