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dm ELECTRIC CAR
FINISHES RECORD RUN
Brougham Makes Round Trip
Between Washington and
Baltimore.
AH nrevlous records were broken and
Yiew figures established Friday, when a
model *5. clear vision Detroit electric
brougham made the run from the busi
ness ctnler of Washington to the heart
of the business district of Baltimore. Md.,
and return, "a distance of eighty-two
miles, on ona charge of the electric bat
teries.
The running time for the round trip
was exactly seven hours flat. The start
was made Friday morning at 7:40 o'clock
from the salesroom of Emerson & Orme,
local representatives for the Detroit
electrics In this city, at 1407 H street
northwest. The big brougham was driven
by R. Bruce Emerson, accompanied by
Harry Ward of the Times and Howard
8. Flak Of The Star, who acted as offi
cial observers on the run. Mr. Emerson
was acoompantod by one of the ob
servers at all times. An Apperson tour
ing car driven by Edgar Orme, con
taining motorists from Washington fol
lowed in the wake of the record-break
ing ear. The run to Baltimore was made
In three hours and ten minutes' actual
running time. The return trip was cov
ered In three hours and ttfty minutes.
Reaching Baltimore shortly before noon,
a stopover of two hours was made,
after which the return trip was begun.
The route from this city was via
Bladensburg, Hyattsvllle, Beltsvllle,
Laurel, Elkrldge, Relay and into the
Monumeptal city via Wilkens avenue.
The return trip was via Wilkens avenue
to Relay, Elkrldge. Laurel. Beltsvllle,
Hyattsvllle and thence via Queens Chapel
road to Brookland and on Rhode Island
Automobile
^LICENSES
District automobile licenses have been
issued since The Star's last report as
follows:
17492?Anheuser-Busch Brewing Com
pany. Delaware avenue and E street
southwest, Packard truck.
17493?Hugh A. Kane. 701 9th street
northeast. Marlon.
17494?David F. Swab, 428 Rlttenhouse
street northwest. Ford.
17493?'Mrs. J. Phillips, Brookland, D. C.,
Ford.
17496?Charles B Church, 431 7th street
southwest. Bulck.
17497?Hooper & Klesner. 721 11th street
southwest, Studebaker.
17408?Arthur D. Marks, Washington
Post. Locomobile.
17499? Paul V. Portner, loth and I
streets northwest. Chalmers.
17500?W. A. Neuland. 719 8th street
southeast. Thomas.
17501?Simmons Hardware Company,
care of Y. M. C. A. building. Ford.
17503?Louis A. Shepard, the Ontario,
Oakland.
17303?E. G. Schwarzmann. 1237 Wis
consin avenue northwest. Michigan.
175tM?Martha E. Wheelock. 326 Indiana
avenue northwest. Pope.
17305?Jules H. Ibarra. 1212 St. Matthews
place northwest. Ford a
17506?Cap t. Edwin A. Hickman. 1710
Pennsylvania avenue northwest, Paige.
17507?James M. BeaM. 1848 Ontario
place northwest, Studebaker.
17608?W. A. Hall. 601 Pennsylvania
avenue northwest, Oldsmobile.
17509?E. W. Opdyke, 601 Pennsylvania
avenue northwest. Peerless.
17510?Grace W. Gardner. 2434 Penn
sylvania avenue northwest, Hupmobile.
17511?Mrs. John Cammack. 1446 Rhode
Island avenue northwest, Packard.
17512?George M. Oyster, jr., 1116 Con
necticut avenue northwest, Flanders.
17313?William 8. Garland, 1849 Cali
fornia avenue northwest, Studebaker.
17514?J. F. J. Archibald, the Wyoming,
Cadillac.
17515?Benjamin B. Sheppard. 1242 Co
lumbia road northwest. R. C. H.
17516?1. W. Ireland, 742 9tb street
northwest, Bulck.
17517?A. R. Shands, 901 16tli street
northwest. Ford.
BETWEEN BIG CIHES
Are Essential to Greater Pros
perity by States?Recent
Examples.
Roads between important centers of
population are now recognized as neces
sities, and are demanded as essential to
greater prosperity by states which have
awakened to real highways progress.
Coupled with it is the call for a better
type of construction for these main
roads, for not only are good roads re
quired, but they must stay good for a
period of time which will justify their
building.
One of the most recent examples of
this understanding observed by the
A. A. A. national good roads board
emanates from Tennessee, where a con
crete road is being projected between
Chattanooga and Knoxville. The primary
movement for this highway Was in
augurated by the Chattanooga Times;
it was then taken up by the.Chattanooga
Chamber of Commerce and the Knox
ville Board of Commerce, both working
In conjunction. Then the cities and
counties along thie route became en
thused, and the work is proceeding as
rapidly as the conditions permit.
