| Show 1 lil a d t the e Great Baritone If Writes rites of o Three Famous Emmas T being Lein the aims season cosign of good fellow follon fellowShip IT Ship I It gives gis mo great preat pleasure to 0 isle isk elt holSo among my tnY friends In the great 1 warm hearted west who may nm haVe hale honored me line by b occasionally recall recallIng recalling Ing Inh my previous visits among them then to tu drawn lIm about the tho mental Yule log and andi i listen Ih while I unfold to them tho the har harrow row ll lS of or the tha treatment to Co o r hll 11 I have bave ba been subjected by b one Who cah a my friend by b name Vi h 10 ncy by b profession musical and anI Si Gt C una tIc writer lie Ile has been beel guilty of dealing me mo a n at 1 t iel wl blow and deserves the I um am about aboul to mete mote out to him t which Is but hold I anticipate m This newspaper man after years ears oti of ot l i separation and silence of even evo l on his hist t pull part having dropped a n silent tear teu ocr over my any m Imagined demise and In it fact has hav having ing lug passed through nil the stages that thit might tend lend to the extinguishing of or that l Gale holy hilly file c designated designate friendship p lId eJr became aware awan that I was still m ll en tiling the sane same other ether as sp and allowed the smothered blaze of or joy to burst forth In its pris prix pristine pristine 1 tine glory I so far as ILS to declare he should hould never visit the city where I t reside which Is New York without coming to see soe me mo and reviving the pleasant memories that are arc mutual Not Intending to bo be unjust I will i acknowledge that h In III Uie Ule springtime of oft the present year in passing on his i t pilgrimage to Europe he ho did dill stop a 1 moment to assure me of his early rel re return return l i turn to America and to accept for his charming family and himself the tho warmly warm I extended Invitation to bs b our prized guests at a little dinner and old time reunion About the date of his Jt anticipated return my wife and I pre prepared prepared pred pared d to kill the fatted calf In n honor honorof i of the event and to Invite only to share in tho occasion caslon o whom we felt ell i would be thoroughly congenial 11 il Shall 1 T confess con Cess to you the tho th termination of these protestations and preparations j Simply Simp o a a little mUe note to convey tho th t Intelligence that this friend of mine mint and his family would be unable to id spare time on their homeward trip to It partake of our hospitality And still he would have havo mo believe that I would be bo welcomed to Salt Luke Luki City to sing sins for him I 1 Well oil to proceed tho the calf had been t killed and though short of or our guests t of honor wo we proceeded with tho thA in n as ns arranged and now we wo werl I rl II arrive at tho the point of punishment I nm aln dealing out to him In his own pages I one by the tho way wa which with that keen newspaper nose he may ma previously h have scented s ente 1 thus accounting for the 1 defection referred to Anecdotes of or tho the Past h Xhosa Theae were bidden to rise from their ashes ashoo on that notable evening by b those present who appalling tre some s me of oC the favorite artists with whom I had sung lung r in the west asked me nw t tb recount some p further of r them diem themAs th m mAs As host lOt I could c uld not not well refuse and acceded to their first request to hear hea I something about three famous Eni Lm I mag Emma Abbott A bott Emma Thursby and Emma Juch t it EMMA EliMA ABBOTT ABBOT l Of or that wonderfully energetic e woman wom woman an nn and conscientious us singer Miss Ab j bott It proved a u difficult task to toll tell I them there anything that heal had not enjoyed enjo od r Its press baptismal for fOl before all nil she believed In la business and that with witha f a 11 That big word pig big p 3 That word in Itself however h recalled an incident which occurred during my last trip with her company J In this tho th perron t erton of the tho late l lo Mr 11 Lake Mies Abbott and her husband lId Gene G Wetherell lI had fO good friend and anal t backer of or their operatic enterprise and though through good fortune they tho had I been b n enabled to lo repay le a the sum ho he had hat hado I so o kindly advanced they always alwa 11 10 ro the tho feeling fe of or gratitude which recognized that had It not been for fOI his g timely generosity t the tho Abbott Grand r ri ot Opera company c might lg never n have havo had i Its existence In the very vel state of ot Utah as its It t hap wo we were o 0 heat bear of or the loss of o this friend for aa SUI we reached a IL certain station the porter porri handed Miss Abbott tho the fatal telegram the death of or Mr Lake I Of courso the whole company was thrown Into deep gloom upon witness J Ing tag the tho prima donnas outburst of ot stormy grief her uncontrolled lamenta I Q lions leading le us to fear that we should il have hoo a sick woman on our hands In place of the tho Impending Imp performance r But lo Jo o The Tho unexpected d After assisting the musical to tho the depot restaurant wo we were to bo ho hof f made astonished by b acting tho the healthier Inner woman triumph over her trouble Picking out a 11 nice waitress who ap aa oa Miss MII Abbotts Inquiry answered to tho the name nome of ot Mary she eho proceeded to take tako her Into her hor confidence her between sobs soba that aa as she had hod Just gob lost sob Bob her dearest friend sob lob nho sh waa fooling tooling sod sob fob ob sob Bob and aad so o Uko a II door dear good lObi girl I 1 i W r as you are aits Mary sob bring us th the very CI best dinner you can sob sob tab bob Mary proved herself a trump In till this respect and as courso couro promptly sue suc succeeded course soup fish chicken vege ee tables salad dessert and amI wino went down the one ones throat hi oat to tho Iho accompaniment of or drip dripping dripping ping phi tears tear and und