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freeholders' Committee Decides
Money Can Be Saved by
Buying in Market.
^ ’til the expectation that prices
"ill take a drop in a few months, the
purchasing? committee of the Board of
1* reeholders yesterday rejected all
bids on meats, lard and flour for the
county institutions. Needed supplies
of these commodities will be purchased
in the open market by Purchasing
Agent George Bergen, until prices
drop and new bids are advertised for.
b reeholder Mattia proposed the re
jection of the bids. He said that meat
prices quoted the county now were
four cents a pound higher than those
quoted a year ago. He found, he de
clared, that dealers felt that prices
had reached the top mark and would
begin to drop soon, In which event, It
a contract was awarded at present by
the county, money would be lost. Mr.
Mattia pointed out that by buying in
open market for a month or two the
county may lose money, but eventu
ally the saving when prices drop will
greatly offset this loss. The rest of
the committee concurred with him,
and the bids were thrown out. The
low bid on flour was $5.97, which was
considered too high, and rejected.
Bids on Italian macaroni and spag
hetti were also thrown out, on Free
holder Mattia's motion. The bids
"ere on domestic brands, while the
specifications call for Imported. The
purchase of mixed good suits for in
mates of the Overbrook Hospital was
left to Freeholder Ryman, chairman
of the committee, and the superin
tendent of the hospital. A number of
tie bids were settled by the committee
deciding to award the contract to one
or the other contestant. Several
minor bids werfe rejected because of
irregularities.
The awards will be made by the
Board of Freeholders tomorrow.
Mrs. W. K. Draper to Speak
at Red Cross Fund Dinner
in This City Next Week
A feature of the dinner to be given
at the Nankin Garden next Tuesday
night for the benefit of the American
Red Cross fund will be an address
by Mrs. William K. Draper, of New
York. She is one of the most active
workers of the Red Cross Society
and a member of its national com
mittee on nursing service. She will
toll of the nature of the work the
nurses of the society are expected to
perform and of the need of more
funds to carry out the relief plans
of the society in connection with the
European war.
The entire proceeds of the dinner
will be turned over to the Red Cross
fund. To stimulate the demand for
the tickets Herbert D. Minor, man
aging proprietor of the Nankin, has
offered prizes for holders of winning
nu mbers on attached coupons.
Alexander Hamilton Club
Addressed by W. H. Lough
or. Business Organization
The first meeting of the Alexander
Hamilton Club for the season was
held last night at the Washington
restaurant.
William H. Lough, vice-president
of the Alexander Hamilton Institute
of New York, was the principal
speaker. His subject was “Organiza
tion.”
President A. Preston Jump, of the
local club, congratulated the mem
bers upon its steady growth. He
hoped it would become one of the
leading business clubs of the city.
Curtain Calls
This week will be the last oppor
tunity for the people of Newark to
witness the unsurpassable perform
ance of Gabriel D'Annunzio's^ “Ca
biria’’ at Proctor’s Park Place The
atre. tr
The attraction for Monday, Tues
day and Wednesday of next
week will be Eugene Walter’s fa
mous play, “The Wolf,” portrayed in
six massive parts by the Lubln Com.
pany with an all-star cast, including
George Soule Spencer, Ethel Clay
ton, Fred Tidmarsh, Gaston Hell and
other1 recognized artists. Popular
prices will prevail. The performance
will be continuous from 11 a. in. to
11 p. m.
At the Lyric the latter part of this
week, beginnig tomorrow, Tim
Murphy, the celebrated star of many
legitimate successes, particularly of
the international hit, ‘‘The Village
Blacksmith,” plays a special star en
gagement in a delightful comedy of
romance and sentiment entitled “The
Bachelor’s Romance.”
“Ward 22," a satirical comedy, with
a company of six, is next in impor
tance on this excellent bill. It is full
of bright musical and dancing num
bers, and with an abundance of up
roarious comedy.
La Selma and company in a spec
tacular posing novelty entitled "A
Day in -an Art Gallery;” Waller .f.
Hayes, the "rube” musical comedian,
who has been featured with many
successful rural plays; Dixon and
Falls, classy songsters, in a musical
skit of the times; Wilson and Law
son, acrobats, whose feats are sen
sational; Brown and Moulton in a
lively little pianologue with comedy
trimmings; and Florence Simpson, a
chanteuse of international repute,
are among others on the bill.
