Forester Gets A Settlement

Street Car Company Gives him $150

THE FUNNY SHOWMAN

Knocked Down by Street Car Here Has Had His Claim Adjusted

Bruce Forester, one of the funny men with the Si Plunkard company, who, while cutting up some didos on Main street a few weeks ago, was knocked down by a street car and alleged to have been badly hurt, has recovered $150 from the railroad company.

When Forester came to his senses, he is claimed to have soliloquized thus: 
"Methinks I ought to be reimbursed for this sudden jar to my feelings. This Street car company must cough up some dough or I'll know the reason why."

Suiting the action to the thought he inquired for an attorney. He showed up in the law office of Martin J. Cavanaugh and told the attorney how his clown's costume had been badly disarranged by the rude attack that had been made upon it by the Hawks-Augus electrical machine. He showed that one of the curved bones attached to his vertebral column had received several severe indentations from the stepboard of the car and that when his head carne in contact with the street pavement that the sudden friction between the two caused him to become bald in several spots where he otherwise had a plentitude of hirsute adornment.

Previous to bis visit to the attorney's office, however, it is well to explain that Forester was attended by Dr. M. L. Belser, who administered consoling words and heroic treatment, assuring the funny man of the 'Si Plunkard company that his chances to do a few more laughable stunts were not at all discounted because of his sad experience of a short time before.

With this assurance Foroster took on renewed bravery and through Martin Cavanaugh gave the Street car people to understand that it was either "settle"' or a lawsuit.

The company has settled for $150. It is only fair to Forester to say that he was given such a jolt by the car that it was thought for a time that he was about to take his exit to the land "where the wicked cease from troubllng and the weary are at rest."