Seattle's Amateur Athletes Rally for the Franklin Miners

The entertainment for the benefit of the Post-Intelligencer Franklin fund, given at the Seattle theater last night, was an unqualified success, and in spite of the threatening weather the audience almost filled the house, and the various selections and acts called forth the applause they merited. The club management deserves the congratulations it received for making such a success of an amateur entertainment.

The first number on the programme was rendered by Chapin & Mariner's mandolin and harp orchestra, a familiar feature of all the latest musical events, in a finished interpretation of a number of plantation airs, which were heartily applauded.

Among the best-rendered parts of the whole programme was a German specialty given by the well-known variety artists, Smith and Ellis. Miss Ellis, who has the finest voice on the variety stage in the Northwest, was at her best in the duets, and her general acting left nothing to be desired. Smith's German dialect in their mirth-provoking sketch aroused ripples of laughter in the audience.

Prof. William Anderson, late fencing instructor of the Melbourne Medical College, Melbourne, Australia, in his club-swinging exhibition was excellent, but was somewhat handicapped by the weight of his clubs, which were regulation five-pound exercise clubs instead of the exhibition clubs usually used.

Miss Chapin, a local elocutionist of some note, succeeded Prof. Anderson upon the stage, and recited in a most feeling manner a selection entitled "How He Saved St. Michael."

Eugene Littweiler, in his slackwire specialties, surpassed even the expectations of his friends. He exhibited wonderful control in his balancing feats, a number of which are rarely seen even among professionals.

The colored quartette from Franklin favored the audience with a fine exhibition of part singing, which was highly appreciated and won two well-deserved encores.

When the curtain next rose W. A. Carle and George Ling ... a three-round go. Their work was clean and clever, and the gallery was particularly enthusiastic.

Robert Spencer and L. Oliver, the acrobats, made of their performance one of the successes of the evening, and their somersaults, handsprings and tumbling fairly dazzled the eyes of the audience.

Brotherly rivalry was next displayed in the wrestling bout between Oscar and Louis Marbet, and, although the former won, securing two out of three, the match was stubbornly contested and every hold known in wrestling was exhibited.

Edward Pineus and Daniel Dean, well-known amateur featherweights, gave a three-round bout, and Pineus showed himself especially clever with the gloves.

Last, but not least, on the programme was the novel performance of the quintet from Franklin, four of the Wright family and one of the Richardson, beginning with a banjo and guitar quartette and finishing with song and buck dancing to the music of the banjo and guitar played by the two boys. On the encore the smallest of the party, a boy of 5, responded with unique buck dancing and singing, in which the ivory of his teeth and the sparkling of his eyes evinced the pleasure he was taking in his own performance.

The curtain fell amid the applause of the audience, and the only cause for regret was the unavoidable absence of Frank Anderson, which necessitated the omission of the fencing bout between the Anderson brothers.

The Franklin relief fund was further increased yesterday. Only one subscription was received, but that one, amounting to $100.50, was donated by the employees of the Blue Canyon Coal Mining Company at New Whatcom, bringing the total to nearly $2,000, while the benefit given by the Olympic Athletic Club last night will add about $150 more.