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PAGI8IX METROPOLITAN Thursday, March 7th Klaw and Erlanger's Stupendous Pro dnctlon with the Kings of •. Laughter. M'Intire & Heath and nearly 100 others in THE HAM TREE All the New York favorites on the cast. PKICESi Parquet, 9&00 Dress Circle, $1.50 First Tito Bows (Balcony), $1.00 Next Two Bows (Balcony), 75c. Gallery, We. EVERY TIME I FILL A TOOTH I HAKE SURE THE WOKE IS BEYOND CRITICISM AND WOITHY THE NAME DR. COUVRETTE Deleis An. ui Third St., Over Draf Start WALK FOUB MILES ASK $27,000. Woman and Daughter Sne Because of Mistake of Brakeman. Pittsburg, March 5.—Because they had to walk four miles after being put off a train before reaching their desti nation, Mrs. Bella Stewart, her daugh ter, Stella M. Stewart, and Mrs. Re becca Wurzburger, demand an aggre gate of $27,000 damages from the Penn sylvania railroad in a suit filed here. The women aver that they purchased tickets for Leatherwood on the Buffalo and Allegheny Valley division of the Pennsylvania railroad and that when four miles from Leatherwood the train stopped and a brakeman told them that they had reached their destination. They left the train and walked four miles. They believe that they should have compensation for the walk and for the incidental suffering. Candy is a bit of condensed sweet ness candor isn't. PROPOSALS. For building any or all steel bridges to be built by the County of Grand Forks, N. D.. during the year, 1907. Sealed proposals will be received at the office of the county auditor in the Court house at Grand Forks, N. D., un til 10 o'clock a. m., Tuesday, March 12th 1907, for the construction of any or all steel bridges to be built by the county during the year, 1907. Ac cording to plans and specifications now on file In the office of the county auditor, bids must be made by the lin eal foot A certified check or satis factory bond in the sum of $200.00 must accompany each bid for entrance into contract If awarded. The Board of County commissioners rearre the right to reject any or all bids. Dated at grand Frks. N. D., this 9th day of February, A. D., 1907. HANS ANDERSON, County Auditor, Grand Porks, County, State of North Dakota. PROPOSALS. For building any or all wooden bridges to be built by the County i! Grand Forks, N. D., during the year, 1907. Sealed proposals will be received at the office of the county auditor in the -Court house at Grand FOrks, N. D., 'until 10 o'clock a. m. Tuesday March 12 1907, for the construction of any or •all wooden bridges to be built by the county during the year 1907. Accord ing to plana and specifications now on file in the office of the county auditor. Bids must be made by the lineal foot for truss and plain bridges. The county will furnish the pile driver for the use of the contractor if desired, a certified check or satisfactory bond In the sum of $100.00 must accompany each bid for entrance into contract if awarded. The Board of County commissioners reserve the right to reject any or all bids. Dated at Grand Forks, N. D., this 9th day of February, 1907. HANS ANDERSON, County Auditor, Grand Forks, County, State of North Dakota. MATINEES DAILY AT 230. EVENINOSi 7i30. 8:30 and 9i30. MONDAY, TUESDAY*& WEDNESDAY MB. AND MBS. HARRY STOCKTON .Presenting Their Laughable Sketch. «1 HENPECKED HUSBAND" MOVING NEW PICTURES *Castom Officers aid Smugglers" "Bad Mother" "California Bed Woods." The Popular Song Illustrator MR. FRANK HOLUDAT mil Sine: "All Fair In Leve aid War." Entire Change of Program Thursday. Bif CUUna'i Mattaee 8atarday. Amusements The Hani Tree. Klaw & Erlangev's production of "The Ham Tree," in which they are starring Mclntyre and Heath, is un questionably the funniest show of many seasons. Theirs was a unique idea—the building up of a three-act entertainment out of a twenty-minute vaudeville sketch, but they knew their business and succeeded in putting to gether an attraction which is comic from start to finish. The chorus is a notable one and is made up of SO young boys and girls who can sing and dance—especially dance. Nothing like the chorus shown in this piece has ever been seen on the stage. Their dancing is no mere posing, with little fancy sliding and gliding steps. The dancing is the real thing—clogs, jigs, soft-shoe and breakdown, done by thirty and forty people at a time, mov ing as one. It is as pleasing as it is novel. Mclntyre and Heath will be the attraction at the Metropolitan theatre on Thursday night F. V. Bowers. Frederick V. Bowers, who plays the role of Ernest Everhart in support of Mclntyre and Heath in the new mu sical vaudeville, "The Ham Tree," has a tenor voice of rare quality and a genius for writing ballads which have SIDELIGHTS ON TRIAL Intimate Personal Studies of Some of the Characters in the Criminal Case. New York, March 4.