Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 4, 1890, Page 17

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We employ none but the most courteous men to assist in pac ing and removing your house- hold effects. We pack and crate house- hold goods, also pianos, or; pictures ns, etc. We handle all kinds of gen- eral freight to and from the depots, as well as safes, boilers and heavy machinery. We contract with merchants for all their hauling. Olver M Transfer and Furniture Van Co. A MILLION AND A MAMMA. Want a Man, THE PET OF ALL THE MINERS Debut of the Petite Soubrette in Cali- fornia —The American School of Comedy—Not Tired of the Stage. it 1890 by Frank G. Carpenter.) Spocial to Tue s Lotta, whom mmortalized as *“the dramatic | cocktail of America, year spent the quictest winter of her life. The sprain in her aukle which she received in jumping from a iage in Boston has kept her in- doors and out of society and she has devoted the winter to art. She is delighted, she says, in the discovery that she has anew talent, that of p nd Washington artists tell me that he v creditable indeed. She has picked up all she knows herself, and without a lesson, she has painted a half dozen (Cop WASHINGTON Brr.|—The ¢ John Brougha T1ookod at these last night. Some of them are country scenes, and the air, th sky, the fields and the log cabins v one back to Lotta’s early days in California, and the scenes look as real as though they were painted out of doors. In portraits also, she is doing very well, and I took a sketch of a little negro model who stood for heras Topsy. Lotta’s painted Topsy is as black as ebony and she has as’ bright, dancing, mischievous eyes as those possessed by the character made famous in Uncle Tom's Cabin. The figure has real life and it glows upon the canvass with all the vivacity of Lotta upon the stage. Lotta had expected to have rested this winter and 1o have gone much into Washing- society. She is one of the few actresse who can afford to take vacations and she is by all odds the richest actress in America. She is sald to be Worth at Least $1,000,000 and her mother is one of the shrewdest finan clers and Lotta says one of the best man- agers of America. It was through her that the Park theater in Boston was bought and the International hotel in connection with it For this Lotta paid &50,000 in cash and she paid £5,000 additional for the furniture | which it contained. She has investments | scattered all over the United States and she | told me that she and her mother had lately | planted some money in Kansas City which | she hoped would grow a good harvest. She has investments in California, is said to have $100,000 in New York property, and she has | $400,000 In United States bonds laid aside in | case of & panic. Her mother manages all | money matters for her and she defers to her | in everything. She is here with her this ‘ winter and she has taken such good care of | her that Lotta will be able to return to the | f stage next, fall. ) When I called upon Lotta last night at her Aome on Fourteenth street above Newspaper Row I found that she had discared her | crutches. Her eyes were as bright as they have ever been upon the stage, her skin was ws fresh and clear as that of & baby’s and her plump, round form accorded with the state taent that she made to me that she was in pesfoct bewlth and Wt abe welghed 135 | went out to him. nough the conv v-making and actin, ecret of her financial suc- pounds. Strange first turned to mon 1 asked Lotta the ce: She replied : r] thing to my mothe and I really know very little about our mon matters, but I think one reason for our pros- perity has been in the fact that we have not been extravagant. \We do not careto pay anything for pure show,and when we are making a tour we do not take all of the best rooms on the ground floor of every hotel we | stop at, ride out in a coach-and-four nor give great dinners. I do not wish to make a splurge and I prefer quiet rooms higher up where we do not attract so much attention and have more rest. Besides, the profits of my acting have been well invested, and my mother is a shrewd business woman. trouble with many actresses is that the: aly mulation. People on th good salaries. The public has been very to me and I have been very s pleasing them through a long se 3 “You began to act almost us @ baby! said I “¥e replied Lotta, “my first acting was s0 long ago that I can hardly remember it. My father was, you know, a book-seller in New York, and hehad a store on Nassau street when gold was discovered in California. After a few y he got the fever and went west, and three years later my mother and 1 We lived in a little log cabin at the mining settlement of Laporte but times were not very good and my father, though he got some gold, never struck it rich, as they say. When I was about seven years old a dancing school was opened in the camp, and I there Took My First Lessous in Dancing. 