Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 9, 1893, Page 18

CO-OPERATIVE HOME BUTLDING Comprehensive Roview of the Condition of { Nebraska Associations. SUMMARY OF THE OFFICIAL REPORT iotive Exhibit of Aspirant tor Ieports erest. An Tuteresting anid Tust Famity Theilt -~ A New An Bustnoss ion Mattors of General the financial condition of building and loan associations of Nebraska for the year cnding December 51, 1503, has been published by the Statoe Banking de- partment. Itisa comprehensive tabulated statement, without explanation or comment, covering every detail of this branch of sta financial institutions the supervision of the banking department. Tho report is exceedingly vaiuable not ouly for the in- formation it furnishes, but also because it is the first issucd by the state, and thus be- comes the busis of future ealculations of the growth of buildi an societies, Mr. R. 1. Townley, clerk of the bauking depart ment, des: st eredit for the accuracy and detail of the report The exhibit is too elabos cated for publication ent are sufficicnt for the present ASS The reprt of under srves g to_and compli The footings ! 104 First morty: Loans securcd a8s0¢ of vhis 160 ¢ Expenses and taxes paid.. 332 sh with treasurer Other assots not above, enumerated Total 2,002,667 LIABILITIES Capital stock paid up.......... Premiums puid. . S Interest receive Fines colle 1 Other liabilities not enumerated above $1,024,784 Total » RECEIPTS Balance on hand December £ 1801, Due: Interest, Fines... Touns repiid Other receipts Total $1,024,600 81 EXPENDITULE Loans.... ¢ B $ Salaries oy Other expenses Withdrawals Other expenditures Cash on hand N R 041,548 63 17,550 16 10,709 46 190,864 38 84,478 350 Total........ 81,024,600 81 SHARE RECOID. Number of shi in force at last report Number year.. Number of drawn and cang of shares in res i L. 41,186 of “shurcs issucd during shares matured, with- o . 10,558} force at this 45,0121 seventy-one associations in the state represent fully £,000,000 employed in homo building. During the year over $1,000,000 was saved and deposited with them, either as an investment or as the basis of present or future loans. And this large sum was handled at o salury expense of $17.550. Rents, supplics. taxes and other necessaries took $10 'en shares being the legal limit of holdings in one name, an_average of seven may be taken as a reasonable one. On that basis the 45,012 shaves in force repre- sent the holdings of 6,430 persons, a majority of whom are heads of families One featurc of the report deserves special notice. The columns “other expehses” and “other expenditures’ misleading and contradictory. The for has a total of £10,760.46, the lutter $34,475.05. 1f both totals yepresent the necessary oxpenses of man- agement they should be combined; if not, the heading ing. The great boast of -well managed building and loan associations is the low per- centage of operating expenses. 1tis unfair to make a_ showing of excessive cost, as these two columns indicate. Kvidently the last column represents interest paid on with- drawals and the cancellation of matured shares. With little extra effort future annual re- ports could be mado to show clearly the number of new nomes the state associations have been iustrumental in building. As every borrower is required to state to what use the money is to be put, whether ina new building, reconstruction, or taking up an old debt, each association is in position to report on this point. The fizures would be a more effective object lesson than columns of assertion. A NewsAssoclation, The Bankers Building and Loan associa- tion of Omuha is one of the strongest associ- ations ever launched in Nebraska, 1ts roster of incorporators, officers and advisory board contains the numes of citizens eminent in busizess and professional life, though they have not hitherto been identitied with build- ing-loan co-operation. The constitution and by-laws have been approved by the State Banking board, and th association is already actively in the fleld in quest of busi- ness. The matured value of shares in the Bankers is §100. Payments are 75 cents per share per monuth, and are to continue until the principal paid in with accrued profits reach $100. ‘Ihe oflicers are coufident that seventy-eight paywents will mature a share, but this is were enihusiasm which a few Yyears experience will rectify, Loans will be confined to Nebraska, though investors will be sought for in surrounding state It is worthy of note that the Bankers departs from several practi of doubtful utility, It will not auction loans, nor is the premium deducted from loans in advance. Interest and premium are v cent each, payable aonthly. The equivalent of 10 per cent