—To start with, those passes that you used to get into the court room! I suppose one could get $100 easily for the little slip of pasteboard which says "Admit bearer through the police lines," everywhere except at a fire. You won't find any mention made of Stanford White, or Harry Thaw, or the little blue-clad Evelyn Nesbit upon these entry slips. What will you see when you get in side? Oh, an ordinary court room packed with all sorts of people bent upon all sorts of curiosity politicians in many degrees of sleek, animal well being women with the tense lines of morbidity upon their faces reporters, artists, young lawyers, a very stupid looking jury, a fat William Taft of a judge, and the principals in the case. The reporters, foregathered from all the corners of the earth, get short shrift in the matter of accommoda tions. They actually sit at a "table," which is nothing more nor less than a 2x4. The artists, who are there to sketch Evelyn Nesbit in as great a variety of poses as they can, are not allowed to carry their materials with them, consequently they make thumb nail drawings on little pieces of paper and finish the sketches when they get back to the newspaper offices, depend ing upon photographs to obtain a like ness. Out in the rotunda great wires are temporarily hung from the ceiling to give the telegraphers a connection with the postal cables. The place is amply garnished with shorthand ex perts. Lawyer D. M. Delmas, who has set the town by the ears because of his legal astuteness, is a slick, gray old man who sits well down in his chair, balancing himself upon the extreme end of his spinal column and the ex treme tip of his cranium. His veined hands are held in front of him while questioning witnesses, almost in the attitude of prayer. His voice is low, soothing, unctuous—the voice of a Uriah Heep—of a man who defers and condescends and begs pardon adnau seam. He is undoubtedly cunning, and crafty, and successful, but he gives one the impression of overdoing his politeness, or rubbing the ointment of his suavity onto all comers the least bit too thick. He admits his ignor ance of New York statutes. When twitted by the young and bristing Jer ome, he waves his hand graciously and says: "I don't know anything about New York laws. Before the trial Belle Gold with Mclntire & Heath in The Ham Tree. given him a very wide reputation in the musical world. His success as a leading juvenile this season is at tracting unusual attention to this very talented young man. Belle Gold. IViie Gold, who plays the role of Desdemona. a colored maid, with Mc lntyre and Heath in "The Ham Tree," is one of the cleverest comediennes on the American stage. This young lady was formerly a reporter on the staff of the New York World. She was assigned to write a story on in cidents behind the scenes during the presentation of a big spectacle. To ^omas Mclntyre and Heatli. get this information she became a chorus girl for a week. She became infatuated with the stage and threw up her position as a writer. During the past six years she has made a notable record In character roles, and especially as a negress. She and Mc lntyre and Heath are the only im personators of colored characters in "The Ham Tree." All the other parts are white and are played by such well known artists as David Torrence, Al fred Fisher, Jeanne Towler, Carolyn Gordon and others of equal import ance. This company numbers 100 people and presents an extraordinar ily attractive chorus of sixty girls and twenty young men. is over our learned district attorney shall have taught me." That is a sample of the only Delmas, who has succeeded in getting a jury full of married men, and who has managed to place before that jury Evelyn Nes bit's full story (a story which he built up with masterful dramatic ef fect and rehearsed again and again with the young girl until she had it letter perfect), who has placed Harry Thaw's will in evidence, and who thus far foiled Jerome at every step. In deed, the day he succeeded in getting the first half of Evelyn's testimony before the jury, Jerome admitted in a Park Row barroom that he had lost his ease against Thaw. A Study of Jerome. And Jerome himself! At times he is almost desperate. A little rugged, well-built man, he paces up and down within the railing much after the fash ion of an irritated skye terrier that has lost the trail of a house cat. He barks. He snaps. He loses his tem per, explodes, grows wildly sarcastic, keeps his forces in a hullabaloo, keeps his detectives on the jump, interrupts the witness, the opposing counsel, and the judge pleads almost with tears in his eyes that certain testimony be not admitted, protests, gnaws his mus tache, excites his nerves, and all the time the soft, droning voice of Delmas caresses him this way and that, win ning point after point. It is fine sar casm to call this murder trial- "the case of the people against Harry Thaw." Every one in New York wants to see Thaw acquitted. Jerome you would never Imagine from the popular state' of