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BRiTJ^ll ELECTIOHS Methods of Can-assing-Cost j -—Bcsults. London. January .*> ' l-«- aIT British elections carried?" 2T*v inquisitive American i few m cii*i as "Fv guperior organization SS bou^-to-house canvassing, effec- Swords and costly pictures on •"•*,,.„■■ wa? candidate en a had * h<> v "f- ,* a candidate on a long *«* ' , "Lev and also with a bar f^X* "engage in a broad dr ** n . political cratory. and I knew my rUU The speaking is u eful for ■^rS effect in advertising party ar ■£S« at* inspinng L.rf.l»in> but the Seal work is done in the borough or division by the candidate, his p-> #£*&* aad the c ° mmittees of men 'C-oL of a doubtful constituency oSt to he begun long in advance of a ?£«*! election, so that the candidate STbe personally known throughout the T«r Subscriptions to local chanties. J^evolont associations and social and clubs are useful- in promoting "!£ feel.T-.g- If the candidate has a *Z we-orv for names and faces that SfbTeven'rnore helpful. As the elec 5; dm«-s near he rau »l find time for IStas up™ every one on the v n?: ££ asking for his support. The Vvass^g to be effective must be con- T^ted 'cystematically from house to S with help from the committees. Wu* a thousand speeches ,are to be -T^e this w^k at meetings, large or ssaS Doubtful voters axe not con verted by argument when there is ao IZch of it. The speeches entertain '"-Jsan« who kare already decided how ; he y will vote. Catchwords and attrac tive* phrases, which aa be easily re racrnbered and repeated, are more potent tbto platform eloquence "Taxing land ntoa than bread" is a Liberal legend •ha* appeals to landless wage earners ,fap D the constitutional issue raised by ♦*./ House cf Lords ia unintelligible. ••No money f° r --.us without the b'udcef and "Land for peasants, not pheasa=«" are equally effective strokes. -TVck for unemployed Englishmen" la the best tramp *° tbe Tor y pack. A ktrtosg pbrase. which can be repeated bvs lascheon pails and quoted in large , et 7 ers on hoard:r.»3. is more useful than the dsTßttt speech or than coiumns of -artisan reasoning in the party jour- Lie Tie candidate ho makes a point of SBerar yen ' voter and vin ShimS him a pjod c&tcs'- has a better chance of winsir? ~ e seat tiian his nvai wno is cfteser on tb« platform and a closer J>IWI - —•' more eloquent debater. Political posters are even more irr.por tzzt tfcaa drawing phrases. These are Fuppiled by the national unions of Lib eral and Conservative associations and 8!so by the local committees and the candidates themselves. The most artis tic one has been designed by Mr. Ken rungtcn for the Unionist party. It ig a realistic picture of b poverty-stricken interior, with a despondent husband and father cut of work, the wife weeping and t^«- daughter in rags, holding a starv faj baby. This is entitled "Free Trade." r-nd reproductiona of it in all sires are jTomnently displayed in two thousand <ratres of population. The Liberal posters, in 3aming colors r>n toaidings throughout the country, Tiortra" the horrors ■.•--■- with the taxed loaf, the blessings cf the pen =!Oß system for the veterans of indus try, the usurpations of the sporting peers snd other r-ciitica! themes. Lithographers, rr.nters and billposters have been work ing night and day for aeks, and mill htpfi of square feet of wall space and au 'hcrired hoardings are illuminated with iheir handiwork. To the pesters _-r. aulded leaflets, pamphlets and campaign literature iri ncjoni quantity. Each of the main ■part' organizations baa distributed fifty reillicn leaflets in the present canvass. and the expenses for printing, advertis tef, poszzze, telegrams and stationery, -^iiich amounted to £415,000 four years >.zo, are likely to be doubled this time. Indeed, it will probably be the costliest irt reneral elections of recent times, even wita the Labor candidates cut off by the Seriskm of the highest court from their T^rmal base cf trade union supplies, and trttb livery bills and other expenses pro- Mbited by the corrupt practices act. "Hit official returns relate to and: cates' subscriptions and to the ex pendltures ot local ■ rganizat.'-r con 'rciied by them, and do not include the outlay cf the national unions of associa tions and the headquarters staff. When t& accounts are settled it is estimated thai the elections will have coat the '■andidates and their friends outside Ire land not Lest: than $&000.000; and as soon as th«i contest is over the victors and their defeated rivals will be?in the ■"Doing of the constituencies anew, sup porting local newspapers, subscribing to •iaritiei attending dinners and pub lic functions and contributing to party ?Tinds. Often as much as $10,000 or *v*-n 125,000 is expended in "nursing" the s<=ar: before the elections come on. Political literature, campaign choirs, Z*z<i-_ posters and public meeting are nTTjon? the staz f ; properties of the can '•ida'e, ar.d help to advertise his stock in 'rad*-. So do the motor cars and women canvassers. Candidates cannot hire vobjclf-s tliemse'.ves, but their friends »nd acquaintances can lend them with oot violation of the corrupt practices »ct Motor rars have taken tin place cf four-m-nand* and broughams, and *a»re i.rp <?<-ores of th^m in use on El**c 'inn Day. Thr- democratic voter, who in •Mts upon having the candidate «:ill on and ask for his vote, enjoys the « foment of b*-ing driven to th* polling Tlac in a motor car. H*- also is flat tered by the- attentions of men can *&aen In handsome walking suits and black hat? with" long feathers, who take *a !ntere«-t in his wife, and children. The times may, have changed since the fcfaixtitu] Duchess of. Devonshire rlbed by h?r kisses .the butchers of Westmin »-ttr .to, vote for Fox, yet an efficient r *uuiui of women ■ • aftlna •« ■•caa t-iry portion 'of ■ a candidate's outfit. must not wear drab costumes, like i'Srith viEitors, as they bustle about with Printed lists of addresses, n«r must they WQt fast and in a high key like euf- J-*gettesJ -*gettes when they make the rounds of th* t?nem«>nts aiid urge the mon to vote "ttraight." They must be aaaaMa rather '.iiaij condescending, distribute leaflets *'ith a. benevolent air and not aear out <f homes as though' they v<^ -traid of exposing themselves to v nooriinjr cough and measles. If in the kingdom are carried 9 Wperior organization rathar than by Inform fluquence, it makes little differ- whether one side or the other is *W4ebated, <»r whether a l;alance can *V,. Stnic!: in ' rin " i i' i '- t - and (Hic«ea. • ■"' 't have Tiie two main parties, led J ejuall> trilliant tacticiiuis, been so well organized M th y are at