in- terest, less the profits, removes the associa- ciation’s business from tie ever present dan- er of the illegality of old methods, which have not yet received the sanction of the state supreme court In all rospects the association’s plan of business, rules and regulations are equitable and commendable. The ofiicers are: J. W, Rodefer, president; J. R. Buchanan, vice prosident; i: Zimmerman, secretary ; “rank Murphy, treasurs L. Root, counsel; J. M. Ward, zer of agent Directors Thomas L. Ki I'rank My phy, J. R. Buchanan, Frank B, Ritchie, K ©." Morehouse, J. W. Rodefer, L. H. Korty, James G. Megeath, K. 1. Zimnerman, Mutual of North Platt The sixth annual sta of North Platte covers assoclation up to the total receipts to dato were 31 { outstunding, #111,200.11; total exi $1,067. During the fiscal year the rece thie association were &30 about 2,000 shares in five series, clation is popular, us is evidenc share holdings, aud_its prosperity better proof than that there has foreclosures. Since organization brought an average of & The ofticers of the Patterson, president; K. I Bullard, vice president; Butler Buchanan, treasurer; Goozee, secretary. Directors— 1. . Bullard, Charles Hendy, J. W. Herrod, John Kelihe % H. Monagun, T. C. Patterson, W. J Roche, M. Tobin, V. Von Goetz The Equitable of Grand Island, The sixth anaual report of the Equitable of Grand Island for the year ending March 1, 1803, is out. There are 1,061 shares in forco in six series. Assets amount to $110, 004.97; receipts for the year were $36,142.71; profits, $6,201.11; running expenses, $095.73. 'he year has been a fairly prosperous one It is worthy of note that the Equitable sets an example of minimum expenses that would be difficult to equal. ‘The oficers of the association are Howard, president; James Cleary, president; H. A. Koenig, treasurer; C lll'u\lug-‘ sacretary. Directors—A. C. Led erman, D.' Ackerman, C. B. Handy, G. H joddes, H. L. McMeans, H. C. Mille James I. Rourke. Building;Loan Notes. & bulldiug und loan associstion was or- Jesse man ball the M 1 siness of the March, The ; loans nses, Pent the b 1st of enting 2580 the S 10 veen no its money i per cent premium Mutual are C by B C vice w. of one or the other is mislead-. bt of | gantzod in Omahn as oarly ns 1908, but the rhmnh lers of that time nogtocted to give he names of the prime movers. Its demiae is Aiso enveloped in the mists of the past Efforts are betng made to revive the Ca wiy Association, which recently classed its first and only series | According to the nnnusi statomentot tha i banking department, the Omaha leads in | o, with 195,717 ; the Mutual of Omaha second, with 815,104, and the Lineoln thi { #171,115, The Lincoln holds first pluc | mortgage loans, with tha Mutual of Nort { Platie sceond.” The Fremont Guuaranty \ds in number of shares, 4,445 of 8100 ex I the n and Omaha second and thi | with 2421 and 2,410, respectively, of & ench | The conviet Lo swindlors in London of for by which mitlions of dollars poor workingmen and wou of the way in which th mated 4 reminder socicties were not ¢ \s are here known They were i fact private bauks, engaged in business wholly foreign to thut of building socictics as we understand them fhe tendency among people 1s toward ble division of profits betwe e d investing members, The i its spocula | tive features stors cannot expect returns two or times s great as could ) steured in other conservative investment lir he associations that promise from 2per cont ineome toiuvestors il be the future with distrust. The iy s toward lower rates of premium, conservative mvest margin of security uilton County league, which om of the Cincinnati locals, has at tod in_establishing a buresu of It isa place where member may o to find what ious have y on hand, and fation can_borrow 1 Hamilton County league are ssociations, and it timated that th wblishment of a bureau will result ina saving of £,000 unnually aside from exper he Stockville, Neb., association at its st meet money at $4.50 premium There are 233 building-loan associations in Chi and Cook county, with assets wmounting to $35,380,00). In the state of [llinois there are 489 siations, the total of which are $0,787.761, of which 5,575 consist of loans o stovkholders ssent largely homes that are being for by means of these associations The tota] receipts for the year of building | associations in the state are shown by the statc itor to have been 33,845,761, Total number of shares now in foree, 2.203,550, The new officers of the Weeping Wat Neb., association are: G W. Norton, presi Hall, vice president; T. M surer; I K. Travis, secretary ; Attc b society s und frauds will be lost to nand the story fraud was consum that thess Euglish tive con rerns such buildiag soci bujlding and loan hree inter and ments and a h he I braces o8t informa the 100 is es dent; J Howard, tr L. 1. Giberson - - “O! MOTHER Thomson in Home Magazine niother, T want my bonnet tied!” My bt B Tost o string Must Ihe Bobby Barnes' horse?” 