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The morning times., 1896-04-12

in Michael aud His Lost Angel cost one
$500 and the other $500 Charles Froh-
man is reported TO have paid $3.50 for a
single dress woTS by Elsie De Wolfe in '.Bo-
heDia.' The play proved a fiat failure on
its production. There was not "A dissent
ing voice among the critics By process
known TO Mr.. Frohman the ti,eat IT is kept
packed in hopes or making a fadofthe play
He can't afford to produce $3.50 dresses
every week Walking Ladies" as well as
principals al Daiy's spread fine feathers.
In the Transit OF Leo - for instance, the
little groups OF young ladies' who are the
guests IN the first act cost Mr.. Daily the
snug sum or So 900 for what he considered
appropriate raihIeft. And there are other
managers just az extravagant as Mir Daly
in this way. The extra LADIES vito took
part in the ballroom scene in The Sport
ing Duchess were' Waiting about TO the
tune of $4,000 worth OF bail dresses. Miss
Coghlan has expended as much a 81 500
in settling her dreSsmaker'S bills for a
single costume. One OF Miss Isabel Ir-
Wings dresses as KIavia in The Prisoner
of Zenda' - cost $500, and the outlay for all
the costumes of ltheaplay amounted 10 over
$1,000.
Mind you, these costumes have to be
replaced from time 10 time. They are worn
every night aud in the dust and on The bare
floors OF the stage. MoreOve rthey are
only a single item OF production AS the
Herald says; DO you wonder that 4 man
ayers hair turns gray over night when he
finds that play fsas fallen flat ana that
all the millinery IN the world won't save
managerial extraTa gance of this sort? Do
we not prefer more freque nj change OF
the play and less frequent change OF the
fine Costumes"
The morning times., 1896-04-12
NOTHING TO SAY
He Thought the Sentence of the Court
Could BE Changed.
Helena Tndependent

District Attorney Purcell defended a
couple OF fellows accused of horse steal
ing i'll the district court OF Cboteau county
four years Or SO ago. They deserved some
where in the neighborhood OF ten years
apiece. but they got off with sentence of
three. After the sentence had been pro-
noupced the toughest OF the pair believing
that the sentence could not be revised
after it had left the lips OF The court ad-
dressed himself to the Judge.
Il just want to say" he told Judge
DuBose, THAT when get out you will be
tue first man III come here to kill"
''If that is the case said Judge DuBoSe.
III make it ten years. and then you won't
trouble me so quick" Turning to the
other prisoner the Judge added: rs there
something you would like to say?'
Not. a blessed word replied the other.
The man who had nothing to say Is now
out of prison. His partner is still behind
the bars, and rs likely to remain there
for some time.
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----a -
PLAYS FOR CHARITY.
Aunt Mat Ida Dramatic Club of Ana
costa Has Been Success


An amateur dramatic company of some
achievement, considerable promise and un-
limited Willingness is the Aunt Matilda Dra-
matte Club of Anacostia. The club was
organized in January OF last year among
the young folks OF ST. Theresa's Church.
and presently there was produced, under
Mr.. John Terregel a comedy. entitled
Aunt Matilda" from which the club
took its name. This performance was re-
peated on the stage of the AnaCostia
Masonic Hall with great success on the
evening of May g. 1895.
Encouraged by these fIatterng sue
cesSes. the club sought other and larger
triumphs. In February last q drama. en-
titled Ruined by Drink was produced
after continuous hard rehearsals under
the director, Mr.. Gilbert Cannon. On the
9Th of last March this drama was repeated
at ST. ElZab beth's Church, and on the 7th
of April at ST. Peters Church.
The object OF the Aunt Matilda Dramatic
Club is one of charity, and they are eager
to receive propositions for their services
for deserving causes.
The present Officers of the club are:
Thomas W. Smith, president; Katie Rhodes
vice president; jamie Bean, treasurer, and
Dennis A. o. Brien. secretary. The fol-
lowing are members: I. T. Byrne, A. E.
Smith, G. Bean, J. Waltemeycr, J. J.
Downey, ]. Madigan, W. Scantlebury,
W. Watson. Julian Boiseau, Annie Green,
Gertrude Leonard Jennie BARLEY, and
Marie Green.
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The morning times., 1896-04-12
Shot an Eagle with a Pistol.