Special motion pictures of the New
ark Elks leaving Newark for Long
Branch, and their activities in Long
Branch, including scenes in Newark,
and a panorama view along Broad
and Market streets, will be seen in
pictures at the Lyric the last part of
this week.
"Everywoman,” a dramatic spec
tacle by Walter Browne, will be pre
sented at the Newark Theatre next
week, with popular matinees Wed
nesday and Saturday.
MADE IN NEWARK.
ABDOMINAL SUPPORTERS
AND TRUSSES
Made to
(Order
Is Our
SEND FOB CIRCULAR NO. I.
Reinhold Schumann
23 William St„ N»wrk M. J.
SCENE IN “THE OLD HOMESTEAD," PRESENTED
AT THE NEWARK, BY THE ORIGINAL COMPANY
Small insert in upper part of picture show h Rickety Ann and Ganze.v Boy, characters in the play
To write a clean play that will
continue as a vehicle ol popuiai en
tertainment throughout the vicissi
tudes and changing mixls of even
ten years, implies that it contains
some particular elements that enable
it to make a wide appeal to a vast
number of people: though, as a mat
ter of fact, it does not necessarily
follow that such a play is a g'-eat
play. In the majority of cases it
lives for the simple reason that it
reaches the hearts of the people, lhaf
great mass of Individuals that go to
make up the vast army whose ap
proval and patronage it is that makes
the modern drama an assurid fact.
The play that tells a clean story, on
a subject understood and appreciated
by the man in the street, is the one
that wins out.
It is questionable whether there are
very many people who are at all In
touch with the events of the day,
who have not heard at least once, of
“The Old Homestead,” which, this
week, in being played at the Newark.
Yet here is a play dealing with the
most homely and unpretentious of
subjects. It is today, after twenty
nine years on the stage, still one of
the anchors to windward in contem
porary American theatricals. There
must be some good reason for this.
To begin with, “The Old Home
stead” is full of genuine heart in
terest—that elusive but essential a
quality which the dramatist so often
omits, or more likely, does not have
the genius to include in his play.
"The Old Homestead” is one of the
really remarkable things in the way
of dramatic writing. It is above all
else clean in idea, clean in the tell
ing and beautiful in sentiment. You
must in the long run give the public
the sort of plays it wants. Prob
ably the idea has come into your
mind as to why more plays of this
type are not tvritten. This is best
answered by pointing out that while
plays like "The Old Homestead” are
simplicity themselves, it is rather the
simplicity that is displayed by gen
ius in producing natural and artistic
results—by all odds the most baffling
and evasive sort of simplicity.
The public soon tires of the violet
hued emanations that so often pa
rade as drama. They want the genu
ine thing, In the long run. The
best proof that this is so, and that
the genuine lasting thing in the way
of dramatic productions is the natu
ral p!ay, the play of the soil, lies in
the fact that such plays as these
live through many years, while all
the passing fancies of the theatre, all
the vogue in the drama, all the fads
for particular kinds of plays, soon
die of their own accord.
ITI MILLION DOLLAR MYSTERY |
^ ■■■ ■ — ■ — - — — —
COPIES CONTAINING PAST INSTALMENTS OF THE STORY ON SALE AT THE EVENING STAR OFFICE (BY MAIL) THREE CENTS
>. ._ __
By HAROLD
Mac G R AT H
(Copyright, 1914, by
Harold MacGrath).
^ '
$10,000 FOR 100 WORDS
The "Million Dollar Mystery*' story
will rnn for twemy-two consecu
tive weeks In the Newark Evening
Star. By an arrangement with tlie
Thanhouser Flbn Company It ha*
been made possible not only to read
the story In the Newark Evening Star,
but also to see It each week In tlie
various moving picture theatre*.
CONDITIONS GOVERNING THE
CONTEST
The prise of $10,000 will be won by
the man, worfkan or child who write*
the most acceptable solution of the
m.vstery, from which tlie last two
reels of motion picture drama will bs
made and the last twa chapter* af
the story written by Harold Mac
; Grnth.
I Solutions may he sent to the Than
houser Film Corporation, at New
York, any time up to midnight, De
cember 14. They must near postofllce
mark not later than that date.
A hoard of three Judges will deter
mine which of the many solutions
received Is the most acceptable. The
Judgment of tilts hoard will he ab
solute and Anal. Nothing of a liter
acy nature will be considered In the
.tectslon. nor given any preference In
the selection of tlie winner of the
$10,000 prise. The last two reels,
which will give the most acceptable
solution to the mystery, will be pre
sented In the theatres. Tlie story eor
resnondlng to these motion pictures
will appear In this newspaper co
incidentally.