present. Each is plentifully supplied with moncv. ha* employed a host of campaign speah ers and local canvassers and has dumped an enormous stock of political literature upon the market. The woxk of ran vassing has been done so energetically und systematically that neither party has a marked advantage in this mo mentOus contest- Complex questions of constitutional usage, fiscal policy and so cial reform are to be decided by the democratic electorate, which la mainly interested, in employment, an expansion of the emergency insurance services on German lines and abundant supplies of cheap food. Inscrutable are the caprices of Demos! There may be an overwhelming judg ment in favor of one party or the other. What is more probable ia a drawn bat tle more or leas indecisive, with another and even more arduous conflict within eighteen months. l n. F. TO PLAN NATIONAL COUNCIL. Committee Chosen to Bring Arbitration Societies Into Harmony. President Nicholas Murray Butler of Colombia University, chairman of tlie Ijake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration, announced the names yester day of the committee to consider plans f . r a national cotmcil for arbitration and arhoae purpo^ it will be to bring into harmonious co-operation the different peace and arbitration societies. Freriiient Butler has named the foilow* inp committee: Elihu Ri^ot, Senator from New York; Andrew Carnegie, honorary president of the New York Peace Society: Albert K. Smiley, organizer of the Lake Mohonk Conference 0:1 Internationa! Arbi tration: Benjamin F. Trueblood. of Boston, pecretary of the American rcaii 11 So'-ieti'. E. D. AA'artield, of Baston. Perm.. presideni of I^afayetio. College; Lyman Ahbott, of New York, editor of "The Outlook": Ed win D Mead, of Boston; George W. Kirch w«v, Kent professor ot iaw in Columbia University; James Brown Scott, solicitor of the Department of State. :tnd Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia Uni versity.. WEDDINGS. Miss Mary Elizabeth Eddison, daughter of Mr. and airs. Charles Eddison. of Tarry town, was married yesterday to FVanklm M. Haines, of Manhattan, at St. Barnabas EpiFcroal Church, Irvinfrton-on -Hudson. Miss Annie B. Eddison, sister of the bride. was the maid of honor. The bridesmaids were Miss Marguerite 'Manning, of Irving ton: Miss Mary Tayior Lord, of Tarry town: Miss Eleanor C. Schmoele, of Phila delphia, and Mrs. TVeymer H. Waitt, of New York, was matron of honor. The besr man was Dallas W. Haine?, brother of the bridegroom. The ushers werts William Barton Eddison, of Trving ton; Tiiayer B Famngton and Warner H. Jenkins, of St. Paul. Minn.; Will iam Galey, of Philadelphia, and Weymer H. Waitt, of Manhattan, Jir. and Mrs. Haines will spend their honeymoon in Canada, and on their return will reside in N^w York. B'jriington. lowa, Jan. 19.— Mrs. George A Nickerson. of Boston, and Captain Horace Lambert Alexander, of England, were married to-day at the home of the bride's ancle. Dr. J. J. Ransom. Captain Alexander is the third son of the late Viscount Hood and brother of the present viscount. He is an officer on the ■n-arship Commonwealth. The bride is the sr of the late A. E. Touzaiin. for merly president cf the Atchison. Topeka & Sar.ta Fe Ra:!rcad. Following their honey- Captain I A -xan'i' a r will live n England. MRS. C. A. SCHARFF ILL. [By Tel?-Rraph to The Tribune ) Hasbrouck Heights. X. J.. Jan. 19. Word ■*2E received here to-day that Mrs. C. A. Scharff. mother of Assemblyman Joseph H. Scharff. of Bergen County, was seri ously ill at the sanatorium of her brother, Dr. Frederick Sewaid, at Goshen, X. Y. Mrs. Bcbarff who la seventy-two years eld. before her mzrnage was Miss Frances Seward. ar.d was the favorite niece of William H. Seward. Secretary of State in President Lincoln's Cabinet. HUGHES S EETIE.EMENT. ALL EYES ON NTT YORK. From The New Haven Palladium. The Vew-Ycrk Tribune, which has al ways been close to the Hughes administra tion declares positively that the Governor i- done and the people, too. are becoming convinced that it is eoing to be left to come one else to pursue his most creditable policies' If such is the case, the whole poiiticai world will keep its eyes "xed on the state campaign In New York next autumn. REFORM MEASURES URGED. From The Utica -Dispatch. The Governor's announcement makes more u-sent the necessity of adopting the reform measures he advocates on the part of the Republicans in the Legislature. The record on which the party goes before the People nest fall mnst be satisfactory rela tive to those measures if Republican suc cess is to be assured. HIS STANDARD From The Rochester Post-Express. Governor Hughes has personally and in t!-e most unequivocal manner confirmed in all" particulars The Tribune's announcement that he will retire irom office at the clos« oi his present term. ... Tie has Bet such a high standard that there are only a few men in the state who can measure un to present day requirements, It will be ■r- difficult, indeed, for the party to find a man equal to the Governor in ability, rhaVacter. sincerity and devotion to the nublic welfare. But thout a man of this type it will be very hard for the Repub licans to carry the itate HIS SUCCESS From The Rochester Democrat and Chroni cle. •<f ■ York h;*i- many al>l< and some »mi n*"nt who would be worthy successors ,, f Charles E. Hughes in the governorship. In lasting about for the rich', man nono hould be considered who doss not oeasure ud in the best nidgmen' of the people, to that ■ mdard. Th« Republican party espe cially has i seriou obligation resting upon it in thi-- matter. The voices that should b- pottnt, in the event r>f Governor Hu"liei-'s retiremtiit, sliould be those that Fpeak for th" state and parry In their hi-hest and best aspects, not. those which are heart] only In behalf of partisan .->r factional interests. The grca.tt-Kt stat* 1 in v^~ Union to-day has the. greates <iov ernor. and in saying that we d iparag< bo other Governor's merits or stature, for whoever approximates Governe Hughes la a great public official. WHAT IS GOING ON TO-DAY Free admission to the Metropolitan Muwum of Art and • .1' American Museum of Nat ural History. Public- nmtrttnai of tbe Woman's pCunfcipal l/eacue. No. 19 East 28th ■■••■• II a. m. M«»ting of th»» Aesoolation of Ic<s Cream Manufacturers. Hotel Astor, 11 a. ra, Muti'al of th« Haarlem Philharmonic Bod«tjr, Waidorf-Astoiia. 11 a. m. Annual uieotlns; of the American Protecliv* Tariff r<naVlir. No. '■^•'■'■* Broadway, 12 o'clock, noon. Folk dance under the saapioaa of th«« 'Thll V-.r. n'g Aid Society, Italian House, No. 153 Worth street, afternoon. M retina; <<t tha Dixie Club, Hotel Astor, 2 p. in. Meeting of th<; Caledonian Hospital Society, Hotel Att'ji . 