Show MU1STREL KiNG DEAD Col J H Haverly Passes Away at St Marks HAD INTERESTING CAREER Col Haverly Was for Years the Acknowledged Ac-knowledged King of Minstrelsy and Was One of tho BestKnown Men in the United States Gave Charles Prohman Lessons i Managerial Man-agerial Advertising Later Ho Embarked in Mining Wife and Daughter With Him at the End 1 The former king of minstrelsy Is dead The curtain has been rung down upon the last act In the life of Col Tack Haverly who with his wife and daughter at his bedside passed away at St Marks hospital yesterday afternoon Since Col Haverly bade farewell to the lime light or the minstrel min-strel stage late in the SOs he has been engaged In mining principally in Colorado Colo-rado but some time ago he became Interested I in-terested In Deep Creek and In July last located permanently In Salt Lake Less than a month later he was taken Ill with typhoid fever which was aggravated aggra-vated by an old affection of the heart Ji j J H Haverly with which he had been a sufferer for years He was taken at once to St Marks hospital where for a time his larks dispalred of and his wife and daughter were sent for They came on at once from New York and for weeks past have visited Col Haverly as often as his condition would permit During the first of the past week Col Haverlys condition appeared much Improved and It was hoped that he would recover but within the last few days there was a sudden change for the that worse Yesterday morning he said he felt better but toward noon he again became worse untl Ill 3 oclock In the afternoon the end came Mr Haverly was born at Belford Pa on June 30 1S37 and leaves a wife and one daughter Mrs Haverly said last night that she knew nothing whatever what-ever concerning lr husbands mining Interests although she understands that he Is heavily interested in valuable Deep Creek properties I has not yet been decided as to whether or not Col Ilaverly will be burled here The death of J H Ilaverly or as he was familiarly known Jack Ilaverly removes one of the most picturesque and remarkable men from the theatrical theatri-cal profession I is fair to say that neither Mr Frohman nor the Syndicate Syndi-cate have ever had such n personal influence in the amusement field a that exerted in his palmy days by J H Haverly In fact It may be fairly concluded con-cluded that the trust as it is familiarly fa-miliarly known is more or less the development de-velopment of J II Havcrlys ideas by men far less liberal In their relations and less magnetic In their qualities Ilaverly was what in the present day would be called a plunger For a time everything that he touched seemed to turn to gold There is scarcely a theater the-ater a manager or an oldday actor but In some manner came into touch with Haeily According to the most reliable Infor jnatlon Haverly started in northern Ohio probably Toledo as a member of the speculating frntcrnltv He went to Chicago < a here he had Qt first Inning In the theatrical business and from there his Interests spread until he was at one time the manager of at least a dozen prominent theaters four or five I big theatrical companies and no qnd of i side enterprises In the minstrel world I It was at one time said that he had corraled every performer of consequence conse-quence America In the line of theaters the-aters he had two houses In New York one in Brooklyn one In Chicago and one in San Francisco with a score of other smaller places Intermixed Tho number of prominent managers of the present time who received their early Instruction under Ilaverly In one capacity ca-pacity or another could hardly be numbered num-bered FRO1IMANS HIS UNDERLINGS Daniel Frohman was at one time manager of the Ilaverly Mastodon minstrels and Charles Frohman the treasurer I Is related of Charles Frohman who is now mentioned so reverentially by every one connected with the profession that he always disliked dis-liked that part of his duties which compelled him to want In the Haverly parade Of course the outturn of every member of the company from the highest to the lowest Is a prime necessity fn the mlnstrely business for none is so great or so insignificant but he must take part in the street procession pro-cession Mr Frohmnn not being of large stature or commanding build always al-ways found this duty repugnant and took the first opportunity to slide away to his work as treasurer Mr Ilaverly was of Jewish extraction extrac-tion and had a warm liking for his race At the present time tho theatrical theatri-cal profession Is practically controlled on all sides by Israelites and It Is said that to Mr Haverly more than to anyone any-one else was the introduction of this element into the fraternity r due Ilav erly himself was of fair hair and mus ache so that the casual observer would not take him to be a Jew Ha erly was his professional name but became no well known that few ever knew any other name He was married twice the wife whom he leaves behind being the sister of his first wife Both women wo-men are said to have been of superior attainments and of great help to him in his professional career A daughter I who has attracted considerable attention atten-tion for her accomplishments Is I ulso left behind Haverlys beginning as a theatrical manager was In the variety sIn s-in Chicago Shortly after the memorable memora-ble fire he took the old postolfice at tho corner of Dearborn and Monroe streets CfolfcV66 whfch was then known ns the Adelphl theater and which had been run for a yfcar by Lepnard Grover The I First National blink now occupies the same site Haverly changed the name of the house to Haven His first I great success came from his assuming charge of Col Maplesona grand opera engagement upon its first visit to this I country At that time Mapleson had Gerster Minnie Hauk and other prima donnas of similar note The Chicago engagement was for four weeks and every seat in the house was sold out at the even price of 5 From his share of the proceeds Haverly got his start toward wealth and after this the Union Square company filled a long engagement engage-ment adding still more to his fortune i About this time Billy Foote who afterward t after-ward was Haverlys chief lieutenant got up the Mastodon minstrels and first presented them in Peoria He brought them to Chicago where they were quadrupled in size and became known a the Haverly Mastodon minstrels min-strels I is related that on the occasion oc-casion of his trip across tho continent Haverly came to Grass Creek near Salt Lake where a wit of a butcher played a trick that nearly