15 218 your pitty wingr" sy, will you mike us chicken pie?” Romebody’s hid my shate! See what an ugly rent, i 1 tore (ton the Eistalle Mamic's coming in and Fred; d enke tonight, S (0 bed " “Dear mother, may ©wear your shawl? I'm going for a drive If Chiarley should propose May Lusk hins inat five? 0! mother, With Mol mimma, 0! mother, send those childr They make such fearful di I've got my sermon well along, What is Sin? you bear in mind that cup Of strong tea for my head; And mix a few ligh olls and buke? You know I hate cold bread.” nout, 0! mother, mother, should you cease One 1ittle our tie care That diy by day, year after year, For this dear brood you beir | Tt seems the wheels of [ife must stop. wiher-love! 1t sprin L sweet fountaing and it lends The commonest duty w2ngs. - BOOKS AND PERIODICAL The b \uhw will be interest wnt's account of kih' in the world,” and girls too, for girls like to fly tin Mr. N. Ferguson Uncle Sam, the largest which appears in St *for April. The kite which was built in Dudley Hill, Mass. in 1891, was s0 | large that it took four strong men to hold the rope when it was flying. The descrip- tion o the kite is good, but the illustratious | are better. Edmund Clarence Stedman's | paper on “New York," which he calls the | home of St. Nicholus, is very interesting | and is the longest of the American Cities series. Theartielo is illustrated with views of many of the prominent buildings and points of interest, and of the city itself from diffe ent directions. ‘The Century company, Union Square, New York. Autograph fiends will rejoice to have a word of encouragement in the current num- ber of the Literary Northwest from John Henderson Garnsey, in which he gives nu- merous fac similo auswers from celebritie which he received to requests for auto- graphs, Some of them are very amusing. | Mr. Henderson asserts that courtesy will ac- complish the desiren end . (obtaining auto \phs) where diplomacy fails, and says thai a polite request will rarely be ignoved D. D, Merrill company, St. Paul, Minu, The Omaha Clinic completes its fifth vol ume with the March number, and enters a new year with a new manager, Dr. George Wilkinson having assumed entive control, Mr. £, J. Penfold retiring. The Clinic long held its own high place in its especial ficld of Jabor and while many will rezret to see Mr, Penfold retire, still, to quote hisown words. 4 medical journal should be under the entire control of a medical man,” and Dr, Wilkinson will ably fill the pla series of chth number of the “The Graphic” has | double-p, illustration, three groups. “Textiles,” Bdueation,” and “Music,” ve productions of paintings on the tympana of yruer pavilions. 1t also has a fine portrait of Augustus St. Gandens, the sculptor, and 1s a4 frontispiece a picture showing a collis ion between a grip ear and al cart on Wabash avenue. “Ihe Graphic is one of the | bestof the illustrated weck aphic Co., Chicago. World's fair this week a Apropos of Easter, Peterson’s Magazine for April has a copy Of Perugino's painting, “The Virgin Adoring the Chila Jesus,” and an_illustrated article by Saran Powell, ‘Baster Days in and About Rowe,” and a littlc n'in_ Louise Chandler Moul best aster at Naples.” [ these, Minot J. Savage contributes an article on S 0 Fireside Pets,” whieh will strike a | responsive chord in the' hearts of the lady readers who love pets, DPete Magazine Co., Philadelvhia n A full Magazing glorics of presented in an nthusiast of H. R. H.. the races Cassells Family us u frontispice, and Present, illustrated article by H. Japp. LLD. cou tributes an art > on “Animal Humor." Among the short stories for the month How an Old Tale Came True,” by Wi | Cairas, and the “Doctor's Metempsychosis,” by W. H. Margetson. Casscll Publishing company, Fourth avenue, New York, of portrait Iite for April IPoot Ball, 1 Harper's Bazar for Kaster comes to us with white liiies on the title page and full of | ®ood things from that to the lust. Among the more prominent, aside from the uumer. ous pages of fashions, with valuable hiuts on what to wear at the World's fair, we notice an “Easter Idyl" by Margaret Sungster, and short story by Mary 1. Wilkins in her pleasant style without any “love" or mur- and the continuation Walter ut's “Hebel Queen,” the lady ders find s0 interesting. which Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher has a story of the war in the April Godey, “Light out of Darkness,” which her many lady