The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-10
PINK WAKES UP TO
find ITS RAINING
And Hope of Lifetime Is Shat
tered as Floods Wash
Profits Away.
MIDWAY WORKER LAMENTs
Tells Friend How 1t Happened,
and How Public Sui
fers, Too.
MIDWAY WORKER LAMENTs

4 noon, with de-brilnmed SomDrer
shading pair Of keen gray eyes. Will
smiles chased frowns and frown
chased smiles over a countenanc
& bronzed by sun and wind and rain
Pink" McHenry. successfully candy
butch, medicine man and midwa.
| worker. between puffs on very Ions
and a very black cigar, told a Rich
mond friend how the deluge which
wrecked the last two days of the fail
spoiled Something awful pretty fol
him. Twenty years ago Pink" Nc
Henry-it was Pink even then-ant
this very same friend were school
mates. The meeting yesterday was
the first one since, and it was while
McHenry waited for his train.
For quarter of an hour old memo
ries were revived while old times were
discussed. Then the Snowman cut IN
about the rain: Look at that sun, Kid:
look at that sun. Man, If had o had
that sun Friday and Saturday"
The rain was fierce, wasn't it, put
in the friend
"Fierco was thrown back at him;
fierce; believe me, SON 1t was h.
Do you know what that rain did to me?
Well. Ill tell it to you 1t is the one
sad story of me life 1t broke up my
dream of joy that I've had all summer.
That bunch of dampness spoiled some-
thing awful for me.
Take 1t From Pink
How was it? Well. I'll tell you.
All summer I've been nursing mem
tai blue print of girl show which,
take it from me. kid is the goods.
l got the idea up to Coney, where ]
name O. Sanderson. who runs the Reno
Blondes No. 1t wasn't that. This
idea O. mine is original, understand.
There hasn't been anything like 1t since
that chapter they wanted to cut out o.
that book, Quo Vadis.'
Every time l got stake on things
went TO the bad, and never got the
show on the road. Finally, l said to
myself. It's squeeze for you, Pink, so
squeeze it was.
II beat out poker game before, /
left New Yawk: l had a swell run O.
luck and things We're looking rosy. I
soaked every cent that came my way;
got tight with myself. l cut out the
JOY water: 1 ate bum grub for three
weeks; was practicing economy. /
even cut the barber; until 1 hit Rich
mond shaved myself with finger
nail clipper. l was all of that tight.
l got hundred or SO together. laid
out part of it for a wheel and bunch
of slum: and beat it to Richmond to
do the fair. With the come-in l was
going to put this idea of my mine
working: play all the big fairs this
fall; then go South for the winter and
pun off killing. And 1t was coming
good out there, kid; for the first three
days 1T was coming big. Two more
days and I'd have made the cleanup
of my life, and McHenry's Dream of
Paradise would have hit the road. It
was coming lovely, boz Then 1t rained.
And stu He Dreams.
Hard luck. you say? Hard luck.
Well guess yes. What happened to
Maggie wasn't a thing. What was
that? Oh, never mind
sure, / am going to try 1t again.
! m going TO take one more shotaat it,
then If fall down this time I'll take
another. You see this idea o. mine is
too good to can. Listen, while I break
It to you. planned to have one of
the SWEETEST fronts that ever took the
road. Me and Mike Harrington-Mike
worked with Fred Thompson on Dream
1ahd-fsured it out at Coney last sum-
iner between times. Mikes idea was to
nave 1t looking like bunch of fire.
WORKS with electrics. and that was
my loea' too. AS for the bally-hoo,
We got that doped out great. Inside
am going to have the SWEETEST bunch
OF charmers You ever saw. Yep. I've
got en- spotted; every one of them
is only waiting for the word from me
10 JOIN They are the finest lot Of
hlaoerinos who ever done 'cooch';
take II from me, old pal, they're
punch of winners No leftovers in
ms punch, friend; no steam laundry
sraoua tes Young and pretty, every
one OF them; everybody who sees them
wants to take the whole bunch out
and buy. I've got the run Of the show
lald out toe | am going to put on
dances that will have all the rcsula-
ton turns looking like the efforts
or paralytic Of course, I'm going
20 nave nice little Sunday school pro-
gram for the blue law towns. But
Wnen we hit the live ones-say. kid.
you want to see it; It's going to be
Girl Shows Get the Money.
ana let me hand it to you, Horace.
we slrl shows are the ones for the
money. Get a good one and all you've
got TO do is work an adding machine
10 : ma out how much you're WORTH
line up bunch Of Lillians out in
front, touch off little music; then
watch the hicks pour in. Pretty soft.
kla pretty soft. It always will be this
sort OF thing for mine. l have been
az TINS game ever since left back
land of ours, as the politicians call
~, ana everywhere, anywhere. it's all
Wy saia n, shows always get the
e eTa There are Just as many yaps in !
a4te as there are in California who
are always willing to shell OUT Ia see
somethlhg that they think they ought
~. 20 see There's all kinds OF easy
money. hn, y IN this game, and. believe me.
az, ~, ~ solns to get mine-that is, !
am KID If 1t doesn't rain"
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