1learned the steps easily and they tell e developed at ouce some inusical talent. At the close of the term a performance was got- ten up a little theater of the town, and after much urging my mother allowed me to take part. great success. especially fond of children, and th wild over me, the close of the 1 was received with of silver half-dollars and which the audience threw at Our funds were rather low at that time and this ovation was quite accentible, That night de cided my career us an actress and shortly af- ter this I started out with my mother and traveled over California as a star. I was kuown as La Petite Lotta and my name was the biggest one on the billheads. This in the days of mining excitement and m profits and this custom of throwing pre: to the successful actress was in vogue. ceived all kinds of things from tw dollar gold pieces and ruby rings to sets of jewels and diamond backed watches. I re- member two elegant diamond-studded watch es that were given to me in San Francisco and I was everywhere received very kindly." “‘But was not the society und the life a rough one?” I asked. The miners you know were Yy nt performance a me, “'As to the life," replied Lotta with a smile, | “there were @ few handships. We bad no modern conveniences in the shape of ruilroads, gas and theater arrauge- ments. There were no roads and we had often to travel from mining camp by bridle paths among the mountains. 1 had & suit of boy's clothes made for me and I used these on these trips. As to the society, ladies were as well treated | by the miners us they are treated in any of l The | spend as much as they make and | I both sang and danced and I was a | When I came out on the stageat | shower | dollars | mining camp to | the drawing-rooms of the world. Imight say even better, and among the miners were | aswell-bred men and as well-read men as you will find in any of our cities. The gold excitement drew all classes 1o the west and a graduate of Hurvard or Yale, with the bluest of Mayflower blood in his veins, might be the driver of your mule team or the supe atthe theater. Mother traveled with me and she was very careful of both may man- | ners and morals. 1 was more polite then than T am now. I remember it was a custom at Laporte for the children to go about on | Christmas to the stores and ask for Christinas presents. I was never allowed to do this and the merchants evidently appreciated the fact, for they sent me presents of thei cord, and one Christmas I remember I | ceived seven new dress: Do you ever get any such presents now?” | T asked. “Not inthe way of having them thrown | upon the stage,” replied Lotta. | gone out of fashion, and the best w flowers. You may remember an incident which occurred while I was playing “‘Musette” at Philadelphia a few years ngo: A ludy sitting in & box was so delig the acting that she Threw Me a Most Beautiful Ring. It contained two smaller ones and these | rubies and two saphires. get are were set about two I noticed the lady chatting with Blly Bradshaw. She was pointing her finger at the stage and thrusting it out again and again in a way which I feared would attract the attention of the audience. I wondered what she wanted and was cousiderably annoyed. 1 told Billy to look at the woman. He did so aud his eyes | followed her tinger and saw this ring lying on_ the stage. He handed it to and I was of course delighted to receive such a beautiful souvenir. Billy remained some time sitting on the stump and I asked him why he did so. see her throw him aring. After the play was over the lady came behind the scenes and 1 had a very pleasant talk with he | however, was not the end of the story. About two years after this I reccived a letter from the family of the lady asking for the return of the ring. At the sa time the lady wrote me that she had the ring out of of pure adwmiration for me and she did not want it returned. I could not keep it when I v that her family did not like it, and I sent it back to her. The con ation here turned to Philadel phia and w York, and Lotta told me the story of her first success in the east. Said she: 2 “I was playing in New York when I was iven Marchioness,” which was written for me . b John Brougham and from the acting of which he dubbed me the ‘Dramatic Cocktail of Americ | The play was & great su and 1 nave been playing it for years. favorite characters. n hardly say which I like the best. Iam | perhaps best known