upset the show Taking Ta-king the phrase There are forty count them the butcher had a string of forty hams arranged In front of his shop with a big placard There are I forty count them Those who know the significance of the word ham a applied to players can well imagine I tho result when Haverlys widely known minstrels marched up the street everybody guying them unmercifully I is doubtful if Haverly himself could have estimated his wealth with I In 100000 at the time of his greatest I I supremacy His downfall came from his visit to England whither he went In 1S81 with the Mastodon Minstrels of which he felt so proud He took seventysix of the most noted black cork artists of the American stage I across the water and started in 0 twelve weeks engagement at the Drury Lane theater The first week was apparently a success but after that the whole bottom dropped out of business owing to the frightfully hot I weather and the additional fact that the English people were so greedy for passes Haverlys wellknown liberality liber-ality In the matter of passes broke his back Confronted with Inevitable disaster dis-aster Haverly closed the famous Drury Lane sent all of his performers except twentyeight to America and started the smaller organization on a tour of the English provinces In the hope of saving himself The tour was finally abandoned at Greenock Scotland Scot-land where the company closed From there they Jumped directly to Cincinnati Cincin-nati O Haverly in the meantime had come to America and by loans had raised sufficient to make another stand The Cincinnati engagement was another failure and irretrlvable ruin stared Ilaverly in the face when one of his lucky plunges again brought him to success The Craig family of English acrobats had come to this country with a circus which had become be-come stranded In Chicago They were secured by him at a high price In competition with other bidders Ills company then met with success from Boston to San Francisco the latter point being reached by a special train theater house At the Bush Street a that was always known In San Francisco Fran-cisco as the hoodoo of the Golden Gate after about D months engagement engage-ment he found all the profits of his Eastern season gone I LOST AT GAMING From San Francisco Ilaverly started on a retreat eastward appearing In Salt Luke City Haerly himself was an inveterate poker fiend and by the time the company reached Denver Haverlys losses at the gaming table more than consumed all that the minstrels min-strels had made I Is said that when the box office opened at Denver Haver lys r O Us for losses on the green came in so fast that the receipts would not cover them Havorly himself was a handsome I man He always dressed in the height of fashion but eschewed all sorts of Jewelry except a simple watch fob His evening dress was Invariably faultless On parade he was always conspicuous by reason of his big handsome soft hat Never did he weal the conventional conven-tional stovepipe hat Haverly started the practice of rentIng rent-Ing out a name and at one time had at least half a dozen companies paying pay-Ing him royalties of S100 a week for the use of the name Haverly He would sharply define the cities In which such companies would appear choosing the smaller places where his own companies com-panies were not to be booked Even down to tho present the name of < Haverlys Mastodon Minstrels has been leased and only the past week the minstrels of his name were playing in Milwaukee For fifteen years however how-ever the name Haverly has lost Its prestige In the theatrical world Daniel Frohman lila oldtime manager and Charles Frohman his treasurer have both reached the highest eminence as theatrical magnates His stage people are scattered through a hundred different dif-ferent organizations and many who were among his minstrels are now prominent among the legitimate corn panics ANNIE RUSSELL WITH HIM As a strange coincidence there are three leading members of the Annie Russell company now playing In Salt Lake who were formerly In Haverlys employ Annie Russell herself played Josephine in Ilaverlys Pinafore company com-pany W II Thompson the comedian was character man In many of Ha I verlys productions and nearest to Haverly of all Harry Rose the Prime al Prme Minister was for twelve years In the I Haverly Minstrels Miss Russell when i seen last night said that Haverly had always been a genial generous and gracious manager throwing money with a lavish hand and responsive to > any call of the profession for assistance I Mr Thompson said his first Impression of Haverly was a vivid one He came Ito Ito I-to me in the old Fourteenth Street I theater to ask me to go with him to > San Francisco I was In 1881 I was I then getting 50 a week but thought 11 I might strike for SUi a week However j as It was darkwe could not see each others facesI gulped out S100 a 1 week ready to drop to SiG To my as tonlshment Haverly said That goes Ian I-an from that day I have never received I re-ceived loss We went to San Francisco opened the Columbia theater with 200 people In The White Slave and had u memorable engagement giving Siberia i SI-beria Michael Strogoff and other 0 I Bartl2y Campbells works I made a fortune for Campbell as well as Ha I verly Georgia Cayvnn afterward lendIng lady of Daniel Frohmans Lyceum Ly-ceum theater was In the company i Harry Rose who was a member of the Haverly Mastodon Minstrels the famous fa-mous 10 count themfor so many years had a long lot of anecdotes to relate re-late of his old employer Haverly said Rose got any performer ho thought the public wanted Irrespective of cost He seemed almost indifferent I to money and reckless to a degree When we were crossing to England we all played poker much of the time Myself and the other boys would put In a dollar where Haverly put In hundreds After the awful London fiasco we care back to America Haverly broke in pocket but not In spirit We were standing In the Fifth Avenue hotel lobby when a stranger approached and asked my friend If his name was not Ilaverly Yes thats my name Jack answered 4I had a game with you on I the water a few weeks back you have my I O U I believe said the f stranger Oh yes I recall it now Lets see Yes yes I think that paper I is somewhere in my pocketbook After I fishing among various mcmoramla Haverly found the scrap of paper The stranger drew his check for 2200 the amount of the Indebtedness As the I man went away Haverly turned to me nnd said I had forgotten all about that never expected a cent of It Yet it will come very handy now I |