Santa Monica, March 2S.-Victor Hopf, a
business man here, shot big American
eagle yesterday. He was OH cliff two
or three miles up the Santa Monica canon
when large bird, bearing heavy rooster
it had caught, suddenly came in sight around
n corner. 1t started to aiight few feet
a way from him, but becoming aware of
his presence, attempted to fly upward.
Just then Hopf brought it down with a
shot from forty-four pistol, which he
quickly drew. The bird is said to be one
of the largest ever caught in this locality.
1t measures 6 feet inches from tip to tip.
San Francisco Chronicle.
The morning times., 1896-04-12

Hermone swayiug on her pedestal up that
long flight of stairs. Every moment there
was an hour OF torture for me, for felt
myself growing fainter and fainter. All
my remaining strength was put into that
last effort. / descended from the pedestal,
ana was able to speak all but the final
line. This rema iued unuttered, and The
curtain rang down on my last appearance
on the stage
The morning times., 1896-04-12

T HE apotheosis of the back stairs pro-
ceeds in London. Time and patience
will bring the whole retinue OF re-
tainerS to the center of the stage.
The day of lords and ladies has passed
and the flutter OF fine fans and rustic or
stiff silks is heard no more in Thespia. The
first step was compromise made tenta-
tativeIy: il was q concession in imprimls,
and The Shop Girl; was put in the glare OF
the lime light. She Jared so well in the
spoils of the Johnnies' pocketbooks that her
sister, The Artists Model gathered her
draperies about her and skipped to the front
and center. She, too, was to London S
taste, and THE Lady Slavey'' took the cue.
The Slavey talked it over with the ca bman
over the back fence, and ":Gentieman
joe drove into the dramatic world. The
new era suffused the effete Britisher with
joy, and he clappcd his beefy hands and
chuckIeu. while his well-filled walstcoat
puffed in riotous glce, More, CANINE,
more," Then the Bartnaid left her bottles
and tumblers for the boards. Last week
her friend, The French Maid. made her
debut. The end cannot be yet. Give us
The Butler, dramatizc Boots at EPSON
immortallzc The Pasty Cook, neglect not
The Footman, with his high tragic poss-
bilities, bring forward The Laundry Lady.
with her soiled lnen;. The Female Page,
The Scullery Maid, The Hostler. The Un-
der Gardener. are all yearning for an op-
portuuity. The cabman, the barmaid. the
sIavcy and the other rs have but pointed the
way The door Is only opened 10 host
of eleyating he roes and heroines. The
renaissance is at hand and the back stairs
triumphS.
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A ANY wsshingtonians will remember
. Mary Anderson's last appearance in
this city, which was her last ap-
pearaDce on any stage. 1t was in
MarnlI goo allIidRc in IL

pearaDce on any stage. 1t was in
March, 1889, and she alludes TO ii
in her autobiography, "a Few Memories
which was given to the public last week
There have been so many conflicting re-
ports about my Illness that season-which
was only the natural result of overwork-
she writes in her book of memories, THAT
am glad 10 be able to give an accurate ac-
count of those last nights of m sta &c ca reer.
The strain OF living SO many lives in one.
added to the wear and tear of constant
travel was beginning to tell on me.
The first scenes OF "A Winters Tale went
very smoothly. The theater was crowded
''PCrdita danced apparently as gayly
as ever, but after the eXertiOn fell faint
lug from exhaustion, and was carried off
the stage. i was taken into the dressing
room, which in few moments was filled
with people from the boxes. Recovering
CONSCIOUSNESS quickly, 1 begged them TO
clear The room. Realizing then that
would probably net he able 10 act any
more that season, though there were
MANY weeks yet unfinished, / resolved
at any cost TO complete the nights work.
HurrieGly putting on some color, l passed
the groups of people discussing the incident
and before the doctor or my brother was
ware Of my purpose, ordered the curtain
! 10 be ruug up and walked quickly upon the
stage.
.'As did so heard loud hum. which
l was afterward told was great burst OF
applause from the audience The pastoral
scene came TO an end. There was only one
more act 10 go through. -Donning the
statue-like draperies OF Hermione, mount
cd the pedestal My physician, formerly
an Officer in the army, said that he had
never, even TN the midst of q battle, felt
SO neryou., u, -Shcu he saw the figure Of
The morning times., 1896-04-12

