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SCEAIl TVELERSARE AN AVERAGE OF TWO PERSON8 A MINUTE SAIL PROM NEW YORK'S PIERS. New York, Feb. 6.-Th army of transatlantic travelers who arrive in and leave New York every year is greater than the standing military force .any. country on earth. It is la indpod than the population of an y s country with two exceptI tt ng over 2,500.000 ev ery ye. Last year showed a falling off of transatlantic travel at this port of nearly a million from the av erage, but even so its proportions were tremendous. Every day 1,470 ocean travellers arrived and 2,400 de parted. In other words a transat lantic arrival took place every fifty seconds, while some one sailed away every forty seconds. In all 670,680 persdan came into the country through tise port and 859,841 left it, the east ward travel being in excess by 178, 801. To handle this travel an ,equip ment of one steamer of the largest type now in existence sailing each day is necessary. The greater part of the travel both east and west bound as might be expected, is made up of steerage passengers. During 1908 this class constituted nearly two thirdp of the incoming total, amount ing to 402,000 or more than one-half of the country's immigrants arriving at all ports,' which amounted to 782, 870. Each of these newcomers brought in on the average, in real monly $23. Of those admitted 172,293 could neither read nor writs, end 10,902 Ilnmigrants were rejected, on account of mental, maoral and physical9 defects. That there is little cause to worry over a possible depopulation of the United States because of the excess travel to Europe is shown by the fact that even under last year's abnormal rate. it would take mure than 500 years to gut rid of the present population without allowing for the natural in crease within the country's borders. New York has a brand new sport known as "pigeon flattering" which is another way of saying pigeon stealing, among the owners of the 100,000 birds which are kept in this city. Although there is a reward of twenty-five cents for every pigeon stolen, the act is not an illegitimate one, but simply the expression of the newest pastime here. For many years the breeding of carrier pigeons has been a large industry conducted on the roofs of apartment houses in the uptown dis triets. From a single roof in this quarter the homes of more than toe' thousand of these birds :are t Ithin almost a stone's throw, and oin Sun days, the day on which they get most of the flying exer:. ie ihich they must have, the al" is full of them. As a result of this conditiron the new game of pigeon tlnttorltng has sprung up. The breeders he've form ed an association and conduct this sport every seventh day. A. all tile birds are what are known as "homers"-that is those which return to their own lofts-the novel idea of Inducing them not to d- .a has been introduced. Each fancier trains (spe. clally intelligent birds to flatter those belonging to other persons and Induce them to come to the rival fan cier's roof. Every pigeo:1 thus cap tured Is of course returned, but its owner has to pay ct fine of twenty five cents for each one, or give it up. There is a regular set of rules gov erning this unllu( spohrt. and the most successful brcoderq who some times capture as mllmv as "00 birds in an afternoon make a very fair Sun day income in this way. ctvery bird owner has a tew pidgeonq that are especially good 'mixer.,." These bods have the hospit ttle manlties that make a strange bird feel ait home. They are sent up so often that they seem to know they are expected to fly around with the new bird un til it decides to d.,c tnd to the roof, there to be held for th,' twenty-five 'ent ransom. l.oleo other clt:.,c. come and no l , tl,c t aus, for bridge .e.ist bids fair It, go (ni forever. Not onl.iy dloes 'b:rilge" far exceed all other gualnes Ilayed in the card-rooms of thle !'.tstunleublo clubs, In private houses after dinner and at week-end gatherings in coun try homes, but it is said on good au thority that there are Io less than four thousand clubs, composed chiefly of women, which have bridge as their sole object of existence. Even the servants have taken up the all pre 'vailing fad. As illustrating thlls state of affairs Frank Crowninshield tells a story in his pungent little book "Manners for the Metropolis" in which he satirizes the ways of fash ionable society. ApC.ording to this veracious narrative a woman who lived In the suburbs was engineering a servant and had completed all the Union Theater C. A. HARNOIS, Manager. WEDNESDAY eb. t CHAS. H. YALE CO. Twenty-eighth annual oblation. The everluasting DEVIL'S AUCTION Extraordinary spectacle; Superior scenic Invetiture; 4 Baby African Elephants in Native Jungle Dance; Irge Company, Extravagantly Costamed; Grand Transformation Ioene, "Armor." Best ever. Every feature new this year. Prices. 