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It remained the sole property of its founder until his death, in is.:', when his son. also James Gor 1 jti Henn. it, succeeded to tho ownership of tile paper, which remained In his hands until his death, in 1018. The Hebai.d be came the property of Frank A. Munsey, Its present owner, in 1020. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 8. 1922. The New Pork Barrel. The Rivers and Harbors Appropria tion bill, as reported from commit tee, carries total appropriations of about $42,000,000. This is three times as much as has been appropri ated in any recent year. The com mittee, recommending improvements in thirty-one districts, may be trying to win back for the measure its old nickname of Pork Barrel Bill. But there is a new Pork Barrel, far bigger than a purse for the widen ing of Goose Creek or tho deepening of Prune Harbor. The new Pork Bar rel Bill is measured only by the limits of the United States Treasury and all the taxpayers' pockets. What is a bill for a miserable $42, 000,000, to be spent in only thirty cne Congress districts, compared wifli a soldier bonus bill for $5,000, 000,000 which will grease the way for politicians in all Congress district? ? The new Pork Barrel legislation 'n the form of a bonus hands out more than one hundred times as much fat as the old barrel. The new barrel isn't really a barrel at all. It's a reservoir! Germany's Actual Price Level. Measured in depreciated paper marks, which in gold are worth less than half an American cent each, the cost of living in Germany to-day has risen to twenty times what it was in 1914. Prices in the United States are less than twice as high as they were In 1914, the latest o.llcial index num ber showing an average of 178 for the whole country. But because prices have gone un more than twenty times In Germany and are up one and three quarters times here does not mean that German prices are ten times as lil*rh as Ameri-an prices when both are reckoned in gold or in undepre ciated United States dollars. Because a German to-day can buy only a couple of rolls with the lame number of marks it took before the war to buy a good dinner does not mean that the actual price level In gold has advanced; it merely shows that people do not swap hread or rolls for paper money as readily and on .? reasonable terms as they did before the war, when there was something behind the paper besides the good wishes and the empty till of the German Gavernment. In a discussion of the subject by a London bank it is said that In 1914 '?ten marks paid for an elegant dress f hirt, now it buys a collar; for 25 or ! ."0 marks one could obtain breakfasts for a month, but that sum has now shrunk to wliare it its merely a tip to a waiter for serving a breakfast." | All of which might be disturbing liew.H to Americans intending to i travel in Germany next spring or (iumraer, if these Americans now pos sessed nothing better than depreci ated paper marks. Hut on American, or anybody else, taking gold or ud? depreciated American paper dollars to Germany will find that the actual price 1 .-el In that country Is very little if any higher than It was in 5 914. and that it 1b actually about 33 per cent, lower than the price level In America to-day. The Internal purchasing power of the mark and its actual value in gold are explained by a Berlin bank In its circular for January thus: "The <r>mplete prlrv statistic* being available, it I now p>snlfole to Jeter njlne the r'nrchtiMn* power of tho mark at home and abroad during 1921. "On the avi rage, taklnir Info con sideration nil rectors, It la <ntlmnt> d thnt at the end of tlw yth? tlnmrntlc valuation of tho mark had depreciated twnty-eeren fold. th? forf>l!:n valuation fnrty-four fold. The decline In the dnmiRtle purchasing X>t>wen of the mark consequently amounts to n littli lews than two t*ir'' of the depreciation of Ita far elgn valuation." Stripped of technicalities, the mean ing of tills Is that, while 44 marks :?rc Mq til red to buy r>s much fold as i ir'/k would buy in 1914, only 21 marks are required to buy is much food or clothing in Germany as one [ mark would buy in 1914. The pur-: chasing efficiency of a dollar when converted into paper marks and spent in Germany is therefore one third higher than the purchasing efficiency of that same dollar when it is spent in America. A Good Man for the Bench. In appointing a Democrat to the Supreme Court bench to fill the va cancy made by the death of Baktow S. Weeks, Governor Miller has shown that fairness and breadth of mind which have characterised his administration. In choosing Edward J. McGoldrick | for the place the Governor gave evi dence of his good Judgment of men. When Governor Smith named Mr. McGoi.dbick for a Supreme Court place in 1920 The New York Herald commended the appointment as a fit ting reward for a man who had spent many arduous years in the service of the city as its legislative agent at Albany and who had given proof of his qualification for a judi cial post. Tammany Hall has put on the bench some of its followers who were unfit for the honor. In the case of Justice McGoldrick a Republican Governor has ermined a Tammany Hall man who is worthy. The Gas Decision. One thing which the Supreme Court decision annulling the SO cent, gas law of 1906 should impress on the public mind is the fact that the con test waged ostensibly on behalf of the people was carried on without regard for common sense. The whole procedure, from the time the District Court enjoined the enforcement of the 80 cent law until the final ap peal was taken, is open to suspicion of insincerity on the part of the Hylan