IVT HILE the name of Col. William
IA Sim is familiar to most theater-
ss patrons, it is, perhaps, not gen.
orally known that this prominent
Brooklyn manager is native OF
the District. He was born in Georgetown;
but thIs is not the only tie that binds him
to this vicinity. He launched his first
thea tricaI venture here in Washington
early in the sixties. He established Can
terhury Hall, which old residents remember.
for during Col. Sims four years manage
ment it became one OF the besi-kno wn
places OF amusement in the country. For
Il term he and his hrother-in-aw, Leonard
Grover, had the Old National Tbeater. The
first permanent circus ever established in
America was operated here in Washington,
and this was one of Col. Sim $ enterprises.
There seemed to be no limit for his aInbi-
tions, for they spread across the river 10
Alexandria, and there he opened theater
called Liberty Hall. To the surprise of
everyone, it succeeded. Since those days
Col. Sim has been identified with many
famous theatrical enterprises, and is now
permanently settled in the City of Churches,
high priest Of his own Montauk temple OF
Thespis. 1t is not generally known that
Wednesday matiness were first played in
Washington in 1861. and Col Sim claims
to have originated the idea.
The morning times., 1896-04-12

- HE winds may shift and the weather
man from the lofty pinnacle of his
own cumCcit record the mutations
of the unaccountabie, hut who shall
put his finger down and say, There
is Mansfield?'' No one, not more than The
Irisnman. dared swear TO The whereness Of
the flea. Dear. good, vivaciouS. unite
dious spice-of-iife Richard has shifted
again. His 'Frohman and 500, ,00o' CON
tract had just been well circulated, and we
all supposed that Dick would settle down
TO fine art and silence. The curtain
speeches, personal eccentricities, depress-
ing diatribes on appreciation and its lack
were all forgiven and buried under a
heavy slab of forgetfuiness. Presto! The
whole thing is undone. Dick and Dan have
no sooner fallen in than they have fallen
out again. Mansfield wanted changes in
the busifess plans. Frohman had defi-
niteIy conceived plan of who was manag-
ing that portion of the partnership affairs
and suggested that it be his way or not
at all. Mansfield accepted. There YOU are.
He is. indeed. ''all things by starts and
nothing long" man welded TO a spark.
As the old couplet has it-"He will, he
Will not: he grants, denies, consents, re-
tracts. advances, and then files
The morning times., 1896-04-12

A STRONG protest was entered last week
II by ii New York paper against the ex-
= pensiye costumng seen on the stage
these days. Many a failure is forced
10 run aud all manner OF unworthy
tricks and deceptons are resorted TO in
order TO keep the play in use, because the
manager cannot afford TO cast aside at
once a piece on which he has staked Il for
tune in silks, satins and laees. For instance,
it is said that two OF Viola Aliens gowns
The San Francisco call., 1896-05-04
THE LABOR ALLIANCE.
Committeeman Make Reports Upon the
Condition of Trades Unions.

Committeeman Make Reports Upon the
Condition of Trades Unions.
The Central Trades and Labor Alliance
met last evening. Present Delegates /.
Less, S. Fuchs, F. Hodges, A. Mueller, T..
Hansen, j. Gammer, j. Robinson, P. Ross
Martin, Thomas Henderson and ]. Jorgen-
sen. These represented the following
unions: BARRIERS Association of San Fran
cisco, Amalgamated Woodworkers, Frater-
nifty OF Hotel and Restaurant Employees,
Bakers Union No. "a Carpenters No. 304
and the Confectioners' Union.
After receiving the reports of the organ
izing committee, the alliance went into
executive session and elected I. Less of
the BARRIERS Association temporary chair
man and T. Lynch of the Fraternity of
Hotel and Restaurant Employees tempor-
ary secretary.
Vacancies in the organizing committee
were filled by the appointment of l. Less,
L. Lynch, P. Ross Martin and J. w. Rose.
The alliance decided to give the BARRIERS
its support In the o'clock closing move
ment.
Theodore Lynch of the organizing COM
mittee appointed to visit the various
trades unions reported having met with a
favorable reception in most of the unions
He said that the committeemen's visits to
the different unions convinced them that
great amount of inactivity and lethargy
exists owing to the fact that labor unions
The San Francisco call., 1896-05-04

