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VENICE ROMANCE
ENDS IN WEDDING
Started in Gondola and Is Fanned
by Flames That Swept
Rowardennan Hills
ARE MARRIED AT MIRAMAR
Roger John Sterrett Claims Miss
Geneva Webb, Ohio Heiress,
as His Bride
Roger John Sterrett, head of the art
department of Los Angeles high school,
was married August 30, at Miramar,
rear Santa Barbara, to Miss Geneva
Webb of Plymouth, 0., and the couple
are passing their honeymoon at San
ta Barbara, guests at the Potter hotel.
The affair was the culmination of a
romance which began in a gondola
at Venice, Cal., took the pair through
the stirring times of the fires near
Eowardennan, and finally ended in
their feeting at Miramar and deciding
It was the proper place to be married.
Mr. Sterrett, in speaking of the ro
mance at Santa Barbara last evening,
said:
"We were both teachers in the Ven
ice highschool at one time, and knew
each other there slightly. However,
I may say that our acquaintance real
ly began with a gondola ride we hap
pened to take one evening. I don't
know whether it was the soft music
which was to be heard over the rip
ple of the craft or the moon overhead,
but, anyway, at. that very minute,
the romance began for me.
"We met again at Rowardennnn,
both being driven out of the moun
tains by the forest fires and having,
by that time become a little better
acquainted and having decided
that we were in love with each other,
we came to Miramar whero we were
married Tuesday, the Rev. M. M.
Moore of All Saints by the Sea per
forming the ceremony. We will re
main at the Potter a week and then
return to Los Angeles."
Mr. Sterrett is well known in this
city In connection with his school
work. He is a Stanford graduate, a
member of the University club, the
Venice Country club, and several simi
lar organizations. His marriago was
a total surprise to his many friends.
Mrs. Sterrett Is the daughter of a well
known Ohio family and is quite
■wealthy in her own right.
OFFICIALS HOLD LINERS,
FEARING CHOLERA ABOARD
NEW YORK, Sept I.—Two transat
lantic steamers, one of them the Lusl
tanla, were held up by the New York
health authorities tonight because of
the cholera scare abroad.
A steerage passenger on the I^uslta
nla had been found seriously 111 by ln
epectors, and while there was nothing
to Indicate cholera. It was decided to
hold the vessel pending a bacteriologi
cal examination.
The steamer San Giovanni, from Na
ples and Palermo, with passengers from
Triani, Italy where cholera has been
reported, was detained in quarantine
until the death at sea of a 14-year-old
girl five days ago can be Investigated.
MANCHURIA IN QUARANTINE
TOKIO, Sept. I.—The steamer Man
churia, bound from Shanghai for San
Francisco, still remains in quarantine,
with her passengers, because of the
suspected case of plague discovered on
board yesterday. The vessel is under
going rigid disinfection.
NEW STEAMERS WILL
TOUCH AT SAN PEDRO
Independent Line to Wage War
on Pacific Mail
SEATTLE, Sept. I.—Negotiations
have been practically completed by
■which the steamship Mackinaw, owned
by Schubach & Hamilton, of Seattle,
is to be chartered for service in the
new line of independent steamships,
to be operated by Bates & Chesebrough
between San Francisco and Atlantic
ports by way of the Isthmus of Pan
ama, in competition with vessels of tho
Pacific Mail Steamship company, ac
cording to A. Schubach, head of the
local owners.
Three new steamers have been se
cured for the run between San Fran
cisco and Balboa. Tho other two are
the Stanley Dollar and the George W.
Fenwlck. San Pedro will be the only
port touched at between San Francisco
and Balboa.
BUNDY AND McLOUGHLIN
TO PLAY FOR DAVIS CUP
Lamed Unable to Make Trip to
Compete with Australians
NEW YORK, Sept. I.—The American
lawn tennis champion, William A.