administration's Corporation Counsel, Who was presumed to be fighting for the people. So unsolic itous were the public champions con cerning the Supreme Court'B time and the real cause at issue that they filed an appeal consisting of 21,000 printed pages, so much of it irrele vant and immaterial that the court itself said that another such occur-' rence might cause the case at issue to be thrown out. , Throughout the gas rate dispute so much political subterfuge was in dulged in by demagogues that many persons lost track of what the fight ing was about. The voluminous testi-1 mony, charges, counter charges, ap peals, injunctions, amended appeals, increased rates, modifications and special rulings filling 21,000 pages ob scured the comparatively simple faots on which an agreement could have been reached and an equitable gas rate fixed long ago. The comment of the Supreme Court on this phasi of the case runs thus: "The .idamental question pre- j sen ted ior determination was whether the 80 cent rate had been confiscatory under conditions exist ing during 1918 and 1919 and prob ably would continue so to be. Con sidering the rulings herein, Wilcox vs. Consolidated Gas Company, and ! other cases, the answer required little more than an appreciation of facts not very difficult to ascertain." The decision referred to was one given by the Supreme Court after the passage of the law in 1906. In1 this it was held that the law was constitutional at that time because! the 80 cent rate was high enough to provide a return on the gas com pany's investment; but that this rate would be confiscatory and un constitutional when it failed to yield the proper return. Since March 30, 1921, the court declared, the Public Service Commission has had full power, without recourse to legal ac tion, to fix a rate for gas unre stricted by the maximum specified in the act of 190S. The mandate of the Supreme Court is clear. The Public Service Com mission is empowered to ascertain the valuation on which the company is entitled to earn a legitimate re turn, and upon this valuation the commission is to fix the charge to be made for gas. The status of gas rates is exactly where It was two years ago except that there is now an opportunity for the Public Service Commlssioa to perform its duty and put an end to the confusion which has prevented consumers from knowing Just what they were to be charged. Ireland's Love of Sport. Ireland has asked to have the next Olympic games held within her bor ders. There is no land under the sun in which there is a greater love for athletic sports, particularly jumping and weight throwing, than in Ireland. No other land has produced as many champions ss has Ireland, particu larly in weight throwing. On his latest visit to New York Richard Choker, in discussing the fondness of the Irish for outdoor sports, spoke of the Sunday after noon games common in all parts of the island. Striving for nothing more substantial than the satisfac tion of winning, the Irish boys held strenuous competitions while they were encouraged by the cheers of folk from all parts of the countryside. The weight throwers and "leppers" have won great fama for athletes of Irish blood, but while the McOraths, the Mitchells and the McDonalds have come to the United States to astonish us with their prowess with hammer and shot Ireland has pro duced runners, sprinters like Kkli.t and stayers like Cor???icrr, whose speed and endurance have carried their names to irery part of the world. Then. too. there was the re nowne<l all round champion Mabtin Shkbidan to show Irish versatility. Irish horses have more bone than those of any other country. Irish steeplechasers excel those of other countries and the quality of Irish hunters Is known wherever the dev otees of the chase are found. Lime stone in the water is given credit for the development of the bones oi' horses In Ireland. Doubtless the same condition has something to do with the strength and resiliency chai acterlstic of Irish athletes. Should the Olympic meet be held at Dublin there is a guaranty that It will be largely attended, for the spirit which made the enthusiast of steeplechasing declare that it was a poor Irishman who wouldn't walk twenty miles to see a good "lepping race extends to every outdoor sport. Ricci Remains at Washington. The new Facta Government at Rome very wisely retains Senator Vittorio Rolandi Riccr as Italy's Ambassador to this country, a diplo matic post which he has filled with distinction for more than a year. The Premier in a message person ally urged Senator Ricci to remain, and In this he was heartily seconded by the Foreign Minister, Dr. Schanzeb, who as Italy's able repre sentative at the Washington Confer ence showed such a thorough under standing of the relations between the United States and his own nation. The duties of the Italian mission to this country impose very large responsibility and much hard work upon the Embassy at Washington, there is an enormous representation of people of Italian descent in Amer ica and the commercial Intercourse between the two nations has g.o\%n, greatly In recent years. Senator Ricci's Immediate predecessor, Baron Camiixo Avezzana, had been sig nally fortunate In the performance of his duties and in the friendships made in this country, and it was perhap. ?ot a little difficult for the Government at Rome to find successor to him. Baron Carlo At.totti was first des ignated for the post. His thorough understanding of the Adriatic and Balkan situation, however, made his counsel of such distinctive value to Premier Gxolitti that he was subsc^ quently retained in Italy as one o the Premier's chief advisers. > ? tor Ricci's