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The Conning Tower
THE BARD UOKS A-CAMI'INO.
At midnight from my tent I view enthralled.
The star-impassioned beauty of the nicht ;
The IwiW waters shimmering, mountain -wall?4?!;
Above, the roearens flecked with silver light.
So. sweetly thrilled. I lie awake, nor cease
T.- read this nocturne of celestial peace.
Some distant bacchanalian voices make
Dy subdued murmur; and there comes
Complete and solemn silence on the lake.
Save where a rhythmic motor gently hums.
And soon, alone. I strangely seem to keep
\V:.tc: o'er a cosmos carelessly asleep.
The mournful wind arises, and the stars
Are lost in mausoleums of the mist:
A vague and restive feverislu.oss mars
The luminous complacency; for hist!!
The vivid lightning** flash; the thunder claps?
And. posh. 1 must pet up and close the flaps!
Lake O'-pe. \fims.
ling Nelson sent his book. "Rinp Rattles of Centuries," to
Mrs. Ella Flatrp Young inscribing it "To the world's preatest
worr.ar-' Mrs. Yonnp was Superintendent of Schools in Chicapo
whev I attling Nelson and we were under her supervision. We shall
r.eve- forget the half-hour Mrs. Young Wasted tryinp to make us
keep o '?" voice up at a comma.
There seems to be only one way to brir.p about prison reform,
and that is to arrnnpe society so that none of the penitentiary
offencei will be committed.
WHY IT FAILED: A TRAGIC COMEDY IN FIVE ACTS.
Act I.
Scene: A HaV Bedroom.
TOUNG ai thor (reading aloud the last lines of the final scene
of ris ni if play) :
"ERNEST, trying for pathos
Jane, don't he hard on me. After all. I am your husband.
Forgive me. Jane?I want one more chance?to make pood. . . .
JANE. ?OOS tu bedroom door, turns >
You called me a fool once, and you were ripht. Then?not
now! Not any more.
(Goes into bedroom, shut:' door firmly; a key is heard to turn
in
The Curtain Falls."
v'MIRING krienp: Wonderful! You've done it this tine!
YOUNG AUTHOR: .Jimmy, my boy, I hate to pin flower* on my?
self?but 1 believe you're ripht.
Act 11. :
. : Inner Office of n Dramatic Agent.
YOUNG author, enters, beaming ; Well? Let me know the
\ -t. What do you think of it?
: ?..?..MATH 'AGENT: Hum. . . .
YOUNG AUTHOR, blanching: Don't you like it?
DRAMATIC AGENT: It mipht po. .' . . There's an idea in it,
re. . . . But it needs a lot of work! Of course, the last
Acfs impossible. . .
YOUNG AUTHOR: But the last Act's the phavl
?IATIC AGENT: Now see here, etc.
Act HI.
Scene: The same.
IATIC AGENT: Monty Kohlepp wants your play.
VH'Ni; AUTHOR: Who is . . .
MATIC AGENT: What!!
YOUNG AUTHOR: Of course, if you say he's all ripht. . . .
DRAMATIC agent: Now. don't you stick on terms, younp man.
. you're in luck to place the thinp at all. There just hap
S part in it that suits Miss Freyne.
YOUNG AUTHOR: Who . . .
DRAMATIC agent: She's O. K. Clever little woman. Got
backing.
YOUNG AUTHOR! But I hoped . . .
ATIC agent: That last Act's punk. But I told Kohlepp
be willinp to make chanpes.
YOUNG AUTHOR: Oh well . . .
Act IV.
Scene: Miss Froynt's Apartment, Hot'l-?.
miss PREYNE: Nacher'ly, I potta be on at the climax?an'
-"'.y it's potta end happy!
atOHUEPP: Nacher'ly!!!
Y01 NG AUTHOR: Oh well . . .
Act V.
- -. The same.
yol NG AUTHOR {reading aloud the last lines of the final scene
? ritten pin f) . %
"um ir, hi oice breaking
Alicia, don't be cruel, darling! Remember?the little one!
Alicia?? (Stretches out his arms)
ALICIA, hesit?les, seems ahn,it to t'irii from him, hut suddenly
??< him with a a!ad cry.
-on- husband!I [Picturi ).
The Curtain Very Slowly Falls."
kohlepp: Hnngh! Nowt las' we potta chane't!
PREYNE, to ye Nacher'ly! You mu.?t see that
verse'f . . .
THE BEGINNING OF THF. END.
Lee Wilson Donn.
A ? the Tower's official car has been discovered?dis?
covered by Messrs. William Churchill and Harry Persona Taber, in
conventioi ? Phey call il i I inn
\ tnerry?minded automobile salesman of our acquaintance ?ays
he is read} t?"i sell ci for immediate deflivvery.
I Ml. DIAiiY OF OCR OWN SAMUBL PBPYS.
being wakened early by the storm,
the wii ng to rut'!'.? horrendously. To the offlce
.'i.'4- of this sort and that, and very
r, and I did have some plum jam B.