friends will read 'with great interest. Amoug the illustrations for this nuwmber is a port tin water Colors of Vietoria Mary, princess of Teck, and_also Mrs. ' Chester W. Chapin, Eleanor E, Greatorex contributes o very readable description of Paris ina rain storm, called “Paris Wet." These, with the fashious, the poetry and the music make a complete magaz Godey Publishing com. pauy, Park Row, New York Worthingtou's Magazine for April has the A THE_OMATA m&ifi? ii"i:'bv&? LONDON POVFRTY IUVCT"W s continuation of Mes. Livermore's “Ole Vir- winny' and & papbe by Avthue W, Weigh “Did Shukespoare Write Bacon's Warks ! i which he assames to show that Shakes peare is ¢ | author of the essays so lons credited to Francis Bacon. He presents in support of his theory the alleed facts that as Shakespearc's Tortune incrensed Lord Bacon's decreased, that Bacon was not o literary mun, that his character was devoid of all higher sentiments, that after Shakoes pearc's death Bacon never wrote ¢ pubiished anything worthy of mention, and although he kept the unfinished manu script of the Gireat Instauration in his possossion for twelve years, he died with it unfinished. The point in all th papers of this nature scoms to rest i the quality and quantity of proof adduced, and Mr. Wright is not behind his contempor aries in this respect. A, D. Worthin ., Hartford, Conn. An 0dd Gathering of Peculiar People in an Old Uorner of London. THE HAUNTS OF MUSiC HALL PERFORMERS Characterl: that Center A w of Caste ns stron ‘the Profes- purighted, 1893,) LoNboN, 27.—[Correspondence of Tk Bee, | —In order to appreciate one of the oddest gatherings of the oddest folks in one of the oddest corners of Loudon, one must first know something about those whe strange lives and unique vocations make the noted London “*Poverty Junction' what it is. They are the “pros’ or+*prossers” or music hall performers of the world's metropolis There from 3,000 to 5,000 of them, great and unkuown, men and women, and there are no other folk just like them within th world. They provide the “amusement” for the score or more of great music halls, into cach of which wightly erovid from 2,000 to 5,000 people, and for the hundreds upon hun dreds of lesser affairs, ranging from the old time free-and-easy, from which the modern music hall has sprung, to the “penny gafs,” where audiences of from 100 to 500 persons may be found Besides these, I'he university faculty of politieal science, Columbin college, has just issue in_ their Studies in_History, Economics and Public Law, the first number of Volume 11, en titled, *“T'he Keonomie of the Russian Vil lage. " by I. A Hourwich. This will be fol lowed in o short time by No. 3, entitled, Bankruptey; a Study in Comparative Leg. islation.” by Samucl W. Dunscomb, jr., which will be followed in turn by r last number of Volume 11, entitled, “Special As sessments,” by Vietor S. Rosewater. These will be followed by books by Mr. Bishop, Mr. Ripley and Mr. West on the same lines as rapidly as arrangements can be made for the publication of the same. Soule in his *“Interesting I the Historia for March says: *F name Napoleon an aceurate Greek sentence may be formed by dropping from each word the first letter before. as *Napoleon —aA pole Poteon—Oleon —Leon-—Bon—On,’ the 1 lish translation of which reads, *Napoleon, a o of the people, going about conquering citivs."* Historia Company, Chicago, Chan ber of Commerce buildin ——— THE LITTL whole ik G 1 would almost venture the there are thousands of public houses, drinking pla rooms behind the bar, concerts” attract a pers nent nightly audi cence of from a score to 100 workingmen und the foul rabble that subsist uvon their generosity and weakness Ind red, any one who kaows this g, atall in that wandering, vagrant, observant way which leads thought into grave conclu , would have no nesi 'V oin saying 250,000 human beings may be found any week=fay night in these places more so, from liquor and from these sources forming their odd ideas of international contrasts: gathering from vile-mouthed performers’ quips the news andfscandals of of the day: increasing their contempt of order and law from their endless satire and ridicule: gaiving in_generatand particular deeper hatred of English socicty above them: and hearing, often with theéir wives and daughters beside thew, the most sacred velations of m and women never spoken or sung of save as perennial playground for cunning and infidelity; until tne hearties la is in response to the broadest ndre and the loudest voar rises from th great seas of up turned faces when the vilest music hall in deceneics are perpetrated Of all these places the “penny gaff, outrageously ridiculous pantomime less melodrama, or wordless