8:«O p. m. • Fre»- lectu of the Board of Education, | p. ni : Public School Z'.'.. No. 41 S Went "Bth street. "New Yur:. Harbor." Herbert K. Sherwood; Public School 4rt. l.'.tstli fctre<-t and St. Nicholas .1 enue, "Mr-r^iiant of Venice," William j: Fhmitic; Public School ■*)". H'.-ster and Kssex Btrt-ets. H... • lin and Military Life in Germany," j>ro recsor Henry Kick; Public School U4, loth «tr«-et. wmmt of Avenue B. "A Trip to Cen ira. « Africa," De, Witt C. Bnyder; Public School J2 7<)>!i atreet and First avenue, "Broadwuy. Old and New." Stephen Jen kiu«; Public ficliool 119. i:;:;.i street and Kichth avenue, "Th- ' »re»on Country " Mis. Winifred H. Cooley; public School ir.i«. No. 211 Eaet IliMli atre< •■( J ~f nrri in English Literature," Dr. JJardln Craig rublic Sthool 105, l««th stre.-t md Am sterdam avenue. "Mukden, Manchuria mil Use' West." Dr. Toyoklehi lyenaga- Public Fohool 17" 1 1 tli itreei and fifth avenue. •'The Healthy Human Body." Dr Inxlpo H. Berry; Institute Hall. No. z\-- East lO6tn (.tree t. • •■!>ainiii(,' Our National ird." G»<ir(?e E. Stonsblidffe; Public T.ibrar; ■. No. 112 Kant O^tTi ptreet, '\\'. w /.ealand, s» Nation of WorUtiiKmer. "' \, thur H. Warner: <t. t.tJke* Hal ,. Dud con »nd tsr'»v<f etreeta. "Wild Floorers of \>. v Vf,r'.. CUi and Vicinity," L'[. Atiei j " Grout- — - M:\V-YORK DAILY TRTBIXE. THTRSDAY. JANUAUr 20. 1010. MUSIC A NEW OPERA AT MR. HAMMEE STEINS HOUSE Massenet's "Griselidis." Having: already introduced bis patr^nf to two of Massenet's operas hitherto unknown by them this season Mr. Hammerstein laat night produced a third. '■Grise.lidts. 11 like ••L.c. Jongleur de Notre Dame." is in sharp contrast with "Herodiade." "Thais" and "Sapho," and occupies territory between tnose somewhat lurid operas and the composer's romantic "Manon" and "Wer th*r."' In -which tn«»re is more or less por trayal of domestic passion. So many operas by a single composer ought to speak w»»u for his versatility, as It surely does of his fecundity and industry. But the individuality of sTsoarinot. which is incon- BWSta Me, Is an individuality which leans h«»ii\i]v on sameness*. The French wits who thought it clever to dub htm "Mad- SBBOtselle Wapner" fifteen or twenty years ago. have never had an opportunity to greet him as "Madame W." Those feat ures of his art which were most charmlnj* then arr the most charmlrg now. Be has not grown older in thought or riper in cre atiw ability, but only more facile and more finished in expression. "Grisflldta" was a ilrst product of an amiable pose which was continued in "La Jongleur de Notre Dame." It was common gossip in Paris some years ago that Mas- Sfnet composed "I*t Jongleur" (which has no female character) to answer the flings Of the boulPvnrdWs to tb<- effect that his inspiration required the spur of Sibyl San derson's charms. "I'lriselidis" had already disclosed the absurdity of the story. It prpcerlpd "1.0 Jongleur" and was as little adapted to the type of character whioh he bad associated with Miss Sanderson as **Le Jongleur" is adapted to Miss Garden — or any oth^r woman. Both operas are, in fact, easily explained by the essentially sentimental spirit of French art. Whether Gounod attempt to write an oratorio on So suhlhiK' a subject as the fall of man and his redemption, or Massenet picture the touching piety of an honest mounte bank, it is rill one: the music is bound to run out into a gentle strain of religious balladry. EX'-ppt for Cesar Francks "Beatitudes." the basic type for French religious music is "There is a green hill far away." French music, so far a& It Is represented by Massenet, la Ftill ingenuous in its pur suit of beauty. It does not seem imminent that Ibsen will inspire him or any other French composer. Oscar Wilde, whom some "progressive" Germans now point to as the highest development of dramatic genius, has not yet appeaW to the people for whom he wrote what his German ad mirers think a transcendent masterpiece. His celebration of necrophilism waited for a German to come who should attempt tn glorify jt in music. Electra's bestial fe rocity as pictured by Hoffmansthal will no more find favcr among the French than Salomes perverse passion did. Let that much be said in favor of the artistic tend ency of a people who are willing to hark back to a mira'le tale like that of "Our Lady's Juggler." or to a legend like that of "Griselidis" for presentation on the op era stage of to-day. Who, indeed, but a Frenchman could have thought of calling the "Patient Grizel " back to life — that marvellous model of patience, humility, fidelity and wifely obedience . We thought that the lachrymal floodgates which the perusal of her sufferings kept open for three centuries or more had long been closed. And to present her with truly mediceval simplicity, without philosophic gloss or comment, inspired by modern thought, in these days of female assertive ness! What daring! It is difficult to imag ine where the figure of Grizel, or Griselda, or Griselidis came from. The popular comedians were plaj-tng "La Myst£re de Griselidis" in Paris in 1793. but by that time there were at least twenty French versions of the old story- Boccaccio had told it in his "Decameron," Petrarch had made a Latin romance ot It 1 'De Obedien t-la et Fide Uxoria Mythologia") and Chaucer had put it into the mouth of his Clerk iv. "The Canterbury Tales." The Italian poet Zsno made an opera book of It •^■■r.ich was composed by over a dozen ten .'-■ ■•-- :.. '-'•■! and 179<5. Of all of these operas we can recall but a single relic . &fme Bembrich occasionally sings an ana beginning ' Fer la gloria d'ado from the "Griselda." which Bon oncini brought forward in London in 1722, arid which —as so successful as to fill Han del with the par: - - and provoke John Byrom'a epigram: say ;ompa.red to Bone:. Thai Handel's but a ninny; Others aver thai - T - Handel carcely fit to hold a candle inge all this difference should b* Tt» n and tweed!e<. . ients of historical interest grew out of tbia " " of Massenet's cpera. Anastasia Robinson enacted the part **f :a. and. if Burney is to be believed, onduct and sineinsr a^ the saint ferer that completed the conquest of L 'i"d Peterborough, who married the prim;i • r he had raned Senesino for hav 11 rude to her behind the scenes That the story ot the opera could provok" levity ea well a? tears nearly two hundred •■(.;!-<: c lines Which appeared In "T iders 1 Jour n ttarch 14. 1722, apropos of the BS of the libretto written by Bignor K r .l!i. a friend of B"non.