Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 27, Number 42, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 17 April 1897 — Page 6

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BEHIND THE FOOTLIGHTS.

Edwin Adams and Benefit.

His Great

A NOTABLE 0A8T OF 0HABA0TEB8.

Sothern Othello, Ixitta as Desdemons and Hilly Florence a» Iaffo—An Incident In One of Edirln Forrest's Rehearsals.

John Gilpin's Hide.

[Special Correspondence.]

NEW YORK, April 12.—A generation or so ago it was impossible to mention tho name of Edwin Adams without involuntarily suggesting "Enoch Arden," BO intimately was the great actor associated with that piece. Now there are probably a very few persons, outside of the old timers, who have ever seen either play or player.

Edwin Adams was known universally in the profession as "Genial Ned," and if ever a man deserved a sobriquet he did, for more whole souled, generous and entertaining fellow never lived.

I was one of Edwin Adams' warmest admirers and Btunchest friends, and I should therefore bo the last man in the world to disparage his abilities. But candor compels the admission that he enjoyed a reputation really out of all proportion to his talent. As a leading man in all branches of theatrical work it is doubtful whether his superior has ever been seen in this country. But judged from tho standpoint of a star in high grade work he certainly fell far below tho standard of excellence set by so many of his distinguished contempornrics.

But Adams' claim to permanent fame will rest upon his rendition of the title rolo of "Enoch Arden." In this he won distinction and some money from one end of the country to the other. In jus-

KDWIN ADAMS.

tioe to Adams, too, it should be said thut his performance of Charles Surface in "Tho School For Scandal" was particularly good.

A Notable Benefit.

Adams was a royal entertainer. Anybody who has enjoyed his hospitality will support me in tho statement that the man positively did not regard the value of money when tho matter of entertaining friend, or even an acquaintance, was in hand. Thus it oame about that when in 1877 illness oompelled him to retire to his home in Philadelphia, ho soon found himself without the funds necessary to give him the comforts demanded by his condition. Hi$ friends, of whom I had tho honor to be one, got together and decided that Ned should have a benefit. Tho affair came off at t'g^ Academy of Music Oct. 12, 1877. I was the stage manager, and I do not hesitate to say that I have never in my long experience seen such a galaxy of stars gathered together in ono performance as we had that day.

Almost every circumstance connected with that performance was notable in some respects. The net result of the affair was over $1T,000, inclusive of the subscriptions which poured in from all parts of the country. This was tho largest sum over realized up to that time from a benefit to a player, although I believe that, later Lester Wallack's widow received $2f,000 from a similar entertainment. As things happen often, Adams lived but a very short time after this testimony to his worth as an actor and his popularity as a man. But the funds were useful in providing for his loved ones, who otherwise would have been left practically destitute.

The notable programme at Adams' benefit is worth reproducing: First of all came tho overture from "Wilhelm Tell," performed by P. S. Gilmore and his famous band. Next a recitation by Miss Reg in a Dace, which was followed fiv comic songs rendered by Tony Pastor. S. B. Mills' piano solo gave way to the screen scene from "The School For Scandal," with the following cast: Sir Peter Teanle, John Gilbert Charles Surface, Edward Arnott Joseph Surface, George F. Devere Lady Toaxle, Hose Cog hi an, and Joseph, Mr. Peck. These were all members of Lester Wallack's famous stock company.

Aimee, the great French opera boaffe artiste, then gave some selections in her native tongue, and was succeeded by the fourth act of "Camille," in which the following appeared: Camille, Clara Morris Arm and Duval, McKee Rankin Do Varville, J. W. Carroll Gaston, W. R. Floyd Gustavo, EL M. Holland Prudence, Mrs. John Sefton, and Olvmpe, Josephine Baker. Among the supers used to fill the stage in this ad were: Mrs. John T. Raymond, Mrk Qf^nrge Boniface, 'Aunt" Louisa Eldridge, Mr*. J.

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Carhart, Mrs.

