United labor bulletin., 1912-05-02
LOCAL ITEMS.
(By j. L. Compton.)

LOCAL ITEMS.
(By ]. l.. Compton)
Ellis Graham, stage manager OF the
Broadway theater, is the logical success
sor to Terry Owens as, chief of the fire
department when Terry concludes to
quit his job. Ellis has put out more
fires without the aid of the fire depart
ment than any man in the city. He has
even put them out in opposition to the
department, the officials claiming that
he should let the property burn until
they get there. But NO. He will put
out a fire when he discovers it, if he
can. Failing to do that he will tell the
fire department how to do it when they
arrive, AS an instance: The Brown
Palace hotel had a smoky hue full of
grease, ETC., in the kitchen. 1t caught
fire the other doy and filled the street
in front of the Broadway theater full of
smoke and cinders. Bill Ireland was in
the box office. He telephoned back on
the stage to Ellis; What the HI,
Ellis, is that engineer burning in his
boilers?" He thought it was coming
from the stack of the Broadway, but
Ellis discovered that it came from the
Brown Palace, and when the fire depart
ment arrived he and Chief Engineer
Collom of the hotel persuaded the fire.
men, after great efforts, not to flood the
hotel and ran them off the job.
Ellis is the candidate for alderman in
the Eleventh ward on the labor ticket.
He accepted on my persuasion, which
shows that | have some influence with
the next alderman of the Eleventh ward,
and the next chief of the fire depart
ment.
The Denver Musical Protective asso-
citation, Local No. 20, A. F. of M, are to
have musicians carnival Saturday and
Sunday, May IL, u. They will have all
the popular attractions that appeal to
the fun-loving public In addition they
will have an orchestra of sixty pieces
which will render all the popular and
classic music. Now, you people that like
good time, go there. And you high
brows who know good music and the
other people that go, because the High
Brows" go, get there and hear good
music rendered by the members OF the
D. NJ P. A. The excellence of the enter
tainment is assured by the committee
appointed which is: F. G. Liebold, chair
man; Raffello Cavallo, F. Roth, l. Hoff-
man, E. Grimes, Henry Sachs and ].
Franchitelle. Incidentally we wish to
say the event will be held at Tuileries
park, and Uncle John Putnam and Man
ager Gilpatrick will do their share to
make your visit enjoyable.
Say, fellows, do you know Tim Logan
of the International Association of Steam
Filters local, No. 73? Well, if you don't
know him you ought to. Tim and l have
a lot of arguments, but that's the way
we get along with each other But this
is incidental to the fact that he informs
me that he has been elected chairman
of the Federated Shop committee of the
D. & R. G., at the Burnham shops and
he will be a credit to the Job.
| forgot to mention the fact last week
that Frank Klinge, a member of our
local, No. Z, of Stage Employees, was
here with Maude Adams. Frank is a
bird fancier In other words, he had
charge of all the costumes. He was
wardrobe man, and that was some ward
robe. Probably the most expensive of
any produced in this country. 1t was
all feathers and it pertained to different
kinds of fowl. That's why l call Frank
a bird fancier.
The Bulletin in it's last issue forgot to
remark that George Griswold Sharpe,
who was commended for keeping the
only strictly union cigar and tobacco
stand in the city, is the manager of the
Building Trades club on Eighteenth
street.
The delegates to the Trades Assembly
Lause to remark: If Grace O'Hara don't
furnish them label for their hats, like
she gave the writer, that pressure will
lie brought to bear on The Bulletin to
publish the contents OF the label.
John Mcfarland of the Stage EN-
ployes and his newly-wedded wife, were
introduced to the Introduce Me" COM
pany last week. 1t was their intention
to go on tour with them, but they didn't
like the introduction, SO they called 1t
off,
The T. NJ. AS annual benefit at the
Broadway last Sunday night, was the
best bill they have had in years. Every
body voted it great success. Even
that great pessimist, F. w. w, on the
Denver Post couldn't find fault with it,
so everybody must agree that 1t was
good. The banquet rendered to the per-
formers after the show at the Albany
hotel was very enjoyable. There were
Ia people who sat down at the table.
Beats them all. La Belle sc cigar,