as The Marchioness, Topsy, Sam Willoughby, Musette, Bob and Zip, and as to the Little Detective I have played it season after season and year after was “Th year until 1 am really ashamed to show my | face in it upon the stage agein. That play has always been a great hitand it has brought me in 0 end of money. We paid just 25 cents for it, the cost of the book from which it was sdapted to me, and we have made thousands upon thousands out of it.” “How about your future! It has been re- hat has | hted with | 2 large diamonds® and ten | in the box while I was sitting on thestump | me | He said he was waiting to | This, | fourteen years old, and my great hit there | You ask me for | 1 have so many that | ported that you will soon retire from t h is no truth in a; re- plied Lotta 1 three new plays next year. and Mr. Ford of Baltimore will oe my manager. These plays are now being written for me, aud I expect to spend next summer by the sea at Nantasket studying them, Two of the plays are adapta- tions from the French and the German and | the otheris an Americ A, play written for me by Mr Kidder, ‘{he man tho wrote “A - Poor Relmtlon” for Sal Smith Russell. Thi§ play is en- titled “Mischief,” the rm. the name of Doctor Lol“and it isthet lation of a German comedy fitted for m French play od ¢ 1 can- not say which I like the best. ~ I thiuk all are £0od and out of the three | we will probubly find one that will be a hit... The public, hesw. ever, always +fixes the sutcess of a play and you can nev nything in regard 1o a new comedy wi uty “As toretirin such report,’ phatic expect to have when I get at fuss about lieve in making a farewell tour ain. I want 14 keep before the as the pubiie. wants me and when I do take a notion to yetire it may be that T will change my mind gfter I have had a | few months' vacation and jwant to go bac in. The report of my |\-(I|1'mn nt probabl came from the fact that I hsd set asidc th winter as a vacation. I findmy life upon the stage, as much as T love it, An Unnatural One and the atmosphere is diffevent from that of real life. During these periods of rest which 1 take I am able to get acquainted with my | audience and T believe that §act all the better i dican acting was thq next topic, and | Lotta expressed her opinioniof the American school. Said she: 4 I think we have a district school of Amer- ican actors, and this espegially in comedy. You will find no where eldo in the world comedians who have the same vein of hum as ours, and American bumgr is, by the way, @ thing of itself. The English do not under stand it and there is as mych difference be- tween their ideas of fum and wit as there is between Puck and‘Punch, Iithink the Amer- ican stage is improving ndiespecially in the detail and in the setting of the pluys. Ameri- can audiences are, I think, mere polite thau English audiences, The Eaglish allow more froedom of expression of applause or of the reverse than we do and suything new is almost sure to be hissed, Henry Irving's Macbeth was received with a storm of hisses by the pit when it was first presented, and you remember that my expesience with the English was not the most pleasant though I afterwards got along with them very well.” **What do you think of the stage as a place for young women ! “1 think," replied Lotta, “thaf there is no better field in the world for the young woman provided she possess talents and has & guar dian to watch over ber as a balance wheel Iu this case the serpents that now and then hang around the stage cannot sting ber and she will find in her work a fleld for the de- velopement of all her faculties, and one in which she may find beth profit and bhappl ness. I here showed Lotta & paragraph pretend- Ing to give a resume of her lovers and asked her whether she was still among the ranks of the single blessed and whether she intended 1o remain so0. She relsed her hand as she re. plied and brought it dewn with emphasis, | saying “¥es, thack heaven) It §§ all that I can do aid of my moth and I can see no reason why I should unde take The Management of a Husband hushand to let him manage me. present condition and ) n it ¢ of Lotta’s eal & I had last night with one of managers. This man is now a ewhiskered clerk in the treasury Hi th avecr reminds Patti's first little whi departuien the most Patti was of America. ald when she itry in a concert troupe with n. She then got $100a $.00) a night. Iunder- will spend the summer at d it me to writing her rem- Not long ago Harper Brothers 1 thousand dollars a letter for a iniscences. offered her s to be used by them Patti not sa was t the much to do w agreed to d her k and she e had, I matter, as an article kor so to construct 'S 10 4 Wom manus threw thi; up on the n not which Patti ) last winter. ht off und was “We, Us & Co.’ programme, shc long ago by made whi She was ta to the roa As she saw said “It used to be Patti and Caux, but now it has become We, Us & Co.” . ng a ni farce entitled he title on the FROM THE Known Omaha Man Writes a Very Interesting Letter. Sax Josr, Cala., April 25.