1.60, $1.00, 7oc, 60O. Set sale Tuesday, 10 a. m., at theater. IN THE THEATERS The Cohan & Harris comedians, headed by Robert Oder, will present the great International comedy success. "Brewster's Millions." at the opening night of the new Harnois theater, Thursday, PFbruary 25. This comedy has been described am a jewel In theatrical entertalnment and has met with tremendous success in New York. Chicago and London. It has plenty of comedy, rich and laugh able lines, excellent dramatic situa tions and thrilling and captivating climaxes. Brrwster is left a million by hib (Irandfather. Ills mother's brother, * ,·' · ::f. V.A· EMMA PRG I TEDEIL ACTO wealthy miner, dies and leaves his $7,000,000 to Brewster upon condition that `he legitimately spend the million his grandfather willed him withnn a year. lie must tell no one what he is doing, but must dispose of its Iogi eially, without unnecessary waste, giv ing libraries, building churches or anything of the sort. The watchword is "'spend." He enlists it bunch of friends into a partnershlp to assist him in the "business" of getting rid of money, and his enforced secrecy muakes many a laughable situation. -He wastes some, such as sending tele grains to his clerks instead of talking to them, but in being angel to thentrt cal enterprises, betting on losing horses (which sometimes win, much to his consternation), playing Monte (arl (antld nearly setting hilnmslt eazy by breaking the bank and adding some $250,000 to his alriaady dlfflhult task of spending s.nle $3,0010 a day), and paying salvage to the resi'ulers of his yacht on the Mediterranean, he finally succeed. "n cleaning his finan cial house, takes receipts for every cent, and wins the uncle's legaR'y of $7,000,000. "Devil's Auction." C'harles Hl. Yale's "lv\'vrlastsing D)evll's Auction." which by virtue o0 its capacity to keep abreast of the times has earnred the sobriquet preced ing Its title, is now playing en tour to audiences that have history to con sider in viewing the production that hnas outlived almost everything else except Shakespeare. Twenty-eight years ago, when James S. Maffit and his partner, Bar thlolomew, were Involved in the telling of tihe story, they ran the show with gas light and tallow dips and flash boxes, and when electricity b)egan to be used the scheme of giving the show was changed to keep abreast of the times and newer conditions. The title underwent a change in the same manner until there was nothing left but "everlasting" to describe its qual ity. In all these years the "Devil's .Aue tion" has gone ahead supplying the amusement public with a couple of hours of anticipated pleasure, until its announcements have gained a sort of prominence until events are dated from its coming and going, and a re ward for good behavior held out to young folks "that they will be taken to see the 'Everlasting Devil's Auc tion' if they are good." If they are tinot- well, they don't go, and many a v.ungster is on the qul vive from the day the towtl walls are adorned with preliminary arrangetments whenl sud denly the girl inquired how many there were in the family. "Only my husband and myself," rpliled tile womnan. ")h, that never would tldo at all," said thei prospective maid-of all work. "I never would think of going to a family in which there were not three persons so that we could tmake up a four for bridge in the evening." Just how far the craze for this card game has gone in society here s i n stanced by the fact that one woman recently lost $11,260 at i friendly gatnu', and that husbands suing for divorce on the ground of extrava gance ianle it in seven cases out of tenl as the cause of their complaint. Ten dollars a point is Inot an unlcom mon stake, and it is reported that a well-known woman recently won $12, 000 In a single hand. Even suicide would seem ito have its valrying fashions from year to )ear ill this city, and thile data covering thei voluntary shuffling off by the .