mind, to be the able attorney of the people. Their sympathy is all against him here, as much or more than in the last gubernatorial cam paign, when he was hissed by republi cans and democrats alike. Jerome is indeed in a quandary. No matter what he does in the Thaw case it is bound to be unpopular. A prominent news paper man said to me not long ago: "If Jerome is any kind of a man he won't attempt to cross-examine Eve lyn Nesbit." There you are! As an offl- r\ it pi r-?t fV': 5A THE EVENING TIMES, GRAND FORKS, N. D. cer of the state he Is almost obliged to cross-examine her, yet there are not 100 men in New York city who would support him in such a move. That he was a personal friend of the dead architect and that he refused to aid Thaw In bringing White to justice by means of the Gerry society back in the days when White was wlney and gay, may In a way have helped to build up this already popular pre judice against the district attorney. They say that when the half-hysteri cal girl climbed down from her wit ness chair that day there wasn't a dry eye in the room, and the. district attorney didn't have a single support er among the people present. IT HAS MADE MILLIONAIRES. Why Can it Not Be Done Again?. Ills* tory Can lie Repented. It is generally known that the first John Jacob Astor never sold a piece t.f real estate, the maxim, which proved a talisman that brought him great wealth being, "Buy when other people want to sell hold what yon buy," says an exchange. In those days the real estate busi ness had net assumed its present mam moth pre portions and .Mr. Astor in ferred that when one wanted to sell real estate it must be because the own er was in urgent need of money and would consequently sacrifice such property if the occasion required it. This is probably why he established the maxim above quoted. If such were construed Into modern business par lance it would simply mean that real estate is always a desirable investment if it can be had cheap enough and the situation is such as to promise a con stant and permanent increase in value. Of course, in our present real estate market people generally buy because others want to sell so badly that they succeed in,. Impressing their desire up on the pseudo-purchaser in such a way as to induce him to buy, although he may not really mean to do so. When business is what people call dull, or on strictly a normal basis, the volume Is hardly one-half as large as it becomes when the public mind is worked up to the pitch where It be lieves that in the immediate future big advances are to be made in the price of real estate, and that by purchasing now and selling shortly large profits can be made. This is a speculative spirit as distinct from an Investment spirit, which always governed Mr. As tor and his followers who have grown rich through buying desirable real es- mw^r Jeanne Towler and Carolvn Gordon with "Tlie Ham Tree" tate. The investment spirit, while not so rampant or general as the speculative spirit, is ever present and abiding and is the hope of the real estate business and the firm rock upon which it ever rests. All agents prefer to encourage the speculative spirit, and in so doing they are the instruments of making large sums of money for their clients in many cases, but there is always an end to this method of becoming sud denly rich. Values when pressed be yond reasonable limits will begin to shrink. Obligations placed on inflated property will go by default. Public confidence becomes shaken and a busi ness panic or shrinkage is the result. Those who have been led too far be yond the line of the legitimate will suffer in consequence. They will find that it will not pay them to send good money after bad in attempting to make a second and third payment on prop erty purchased for far more than ac tual value, and they will decide to lose what they have invested rather than further rob themselves of what they possess. In the meantime, while the speculat ive fever runs rampant, and the erst while conservative agents do violence to their better judgment in recom mending an outlay of money to their clients beyond the scope justified by facts and actual values, a city has re ceived the reputation of being on a boom, and outside investors flock to the scene to invest, not wisely, but too much, of their and other people's money. The result of such proceed ings is always the same. It Injures such city in the long run, and should be discouraged by all who have the permanent wellfare of a city at heart. This city has never really been fool ish enough to launch out on the sea of speculation in the matter of real es tate so for as to result in any perma nent injury. The present situation is one which should be freighted with much hope and intelligent expectation to the real estate fraternity here. Local capital is Investing more largely than ever in lo cal real estate, and outside money Is 1 vv H: ft.. •Ail. "J" tl