-ini and a hearty hater of Handel: Cast from her kingdom, from her lord ex iled, Griselda r '.:l was lambl'k«. mute and mild But RoMi's verse urovok'd the saint to roar. She rav'd, she madd'ned and her pinners tore. TiM Bononcir.i mool the ragged strains And sanctified the miserable scenes. Massenet's opera was a "mystery" befor° it was an .i.eru.. Its authors, Armand Syl vestre " n( l Eugene, Morand. produced the play at the nedie Francaise on May 15, IS9I. To make a.n opera out of it required little else than the prefixing of a prologue wild the investiture of the lines with music, Thus changed, Massenet brought it for ward at the Opera Comique on November 2.", ■ ■:. In the cast were two artists known to New York. M. Huberdeau. who appeared in the Devil's part at Hanimer stein's production, was the original ep eratic Gondehaud, and Mile. Breval. one of Mr. Grau's prlma donnas ai tbe Metropoli tan Opera House, was the Griselldia The ».pora diflera In 8om« particulars from the medieval legend, but the story may first ■. told in its old form. It is all about a charcoal burner's daughter who becoi the wife of the Marquis of Baluzzo. He. to test her obedience, robs her of her infant daughter, whom he sends to the Queea of Pa%ia to be brought up. Her son. who ia born four years later, Ia al*o sent away, and, as in the case of the daughter, the mother • : . told that he has been murder.'!. Finally, a decade or so thereafter, the Marquis tells hia wife that lie Intends to divorce her and marry another woman. He • ipa her of all her rich apparel and ■ends her in rags back to the dingy hut from vxiil.ii he had taken h.-r. Thence, after a space, she Is summoned again to 1... palace, but this time to receive her rival and deck her out for the wedding ceremony. To all the« things thia moat amazing of all loving and dutiful wives bubmlta without a murmur; and la re warded at tin; ' dSI by the restoration to her vi lit-r children and ber husband'i love and <j)iirtdence. The changes which the modern drama tlzers of the Griselda story have inada Keeni to have had for. their chief purpose the rehabilitation of the baracter of ! -'' marquis who foi centuries has suffsrsd 4s nunciation as a cruel, tyrannical and al1 " normal suspicious husband. In Iht opera he Is as uxorious a Knight of U»« Slippers us any indow-storming sunTra '..'•',,. could srlsh It is not he who fears to trusl his wife, but his friar, who ta aili '" noeedly Oriflflidls's father confe** 01 "- ft id not ho who subject* her to trials and tunptalK)"- but the devil, who, being a neni>ecited husband, has as aurry-aa OJ?in " lon of womankind as has the friar, f"' reasons which' he does not divulge. In introducing this devil. Mr. Massenet and hia collaborators have be*:n more nrtlvely medlreval than the creators of ' tli* familiar of Dr. FaustuH. JTe is not Goeth's df-vil. who was so much of a gentleman that the only observable adnormity about him was his limping quit. dv» to an un fortunate malformation of his feet. He la not even the rather too gaudily dressed cavalier of Barbier. Carre and Gounod. He Is a devil from the roof of Notre Dame Cathedral cail«»d Into life. His ostensible purpose In the opera is to accom plish the destruction of the inno cent Grizel. The real object of his Introduction is to bring .In a comic element. And surely a devil who has a wife who is shrewish enough to keep him in uncomfortable hot water is comical enough. He would have served his pur pns«- without so much opera-bouffe music as If. Massenet has burdened him with. He has horns, and possibly hoofs, though he is lighter on his feet than Mephls tophles. He has a fur cloak with tails of which he makes picturesque use. He lays a wager with the Marquis that Griselidis will play him false, just as Mephistophles does with the Ancient that he will lead Faust astray, and Satan does with God that Jab will not withstand his wiles. The Marquis is guilty of no wrong, but only of the weakness which afflicted Posthumus Leonatus in Shakespeare's • "Cymbeline" and Adolar in Weber's '•Euryanthe." The N devil, having made a bet. tries to win it. He prevails upon his wife, Flamina, to play the part of a slave to the Marquis, who has gone off to the holy wars, and introduces her as mistress into the castle over which Griselidis thought she was mistress, and Griselidis remains mute and uncomplaining. He brings back Griselidis's shepherd lover Alain, who had poured out his passion in an exquisite song in the prologue and had been most unaccountably thrown over in favor of tbe marquis at first sight; and though she wavers sllehtly then, she fa held to a sense of her wifely duty by the fight of her child. And in a rage at being cheated by maternal love, the Devil stole the child and hid him away. Then the Devil, in the guise of a corsair, attempts to persuade Griselidis to go down to the ship, whose pirate captain he said was enamoured of her, on the promise that there she should find her son. But the Marquis returned from the Crusades, and when the Devil bore false vitness against Griseldis the good Marquis refused to believe him, and if he had suspicions they vanished when he saw his lovely wife. At the last the Devil (who had been aping Gounod's more melodious fiend in other things) hid himself in a column and thence proclaimed that the lost boy, Loys. was his. But the loving parents knelt before- the shrine of St. Agnes, and as they prayed the triptych opened, and there was their child un harmed. Happy parents! Asinine and dis comfited Devil! It has already been intimated that all of M. Massenet's music is much alike. Also it may have been gathered that the play of Sylvestre and Morand is a silly concoc tion, compared with the silly ar.d improba ble old legend. But the opera has been put together with remarkable deftness, and if it does not win popularity over all of Mas senet's other works knotvn to New York it will be a wonder. The musical threads with which the composer holds its parts together are tenuous, but they glitter; and when M. Massenet gets his opportunity to hymn a mood he does it ravishingly. He has beautiful pictures over which to ca3t the gentle sheen of his music. The prologue, which plays in the depths of an idyllic wood is the first of these. Tho Becond act. which shows the oratory of GriseJidis. is another; but here the music halts, and it Is only the closing picture with little Loys watching the departure of his father from a castle window, while his mother listens to a reading of the part ing of Ulysses and Penelope, by her maid, which warms the emotions. Perhaps this might be. different if Miss Garden had not conceived Griselidis to be a passionless creature. like her Melisande. whose mis sion was filled when she made a