%5 persons who aid so during the past twelvte months shtls usome intere.ting, if gruesome, light on the proper man netr of exchanging this life for an ,other, so far as the mtntropolis sets the fashiotns in most things, is con cerned. According to the statistics the most proper and popular way to get rid of one's self would seem to fxe iy shooting, At any ratie 174 per stns expressed their belief in this judgment last year by adopting the method in question. The more ethl cally inclined among the suicide set, however, holding this method to be messy and disfiguring, have made asphyxiation by gas almost equally 'Auction" pictures until they know ;hlir fate is settled.. lThis. yaear'. edition, the twenty eighth, na inl every succeeding season, niw ,ctntulnes, scenery and the latest noveylti.s at-r conspicuous in this pro. luction. Miss IEamma Prager, a very hand a,ten n and clever exponent of in t.nlu.es, has been engaged by Manager (' cirles II. Yale to play the part or th,' horalina., Madeline, in the twenty .lighti edition of the "Evdrlasting Dev i'.s Aucti,,n." Ma!,inager Yalh's claim that the "Dev 11' Auctiotn in the oldest In name, yet P the newest in point of novelty, can wei'll he substantiated in this the I twenty-t'ighth edition of this famous L slpetacle', as everything is new from the timel the curtain rises on the first act until it Is rung down on the beau tiful "Tratllsformation Scone," "Amor" (love1\) at the close of the performance. Every act, novelty and feature is nrt\w, as 'well as tlhe scenery and prop ertles, etc. In fact, not one old fea tui're Is retained, and the theater-go ing public of Missoula have a treat in storte for them on Wednesday, 'Feb. 11, at the I'nln thoater. THEIR REAL NAMES Mists Lottta Faust of Joe Welter's elnrttpany is Mrs. Rlchle Ling. Miss 'Flora Zubtlle of Joe Weber's co',lmpany is Mrs. Raymond Hitchcock. Miss Nela Bergen of "The Free Lance" it Mrs. De Wolf Hopper. Miss (i.ertrude' Coghlan of "The Lion and theit Mouse" is Mrs. Augustus Pl tou, Jr. M iss ,ldette Tyler of "The Love R,oute" is Mrs. R. D. McLean. Mar:t' Mllnnering is Mrs. Jamets K. Havckett. Maxine Elliott is Mrs. Nat C. Good win. ('lira Lipman is Mrs. Louis Mann. (l'ertrutde Elliott is Mrs. Forbes Rob ertson. (trace tleorge is Mrs. William A. Brady. l'holebe IDavis is Mrs. Joseph R. Grismer. Heletn lBertramn is Mrs. E. J. Mor gan. Effle Shannon is Mrs. Herbert Kel cey. Beatrice Cameron is Mrs. Richard Mansfield. BIlanche Ring in Mrs. Frederick E. McKay. Hope Booth is Mrs. Rennold Wolf. Margaret Tilington is Mrs. Daniel Frohman. Maude Durbln is Mrs. Otis Skin ner. Julia Arthur is Mrs. Cheney. Georgia Drew is Mrs. Maurlce Bar rymore. Amelian iingham Is Mrs. Lloyd Btng. ham. Virginia Hlarned is Mrs. E. 8. Roth ern. Mme. Mojeska is the Countess Bo zenta. ithel Jackson Is Mrs. William Fav ersham. Henrietta Crossman is Mrs. Maurice Campbell. popular, ant ait close second to the gun nmethod. No less tlhan 160 per snup elided their existence last year by gas for which they will never receive it rebate. Had they waited. the act would have cost them, or their heirs 20 per cent less. These two methuds of suicide seem to he the only fashionable ones Judged by the extent to which they are patronized. of course not every suicide takes what Is known by the police as the G and G route-the letters stand for gun and gas-but considerably more thtan half of them do. Among those c'lss s which do not make fashions- even in suicide-various other mlnthods are popular, the poison Listen to Us Right Now We have a real estate proposition that we want you to know about. Come around to our of fit 't lonlday Illorlligll andi we will tell you all Ihollt it. It 'onclerll Tulllah townsite a n d there's sure profit in it for you. EStddard & Price 108-110 East Main. Al the BIJOU Monday and Tuesday February 8 and 9 The Gambler and thejD evil In a roo,m of an Irish hostelry a cefntury ago, Barry Kilgowan, a yonng "Squire," is seated at a table with several companions, drinking, smok ing and playing cards. The game goes on. The golden notes, which are. piled before each player, frequently change hands. Of a sudden the door is opened and Terry O'Neill, a friend of Barry, enters hurriedly. He is greeted pleasantly by the men; he nods, goes over to Barry and engages in earnest conversation. Barry seems startled at first, bids his friend wait a