tragedy, in which there is indescribable murder. high way robbery and other lurid crime, but all enacted without spoken word to evade the law_ governing dramatic representations, 1s the least harmful, for’ it has no bar; and to get his “‘penny'Qrth” of play the White chapel barbarian 18 kept for” at least two hours away from i public house, The great London music hail is simply larger und more insidiously hurtful type of the free “smoking corfeert™ room. 1t is prac- tically a gizantic baror series of tiers of bars, surrounding anauditorium where the thousunds instead of scores can be admitted, at a merely nominal entrance fee; where i stage with specialty perforters supptant the platform, the pianist and the volunteer, and where the same Cldsses, or more vicious ones, with " Arrys and 'Arryiets” of London fill the pit, whilé every manner of cad, fast fellow of the gentry and nobility, including a good sprinkling of the London Bohemian, saunter in the promenades and fill the boxes and stulls. About Lwenty different ucts called are done by as many different 1 one evening, und eéach actor will have from | one to four ‘turns™ for the same evening, each at different halls, to wnich he speeds in ev l\ sort of conveyance, from a coster' cart to a brougham. Programs ar ied, on payment, and _huge numerals seenitm sides, corvespond ram numbers. shows, with a individual performers, are utterly pointless, mirchless, inane and beastly There are perhaps in all this host of London music hall “actors” a half-dozen who have demonstrated that true art may find reward even in so hopeless a field. Such are George Beauchamp, Jenny Hill, m personator of the coster girl, “the ludging ‘ouse missus.” and female characters ot that ill; and Albert Chevalier, whose studies and entations of the London costermonger give him rank as a really great actor and a man of positive genius. But between all these odd folk and the London actors of the dramatic stage there i endless emulation mingled with tantalizing attempts at *‘freede and airiness on the one side and a fadeloss dread and contempt on the other. The “pros,” or he 15 cvorywhere known in London, is in nearly every mstance a product of the lowest London life. As a rule, he was originally a costermonger, stable boy, “bhoots,” sta ling from the traveling booth shows, Bil lingsgate crate earrier, or from soncwhere out of the East lud slums. assertion, ““pubs* or s with assembly whi f king Very many stories told of the forty-hoss talking of Senator Blackburn, of Kentucky, and most of them have some foundation in fact, for the senator's best friends will admit, when cornered, that Joe Blackburn is a talker from Talkerville. However, it is interesting talk, and therefore heis ex- cusable. Coming east in a C. & O, sleeper not long ago the senator made the acquaintance of a bright small boy, which late 1o an acquaintance with the youngster's father and mother. The senator was sitting with them chatting along in his best style, and the boy fre- quently interrupted him. Finally the mother put her hand her shoulde “Little boys," she said reprovingly, » to be seen, not heard. That quieted him for a time, but later the mother had to tell him the same thing again. He quicted down for half an hour longer and at the first break in the senator's talk he looked inquiringly “What is it?" asked the senator. “I was wondering,” replied the Sif you was ever a little boy like how you outgrowed it so. The senator looked at the mother, the mother looked at the senator, they both looked at the father and then everybody laughed and the kid was given a chance. are Dowe on son's or or voice- id, me, St. Louis Republic: At another time the children came home from school, and after laying aside their wraps and books, the smallest girl cried out: “Oh, mamma, ['ve dot a new sweet- heart, and you tan't dess his name.” “Got a new sweetheart?” said mother, smiling. **Who is he?" “Little Grant Ha, ant Hayes! d the mother with mock solemnity. I never thought that a child of mine would have a Yankee for a sweetheart!” The little girl was She sat gazing into the lire, her big brown eyes glowing with the intensit of her thoughts. Then a reply occurr to her and she answered slowly “But, mamma, when we dits married, I'll make a demotrack of him."” It was an inspiration so like the genius of woman that the mother laughed and the sunshine came again. »x The Boston young, years of age to use skill, expressivene: miss of that o was at the l)lm\kfmt table the other morning. There was bacon. She had eaten a piece and wanted some more. ‘“‘Papa,” she said will you please give me a piece this time that is a little less languid?” An- other young lady scarcely older than this one had a