A first-class road hetween the two
Tennessee cities will form an important
link. From Chattanooga several im
proved roads lead into Alabama and
Georgia, and others are being pro
jected into Mississippi and Louisi
ana. From Knoxville to Bristol.
Va.. there is already a good road, and
a link is now being constructed from
Bristol to the 8henandoah valley road,
which is the present outlet to Washing
ton and the north. Another movement
is for a main highway from Chat
tanooga to Louisville, Ky. C. E. James
of Chattanooga states that this road
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LECTRIC PLEASURE CAR SETS NEW RECORD.
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DUtaOIT ELBCTK1C BROUGHAM, DRIVEN BY R. BRICK EMERSON, MADE ROUND TRIP FRIDAY FROM
l'ASHIKQT03l TO BALTIMORE AND RETl'RN, A DISTANCE OF EIGHTY-TWO MILES, ON ONE BATTERY
CHARGE. PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN AT RAILROAD CROSSING AT RELAY, MD.
avenue. Although the road Is in bad
shape at Bladensburg, the electric slipped
through and soon disappeared over the
hills to Hyattsvllle, and was shortly on its
way. The blockade was up on the re
turn trip and for this reason a detour
was made from Hyattsvllle to Brookland
and thence into the city.
Roads Prove Drawback.
The machine was compelled to so
through about twenty miles of freshly
oiled and graveled road, several hundred
yards of newly crushed metal near Bal
timore. over the cobble-paved streets of
Baltimore, and Anally through a mile of
deep sand between Hyattsvllle and Brook
land. The tar proved a drawback to
the car. causing the tires to stick to the
fresh oil, which pulled heavily on the
batteries both going and coming. Then,
again, a strong northwest wind blew
throughout the day. At the conclusion
of the run the batteries were in Rood
shape, with an additional ten miles in
reeefve.
The record for electric pleasure vehi
cles waa established Friday. May 19, 1911,
when two Baker victorias made the round
trip of seventy-two miles in six hours
and fifteen minutes' actual running time.
The Detroit record made Friday was ten
mile* greater mileage, with the actual
running time aeven hours. The machine
waS six months old and the odometer
?howed that it had been run 0,213 miles
a to the start of the trip. It registered
6 miles at the finish at 7 o'clock Fri
day evening. Tuesday. June 6, 1911, a
Detroit electric one-ton delivery wagon,
with a 1,200-pound load, established a
record for electric trucks by making the
first auoeesaful run from the business dis
trict of Washington to the center of Bal
timore and return, a distance of seventy
nine miles, on a single battery charge.
On the run Friday lead batteries were
used. The average of the round trip was
11.7 miles per hour. No trouble of any
lrtod was experienced on the run. and
ths members of the Arm have been the
rsciplents of many congratulations since
the accomplishment of this feat in the
electrical world.
Bupntoblles Win in (Hidden.
With perfect scores to their credit
after the gruelling 1,3)?> miles that con
stituted this year's Olidden tour from
Minneapolis to Glacier I'ark. Mont., each
of the two llupmobiles entered was
awarded "a prize at the completion of the
run. Hup No. 14 retains permanent
possession of the Minneapolis l>ally
News trophy, this having been won by a
HupmoMIe last year In the Minneapolis
ts Winnipeg and return tour. Hup No.
15 was declared winner of the American
loving cup trophy.
Not only did the cars go through nine
days of battling with gumbo sand and
mountain roads and fords with perfect
scores to their credit, but they performed
with unique distinction in several re
spect* These were the only cars which,
throughout the tour, did not 'take on
water for the cooling system outside of
control stations. The third day of the
run was marked by severe and con
tinuous rainfall, and the contestants
were forced to slough through a hun
dred milee or so of heavy gumbo roads.
In this stretch every car but the two
Hupmobtles found It necessary to replcn
lsbthe water in their radiators.
Oil the second day of tho run. No. 11
was lit a collision and the rear shock
absorber was bsdly damaged. Repair*
< onsumnd an hour and ten minutes' de
Igor. yet the car reached control on
?M>s<ule time, easily making up all that
Cltcsaes and Warren Munser of Min
neapolis. twin brothers, piloted the Hup
mohUeg and demonstrated their own abil
ity as rood drivers in one of the severest
aU66en tours that has been routed. K.
Ck WssQafce of Chicago who has partici
patsd In sine of these toure. sa'd that in
his experience he has not seen road dif
ficulties so continuous and discouraging.
17518?W. B. Ilibbs. Hibbs building.
Marmon.
17519?W. A. Greer. 116 12th street
northeast. Ford.
1752t>?William F. Harper, 1622 6th street
northwest. Ford.