subject of strength and some of the char
acterIstics of strong character. She said !:
"For highest results justice and power
must go together. Whatever is just should
be powerful, and whatever is powerful
should be just. No people can be truly
free who have not learned to be just"
Mrs. Cooper here paid high tribute to
The CALL for its position in regard TO
woman. as enunciated in yesterdays edi-
ton. She said:
.'This is the only true position. Let
woman be and do whatever she can be and
dol Every thoughtful woman who longs
to be and do her best will not fail TO show
her warm appreciation of this brave stand
taken by THE CALL.
There need be no fear that true
woman will be contaminated by work for
the public good. The sunbeam Is never
contaminated by the sloughs and miasm
on which it shines. 1t just lifts up all the
rank dampness and transmutes 1t into pure
mists and vapors that descend in blessing
on the earth.
1--WE need to serve others more than we
do, renouncing lives of ease and choosing
lives of service. In this way we should
insure sorl-health, aud grow into his
image who came not to be ministered unto
but to minister, and to give his life ran
som for many"
The San Francisco call., 1896-05-04

DONE" exclaimed Mrs. Cooper yesterday.
"How many friends it has gained by
simply coming out hat-footed on the side
of justice and right. The very ianitors
who sweep out its offices should be proud
to work for such paper.
But" she went on, I'm not satisfied
with the general run of interviews.
They are not half strong enough as a rule.
I'm going to write something, and 1 hope
THE CALL will publish it word for word"
For few moments nothing was heard
but the scratching of Mrs. Cooper's stub
pen. Then she handed her visitor the fol-
lowing written statement of her views on
the matter:
am neither prophecies nor the daughter
of prophecies, yet / venture the prediction
that the position taken by THE CALL on the
subject of woman and woman suffrage will
prove itself one of deep prophetic import. 1t
WAS q great mistake-a fundamental error
based upon ignorance and iujustice-to ever
have introduced to word "male" into the con-
stitution-either the Federal or State constitu-
tions. The terms "melep and "female" SIM
ply designate the physical distinction between
the sexes. But there is no sex in mind Our
constitution was designed to govern intelli-
gent, responsible human beings-men and
women-not sex.
Three cheers for THE CALL, and for the Just
and righteous position it has taken on this
great lJNlll De PROUD OF IL IN tne
years to come, as we are proud of 1t to-day.
Yours respectfully, SARAH B. COOPER
"Those are my views" said Mrs. Cooper,
in conclusion. To-day is not for cut and
dried arguments, but for deep, unbounded
Joy. We women have a champion of
whom any cause, however noble, might be
proud, and since only to-day our knight
has sworn h Is allegiance it seems that for
while we should give up talking and re-
sign ourselves to the delight which so
glad a piece of news brings to us all.''
Nine. Louise M. Sorbier, president of
the Women's Educational and Industrial
Union, was no less enthusiastic.
This latest move of THE CALL, she said,
''is a grand and wonderful thing. l can
not even picture to my Imagination the
magnitude of the results which it will
surely bring about. Another thing can
not comprehend is the idea which some
good men entertain that the moral sense
of woman will be outraged at the polls.
Just look at these extracts from Washing
ton papers which / cut out and saved"
Among the exracts were the following,
The San Francisco call., 1896-05-04