A'kei; , ,,f it on the table-cloth, which was
not -Mr. Arkell's fault, albeit 1 tried to shift the blame to him. Of
a truth, it was n.y wife's fault, for that she did leave a spoon in
the jampot, but 1 did forgive her and ir.a?it- nu great to-uo over it.
In the evening to the offlce in my petrol-waggon, and carried P.
7he scrivener to his hone, in safety and comfort, too.
4-. ' ' ovei f? arful, neither.
V-itii S. Spaeth to the courts, ami he trounced me, but not
to the offlce, and read in W. Churchill's "A Far Conn?
' ;, which 1 find duller than I had oxpected it to he. Mr. Mas
ters the p<"t is in the city, I hear. News from G. Ackei man that
the \ii-.r may be ended by winter, whi' !. tiod plant is true.. I di?!
. tayle in "Life," vailed "The Ego of the Metr?polis," by
Tommy Hoyne, the best and truest piece about journalism in this
er 1 read.
Constable Horton noticed two whom he became convinced were
thieves. Little Falls, N. J., Eagle.
"'Whom arc you?' ?aid Cyril."
Hipher mathematics from 'Tuck": "Out of twenty four
lynching! last year, eipht or one-fourth, occurred in Georgia."
1" .oedom, it can be conjectured, shrieked as Warsaw fell, als??.
Oreat Britain's appropriation for iviation is said to be .$4r),
I.,000; Prance's 120^)00,000; an?! Germany's $80,000,000. Lord.
lord, how this world is given to flying!
"Italians Fight Foe with Teeth?" head-lines the highly -esteemed
Evening-Mail. Which, think.? T. M. P., may be one result of tooth?
brush drills.
Perhaps Um foe oras armed to the teeth.
r. p. a.
WILSON WILL BACK
EASTLAND INQUIRY
? .'resident Promises Chi?
cago He Will Mcike In?
vestigation Mis Duty.
COAR?) NOT READY
TO PLAC?: BLA/VIK
Secretary Redfield Adjourns In
quiry Pending Action by
Federal Grand Jury.
''hicago, Aug. B. The stand taken by
rresidf-nt Wilson in regard to the
Kastlnnd disaster, us most timely
stated in a letter received from him to?
day l> Mayor Thompson, goes far
toward holding back a storm of pro?
test aroused by the preliminary report
of the Federal board, given out to-day
. by Secretary of Commerce Redfield,
coupled with his postponement of the
inquiry.
The Public Me?Satisfied.
President Wilson in hia letter to
Mayor Thompson states that he will
make it hia duty to .U'c that the investi?
gation of the steamer Eastland disas?
ter is entirely satisfactory to the
public.
The letter is in answer to a commu?
nication which .Mayo:' Thompson sent
, to the President several days ago.
| which contained ? copy of the reaolu?
'?uns passed hy .. committee of the Chi?,
I ru;M City Co.uncil demanding 'hat the
: Federal governmi nt make a thorough
investigation of the EaStland accident,
| independent of the inquiry boiag con?
ducted by Secretary of Commerce Ued
i field.
'May I not beg," says the Pr?sident.!
: "that you will assure the members of
' the committee of my very profound in
t?n?t in this investigation and say
that from the first it has had my care
ful attention?
"I shall make it my duty to see to it
?that the investigation doea ii"t result
I in a way winch will noi be entirely sat- !
iafactory to the public"
Not Prepared (o Mlanie.
Secretary if Commerce Redfield in'
his announcement said thai no more
witnesses would tx Called In the lit-j
quiry until after the Federal grand
jury has concluded it? investigation.]
He also gave OUI a preliminary report
of ihe Federal board, in which it said
? aa the Investigation is not com-1
; plete the boat,! il noi prepared to fix I
? ?'laine nor state what agency caused '
: the F.astland disaster. Heeommen
dationa are made, in effect, as follow?:
A board of nnval architects to pass
on the pians for the steam merchant
la prior to conatmction where the
tonnage is more than 100.
These vessel- shall not be put into
service until their aafety, seaworthi
i,(s- and stability have been demon?
strated to the satisfaction of the board.
An agencv to which appeal from '
j this board may be made.
Where passenger carrying capacity
ia increased by local inspectors, laid
' increase must Vie approved in writing
by supervising inspector of district.
Alterations to ve.-.-'-ls subsequent to
! construction must have approval of
: naval board.
The report suggests that Secretary
Redfield immediately issue the follow?
ing regulations:
Increases in passenger carrying per?
mits must be is-ued by inspectors only,
after personal inspection, of which
there must b<- a written record.
All inspectors are ordered to make
"inclining te?ta" where there is sus?
picion as to stability, the test to be un?
der the supervision of naval architects
provided by tin- Department of Com?
merce.