Harry Chapman. Mi* Charles N orris. La Hie Eldridge, Ida Savoy, Nellie Maptimer, Agnes Proctor, Mabel Jourdan, Kate Meek, Anna Borie, Gustie De For­

rest, May Hart, Lula Dixon, Nellie Jones, Helen Vincent, Belle Melville, Zelma Waldemar, Rosa Wilson, Frederic Robinson, Ed Lamb, T. E. Morris, J. C. Padgett, M. C. Daly, M. D. Rebus, Frank Lamb, J. G. Peakes, J. J. Sullivan and Lester Gossin.

Fnnmakers In "Othello."

After "Camille" came a duet by W. Castle and Henry Peakes of the Hess English Opera company. Then General Mite, the smallest man in the world, was shown, and Charles Backus of the famous San Francisco minstrels gave some marvelous imitations of great actors, several of whom were in the house at the time and enjoyed it hugely. The Stofel family, H. A. Weaver, Mrs. Sol Smith, J. C. Williamson, Maggie Moore, J. J. Sullivan, Master B. Eling and Sol Smith amused the audience with one act of "Struck Oil," preparatory to the event of the day, which was the third act of "Othello," played by the following people, who had all won fame as funmakers: E. A Sothern, as Othello W. J. Florence, as Iago H. Crisp, as Cassio Lotta, as Desdemona, and Mrs. John Drew, as Emelia.

It was originally intended to play this in all seriousness, but the players "stuck" on their lines, and Lotta began to swish her long train about her in the scene with Sothern. Then everybody, including the audience, took to laughing, and the curtain came down on a performance that would have made Shakespeare weep could he have seen it.

Harrigan and Hart faced the audience then in the appropriately named skit, "The Crushed Actors," and Gus Williams gave some of his 'Teutonic Eccentricities," after which Dan Bryant's minstrels occupied the stage for a most enjoyable 20 minutes. This concluded the entertainment

HcCallonfh'a Experiences.

Any man who enjoyed Adams' friendship and confidence is certain to have at the tip of his tongue any number of anecdotes of happenings at the actor's Bummer residence at Long Branch. One of the most enjoyable occasions in which I ever participated was at his place. There were present besides myself John McCullough, J. W. Wallack, Jr., Walter Montgomery, Charles B. Bishop, John Hoey, William R. Floyd, Henry Paddock, Maggie Mitchell's husband, and Billy Conner of race track and hotel renown. We dropped into anecdotes, and McCullough told the following concerning his experiences in Edwin Forrest's company: "My first appearance in New York was made in Forrest's company," said he. "It was in 1862, and we were rehearsing Hamlet.' I was the Ghost and Forrest did not like my 'Beware, beware, beware!' He bluntly inquired whether I was playing the Ghost or the devil, and then he added more pleasantly, 'Beware, John, or you will bring a ghostly termination to the treasury of this theater.' "When we presented the 'Gladiator,' continued McCullough, "a certain prominent actor did not give Spartacus his cue, and there was an awkward pause. Finally I gave the cue, and the piece went on. A little later I found Forrest in his dressing room in a towering rage. He was in his underclothes and was berating his dresser, Cooke, who was in a state of terror. Cooke, in his perturbation, knocked over a box of snuff, and such a sneezing as the three of us indulged in you never saw. Cooke fled precipitately, knocking over the candelabra, and Forrest was more angry than ever. I could not refrain from laughing at him, and he revenged himself by compelling me to take the place of the absent dresser."

Billy Conner then told a story at the expense of Charley Bishop. Conner was the starter at a race track at the time and his friend Bishop bad come down to "watch the ponies." Conner was apprised of his intended visit, and had arrangements made to give him a lively time. Getting the actor to visit one of the stables Conner induced him to mount one of the racers belonging to a friend. Some excuse to warrant the request was made, and Bishop, suspecting nothing, took the bait. The stable boy gave the fiery nag a cut and off he went with Bishop on his back—for a little while—shouting like a demon for them to stop the horse. It wasn't necessary, however, as it turned out, for Bishop made a wonderful triple somersault and landed on his back. He was considerably bruised, but entering into the spirit of the rather dangerous practical joke, declared earnestly that the episode had given him an idea for a new play, which he should call "John Gilpin's Ride," L. JOHN VINCENT.