—[Special to Tue Ber ly yesterday morning I “exper- fenced” for the second time a ornia , being awakened about 4. o'clock 1 rattle and g a very startling characte: and swayed violently seconds, and the was one long to be A few days since I talk ton of this city King and Mr. ( Francisco Bull carthquak by a sudd ral commotion of 'he house shook for ion membered ed with Mr. Whit who in company with James abbering, established the San in in 1835, He related some interesting incidents of early days on the coast. The capital upon which the Bulletin began operations was an even §1,000, jumped intoa paying business at S0on the three partner week each, clear of all expenses. In May, 1856, Mr. King was shot down on the steeet by one Casey, & gambler, death resulting a few days later. The murderer was arreste and the organization of the famous vigilan committee whose doings are 8o graphical described in General Sherman’s Memoirs, was at once effected. This committee marched to the city jail in strong force, the wrms each member carried being supplemented by a brass cannon, and demanded the surrender of Casey and another prisoner who had killed United States Marshal Richardson just previous. The demsnd was complied with. As tb funeral procession bearing the body of Mr. King to the cometery reached the gtite of his late residence a max posted on @ high build- ing across the street dropped @ white hend- kerch he signul previously arranged, and at that instant the two n in the room where they had been held under custody by the vigilantes. Mr. Whitton showed my a b @ weekly paper, the Orienta firm in is in Chinese balf of whic other in English. He sald tha several sens produced once aud i printed ned £ volume of by b By, oL o sud n those days listening | dows and he is | be that she | Harper's Weekly. | vite the article, but she was | ript, | not | | of Jul, | establishment and when the | rain was doing the or. | orphan lambs in'the care of a | inth, Miss., | built it nest fna shugy but it | were drawing §500 a | the Chinese I that Ame d 10 stores of their own and their trade was much sought after by ican dealers in supplies. On the Fourth tials were rather lionized, being given places | of prominence and_distinction In_processions and at public assemblages. They were toasted and feasted. Times have changed in this gird, however. Last week there was a cit | election here aud it was seriously proclaimed by one of the local papers that’ if a certain date for the position of chief of should be elected he would at once ctive measures to suppress gambling | | and other vices—among Chinese. A few _ k in a restaurant vhite waiter belonging to the latter was ar- he expressed a good deal of disgust at the fuss that was being made about the mat- ter, as the one he had killed was “only a Chi- naman,” . The months of rainy weather experienced in California last winter were elivened by cheerful press comments upon_the good th rds. It is now being discovered that it is possible to have too much of & good thing, for from various sections of the state come reports of fruit trees dy from the excess of wet weather, in places en- tire orchards being ruined. viend of mine, a 3 presented a few wee ¢ gun. Shortly afterwards he reported at he had hit therewith ten birds, though not ull in one day, “How many did asked One,” was the ready reply nd how many the next ¢ wo."” days since a Chinaman o was killed by a d seven, s since, with a rub- rou hit the first day? I ny the next?” “How many the nexti” And then Lie turned gu “How many are left(" ioner: he asked, GULARITIES. One day last week Atlanta policemen had the unusuul and exciting experience of a wild- cat hunt in the streets, The cat had escaped, it is supposed, from the *Zoo" at Grant park The twelfth shot killed it. A Kent Island, Md., farmer placed twin female New adsold. Shetook ated them with a foundland, whose pups he kindly to the lambs, und tre motherly care. Philip Hensen, a planter residing near Cor- is believed to be the possessor of the longest beard in the world. He is 4 man of unusual stature, standing nearly six and one-half feet in his stockings; this notwith standing, his beard reaches the ground when he is standing erect. This remarkable growth is but fourteen years old. A queer white and red robin astonishes the fishermen of