Secretary Redfield will leave for
Washington to-morrow afternoon and
will deliver a copy of the report to the
President He said he could not pre?
dict when the hearing would be re?
sumed, except that it will be after the
Federal grand jury has completed its
work.
Steamer Tests Begin.
Stability tests for big lake passenger
? steam, ra, ordered by the eity as a re
1 suit of the Eaatland diaaater, began t<>
i da) with the steel whaleback excuraion
steamer Christopher Columbus, under
the direction OX United States Naval
! Constructor Ackerman.
The vessel ?teamed to a point in the
| inner harbor basin opposite (?rant
: Park, and 7,500 bag.? of .?and weighing
, ]0(i pounds ?ach were piled along one
I rail. It was estimated that the sand
bans equalled the weight of 1,700
passengers, w-hich ?a nearly one thou
ssnd mole than the authorized carry- ,
ing capacity.
Thi teal was luecess, according to
the experts aboard, as the great weight ?
of sand li.-'.ed thi boat only 12 degrees. ,
MUSEUM GETS ART RELICS
E. C. Post's $20,000 Estate
Left to His Widow.
Several b itori? i<- ica ere left to the
Metropolitan M i-eum of Art in the will
Iward C. Post, filed yesterday in
the Surrogates' < ourt, Mi. Peal died
I :!y G at Ne'.', port, R. I., where he
a summer home.
"!i Tost left to his widow, Ml*.
1 K'l.ilie Thorn Post, of 350 Weal End
'Avenue, a life inter? ' in hia entire
t?te, va ti ore th;.n $20,000,
with po? - ? ribul ion at her death.
The article 'bar are to go tp the Met-,
ropolitan Museum of Art alone were
exci ptci!
hese pieces, forty-tv o In
number, is a diamond-encrusted gold
eramel muff bos given by King Louis
? ! - - Lauren?, ?eci etary to
Benjamin Fr? klin. The bos bean the
j picture of the King, by Sicardi. Other
i art elea are ar intaglio head of Chriat
..n Intaglio head of the Virgin by
? i. anil a I.? ins XVI clock. In the
"traits, enamels, porce
: miniatures.
MILLS?CHALMERS.
B ? . ? '?..' Tnliunr )
m, \\ If., Aug. 5. Lawrence
P. Mill?, s,>;; of ex-County Judge and
Mrs. William C. Milla, of Fulton Coun?
ty, um' Mis? Martha C. Chalmers, I
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur A.
? Amsterdam, were married
| this evening in the pergola at the Chai
' mera summer home, near Fonda, by
the Rev. Pr. Charles McKen: ? '
'own. They will live in Johns- j
I town.
A trust fund of |28,0?10 was the gift _
of the parents of the bride. Among'
i the guetta were Dr. and Mrs. 0. faul
Humpstone, of Brooklyn; Pr. Thayer'
j Smith and Pr. Morris Smith, of New
I York.
SCHOENBORN?TERHUNE.
Hackensaek, N. J., Aug 5,
: Uarjorie Terhune, daughter of Mr. and
lohn A. Terhune, of Areola, and
Arthur B Schoeaborn, of Hackensack,
?rere married lasl i ??: ? c by the Wot,
Pr At thur Johnson at the br dl '?
] home. Misa Lydia Inglia, of Peterson,
maid of honor, and Frederick
? '. of Haekeneack, was best man.
and Mr?. Schoenborn will make;
| their home in Hackensack. (
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COBURNS TO PLAY
AT SOUTHAMPTON
Will Give Art Benefit To?
night in Grounds of
Parrish Museum.
"The Yelloiv Jacket" will he given hy
the(('iit)urn Playera this evening in too
gardens of the I'arrish Art Museum,
Southampton, for the benefit of the
Rogers Memorial Library, of which S.
L. I'arrish is president, and the Coloni?
al Extension Fun.i. The proceeds will
he asee* for providing o suitable room
for preserving the relies which have
been collected doting many years. The
ground.? will be illuminate?!, und the
scene, with the boxes occupied by
hnnilsomely Kowncil women, will be a
BBOSl attractive one. Mrs. Thomas II.
Barber is chairman of the executive
committee, which include.? Mrs. James
L. Br?ese, Mrs, William Morton (Irin?
nen, Mrs. Henri Kirke Porter, Mrs. F.
W. Humphreys, Mrs. Robert L. Thomp?
son, Mrs. Janus !.. Barclay, Mrs. G.
Barton French, Mrs. Charles K. Hen?
derson, Mr.?. Goodhoo Livingston, Mrs.
1). Aymar Sands anil Mrs. Peter B.
Wyckoff.
Among the patronesses are Mrs.
Henry D. Bobeock, Mrs. Cornelius N.
Bliss, Mrs. \V. Scott Cameron, Mr?. Ar?
thur R. Cloflin, Mrs. George C. Clark,
Mrs. II. Holhrook Curtis, Mrs. George
G I>e Witt. Mrs. Newbo.d Edgar, Mrs.