One of the cornerstones of our Republic is
the equality OF rights for all the citizens.
The first violation of this principle of
equal rights took the form of denying the
franchise to the poor. The last and only
remaining violation, now that male
negroes can vote, is the unjust discriniina-
tion made against women.
Taxation without representation is
tyranny for women now, as it was for men
in the days of King George. But, thank
heaven, though we have no representation
before the lawmaking tribunals of this
State, We have representation before the
people; The CALL has taken up the mat
ter in earnest and in so magnificent a
fashion that the other papers will have to
follow suit or fall behind. This is grand
victory for us, and l earnestly believe it is
only the glimmering of the dawn before
the glorious rising of the sun of liberty.
For thirty years we have worked for
woman suffrage. For thirty years we
have been thrust aside by the Senators of
our country when we have asked for the
vote: This has been bitter pill for us to
swallow. Still THE CALL has given us q
sweet morsel in order to take away the
bad taste which has remained in our
mouths for over thirty years. But THE
CALL promises to do yet more, and its
promise will be kept. In the most public
and lrretractable manner that grand paper
has espoused our cause. With such an
advocate how can we failp"
The San Francisco call., 1896-05-04
MISS ANTHONY SPEAKS.
She Pays Glowing Tribute to 1.-THE
Call " for Its Stand Regarding
Woman Suffrage.

A good-sized congregation greeted Miss
Susan B. Anthony last night at the A fri
can Methodist Episcopal Zion Church on
Stockton street, near Sacramento. After
the customary devotional exercises the
veteran suffragist sscended tn pulpit and
spoke Tor about an hour.
This pulpit" commenced Miss An
thony, twas once the place from which
the great Starr King swayed the minds
and hearts of men by means of his bril-
liant eloquence and noble pietv. This
grand man knew in Boston. He was
great battler for equal rights. How glori-
ously he stood up for the victims of op-
pressionl
1--WE know that before the war, both in
the North and in the South, the negro had
nothing in life worth living for How
ever the attempted secession of the South
ern States forced President Lincoln to free
the slaves as military measure He
himself said that if it were possible to put
down the Rebellion without freeing a
single slave, he would not have freed one.
But the slaves were freed at last, and then
came the question as to whether the negro
should vote.
1.-THE fourteenth amendment to the con-
stitution originally provided that all citi-
Zens, whatever their color or race, might
vote. This, however, would admit negro
women to the privilege, or rather the right
of the ballot. The dreadful result was
foreseen, and in order 10 save the country
from so terrible calamity the grand pa
triots in Congress Assem- bled. amended the
amendment so as to make it apply only to
male citizens. Still some of the States
| hung fire, and until the passage of the
fifteenth amendment to the constitution
the negro was not free to vote in whatever
part OF the Union he might live. The first
time all the colored men of the Republic
were allowed to vote was in the spring Of
| 1870.
Thirty years ago 1 told the colored
women and men of Kansas that the time
was coming when they would have to vote.
The San Francisco call., 1896-05-04

will lose nothing by thus standing up for
the right"
Mrs. D. ]. Murphy, president of the Lib
erty Suffrage Club, another one of the
women who have long been identified with
the movement for female suffrage, was as
glad at the tidings as were her sisters.
81 must have been born a woman sui
fragist," she said, land have been suffer
ing from the ailment ever since. | cannot
see any reason why the right of the elec-
tive franchise should not be accorded to
women as well as to men. They are bound
to obey the laws, they suffer to the same
extent by the enaction of bad laws and
profit to the same extent by good ones.
"If we are to have. in the words of the
immortal Lincoln, Government by the
people and for the people, then suffrage
should be granted to women, and with the
valuable assistance of THE CALL / predict
that the eleventh amendment to the con-
stitution will be adopted. All hail The
CALL"
On December II, 1895, Secretary of State
A. b. McGaffey wrote as follows:
There has been nothing to regret-there is
nothing TO regret-in COlorados experience
with women in politics. On the contrary there
have been many gratifying results. There
have been no startling or revolutionary
changes, but as we study the situation ''before'
and latter" we see that there has been
change, and that ii has been in every way for
the better. Women generally take quite as
deep an interest and as active part in politics
here as do the men, and think / am safe in
saying that fully as large percentage of them
go to the polls and vote. Since Colorado has
had universal suffrage there has undoubtedly
been distinct improvement in the moral tone
of politics. Woman's influence has been felt
as il could not be felt before. Primaries, con-
ventions, public meetings, elections, all have
quietly and almost unconsciously, though
none the less effectively, been nodded by her
presence-quieter, more orderly, and less liable
to take chances in the nomination of candi-
dates unworthy of the fullest confidence of the
people. / trust that the women of California
will be successful in their effort to secure that
undeniable right OF citizenship, equality
before the law" and / know that if they do
your State will be the better for it.