appointment flowed. It was received with warm satisfaction by those who kn?rw him Peraonal,y or by reputation. His whole diplo matic course since has been such as to Justify the expectations of friends and to gain him high esteem mSenator Ricci Is a north Italian of marked intellectual vigor and power In his university days he devoted much of his time to the study 0. economic subjects and he is sound and clear on such matters After ward in his legal practice he gave special attention to commercial, man time and mercantile law. both Italian and foreign, and became recognized as a European authority on these sub , lects. His utterances upon interna tional finance have been strong and sensible. He is a man of strong con-, victions, which are founded upon close study and practical experience and these he has expressed with forcibleness and clarity. Senator Ricci Is a real find and, both the United States and Italy are j fortunate in having him retained as Italian Ambassador at Washington. Unrest i_. .ndia. Dispatches from India warn us that India is deeply stirred. One-fifth of the human rare lives there. The English have held it for more than one hundred years, whether you date from Plassey or Assaye. English men to th? number of 100,000, includ ing scldiets, guide and govern 300, 000,000 human beings, but England has never colonized India. The British horn population of In dia to-day, including traders and mer chants, Is little more than 120,000. There is a story told of a traveler taking a drive outElde Calcutta and asking "Where are the white men?" "Nowhere," was the only possible reply. Englishmen have colonized Australia and Cape Town, they are Bottling in the tropica of Africa, but few white men take root in India. Viceroy and councilor and garrison serve their term of office or duty and then go home. There is nothing permanent but the coming and going of trade. Even the trader serves his term of years for his house and in ?his turn goes home. The present unrest is not the result of the war, which India helped to win, though the Moslems of India? and one in every Ave Indians is a Moslom?demand the reinstatement of the Sultan In Constantinople, Smyrna and Thrace. Unrest was there in the Mutiny, which was really a rebellion. For half a cen tury British rule received a tacit assent. Lords Rirox Mohley and Mi*?to Introduced changes in BritUh ( rule which they thought ought to satisfy Indian aspirations fo? many years to come. Ai the Great Durbar of 1903 It looked as If the established order of things was Immutable. Then came a change. At the Durbar of 1903 the keynote was the elephant; at the Durbar of 1911 the keynote was the motor car Riots at Rawal i Plndl In 1907 had come between. The demand of educated Indians for a larger shnre In the administration of their own country has grown since then. It has been heard from every platform, and Gandhi has only suc ceeded In crystallizing it. It is now the declared policy of C.rcat Britain In India "to provide for the increasing association of In diaus lu every branch of the admin ! ! istration and the gradual develop ment of self-governing institutions ; with a view to the progressive reali zation of responsible government in | India as an integral part of the Brit- j I ish Empire." It is an ambitious pro-' gram where speed may spell disas-1 ter in a land where substitution of! the idea of government by law for government by volition may break India in pieces.) India is a continent as large as Europe west of Russia. It has 224. 000.000 of people engaged in pasture i and agriculture. It has tens of mil lions of prosperous peasants and tens of millions of naked poor. There are more Bengalis than there are j people in France; the Hindus alone | outnumber the population of tho' United States; the province of Ma-j dras has a population of 41,000,- j 000; Agra and Oudh are more popu lous than the United Kingdom. There are in India 300,000 trained soldiers in native service. If conscription were applied there would be six mil lions in the barracks. The fact of the matter Is few real ize what unrest in India may mean for the whole world. The East has j survived the Greek, the Roman, the | Crusader, and returned to its own i ways. It will req^!re all the pa tience and wisdom of British states- j manship to deal with the present discontent. Onions. Hundreds of acres of fine onions last year were plowed under in terri-, tory within a few hours ride from , New York. The high cost of hand-1 ling and of transportation so dis couraged the growers that they de- j cided their crop was not worth har vesting. The use of the ground on which the onions were grown was i lost, the labor and money spent in their cultivation was lost. And now, after growing and throw ing away our own crops, we are im porting hundreds of tons of onions from foreign countries. Australia is one of the fields from which we are drawing. An Australian steamship now due in San Francisco ha? 450 tons of onions on board. Others sim ilarly laden are to follow. Foreign growers are getting the money which our own farmers would be getting if they had harvested their onions. Notwithstanding their experiences in 1921, farmers here in the East are preparing to plant heavily this year. Cumberland county in south ern New Jersey leads our neighbor ing State in onion culture, and onion sets are now going into Cumberland county in carload lots. Thi3 is a cheering exhibition of the American farmer's capacity to rise superior to disheartening ex periences. Last year many growers said they would never put another onion into the ground. This year they are putting more onions into the ground than ever before. Protection