lovely vision for the eye. But only in the scenes in which the Devil's wife is installed over her, and Alain pours out the passion ■which she made wicked by her incontinent acceptance of the hand of the Marquis, does Miss Garden seem to think that the role of Griseiidis calls for a sljght exhibi tion of emotion. .For the rest she is con tent to be a picture, which speaks, indeed, but not m tones which appeal either to the heart or good musical taste. The third scene is one of rare charm and the Devils invocation with th© answers from afar and the appearance of the sylphs made a profound impression on the fine audience tf-hich saw and heard the opera last night. Mr. Hammerstein has done nothing better, though he might have done so had he persaaded M. Renaud to take the part assigned to M. Huberdeau— which at the performance of the mystery at the Comedie Franchise wad filled by the younger Coquelin. M. Huberdeau was not in the line with his male companions, MM. Dalmores and Dufranne, last night, but they were, indeed, far more than admira ble. More cannot be said on this occasion, but the record must be completed with the appending of the cast, thus: CAST OF "GRISELIDIS/' iSriseJidls Miaa Mary Garden r lamina lime. ter-Villa Bertrade Mme. Duc-ftene The Marquis .; M. Dufrann« Alain M. Dalmores The Devil M. Hutx-nleau The Prior M. Villa G'Ti'iebaud M. ircott Must'-al director, Henriquez de la Fuento. itag? ilirector, Jacques Ccini. H. E. K. LOHENGRIN" SUNG AGAIN. New Elsa at the Metropolitan, with Soomer as Telramund. Those nowadays who would hear Mme. Nordica appear doomed to disappointment. She was announced to sing Elsa in Was> "Lohengrin," at the Metropolitan la.n night, but when thu audience arrived it found a note m the programme stating that owing to Mme. Nonli -a's indisposi tion her place would bo tak-n by Mme. Jane. Osborn-Hannah. Mme. Osborn-Hannah had appeared only once previously at t tie Metropolitan, in the part et Elisabeth 111 Tannoauser." She ■ her previous appearance afflicted with a bad vibrato, but tills last meht had largely disappeared and her Elsa w;ts perhaps as appealing, dramatically, as could be expected in such a colorless char acter. Walter Soomer made his first appearanci of the season as Telramuid, and both vo cally and dramatically, gave cause for thankfulness lor his return. He used iuh rich, resonant voice to good advantage, and in appparunce waa ever a dominating riK ure. . Carl Jorn again sang Lohengrin, Allen Hinckley, Beinrlch, and Bfisa Flor ence Wickham, Ortued. Alfred Hertz con ducted. MME. SEMBRICH IN CALIFORNIA. News comes from California of Mme. Bembrich'a unparalleled Buccesa on the Pa cinc ''<>a.-t. Within ten days .she hus given four concerts in San Francisco and '>n«> In Oakland, to audieacea which not only filled the theatres and halls, but the stags also, und called for police regulation. • Her fourth concert in Los Angeles will take place thia evening. An extraordinary musical en thusiasm seems to have taken possession of the people beyond tho Rockies. Wbesi Mr. Hanson returned from there a few weeks ago he reported thai so great was the Interest in Dr. Wullner that clergymen announced his recital from nine pulpits on one Sunday. EX-JUSTICE PATTERSON SINKING. Biward Patterson, rormi r presiding jus tice of the Api»:i,,i, Division, waa reported last night to ba in a . rittcal condition, with Uttla nope for his recovery^ Ho is severity • •!■• •an 'old. Ex-Justica Patterson i» Buffering from .1 complication of heurt dis toil, Bdglßt'a diacabo and kidney trouble. DRAMA "The Faith Healer" at the Sawn Theatre. I^ist night Mr. William Vaughn Moody, with the assistance of Mr. Henry Millar and other actors, expounded his Ideas upon faith healing Mr. Moody may have giv#»n profound study to the subject, but he does not appear to have done so. His work is very hon«»3t, very earnest, most high-mind ed, but all the honesty, earnestness, high mindedness in the world cannot, of them selves alone, transform a two-hour *«>r mon into a good play. Mr. Moody' s idea of faith healing is primitive In its form and application: it holds that faith In something outside ourselves, something as strange and distant as the skies. Is essen tial to (he healing of the flesh, and coupled with this is faith in the proclaimed healer This he regards as fundamental. He. has the faitH healer do all the work. He seems not to have heard of any school which teaches that the body is the Tempie of the I>ivtng God. and hence that within one's self abides the healing power. This school will at lea3t dissent from Mr. Moody's presentation of the subject, and perhaps some dissenter will write another play for the purpose of setting forth the teaching. It may be thought just as w»ll to leave the discussion to experimenters in dramatic handling of the theme, but. if plays are performed to this end. the critics of plays may, if they choose, voice their own thoughts on the matter. That task, however, ia not chosen by the present chronicler, who, if he Is to consider faith healing, mental healing. Christian Science, or whatever name may be given to tlie teaching, prefers to study under pro fessed practicers of the methods rather than under the professors of footilt:ht presentation. And so, one thinks, the pub lic will prefer, taking its teaching in re ligion, astronomy, mathematics, aerial navigation, and so following, from the par* aaaa best qualiried to impart the truths. Mr. Moodys play is called "The Faitli Healer."' And the faith healer, one Uhrteta Michaelis, is impersonated by Mr. Henry Miller, whose performance is a very good one indeed. If it may be said that a per formance is very good when it does not convince. To be sure, Mr. Miller convinces his audience of his own sincerity as one who if trying to convince certain plain peo r Missouri that he is a faith healer, but his acting does not convince the audi ence that Michaelis heals by faith. He thinks he does, which is quite another mat ter. Again, he thinks he does not, which is more to the point. Michaelis appears at a Missouri farm, and the mistress of the household. aft*r having been an invalid for several years and unable to walk, is suddenly cured through her faith in him. All the ailing of the adjacent population assemble and ask to be healed. But Michaelis has looked upr>n a woman, a girl of the household, •whom he has known only three days, and his power of healing departs from him. He has locked, and nothing more, but even this he considers sinful". His patie farm mistress, falls into a relapse, and his mission seems at an end. Eut the girl he has come to love confesses herself -a lost soul." and through his tender