Albert Gallatii.. Mrs. F. Hurrall Hoff?
man, Mrs. W. De Lancey K? untze, Mrs.
Charles Steele, Mrs. Horace Russell
and Mrs. Alfred M. Hoyt.
Mrs. J. J. Wysong will give a musi?
cal this afternoon at her villa at New?
port. Miss A<la Sasso?, harpist, will
play. Mrs. William Pollock left Lenox
yesterday for Newport, where ?he will
be the goest of her i-ister, Mrs. Wy
?ong.
Mrs. E. II. Weatherbee has left
Waytes Court, her country place at
Mamaroneelt, for an automobile tour
in the Adirondack? -She will return
early next month.
Mr. and Mr?. William Raylis are
spending B few days at the Garden City
Hotel.
Edward Simmons Hall, of 129 Fast
Fifty-fourth Street, is spending August
at Lake Placid, In the Adirondack?.
Mr. hu?! Mrs. William K. g Oriswold
have returned to Lenox from South?
ampton, Long Island. Mrs. Griswold
will go to Erie, I'enn., in a few days to
4 ? ? ' r mother.
Mrs, George R. Read and her daugh
ter, Mi>.? Fannic do Groot Hasting?,
who aie spcn?ling the summer at Ridge
field, Conn., ore in town for a feiv days
an ore staying at the St. Regis.
Mrs. Frederick W. Vanderbilt, who
was the gv.e?t of Mrs. William Douglas
Sloans, m Lenox, for a few ?lays, has
gone to Bar llinhor. where ?he will
spend the remainder of the month with
Mr. Yiindeibilt.
Mr. and Mr? Alexander D. B. Pratt,
who :re at Islip, Long Island, will go
to Newpon ?n-,|?iy to be guests of Mrs.
George 8 S.-ott. Mr.?. Scott will give
. dinner for them to-morrow night.
Mis. French Vanderbilt ha? returned
to her ?amp in the Adirotidacks.
Mr and Mr.?-. Roberi L. Gerry hHve
eil to Lake Delaware, N. V,
from Arden.
Mr. an ! Mr?. William K. Benjamin
hove goo? fo the Adirondacka, ai.d will
spend the month at Loon Lake.
Mr. an?i Mr?. Henry F. Godfrey ar?
rived in town from their country place
in (?Id Westbury, Long Island, and are
a; the Plaza
M 88 Theo.'ora Tiffany, of Old West
bury. Long Island, Is among the recent
arrivals at White Sulphur Spring?, W.
Va. i
NOBODY AT HOME
TO MARY WALKER
Govcrnor'sOffice D?scrted When
Dress Reformer Calls to
See Whitman.
I Ki-'Mn a St?IT ' 4 (Sa Trll'ui? 1
Albany, Aug. 5. - Dr. Mary Walker,
original dress reformer, walked into
the Executive Chamber to-day, i.ersilk
hat in hand.
"What can I do for you?" inquired
un attendant.
"I want to see Governor Whitman,
.-a,d Dr. Wulker.
"lie is at Newport."
"Thin I want to see LicuUnsnt
Governor Schoeneck."
"lie la in Syracuse."
"Then 1 want to see Mr. Orr, the
Governor's .<ecr?tary."
"Mr Orr la in Niw York City"
"W.?. this is str?ngt','' observed Pr
?Volker, OS ?he retired. "You ought
to have some sort of a Governot round j
h?r?e." I
ENVOY IS KNOX GUEST
Austro - Hungarian Ambass
dor Attends Alexandre Dinni
in? T?l??rii| 'i o. Tii.- Trll'iii,- |
Lenox, Aug. I. Mrs. John K. Ali
! andre entertained at dinner at Spri
I Lawn tonight. In the company w?
Mr. and Mrs. Giraud Foster, Ambas
dor and Mme. Coastaal in T. Hum
Mr. and Mrs. Francis Stanton Hla
Mr. and Mrs. Charlea Aster I'rist
Susse? D. Davis, and the Missel
Civilise and Anna R. Alexandre.
?Mrs. Frederic Crowniashield gave
reception at Konkapot, in Stockbrid
entertaining in honor of Colonel a
Mr? .1. F. Reynolds Landis.
William Averell Harriman and M
Kitts Lanier Lawrence will be marri
on Saturday, September ZS. The wi
ding will be followed by a reception
Allen Winden the country place
Charles Lanier. Miss Law ranee'.? ayan
father.
The bench committee of the Len
Kennel Club decided to-day to no
pone the Lenox I?og Show this ye;
The date has been set for Septei
trer ! I.
Mrs. lohn Dodge Peters won the s
i ver cup presented by Miss Gra
Street, of the Wyantenuck Count
Club, Great Harrington, for a hanrlic
golf match against bogie. Mrs. Pete
was even with the colonel.