From Anthrax. Ever since several eases of anthrax in human beings were traced to in fected shaving brushes made of im ported horsehair the Public Health Service has been seeking a means of sterilization by which this prod uct might surely be rendered in capable of transmitting the disease. Such sterilization is possible, but the process requires for success rigid adherence to high standards, and it has been found impossible to enforce such standards commercially. Because of this Secretary Mellon of the Treasury Department has now recommended to Congress the enact ment of a statute declaring it unlaw ful to import into the United States or to ship In interstate commerce any] shaving or lather brush containing horsehair. Secretary Mellon in rec ommending the proposed legislation to Congress said that there Is gen eral agreement among brush manu facturers that the prohibition of the use of horsehair in shaving brushes is desirable. A great, many of the cases of an thrax in human beings which have been attributed to use of infected shaving brushes have been of doubt ful origin. At no time has there been substantial cause for public alarm on account of the disease. But a single death from anthrax com municated by a shaving brush Justi fies resort to the most rigorous meth ods to prevent the appearanco of another case. The legislation ndvo cated by the Secretary of the Treas ury to suppress this source of dan ger Is justified as a measure to pro tect the public health and should be enacted. Babe Ruth's income will be limited only by the number of home runs he ran pelt out at $!>00 each, which ?up. piles the tax collector with a brand new, unassailable excuse for taking afternoons off to attend nil the games. Professor Malladra of Italy stepped on the rim of Vesuvius and the vol rnno sent forth lava which scotched his face, says a Naples dinpat.ch. The professor has evidently never heird the warning of a New York subway guard. The Unattainable. X like a philosophic work And with much pleasure X turn to It. I'm fond of Spencer, Hume anri nurke; I take up Plato and iro through It. Kant, Schopenhauer and Carlyle, Montaigne and Pater?all enthrall me ; Brtiyere and Emerson beguile The sorrows that at times befall me. Yet though for weighty stuff I look And find the reading rasy sailing, To-day a friend sent me a book So deep that I gave way to walling. May he find all his comforts gone, Msy Knt?? confound th" sorry joker For sending me these pages on The RuIm and Principle* of Poker! Nathan M. I-kvr. The Hokum of the Bonus. The Question Is One of Quick Money Versus Good Money. To The New York Hbkald: The ex? service man who wants the bonus is after quick money, not good money. His taxes will be heavier if he gets It. j Quick money has to be paid for sooner or later by good money dragged out of the pockets of the American citizens, and during the process the pocket nerve will be dancing a ragtime. Money doesn't rain down from heaven like marna. It can only be produced by the sweat of the laborer's brow, your brow as well as the other fellow's. If the bonus asking agitator gets what he wants he will soon find himself forced to pay more for everything he uses. Why? Because the money has to come from somewhere. It won't grow on bushes. Nuts do. but not money. The Increased cost of living will cost the man who is clamoring for this quick money a high rate of interest which can never be rebated. As for the unemployed ex-service man, he will soon realize that his quick money is an expensive luxury. The rate 6t ex change he will have to pay will prove disastrous because It will be computed in dreary months of idleness. Good money paid through weekly wage is worth holding on to even as an idea these days. Neither must the bonus getter deceive himself Into thinking that his bonus la only coming out of the pockets of the capitalists, for it Is eventually comins out of his own. To the man with a big Income it will be of minor importance whether the bonus bill goea through or not. But to the man in the street It will be a mat ter of major importance because it will develop higher taxes, dearer food and fewer jobs. Increased business prosperity on the other hand will provide good money for everybody. The capitalist cannot get It all, even if he wants to, and the man who will Mjffer the most from hard times will be the man who now believes that he should get quick money at any price. It is just because I am that man's friend that I want him to lock at the situation as it is and not allow himself to be fooled by the sophistries of office seekers, of editorial writers and of hokum advisers. Elisabeth Marburt. New York, March 7. The Cry in the Night. One California Lion Held, to Equal Twenty Dramatic Sopranos. To Thic New York Herai.d : I was born In San Jose, Cal., and during my boyhood days I heard people say that the California lion could ventriloquize and that therefore there was no use looking for the lion in the direction from which his cry came. This is true. My personal experience is this: I was once hunting in the dense woode near the summit of the Santa Cruz Mountains fifty miles from South San Francisco. I had retired for the night in a barn the upper door of which was open. Soon I was startled by the most awful cry that I had ever heard, a cry which could only come from some pow erful animal. The tone resembled a woman's cry in awful distress. The vol ume of tone would equal twenty dra matic sopranos in unison, all screaming at high pitch. The vibrations all but shook the barn. I was terrified and leveled my gun on the open door during this serenade and long after it had ceased, for I expected at any moment to see the lion appear at the door. As I recall, the scream was given Ave or six times and in such broad phrases that it seemed that each cry wns on a half minute breath. I had graduated in vocal music in Italy and have made a study of tone production and can say that I never have heard such a tone as I heard that night, before or since. W. R. Hbrvet. Far Rockawat, March 7. Puss Beats a Trap. Bright Spot In the Life of a Grower of Fruits and Vegetables. To The New York Herald: It in a pity a lot of the bird loving people do not have to make their living l?y raising fruits and vegetables and trying to save them from the birds, rabbits, squirrels, deer and other protected game and vermin. 