Quonochontaug, R. 1 It has reach of uear the thundering ocean breakers, The bird's body is of o snowy white, even to the tip of its tail, except its breast, which is or a rosy red. An albino robin is very rare, but a rod and white robin was never heard of be- | fore. urderers were hung | | he statement in an eastern magazine that “butterflies have gone to the remarkable height of 800 feet in the Alps" has elicited from Mr. Maxwell of Californiaa letter to the Scientific American, in which he pronounces the trip not at al remarkable, He writes that last summer he encountered numerous butter- flies on & peak of the Sierra Nevadas, 13,000 feet high Between the Ural there is a spot and the Okhotsk seas half as large as the state of Michigan which is frozen ground to the depth of ninety-four feet. That is, it has never thawed out since the world was created, and robably never will, and even uf it should no. ody would have any use for it One of the largest boars Wyoming was shot a few ranchman uear Laramie been playing havoc among the cattle. He had killed a cow, upon which he had feasted once or twice, but when he returned again 1o take snother meal he found serious business abead o him. Dressed the monstér welghed 1,080 ever killed in days ago by a peak. Bruin had v and other festive occasions the ccles- | ing | pasture | pounds. From the nose to the end of its tail it mensured nine feet, A petition f being circuluted among the students of the Georgia_state university, the object of which is to change the custom of making Saturday y and car the regulur recitations through that day” and | make Monday a holiday instead. As it is now students are compelled to study on Sunday in order to prepare for their Monday's recita- tions. J. M. Fuller, a chicken fancier of Ashe- vilie, has struck a bonanza in a hen that lays six cggs a da; Mr. Fuller first noticed this enterprising wpirit in his fowl about three ks ago, and at fivst he would scarcely be- it. o make sure of it he put the hen in a separate coop, and at night the customary six eggs were A calf that was born on \Villiam Lippin- cott's farm, at Tipton Falls, Pa., is one of the greatest fréaks ever known. Its head, shoul- ders and front feet are like those of an ordi- nary calf, while the remainder of its body and its hind ley hairless. Instead of hoofs on the hind feet there are two prongs or toes, h about four inches 1 and these end h sharp-pointed c Its tail is covéred with loug huir, and is spread out like an open fau at the end. i IMPIETIES, Consider lilies they are. the how very expensive en the rat has some idea of the value of hole-iness. Pastor (w 10 g0 S00n¢ th ha sigh) veall got - or later. Luyman'Yes, yes, and later the better, Pharisce—T thank God I am not as men. Publican—And so do they. Preacher My friend, you ought to stop drinking. In the end it biteth like an adder. Boozy—Thash why I don't sthop. Can't be any énd till I do. Editor—You see, Mr. Pulpit, we have a Bible in the oftice. Clergyman (examining the Bible)—You keep it nice and clean, don't you! There are no finger marks on it Do with your might,” the preacher Whate'er you find to do." he miser nodded his rich old head— hav's my opinion too; Aud I don’t think it would be right To give you more than all my mite." Clergyman (sternly)—Do you ever expect to join the angelic chorust ‘Hobbs (howling drunk)—Shertainly. 1'm practishin' to'pear at the Cashino nex’ weck. Sunday School cher—Yes, the wicked will g0 t0 the evil place, where they will burn for ever and e New Pupil—Well, I call all-fired tough. vil communications corrupt good man- , 48 any one may learn who listens to the remarks of the man who has received o dis- agreeable lotte By the waters of Babel we sot oursells down, We sot oursells down for 1o croy; Aud as for our 'arps they were wringing o' wet, So we "ung 'em on trees for to droy An'them ws had copt us, they arsked us to sing The songs of our country, so dear; How the deuce can we sing the Lord's sc suy we, In a bloomin’ rum place like this ‘ere! “Do you believe in the later theology con- ruing soolalism (" usked & young man of dley. “Of courseIdo. Socials Uy all that has held our church together for the last six menths.”! The Rev. H. H. Freuch says: “You can- not dam the progress of religion, 18 it pos- that )r. Freach bas never read the | writings of oue Robert called Ingersoll Like heaven's halo in the pastor's face The sun shines through the windows, ained and old ¢ gathered in the holyglace m enshrined in frame Bf gold But soon his eyes roll back; with lips apart Ezotion brings bim 1o his bended knee And ere his people frog their scats can sturd The pastor wildly perpetrates—a sneese, other &%, See b