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CAUTION: The newspaper column below, reprinted from the New York Sunday Mercury<\/em> (3\/15\/1885) contains racist slurs. These appeared frequently in newspapers of the late 1880s. Tony Pastor got his start as a blackface minstrel performer, and incorporated minstrel acts in his vaudeville offerings. Blackface minstrels were a core element of American popular entertainment in the 19th century, and were rooted in ugly, racist stereotypes. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Tony Pastor has been one of the \u201ccharacters\u201d of New York for some years. His friends are combinin\u2019 to celebrate his twentieth anniversary as a caterer for amusements, and reminiscences of this variety manager, comic singer and general joker may be in order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Tony, like a woman, is sensitive about his age. He owns up to forty, but maybe sixty, for all anybody but himself knows. At any rate, he was born in New York and went to school here for awhile, so he says. His youthful days were passed around Greenwich street, near the old Pacific Hotel. His first school was in Thames street, where at six years of age he \u201cspoke a piece\u201d at a school exhibition, recitin\u2019 that companion piece to \u201cMary Had a Little Lamb,\u201d commencin\u2019:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      You’d scarce expect one of my age<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      To speak in public on the stage,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 amid \u201cunbounded applause\u201d as they say on the small bills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Accordin\u2019 to Tony’s account, findin\u2019 out at six years of age that he knew more than his teacher, he carried his youthful intellect\u2013and cheek\u2013to the Rector street school, presided over then by the worthy Mrs. Millan, and learned New York life by playin\u2019 truant and knockin\u2019 around the wharves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      One day a wharf rat, bein\u2019 in want of money, conceived the bright idea of makin\u2019 some off of Tony. So he seized the precocious youngster (who kicked and squealed lustily in vain), and threw him slyly overboard, shovin\u2019 him over, by \u201caccident,\u201d into the North River. The wharf rat then, with a big fuss, leaped in after Tony and \u201csaved him from a watery death at the risk of his own life.\u201d That was the way the papers phrased it the next day. Havin\u2019 rescued the drippin\u2019 Tony, the ingenious wharf rat carried him home and triumph and received from his grateful and too confidin\u2019 mother a dollar reward for rescuin\u2019 her darlin\u2019, Tony himself gettin\u2019 only a spankin\u2019, while the wharf rat got the dollar, an arrangement which, to this day, Tony persists in regardin\u2019 as unfair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Tony then went to live with his folks on Staten Island, and attended school, or was supposed by his still unsuspectin\u2019 parents to be attendin\u2019 school, there. He was fond of singin\u2019, and once figured in a vocal match in which he says he beat the singin\u2019 master; but then the latter individual had already injured his voice by peddlin\u2019 oysters in New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The old steamboat Raritan<\/em>, Captain Fisher, used to ply then between New York and Staten Island, and most of the time that Tony was supposed to be at school he was really travelin\u2019 up and down on the Raritan<\/em>, givin\u2019 \u201cconcerts\u201d on his own hook, and with the proceeds of these \u201centertainments\u201d payin\u2019 his fare and accumulatin\u2019 pocket money. He got an old banjo, sung to it, then passed around the hat and pocketed the contributions. One day, however, to Tony’s horror and surprise, he came across his own mother on the boat, who was quite as much surprised and horrified as Tony himself. The \u201cconcert\u201d was suddenly stopped, the leadin\u2019 vocalist was soundly spanked in the presence of the audience, and there were no more Raritan<\/em> concerts that season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Later on Tony sang in a \u201ctemperance\u201d concert in the old Hand-in-Hand temperance meeting in Dey street, between Washington and West streets. On one occasion he sang a duet with Chris Woodruff, who was afterward a State senator. \u201cChris,\u201d as a boy, was celebrated for his fine whistlin\u2019–an accomplishment in which Tony vainly tried to equal him. Tony never could whistle; but then, accordin\u2019 to Tony, Chris could never sing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 At different periods Tony attended other schools, among them the school in Duane street. While supposed to be at this school Tony’s mother took him with her out to the country, and insisted upon takin\u2019 him to bid his teacher, Mr. Stow, good bye before he went. Tony didn’t want to go through this preliminary farewell, and for a good and sufficient reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tony Pastor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