61 nee nuts have becosi scarce be cause the clicstnot trees were killed by blight the gray squirrels have taken to the corn fields. The farmer should have | the right to protect his crops against all kinds of wild birds and animals. It is a pleasant exp<*rlencc In these flays of high priced nursery stock to set out a young orchard and have the tip?? eaten off by deer and the trunks girdled by field mice. Pussy cannot catch the deer but she Is ? wonderful help with the mice. For destroying rats and mice she is awav ahead of traps and poison. Frqm what I have seen the birds are mostly ablu to take care of themselves. They are a to able to take care of plenty | of fruit. Don't exterminate the cat. OMM? C. Field. Port Chester, March 7. Palestine and the Jews. The Desert Is Being Mnde to Yield Fine Fruits nnd Vegetable*. To The New York Herald: Amaz ingly few people appear to grasp the fundamental facta concerning the situ ation In Palestine. Up to about thirty-five years ago Pal estine was a graveyard, a desert, over v/htch the silence of centuries iiunjt like a pall. Now that under the hand of the Jew the desert Is beginning to blosaom like the rosalong come all sorts of people, Araba, native*, and so on, with all sorts of grievances. What have the Arabs, Turks, natives, ftc., done for Palestine during the past five hundred years? Nothing. Nothing at all. Up to 1883 the country was a dust heap, a ruin. Now that the Jews are causing dead br.nes to live and are producing the finest fruit and vegetables in the world up come these people with their most pre posterous and ridiculous grievances. The thing Is absurd. I am not a Jew nor do I hold any brief for the Jews, but right Is right. W. Stanley Shaw, Captain late Middlesex Regiment London, February 16. Another Hollywood Clew. Frnn the Atehium alnbr. A man who arrived In Atchison looking for a position a:i butler was pinked up by the police. (living 4'p. L?nt-Tliey don't Rive up as much fer .. * as tor tlio bandits, A Flonzaleys Produce Bloch's Quartet. Music Has Second Hearing Here After Lapse of More Than Five Years and Proves Sincerity of Composer. By w. J. HEivnuusoar. All the ancient Jesters v/ere saying last evening that the weather manager had mixed his dates and that he sup posed the Kneisel Quartet was to glvo a concert in Aeolian Hall. In days now historic it was proverbially bad weather when the Knelsels played. But last evening the entertainment was the third subscription concert of the Flonaalej Quartet, and the audience, like those of Kneisel days, declined to be cheated ot its pleasure because rain fell and winds blew. The program consisted of Krnesl Bloch's quartet in B major, Haydn's in j E flat and Schumann's in A miner, i Bloch's quartet was produced here bj) , the Flonaaley organization December 2'J, | 1916, and last night had its second hear ing. Much of Mr. Bloch's other work I has been made known, and ail of it has deepened the Impression created by his j Introduction gome years ago that ho !a a musician of genuine sincerity, win I writes In a difficult style because It i> the natural expression of his artistic temperament. The quartet is not without the strong Hebraic tinge found in most of Bloch's music, and at the same time it is opulent in what are called modern harmonies. Furthermpre, it is laden with instru mental device and with sharply drawn contrasts between ensemble and solo utterance. It is clear In form, but the subject matter is not easily assimilated by the hearer and the developments are often singularly complex and even puzzling. But there are many pages of char acteristic beauty in the composition, especially in the slow movement. As a whole the quartet carries with It the conviction of lofty aspiration, coupled with peculiar mannerisms of expression and idiosyncrasies of style which arc likely to keep it in seclusion much of the time. Adolf Betti and his associates hnd be stowed upon this music extraordinary care. It would not be possible prob ably to give the work a warmer, more impassioned or finished performance. Technically it Is a formidable test of tone and Intonation and this test the Flonzaley players met triumphantly. It was a delight to listen to such sonorous and finely balanced chamber music play ing. But over and above this was the insight inco the content of the music. And the vibrant sympathy with which the musicians Interpreted the composi tion was little short of inspiring. If, indeed, they did not arouse real en The Dream Walk. Last night In dream I walked with you again Down the long dtp of maple bordered lane Over to Ten Mile under the mountain wall. To-day I see the snowflalces flutter and fall. But the dream holds me as your aster ' eyes Held mc upon an amber afternoon. Still call the waters with alluring tune, j And in the coppice thrush to thrush replies. We pass the bars and thread the sumach tangle With the frail frondage of the fern at root; Amid the leaves above there is the spangle Of the dull crimson