Show G H GANAWAY AND THE SALT LAKE TH ATER DURING the spring Z of 1895 a great many many prominent friends and leaders of the free silver cause assembled ir in this city and during one of the sessions in the salt lake theater george H ganaway who is a member of our race and who fills aver a very y responsible position with the rio grande western railway co entered the salt lake theater and occupied a seat in one of the loges and while he was engaged in taking notes of the meeting a white lady and gentleman en entered ered and commanded mr ganaway to vacate the seat which he was occupying cup ying in claiming a that they were reserved but bat he refused to comply with their request then the gentleman summoned a policeman to ej eject e ct him from the seat and when the policeman arrived he attempted to eject mr ganaway by force but he was not successful in the meantime the audience became greatly excited over the affair and the they y all denounced the policeman for acce eding to the request of the gentleman who had no more claim to the seat which mr ganaway was occupying than adams off ox shortly after this occurrence mr ganaway entered suit against the salt lake dramatic association to recover ten tea thousand dollars damages for being roughly a handled and for being subjected to other inn indignities dinni ties on that occasion by the policeman and the white gentleman the case came up before judge A N cherry and a jury jary the past week and mr ganaway received damages injustice in justice to 0 charles S burton barton manager of the salt lake dramatic association we can truthfully uny say that we have frequented the salt lake theater on a number of occasions during daring 0 the time we have hare resided in this city and we have always been treated very courteously by him and his gentlemanly assistants si gi stants sud and we cannot permit ourselves to entertain the idea that mr burton barton was iu in favor or was instrumental in causing mr gan anav to be e ejected from the public meeting which the free silver leaders jae ra held in the salt lake ther |