Solutions to the mystery must not
be more than 100 words long. Here
nro some questions to he kept In
mind In connection with the mystery
as an aid to a solution:
No. 1—Whut becomes af the mil
lionaire?
No. 2—What becomes of the $1.
000.000?
No. 3-—Whom does Florence marry?
No. 4—What becomes of the Rus
sian countess?
SYNOPSIS.
Stanley Hargreave, millionaire, after a
miraculous escape from the den of the gang
of brilliant thieves known as the Black
Hundred, lives the life of a recluse for
eighteen years, Hargreave accidentally
meets Bralne. leader of the Black Hundred.
Knowing Bralne will try to get him. he
escapes from his own home by a balloon.
Before escaping he writes a letter to the
girls' school, where eighteen yearn before
he mysteriously left on the doorstep his
baby daughter, Florence Gray. That day
Hargreave also draws one million dollars
from the bank, but It Is reported that this
dropped into the sea when the balloon he
escaped In wan punctured.
Florence arrives from the girls’ school.
Countess Olga, Bralne’s companion. ' visits
her and claims to be a relative. Two bogus
detectives call, but their plot Is foiled by
Norton, a newspaper man. ,
By bribing the captain of the Orient
Norton lays a trap for Bralne and his gang.
Countess Olgr. also visits the Orient's cap
tain and she easily falls Into the reporter’s
snare. The plan proves abortive through
Braine's good luck, and only hirelings fall
into the hands of the police.
After falling In their first, attempt the
Black Hundred trap Florence. They ask
her for money, but she escapes, again foil
ing them.
Norton and the countess call on Florence
the next day, once more safe at home. The
visitors having gone. Jones removes a sec
tion of flooring, and from a cavity takes
a box. Pursued by members of the Black
Hundred, he rushes to the water front and
succeeds In dropping the box into the sea.
Countess Olga, scheming to break the en
gagement existing between Florence Har
greave and Norton. Invites them both to
her apartments and pretends to faint in the
reporter’s arms. Florence appears In the
doorway just at the planned moment, and
as a result gives Norton back his ring.
Accomplices of Bralne succeed In kidnap
Elng Florence while she Is shopping and
urry her off to sea. Norton receives a wire
less later Informing him that the girl had
leaped into the sea and been drowned.
Florence is picked up In a dazed condition
by a party of fishermen. The Black Hundred
locate her and Bralne, disguised as her
father, succeeds in taking her back to sea
with him. Florence sets Are to the boat and
Is rescued by a ship on which Norton has
been shanghaied.
Norton and Florence safely ashore and
■Ufc m losget «wr mlBUBdersWaUiag b9
tween them, take the train for home. The
train ts wrerket! and waiting mem beta of
tlie Black Hundred carry the Injured Flor
ence to a deserted hut. Norton, who triea
to rescue her, is tied to the railroad tracks.
Florence saves him and finally Jones comes
to tho rescue of both.
(Continued from Yesterday.;
He ate his supper witli his mess
mates, and he ate heartily, as usual.
It would have taken something more
vital than mere treasure to disturb
Steve Blossom's appetite. He was one
of those enviable Individuals whose
imagination and gastric Juices work
at the same time. And while he ate
Jie, planned. Tn the tlrst place, he
would buy that home at Bedford:
then he would take over the Gilson
house and live like a. lord. If he
wanted a drink, all he would have
to do would be to turn the spigot or
tip a bottle, and. more than that, he’d
have a bartender to do It. Onions!
He swore he would not have an onion
within a mile of the Gilson house.
"Onions!” Quite uneoiisciously he
spoke this word aloud.
“Huh? Well, if ye don’t like onions,
find a hooker that parks violets in
her hold,” was the cheerful adv ice of
the man at Steve’s elbow.
“Who’s talkin’ t’ you?” grunted
Steve. ”Wha' did I say?”
"Onions, ye lubber! Don't we know
whut onions is? Ain't we smelt ’em
so long that ye could stick yer nose
In th’ starboard light an' never smell
no kerosene? Onions! Pass th'
cuwffy.”