unchecked sobs I she the comforted herself beyond be these thee ma material accessories by b relating the end endless less es good food qualities she found she Rhe liui had always I discerned In the thc character o otho of tho the lato late lamented Mr rr Lake The combination while somewhat harrowing to tho mho unbiased pd spectator proved to lo tho the subject for fOl tho substantial meal gave such good re rat suit stilt that business again took look pos poe possession poss session s of or the he helm holm of oC feeling and s II a resigned but strengthened Emma rose roc triumphant that night to an the public to whom she presented one of her hat best Impersonations of or Mig Mignon non lion EMMA Of or the sedate and ml over ever cr dignified Em Emma Emma ma mn Thursby who once sang In your you our r great tabernacle at a musical r r A P f Y Yr i X Yf r f I fI ft f t X t l r r t S r r rit M it s st r t F ti X y X t tI at I X f F y X I X X y t J y X A Ay y F Fr FEMMA r EMMA ABBOTT This photograph by b Johnson was ono one of ot Miss Abbotts favorite pictures I and was the first ono one published of or her when the news of her death was li sent out In a telegram by Mr Johnson to the Dramatic Mirror Miss Ab Abbott bott died at the tho Templeton Hotel In this city on Jan 5 1891 of o pneumonia contracted In opening tho the Ogden Osden Opera House on Dec D c 29 1890 1690 when she sho s presented The Rose of or Castile Her lost appearance on any an stage was wason wast t 4 on ou Dec 31 3 p 90 when she sang Elvira In the opera of or Ernan at tho the Salt Lake I theater Hundreds of or theater goers still recall the melancholy circumstances s of the tho death the funeral In the hotel parlors In which the opera company tendered rendered nd rea the tho music m and the flood of or s sympathetic messages which 1 reached the organization before It left with tho the remains of ot the departed I singer for her horn homo o In tho the east cast al Mss Miss Abbott while white not entitled to the name of oC ono one of the tho greatest of or American singers was one of or tho the most popular and best beloved of or all oper operatic operatic artists who over oer trod the tho boards val It It proved Impossible to recall any anything an anything thing from our concert tours that would justify the name of an but of ot the lie Impetuous EMMA E IMA JUCH I recalled being a D member of or her com cam company campan company pany pan at a Il time when I participated nolena volens olens In ono one of the most hair hall breath and hair hall raising railway trips undertaken ten to keep our engagement to topia play pia Faust at Los Ios Angeles at the tho ap appointed appointed appointed pointed hour that It has ever been my misfortune to encounter Wo Yc started out from Sacramento and before reaching our destination It Its s seemed quite possible that we should Join In his inferno Briefly there was a blockade on the tho road and at the tho first intimation of de delay dea delay lay a the fair Emma knit her level brows browa In a lino IIno of or provisionary trouble Later we were Informed we wo could not proceed and then tho trouble broke out Telegrams flow thew and at ot every every er step In which she was balked Miss II s Juch became be became b came only the tho moro determined Final Fina Finally Final ly l she Bhe got Into communication with tho the head of the tho road when a special en engine engine gine and car were demanded the de demand demand demand mand was granted under proviso o of or certain conditions being fulfilled By the time these conditions had been surmounted some somo hours had elapsed and It became quito quite plain that I tinieR wo two made up time we WC should never nover reach the city of angels to I give ulvo the performance on the tho date dato stipulated Bo Be It recorded 1 that the maKIng malting up of o that time resulted In a a terrific ei ex experience The engineer added speed s eed on speed until the stove broke loose from Its moorings causing the tho terrified women woman to relapse relar se Into screaming hysterics wo we swayed swa ed rom side to side over the tho disappearIng rails ralls the lurches carry Ing our traveling effects bock back and forth across the car like tho the waves of or the cite ocean and the tho more frightened of or tho the of or the company pulled frantically on tho the check rono rone but to I no purpose The Imperturbable determined but Inwardly Inward excited Miss Juch had hod de e to get to her destination or die and surely tho the last few rew miles run Into Los Angeles predicted no other finish but through a n miracle tho the en engineer engineer bringing his little train to a Il standstill found round he ho could count us MS all still among amonS the tho living But the time hour It was ns 1 In the tho th morning But what of that In the tho enterprising west Tim Tho audience having been wired of or our dilemma had patiently patient waited for us and such a n storm of welcoming cheers greeted the worn out company at the tho rise of the curtain at nt that un seemly hour that Faust Marguerite her brother and tool took unto themselves renewed r owed energy and re their lesser Jesser confreres Into gh ing sUch buch a Il spirited rendition of tho the opera that their nels seemed seined iota loth to say good morning even at tho Iho final fina curtain Having told my m friends something of or these thelo three Emmas I was about to toll you a u very ery Interesting experience of mine while traveling with Adelina Patti In the east but I perceive the tho Yule 1 ulo log logs s embers are arc dying out seem Tab about ut to Join their ashes with those I havo have been raking over and not ing tho the grove grave look on my m m newspaper friends face which seems seem to warn mo ma that I am overcrowding his welcoming f this space CC n I pray him and you OU to i accept oit offering and tho the very vcr best wishes for a 0 merry murry Christmas long Ion life and great reat happiness from Your Tour old friend 5 |
