Show FRASERS recollections that old tinte time philadelphia favorite robert prayer fraser has just returned to town from north dakota where here he wound up the seail as s stage mass manager or of the sinbad the sailor spectacular combination yesterday lie 2 amr 0 of his friends willa recollections of r I 1 he time when ho he was a pantomimic clown la in this city with caincross Cain crous and and minstrels in those days the eleventh street opera odera house housa produced every h oliday holiday season an elaborate pantomime these wre always conducted under fraser a management and during the rema remainder incle r of the season he be mado made himself useful and kept himself busy by painting ceneri scenery ce nerr and by occasionally going gains on the estille te is as end man some borne of 0 tho the scenes cane now la in use tit in carncross Cam Car cross neross bijou establishment aro are the product of pla lia wf sers brush when lew simmons jj K N slocum and IV P Sweat narn made their unfortunate break and od opened tile tho arch street opera house fraser went with lan them and played in panto pantomimes mimes and painted scenery enory Bc fraser has been ou on the stage blage tor for over forty years ile he naile made his debut in idt with Pel barns minstrels in now new york city afterward ill hi went with the duckless Duck leys anil and worked its as IL a paint boy bar on the paint fraine he was wan rise also with culbert and with old man thorne at nibles garden while at the latter place he played small parts in such as frogs and ami monkeys mon keya V ath th the gravels ravels he took a kroat groat to this branch of the pro t d anil and to lo wl lie he first played in in this city with the abo cela cale R blu led george L fox when foxa birther obber died fraser tools took hie hl place and arranged a new called humpty damply in every clime this wo vas product produced at booths is theater in new york tork and during its run rox fox became decanie insane fraser took hla his place in ill ill tho cat cast and lit in makeup make up and action was we wonderfully like alko him ile he traveled with fobs foxs con company any until panto wine went out of dit dat a fraser irater Ira then turned his attention to t the lle drama and the strangers cm of oc paris in now new york tork he then aln n went trent to california and product produced called back with such luch success that lie ho now carries a handsome handa watch wat h presented to him lilet ou behalf of the th c company it was 1 I bale fraser ra ser was ed eil at the azievell ill t opera house that alt artanus ward paid LL visit to 1119 friend E F dixy dix Y tile the amnun am amus us dones ll oner win will now by the way ay 1 Is in commercial cial life it was war after g a akery cry long rn re tl il w airn tile the famous humorist walk boltl wol tl d up it the 1 he jaag ann ami ln iii ann will iranie ernp whom lie lim picked up on th ran I lie ito ln lit produced him na n a nilman nil man brimful of fi latent who he b t bp introduced 1 10 0 o the m linns if flit nage with elih ho he was w unfamiliar fraser franer was WB W 1 pa l to la ward in forcing to bloom the budding genius genins or of weary walker the greatest re test practical loker joker I 1 that h A I 1 C ever r lived sent fraser eraser into the he flies to lower A rope A alch DIX dexey Y lined L d to support au aport him in the famous aamot so b builes ull alls oue circus this was attached to tile the body and he was then hauled lip into tile flies files and lowered again ward telli nir him that by a stage tradition this va was tho first introduction to the musical art next he was dropped through a trap into lit the cellar beneath beneat bene ath li and the slide was quickly closed over I 1 him ls silence for a few minutes followed oll owed ills disappearance and thin a loud to u d shout was nas heard from him lit in t the he gloom doom of the cellar lie discovered tile the basket figure of a fifteen foot policeman which was waa used iri in a burlesque lion anns rawlins was wai then the biggest officer on the police force orca he was at afterward night watchman in the mint mine many of 0 you reme remember him the tramp cried out when he saw the figuie figgie look here llana rawlins Ilaw llna you get me out of here right away 11 fraser ran ben beneath 0 ath the stage and getting gelling inside the basket figure made the eyes roll slid and the arms move the tramp emitted a shriek and new flew u P stairs where lie he was waa met by ward who placidly paid ald now my diar clear bir I 1 will instruct you in the art 0 of f making up ward made ill the fellow up tip in a a full suit puit of colors and then placed in his handa bands a pan full of lather and a brush lie