The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-06-11
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FR0L|Cs ON TRIP
Minstrel Show Features Entertain
ment First Night 0ut-H. s. Earle
Talks on Good Roads.


for the serious and the frivolous. &C.
cording To The Times wireless ad'
vices. A full-hedged minstrel com
pany OF the most up-to-the-moment
calibcr provided the chief amusement
OF the evening. and the jokes, songs,
choruses and vaudeville stunts Great
ed hearty laughter. The show was
under the direction of DR.. Russell
Pearce, and I'm the ranks were many
OF the best-known minstrel men In
Detroit. George Clark. Earl Bradley
VIII Blodgett, Charles Il. Schermer'
horn. A. A. Schantz and Eddie Guest
were the end men, and their with
cisms would have done credit to the
palmiest days OF Lew Dockstader or
Primrose and West.
Here Is a sample OF what the end
men had to say:
Bones--"I suppose you heard about
Ed. Doyle losing his job In church,
Interlocutor-'T didn't know he had
a job In church. What was he doing?'
Bones-"He passed the contriDu'
ton box, but they fred him.
Interlocutor-"What was the excuse
for letting him out?"
Bones--"I don't know, but they've
got a one-armed man working In his
place now"
Tambo-"You will excuse me.
please, gentleman OF the audience.
but ! don't care to cockroach any
more upon your time"
Interlocutor-"You mean hencroach.
don't your"
Tambo-"Well. II doesn't make any
difference. It's just a matter OF gen.
der"
Tambo-"I had a terrible dream
last night, Mr.. Interlocutor. | dreamed
l died and went up to heaven
- lnterlocutor-"Why. that wasn't so
bad. Tambo."
Tambo-"Yes, but I couldn't get in"
Interloculor-"Well, that was bad
dream"
Tambo-"That is. couldn't get In
at first / was told there were three
tasks | would have to perform before
l would be permitted to remain"
Interlocutor-"And what were you
compelled to do?"
Tambo-''In the first place they
pointed to a great big lake-bigger
than Lake Superior. and gave me a
pint pail and told me l had to bail 1t
dry. did II, too"
lnterlocutor-"That must have TAX.
en- some time, didn't itY''
Enthusiastically 10000 years. And
when that was done they pointed to a
great big mountain-bigger than the
Rocky mountains-and gave me lit.
tie fire shovel and told me to go and
dig the mountain away
Jnterlocutor-"And how long did
that take?"
Tambo Seventeen thousand
years"
Interlocutor-"Well those were two
jobs; what was the third job?"
Tambo--"They led me up to a
blackboard and told me | would have
10 keep writing my name on that
blackboard until Mayor Breitmeyer
had settled the street car question.
SO left"
Interlocutor-"Where did you go?"
Tambo--'T went where the street
car settlement has gone"
Earle Talks On Good Roads.
Horatio 8. Earle. ex-state commits
sioner OF highways. was invited to
give talk OH Good roads" and
among other things he said:
I'VE say we are for good roads IN
Wayne county, but does that say
some from the mouth or from the
pocketbook?
you cannot build roads with wind;
II takes money and brains. Are You
willing to put up the money?
Shall we wait 20 years for our
present country road commission CD
build US a trunk line system OF 200
miles. at the rate OF ten miles year,
~ Nx..uI h.. I've gu
next year and have the benefit OF 1t
Tor the next 20 years?
ITO bring the matter to an issue
I have prepared a petition addressed
To the board OF supervisors Of Wayne
rounty and I will read 1t.
We, the undersigned freehold
crs OF the county Of Wayne, do
petition your honorable body to
submit to a vote OF the electors
of said county. in accordance with
tie provisions of section 20 of
chapter four of act number 283 OF
the Public Acts OF 1909. the ques-
ton of bonding said county for
the sum OF s2,000.000, or such
other sum as In your Judgment
may seem advisable; the money
so raised by the sale OF such
bonds TO be used In the construc-
ton and improvement of high
ways and bridges In said county,
with the object ~ view Of estab-
fishing complete system of i'm
proved trunk line roads through
out the country.
Nov IL you are for good roads,
sisn the petition. II you are not, re-
fuse.
"Instead of building roads on the
lnstalment plan we will build them
at once and pay for them by instar
ments.
'"our present valuation is approx.
mately $500 ,O00,0 900. III five years it
Will be $500. 900 900 and In ten years
5000 .00O, 600, so II is safe to say the
tax will be levied on an average Of
$500 100000 valuation and would
cost US on the average 20 cents per
Thousand valuation each year for 20
wears TO pay the principal, or total
of ~ on each one thousand valuation
and The interest OF s cents on each
one thousand valuation and the inter
est OF Fights cents on eac hone thou
sand each year, or a total OF 2S cents
per thousand each year for 20 years.
And this would give us a grand road
system.
IT had the pleasure of entertaining
Last week Stewart Parker Elliott, o.