Lamed, will not be on the American
team which will challenge for the
Dwight F. Davis international chal
lenge cup. now held by Australia. His
father, who is past 70, does not wish
so long a separation as would be
necessary.
With Lamed eliminated, it has been
decided the Californians, Thomas C.
Bundy and Maurice B. McLoughlin,
shall represent this country In the In
ternational matches.
STEAMER GOES ON ISLAND;
PASSENGERS LANDED SAFELY
EUREKA, Cal., Sept. 2.—A wireless
call for help was received at Fort
Humboldt station late last night from
the steamer Watson, ashore on Wadda
island.
The tug Goliah, a revenue cutter and
one other vessel in the vicinity are pre
paring to go to the assistance of tho
Watson.
A second wireless message was re
ceived from the Watson saying the
passengers are being landed in life
boats.
INITIATIVE LAW PASSED
DEKVER, Sept. I.—The initiative and
endum bill paasad the upper house
of tin- Colorado legislature today. It
had already passed the lower house.
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BLOND MEN ARE NOW
THE FAD ON BROADWAY
Supply of Yellow-Haired Fellows
Not Sufficient for Demand
of Theaters
NEW YORK, Sept. I.—Quotations |
of peroxide at the Broadway drug
stores, and even the price of tow. a™j
flax in the wholesale district, went up
with a rush yesterday when a com
plaint whs issued from Charles Froh
man's offices that there was a, short
age of blond men in the Rlalto chorus
market. Hepner. the wigmaker, who
U now Krlanger's right bodyguard
was off the job last evening, and it
was said he was laying in a special
stock of excelsior.
The Broadway impresarios of musi
cal comedy are always having trouble
with the chorus crop. Two years ago
an epidemic of bowlegs appeared
among the girls. Later the tyue-eyed
variety of chorus sprite had vanished
from the market. Recently it was said
that the only really pretty girls were
to be found in Chicago. This last de
liverance came from Jake Shubert, and
Jake ought to know.
Investigation revealed that Thomas
Reynolds, who stage manages Mr.
Frohman's musical comedies, started
the latest panic. Reynolds begged that
the name of the musical comedy he is
now organizing be suppressed. His
request isn't granted. The name of
the piece that pines for yellow-haired
chorus men is "Our Miss Gibbs.
"Blond chorus men, and even those
of the peroxide variety," said he,
"have agreed not to work for less than
$30 a week-$lO above the prevailing
market price. The reason is that tne
demand is unprecedented and it Is
chiefly due to the changing tastes or
women in the audiences, particularly
the young women. I cannot account
for the curious psychology of it. Pos
sibly it is because blond men are rare,
and women rush for anything that is
the least bizarre. Most likely, though,
it is because these men have more
'flash' on the stage and seem more
romantic than the brunette type. We
have experimented several times by
having six men with dark hair and
eyes come on directly before a sextette
of flaxen-haired chaps. The latter al
ways get twice ths applause.
"This rage fur blond men on the part
of the women has quite upset the
chorus men's profession. Fellows who
have been in the business for five or
nix years and who have always suc
ceeded in getting a position hitherto
pace Broadway in vain. Some have
used peroxide to land an engagement
that they couldn't otherwise get. Un
less the rage dies down we are likely
to see as much bleaching among the
chorus men as among the chorus Kills."
Last night the musical comedy pro
ducers who have managed to catch live
specimens of the blond haired chorus
men refused to let them go home, but
kept them in cages at the theaters.
The present market stringency will
prevail until musical comedy fashions
change again and totally bald chorus,
men come into demand.
MISS FITCH MAY LIVE
NEW YORK, Sept. I.—Surgeons said
today that there was a slight chance
for the recovery of .Miss Vera Pitch,
the young California author, who In
a fit nf despondency because she be
lleved she made a literary (allure,
herself at the Hotel Astor Monday
niK'it. Tiie young woman now has a
strong desire to live. She was resting
comfortably today.