moment and after drinks are served, the Squire sweeps his win nings Into his pockets and the winner and his friend depart. At the little parish church a group of peasants are standing about the entrance gossiping, when a coach draws up and Barry's fiancee, Moira Kavanagh, and her father, alight nd enter the edifice. The peasants cheer them, look anxiously up and down the street for the groom. Shortly the sound of hoofbeats is heard and Barry and O'Neill dash up at breakneck speed and enter the church. A few minutes later the bridal procession emerges, get into the coaches and amid the cheers and congratulations of the guests and peasants, drive off. TWO YEARS LATER-Barry, whose craving for gambling has In creased, has now beoome a confirmed gambler. The house is scantily furnished, but here and there are pictures and bric-a-brac, relics of bet ter days. At the table the young Squire, his face pale and haggard, is playing cards with two other men. They take Barry's last dollar, he follows them to the door, bows them out, then falls In the chair in despair. Moira enters, tries to console him, but to no avail. He goes to the library, begips writing and figuring. Every moment his face be comes darker and more unhappy. Finally he opens the table drawer, takes out a pistol and puts it to his forehead. At that moment there is a puff of smoke from the fireplace and a devil appears. He talks to Barry, gesticulating and smiling in a suave manner; then from his coat pulls a bag and pours coins and banknotes on the table. The gamb clr gazes upon the money greedily, attempt to grasp some, whereupon Satan takes out a legal looking document, which he passes to the vic tim. Barry looks at it in horror, but his greed for money gains control over him and he signs the compact agreeing, in consideration of the wealth loaned, that in a year and a day he will play a game of chance with the evil one, the stake being Barry's wife. The allotted year and at day expires. Barry's home is now elaborately furnished and wealth is evidcdnced ie every quarter. Barry has a haunted look; as the clock .mllnes the hour of midnight at servant hands the host a note. He takes it, readis the contents and staggers from the room. In the library he finds the devil seated at the table smiling wickedly. Satan takes the dice from his pocket and places the mon the table. Barry pleads for relea.se froml his agreement, hbut the devil turns aside. Barry throws, then Satan, and the latter wins. Barry calls his wife; she enters, looks in astonish ment at the devil, and asks Barry for an explanation. The husband sinks in the chair absolutely helpless. Satan springs toward Moira, but shei eludes him, draws a rosary from her dress and holds up a cross beforc him. The devil covers his eyes with his hands; there is a puff of smoke and he disappears. Moira hands the cross to Barry, who falls on his knees and, with uplifted hands, registers a solemn vow to re nounce gambling. Spooks do Moving Dream of a Rarebit Fiend Romance of the Alps Illustrated Song By ED. LEVASSEUR At the...... LYRIC Monday and Tuesday Evenings, Feb. 8 and 9 GREAT:HISTORICAL DRAMA Further Announcement Tomorrow route getting 63 members last year. After it in point of popularity comes the jumping from the roof method, which had 35 devotees last year and the rope cravat or hanging style which chlmed 34 in the greater city. Other styles which have some ad herents are poison with 63, jumping in front of trains, 10, and drowning 22. In these various manners and propor tions do New Yorkers commit sui cide each year. As a result of seeing a purple rat, various New Yorkers have of late climbed into permanent seats on the water wagon, after having taken the pledge. In this case, however, the animal in question is not a figment of the imagination, but a real purple rat, the first and' only one of its kind, which is now on exhibition at the Zoo. It is the result of years of breeding, which were not. however. conducted on behalf of the temper .ance movement. Nevertheless var ious casual mal visitors who have chanced upon this unique animal have abjured strong drink forever more. The world's first purple rat is as might be expected, a freak. Years ago a foreigner began experiments in crossing black, white, gray, brown i and all other colored rats in an at tempt to produce a tortoise-shell rat. 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