again placed the lope lone around him and hauled him up into tile the tiles flies telling him to continue the lather until he was told to stop than th n altomus invited fra fraser s er and hla his companions coin to take a dri drink ik they left the he tramp suspended in inid air and walked into isaac sharps saloon which then adjoined the opera house hou there they drank and talked until they entire entirely ly forgot the victim of their practical joke they walked down to Che chestnut street and visited more houses whore where liquid refreshments were ed a and it was not lot until two hours had elapsed that ward remembered his Qu quondam andam friend they returned to the opera house arid and V when hell they entered they saw the tramp exhausted almost to death still stirring away at tile lather as though its his life at stake ile he was waa lowered owe r e d to the stage and the belt that supported 0 arted him was unfastened ile he wai in a w weak t a it condition but he picked up lit EL a club a and nd making A rush at ills his tor mentors brov drove e them into tile the little street that q tho the opere opera house and thence into ule ile anth street there ho he made a onslaught on artemus ward although Alt bough he still had hla his makeup make up on lie in pur lined the tha humorist to chestnut street and down that thoroughfare until be was arrested on tile tho supposition that ho he MAS it a crazy man he vas actually locked up in ID the central station while playing an engagement in sacramento cal ca fram frami i Plod produced a pantomime t alm entitled the old woman who lived in the shoe little mack who was it a great friend of the star was cast for the demon lie he made his appearance on the stay stage a trap that eon sant t him up very quickly lie he did not like the manner in which the 1110 ropes worked nor tho way in the weighs were placed upon them lie ho ordered the stage carpenters to add more weighs in order to make the force of the tap greater the carpenters said they had no more mack therefore went him himself 1 of to all the hardware stores in town arid and bought their entire stock of smoothing irons without anyone else elec knowing it he attached the chest to the trap ropes at night when the stage hands bands rot got the cue buo to tend end up the demon they discovered the extra weights and told slack mack it was really dangerous to spring the trap ah ab lie sald said with a contemptuous shake of his head lt let her go they old did it llred fired him clear to the sky shy borders ile he clutched at the ca canvas rivas but of course it lid did n not ot hold hok and he arid and the sky turn ivan bled bind t oguther to the ground the top or of tile stage was torn up ui as though au an explosion oil had taken place beneath it slack lack baa fallen upon his tilde ile he arose to hla bin feet and limping down to tho flit footlights raid paid with the utmost pang fang froid ladles ladies and gentlemen ell I 1 have been practicing that trick for fop many ganv days daya but never succeeded until tonight they had to drop the curtain in 1160 pre braser er produced in dering hall portland we ile it a lianton pantomime time end tied the house that jack built that scored a lilt hit the carpenter cra s and biage I 1 I 1 ge hands who lit in Panton times contribute a much towards the success of the tricks veto continually to fisser that he h should KIVO give titers a dinner with the ass lAtance tance of a amna t named clorest Sl orest fraser prepa prepared a mock dinner to le lc given at noon one day in iii the hotel at which he be tas wa stopping resides besides his assistants lie he invited many in a n Y bloods and politicians of the town low from ills hi more room he be got trick turkeys pigs piga paper fruit large meat covers and all kinds of dishes lie he so ar the tricks tricka that the string could be worked from under the table lie he engaged waiters to be present in gorgeous array and made a seductive display of if glasses and bottles on oil I 1 ahe he table beneath the mal mahogany logany lit ho ila had ill ahli property man concealed when alt all was waa ready the guests entered and were welcomed by prager lit in tt a neat speech he hald ld that lie ho bad to obtain the dinner from rom EL a restaurant and lio lie was obliged to bw beg their indulgence tor for the flip manner in which it was served arved then they sat pat down and those who posted muted lifted the covers from the plates rl ites at that moment the concealed conceal oil property roan man pulled ills the bottles flew front from tile table the turkeys began to move the alg squealed and pandemonium reigned one can call imagine what a startled dinner party that was nit Mf gargee in philadelphia times |