17521?Thomas B. Delcher. 1352 Penn
sylvania avenue southeast. Ford.
17522?H. G. Anderson, 1505 S street
northwest. Overland.
17523?Joseph Howell. House office
building. Ford.
17524?Joseph D. Watkins, 1613 M street
northwest, Ford.
17525?Washington Gas Light Company,
411 10th street northwest. Packard.
17526?Minnie E. Detweiler, 1438 Clifton
street northwest, Detroit electric.
17527?Philip C. Chipman, 510 10th street
northwest. Metz.
17528?Chevy Chase Supply Company,
Chevy Chase, D. C., Wilcox-Trux.
17529?Amanda J. Thorn. 1821 Biltmore
street northwest, Cadillac.
17530?Charles J. Rogers, 1323 G street
northwest, Hudson.
17531?C. H. Peterson, 1424 33d street
northwest. Overland.
17532?W. H. Rapley, 1735 P street
northwest, Pac?tard.
17533?Chapin-Sarks Manufacturing Com
pany, 1st and M streets northeast, Witt
Will Truck.
17534?Walter H. Neely, 413 13th street
northwest, Cadillac.
17535?H. B. Jones, 1353 Oak street
northwest, Bulck.
17536?A. C. Bobys, 1510 6th street
northwest, Ford.
17537?J. W. Nash, 1424 R street north
west. American.
17538?Miller-Dudley Company, 735 13th
street northwest, Studebaaer.
17539?Miller-Dudley Company, 735 13th
street northwest, Studebaker.
17540?William E. War-, 523 7th street
southeast. Ford.
17541?1.. P. Stewart & Brother, 141
12th street northeast. Speedwell.
17542?Theodore M. Judd. 100 4th street
southeast, Bulck.
17543?^John J. Murray. 915 Maryland
avenue northeast. Overland.
17544?Potomac Electric Power Com
pany, 213 14th street northwest. Thor.
l?o>?Charles Wood, -26 9th street
southeast. Metz.
17546?J. C. Robertson. 1516 H street
northwest, Bulck.
17547?F. Harry Bean. 1328 Harrison
street southeast, Pullman.
17548? Fussell Ice Cream Company.
1324 14th street northwest. Rambler.
lTrnO?Iidwin C. Dutton, 3712 Morrison
street northwest. Ford.
17550?William W. Kline. 4:?4 Park road
northwest. Little.
17551?Henry George, House of Rep
resentatives. Ford.
17552?J. William Downing, 105 J?en
nins road northeast, Cleveland.
17.Vi3?Frank Walter, Itni Colorado
building, Stevens-Duryea.
17554?Frank Walter, 301 Colorado
building, Stevens-Duryea.
17555?Arthur E. Stevens. 117 Tennessee
avenue northeast, Cadillac.
17550?Harriet C. V. Siddons, 1914 Bilt
more street northwest. Ford.
17557?~S. W. Henry, 1912 1 street north
wist. Cadillac.
17558?H. C. liasyc, 425 3d street north
east. Ford.
17559?William C. Handley, 1312 Spring
road northwest, Hupmobile.
Out-of-Town Licenses.
I91H5?(Tag not made).
19160?W. W. L. Cisucll, Highland, Md.,
Ford.
11)167?William N. Allan, Baltimore,
Md., maimers.
1?168? Harry- I*. Goldsborough, Balti
more, Md., t'adlllac.
191HM?Sarah a. E. Toms, Frederick.
Md.. Overland.
A meteorite weighing seven pounds fell
Tuesday afternoon on a building In Ha
serstown. Md.. bored a hole through the
slate roof and shattered several metal
display cases in the room below.
will be built in two years if Kentucky
does its part. Mr. James, at his own
expense, has built from Chattanooga to
the top of Signal mountain a. permanent
road, which forms part of the route
and takes care of the heaviest portion
of the construction. The routing in
Tennessee will be about 135 miles short
er than any other route between Louis
ville and historic Chattanooga.
"Signs of the Times."
Another indication that the "signs of
the times" favor better and more durable
road construction is found in the re
port of the board of consulting road
engineers recently appointed by Gov.
Suhcer of New York state to examine
into the condition of existing contracts.
On two state highways where the work
has not yet reached the surfacing stage
the committee found 146 miles of road
where, to carry out the original con
tracts would be to practically waste
the money. An upper course of first
class material, probably concrete, is the
only method by which the money al
ready put in c&n be saved.
State Highway Engineer A. N. John
son has recommended either concrete
or brick for the state and main roads
to be built under the new highway law of
Illinois.
According to the many leading road
engineers, too much emphasis cannot be
placed on the importance of a type of
construction that will stand the stress
of the constantly increasing traffic.
