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Show "On the Road" Before Railroads Crime. "Speaking of a man's age," said William Wil-liam O. Overton, "I don't believe I could ever repeat my theatrical experience ex-perience and live through it. We used to do the territories of the wild west before be-fore the railroads reached the principal towns, and we had some rough times, I can tell you. I would go on for a leading part, work like a slave for three or four hours, go to the hotel at midnight, mid-night, pack my trunks, get them into a wagon and away we'd gp to the next town. Trying to sleep on your trunk along a lonely road, in tbe cold and wet, the wagon jolting your liver into all sorts of shapes, is not pleasant, and when to this is added an absence of breakfast until 10 or 11 o'clock In the morning your unhappiuess is complete. Of course this experience was not of daily occurrence, but it came often enough for personal discomfort. Had lots of fun, certainly, but we paid for it." St. Louis Republic. |