Rudely Awakened. [Special Correspondence.]

SACRAMENTO, April

7.—Recently

while making a business trip from Eureka to Round Valley late one evening I found myself belated in a deep canyon on the banks of Eel river. As I was unacquainted with the trail I decided to camp. With a sharp knife, my only weapon, I cut a quantity of the tall grass which lined the banks of the stream and made my bed beneath a spreading xnadroue tree. I was suddenly awakened from sleep by the breaking of a branch directly over my head and in the tree top under which I was camped. Rousing myself I gave a wild yell, when some animal scrambled up among the branches. When qniet was restored, I again dropped off to sleep, only to be rudely awakened by the breaking of another large branch. I sprang to my feet and uttered a yell that awoke the echoes of the canyon, and it so badly frightened the occupant of the tree that he lost his bold and fell at my feet He proved to be a black bear. He did not wait for an introduction, but made off as fast as his legs would carry him. The bear previous to my arrival bad gone op the tree to feast on the ted berries with which it was ladened, and in his attempts to get down bad crept oat on the long limbs, which would not rastain hi* weight Daylight showed two limbs on the opposite side of the tree hrrken down. P. M. B.

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What do we give in return? If American consuls are to be believed, the mostoffensive display of boorishness that is possible in a people not wholly uncivilized. A senator who has been across several times said recently: "Where do all the nice Americans go in summer? You never meet them traveling."

The truth is, we are a great deal worse abroad than we are at home. Secretary John Sherman when he was a

SECRETARY SHERMAN IN COURT ATTIRE. senator made two trips across the water. He tells of meeting on one of these trips two nice American men of good breeding and refined tastes who attracted unpleasant attention in the smoking room of a hotel by boasting loudly about their country and abusing every other country and its people. They finally found themselves alone, and then they grew hilarious over their success in cleaning out the place. They had made themselves disagreeable purposely so as to drive away some Englishmen who were occupying the best places in the room.

Another gentleman, a well known newspaper editor, told me of a meeting with a fellow countryman in a Paris hotel. The man approached a party of Americans. "Yon're from the United States," he said. "So am I. I haven't any cards with me, but that's my name." And he drew out a national bank note and placed his thumb nail on the signature of the president of the bank. He wanted his fellow countrymen to know how important a person he was at home. Doubtless he had done the same boastful, silly thing with strangers from other countries. It is the way of too many American tourists. They are boisterous, bragging. They carry the American eagle on their shoulders and shove it under the noee of every one they meet.

Bnt there are many kinds of Americans just as there are many kinds of Englishmen. We make the same mistake in judging the Chinese. In every city but Washington the cooly laborer or laundryman is taken as the typical Chinaman, while the people here who have met the noblemen of the Chinese legation know that they are of quite another class. Missionaries who have vis ited China will tell yon that we get the very scum of her population.

But we differ from China and from England and from every other great nation in this—we do not send representa­

TEBKE HAUTE SITVEA^Y^EVENING MAIL, APRIL 17, 1897.

THE YANKEE ABROAD

A LARGE NUMBER OF AMERICANS TO VISIT EUROPE THIS YEAR.

They Will Leave Over 6100,000,000 In Gold In Europe—Inquiries For Passports. Traveling Americans and Their Peculiarities—Oddities of Consuls. [Special Correspondence.]

WASHINGTON, April 12.—They tell me at the passport office of the state department that the exodus of Americans to Europe this year is going to be greater than usual. Many men who were kept at home last summer because of the election uncertainty are going across this year, and they are going to take an enormous amount of American gold with them. General Horace Porter, our new embassador to France, told me when he was here a few days ago that he estimated the amount of money our people will spend abroad this summer at $100,000,000, equal to our standing gold reserve. No wonder we have a struggle keeping gold on this side of the ocean.