Motor trucks carrying heavy loads are
being put into use everywhere, and the
roads must bo built for durability under
the combined light and heavy motor and
horse traffic. For the main roads of the
.country, it is claimed, ordinary macadam
has had its day. It has now become
too expensive, because of its short life.
Economy as well as utility demands a
higher type of construction.
LAYING OUT ANOTHER ROAD.
W. 0. Westward Happing Oat Route
for Federal Government.
One of the cars on the Indiana-Pacific
tour, from Indianapolis to San Francisco
and Los Angeles, which crossed the con
tinent three times last year, is at pres
ent lay ing out long distance routes for
the American Automobile Association,
an<l also gathering data for the oftlc<- of
public roads, in this city. Owing to the
rapid improvements in process at va
rious points along the line, W. O. West
Kard. field representative of the American
Automobile Association, is taking now
notes all the way from Indianapolis to
St. Ix>uis, Kansas City, Topeka, Colorado
Springs, Denver, Salt Lake City, Keno,
Carson City, Sacramento and San Fran
cisco.
During tho coming fall and winter
these routes will be put into the form
of "strip maps," like the "Trail to Sun
set" and the "Northwest Trail," and pub
lished early next year for the benefit of
the increasing number of motorists who
arc making the cross-country trip to the
Pacitic Coast. After completing the In
diana-Pacitic tour, Mr. Westgard will re
turn to New York by way of San Diego,
Phoenix, El Pawn, Fort Worth, Dallas,
Memphis. Nashville, Hristol, Washington,
Baltimore and Philadelphia.
The latter will be the first all-southern
transcontinental route, and can be trav
ckd when parts of all the other linos
are Interfered with by cold weather. It
is expected that when* tho Ml-southern
route Is mapped and available for gen
eral use. transcontinental tours will be
made over it throughout the year, es
pecially as it will provide a fairly good
winter route between California and the
Gulf of Mexico and through to the Flor
ida east coast.
If you want work, read the want col
umns C The 8tar.
?mMra>
THE advent of new leading men
for both of the stock com
panieti in Washington makes
this week of unusual Interest
to theatergoers who have suc
cessfully withstood the call of the wild.
Carl Anthony comes to the Columbia
as the successor of A- H. Van Buren,
whose popularity did not wane, though
he appeared before much the same audi
ences week after week for the greater
part of three years; he comes to Wash
ington with experience in the companies
of several stage stars and in stock work.
To Poll's comes Robert Cain, succeed
ing Edward Mackey, who made an ex
cellent impression here during his brief
stay; he is fresh from stock company
engagements, and is not an entire
stranger in Washington, having ap
peared last here in "Deep Purple."
Both companies are so well established
in the hearts of the summer theatergoers
here, however, that it is safe to predict
that full houses will continue at both
playhouses, it being assumed?and fairly,
too?that the new members of the com
panies will measure up to the standard
of their respective organizations.
* * * *
The past week at Poli's will be long
remembered in Washington largely be
cause of the fascinating and delightful
Yvonne of Miss Gertrude Bondhill. To a
captivating portrayal of the convent-bred
maid who asked innocently what a kiss
was, slie added a sweet voice.
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The many friends won by Miss Julia
Dean during her seasons with the Colum- |
bia Players are delighted with the news
from New York that she is to be featured
the coming season in a new Jjlay, to open
in September, She will appear in a
comedy, "Her Own Way," by Mark Swan.
COMING ATTRACTIONS.
Columbia.
Cai l Anthony will open his engagement
at the Columbia Theater tomorrow night
as leading man of the Columbia Play
ers, appearing as the dashing young
prince in Otis Skinner's romantic com
edy, "Prince Otto."
The scenes of the play, which is found
ed upon Robert Louis Stevenson's novel
of the name name, are in one of Eu
rope's small principalities, the identity
of which is thinly veiled under the name
of Kronefeld. Prince Otto and his Prin
cess, Stephina. played by Helen Holmes,
have been mated for political reasons,
and as he finds his greatest delight in
hunting and other outdoor sports, she
has all but assumed the direction of gov
ernmental affairs. To further his own
ends a conspiring minister has planned
a war with an adjoining state and dur
ing the absence of the prince has ac
companied the princess on a tour of in
spection of the frontier fortifications.
Her carriage breaks down in front of
Farmer Leopold's cottage and while she
is being sheltered therein the prince
seeks refuge there from a severe storm.
