ARTHUR JOHNSON, of the old song and dance team of Harrington and Johnson, is now with Mrs. Johnson’s Pickle Company. This is not a farce-comedy as one might believe, but a permanent organization with headquarters at Richmond, Va. The author hopes to sample those pickles on his next trip to the Old Dominion capitol. CHARLIE HAYWOOD (Wilson B. Howard) was one of the original members of the Clipper Quartette, organized in 1879, of which he was the bass singer. He remained with the quartette about three years. He was born in 1861, and died at Peak’s Island, Me., July 12, 1889. MATT MCELROY was a banjoist of uncommon ability. He made his first appearance with Hooley’s Minstrels in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1876. In 1877 he joined George M. DeVere in a double banjo act, and continued with him two years, after which he worked with Harry Colby, as Devere and McElroy. Subsequently he had various other partners. In 1886 he married Nellie Mordaunt. Mr. McElroy was born in Boston, Mass., July 16, 1861; he died in Pittsburg, Pa., July 6, 1894. MARK MURPHY, the celebrated Celtic comedian, was not always thus. In the Spring of 1877 he was a member of Sargent’s Minstrels in California. Mr. Murphy was not born in Cork--but knows how to use it. [Illustration: (Courtesy of Byron Studio, New York) PRIMROSE AND DOCKSTADER’S MINSTRELS; Victoria Theatre, New York City, about March 1, 1902. Reading from left to right--Neil. O’Brien, Harry Howard, Edw. Le Roy Rice, Geo. Sinclair, Harry A. Ellis, Fred. Gladdish, Franklyn Wallace, Jas. B. Bradley, Wm. H. Hallett, Geo. Primrose, ----, Wm. Scott, Charles Parr, ----, ----, Eddie Leonard. Puzzle--Find “Slim Jim” Dukelan, “Mike” Latham and the Foley Twins.] WM. S. CLEVELAND for several years held one of the highest positions in the realms of burnt-cork amusements. It was of him that the late William H. West once said--“that he was the greatest executive that minstrelsy ever knew.” Like several of his contemporaries, he began his professional career in an humble capacity in his native town, and shortly after went away with a circus. In 1882 Mr. Cleveland was lithographer with Barlow, Wilson, Primrose and West’s Minstrels; the three succeeding years he was with the Gigantean Minstrels; Barlow, Wilson’s Minstrels, Cal. Wagner’s Minstrels and Hallen and Hart’s Company. July 30, 1885, he assumed the management of McNish, Johnson and Slavin’s Minstrels at the inception of that organization, and continued in that capacity for two seasons. July 18, 1887, he became manager for Haverly’s Minstrels, and one year later the famous Haverly-Cleveland Minstrels blossomed forth. A few years later Mr. Cleveland launched the company that bore his name, and the trade-mark continued as Cleveland’s Minstrels for several seasons; at one time there was three or four minstrel companies on the road under his name.