      For when, leadin\u2019 him in by the hand, the mother said to the teacher, \u201cI have brought Tony with me, sir, to bid you good bye,\u201d the teacher, lookin\u2019 at Tony, said: \u201cTo bid me good bye! Why he made me good bye long ago. That is, I haven’t set eyes on the boy for these three months.\u201d And he hadn’t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      This little incident once more, and this time effectually, opened the fond parents’ eyes, and there was no more foolin\u2019 for Tony. As he wouldn’t take to learnin\u2019, he was told to take to somethin\u2019 else, and to stick to it in real earnest. So he took and stuck to the circus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Prior to his departure for the \u201cbig show\u201d Tony had, during his supposed \u201cschool\u201d days, appeared as a \u201cpublic performer,\u201d under various names, at the old Peale\u2019s Museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Later on he appeared as a \u201cminstrel performer\u201d at Barnum’s Museum, where the Herald<\/em> buildin\u2019 now stands, at $2 a week salary. But he failed lamentably at first. The museum people discharged him after one night’s engagement. Greenwood, Barnum’s museum manager, told him, like Horace Greeley, to go West. So he \u201cwent West\u201d–with the circus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Herr Driesbach, the lion tamer; Bob Hall; George Hoyt; and Gurney, the dulcimer player, were connected with this circus. Tony commenced as \u201cobject holder,\u201d as it is called, holdin\u2019 hoops, etc., for others to jump through. Then he got to riding horses in the entrees (he wasn’t as fat then as now), then he got to be a \u201ctumbler,\u201d then to be \u201cringmaster\u201d and finally \u201cclown.\u201d He was with Maybee’s circus for a while, then with Levi North.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      He also tried his luck as \u201ccomedian\u201d in the \u201clegitimate\u201d in Chicago, appearin\u2019 as the Yankee in Putnam<\/em> and performin\u2019 in old Tom Coney\u2019s once popular \u201cdog pieces.\u201d In the company in which Tony played \u201clow comedian\u201d were engaged Charles and Mrs. Hill (parents of Barton Hill), Messrs. McCloskey, McDonald, Hello, George Brown and Mrs. Louisa Pray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Once, when funds got low, George Brown and Tony Pastor got up a scheme to \u201craise the wind.\u201d They announced their \u201cjoint benefit\u201d and then got up a preparatory street show, consistin\u2019 of an old wagon, covered with a big flag, and drawn by an old horse, whose anatomy was likewise hidden by a patriotic coverin\u2019 of flags, the flags, of course, being borrowed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      They engaged a darkey to accompany \u2018em, and then all three started out for a \u201cstreet parade\u201d in this stars and stripes turn out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Tony Pastor beat a big drum, the darkey tooted on a fife and George Brown drove the horse and distributed \u201cdodgers\u201d along the route.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      And at every saloon the horse and wagon were stopped, a couple of tickets were handed as \u201ccomplementaries\u201d to the barkeeper, and a lot of other not \u201ccomplementary\u201d tickets were left on sale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      As a consequence there was a big house for the joint benefit, and when the old darkey with the fife, who was the owner of the wagon and the horse, came to be settled up with, instead of the two dollars the beneficiaries had promised him, they gave him five, the whole of which unexpected fortune was at once spent by the old man in playin\u2019 policy. But George Brown and Tony \u201csalted\u201d their share of the proceeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      I’m sorry to say that at first, in his early circus days, Tony had no notion of his \u201cprofessional dignity,\u201d and in his spare times, when \u201coff duty\u201d at the circus, ran a \u201cside show\u201d or \u201cpeep show\u201d of his own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      He got his apparatus for $2.50 and took in over $3 in one afternoon. He thought he was thus 50 cents ahead on his very first entertainment, but he was arrested before night for not havin\u2019 secured a \u201clicense to exhibit\u201d and had to pay $5 to get off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      He, at various times, also tried lemonade sellin\u2019, makin\u2019 a bucket of lemonade with one lemon, and likewise peddled an \u201celectric oil\u201d of his own make, which was very electric indeed, and came several times near gettin\u2019 him into an \u201celectric\u201d fight with his patients (?). These episodes were, of course, before he had come to appreciate the full dignity of the circus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      His \u201clemonade racket\u201d closed his engagement with one circus very peremptorily. His mainstay in the lemonade line had been \u201ctarteric acid,\u201d which kindly did away with the necessity of havin\u2019 more than one lemon to the bucket (as before stated). One day Tony wrapped up this accommodatin\u2019 acid in a chest containing some of old Nathan’s\u2013the circus man\u2019s\u2013clothes, and when Nathan went to that chest to get his clothes, lo, he found that Tony’s pet acid had eaten up one leg of a pair of trousers and two russet boots, and if it had not been discovered in time would have eaten into all the rest of his wardrobe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Nathan at once went for a \u201cguy stake\u201d and chased poor Tony out of that circus tent, which he never was allowed to enter any more, and he never tried to sell any more lemonade either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      In due course of time Tony sowed his professional \u201cwild oats\u201d and settled down to business. He gradually drifted from the \u201ccircus\u201d into the \u201cvariety\u201d line, and from bein\u2019 performer, started off as manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      One of his early associates as manager was Sam Sharpley, whose partnership happened accidentally. When Tony was performin\u2019 at 444 Broadway, \u201cThe Big Oyster Bay Saloon,\u201d near the Assembly Rooms, was quite a resort for Johnny Wild, Maffit and Bartholomew, and all that set. One night, after the show, they all met there, and it was resolved that they should all make a joint stock company of \u2018emselves, each one puttin\u2019 in $200, share and share alike. The next night there was another meetin\u2019 to arrange the details of this organization. The next night there was a third meetin\u2019, and so on, plenty of meetin\u2019s, but no money planked down. So, finally, one night Sam Sharpley, who had heard of these meetin\u2019s, dropped in, saw Tony, didn’t talk much, but planked down the cash, and so Tony and Sam joined forces and did well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      In the course of his career as performer and manager Tony Pastor has acted with, or himself engaged, over fifteen hundred men and women and has been the lessee of seven or eight different places of amusement in the city of New York, embracin\u2019 the Broadway Music Hall (once Wallack\u2019s Theatre and Brougham\u2019s Lyceum), corner Broadway and Broome street; No. 444 Broadway, once Fellows\u2019, then Wood\u2019s Minstrel Hall, then Christy’s Minstrels, between Grand and Howard streets; Hoym\u2019s old theatre on the Bowery, where Morrissey and Heenan sparred and old Bob Johnson played J. W. Wallack, Jr. to a $20 house; and No. 585 Broadway (at different times known as the French theatre, Buckley’s, Christy’s San Francisco Minstrels, Butler’s Varieties and Canterbury Hall, with the \u201cpretty waiter girls,\u201d while Heller afterwards opened this place as the \u201cSalle Diabolique.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tony’s first travelin\u2019 company embraced Johnny Wild, Sheridan and Mack, James Gaynor, Fernando Pastor (Tony’s brother), John Braham as leader of the orchestra, Signor Tortoni, Professor Jackson and Herr Leefels. It started out just twenty years ago, and every year since then Tony’s travelin\u2019 company has ranked in drawin\u2019 power next to the circus. Later on George Edison and wife; Robert Butler, the pantomimist; Amelia Wells; Ernestine De Fabler and Messrs. Willes and Armstrong joined the original company, and since then changes have been numerous and additions constant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Johnny Wild, minstrel performer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

      Any number of funny incidents have transpired in the course of Tony’s experience. One night, Levi White, Tony’s stage manager, got into a row behind the scenes with Johnny Wild, the comedian, and in the progress of the row the combatants tumbled into the trough in which the minstrels washed off their faces after the performance. This was literally a case of washin\u2019 dirty linen in public, as the partly soiled shirts the two men had on were rendered still dirtier and the whole company was lookin\u2019 at the fun. Both parties when they got through were wetter and wiser men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Once Harrigan and Hart had a dog named \u201cBones,\u201d which they were very proud of. There was then another dog around the theatre nicknamed \u201cCalamity,\u201d which they all wanted to get rid of. The theatre people put up a job to make away with \u201cCalamity\u201d but \u201cBones\u201d fell into the trap instead. On another occasion Bob Hart, Johnny Wild, Tony and a lot of others went to see a friend off to Havana. Bob Hart got carried away on the steamer, and of course his friends were worried about his bein\u2019 thus suddenly taken away unprepared, as he had no money with him, never had. They all went to Schwarz’s drinking saloon to drink Bob’s health, and of course told Schwarz about his untimely takin\u2019 off. But what did Schwarz do, but (instead of looking surprised or grieved) called out to his frau, \u201cDere now, Katrina, did I not tell you dat dis d\u2014-d Bob Hart would not pay me mine forty cents he owes me for eight beers. See how he has been got himself taken off all der way to Havana, so as to cheat me out of mine forty cents,\u201d and for months Schwarz stuck to his idea of this disappearance, till Bob Hart suddenly reappeared and paid him his \u201cforty cents.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In windin\u2019 up this chapter, I may call passin\u2019 attention to the two main facts in Tony Pastor’s career. One is the number of people he has brought out, or brought into prominence, embracin\u2019: Harrigan and Hart; Gus Williams; George Thatcher; Barry and Fay; John F. Poole; Harry Miner; Nat Goodwin; William J. Scanlon; Neil Burgess; Dan Thompson; Fred Williams; William Norris; Jacques Kruger; Evans and Hoey; Dan Sully; Billy Emerson; Pat Rooney; George S. Knight; Baker and Farron; and among the women: Carrie Swain; Flora Moore; Maddie Vickers; the once famous but now almost forgotten Lillian Russell; and her pretty and popular successor, Miss Hilda Thomas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      The other fact is that altho\u2019 only a \u201cvariety manager,\u201d Tony Pastor has always maintained quite as high a standard of propriety as any theatre that calls itself \u201clegitimate,\u201d has always paid debts and salaries, and has conducted his business on business principles. Else he would not now be celebrating his silver wedding as a manager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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