forgiveness of her and his now openly declared love he f.nris grace again, his healing gow»r returns, his patients recover from their relapses and he goes forth to hea! the throng of sufferers. His day has come. TVhen Mr. Miller first appears upon the s r-ene he comes with a hang-dog !ook. This one conceives to be a mistake for dramatic reasons. For the actor at the start strikes the keynote of hopelessness. not hope, of faithlessness, not faith. He has the appearance of a hunted man who has committed some crime. He is not claar-eyed and self-reliant, r.or reliant upon the God he preaches. How any one so gloomy and lacking in control could per suade ethers to believe in him as a healer the actor and tbe play writer car understand. But it is clear enough that certain persons of the play do believe -n him, and by their faith in him are made ; whole. \= their faith in him wavers they decline. If this is faith healing make ( the rrest of it. But prscious little can he made of it for stage pur:->os«. The audience feels a good deal or sympathy with the farm patient's skeptical husband and sis ter-in-law. They appear to have been brought up on Darwin and Herbert Spencer. « hose portraits hang upon the walls. At one time *he portraits are removed. This la when the farm mistress walks. TV'r.en she relapses the portraits are rehune. This rr.av be symbolism, or something. Bur "why draer in" Darwin and Spencer" As a sermon "The Faith Hea!er" may be considered with some favor by persons who like sermons on the stage. As a play it will scarcely commend itself to the thea treeoing public, even to that section which prefers other forms of healing to those practised by the medical profession. Some thing better had been expected from Mr. Moody. Even Mr. Miller's arc does not make this work a play, v is a discourse,. Other opinions will doubtless find expres sion, even in the magazines. Thf moral, ilte uplifting purpose, will be praised. But moral and uplifting plays need not be md need not be dull. After all, v play should have some dramatic -i, "The Faith Healer" has aoaa ■s no development of character. Ani after the three acts things remain abny a- tbej were. aUchaelta has healed before. ils again. He gets a wife, and ex plains the reason for his choice. But nobody '-ares very much, nor do his ex planations carry conviction to the audience. A ;?'>or specimen of humanity, mental!" and physically poor, is exhibited as a man •'raised from the dead" by Michaelis. The creature had been better left dead. And as for Mi haelis as an entity in drama— h. ■ a person as one could meet in a weeks march. He dispels faith on the. instant of his appearance. And such a catastrophe is not the purpose of play writing. Even had Mr. Charles Rann Ken ni-dy not l«n in the audience with Edith WySBM Mattkison, one would naturally have compared the spirit, akill and firm handling ol his "Servant in t!i^ House" with this play, Mr. Miller hav ing produced both works. Mr. Kennedy's play wae interesting and convincing. .J'\ Kennedy had the art to sound the rich. keynote in his principal character at the beginning;; Mr. Moody strike* his note too late. Unag after one. has lost faith m bid faith healer and his school of healing. The first act ends with a dramatic hope, which ia too soon dispelled. The acting through out is goad, I>>U OOt remarkable. The part ,i Rhoda, beloved by Michaelis. might have been more appropriately cast. The per formance was favorably received, but the applanSß wa.s probably a tribute to Henry Miller, and a cordial welcome home. rather than ;i reward oi conspicuous merit play A. W. CAST OF "THE FAITH HEIALER." Vlrich baetta Henry Mil>r Mattbev Beeler Hur .1,1 Ruaa*ll Man.' B*«l«f Maeel Ban Martha b«-el«»r, Lj.:. Ulx Annif Beelcnr 'ilmlys Hutette Rboda WUUama J»-a»t« BonsteUe Dr. U<"°rife Uttlefleld Theodore Krlebus Tlpv. John Culpepper . Edward :»«•* rncle Abe Robert M U ,i,i. ixHiarus Jamea Hasan A joung mother Laura Hope Crewg FIELDS TAKES A HOLIDAY Theatrical Man Also Plans to Have Employes Join with Him. Law Fields, one of the hardest worked men aJona. Broadway, will have a holiday thia afternoon. it.- and all his star? anil those who play in hia three nonipantaa •!">"■ Midnight Sons." "Old Dutch" "and -The Jolly Bachelors,*: will .- -«. th« r«>rulur Tnatlnt*- performance of Andrew Mack t:i "The Prince of Bohemia** at the Ilaokett Theatre. Air. Fields produced this musical play. but h« has nover yet i«i?en a public per formance of It. lie will take with him al! his stage hands, meaeenger boys and uchers— not even th«» scrub women will b« forgotten. 'Som«* jrreat "surprl?»s"* are promised. JOINS NEW THEATRE COMPANY. Miss Edith Wynne Matthlson. the English actress, has become a nw>mb»r of the New Theatre company. She w 1 MMi her first appearance in "Sister Beatrice," by Maurice Maeterlinck, which The New Theatre will produce shortly. Miss Matthison i» the wife of Charles Rann Kennedy, author of "The Servant in the House" and "Th*» "U'interfest," in both of which play» »n«* has appeared in this country. In IStH-'tfc Miss Matthison played Portia. Rosalind and lolanthe with Henry Irving. In 19**5 she created the chief part in Prof»-t«s««r Murray's translation oi* Euripides's "Elek tra." THEATRICAL NOTES- Henry E. Dixey will present to-nisrht at Weber's Theatre Frederick Arnold K;un mer's new comedy. "Mr. But' •■- Misa Marguerite Clark will appear at Daly's Theatre this afternoon in a spe.-iai performance of •*Th*> Wishing Ring. " a drama by Owen Davis. "The Lottery Man.' the farce tn which Cyril Scott is play in < at the Bijou The atre, wilt begin hereafter at 8:30, instead of 8:15. The entire orchestra and all tb.e boxes at the Gaiety Theatre to-night will be oc cupied by superintendents and officers of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, whose annual convention is now being h*l<i in this city. ••Alias Jemmy Valentine' did not have Its first performance at Wallack's Theatre last night owing' to the difficulty of secur ing ;in actor to take tbe part of Josep.'i Tuohy. It is advertised to open to-morrow night with Earl Bro**n in Mr. Tuuhy's piace. OBITUARY. THE REV. DR. A. J. OLINGER- The Rev. T>r. Alphonse Jacques Olinser. a former missioiiary who served in that empmeitf on two continents, died on Tues <iar from heart disease at his home. No. 6-u T.exinjjton avenue. Dr. Olinger was bom in Remington. Ger many, sixty-nine years ago. He waa a nephew of the Archbishop of Metz. He • ■was graduated from the University of Nancy. France, and soon after became a French citizen. Through hia uncle he was made a member of the Order of the Grand Chartreuse. He was a chaplain In tha Franco-Prussian War, and later was con nected with the University of Geneva, in Spritzer! For three years he 'vas a missionary tn Africa, later returning to Geneva, and comins to this country in 18S4. After hold ing several pastorates here he retired ajbout sixteen years ago. After his retirement he spent much time and money sending Frenchmen who were unfortunate in this country back to their native land. lie leaves a wife and one son. EX-GOVERNOR ROBERT LOWRY. Jackson, Miss.. Jan. 19.