He there learns for the first time of a
conspiracy against him and against the
peace of his realm, and while Ignorant
as to his identity, the plain people of the
farm give expression to sentiments that
arouse him to a realization of his duty
to his people. He hurriedly returns to
the palace and brings consternation upon
the plotters by assuming such control of
the affairs of state that, as thcir^only
salvation, they make him a prisoner and
send him to the Castle of Drachenstein
for detention, while the overtaxed and
infuriated populace is battering in his
castle doors. How he secures his release,
from the castle, rallies bia forces, re
gains his throne and finally wins the love
of his princess is disclosed in the con
cluding acts of the play. George W. Bar
bler has been cast as Dr. von Walden
hof; Willard Robertson as Baron von
Gondremark, Stanley James as Chancel
lor Paffnitz, John M. Kline as Farmer
Leopold, Everett Butterfleld as Gustave,
Carrie Thatcher as the Countess von
Rosen, Frances Younge as Baroness Rue
gerstadt. Jessie Glendinning as Minna and
Arthur Ritchie as Maj. Fergus.
Poli's.
"Arizona," one of the best of Augustus
Thomas' dramas of the west, will be the
offering of the Poll Players this week.
This play of army post life in the south
west was revived In New York during
the present summer season with Dustin
Farnum and Elsie Ferguson In the cast.
Tomorrow night 8. Z. Poll will Intro
duce . to Washington playgoers a new
leading m&n, Robert Cain. Mr. Cain re
signed as leading man with Percy Has
well in Toronto in order to accept the
present position. He will play the role of
Lieut. Denton In "Arizona," the part
created by Robert Edeson.
Another interesting announcement from
Poli's is that Mark Kent has returned
to the company after a long vacation on
the Maine coast. Mr. Kent will be seen
in the picturesque character role of Can
by, the ranchman, a part which brought
great fame to Theodore Roberts. As
Tony, a vaquero, Dudley Haw ley will
play the part created by Vincent Serrano,
and Craig Weston will be the successor
to Lionel Barrymore's lines. Miss Ger
| trude Bondhill will be seen as Bonlta, in
I love with Lieut. Denton. Miss Helen
| Tracy will be Mrs. Canby, and Miss Lotta
Linthicum will impersonate a Mexican
| beauty, Estrella.
"Arizona" is a play of finely developed
suspense. The plot deals chiefly with a
murder, of which Lieut. Denton is at
first suspected, but later the circumstan
tial evidence seems to point to a young
German girl, whom the murdered man
had betrayed.
There are many quaint character studies
in the drama, and these will afford ad
mirable acting opportunities for the regu
lar Poll company members as well as fof
a number of new members.
Cotmoi.
The feature of "The Top of the World"
company is announced as the headline
act at the Cosmos, in Ethel Cliffords'
Romping Girls and Collies. Five dancing
and romping girls and four thoroughbred
collies are said to combine to make the
act refreshing and amusing. Three spe
cial sets of scenery are used in the act.
Busch Brothers, known as the "Crazy
Sailors," have *ii second feature offering
in their novel "trampoline" act. with a
.setting representing the deck of a United
States 1'attleshlp. James Darey and Leo
\\ iiliams, New York cabaret singers, are
here for the first time in vaudeville.
Newport and Ntirk have a farcical acro
batic sketch entitled "The Busy Barber
Shop." one of the standard laughing acts
of vaudeville. Aniat Primrose, in charac
ter delineations, making all her changes
in full view of the audience, comes highly
recommended, as does the comedy musical
act of George Fredo, "The Baron From
Milwaukee." Selected photoplays and
two new Pathe weeklies complete the
bill.
Glen Echo Park,
For Sunday visitors at Glen Echo Park
there will be concerts this afternoon and
tonight by the Soldiers' Home Band un
der the direction of Prof. Zimmerman,
for which a varied program has been ar
ranged.
Starting tomorrow night, it is An
nounced that what is claimed as the capi
tal's latest dance, "the firefly," will he
on the program every night In the
big dance pavilion, and Is expected
to be fully as popular as its predecessors,
"the shadow" and "the spotlight." Tues
day will be "Odd Fellows day" at Glen
Echo, and many members of this organ
ization, their families and friends will
spend the day at the resort at an old
fashioned basket picnic.
Chevy Chase Lake,
Midseason programs at Chevy Chase
Lake include the Marine Band concerts
every evening and dancing In the great
MARK KENT, POLI'S.
pavilion every evening except Sundays,
the floor being: free to all who respect the
edict against "freak" dancing.
"A Social Highwayman.''
"A Social Highwayman'' has been
placed in preparation by the Columbia
Players for presentation at the Columbia
Theater following "Prince Otto,'* begin
ning Monday evening, August 4. It is a
four-act play by Mary T. Stone, adapted
from the story by Elizabeth Phipps Train.
Richard Mansfield secured it as a starring
vehicle for the Holland .brothers, E. M.
and Joseph, who had a profitable run
with it at the Garrick Theater, New
York, before taking it on the road.
"Salomy Jane."