beautifully colored toad- stool pointed out to her in the woods one “*Yes,"” she said, “'it's rathor bril- liant, but don’t you think it looks a trifle morbid?” the sorely troubled. urns' formers m with pre ‘I'hese fayor of ptions in lady is veady at 11 her adjectives with s and origi * Wee Daughter—Mamma, a party? Mamma— There isn't room in this house for all the little girls you know Wee Danghter—Th why [ think this would bo a good time to haveit. [ "Jt'he bo of us good quality as from the I'm mad at ‘bout half of ‘em. humblest laboring classes he still, as well as ik Lother music hall porformers,’ graduites what yer ceyin’ about into his profession through one unvarying s goin’ to punish me.’ school of low und often vile training—from the “penny gafl,” or from the *smoking con den where he has, as “volunteer,” sung danced, contorted or slugged for the free entertainment of the gutter hosts of London Many of these favorites command salariesof from £50 to £10) per wesk. But about all of them reach their afluence, and often re. spectability, out of the same orizinal depths and aloug the same vicissitous road he only time when dramatic actor anl “pros” ever mect is at the annual Christmas ploys and pantomimes. Then the “pros” is in demand at the theaters to do specialties “The lotty scorn and the airy defiance between actor and “pros’ are then omething wonder ful to behold “What's query of one actor to another, “pros” is espied in the stage wings Christmas time, waiting to do his “turn’ his act or snecialty is ealled “Oh, 1ts only a thing from the ‘al's (tae music halls),” his companion will us witn. ingly answor. “Gor bli me airy snort ‘Early summer,” he began, “a | hitson charming young lady was brought to my office from’a western state in a pitiable condition. She had dislocated her ankle some months hefore, and from unskilled treatment it had been put in such a shape that I thought first that amputation might be ne y. She was wasted away to seventy-five pounds, and a mere wicck of her former self. “1 was luckily able to save the foot and bring her back to perfect health, and she blossomed into one of the pretti- est girls [ have ever seen. She and her mother called on me to say ‘good by’ lust Tuesday, and she was in the highest of spirits. She danced around the room to prove that her ankle was perfectly strong again, and gave me this hand- some silv inkstand for a remembrance. As | accompanied them 1o the stoop she paused on the upper step and took my hand again. ‘Doctor,’ said she, ‘beyond the check which papa will send you and the eternal gratitude of mamma and mysell I feel that you deserve some further reward.’ aning toward me she went on impressively, 'You deserve a reward that most men would risk their necks to gain. Youdeserve s kiss. may I have ohnny Worse. She's g-goin’ ter cut e - Wheeler & Wilson is a rapid so rapid that it will stitch three yards of gouds while only two yards are beinz stitched on any vibrating shuttle ma Sold by Gieo.” W. Lancaster & Co., 16th street UNGEAI‘EFUL i85 How a Pretty Girl Disappolnted Her Doctor. lives arve full of disappoint- remarked my friend, the sur- geon, 5 the New York Herald, *and I thought up to last weck that [ hud had my full shave of them. “Now I believe that [ am my allowance. See with me. that?" is the 1tuo s us o at as “Our conte ments,” ‘way overon it you do not agree retorts the **pros” with an it his persecutor, “hit_cawn't be the sta-ge; they wouldn't "ave sech bloomin® hobjocts in the ‘al In America there is considerable commugling of actors and forr This makes possible of our iarge citics, wh haunts of all manne are the resort, at ce friendly variety per the “tialtos” hare really notea as f stage folk, and which tain hours of every da of all theatrical | The casual pas: lingers curiously within the region. Even one least accustomed to striking city phases is instantly impressed with the unusual character of the neighborhood and with the manner and dress of its frequenters But between London actors and London music hall performers the gulf is impassable. The London actor is a geatleman beed and born. He has been given the best of home and school, often of university, training. He is a student; frequently a traveler. His culture has boen persistent, sequential and unavoidable. And his excellent social status keeps him permanently in touch with the best rather than the undesirable elements, The “pros,” being the proluct of an en tirely different set of conditions and environ ment, is necessarily the endiessly impinging clement. He is believed by che gentleman actor and gentleman vocalist to bo r on the alert to reach his station; push into his place; secure his honor and emoluments, just as the bootbluck, butcher boys and newsboys of great cities, with s and dauntless energy, surpass tr 1 busi- Mamma, kiss him," and before I could | ness men, and at last, with prestige and get the pucker out of my lips she was | Wealth, force the barred doors of aristo down in the street sending up at me the | Cratic society. Therefore the London actor 74 5 e scorns the London “pros” us he would a ;:' .