The number of travelers taking passports is comparatively small, but it varies with the volume of travel. Going on a short trip in the beaten track of tourists it is not necessary for the traveler to take a passport, but he sometimes finds it convenient to have one. In Russia, in Egypt and in other countries less generally visited by Americans it is quite necessary to have a passport.

The state department would prefer very much to issue a passport to every one of the tens of thousands of travelers who cross the Atlantic every summer. A passport is a sure identification of the man who holds it, and if the man gets into trouble the great seal of the state department usually assures him respectful treatment. This saves the state department a great deal of troub^ If the man has no passport and cannot make the local authorities of some little out of the way village understand who he is, he is likely to be outraged through ignorance or stupidity, and then the department has a claim for apologies and damages to press. Our consuls and ministers and embassadors have their hands full most of the time keeping up with the procession of indignant Americans.

The people of Europe are rather arrogant sometimes in their enforcement of laws and local regulations, but they are far less severe with the stranger than with their own people, and the reason for this is found in the fact that the traveling American is a perennial boon to all the countries of Europe. In Great Britain there is another reason. Chauncey M. Depew, who came very near being our embassador at London under this administration, told me recently that there was a feeling of affection for us in the hearts of Englishmen which few Americans can understand, a feeling of kinship which the American does not reciprocate.

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tive Americans always to represent us officially at foreign capitals. We have been peculiarly fortunate in our ministers or embassadors at London, Paris and Vienna, but many of our ministers at other capitals have been mere politicians, and our consuls general and consuls have been, if anything, worse. I don't mean to sneer at the politician if he is anything else. But we should not send abroad men who are politicians only, men who lack business and social standing, education and refinement The English government would never send a farmer to act as consul general at New York. It might give him a special mission to examine our agricultural resources and honor him in other appropriate ways, but a consul general would be selected from the list of men with business experience on the rolls of the foreign office.

Secretary Sherman, when he was a senator, told me he thought no man ought to go abroad for our government who did not speak the language of the country in which he was to be stationed. It is unfortunate that Mr. Sherman did not make that an inviolable rule of his department when he took charge of it

Mr. Sherman, by the way, was presented to the emperor of France at an official reception when he was in Paris, and be wore knee breeches, silk stockings and low shoes for the occasion. This was the costume worn by Embassador Breckinridge at the coronation of the czar. The story about it made much merriment for Mr. Breckinridge's friends and for newspaper readers generally in the United States. Knee breeches are worn by many of our diplomats on state occasions. General Porter will wear his uniform as a brigadier general of the regular army when he is presented to President Faure. But Colonel John Hay, whose military service was limited to two months, Embassador White and Embassador Draper may have to appear in what classio Boston calls "knee pants."

Our representatives abroad once wore not only knee breeches, but swords. But that was in the day when the president of the United States wore knee breeches and observed some of the ceremonies familiar to the courts of Europe. Nowadays our embassadors prefer uniforms, even militia uniforms, because they are more imposing and usually more becoming. A thin legged embassador is not an impressive sight in knickerbockers, and Mr. Sherman, who was always thin, must have presented a remarkable appearance when he made his bow to the president of France. Besides, the uniform is accompanied by a title, and titles are dear to the American heart. Here in Washington they are in some disrepute, because the hangers on at the hotels and about the capitol have come to be known as 'the majors and the colonels." But the traveling American likes to be known as of military rank, and the American embassador and the American minister are not exempt from the national weakness.

One feature of the passport business, by the way, causes many heartburnings. The state department has an absolute rule forbidding the insertion of any title in a passport. The militia officer who wants to be "generaled" abroad and the regular officer of the army, the mayor of a city and the judge on the bench are on equal terms with the plain citizen in the passport office. "Colonel John Smith" is John Smith there, and the "Hon. Obadiah Otterson" is plain Obadiah. They protest to the department, but the rule is inflexible. GEORGE GRANTHAM BAIN.

BUFFALO'S SLUM SECTION.

What Has Been Called the Wickedest Street In the World. [Special Correspondence.]