Another western drama, but of an en
tirely different type from "Arizona," will
be offered at Poll's next week. It will
be Paul Armstrong's "Salomy Jane," in
which Izetta Jewel will be seen in the
picturesque name part. Mark Kent will
be seen as Col. Starbottle, and Robert
Cain as The Man (he has no other name
in the play). "Salomy Jane" tells a story
of love and adventure which is pronounc
ed fascinating in novelty. The heroine
tries to Bave from a party of lynchers a
young man whom she meets by accident.
Her rescue of the pursued results in a
romance which terminates most happily.
Gayety to Beopen August 11.
Workmen are making rapid speed in get
ting the Gayety Theater ready for its
initial performance of the coming season.
August Jl. *? The Queens of Paris Com
pany will open the house, with a company
that1 Includes Koler,* Hall and Morton, as
a trio of funmakers, and Alice Maude
Poele, Rese Reading and Dolly Bowen in
the chief feminine roles. Forty-four
shows have been booked for this coming
season.
IN THE SPOTLIGHT.
Dorothy Dorr is to appear in the pro
duction of "The White Slave."
Paul Wilstach, author of "Thais," has
nearly finished a new play.
"The Puppet Crown," by Harold Mc
Grath, is to be dramatized.
It is reported that Fritzl Scheflf is go
ing into vaudeville this fall.
"King John" will be the principal play
in Robert Mantell's repertoire.
Leo Donnelly has been engaged for the
cast of "Potash and Perimutter."
Eugene Walter has written a vaude
ville sketch called "Inside the Circle."
Lorena'Atwood has been engaged for a
prominent role in "The Elixir of Youth."
"Beverty of Graustark" is underlined
for early production by the Columbia
Players.:
Marie D^ro is to have the leading
feminine .e in the London production
of "The Conspiracy."
An Irish emotional actress, Mona Lim
erick, is to make a tour of this country
in her most successful plays.
Nellie Bergen and Azaiae Fountaine
will appear in vaudeville In a sketch call
ed "The Everglades of Florida."
Los Angeles has a juvenile stock com
pany in which the oldest member is
seventeen and the youngest nine.
Martin Beck has secured David Bispham
for a tour in vaudeville, to extend to
Chicago and the California cities.
Raymond Hitchcock will have a new
musical Play next season. He will begin
his tour in September In Atlantic City.
Ian Maclaren will be the leading man
for Margaret Anglln. Charles Dalton and
Eric Blind will also be In her company.
Hattye Fox has been engaged by Werba
& Luescher for the role of the princess
in the principal "Spring Maid' company.
Two weeks from tonight the Lyman H.
Howe travel festival will begin its an
nual engagement at the Columbia The
ater.
Alice D.ovey is to have one of the prin
cipal roles In "The Merry Martyr." Miss
Dovey was one of tlio principals in "The
Pink Lady." ,
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Laurettc Taylor and Helen Ware re
cently had a narrow escape on Long In
land in the overturning of a motor car In
which they were riding.
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Grace La Rue has gone abroad to fill
?an engagement in London. When she re
turns she will appear in a new musical
play.
When Harry Lauder's present con
tracts have been filled, his ambition is to
become-the manager and star of his own
theater In London.
"The Doll Girl" is to open its tour the
middle of next month in Atlantic City.
Richard Carle and Hattie Williams will
be co-stars In the piece.
4 . ?, , .
Bessie Barriscale, who made a hit in
"The Bird of Paradise" last season, is
heading a stock company in San Fran
cisco.
Joseph Sheehan, the operatic tenor, has
become a member of a producing firm
that will produce a new musical play
called "The Girl From Mumm's."
Bayard Velller. author of "Within the
Law." will dramatize Irving Cobb's hu
morous story, "Back Home," for produc
tion the coming season.
Having concluded her tour In "Bella
Donna." Nasimova sailed for Europe last
week for her first visit since she came to
America eight years ago.
Mile. Polalre, who is to make a tour in
connection with Lady Constance Stewart
Richardson and 4totrude wlU
I ?I
CARL ANTHONY, COLUMBIA.
use a new sketch called "The Dance of
the Assassin."
There will be no closing of the doors
of the Columbia Theater again this sea
son, the summer stock merging Into the
fall and winter season early in Septem
ber.
Bransby Williams, the English protean
artist, will next season make an Ameri
can tour, and Chase's has a contract
with him for a week's stay in Washing
ton.
Nora Bayes is accepting vaudeville con
tracts, including one for Chase's early in
the new season, the management reports.
She will have a large supporting com
pany.
Prank Metzerott, president of the Co
lumbia Theater Company, who has been
traveling in Europe with his nephew,
Kirk Metzerott, will sail for home the
latter part of this week.
