Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . Steve Hogan. 182. THEM WAS THE GOOD OLD DAYS him what he could do to make Broadway. So little Billydid the song-and-dance, StroUin Through the Park—right back there on the old Burtis patted the youngster, toencourage him, and little Billy toldMurray again, when he was leavin,Some day youll see my name onBroadway. William Albert Johnston gothis start several years later withthe Kickapoo medicine company,doin a blackface version of Stroll-in Through the Park, at Tamaroa,Illinois. He peddled Sagwa andRattlesnake Oil durin
Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . Steve Hogan. 182. THEM WAS THE GOOD OLD DAYS him what he could do to make Broadway. So little Billydid the song-and-dance, StroUin Through the Park—right back there on the old Burtis patted the youngster, toencourage him, and little Billy toldMurray again, when he was leavin,Some day youll see my name onBroadway. William Albert Johnston gothis start several years later withthe Kickapoo medicine company,doin a blackface version of Stroll-in Through the Park, at Tamaroa,Illinois. He peddled Sagwa andRattlesnake Oil durin intermis-sions, but never took any of themedicine hisself, because, as he said later, every time hesold a bottle it made him gag. In Chicago, Billy worked around theatres, and later cameto the front as a tramp comedian, tourin the country underthe stage name of Bert Leslie in his own creation of thatcelebrated character, Steve Hogan. He was recognized asthe slickest slangster on the stage. Later Bert Leslie made good on his boyhood boast—Some day youll see my name on Br
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