of the sumach fruit. And now wo reach the margin of the stream And the old trystlng tree?this In my j dream? And there recline and let the hours slip by As do the ripples making melody; And though within your hand you hold a book. My only volume Is your loving look ; And though bird, river and breeze are like a choir. Your voice is all the music I desire. Beyond the current Is a farmstead gar den That a neat tended privet hedge en folds, Wherein a housewife, like an aged war den, Paces and snips the gleaming marl golds. Though t*ie winds toss around Manhat tan towers. We watch the woman gathering her flowers; And though we are afar wo both are there? Thia in my dream?and though we are apart I take you for a moment to my^eart. And kiss the ray of sunlight on your hair? Linger, O dream, and tiold me In your thrall There by the Ten Mile under the moun tain wall! Clintox Scoixard. Memories of a Minstrel. Charles Stones Iteralls Ale Hon^es and Theater* of Old Jiew York. To The New York Herald: I was talking recently to a neighbor who I be j lleve Is more familiar with old New ! York history than anybody else I know, and I have read nil the letters which have appeared In Tub New York .Her ald for noma years baek. This neighbor Is Charles Sturges, who was a member of the San Francisco Minstrels In 1889 and 1870 and later joined tho Harrlgan and Hart company and remained with them when they moved uptown. In 1854 Mr. Sturges lived on what I was later the site of the Herald Build ing at Thirty-fifth street and Broadway. I The building then existing was en lied Townsend's flats and was erected by Mr Townsend, who then lived In a mansion at Thirty-fourth street and Fifth ave nue, on the site of which was built later the A. T. Stewart mnnslon. Mr. Sturges recnlls the old Kngllsh ale hmises which were In Mnnhattan In the early '60s. Tn these places he and several other actors who Inter became prominent started their careers by sing lnjc and dancing with the assistance of a piano player who was always on tho [premises. Some oni ?? the patrons In the place would call > it "Somebody sing a song'' and amoti" others who would ! obllg" were Ous Williams, Billy Scan I Ian, Harry Van Demar, (JeorKe Merrltt, Charley Stursres ??v| Hoach, who had a very fine vul"e. 'IT-*'**: places were fre quented mostly by Englishmen. Harry Clifton's was on Crosby street Just be low Grand; the House of I,ords at the corner of Crosby and Houston streets, and John Ireland's In Lilspenard street Just west of Broadway. Llndenmuiler'a was on what was later the site of Tony Pastor's theater. The Canterbury Music Hall was built by George I.ee, and wna nt 585 Broadway, It was later occupied by the San Francisco Minstrels and still later by Tony P:?stor am hi* thenter. Who remembers the Richmond Hill Theater at Charlton and Vaiick street* thusiasm. the fault lay In the music not In themselves. PHILHARMONIC CONCERT. The Philharmonic Society gave the sixth of Its Tuesday evening subscrip tion concerts at the Metropolitan Opera | House last night under the direction of j Artur Bodanzky. guest conductor. The I program comprised Wagner's "A Faust" ! overture, Beethoven's eighth symphony. I Tschaikovsky's overture-fantasia, "Ko i meo and Juliet" and Berlioz's "Kakocsy March." Although the compositions were all familiar, their hearing received some novel zest, perhaps, by means of Mr. Bodanzky's baton and the operatic auditorium in which they were per- | formed. The Wagner overture, it is true, had been heard in this theatre nine years ago in a program led by Toscanini and played by the Metropoli tan Orchestra reenforced. The youthful Wagner fragment seems to continue to hold its own, although in place of it Rubinstein's "Musikalischee Charakter blld" on the same theme would be in teresting to hear sometimes by way of fomparison. The orchestra played It well. In Beethoven's "The Little Sym phony in F" Mr, Bodanzky's perfor mance was not particularly inspired, but the melodies were well brought out and the balance and dynamics were gen erally good. TITTA RUFFO RETURNS. It was announced at the Metropolitan Opora House last night that Tina fi'tffo, who has just returned from at ex tended concert tour in the flouth, is In excellent health. He has at ured Gen eral Manager Gattl-Casazza that he would sing the title role in "The Barber of Seville" at the Metropolitan Opera House on Friday evening, w'th the new Spanish soprano, Mme. Angeles Ottein. MISS VERYL GIVES RECITAL. Miss Marian Veryl, soprano, gave a song recital yesterday afternoon in Aeolian Hall. She sang airs by Mozart and Granados, and songs by Franz, Brahms and others. Her voice proved to have light volume and pratty quality, and her audience gave kindly encour agement to her singing, which be trayed a lack of experience. ALBERT COATES TO RETURN. The Symphony Society of New York announces that Albert Coates will re turn next season as guest conductor to direct the concerts of the New York Symphony Orchestra for January and February, 1923. or the old theater at Leonard and Church streets? _ The Old Broadway Theater was at Worth and Broadway. The dressing rooms at the Comlque at 514 Broadway were situated on the ground floor, south side. In front of the dressing rooms was Sandy Spencer's bar, from which drinks could be had by opening a window and 'Calling out. The auditorium was "upstairs and there was an exit to Crosby street. A great many who may have seen the Harrigan plays will recall Billy Gray and his song, "The Old Bowery Pit," wblch he sang with such feeling and expression ; the words were by Harrigan and music by Dave Brahain. M. E. Folbom. New York, March 7. James Bryce. America Saw in II Im Something That England Missed. 