— Ex-Governor Robert Lowry of Mississippi died at 9:30 to-night at his home here. Robert Lowry. thirtieth Governor el Mississippi, was born in South Carolina, in IS3I. He went to Mississippi when nine years old. He was educated in a district school and began his working life as clerk in his uncle's store at Raleigh. Miss. In 1»54 he took up the study of law. being ad mitted to the bar later. He served in the Confederate army during the Civil War, attaining the rank of brigadier gen eral. He served terms in both houses o? the Mississippi Legislature and was elected Governor in ISSL He was re-elected in ISSS. ROBERT IRVING STEVENS. Bloom9e!d. N. J., Jan. 19.— Robert trrina Stevens, thirty-four years old, an in structor of mechanical engineering at Stevens Institute, Hobokcn. died at his home. . No. 44 Osborn streei. this rnornins' from heart disease Mr Stevens had been -or.iecied with the Hoboken institute about fifteen years. H« was bom in that city, but for the last two years had lived in B!oomfle!d- Mr. Stevens leaves a wife, a son and a datu?hter. ROBERT L. READE. Robert L. Reade. member of an old and distinguished -'arnily. died in the Presby terian Hospjta! on Friday and was buried on Tuesday la the family plot in TMHtty Churchyard. But for the discovery by a hospital nurse of a stray visiting card in ons of his pockets his identity probably would never have been known, and in all probability he would have been buried in Potter's Fi«!d, for he had been stricken with apoplexy or a Sixth avenue car, and • tken to 'he Presbyterian Hospital and there registered as an "VBlßaMm man." Following his graduation from Yale with the class of '63 he came I I city, and his wealth and connections wU th? Livingstons and several X: bocker families assured him a high place in society. Mr. Read- 1 sained considerable notoriety when he mur-ie.l Tosie Mansneld, because of whom Edward S. Stokes shot and killed James Fisk, jr. BEQUESTS TO CHARITY. Mrs. Seligman Also Gives Lace Collec tion to Metropolitan Museum. Several public bequests are made in the will of Mrs. Henriette Sehgman. which wa.-> riled yesterday. Mrs. Seligman Manenua-i. Austria, on July 2;;. The 1 a.v* of the real and personal estate hi placed at more than 550.000. One of the bequests of tIM testatrix is her collection of laces to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. to be known as the Hen riette Seligman collection. The other pu»- Uc bequests are: Brooklyn Firemen's Re lief Fund. $300; United Hebrew Charities. $1,000; New York Fire Department Relief Fund, $1,000; Sccietv for tIM Prevention of Cruelty to Children. $500; Hebrew Orphan Asylum. $1,000: Ladies" Sewing Society of th<> orphan asylum. $300; Mount Sinai Hos pital, $l,0'V); Ladles' Auxiliary of Ual hos pital. IBM; Home for Aged and Tnrlrm H» brews. $500; Monteiiore Home. $oi«>, SNRMI of Personal Service, $300; Society la* the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, $^30. Several servants receive bequests ranging from $2,000 to .S3OO each. The residue is di vided among two grandsons and f"ur granddaughters. THE WEATHER REPORT ufli< ial Record and Forecast. — Washinstnn. Jan. 10. — Fair weather prevailed durisc the '.ast twenty-four houn> in all parts of the country ex cept in the Northwest, where there were '.oval rains, »n.| In th-- Atlantic and cast Gulf states and the lower laKe region, wat-re rains .'tMetey night were followed hv fair Wednesday. Th« trtnpeiai IN is iower in the v.arm.- at.l!-* and the Nortbweat. while In the Middle West anU the Southwest a hanßt; to eaaaMerably higher tem perature has taken place. The temperature la mar or abova normal tn all parts of Urn country. \ disturbance ot minor lir.portan. t 11 developing over Texaa. whence it will move eastward, at t^r.. by local rains Thursday in thf west Oulf states and th * lower Miula«ippi Valley, and un settled weather and looal ralna in the »outh t»u!f states Friday. The> weather elbewner* will te cenrrulty tair Thursday and Friday. The •ratur* will rise somewhat m the Eastern suite*, arvd It will fall over the plaia* ■tatM tttid ''"■ upper Mississippi Valley Thurs ti£ _ y y,o marked temperature ,<hangeii are indi cated however, for ar.y part of the country dur tag the next forty-«lcht hours. |-rri--i-t fer Bperlal I.o<"ulitie«. — For New jjjjjj.m.l ami Eastern New Turk, fair to-day and Friday; moderate temperature; HeM to moderat* W rst to southwest wimts For Eastern Pennsylvania and Xew lewey, fair ar..: aamewluu warmer to-day; increasinc eloudlr.t'ss •; lav lieht t^> moderate variable *iiid». mostly •••.it!> and southwest. For Western Pennsylvania an.l H>sl»rn New York, generally fair .las invl Friday; colder Krtdav: moUerate to brisk a»otB««a4 ea we»t Official observation* .of. Urn United Btate» weatfcer bureaus tak*n at 8 p. m. y*«t:«rday f»t 10-v: Sfcjß City. T«rro»r«tur« W«ath^r. Atlantic C*y. — • 3» Clomiy Albany ..3* -*•- Boaton .>« Clear Buffalo ... 2» -<r Chlca*a m '*■ Cincinnati «• "• X*» Orleans 52 CI«»r St. Louis ........... "~ CT*%r "Washington 5* »*r Ior«l Offirlal R«H-f>nl. - # -•» -« ofirial * record from Vs* Weather Buwtu Saw a tt«e> rh*n«<« tn fmpwatur* for the lam tasalj-fcMr iour». in ••ompertaon with tM eetrsaaaaaiaai <lat» of laat year: tr>of». i9irt. ! ifl*w. jai« 3 a.m. - 411 « p. m ~. CT £7 •; a. m 7 .18 I ft p. m. ...... 3B *» »a. m. TT 37 II p. m 35 ** 12 m. T« 3»i12 p. m ... 3 — 4 i>. m. . 25 40| Hlsrhest temperature -««t«T<lar 41 ii»c-«»* lowest. 34. »v»ra|f 3S: »vi r»a» fir r«»rr»*pon<i ln« cat* last year. 17; aT»r»r» for correspondia* jat» last thlrty-»br»e years. 30. Loral fnr»oasr Fa!*. modrrat" t»mp*ratßr». ro <:«v and Friday; light to moderate waat to sonth w»i»t wfn<i.« MISCHA ELMAN PLEASES Yonng Violinist Responds to Many Encores of Large Audience. The popularity of Mlscha Clman wtftfe the N>w York public has been amply tested during this season and last, but the young Russian has played before few larsc-r audiences than Ihe one that greeted him yesterday afternoon in Carnegie Kail. Young Mr. Elman has appeared be for with programmes of more varied interest, yet yesterday's audience seemed abun dantly satisfied and applauded the violinist to rhe echo, forcing him to give ae feral encores. The opentnjr number was Lalo's Sym phonic Espa^nole. which gave abundant opportunity for the display of the violin ist' 3 virtuosity, opportunities of which b# availed himself to the fullest meaaorev Mr. Eiman'a technical equipment is re markable and he seemed little loath te> hide it. He then played Handel's sonata tn V major, following it by a Melodle by Gluck-WilhelmJ. a Minuet by Haydn, Schubert-Elman's "Star.dchen.