LOS ANGELES HERALD: FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1010.
HIGH TAX CAUSES FRENCH
TO SMOKE POOR TOBACCO
Impost on Weed Raised from 10
to 33 Per Cent
PARIS, Sept. I.—Taxation sometimes
overreches itself. If the present temper
of smokers in France continues the
result of the new imposts on tobacco
will spell disaster. The prices of all
French tobacco, cigars and cigarets,
except the cheapest, and the duties on
all imported kinds were raised from
10 to 33 per cent last May. At the
end of June the sale shows a deficiency
'on previous months of $341,200. The
treasury comforted itself with the ar
gument that smokers were burning up
the advance supplies they had bought
before the new taxes came into force.
The returns for July are to hand
and damage that consoling argument
considerably. The estimate for the
month was $8,400,000. Tho figure turns
out to be just over $8,200,000. Not only
is there a deficit on the estimate, but
falling off of nearly $60,000 as com
pared with last year. The total deficit
upon the estimates for tobacco sales
since the new taxes exceeds $500,000 in
two months. The Anti-Tobacco league
is thinking of sending a telegram of
thanks to the French' minister of
finance.
But the probable reason of the deficit
Is not that the Frenchmen smoke less,
but that they smoke worse tobacco.
Many people, Instead of increasing
their expenditure to suit the treasury,
reduced the quality of their smokes to
suit their purses, and, one on the path
of economy, paid not only no more than
before, but less. Apparently the only
course for the treasury is to charge
more for all tobacco, Including the
cheapest, but there would be howls of
execration from the majority of tho
adult male population and a not In
significant minority of the ladies.
CZAR ASTOUNDS PUBLIC
BY VISIT TO OPEN CAFE
NAUHEIM, Sept. I.—Emperor Nlcho
las motored lromFriedburg today and
visited this resort of baths in the most
democratic fashion. He left hi 3 auto
mobile outside the town and walked in.
accompanied by two adjutants.
As the party passed through the
streets large crowds gathered and
hailed the emperor, who returned their
salutations. He visited various objects
of interest, and later had coffee in a
public cafe. From the cafe he re
turned to where the motor ear was
waiting and was driven back to Fried
burg.
While here the rtussian monarch ex
hibited not the slightest nervousness),
though it was probably the first time in
some years that he had come so closely
and freely in contact with tho public.
DELAY CEREMONY BY GOVERNOR
BISHOP, Cal., Sept. I.—Gov. GUlett
arrived here yesterday to be the guest
of the Inyo Good Roads club, for a
three-day trip through the county. It
was planned to Include the driving of
the last spike of the Nevada & Cali
fornia railroad, but because o£ delay
eight miles of the road remain uncom
pleted. A monument marking the be
irinnin" of El Camlno Sierra, a 200-mile
hiffhway through the Sierras, was un
veiled yesterday by the Good Read*
club.
THE DIFFERENCE
••I HippoM tf ""■■' Ml'■• B»n»t «■■'" '»•'■
husl..u,il from the UUbori wag a deaii
ittti r"
"Not a bit of It; it waa a llva wire. —
Baltimore American.
MONKEYS THRIVE IN
COLD AIR OF WINTER
Experiment in Chicago Shows
Value of Plan
CHICAGO, Sept. I.—Dr. William
Evans tried a fresh air experiment on
the monkeys In the Lincoln park zoo.
"Take your twenty healthy monkeys
inside, as usual, this winter," he told j
Cy De Vry, "but keep the five sick \
ones outside. It will be interesting to
see what will happen."
"But they can't stand It; the cold air
will kill them," protested the keeper.
"If it does you won't loae much, or
the monkeys either, for at best they
can only live a few weeks."
As the winter came on these five ill
tropical animals were kept In a place
where they were constantly exposed
to its chilling draughts. They became
perforce fresl! air cranks. A thatched
shelter was provided, into which they
could retreat when the weather be
came too Icy, but no artificial heat was
supplied. Strangely enough, except at
night, when they slept under it, the in
valids seemed to care little for this
I shelter.
