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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-28
THURSDAY, DECEMBER IS, 1898.
INCREASE OF IMMIGRATION

The past year has been a significant
one in the history of immigration at
the port of New York Business pros
perity has invited to the United States
an increasingly large number of the in
habitants of Europe, and the year is
ending with almost record breaking
figures, especially from southern Eu-
rope, whence the least desirable immi-
grants come.
Thomas Fitchie, commissioner of i'm
migration, says that IS per cent of the
total immigration of this country comes
to New York, so that whatever we find
interesting about the immigrants there
applies to the whole immigrant ques-
ton in this country
Last month was the heaviest month
in many years. During November we
admitted Abb cabin and 26,46O steerage
passengers, a total of 30,593 You can
get a good idea of how the people are
coming by comparing this record with
previous ones. In previous Novem-
bers we admitted immigrants as fol-
lows: 1895, 1851; 1896, 1898; 1897, 49,
ia; 1898, 1879.
1t looks as though the present fiscal
year beginning on July L and ending
with June 80 next, will see a mighty
army of immigrants brought to these
shores, but rather discouraging fea-
ture of the outlook is that almost the
entire increase this year over last comes
from Austria, Hungary and Italy, the
poorest and most illiterate sections of
those two countries.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-28
GREAT BRITAINs NEW TACTICS.

This Selling of vessels laden with
cargoes bound to Delagoa Bay by
Great Britain, is matter Of very Sc
rious consideration for administration
officials and international lawyers in
this country, because of the Importance
of the principle involved. 1t is very
likely that Great Britain holds that
flour intended for the Boer troops is
contraband, and this intention will I'M
doubtedly be supported by the fact that
the Boer farmers have been compelled
in consequence Of the war, to abandon
their fields and the Pretoria govern
ment would in consequence be bene-
flied by the Selling of the -four.
There is disposition on the part of
the authorities that Great Britain will
settle the question by indemnifying the
owners Of the cargoes for the full value,
with an additional sum thrown in as
profit. It is certain that the London
government will not permit the owners
to suffer. All this will be considered
together in the investigation to be made
at Delagoa Bay, and in the represent
alton which the ambassador will make
to the British government.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-28

and drew forth a dime and gave 1t TO
the conductor He got the nickel hack
and placed this in his ear. It caused
some laughter among the passengers
on the car, but the conductor in talk
ing 1t over with me did not see any
thing strange about it, cts a regular
tnlng among people who know their
business in cold weather." said the
conductor, land it is a sign that a, per
son who bundles up for trip on a, car
does not care to get cold when he puts
his fare in his ear" tried it and found
that one can put nickel in his ear
and hear just as we'll as ever and still
at the same time carry it there with
out fear of losing it. Sometimes CON
tinued the conductor, sit would be
dangerous for people to put nickels in
their ears, as it might get lost in the
debris. but then that is only OCCASION
ally. You we'll say that it would be re-
lief for us fellows if some of these
women shoppers would do as the China
man does instead of getting on the car
and then searching bag from ton to
bottom to discover the Whereabouts of
their pocketbooks. Sometimes I think
they are looking for a gold mine. if
takes them so long"
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-28

state. The seating of a man who has
been repudiated by the Legislature of
his own state, a man who escaped the
penitentiary by a hairs breadth only
would be an insult to the nation. Com
plants against the unrepresentative
nature of the upper house of congress
are common enough, but never will
there have been so fragrant an instance
of senator being foisted upon an I'M
willing constituency as there will be
In case ex-senator Quay is allowed to
take his seat.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-28
Personals

Frank L. Dean was in Boston yes
terday on legal business.
Webster Thayer was in Fitchburg
yesterday on legal business.
DR.. E. c. Gilman has returned from
visit to Salisbury and Newburyport
Mrs. Irving Swan Brown is back in
Worcester from a pleasant visit to
friends in Indianapolis.
Miss Silvia Draper gave colonial
party last evening to friends at her
home en- Plantation street.
Mrs. w. A. Gile has gone to New
York to visit her son and daughter,
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter F. Wood.
Miss yina Badger is visiting friends
in Worcester. She is a teacher in the
Perkins School for the Blind in South
Boston.
Mr.. and Mrs. Felix DeCamp, who
who have been spending the Christmas
holidays with relatives in Winchendon,
have returned to their home in Wor-
cester.
John E. Sullivan went to Lynn yes
terday TO deliver an address before the
Lynn lodge of Elks. julius c. Zaeder,
Emil Zaeder and Charles W. Parker
were also invited to attend the social
session of the Ell1s. The Worcester
party were entertained at Hotel Sey-
more,
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-28