EUGENIC BELLE
BROWN AND PLUM
She Will Be Tall. Too. and We
Dressed. Dr. Read Tells
Race Improvers.
San Francisco, Aug. 5. Taller, dark:
women, clothed in more sensible dres
will typify the "eugenic woman"
the future. Dr. A. I. Read, profess?
of hygiene in the Normal School <
Physical Kducation, at Hattle Cree
Mich., told the International Confe
ence on Race Ret ferment to-day at tl
Pa n a ma-Pacific Kxnosition.
"The ideal woman of the eugen
age will be plump and well rounde
but not fat." said ?V. Read. "Hi
complexion will be ruddv or brow:
not pale, as that of present day wome
because the bale .-kin il a badge c
I liisease rather than of health "
?-?
PROPOSES NEW PLAN
TO HARNESS NIAGARA
Peter A. Porter Would Build
Dam in the Gorge Above
Quecnston.
Niagara Falls, \. Y.. Aug. 5, A ne
plan to harness the ?ratera of Niagar
River was advocated before the join
legislativa committee at the continua
tion of its hearing on the state wat?
power situation here to-?iay.
The plan wit.? submitted by Peter '
I'orter, who introduced in the Legis
lature in 1884 'he bill providing for th
tirst power ibvelopment at Niagar
Falls. It provide? for a ninety-foo
dam in the gorge above Queenston.
There is a drop of 100 feet in th
level of the wu'er from the foot of th
falls to the site of the proposed darr
Mr. Porter said, and the developmen
would in no way mar the scenic beaut
of 'he i- turact.
Representatives of all the powe
compane- now on the Niagara wer'
heard. TI-y had no fault to find Wltl
state regu.. ?
WOMEN WIN W. B. WILS0I\
Secretary of Labor Pledge!
Support to Suffrage.
S?n Francisco, Aug. I. W. B. Wilson
Secretary of Labor, pledged his sup
port to-day to the cause of universa
suffrage in his home state. He decline?
to commit himself on a propose,;
amendment to the Federal Constuu
tion.
19 ANGLERS HOOKED
Policeman Arrests Lads
Tempting Goldfish with Pins.
Nineteen budiling Izaak Waltons
ftom the Last Side who for the last
few weeks have angled in Harlem
Mere, in upper Central Park, were ar?
rested yesterday while trying to lure
goldfish from the murky depths of
the little lake
The boys usually keep s lookout to
warn them of meddlesome "cops," but
Patrolman Etchells passed the out
aost yesterday. The fishermen, all
about iou-tcen years old. wire lined
up on the bank dangling an assort?
ment of bent pin.? in the shallow wa?
tt r. It was too late to run whin one
of them noticed the familiar blue uni?
form close at hand.
A laipicieui bulge in one pocket
laught th? officer's eye. He drew out
three shining fish. WB?n similar col?
lections had been returned to th? lake
from other pockets the boyi were
lined up it. the Ar?enal station and
arraigned for juvenile delinquency.
They were turned over to the Chil?
dren's Society.
'BLUE PARADISE'
AT THE CASINO
Delightfully Poetic Oper?
etta of Old and New
Vienna.
MISS VIVIEN SEGAL
TRIUMPHS AT DEBUT
i
Cecil Lean and Teddy Webb
; Both Please in Operetta Full
of Lovely Tunes and Pances.
"The Blue Paradise," with Cecil Lean.
Staged by Benrinc and J. J. Shubert.
A new Viennese o.i.-retta, in a prologue
and two act?. Boo< by Leo Stein and
Bela Jo. batch. Music by Edmund Fy
1er. Additional numbers by Sigmund
Romberg. Adapted by Fdgar Smith.
Lyrics by Herbert Reynolds. Musical
number?, ensembles and dances staged
by Ed Hutchinson, at the Casino.
'""I . VlTlMI .?W-It
All Oft!, r . .- .
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1 * '-?'It .<'?r.,|?ii I'.irt:
A Oilier . Su?cna ll?.t,a.|>??rt
Irani .into s.-!i'?.l.-r
J"?-r r?ir???k?r. W?l>t Arnim ;
lia-i, Wtllhrr . I(.?l??rt'i Pltkln
Jii.ni? llauiprl . IV... H '
ltll'll.!|lll Mlratftr . ?>< II I., I
A T.uirl.i . Jama-? Rllltl ?
Hi kI .?.????* . Ourla H
llr?,! I',irl?r ... .Ot>? StUtsntt
Bern I l'.?rt?r. 4\1 i.,,,, ll.'t?, ,
Utrt.tI JiHi.-a. I'leo Mutlrlil I
??il.-. . Vltltti Ban) ,
??'?M'Ii'r?l.T. T ' l/Tfltr..- |
Mr.-, i..r at Ha* I .1....... |
T'.?irl?l . ret:,',. IV .un*
Tlilr?! T?..ir!?l III, nur! Mi In
| Tu? su rii?i>?r.in? Mltatt liar.-i??. ?>si,.