With the gradual approach of winter
the monkeys showed a natural inclina
tion for the cold open air as their
healthy brothers did for the hot
draughts Inside the monkey house.
Presently there appeared upon their
emaciated bodies a faint sprouting of
hair, which grew thicker as the weath
er became more severe. Gradually the
sluggish creatures started Into life; In
stead of huddling in corners they be
gan to climb and jump about their
cages. „ .
Before the winter was over .all of
them had thick brown furry coats;
their muscles had grown large and
strong; they ate eagerly and mani
fested an increased desire for the fa
vorite simian pastime—fighting. They
became the most popular curiosities of
the zoo. Nothing in years had de
lighted visitors so much as~~<vhat had
now become an every-day sight; one of
these tropical animals, in zero weather,
=eated upon a snowbank, contentedly
eating a banana. But the twenty mon
keys that early in the winter had en
tered the steam heated monkey house
In splendid physical condition had not
fared so well. By spring- not a single
on* was alive—all had died of tuber
culosis.
JURY PROTECTS BRIGADE
IN FREE LUNCH FIGHT
Sale of Ten Tickets for One Cent
Saves Cleveland Dealers
CLEVELAND, O. ( Sept ..—A Jury
came to the rescue of the Ohio free
lunch brigade In police court here.
They held Patrick H. Gallagher,
charged with breaking the Schaefer
anti-free lunch law, enacted at the
lust session of the legislature, not
Gallagher was arrested last May by
policemen who found a lunch counter
laden with appetizing eatables In full
operation at th<> rr:ir of his barroom.
In court Gallagher proved that in or
der to partake of the pigs' feet, roast
heef, cheese, crackers and pickles dis
played on the counter, customers wore
compelled to deposit a cent at the bar,
in return for which they were pro
vided with ten tickets, each good for
a luni h.
The Jury decided that such lunchM
are not freo. Local saloonlsts are ju
bilant.
IMPORTED DOGS SHOW
THEY ENJOY ARREST
Glad to Be Away from Sausage
Maker's Kennels
BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Sept. I.—Al
though it is the belief of many fanciers
that animals, and particularly dog;?,
feel disgrace as keenly as humans,
there are no two happier canines in
I sill Connecticut than a Eouple of
beagles who were arrested at the home
of Charles Muller in Stratford.
Mullcr has a nice taste In sporting
dogs, and recently purchased four
couples of English foxhounds and two
couples of beagles. He installed them
in a kennel. For a day or two all went
well, but soon the hounds and beagles
began to wail plaintively at night and
neighbors began to suspect that they
were obsessed with some secret sor
row.
The music of hounds, which Is of a
minor and doleful quality even when
the animals are running to* a breast
scent, is familiar melody to residents
of Stratford, and ears atuned were
quick to realize that Mullet's hounds
were in the grip of some premonition
or disaster. There was a note In their
music as though they had lived lives
of incredible hound evil and profligacy
and were now lamenting because a fate
that they could not deflect or avert was
descending upon them in their sina.
Then an investigation of Muller's
life was set afoot and the startling
discovery made that he is employed In
a sausage factory in this city.
No man in Connecticut loves a dog
better than Sheriff Charles Stagg. He
visited the Muller place and finding
that their owner had not taken out
licenses for one couple of beagles,
promptly placed them under arrest on
charges of being at large without
proper registration.
Arrived at the pound the beagles cel
ebrated their new estate with a burst
of exuberant melody that was like
celestial music. But at Muller's place
the other beagles and the hounds are
filling the night with dismal melan
choly, led by one hound who, while
he chants mournfully at the stars, lifts
tow aid them a face illuminted with the
radiance of true repentance—a hound
brand snatched from the burning, who
sees the glint of the Reaper's sickle,
but in his holy calm is not afraid.