** a Gavotte) by Mozart-Aub-r Wieniawskl's "Fanst** Kantasu* and Paganlnt's "Palpit:." In all these numbers, and especially In the Handel sonata, there was astonishing facility oC execution and beautiful clarity of tone thougn at times there seemed to be eweat an overemphasis of these virtues. But Mr. Klinaa knows always how to mak» his effect, and he never made tt roor« tellingly than yesterday afternoon. MARRIED. — XEKNEDT— On W««fci«sd»v. JanuJW* 19. at A.l Ansjels" Chorea. Jessie May. laws* r-r of "William Townsen«i Kenn»dy. to G«*orx* Arnold Dtmond. son of Mr. aad Mrs. TboaaeS IMmond. of No. 13> "West 73d m. >'«tice* of marriages and deaths most b« indorsed wltb full name and address. DIED. Arnold. Carrie. Hl?jins. ThTmaa. Bradley. Charles. Lester. Jar.» .V- t Church. Stewart. Le.tson. Mercy A. Cohn. Hannati. O" Kelly. James M. Crawford. Dorothy M. MacNelll. Joan R. Geor?. Dtedrich smith. Marr A- Glover. Fanny B. Stillmar!. F'-.za- P. Grtswold, Frederick A- Taimadce. Ar*Jwir W. Hallock. Sarai C. B. AP.NOLD — Monday, Jaauarj' tt V3VO. Carrl* Arnold, eldest kmajMi ■] Joseph and Sarah 3. \mc.d Funeral s<srric» at her 'at» kern*. No. 143 West 12Sth St.. Tharsday eveatnaV January 20. at 7 o'clock. BRADLEY — In Pittsburtr. Pens., on January tT. 1010. Charles, sen of Mrs. Jane W. Bradlo* and of the late Charles Bradley. of Providsnc*. R. I. Paaeral service on Friday. January 21. at 11 3. in., at the born* of his mother. >•<». 367 Benefit at.. Providence. R. L Burial pr> vate. CHITRCH — Early Monday rctaroins. Jacoary 17. 1010. Stewart Church. M I>. Funeral sat<tce» at his late residence. No. 238 C.mtoe) St.. Krooklm. Thursday, at 10 a, m. COHN — On Wednesday. Jaauar^ 1«. 191*- Han™ah Cohn Cn*« Nakler*. Fun-ral from h»r late residence. No- 193 Seventh aw- Brooklyn. Friday. January 21. at 10 o'clac**- CHAWFOHD — Suddenly, l>)rothr MirDoßa.l tldeat daughter of 'WlUSani H- md Edith L- Cratrford. in her 13th year. Services at r»er late residence. No. 1 Ba- 17th st-. Braolclyn. FrMav ev»n:ng. Jaasarr 21. 1910, at * o clock. GSORG On January 17 mi> IMedrich Ge<srs. aged S« years Funeral »crt-ices at hia lat-» residence. Cedar Lane. Woodharea, Los^ Island, on day at 2 p. m. GLOVE?.- January H 1010. »■■■ Betts GJover. widow of the lata Atatin Hurl Glover. Funeral services at ter lata rest dence,. No 3S East 2!>th st.. Manhattan. on Thursday evening at S:CO o'clock. "*rm«r at Danbtiry. Conn- GRISWOLD On Monday, Jaaoarr tt 191<». Frederick A. Griswold. .-.ces wttl bs he!-* at his late residence. No. 474 Wllloushbv a-» . BfoeaTju »v Thursday evealn» »t » o'clock. Interment at convenlenca of Ci* family. HALLOCS — At Milten-on-HtKSsou. X T.. or? Third ia-- First month, '.Mi. Sarah C^tßßSJaie Btrdsall " wtf« of the late '3*org« HaU?ck. In the S2d year of her ige Fn=era! at '--» •ate resfden c. 2 30 p. =3.. Fi*th dar. 20th test HIGGIXS — On Tuesdar. Jaaaar-- 1?. 191 CV Thoma?. beloved son of th- tata Daniel aad Ma- H!ssi=s. Funeral froa .-..s lat» MSI denes. No. 333 State st. Brooic!; Friday. January 21. at 2:30 p. rx. LE'TER — On Monda". January 17. 1910, Jan* A wMB* of Joseph W. Lester, to the v** ■"ar of her a*«. Relatives. Intimate friend* and neighbors are invited to attend the ra~ n?ral services at her '.a T home. No. 43 Ptmar* avf.. New Rochelle. N. V.. Thursday att'-r roon. Jaguar?- 20. 1910. at - o'clock- Car riages in -waitinK on arrival of the l:0S train. l»avlns the L<»-xinstnn *v« -•mt>"rary statists. It is kindly requested that no Cowers be sent. LETSON— At Stelton. N J. en'erM \nxn rest. on January I*. Mrs. Mercy Ann. widow *»f Joseph Clark Letson. -n her 93d y-ar Re!» tives and friends ar« invited to artmd her funeral, at her late residence, on Friday. Jan - vary 21. at 1:30 p. m. Carrias-s will ise»t train >av:nir Cortlandt st. (Pennsylvania. R. R. at 11:1 O. stopping at Stelton. MACNEILL — John Ross, aged -7. Services at Grace Reformed Church. Lincoln Road and Bedford aye., Brooklyn. Friday. January 21. at . p. m. O' KELLY — On January t». James M. O'K?U>. +g»d 55. Services at The Funeral Church. Vf*. 241 West 23d st. iCampb«il Buildln?). on Fri day, at S o'clock. SMITH — On Tuesday January 1% Marr Ana. widow of the late Matthew Smith, fci tae 97th year of her a»». Funeral services at the residence of her »<->n. Eugene Snillb. No 39 West «Sth it., on Thursday. January "je. at 3 p. m. STlLLMAN— Elizabeth i --:".man. widow of Charles Stillman. on Tuesday. January t*. Services at her residence. No. 21 West 4StS St.. on Thursday. January 20. at 2 o'clock. TALMADOE— At Prescott. Ar::.. on January ia 1?>1O. Arthur VMM Taimadse. son of H— T>ar and I.ui-y White Taimadse. Funenl services will be held at his late reatde!*"*. Netherwood. N*w Jersey. <mi Friday mornlna^ January 21. at 11:30. Trains on the Centra' Railroad of New Jersey leave 23d st. at 9:V» a. m. and Liberty .•■.,- for P!afc> fleld. whara carriages will or- in waitin*. R»— tumins. train ivea N'lherwocd at 12:A2 p. n. It ta kindly requested that no flowars b« saot. nncTUiß. THF YTOODLAW>- < FMFTTRY Is r»^dlly aceeaathle by Harlem train fro:» Grand vntral Station. Webster and Jeroir>» avenue trolleys and by earriace. T.ofa Jl5O osv Telephone 4838 Grnmercy for Book of Vtawa or representativ»». Oflce. -0 East 23d St.. N»w Tori City. ( \PKKT\KEK.<4 FR.%>K T.. r%.wFBCI.L. 241-3 W»« 23d St. Char>e!s. Prtvat* Rooms. Prtvar* AmbolaflMeat Tel iyM Ch»l**a. SPEC AL NOTICES To the Emyl;i»cr. Do you want desirable help QUICKL.Y? SAVE TTMK ANT> EXPENSE by con suiting the flle oi applications of selected • aspirants for positions of various kinds which has just been Installed at that Uptown Otace of THE NEW-YORK TRIBL \ -1 No. 13«4 Broadway. » Between 3«th and 37th Street*. OtUce hours: 9 a. m. to & p. m. MW-IOU TKJBOE SUBSCRIPTION KATES. Dally t.titi**. us* ceae in City of >t« I York, .Irr^rv CltT anil Hiibown. El««" .'l-r- Two Centit. >unthir EOJtion. tn<-lutUn£ Sondar M»«» : ,nr Hv» C«*ati. In N>w V<»r* City in*. l -%uti-« rtb«-r» «tll b» t-ttar«rd t . nu i>*r copy eatra aeasaaak -. BIrTIOXS B« M.UL. PO>rPllD I >.•!!). pmt m0uth. .................. .50 Di»a>. p«r jrcar eco >un»Ja.T . P»r t<ar •ea 1 Ui i!\ anil *mm*ar. ptr jrur ....I im It.ulj and >unii:»y. per montb ..... 70 Fureixn I >»tJK'' Eiir». T