?;?.ir|.-. Ill?i:,'li?f,l. d'Hrl'ii ?ml A- In??
Mi? ?llili. Wjrniif. Fraiitta O
1 I'??' Ba?. Carrta [i ?.
V-r? Haiti? Borkt
, IUn.ii too rWahlrftn.I?ni.? I: ? ??.
\C*mt. .lasrni Hohtnwut
I A U.ly .O.Bu
? Aniillwr I.t.ly. K.ilh'??i. ?. -.
Annthtr I.??lt. Orrtru.l? Harrlanii ?
I W?ltrtti . Qrjar O'Ortan
La?t night the Casino returned to its '
I first love. A fairy princes? tripped
' across the stage and at her wand the
i years rolled back. Once more we wan?
dered into the hills of romance and
i the spirits of Strauss and Auber brood?
ed gently over the house, while the mu- -
Me throbbed of love and youth, and the
. waltz came into its oivn again. For ive
, were in old Vienna, far frotn ?.aiij-y and
one-step and Broadway hionor; in VI?
enna yet unvcxcd by weltpolotlc, ,i ell
of light and laughter and the sadness of
passing thing? truly we were in "The
Blue Paradise"!
"The Blue Parndise" which the
Mesara. Shubert presented last night to
the Casino's patrons is a Viennese op
1 crattii by Edmund Fvsler, the book by
Leo Stein and Bela ./enbasch. anil it is
I a? delightful work as any Vienna has
given to us in recent years. Let. it h.
said at the outset that if charm of story
and of sentiment, flowing melody and
incisive rhythms mean anything to the
New York public "The Blue Paradise"
Will be as well loved as was "Th'.? Choco?
late Soldier." It Is one of the few true
onurettas we have heard in recent
years, its music the music of a musi?
cian, its story the story of a poet.
T?. begin with, let us thank Mr. Ed?
gar Smith, its American adapter, for
nearly obliterating any desire he may
have had to inject s humorous punch.
His adaptation was not always poetic.
but it never offended. The humor of
"The Blue Paradise" grew, as a rule,
logically out of the character? and the
situations, and the long ears of our cer
titied humorists protruded only at rare
intervals. The story is most simple,
i most tender and most human a musi?
cal "Alt Heidelberg." /
? It is "The Blue Paradise Inn" in Vi
! enna; a gathering of flower girl? and
; of students, drinking songs and love
i songs a last farewell to youth. Ru
' dolph is about to sail for America, and
behind him he is to leave hi? dear
friend.?.; Jo?ef, the musician; Hans, the
painter, and Justu ., the banker. And,
also, he leaves his sweetheart, Mitsi, the
flower girl. He bids all farewell in
true Vienna fashion, and leaves Mlssi
heartbroken and forever. This is the
prologue.
It is twenty-four years later and
! into the Ring Hotel returns Rudolph,
Americanized and from Chicago, but
' still in love with the girl of his mem?
ories. His old friends come to meet
him Josef, the waltz king; Hans, the
court painter; Justus, the miilionair.-. I
Justus, unknown to Rudolph, has mar?
ried Mizzi, is henpecked, ami ha?
bought the old Blue Paradise tor his
own house. He also ha? a daughter.
Gaby, the image of her mother :
girlhood days, who, strange to say, ha.?
fallen in love with Rudolph's nephew,
Kudy. Rudolph is being pursued by '
his partner's widow, Mrs. Gladj
Wynne, ami not only Rudolph, but pe
haps some of the audjence, objecte
to Beetes* ?o much of her. Ip the pei
?on of Frances Pemarest she was ver
good to look upon, b-jt she did succe?
terribly at tirn?* at spoiling the r<
manee. Rudolph wishes to see the o!
Bias Paradise again, to dream of hi
Mizzi and the days gone by. He doe
not know that the place belongs '
Han?, but his friend? keep him in ignc
ranee and arrange to welcome hirn I
the old place and in the old style.
Th? last scene is in "The Blue Par?
di?e." Again we have the student lif
of old Vienna. Misti is away, du
Rudolph sees her daughter (iaby an
for a moment thinks she is his ol
lost love. Then h? learns the trutl
.She is the daughter of Mizzi and Jui
lu?. He leaves her happy with hi
nephew, and return? to Chicago
marry. (Oh, v-liy did he have to marr;
Mrs. Wynne?) In the daughter he ha
seen reincarnat? h;-: Mtssi, and he doe
not wish to breMk the illusion by mee*,
ing Justus's tcrmigant wife.
Such is th-- story, sentimental if yo'
will, but such sentiment as the nat
uralists have tried and will forever tr
in vain to kill. The introduction o
Hasel .lo- et , the ex-telephonc operator
was the only act of questionable ta?ti
on the part of Mr. Smith, though Mis
Jones as Impersonated by Miss Clc
Mayfleld, wa? at least original.