SPANISH STRIKERS CLASH
WITH POLICE AT BILBAO
BILBAO, Spain, Sept. I.—The strike
situation is alarming. The funds of
the men have been exhausted and tne
strikers are in an ugly mood.
Collisions with th-e police, gen
darmes and strike-breakers occur con-
stantly. , , .
Many factories are being closed and
the work in the harbor has been whol
ly suspended.
Troops are being concentrated and
a cordon of soldiers has been thrown
about the city to prevent the entry of
strikers from other districts.
GENERAL STRIKE DECLARED
ZAKAGOZA, Spain, Sept. I.—Twen
ty-two workmen's organizations de
clared a general strike today In Bym
pathy with the strike jit Bilbao.
DECLARES STATE" OF SIEGE
MADRID. Sept. I.—ln view of the
strike rioting reported from Bilbao,
the government declared that city In a
state of siege.
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PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD
INCREASES SCHOLARSHIPS
PITTSBURG, Pa., Sept. 1.— George
F. Wolfe of Youngwood, Pa., and M.
Roy Strong of Cleveland, 0., were
today announced as the successful
candidates for the Frank Thomson
scholarships. With the addition of
these two young men there will oe
eight holders of these scholarships,
which amount to $too annually, ana
which are awarded upon a competitive
examination to sons of employes of
the Pennsylvania railroad system.
The successful candidates for the
scholarships in 1907 were W. B. Rudd
of Media, Pa., who graduated in June
of this year from Yale university, and
George J. Rlchers of Altoona, who is
taking a course in engineering at the
University of Pennsylvania. In 1908
Merritt E. Gill of Grand Rapids, Mich.,
now at the Univu.-slty of Michigan,
and Harry Wallls Anderson of Folcroft,
Pa., now at the University of Penn
sylvania, were awarded the scholar
ships. Benjamin M. Snyder, Jr., of El
mira, N. V., and AVallace B. Porter of
Youngstown> 0., won the scholarships
in 1909. „
Young Wolfe is a son of George B.
Wolfe, a locomotive engineer on the
southwest branch of the Plttsburg
division of the Pennsylvania railroad.
He is, 17 years old and has JuFt grad
uated from the high school In Greens
burg, Pa. He expects to enter the civil
engineering department of Lehlgh uni
versity.
M. Roy Strong is a son of Arthur W.
Strong, telegraph operator on the
Cleveland & Pittsburg division of the
Pennsylvania lines. He has been at
iending the Case School of Applied
Sciences, Cleveland, O. He Is 21 years
of age, and expects to continue at the
Case school. Strong is at present a
member of the engineer corps on the
Cleveland & Plttsburg division.
The Thomson scholarships were es
tablished by Anno Thomson, Frank
Graham Thomson and Clark Thomson,
children of the late President Frank
Thomson of the Pennsylvania Railroad
company. The grantors of this trust
fund of $120,000 declared it was their
desire to afford to tM*e sons of living 1
and deceased employes of the Pennsyl
vania system an opportunity for a
technical education. With the awards
for 1910 there are eight beneficiaries of
the Thomson scholarship fund receiv
ing a college education. This number
will be maintained by awarding two
scholarships every year.
7,500,000,000 POUNDS OF
SUGAR USED IN YEAR
WASHINGTON, Sept. I.—lncluding
Imports and home production, about
7,500,000,000 pounds of sugar were con
sumed in the United States In the
year ending June 30, according to the
bureau of statistics. The average per
capita consumption, 82 pounds, exceed
ed that of any preceding year. The
production of cane sucar in the United
States was 750,000,000 pounds, as com
pared with 829,000,000 pounds in 1909,
but 1,025,000,000 pounds of beet sugar
were produced against 967,000,000. the
highest record of any previous year.