|‘-.| tantalizing laugh "1 have over tramp. Not ouly will he have none of him . A %5 o companion, but he will drink no liquor, “Yes, as I said before, we all have our | et no food, transact no business aad f disappointments. Try a little of this | quent no haunt or thoroughtare whe the Burgundy.’ latter is permitted to come S heso obseavations have 4 on in the ¢ line drawn in_the daily Talk about foreign champagnes, try Cook's | Ho% M i T auuts ol ) classcs e actors Extra Dry; it is superior t0 two-thirds of | Duia® of e two cla 2 il chiefly retire betuud the inviolable protee- the imported wines. tion of their clubs—like the Garrick, the marked illustra 1 i ) AL AT A TN M S Wb B i B e | would | night wherd Greon Room, Savage, Arundel l._\r(u and Beefstoafk clubs. .m.f' their cony suburban mes, of wineh they are inordinately fond wd proud. Should they occastonally stroll from ¢ eity rédort to amother, they be found at noted places the Weilington, Darmstatter's and perhaps Romano's nd Gatti's, known in local ‘parlance as “La Gorgonzol but would retire permanently from the “profes sion’" before they would be seen: at Miss Barnes', o former barmaid of the Criterion bar, or at the Galety bar, which is christ ened “Prossers’ avenue So, for many years, indeed for a greater part of the present century, these ostracized music hall parformers have gradually merged their business and socinl interests in large and interesting resos known by the atrical throughout the world as “London Poverty Junction 0 one knows how long it has” been “Poverty Junction.” This it now is and will ever remain. Itis | outside the old city borough ! the actors are glad of it. If you were wandering in the | Strand and came to & vegion, along by Wat- | erloo Bridge aporoach, of old bok stores, | your haunting of these would lead you al most to the bridge iwself. T'hen the Thames and its picturesque scenes would bring upon the great structure; and your vagrs |||I fancy, v ing about the sunny lavender tields of rrey and the hop tields of fruitful Kent, would lead you southward to | the Surrey side of London. Should | it happen to be of a Monday mornin about 11 o'clock, you would have scarcely passed the Surrey approach to the bridge when, at the cornerof York and Wate rouds —cach a at city street—you wil have come upon as curious a scene and study as way be found by travel in any land In olden times this was a re m of for the ruddy farmers of Surrey and Kent of yards where wagons, carts and divers belongings of the farm were picturesquely besiowed before, duting or after, Covent | Garden market hours; of rough shops which dealt in goods to the liking of the yeoma ana of quaint old inns and public were all the long day and throughout the the bustle and clatter of incom ing and departing coaches, and where still | lingers a perennial flgvor of brave drinking, hearty eating and rough but unctuous good | cheer., But one of these ancient inns remain, \ T'his is the York tavern, While prim, new public houses have crowded close, secking to lessen its prestige and divert its patronage, it is still, as of old, the center of all the busy 1. At poth sides of each mll-l\t-nvmg* street, and reaching for more than a square | rway, aresingle and double rows of hansoms, | dogearts: and broughams. Most of the latter have liveried coachme and footmen, | They are the equipages of rich music hall | managers, bejeweled and foxy *“theatrical’ | wrents who control the booking of all music | hall and varioty engagements, and of those favorites among performers, like Cherwin, | Leno, Godfrey, Colburn, Beauchamp, Cheva- | lier, Bessie Bonehill and Jennie Hill, whose | specialties and popularity command earniugs | of from £40 to £150 ver week Between these and the street facades, and | quite often extending into the middle of | York and Waterloo roads will be wathered | | like vesort | houses. on any pleasant Monday morning from 1,000 t0 3,000 music hall and variety “prossers A special detail of police is always required to keep passaze-ways open to other pedes. trians. Of all this strange mediey of folk perhaps not more than one-half will belong in London. Among the remainder will be | found every manner of varicty performer and tric falist” from every land beneath the sun Hundreds of variety performers, good | bad, from America_are here. Cowboy