Among the principal actors in ' The
Whip," the English racing melodrama, to
be produced here by W. A. Brady, are
Herbert Sleath and Mrs. Cecil Raleigh,
wife of the author.
A new play <by Catherine Chisholm Cut
ting, author of "The Real Thing," was
tried out recently by a stock company in
Hartford. The title of the play is "Taken
for Granted."
Henry Kolker, in conjunction with Wil
liam Vaughn Pettit, has written a play
called "The Survivor." in which he will
appear in Los Angeles under the direction
of Oliver Morosco.
i "The Marriage Market,'' with Donald
Brian in the chief part, is to have its
first production in Baltimore about the
middle of September.
Henry W# Savage is to make the pro
duction the coming season of an extrav
aganza called "Delftland." It is by P.
Hans Flath and Dr. Margaret Crosse, the
latter of San Francisco, and as its name
implies, has its scenes laid in Holland.
William Morris has established a per
manent stock company in Detroit, its
feature being the visiting star system
The first star will be James K. Hackett.
Other stars to follow will be Amelia
Bingham, Cecelia Loftus, Louise Gunning,
and equally prominent ones.
Richard Bennett has obtained the rights
to "Maternity," by Eugene Brieux. The
play was announced for production at the
Fine Arts Theater, Chicago, under the
auspices of the Chicago Theater Society,
by Louise Randolph, when" she conduct
ed the Marlowe players in that city.
Arline Pretty, who was to have had a
part in "A Contented Woman," at the
Columbia last week, was compelled to
surrender the part at the last moment
on account of illness. She is rapidly re
covering.
Robert Cain, the new leading man at
Poll's, has claimed Washington as his
home for several years, as he spent his
summers here, following his winter en
gagements in "The Man of the Hour"
and "The Spendthrift," as well as "The
Deep Purple."
Mark Kent is congratulating himself
that he will require no sunburn make-up
for the role of Canby, the ranchman, in
"Arizona" this week. He acquired a
healthy tan during his three weeks on
the Maine coast, where he fished and en
Joyed the surf every day.
So great was the success of "Madame
Sherry" that Manager Thatcher has been
urged to present another musical play at
an early date. "The Man Who Owns
Broadway" will probably coine later in
the season. ' *
Bert an Churchill, who replaced Tyrone
Power in Faversham's "Julius Caesar"
last season, has arranged to appear in
vaudeville next season, giving produc
tions after the manner of the Reinhardt
plays in Germany. Chase's has booked
the offering.
Edwin Curtis, stage director at Poll's,
inserted an advertisement in the Wash
ington papers Wednesday to this effect:
"Wanted?25 men for 'Arizona.' Apply.
Poll's Theater." Early Thursday morn
ing a middle-aged man, carrying a
pleas#-don't-let-it-rain pa--er suit case, ap
plied at the box office to know how he
could be selected as one of the twenty
five men to take a trip to Arizona Steve
Coster, the treasurer, had a hard time ex
plaining the proposition.
A London production by Charles Haw
trey and In Paris at the Palais Royal
of an American farce-comedy entitled
"Forty-ei*rht Hours,'' by William Semple
of this city, are among the results of his
summer trip abroad announced by R1dh
ard Bennett. Bennett bouKlit the rights
to this farce the day he sailed for Eu
rope In June, and he has announced his
intention to make an American produc
tion early in the season.
Eugenics, social hygiene and the neces
sity for protection of unborn generations
will be presented to the youth of Amer
ica through a series of lectures which
Eugene Brieux. French author, who wrote
"Damaged Goods." will give to the stu
[ dents of the larger universities of the
United States.
Brieux will arrive in New York early in
? August, and the itinerary he has arranged
includes Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Co
lumbia, Cornell. Syracuse Ann Arbor,
University of Chicago. Knox, Stanford
and the most Important state colleges.
?
Warrington.
From the London Chronicle.
Warrington, which has. the honor, first
to entertain the king on his visit to Lan
cashire, lias made the usual change in
name since Saxon times. Then the town
was known as Weringtun, and In Domes
day as Wallintun. In keeping- with her
later progressive history. Warrington
started In commercial well-doing by keep
ing open the only practicable ford over
the Mersey and by building a bridge later
on by which Henry VII crossed to
Lathom. But the reputation thus gained
as the military key to Lancashire proved
bird to endure in CromwelUan times,
when royalist and roundhead contended
in the streets of Warrington. t
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Extensive Parks
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ALL ?SEiEiT
CAFES AND HOTELS
ALL REFRESHMENTS-MODERATE PRICES
Cool Sea Breezes
Sandy Beaches
Popular Base Ball Scores by Innings
AMUSEMENTS.