Steve helped himself first. The man
who spoke bunked over him, and they
were not on the best of terms. There
was no real reason for this frank an
tagonism; simply, they did not splice
any more effectually than cotton rope
and hemp splice. Sailors are moody
and superstitious; at least, they gen
erally are on hookers of the Captain
Manners breed. Steve was supersti
tious and Jlnt Dunkers was moody
and had no thumb on his left hand,
Steve hated the sight of that red
nubbin. He was quite certain thut it
had been a whole thumb once, on the
way to gouge out somebody's eye, and
had inadvertently connected with
somebody’s teeth.
Spanish doubloons and -pearls and
diamonds and rubies! It was mighty
hard not to say these words out loud,
too; blare them into the sullen faces
grouped about the table. He was oft
watch till midnight; and he was won
dering If he could get the box without
attracting the attention of the look
out, who had a devilish keen eye for
everything that stirred on deck or on
water. Well, he would have to risk
it; but he would wait till full darkness
had fallen over the Hea and the look
out would be compelled to keep his
eyes off the deck. The boys wanted
him to play cards.
Not ror me. Musteu. mow long d i
y’ think $40 ’ll last in New York, any- ,
how?’ And he stalked out of the
forecastle and went down into the
waist to enjoy his evening pipe, all
the while keeping a weather eye for- |
ward, at the ratty old pilot house.
It was 10 o'clock, land time, when
he rammed his cutty into a pocket
and resolutely walked forward. If
anyone watched him they would
think he was only looking down the
cutwater. The thought of money and
the pleasures it will buy makes cun
ning the stupidest of dolts, and Steve
was ordinarily a dolt; but tonight
his brain was keen enough for all
purposes. It was a hazardous job to
get the box off the fluke without let
ting it slip back into the sea. Steve,
however, accomplished the feat,
climbed back on the rail and sat
down, waiting. A quarter of an hour
passed. No one had seen him. With
his coat securely wrapped ahout his
precious fled he made for the fore
castle. His mates, save those who
were doing their watch, were all in
their bunks. An oil lamp dimly 11
luminated the forward partition.
Steve's bunk was almost in darkness.
Very deftly he rolled back the bed
ding and secreted the box under his
pillows, and then stretched himself
out with the pretense of snoozing till!
the bell called him to duty.
Jtto was rich, and tbs aosown a
$10,000 in Cash for the Best
Solution of This Baffling
Mystery—Read This Story in
the Newark Star and See It
in Moving Pictures at Your
Favorite Theatre.
man lias money he has troubles;
there Is always someone who wants
to take It away from you. His bunk
was on the port side, and there was
plenty of hiding space between the
iron plates and the wooden partition.
He intended to loosen three or four
planks, and then when the time came,
slip the box behind them. Some time
during the morning the forecastle
would be empty, and then would be
his time.
But he suffered tile agonies of dam
nation during bis four hours' watch.
Supposing some fool should go rum
maging about his bunk and discover
the box? Suppose * » * But he
dared not suppose. There was noth
ing to do but wait. If he created
any curiosity on the part of his
mates he was lost. He would have
to divide with them all, from the
captain down to the cook’s boy. It
was a heartrending thought. From
being the most open and frank man
aboard, he became the most cunning.
From being a man without enemies,
he saw an enemy even In his shadoV
At 4 o’clock he turned in and slept
like a log.
In the morning lie found his oppor
tunity. For half an hour the fore
castle was empty of all save himself.
Feverishly lie pried back the boards,
found the brace beam, and gently
laid the box there. It was a mighty
curious looking box. Once he had
stoked up the Chinese coast from the
Philippines, and he judged It to be
Chinese in origin. He tried to pry
open the coyer and feast his eyes
upon the treasure; but under the
leather and ivory and mother of pearl
was Impervious steel. It would take
an ax or a crowbar to stir that lid.
He sighed. He replaced the boards,
and became to all appearances liis
stolid self again.
But uli the way down to the Ba
hamas he was moody, and when he
answered any question it was with
words spoken testily and jerkily.
“I know whut’s th’ matter,’ said!
Dunkers. "He’s In love."
"Shut your mouth!”
"Didn’t I tell yuh?” laughed the
tantalizer, dancing toward the com
panlonway. "Steve’s in love, ’r he
didn’t git drunk enough on shore t’
satisfy his whale’s belly!"
A boot thudded spitefully against
the door jamb.
"You fellahs let me alone, ’r I’ll
mash in a couple o' heads!’’
(Continued in Friday Evening star.)
See the Pictures at
These Theatres
TOUAV.
Arcade Theatre, Arcade Bldg.,
Broad St., Oth Episode.