And it was headed by Ce
cil Lean, whose vitality and high spir
its made of Rudolph h living flgur?
though in the more romantic portion'
rai less effective. Teddy Webb wai
delightful as the corpulent Justs an?
Robert G. Pitkin an ingratiating Hans
Hut the star no. it was not,Mr. Leai
it was a little unknown girl who wa.
making her first appearance upon th?
professions! -.'.ai_-e Miss Vivien Segal
Owing to Mile. Chapin's illness Misi
Seya! had been called upon to take th?
two parti of Missi and ijaby at onlj
four days' no; ice. During these foui
days Mr. .1. J. Shubert drilled her nighi
nn?l day, and to such results that hoi
d?but took the house by storm. She
played with an assurance that was re
markable, showed a line sense of dra?
matic values, and ?i linearity of feeling
such as is rare upon the operetta stage
In addition, he displayed a clear,
fresh voice and much grace of move?
ment Btid of manner.
A word in closing should be ?aid foi
the excellent scenery and stage man?
agement, the later being due to Mr
Bermino and Mr. J. J. Shubert. "The
Blue Paradise" fs an exquisite little
operetta. If we are tired of musical
nonsense, masquerading under the
Basse of musical remedy, let us hie our?
selves to the Casino. And then perhaps
"The Blue Paradise" will help bring
back to us the old dances. How utterly
vulgar and inan? soaaded Mr. Lean's
?v. i. interpolated modern dance num
b, r after the languorous beauty of the
??i i ceding waltz!
MELVILLE STEWART,
ACTOR, DROPS DEAD
Played in "Follies" Night Before
Attack of Heart Disease in
Front of Home.
Melville Stewart, nn actor, who had
played musical comedy rotes along
Broadway for the last twenty-five
year?, dropp? l dead yesterda) in front
of hia summer home, in Laurel Avenue,
Seagate, from heart disease while try
ink to move a row-boat.
Wednesday night Stewart was ap?
parently in the best of health. He
played his pi.rts in the "Follies of
r.'i.'i" at the New Amsterdam Theatre,
including impersonations of David
, aii'l the Kaiser.
Born in London forty-seven years
?go, Stewart began his stage career
there and came to this city in 1890.
lie appeared in many musical play?,
including "Florodora," "Over the Riv?
er," ''The Girl in the Train," "Suzi"
and "The Firefly." His wife and a six?
teen-year-old son survive him.^
Mr. Stewait was a member of several
theatrical organizations, and was a
membei of St. C?cile Lftdge, F. and A.
If.., which will conduct the funeral from
his city home, at --?"> Amsterdam Ave?
nue.
DEATH PURSUES CRIPPLE
Aged Father Dies While Tak?
ing Son to Beach.
Peter T. Gangloft, of M Troy Ave- '
nue, Brooklyn, was taking his crippled
son Peter for a vacation at the Excel?
s,or Boat Club, ni-ar Rockaway Beach,
day. The Long Island Railroad
train ha? almost reached this station
erben the father, who was sixty years
old, fall to the Boor dead. The son, who
rrust be ?heeled about in a chair,
thought hia father had fainted.
The bo Ij ?' ii carried into the sta
tion. where Pr. Uhi, of the Rockaway
Beach Ho?pir.il, ?aid the man died of
exy. The son was wheeled to the
boat club.
VIVIEN SONIA SEGAL.
Il "The Blue Paradise," at the Casino Theatre.
WILSON WANTS
UNITED WORK
FOR DEFENCE
President Will Confer with
Military and Naval Af?
fairs Chairmen.
Cornish, N. H., Aug. 5. To develop
a broad and convincing programme it
national defence which will meet with
the approval of Congress. Pre?ident
Wilson is planning; to co-operate wp.h
the chairmen of the Military and Navel
Affairs committees of th? Senate and
House, as well as with Secretaries Gar?
rison and Daniels of the War and Navy
departments, before deciding on th?
recommendations he will make to Con?
gress.
The President told friends to-night
he would arrange to see the chairmen
refore Congre?.? convened in order to
unite on a single programme of action.
He will then have the reports now
nemg prepared by Mr. <iarri?on and
Mr. Panicls. who are expected to take
part in the conference, to explain their
recommendations.
The President believes the time has
come for the Ua.ted States to decide -in
a definite programme of national de?
fence and wants as little friction as
possible to ?levelop over the ??uestion.
Through the chairmen of the Mili?
tary and Naval Affairs committees thd
President expect.? the members of th-ese
committees to give and receive ideas
before the appropriation bills contain?
ing army and navy items come up for
discussion.
Th plan of the President is to care?
fully consider a programme of national
defence after free consultation with
others, and 'then to throw the entire
weight of the administration behind
the policy agreed on. He is opposed
to a policy of "militarism,'' but thinks
the l.nited States should be adequately
defended.
President Wilson remained indoors
at the "summer White House" virtu?
ally all day, working on correspond?
ence and data which he sent to th?!