pugilistic ~actors” are here ovined talent, down at the h cheory and nopeful, is king engagement. | The Strong M atagonia meanders | past you, arm in arm with the Boneless Con- | tortionist. Hindoo jugglers are engaged in | raillery with the gentle <ima Dwart who | recently sualy hoodooed the American relig- ious world. Algerian, Egyptian and Persian snake-charmers, sword-swallowers, fire- caters and barefoot glass-breakers consort with Cuban machete-throwers, wild western female dead shots, Devon record-breaking Jumpe Greek wrestlers and American | nuine' negro minstrels. The renowned Signorina Splittavoce, Spaghetta Siren the Italian court, the Climax Cloggists, the Nell Nellwoods, Delicious Delineators of Ducal Dialogues, the Siug Brothers, the Salacious Sisters, the King Knockabouts, the Mlles. Paddishanki, Queens of Aspiring Hecls, are all here, along with all the un nameable “human warious™ of superlatively megatherian freaks, who scale the dizzy heights of fame in the bewildering border: land of the vast amusement world Ail those of the motley throng having real business at this weekly Poverty Junetion as- semblage, ave here for the purpose of either securing new engagements or for paying the dramatic” agents their stipul lar weckly commissions on current engagements. These agents, some forty in number, occupy all accessible ground apartments or fully half asquare on either angle of each of the four corners of York and Waterloo roads. No “prosser” dare secure an engag 4 ment, and no manager dare engage a *pros *'without the booking is done by them Ihey first charge a large booking fee, and subsequently receive 107 per cent of ory ormer’s contract money, which is sent weckly, by mail, or_paid ir person every Monday morning. They are held in deadly hatred, and treated with pitiable servility, by all_music hall folk. TLondon, provincial | and all forelgn music hall and variety mauo- | agers come here in person to secure their ever varying attractions. A halo of awe surrounds as they pass from agency to another, could " not equai their persons and character that mingle with sturdy calls for *bitter” and “four ale,” the moment they have disappeared from view mdarily, those here on necessary busi ness take kindly to this form of Poverty Junction weekly reunion or symposium They ave thus cnabled to exchange gossip andgreetings, coster oaths and choice Bil lingsgate; and to keep informed as to the movements of rivals and city, provineial or forcign managers. All the others comprise great horde of uncmployed unreliables who. m Poverty Junction vernacular, are here to | “wait for captains,” that is, drink and any manner of pickings: a vaster horde of bud ding “prossers,” endearingly called “Tommy Rots," and a still_greater and more pitiable number of broken down and utterly hcipless old-time favorites who, and blessed be the tender humanity of the “prosser at large! here secure in ungrudged alms every penny on earth that keeps them from the work house or a pauper grave. “The business and social conversation Poverty Junction symposium is the graceless that ever fell from the tongue mortal men and women. The latter are he in equal numbers with themen. Both drink on equal footmg at the York tavern's first second and third class apartments. All a relieved by their lurid denunciations of favorites, managers and agents. ‘They a kindly-hearted lot, but their L age simply untellable. This, of companion prossers leaivng an agent's oftice, chaste as lilies by comparison Ah, cull, H'i've made a shop (contract) in the country, an' four turns (nightly en gements at different music halls) to open nk oliday Gay truth, cul The bleedin® keafir kneows H'i'm in demand, er ‘e would'nt a give me th ountry fur on'y fifteen quid the town fur “seven a Lurn ad none, but w'at's th' bloody use a s eremonics ! vrobably was to e s provincial eng &5 altogether for his London *'t W'y didn’ ye ger yer wife part”” sympathetically inquives panion “Wat's the bloody u 1o bloomin' gramumar in 'e With a **Gor bli me, ol’ wet!" and a “Look ‘sharp ¢ waiter, they drown their prol in York tavern four alc when the lucky prosscr is off with all haste to the regis oftice to get his precious contract stainpe: lest the “bloomin’ h'agent tries to throw ‘i down The symposium is fusion and “‘cheeriness’” by 1 o Kk but, an hour later, save for the brave managers and | foxy agents still lingering over their winc in the rooms of the York tavern, and o half score of the Godforsaken rifraft, lingering fora possible Wapenny from some belated reveler, all the region roundabout this Lon don erty Junction is ilout s o shadowy, hawthorn-spangled English lan Enuar L. 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