Z o'clock, Mrs. Rawson and her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Waldo A. Simpson, gave a
large at-home for Miss Warrington, at
their house, 10 Irving street, to which
large number of the club women
were invited. Mrs. Rawson, Mrs.
Simpson and Miss Merrington received,
and were assisted by Miss Georgia F.
Bacon, Mrs. Archibald McCullagh and
Miss Ollie Kendall, at the refreshment
tables, and by number of young wo-
men in and out of the club The
house was decorated with cut flowers,
palms and the holly and laurel of
Christmastide. About 200 women at
tended the reception, which was one of
the handsomest of the season. Miss
Warrington was entertained over night
by Mrs. Rawson.
The Christmas tea of the Worcester
Wellesley Club will be held with Miss
Ruth Stone, the secretary, at $50 Main
street. on the afternoon of Jan. 2.
c. M. D. sends what he calls
STILL ANOTHER.
One has only to divide 1899 by 100,
he says to see that we have not, at
end of this year. lived nineteen centu-
ries-but rather IS and 99-100 only.
Worcester, Dec. q, 1899.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. F. Estabrook of "a
jacques avenue, announce the engage
ment of their daughter, Alice Louise.
to A. H. H. Cotton of Holyoke, Mass.
The program at the next regular
meeting of the Woman's Club, on Jan.
10, will be in charge of the history de-
partment, Mrs. Gardner c. Whiting,
chairman. Hamlin Garland, the au-
thor of "Main-Trayelled Roads," "The
Rose of butchers Cooley and other
books wildly portraying western life,
will lecture on "The epic of Gen.
Grant"
A meeting called especially for the
reorganization of the Worcester Girls
club Is to be held tomorrow evening at
the Y. w. G. A. If reorganized It is
probable that the-elub will have new
quarters at Emmanuel church
So great has been the success attend
ing the exhibition of photographs of the
famous Madonnas of the art world at
the free public library that no date has
been set for closing it. Numbers of peo-
pie call at the library every day and 1t |
would require an encyclopedia to print |
the favorable and admiring comments
heard on all sides by The Spy reporters.
Greetings in Adversely" a poem by
John Howard Jewett, recently pub |
iished in The Spy, has been widely COP |
led.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-28
EXPRESSIONS OF REGRET
Congregational Council Acts on
Dismissal of DR.. McCuIIanh

Inc ecclesiastical council of Congre-
gational churches met yesterday after
noon ar Plymouth church to act on the
dismissal of the pastor of the church.
Rev. Dr. Archibald McCullagh. These
churches were represented by pastors
and delegates: Old South, Rev. DR.. "A. Il.
Conrad; Summer Street, Rev. o. C. Bal
ley; Union, Rev. DR.. John e. futile.
Mrs. May e. Wilson, delegate; Pied
mont, Rev. DIR. Willard Scott; Pilgrim,
Rev DR.. Alexander Lewis, BENJAMIN
Briefly delegate; Park, Rev. l. l.. Will
cox, Henry Chase, delegate; Bethany.
Rev. Albert G. Todd, H. T. Sanderson'
delegate; Hope, Rev. Z. w. Phillips:
Adams Square, Rev. j. E. Dodge Lake
View, Rev. ]. H. Matthews; Church of
the Covenant, Rev. j Z. Hurlbut;
Greendale, Rev G.. A. Wright.
When the meeting was called to or
der at $50 o'clock, Rev. Edward M
chapman was chosen moderator and
Rev. 0. G. Bailey clerk. In Diminishing
Rev. Dr.. McCullagh, many short adj
dresses were made by those present
expressing the deepest love and praise
for his service as pastor of Plymouth
church. committee composed of Rev.
Drs. futile, Conrad and Mix was ap-
pointed to draw up set of resolutions
expressing the sense of the council. In
these resolutions, which were approved
by the council, Rev. DIR. McCullagh
was commended to all churches of the
denomination all over the world His
character as preacher and as a man
was praised and the expressions of re-
greet at his departure from Worcester
and the local association of ministers
was embodied in the resolutions. Three
copies of these resolutions will be made
One is for the Plymouth church. one
for Rev DR.. McCullagh, and one to be
put or file in the Congregational libra
ry in Boston. Besides the local dele
gates and ministers, several prominent
out of town clergymen were present.
among them Rev. DR. E. b. Webb Of
Wellesley, well known preacher of the
denomination.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-28
ADJUSTMENTS