The Hawaiian islands furnished 1,111,
--000,000: Porto Rico, 669,000,000, and the
Philippine islands 176,000,000 pounds, In
each case more than for any preceding
year The Imports from foreign coun
tries aggregated 3,918,000,000 pounds, a
reduction of 188,000,000 pounds from the
preceding year. Foreign countries sup
plied 51 per cent of the sugar consumed
as compared with 75 per cent in 1900
and preceding years. According to the
agricultural department the quantity
of beet sugar produced has Increased
from 73,000,000 pounds in 1899 to 1,025,
--000,000 pounds in 1910. an increase of
952,000.000 i^ounds, as compared with an
increase of 181,000,000 pounds of cane
sugar In the same time.
AUSTRALIANS PLAN A
BIG ISSUE OF NOTES
Labor Leaders Against Rights of
the States i
SYDNEY, N. S. W., Sept. I.—Some
alarm seems to have been created in I
Auustralia by the proposal of the fed
eral government to Institute a common
wealth note issue. It Is true that a
state bank has for years been a prom
inent plank in the labor platform, but
it was evidently expected that the re
sponsibility of office would restrain
the ministry from lightly making a
departure of such far-reaching im
portance as that now contemplated.
Prime Minister Fisher, who is also the
federal treasurer, appears to have sat
isfied himself of the soundness and
expediency of the project, and talks of
Issuing notes to the amount of some
$20,000,000, a total which la said to
equal nearly eight-ninths of the pres
ent note circulation of the common
wealth. He estimates that the profit
on the venture will work out at $500,
--000. This, however, will be earned
largely at the expense of the states^
who now derive $375,000 a year from
note taxation. But this fact does not
disturb Mr. Fisher in the least. He
Is the leader of a party which Is frank
ly hostile to state rights and eager
to abridge them. The community,
however, is threatened with the enor
mous evil of a paper currency not
backed by a sufficient reserve of gold.
For every $5 note issued by the Aus
tralian banks there is a reserve of at
least $30 in gold in the strong room.
Mr. Fisher talks of a reserve of $1.26,
but even this, trifling: and Inadequate
as it is, he will be unable to main
tain. .
ANGRY HUSBAND SHOOTS
THROUGH WIFE'S HEADGEAR
• PARIS, Sept. •!.— An excited couple;
entered a police station,. followed by a
man whom a policeman was | holding ■
tightly by the arm. The prisoner was„
her husband, and the third member of ;.;■
the party was a man to whom she had B
been i talking- ;In ' the ? street when 1 her
husband came up and fired four shots,.
at her. had not been for my hat," ex-;
"If It had not been for my hat," ex- •
plained the young woman, "I should
have ben killed." , t -'.'--V- -;-.'•! j,WJ%
In fact, when her hat, a beauty of ,;
the cartwheel | type, '.was * examined llt ■
was found to contain two bullets. From
the explanations given by the r three
persons, It turned . out '■> that • the hus
band, who was away most of the day,
had been Informed that his wife passed ;*
much of her time in conversation with
other men. i , ■- -» '„". '.';
The anonymous letter which gave him
this Information stated exactly at what
point of the city and in what cafe the:,
woman might be seen at certain hours •;;
of the day. I The husband took a ! re- ;,
volver and went to the spot. There he *,
found his wife. She was walking; In>v
the street with a man whom he did not
know. The moment for using, his re- ;
volver had come, and he discharged ; it,
four times. At the fifth tatempt jlt
missed fire, l' '- ■'„' .
• By that time a policeman had him by. r
the arm and prevented further shoot- "
ing. Two of the shots had gone astray,
but the other two took effect, as was \
afterward learned at the police station.
But, luckily, they went mo further •
than the woman's hat, in the rim of "
which the two bullets were firmly im- I
bedded. When it was all over the wife
was rather glad her hat had saved her
husband from f h«lnar - nrosecuted * for R
murder.- ■> ' "/' I^-Hffl