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Their real names were Peter McCormick and Henry Benson, but professionally they were known as "Bing-Bang Brothers," because their act was quick and noisy. These performers were at liberty. They were behind in their rent and the kind-hearted landlady was getting nervous. An important theatrical agent, whom the brothers managed to see, refused, after witnessing their performance, to sign them up. However, being in dire straits, the brothers accepted an engagement at a joint salary of $15 per week with the Mayville Carnival Company. Arriving at Mayville they found that the carnival failed before it started, owing to the fact that the daughter of the treasurer eloped with a drummer, taking the bank roll along. Bing and Bang were busted, and far from New York. They pawned all the clothes they had in their large hamper trunk, but only obtained a little more than the price of one ticket to New York. So it was decided that Bang should come home as baggage, for they could send the trunk as baggage without extra cost. At a junction halfway to New York the hamper containing Bang was dumped out by mistake. A porter started to trundle it to the station, much to the sorrow of Bang. The agent stormed when he saw the baggage and directed that it be sent on the next train. The vaudeville agent who had rejected the act of Bing and Bang happened to be waiting at that same junction. With him was a young woman, and they both knew that the man's wife would be very angry if she heard of the business trip. But the vaudeville agent had "fixed things," he explained by sending "Wifie" picture post cards from Pittsburgh, mailed by a faithful chum. They sat on the hamper, and Bang, inside, was making notes of the conversation on his cuff and shirt, for he recognized the man's voice. In due time the trunk arrived in New York, and Bank told Bing what he heard. Bing and Bang dropped all other business and devoted themselves to watching the agent's office. The day he arrived they followed him into his private room and told him they had a new act, adding for fear he might violently throw them out, "It is love at a railroad junction, taken from life. Very interesting." The agent's guilty conscience told him he had been found out. Bing and Bang drew forward a trunk, seated themselves upon it, and went through the love scene of the agent and the girl, notes of which Bang had taken down on his cuff and his shirt front. The agent yielded; he was quick witted, and he knew what would happen if the story reached his wife, "How would you boys like 30 weeks on the Pacific Coast to be followed by a year in Australia?" They accepted, and were thoroughly happy. The agent was happy, because he sent them far away. What the audiences in the Far West and Australia thought has not been reported.

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