7*. P. O'Connor in the London Daily Tele? graph. There was no man of his time so learned: there wns no man of his time of steadier, more e ntinuous, It might even be said feverish, energy; there was no man whom all kinds of educational institutes at home and in almost every country of the world delighted more to honor with ?very recognition It was In their power -O bestow. He wrote abun dantly and well; he spoke abundantly and well, and yet, somehow or other, he never seems to have achieved half as much as one would have expected. There was a want In him somewhere; It was perhaps the want of a personality that either dominated or attracted; he neither dominated nor attracted. His success in America' was In this respect curiously in contrast with the position he occupied here at home. The Amer ican people were captivated with that personality which wai never much In evidence in his public life In England. There was one quality he possessed which above all made a direct appeal to the American public. There Is no na tion in the world that has so inexhaust ible an appetite for listening to speeches, and especially speeches from which they hope to get instruction. It is a na tion of people that in a sense never ceases to go to school. Its speech mak ing accordingly has a serious news? sometimes one might even venture to < all It a portentousness?which is un known to us, except in the hall of the college or the university. Of that kind of speaking Bryce was a greater master than any man of his time. His vast learning, his astound ing memory, his experience from first hand of so many lands?all these things gave a series of topics that could never be exhausted even In two lifetimes as 1( nq[ as even his long tale of years. Add J to tliis thnt he had quite Inexhaustible, physical energy. Even when he was; approaching eighty he rushed through the streets?always, even In cold tveather, In a ;!ght overcoat?at a pace tl at made men half his age breathless. To htm, therefore, It was neither a boro nor a lardahip to travel even the Immeasurable distances of such a vast continent a^ America. If a college In New Hampshire Invited him to address tl.em. It did not prevent him, sometimes within the same week, from going to another college down In the far South, tin.ugh the distances traveled might be an great as from London tp Petrograd. Ir. short, he was a man after Amerloa's own h^urt, tfnd it was no surprife that >he gave him an admiration that was perhaps never given to any British Am bassador before. Thirty-three Feet of Rain. From the \nti"nnl Otographic Magazine. Season* near th? equator are not marked by changes In temperature, but by the amount of rainfall. Generally speaking, the year Is divided Into wet and dry sea sons, known respectively ax Invlerno (win ter) and verano f summer), though there In much variation as regard* the time and duration of the*? seasons, particularly In mountainous region*. There are also areas where It rarely, If ever, rain*, and other* still where rain fall* practically every day In the year. In the Pacific coast region of Colombia the wet *ea*on Is continuous, and there Is a recorded rainfall at Ban Jose of IOO.M Inchei, a little more than thirty three feet. Baseball Version. We hold It truth with him who slnffa To one clear hnrp In dtr?ra tones Thnt men mr>y rl?"> on Stepping p.tonos OX u. S. Jobs to I iglicr things. Daily Calendar THE WEATHER. For Eastern New York?Kair and colder to-day; to-morrow Increasing cloudiness, northwest gales diminishing to-day. For New Jersey?Generally fair and colder to-day; to-morrow Increasing cloudiness, probably becoming unsettled by to-nl^ht, di minishing northivuat Minds shifting to east erly by to-morrow. 1'or Northern New England?Cloudy and colder to-day; to-morrow probably fair, strong weamrly winds. ?J" Southern New England?Cloudy and colder to-day; to-morrow probably fair; westerly gales. For Western New York?Local snows to day; somewhat colder In ohm portion; to* liorrovv cloudy; northwest winds shifting to easterly by to-morrow. WASIHNGTON, .March 7,?The storm that was central over Lake Superior last night lms moved rapidly eastward to tiio St. Law reive Valley and New England during the an twenty-four hours and has been attended l>y general precipitation eatit of the Missis sippi liiver and by shifting antes in the At lantic states, the upper Ohio Valley and tft.i lake i ifion. 'i'he highest velocity reported was seventy-two miles an hour from th? south at New York city, and sixty-eight miles an hour from tho south at Atiantlc City. Another dlsturbpi.ee has developed over the far West, and Its center was over Colo rado to-night. It has be?n attended by rains In the north Pacific States and local snows In the plateau and northern Rocky Mountain re gions. Pressure was high over tho Missis sippi and lower Missouri valleys, the Gulf States and the Pacific States The weather became colder to-day from the Mississippi, River eastward except along the Immediate Atlantic coast, where mild tem pore ture xntlnued. West of tho Mississippi there was little change In temperature. Generally fair -.veather will prevail oast of tho Mississippi River to-morrow, except that there will be local snows In the lower lake region and tho oxtreine upper Ohio Valley. The weather will again become unsettled Thursday as the Colorado disturbance moves eastward toward the middle Mississippi Val ley, and rain is probable Thursday night In the Ohio Valley, Tennessee and the east Gulf States and In the Atlantic States south of Maryland. The temperature will be lower In the middle Atlantic and north Atlantic to morrow, and It will rise In the upper lake region, the lower Ohio Valley, Tennessee and the east Gulf States. No Important tem perature changes art Indicated for Thursday. Observations at United States Weather Bu reau stations taken at 8 P. M. yesterday, seventy-fifth meridian time: Temperature Rainfall last 24 hrs. Raro- last 24 Stations. High. Low. meter, hrs. Weather Abilene 50 4(> .10.02 .. Clear Albany 12 30 80.60 .84 Rain Atlantic City... 52 ?? 