SEPTEMBER 10.
Playhouse, Clinton and Farley
Aves., 0th Episode.
Lyceum Theatre, ftOfi Mala St..
East Orange, 8th Episode.
SEPTEMBER 12.
Court Theatre. Brlentnal! PI., (gth
Episode.
SEPTEMBER 14.
Plara Theatre. 400 Springfield Are.,
10th Episode.
SEPTEMBER 15.
Liberty Theatre, Ferry aad Vaa
Bnren Sts., 10th Episode.
Royal Theatre, Bros*! aad Bridge
Sts., 10th Episode.
—..ft '. -i
MISS MABEL ESTELLE, OF THIS CITY,
WHO HAS SCORED IN BUFFALO DEBUT
Newarkers are always pleased to
know when anyone from the home
town has made good In other fields.
The many Newark friends 'of Miss
Mabel Estelle, of this city, have
therefore received with pleasure the
Information that she has scored a
distinct success In her first appear
ance In stock in Buffalo, where she
opened on Monday night of this week
with the Drownell-Stork Company at
the Lyric Theatre, in "Stop, Thief!”
Miss Estelle's first appearance in
this city was several weeks ago in
the comedy playlet, "Who's Win
nie?" in which she scored a notable
hit at Keeney's Theatre.
Efforts are being made to get her
for a return engagement at that
playhouse at an early date. .She is
beet known here as the Ingenue and
comedienne with the Corse Payton
Stock Company and later as a mem
ber of the etock company at the Or
pheum.
In "Stop, Thief!" she took the part
of Joan. A great factor in Miss Es
telle's success as an actress is her
winsome personality.
The Division
Throe Germans had been doing a.n
odd job of repairing and agreed to
split the pay evenly. They received
four dollars, and after several un
successful efforts of two of them to
hit upon the correct division of llie
amount, the third settled the business
transaction this way:
"Here iss It, two for you two, and
here iss it—two for me, two -ain't
it?"—Exchange.
Where the Strain Is
V New York doctor snys “the strain
of the modern dances is constant on
tlie extensor longue digltorum and
the extensor proprlus halluels." There
is no ftfi;ain on the head.—Exchange.
•
ELK PARADE TO BE
FILMED FOR LYRIC
Today's March on Broad Street
Will Be Shown at Theatre
Tomorrow.
The motion pictures of the Elks' j
parade which were taken on Broad
and Market streets tilts morning: vr
he shown at the Lyric the last tlirc
days of this week. The entire activl- j
lies of the Newark Elks here and
their doings in Asbury Park. have
been been caught hy the camera man,
and. through special arrangements,
Proctor's Lyric secured the exclusive
r gbts to exhibit these pictures.
All the beautiful floats in the>
parade, the baseball games between
tile Newark Elks and other visiting '
lodges, the panorama scenes at the
corner of Broad and Market streets,
n which you may see your own self,
all have been caught by the unfading
eye of the motion-picture camera,,
and will he transmitted in motion
pictures to the Lyric screens the last
three days o," this week. The first
three days of the following weelt they
will be shown at Proctor’s Park Place
Theatre.
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Carl Binhak Will Give
Weekly Recital Here
Carl Binnak, of New York, will !
give violin recitals at the Dauter S
Hall one day each week. He has de- f
elded to do this In compliance with
the request of a number of Newark
ers who heard him recently In a
muslcale at the home of Mrs. Belle
Fisch Silverman. 210 Weequahic ave
nue.
Mr. Binhak has not yet decided
upon the day for the recitals.
Park Concert Tonight.
William Redmond will be the solo
ist at the concert to be. given bv
Vlncentz's Band in Branch Brook
Park tonight. He will open the pro
gram with "The Star-Spangled1 Ban
ner." The program Is as follows:
March, “Panama Exposition."
Schanf; selection from Offenbachs
operas, Boettgen; potpourri, "Pop
ular," Lamps; selections, "II Trava- S
tore" (Verdi), "Irish Eyes” (Olcott).
"Hungarian Dance" (Julius); valse
Boston, "Heart o' Mine," Kelsdr; se
lection from opera, "Maritana," Wal
lace: Highland Patrol, "Wcc Mar
gregor." Amers; Spanish fantasia,
"T.a Paloma," Bowman; character
istic piece, "Dragoons' Call,” Ellen
berg; "Columbia, the Bern of th 3
Ocean.” awW
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