The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-05
When Washington Attended the Theatre

| poisoned cup. The three corpses are a
highly satisfactory sight: but the death
of Hamlet is not to Harlemites' liking.
They like to have their heroes and
heroines thrive. Paul McAllister. hav-
| ing made the tragedy ridiculous, should
not hesitate to save both Hamlet and
Ophelia from Shakespeare's killing pen.
Ciphering by treasurers of transporta-
ton companies indicate that 100000 per-
sons went to Coney Island last Sunday,
and undoubtedly the multitude along
that three-mile stretch of seashore on
the Fourth of July will figure up still
higher. This semi-theatrical resort is
therefore the widest open that it will
be this summer, and l shall endeavor
to be readable a week hence with the
shows down there. Permit me to give
now, however, two illustrations of tall
ent unwasted. Fools academy has a
stucco front nodded with masks of Mo-
mus and faces of modern clowns. A
tall. lean man, with long hair and whis-
kers. and thus able to look like a cOun-
try pumpkin, stalks up and down whis-
thing, singing and talking for the show.
A second fellow, with the white face
and dress of a French Pierrot, rivals
the Yankee RUDE in stopping the peo-
pie. An ordinary but glib barker does
not let the testers impede his loquaci-
ty; and second flow of language about
the laughter to be enjoyed at a cost of
5 cents, comes from the door tender.
Besides those four men. each an artist
in his way, there is fifth outside at
traction in a beautiful young girl. who
smiles amiably from the ticket sellers
perch. Who pays his nickel, and en-
ha f,rr, hnh nd.
crystal maze" of mirrors, some peep
holes in which you see your head re-
Elected on comic bodies, and several
joke contrivances, with one man to
keep his eye on things. are the only
contents, except a humping chute
through which visitors may slide out If
they wish to. Five persons outside
with some talent and one inside with
none-that is a way to make money at
Coney.
Almost hidden In one of the narrow
walkaways connecting the main thor
oughfares, yet doing pretty we'll consid :
ering, the Show of Aggregated Mar
wells occupies not more than a square
rod. The canvas frontage Is pictured
with a behemoth of a horse, a midget
of a cow, magician doing tricks, an
athlete holding a girl alOft with one
hand, and young nurse attending four
tiny babies i'm her arms. These seven
human beings and a woman who served
both as ticket seller and taker / ascer-
tanned to be a man, his wife, their
daughter. her husband and the family's
offspring. They lodged in a prairie
| schooner sort of wagon, which stood in
back corner of the space, and which
the show hOrSe-an uncOmmOnly big
Percheron, hauled in their travels. That
| beast and a half-size COW made a con-
tract when placed side by side, the
| equine exhibit standing on a level a
foot higher than the bovine to begin
with
The father and the son-in-law do the
! barking, and they have persuaded fiji
teen to twenty persons to buy admis-
siOns at dime-chiefly by asserting
| that the big horse, the little COW, the
magician and the athlete, marvellous
though they be, are belittled- by the
wonderful baby incubator containing
bankruptcies. The magician does with
facility a dozen of the tricks for which
apparatus may be bought in the toy
stores. The athlete shows much of his
strength with weights and losses his
smallish wife. The horse and the COW
are glorified by the magician turned
lecturer; and lastly he draws aside a
curtain to disclose, not such baby in
cubator as the hospitals and some of
the side shows use, but an egg Matching
box of glass, like those of a poultry
farm. In it lie four infants, as alike
as peas in a pod, and born within a
week or a fortnight. The daughter
figures as both nurse and mother. A
subsequent and surreptitious view Of
the family at meal time, babies and
all, seemed to prove that the mother
hood was divided between the girl and
the woman. A four-two-itous conjunc-
ton of twins to those mothers, the 81
multaneous babies close family resem-
blance, has led to the incubator addi-
ton to the wandering show, and its To-
cation for the summer at Coney Island
L suggested as much to the older man.
"Well, in the show business" he re-
piled, every little bit, added to what
you've got makes a little bit more"