20.511 .OK Rain ~ 42 16 :? 32 38 r.8 82 32 Baltimore T>8 Bismarck 2lt Roston (J4 Ruffalo 4rt Cincinnati 40 Charleston (VS Chicago ?'!<! Cleveland 38 Denver 4fl Detroit......... SB Galveston 02 Helena 30 Jacksonville... 70 Kansas City... 44 Los Angeles... 60 Milwaukee 32 New Orleans... 00 Oklahoma rid Philadelphia... On Pittsburgh 4.S Portland, Mo... 34 Portland, Ore.. Ml Salt Lake City. 30 San Antonio... 0(1 San Diego 70 San Francisco.. 02 Seattle 4ft St. Louts...... 42 St. r iuI 32 Washington.... 04 2fl.?V4 20.00 .74 Rain .. Cloudy 20.38 .04 Rain 20.54 .18 Cloudy 20.08 .01 Cloudy 10.00 10.92 Clear Clear 20.70 .01 Snow 20.74 20.72 30.20 Pt. Cldy .04 Snow .. Clear 30.04 .02 Snow K0.04 .44 Cloudy .. Clear .. Clear .. Clear .. Clear .. Clear 20.00 . 88 Cloudy 20.74 .14 Cloudy 20.50 .04 Rain 30.40 .. Cloudy 30.04 .01 Snow 30.08 SO.04 20.88 30.20 30.08 30.14 20.04 30.24 30.38 30.0(1 20.08 Clear Clear Clear Clear Clear Clear 20.00 .48 Rain LOCAL WEATHER RECORDS. 8 A.M. 20-0 S P. M. 20.41) Barometer Humidity 84 Wind?direction S. Wind?velocity 1? Weather Cloudy Precipitation The temperaturo in tills city yesterday, as recorded by the official thermometer. Is shown in the annexed table: N.W. 38 Raining .48 S A. M.. 0A.M.. 10 A. M.. 11 A. M.. 12 M t P. M... M a P. M... M 2 P. M... 48 7 P. M -. 55 3 P. M... nil 8 P. M... 43 4 P. M... Tit 0 P. M... 41 5 P. M... 51 10 P. M... 40 1021. 1922. 1021. 1.8 ? P. M.... 58 58 fitl 0 P. M 41 45 08 12 MM 89 43 Highest temperature, 55, at 7 P. M. Lowest temperature, 38, at midnight. Average temperature, 47. 40 4!) 51 51 1022. 40 0 A. M.. 12 M 51 3 P. M.... no EVENTS TO-DAY. Dinner by f!ov. Edwards to the Now Jersey Senate, Hotel Brevoort, 7:30 P. M. Broadway Merchants Association of Brook> lyn, luncheon, Trommer's, 12.45 P. M. Radio Show, Hotel Pennsylvania. Board of Education, meeting, Park Avenue tuid Fifty-ninth street, 4 P. M. K. H. Outerbrldge and Julius H. Cohen will sr?'ak on tho Port Authority, luncheon of the Board of Trade and Transportation, 41 Park Row, noon. Book and I'lay luncheon, the Blltmare, 12:30 P. M. I,orado Taft, lecture, "The Development of American Sculpture." League for Political Education, Town Hall, 51 A. M. Metro section Professional Photographer* Association, dinner. Hotel Astor, 7:30 P. M. Eastern Acc<"intlng Officers Association, luncheon. Tor. I Pennsylvania, 12:30 P. M. Amerlcai, Paper Goods Company, dinner. Hotel Pennsylvania, 6 P. M. American Ladies Aid Society, meeting. Hotel Pennsylvania, 2 P. M. Klectrotypera Association, dinner. Hotel Pennsylvania, 8 P. M. American Railway Development Associa tion, meeting, Hotel Pennsylvania, 10 A. M. Advertising Agents Association, luncheon. Hotel Pennsylvania, 12:30 P. M. I.lberty Relief and Loan Association, en tertainment and dance, Hotel Commodore, 8:30 P. M. Westchester County Chamber of Com merce, dinner. Hotel Commodore, 7:30 P. M. Exhibit, Society of Independent Artists, Waldorf-Aatorla. National Civic Federation, lecture, Wal dorf-Astoria, 3 P. M. Philharmonic Society, concert, Waldorf Astoria, 8 P. M. Woodrow Wilson Democracy, dinner, Wal dorf-Astoria, 7 P. M. BroolOy Food Show, Thirteenth Coast De fense Armory. Dlian Gopal MukerJI, lecture, "The India of Kipling and Tngore," Ethical Culture Meeting House, 3 West Sixty-fourth street, 3:80 P. M. Miss Harriet May Mills, lecture, "What Every Woman Ought to Know^ of Politics," Prooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Academy of Music, 4 P. M. Tho Right Rev. Joseph H. McMahon, lec ture, "Some Curious Phenomena of Saint hood," catholic Library Association. O. L. 1.. Auditorium. 4UN West 143d street, 4:1.1 P. M. Operalogue, Dr. Clement B. Shaw, Strauss ) Auditorium. Educational Alliance, 107 East ft roadway. 8 P. M. PUBLIC LECTURES TO-NIGHT, MANHATTAN AND THE BRONX. "Trend of the Tlmee," Arthur D. R?ee, Cooper iMtltute, Eighth street and Fourth | avenue. "nays of the Hour," Miss Ada Sterling, American Museum of Natnral History, Sev enty-seventh street and Central Park West. Stereoptlcon views. "II Trovatore." Mies Marguerite R. Potter. P. H. 27. Torty-flret street east of Third avenue, illustrated by arias on the Vlctrola and stereoptlcon views. "Indian Songs, Dances and Folk Lore," Princess Watawahso, P. 8. 101, 111th street west of Lexington avenue. Given In costume. "The Slavonic States of Southeastern Eu rope," Prof. M. H. fltanoyevlch, P. B. 1117. Ht. Nicholas avenue and 127th strewt. The first of a course of three lectures on "flouth ! eastern Eornpe." Hterroptleon views. "The Rvmunee of th* l*yreneee," Garrett p. dervls.i, Central Jewish Institute. 1ar. East Blghty-flfth ntreet. Stereoptleon views. "Why the Municipality Should Own arid Operate nil Transit Llniw In the City of New Vork," Commissioner Grover T. Wlialen. Town-end lTarrl, Hall, C. O. N. Y.. 138th street and Amsterdam avenue. "Indian I.lfe nnd Custofns." N. K. Dhnl want, P. P 4fl, I0?th street and Balnbrldgti avenue, The Bronx. Costume and acngs. The Associated Press li exclusively entitled I to the use for republication of all news dis pell hee credited to It or not other?t?? credited In tills paper, and also the local news published herein. All rl tlits of republication of special dls | l atches herein art alsu ruscrvnd.