RICHARD M. HOOLEY DEAD. The Veteran Theatrical Manager Ends His Career in Chicago. CHICAGO, Sept. &-Richard M. Hooley, the veteran thestrical manager, died here to-day. He was one of Obicago's cariless theatrical managers, and his career threads the history of local management His birthpiac. Bal. lina, in County Mayo, Ireland, where be was bora April 13, 1822. He was carefully educated in the schools of Manobester, England, his father being a prosperous merchant. Mr. Hooley came to this country in-1844 on • pleasure trip, and he liked New- York City 40 well that he signed a contract to assume the nominal leadership of minstrel organization with the famous E. P. Christy, who had heard of bia talents as a violinist. Two years of this life gave Mr. Hooley managerial sapirations of his own, and be organized a minstrel company in 1848 and took it to England, opening in Her Majesty's Concert Rooms in Hanover Square, London. Mr. Hooley returned to America in 1853. In 1855 he made overland trip to California, where he took the management of " Tom Msguire's Opera House in San Francisco. In 1858 he returned to the East permanently, and in 1859 be opened Nibio'• Garden, New- York City, with his drat manager, E. P. Christy, the combination being known as Hooley & Camp bell's Minstrels. Campbell WaS beautiful singer, and, when he died, Manager Hooley took his little son and reared him as Thomss P. Hooley, who was in the box office of the Chios. go house for Fears, and who died here few years ago. Brooklyn was the scene of his pert mansgerial venture, and with Hooley's Minstrels de opened there in the Fall of 1862. Manager Hooley came 10 Chicago in 1867 and built Hooles's Opera House, where the Grand Opera House now stands, on Clark Street This was successful until it was destroyed by the great fire of 1871. Mr. Hooley had retired on a good Income two years before the Ire. His loss of $180,000 by the tire compelled him to re enter active business again, and he traded his Clark Street site for the site of the present Randolph Street house, building Hooley's Theatre and opening in 1872 with the kiraily * Black Crook.' He organized Hooley's Stook Company, included William H. Crane, Nate Balebury, Nellie MoHenry, James O'Neill, Louise thorne, Frederick Bock, George Giddens, Belvil Eyan, Sidney Cowell, and other popular playera, produced many of Bartley Campbell' playa in tine style, and met with much success. He malutained his stock company until the growth of the combination system made ite continuAD06 impossible. In late years Hooley's Das been 1 combination house, bus one of the atre In 1878 to devote his entire his best of its kind. He gave up his Brooklyn the • Chicago house, which has just entered upon its twenty-fourth season. Mr. Hooley, in 1856. married Miss Rosins Cramer in Now- York City, and their home for Jears was at 17 Delaware Place. His surviving children are Grace and Mary, the latter a widow. Rosina and Richard died. For many years the erect and portly figure of Richard die Hooley was familiar in the neighborhood the City Hall in Brooklyn. His long beard, reaching almost to his waist, was black then, but in recent years " Unole Diek "Hooley. 80 bixbly esteemed in Chicago theatrical cirales, had hair and beard that was as white as BDOW. Mr. Hooley established Hooley's Minstrels, at the corner of and Court Streets, in the palmy days of minstrelsy, and for some time it was the only place in Brookiyn 1m which performances Were given every night. The enormous 8000688 of this little the atre led to the building of the Park Theatre on Fulton Btreet, just Bor088 City Hall Square, by Mr. Benson in 1863. Hooley's minstrel troupe was an excellent company of its kind, and its performances were of the simple, old-fashioned sort, with long first pars" and plenty of tuneful ballade. The most popular member of the troupe Archie Hughes, who was in minstrelsy in Brooklyn for many years what Edward Lamb, the law comedian of the Con ways' company, was to the soted drama
