The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-05

yonngster back to his notheri Hes
dead now, died when he was years
old, poor little fellowi"
Foy said it in a way that bespoke
him as a man who loves children. Ii
is, indeed. one of his pronounced
traits. He has seven of his own living
on the little farm in New Rochelle,
n. Z. and a more indulgent father does
not live. Mrs Foy was Madeline Mo-
randO, an italian premiere Dancer
whom the comedian married in Chica-
go I'm 1893. Mr.. Foy carries around
with him wherever he goes a photo
graph Of the family that looks like a.
Sunday school picnic.
Bryan, the Oldest boy, who Is now.
about 8. was named for william Jen7
nings Bryan, who is a staunch friend
of F7oy.
This boy was IN the Iroquois theatre
| fire, with his father When the actor,
who was IN his dressing room, putting
the finishing touches on his makeup.
for Sister Ann In Mr.. Bluebeard. =
heard the noise of the stampede. he
ran for Bryan, and was carrying HIM
out. when it occurred to him that he.
was acting selfishly in MT doing what
he could for the hundreds OF Other chil-
dren in the house. So he threw his own
| son into the arms of a stage hand,
told him to take the boy out, ard went
! back Oh 10 the burning stage.
Hero of Iroquois Fire.
In his clownish costume, he stood
there under the blazing scenery, keep
| ing the orchestra at work and talking
coolly to the panic-stricken audience.
Once he almost had the dreadful rush.
quieted, but things had gone too far
then for one hero to be OK any SERVICE
1t is a rather singular coincidence
har -bN ha n
the go as Eddie Foy should have hg-i
ured in the two most disastrous fires
that Chicago has known-tWo fires
which will be remembered as long as
America lasts.
"Oh! my life is sewed up in stirringI
Incidents" said Mr. Foy. II have
been in two or three railroad wrecks: r
have had holes shot through my clOthesl
In Dodge City when I was playing al
black-face sketch there in the days
when the bad men had full sway
Even our return to Chicago had a trag-i
edy connected with it.
"When we were reduced TO poverty
a second time by the big fire and hadl
lived with fifty or more other refugees
In a church for a week or two, myl
mother decided to come to New York,
taking advantage of the Erie rail-
road offer to carry fire sufferers free.
We discovered that there was nothinga
for us in New York and wanted to get
back to Chicago again.
Someone suggested that my mothers
go personally TO Colonel James Fisk )
jr., president Of the Erie. They said
he wore his heart on his sleeve and that
he would help out a widow with six
children. She hunted him up at a din
ner and he listened to her most graz
ciously, telling her to come to his Of
fee the following Saturday.
ION Friday Edward S. Stokes killed
him. On Saturday my mother got the.
pass for herself and family. That was
the kind of a man Jim Fisk was"
He Becomes an Actor.
It was after the F'itzgeralds got back
to Chicago on the dead mans pass that
Eddie became a professional actor. He
took the name of Foy because IL was
shorter than Fitzgerald. and he had
relatives named Foy. Having learned
to dance in the streets he paired up
with a partner named Thompson, and
for eight or nine years toured the coun-
try in a black-face song and dance IN
der the team name OF Foy and Thomp-
son.