Vjt ii, actually seeking to Invest in local real estate securities because of the splen did outlook for increase in value dur ing the next few years. Judicious investments made now need not be held more than six months before the property can be resold at an amount considerably above the orig inal sum nnd additional taxes. The city Is just In that condition where property of almost every grade can be secured during these quiet, conserva tive times at cheaper figures than will again probably be the case in the his tory of the city In the financial cen ters, together with the progressive commercial spirit and the modern strides in all lines of butlding. all con spire to beget a belief on the part o£ those who are looking intelligently In to the situation that local people en joy a sustained real estate activity which will advance the price of all well located property in the central portion of the city at least 331-3 per cent, and dcuble and In some cases treble the value of well located acre tracts near the city limits. APARTMENT HOUSES. Smal! Cities Are Beginning to Erect Then in Greater Number. In Paris nearly every family lives In a fiat. It Is not at all unusual to find men who are well to do dwelling in second-story apartments over a store. The rise in land values has reached a point where the earning power of the average individual is not great enough to permit his family to occupy a sepa rate house. The same is coming to be true in all the larger cities. This is il lustrated by the Tact that in Chicago, although agents and some others have been declaring that there were too many fiats, the latter are Increasing at an astonishing rate. For the last year 50 per cent of all the new build ings erected in that city were flats, and 42 per cent of the capital Invested in new buildings was put into the same kind of structures. In considering the development of the apartment house the expert finds some of the causes in the methods of design and construction. "The earlier flat buildings of a decade ago," he says, "were unsatisfactory affairs. They were small, with few conveniences and so slightly separated one from the oth er that not only the odors from one flat pervaded all the flats in the house, but the occupants of one were con stantly disturbed by the noises of their neighbors in the adjoining flat. Then the gas range and the laundry fixings I* were not yet introduced, and the deni zens of upper flats had to carry coal and often water had the greatest diffi culty in drying their clothes, had io climb up narrow and dark stairways and passages, and generally had many inconveniences to contend with that were productive of much hasty lan guage and improper expletives. "But the genius of the architect and the experience of the flat owners soon came to their rescue, and the modern flat building has become a model of convenience and often elegance. In fact, decorated entrances and showy facades are becoming the rule. The kitchens are furnished with gas ranges and refrigerators. Laundry fixtures and laundry dryers are supplied. Elec tric alarm mail boxes receive the car rier's gift and announce its arrival, automatic telephones take the place of stairs and electric gas lighters dis pense with matches. "The dweller in a modern flat is as much isolated from his neighbor as Is he who lives in an old-fashioned house in a row. All these improvements and many more still coming make a flat a desirable home for any economically Inclined family, be they rich or poor. Even in country towns of 10,000 people or over may now be found ambitious flat or apartment 'buildings which less than ten years ago were supposed to be the exclusive prerogative of the de generate Inhabitants of big cities. Eclipsed. The stranger from the east was surprised. "Why," he exclaimed, as he stepped from the train in the South Dakota settlement, "the Indians around here look as calm and peace ful as school children on a picnic. I thought they considered themselves bad?" "Wall, I'll tell you, pard," drawled Amber Pete, "they used to consider themselves bad, but since they have had a peek at some of the paleface folks in the divorce colony they have taken a back seat." Lote of women get married before they can afford to. tU Mtf On|k ljw» that rMa tk« MM ky aetiag aa a eatkartk thi tarda la BEE'S LAXATIVE HONEYuuTAR an Hi-Mai wn snase wi— Iwjnn MM Omt, last ulliwrtlii Oh Im tllknllMNiutlnttirtMHikHtln. •Is, Imms SMstet ihM BteCass seastfpe0ss. •as* bnUn Iimi Ml tst tfcs wtMMl UnttwOmtapitiMiillmMilHs *i kt imUt martac Hi tows* est •II c*wk« OMI, «M» mmm ioanaas.su H. ZISKIN 113 DeMers Ave GRAND FORKS Both Phones 788-M SPECIAL Geo. B. Clifford & Co. Money Loaners. 9 ro 10 W. S. WEBER. Ticket Aitsl Telephone 07 Train Arrives HISS II8S 1*41 ftn •in •Ml •s«i •w Uilfw 1:11 P.SS tillan .9:4( p.n i-.ii •Mi 118 tajrsams: TUESDAY, MARCH 5,1907. 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