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auditorium and boards laid across motor-oil cases provided seats of the old fashioned circus type.

The talent was long. Songs, speeches, droll poetry, and heart-pulling violin music kept the eager audience satisfied from 8 until 9:30 this evening. The end-men were in true darky ^[[mask]] and fantastic garb. Harry Lauder's imitator (very good too) and Isidor the Yiddish Gentleman were among those present besides the specialist who whistled bird-sweet songs, and the versatile interlocutor who sang "Asleep in the deep", and played the fiddle in unusual attitudes, and carried the [[strikethrough]] illegible [[/strikethrough]] ^[[duties of his position]] without hesitation. [[strikethrough]] illegible [[/strikethrough]]

Being a gun crew the characters were arranged according to the parlance of