Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1885 — TWO NOTED MINSTRELS, [ARTICLE]

TWO NOTED MINSTRELS,

Who Hove Won Fortune#, and What They Say About Stage Life. [From Stage Whisper#. I “Billy’’ Emerson has recently made a phenomenal success in Australia, and is rich. Emerson was bora in Belfast in 1846. He began his career with Joe Sweeney's minstrels in Washington in 1857. Later on he jumped into prominence in connection with Newcomb s minstrels, with whom he visited Germany. He visited Australia in 1874, and on his return to America joined Haverly's minstrels in San Francisco at SSOO a week and expenses. With this troupe he played before her Majesty the Queen, the Prince of Wales, and royalty generally. After this trip be leased the Standard Theater, San Francisco, where for three years he did the largest business ever known to minstrelsy. In April last he went to Australia again, where he has “beaten the record.’’ “ Billy ” is a very handsome fellow, an excellent singer, dances gracefully, and is a true humorißt. “ Yes, sir, I have traveled all over the world, have met all sorts of people, come in oontact with all sorts of customs, and had all sorts of experiences. One must have a constitution like a locomotive to stand it. “Yes, I know I seem to bear it like a major, and 1 do, but I tell you candidly that with the perpetual change of diet, water, and climate, if I had not maintained my Vigor with regular use of Warner's safe cure, I should have gone under long ago." George H. Primrose, whose name is known in every amusement circle in America, is even moreemphatic, if possible, than “Billy” Emerson, in commendation oi the same article to sporting and traveling men generally, among whom it is a great favorite. Emerson has grown rich on the boards and so has Primrose, because they have not squandered the public’s “favors.”