The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1907-08-31

1t was out In Pikeville, one o them
western towns near the, foothills. that
we run up against 1t good and hard.
We were playing Ten Nights in
Bar Room" and had been doing a rat.
Ting business for a spell. You see,
most o those people out there are
ketched by title and Ten Nights In
Bar Room looked good to them. II
seemed kind o sociable.like, with
plenty o gambln' and shootin' irons,
and chaps droppin' in to pass the time
o day, and hot stove with the boys
sittin' around 1t and swappin' lies over
their liquor.
But when 1t got to be spread around
the country that we were "A strictly
moral show-a kind o dramatic argu
ment for temperance and signin' the
pledge--why it's surprising the way
receipts fell Off SO when we got to
Pikeville We were drawing about as
good as a chimbley filled full o
birds nests.
The ghost hadn't walked for so long
that | guess he'd forgot how. and to
make things real interestin' and i'm.
pOrtant, why what does our manager
do but one night skip with all the re-
ceipts. We were dead up against It,
out about million miles from home
more or less, and nothing doing to
annex the long green.
And to make matters still worse,
we were showed in. Yes, sir, II
showed like | never see II snow be
fore. You wouldn't believe II, but
for five days she never let up.
Well. sir, there we were--the hull
IL of us, including the company, and
me and Tommy Bagsby, who played
the heavy" and did the press agent
stunts. We were stoppin' at the
| United States hotel, and for time
! but 1t wasn't long after our manager
skidooed before they sized us up fol
a bunch of crooks. You see, II makes
lot of difference in the show bust
ness how you succeed.
Well, sir, there we were stranded
on the foot hills, and not enough o
the long green in the crowd to pa!
our hotel bill. to say nothing of trans
portation back to Times Square. W.
were up against II for fair-but say
do you know Tommy Bagsby? No
Well, he's II. Tommy's all the mus
tard when 1t comes to the ways ant
means committee. We had beef
showed in nearly week, living Of
tick. and pretty poor tick at that
when Tommy decided that somethin
must be done to raise the dough.
You see, the snow had come dow
SO deep that you couldn't brea
through 1t with a key o dynamit,
II was piled up a mile high In tn
cutters and out In the middle of tn
street where the storekeepers ha
thrown 1t when they shoveled OFF tn
sidewalks. And II got so bad tina
finally horse couldn't pull a sleig
through it--he just sank down to hi
shoulders and stuck.
Well, the town council gets a NOV
on and advertises for bids immediat
to remove the snow along Main stree
And here's where Tommy butted II
1t seems he had bunch on what
would cost to get rid of that sno
by the old.fashioned method of sho
cling 1t in carts and houling II ava
with teams. Tommy figured It woul
come to about thousand dollars, s
what does he do but put in bid Il
eight hundred.
Well sir, the council nearly thre
a fit when they heard Tommy's bi
1t seemed too good to be true, bl
Tommy just stood right up in meeti
, and handed them out beautif
: spiel, and they agreed to let him hay
> a whack at the snow cleaning propos
> ton. provided they wasn't to pay u
: til the snow was good and off.
, Finally somebody asks him whel
| he was going to hire his horses ar
y carts, and whether he was going
I employ union men or scabs, al
4 Tommy just smiles real confident, al
!. that he didn't have In mind to emplt
0 any horses or carts, and for that ms
]. ter any men, either.
0 You ought to "a seen the eyes
D them councilmen bung out. At FIR
$ they thought Tommy was dippy, b
/ then they decided that maybe he HI
n invented some new kind of machi
r for removin' snow, so they kept mu
d and let him go ahead with the job.
You see, It was this way. tn
J. town is situated, like | said, near {
y foot hills, and the streets are pref
o steep. 1t starts way up at the 70
/. Of a ridge, and then comes down
v most like ladder, and slopes rig
@ through the business section of I
d town, which was the part the coun,
.. wanted scraped off. What does Tomu
II do but put an advertisement in the
cal papers that run something II
II this:
L BOYS AND GIRLs!--A CHANCE :
make Five Dollars! 4 SNOWFALL rolf
contest will take place next Saturd
morning at ten o'clock, from the rid
at the head of Main street. To the b
- or girl who succeeds In rolling
largest SNOWFALL down To the foot
q / Main street will he given a prize OF II
:, dollars Just think OF it-FINE DO
u LARS! for a little fun, Every sCho