QAYETY
THEATER
OPENS AUG. 11
WITH
Jacobs&Germon
IN THE
QUEENS OF
PIRATES CO.
Featuring Th'
Trio !? Burltaqur
Koler, Hall and Morton
AND A CHORUS OF 25 BEAUTIES
ELSIE CLIFFORD'S
ROMPING GIRLS
AND COLLIES
A DAINTY AND NOVEL. SPECTACULAR
PRODUCTION.
G Beautiful Girls.
4 Magnificent Collies.
3 Pretty, New Scene#.
BUSCH BROTHERS
"Ti?o?e Crazy Sailors."
ANITA PRIMROSE
Novelty Protean Offering
DARCY & WILLIAMS
v New York Gabaret Entertainers.
NEWPORT & STIRK
' The Basy Barber Shop."
GEORGE FREDO
"Ttie Baron from Milwaukee."
TWO NEW PATHE WEEKLIES.
The Evasive Leprechaun.
From the London Chronicle.
The story of the boy who was exhibit
ed throughout Scotland as a genuine
Irish leprechaun leads one to ask what
exactly a leprechaun is, for, of course,
each variety of fairy has its special
characteristics. The leprechaun is pe
culiar to Ireland, and is In the form of
a little old man, by profession a maker
of brogues. He Is only discovered by the
sound of the hammering of his brogues,
and any one capturing him can Induce
him by threats to reveal where his
wealth is hidden. But no one yet has laid
hands on that wealth, for if you take
your eye off the leprechaun for as much
as a second he has the power of vanish
ing, however tight you may hold him.
And his ingenuity in making you glance
away is always successfuL
Only once did that ingenuity fail, and
even then the treasure escaped unpu
lagtd. A careful peasant, proof against
all temptations, kept his eye on the lit
tle brogue maker until the money was
revealed In a field of ragwort. But he
had no bag. So he tied his garter round
the particular plant under which the
money was hid and went to fetch one,
only to find on his return that every
ragwort In the field was adorned with a
red garter.
English as Bell Lovers.
From the London Chronicle.
To one sixteenth century visitor at least
the English seemed to be a nation of bell
lovers. This was Paul Hefitener, a Ger
man. who wrote of hia travels in this
country during the reign of Queen Eliza
beth- "The English," he said, "excel in
dancing and music, for they are active
and lively, though of a thicker make than
the French. They are vastly fond of
great noises that fill the air. such as the
firing of cannon, drums and the ringing
of bells; so that in London it is common
for a number of them, that have got a
glass in their heads, to go into some
belfry and ring the bells for hours to
gether for the wake of exercise."
And though bell foundries are so few in
this country, we can lay claim to the
oldest association of bell ringers In Eu
rope?the "Ancient Society of College
Youths." The society was established in
ltK7, two of the founders being Lord
Brereton and Sir ClifTe Clifton, and de
rived itft title from the vanished city
church of St. Martin Vintry, on College
hill, where the youths used to practice.
To the college youths was dedicated fted
man'? "Tlntinalosla," the earliest book on
change ringing, which was pub.lshed In
1067.
Aid to Sky Study.
:From Popular Mechanic* Mazuzlue.
A celestial sphere, an apparatus de
signed for instruction In astronomy, and
particularly for promoting popular
knowledge of the constellations, has re
cently been installed at the Chicago
Academy of Sciences. This device, In
vented by Wallace W. Atwood, secretary
of the society. Is the only one of Its
kind in the world. It consists of a hollow
sphere 'fifteen feet In diameter, with
minute perforations placed In the correct
positions for representing the stars. The
sphere is mounted with its axis parallel
with the earth's axis, and revolves in a
direction opposite to the revolution of
the earth, so that the stars and planets
seen on the miniature sky of the Inte
rior of the sphere have the same appar
ent movement as the stars and planets
of the real sky. With the interior dark
ened the usual Illumination outside the
sphere 1s sufficient to make the star per
foration* distinct. A pointer carrying a
small electric light, which appears as a
spark. Is used in explaining lie constel
lations.
EXCURSIONS.
ANNUAL EXCURSION;
CARROLL INSTITUTE,
INDIAN HEAD and RETURN,
Monday, July 28, 11913.,
Steamer St. Johua Will Ueave Wharf at 7
Children I'ndi-r Twelve, 16 Onta.
Tlrketa. 2? Pent. ^
AMUSEMENTS.
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THE
COLUMBIA
PLAYERS
IN
Mr.
Otis
Skinner's
Beautiful
Romantic
Play
"Prince Otto"
MATS.
Tliul
NEXT
ASocial Highwayman
Mr. S. Z. Poll Presents J
the Best Stock Com pony I
In Amerfco I
The Popular
Poli Players
In Augustus Themes' I
Greet Drama off |
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