State department. In the afternoon
he went for an automobile ride with
members of his family through sec?
tions of New Hampshire and Vermont.
M'ANENY ANSWERS
BULLOCK'S ATTACK
Defends Board's Wight to Ex?
empt Contracts from Com?
petitive Bidding.
Ceorge McAneny, President of the
Boar?! of Aldermen, replied yesterday
to the open letter directed to h,m in
his absence from the city by William
Bullock, director of the Bureau of City
Inquiry, a Tammany organization, crit?
icising the alilermen for granting <oti
without public letting. Mr Mc?
Aneny said the power to exempt con?
tracts from competitive b
vested in the Board of Abb-mien b]
the city charter. All of the exemp
tions criticised by Mr. Bullock 'wre
proper and in the lateral! .,-' economi?
cal administration, Mr. McAneny said.
"Had you investiga! d tl
fore you gave out yol. r statement,"
said Sir. McAneny. youj might |
ascertained that for youil ilf. I should
not be willing to say th i th? Boa
Aldermen has been absolutely fro
from mistakes." Mr McAneny said. "I
believe all well informed and fair per?
sons agree that th?' pressai board
made an exceptionally good record
This impression will be strength?
if attempts to discredit the sward'?
work are no more convincing than this
absurd charge."
MRS. STEPHEN WHITNEY.
I By MeSHSfc to Til'
Bar Harbor. Aug. 5. Mis Stephen
Whitney, of New York, died suddenly
this morning at her summer cottage in
Northeast Harbor. She visited her sis?
ter-in-law, Mrs. Bradish Johnston, In
Bar Harbor yesterday and was to have
attended a luncheon at her hon
day. Mrs. Whitney wa M - Louisa
A. Johnston
a,
DIED.
Pay. Sarah C. P. Ti.??ington, H. T.
Idos?, Woleotl <!. Whitney,Lou
Pellctreaa, H. K.
In Menmriam.
Outwater, C. F.
DAY At her late residence, in North
Germsntowa, 01 r, Julv 2'j,
Sarah ?ollins l'ort'-r. widow of th"
late Charle? I!. Pay, formerly of
- ill. N. V.
MOSS Suddenly, at Lrme, <"?>nn., on
Au<u?t 8, IMS, in th? "-'I year of
his age, Wolcott Cri-e olil. sal)
of \ tu? 1 'I --1 an,t Carolin?
Cartia Moss. Interment, Saadasky,
iihi". August ,;. Cleveland and San
dusky papers please copy.
PELLETREAU Ob Wedaesday, August
I. 1916, at the n of her
niece, Mrs John Biddl? ?Turk. 60
First Place. Brooklyn, Helen Eliza?
beth Pelletresu, formerly Presideat
of the Pennsylvania 4'ollege for
Womer . ir- her Bill year Funeral
services SO I? ? in Friday
,ng, August 6, at X o'clock. In
seal al Bomewood Cemetery,
Pittsburgh, Penn. I'lea-e omit
flowers.
TISSIN?TON On Tr.ur-.day. August
.'. H? , 'y Thomas, ?on or" the late
Henrv Tiaeington. Notice of funeral
later.
WHITNEY '? v ? Barber, Me.
on Thursday, Augi ? I, Louisa
J, widow of the late Stephen Whit?
ney, of New Haven, lonn., and
daughter of the late Bradish and
Louisa A. Johnson. Funeral se?
at St. Mary's ' hurch. Northeast
Harbor, Me., on Saturday, August 7,
at 11 o'clock. Interment pr
Of MFMOKIAM.
OUTWATBS In loviriK memory of
Charlotte Blisaboth Outwater, died
suddenly, AugCSl S, 1*1 I
MANHATTAN AND BRONX.
BEEBS, W i Oreenwich ?t,,
Aug. \ Panerai to-day.
DOOLAN Budget. MM Best l-Mst ?t.,
Aug. I. Funeral to-?iay.
PAY, Margaret, HOI West 164th ?t,
Aug. .'!. Funeral notice later.
MAYES, John, 'Jal!* Eighth ?v., Aug.
2. Funeral to-dav
BOHNER, Km:!. ?:'l Klton av., Aug. 3.
Funeral to-day.
BBOOELYM.
BCROFDAHI.. Charles, MM ?Oth st.,
Aug. 3. Funeral to-morrow.
MACLOUD, Theodore. MM F!a'bu.?h ?v.,
Aug. ;l. Funeral to-day.
MARNKI.L, John, IN Court st., Aug. 4.
Funeral to-day.
BEBVICE, Robert, BM Monroe st., Aug.
4. Funeral to-morrow.
NEW JEBBEY.
FI.ANNKRY, John, Jersey City, Aug.
4 Funeral none,- later.
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si i:> Harlan. Train auU by Trailer.
Lot? ?f ?mall ?Us for ?tal?.
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