BUFFALO, April 12.—It has been said that the wickedest street in the world is located in Buffalo. This city, situated at the foot of the upper lakes and at the head of the Erie canal, forms with its suburb, Tonawanda, the first lumber port of the world and the greatest grain port and is visited by 23 railroads. Buffalo not only employs an unusually large number of laborers, but is the rendezvous of thousands upon thousands of drifting, homeless men.

The slum section of Buffalo lies between the canal, the river and the lake, in such away that it is almost completely isolated. The highways of travel have left it on one side almost entirely nine-tenths of the respectable citizens have never been in the slums, except as they may have gone from curiosity, or to do city mission work.

The resident population of this region is estimated at about 8,000, the population of Buffalo being considerably over 250,000. Strange as it may seem, this isolated section can be reached by a three minutes' walk from the richest part of Main street. The policy of the police has been to allow vice and crime to concentrate within this limited area, thinking that in this way the rest of the city could be more easily controlled and that the disorderly element could at least be held within localized bounds.

The artery of the whole district is Canal street famous as "the wickedest street in the world." It is almost a solid mass of saloons, brothels, dives and depots for the reception of stolen goods.

The Canal street din is in full blast till after midnight At noon the street wakes up again, and the afternoon's work is begun. The crowds begin to congregate, the women appear at doors and windows, and the music strikes up. A viler crowd can hardly be found. Criminals who have been hunted out of other cities are very apt to hide here. Arrests are often made wholesale. This is what the police call "cfeaning up the street" Patrolmen take turns in Canal street work in order that all may become familiar with the beat for there the worst criminals are to be seen. Branching oat from Canal street in several directions are other streets nearly as bad. Solid rows of saloons on Erie and Commercial streets, oancert saloons, and numerous bouses of ill fame extend the evil far beyond the limits of this sin cursed thoroughfare. PAUL MKAP.

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A Padlocked Heart. How man women lock their troubles and sufferings in their own hearts and silently endure is a a in a strong men to in agony.

ings of women are more than half unknown and unappreciated. The refined sensitiveness of their organism lays them liable ta

a thousand exquisite tortures which a coarser nature can never experience oi comprehend.

The least derangement or disorder of the delicate special organism of their sex overwhelms the whole physical and mental being with weakness and wretchedness.

But it is a mistake to suffer these troubles in silence. They may be cured in the perfect privacy of home, without the repugnant ordeal of examinations and "local treatment," which the family doctor is sure to insist upon.

No physician in the world has had a wider or more successful experience in the treatment of woman's diseases than Dr. R. V. Pierce, chief consulting physician to the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, of Buffalo, N. Y. His "Favorite Prescription Is a positive cure for the most obstinate and complicated feminine difficulties.

It is the only medicine of its kind prepared by an educated, skilled physician. Mr. J. Sneed, of Omen. Texas, writes My wife was badly afflicted with female weakness. We tried three of the best physicians in the country without benefit, but at great expense. My wife grew worse, and we gave up in despair. She could not get in and out of doors without help was not able to stand on her feet long at a time, complained of dragging down

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ains in abdomen. Nothing but an untimely seemed awaiting her, when happy thought! the name of Dr. Pierce came to my mind. 1 wrote to Dr. Pierce received his advice, followed it, my wife improved perceptibly from the first two week's treatment, continued the treatment six months, and pronounced the cure complete, at a cost of less than one month's treatment by the last physician we employed before consulting Dr. Pierce. She used Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and the lotions recommended by him. It has been two years since, and the good effect is permanent."

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ODD FELLOWS'

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Tho Odd Follows will celebrate their 78t.l» anniversary at Evansville April 2flth. There will be a large parade In tho afternoon, a free entertainment at the Opera House and a dance at Evans' Hall In the evening.

A Steamboat Excursion has been arranged from Evansville to Henderson. Ky.. via tho Ohio River, for 25 cents round trip. Special train will leavo Terre Haute at 7 a. m., and arrive at Evansville at 10:40 a. m. Returning special train will leave Evansville at 11:00 p.m. Tickets will be honored for return passage on all regular trains April 26th and 27th. J. tt. CONNELLY,

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