NJohn German and Budd Ross in
Skipped by the Light of the Moon"
are giving a genuine treat at I,othron,s
opera House, and their UNIQUE and
eleVer characterization convulses the
large audiences ATTENDING. Their assnN
GATES, including James Kearney. Doro-
my Ihornton, Ethel Earle, ]. b. Brad
iey' Bert Snow and the sprightly SOU
prette, Winifred Wolcott, assist greatly
in fun making,
Inc enormous patronage of vaudeville
at the Park theatre still continues an
parentIy UNAFFECTED by the counter at
fractions in town. Leo DeryaIto the
worcester boy in his marvellous act on
the revolving globe continues in high
favor as is evidenced by the enthusi-
dstlc receptions accorded him nightly.
Montreu, decidedly clever juggler.
comes in for a good share of applause
while Gerald Griffin and company in the
act, silence is Golden" is appreciated.
Others winning favor are Bonita. the
coon singer; Margaret Powers, in read
ing; Walz and Ardell in a musical
sketch; st. Onge Bros. in bicycle riding
and Mackie and Walker in songs of the
day. nc
Little Red Riding Hood" will be on
at Worcester theatre Jan. 2. matinee
and evening. Edward E. Rice has the
general supervision of the big produce
tlon, getting the extravagant scenic
effects and sets in shape, having an
eye on the elaborate costumery equip
ment and imbuing his own well known
spectacular ideas, while William Sey-
mour personally directed the rehearsals
of the principals and chorus.
Lila VileS WVman has in cI,or,,c A.
Dancing instruction of the large num-
Der of children that are employed spe-
cially for the unique children's ballets
in Toyland
Following are the principal charac-
tiers in Little Red Riding Hood: Lit
tie Boy Blue, such a nice~boy, too; Lit
tie Red Riding Hood, pretty girl that
we all know; Johnny Stout, a very
good boy, sometimes; Johnny Green, a
very bad boy always; Granny, village
schoolmistress; the Baron, a mass Of
Villainy; Simple Simon, a successful
dog trainer; the Wolf, lamb fancier.
the Spider, a very leggy individual:
Jack Horner, little boy with a weak
ness for mince pies; Miss Muflt.
a little girl with a weakness
for curds and whey; Tom Tom the
son of the piper; Mary Mary, quite con-
trary; Jack and Jill, very Young
couple, though quite old friends: Rose.
bud, the queen of the flowers; Bovril.
a cuddy. The chorus consists of babv
elephants, dolls, toys, barnyard fowl.
cats, dogs, donkeys, a host of nrettv
girls and lots of children. Box Office
for sale of seats opens Saturday.
In Broadhurst's new farce, "why
smith Left Home" which will receive
It's initial presentation at the Worces
ter theatre, next Monday. matt
nee and evening, Anita Bridger
plays the part of the maid to
Mrs. Smith, which is interpreted by
Brandon Douglas. She is apparently
very demure and unsophisticated b,it
IN reality a very clever and knowing
young person who cannot understand
why smith hasn't tried to kiss her
during the two weeks she has been in
his employ But she is not worrying
about it, as she knows that in the nat
ural course of events, he will get round
to 1t. Sale of seats tomorrow (Fri-
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-28
Union st. Joseph Elects

Union st. Joseph elected the follow
ing officers last night at a meeting in
st. Jean Baptiste hall. Bartlett place:
President, A. o. Mondor; vice president,
Joseph I. Duprey; second vice presi-
dent, p. j, Wilmot; treasurer, J. b. ST.
mard; financial secretary, Napoleon
Dubois; recording secretary, DIR. Fon-
tame; corresponding secretary, ]. T.
Tremblay; directors, c. Rabi1oux, Ed
ward Choquet, j. A. Marchesseault, N.
Brule and G. Daniels.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-28

Again it will be necessary to graduate
the senior class at West Point in Feb
army. Gen. Miles has made a rec
ommendation in favor of such step,
and some such action viii undoubted-
ly be taken. 1t would seem as though
the capacity of both West Point and
Annapolis should be increased suffi-
GENTLY to obviate the necessity of grad
uating cadets before the completion of
their course.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-28
AUSTIN'S LATEST
Poet Laureate Has Something to
Say About Spartan Mothers

New York, Dec. 2,-In this weeks edi.
ton of the Independent, issuing tomor.
row, will appear late poem of four stan.
zas, by Alfred Austin, the poet laureate OF
England, anent the war in the Transvaal,
entitled Spartan Mothers, the last two
stanzas of which are as follows:
The sisters sigh, the maiden's tear
-, = Inc wife's,. the widows stified wall
1hese nerve the hand, these brace the spear
And speed them over veldt and vale
What is to him or life or limb
Mho rends the chain and breaks the rod
VINO falls for freedom, falls Sor God
And Shouldn't be his happy fate
=, Haze 70 return home and rest
She will be standing at the gate
70 fold him to her trembling breast.
Or should he fall by ridge or wall
And lie meath some green southern sod
VINO dies for country, sleeps with God
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-28

Lord Pauncefote of Preston shows
himself the trained diplomat when he
declines to take notice of the proposed
Fenian raid into Canada. He knows
that the minute the preparations be-
gin to look threatening, this govern
ment will check further proceedings
without request from the British gov
eminent To take official notice at the
present time of this opera bouffe inva-
sion, would be to give it a dignity it
does mot deserve.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-28
Bed Men Elect

Quinsigamond Tribe, Red Men, elect
ed the following officers last evening at
Red Mems hall; p, John E. Mahar; s.,
Homer W. Jackson; S. s., Charles H.
Gardner; ]. s., Silas j. Pentland; C. of
r., Clarence e. Butler; c. Of w, e. f.
Browning; K. of w, ]. Henry Landish;
T. p, DR.. M. G. Overland; trustees,
George r. Norway, George H. Hill
These officers will be raised up next
Wednesday night by D. G. S. Frank d.
Waters and suite.
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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-28
THE QUAY CONTEST.

AS the time draws near for the vote
on the admissibility of Boss Quay into
the Senate, the prospect Of success be-
comes less and less rosy for the shaker
of the plum tree. The defeat of Penn
sylvania's dictator will be hailed with
delight throughout the entire country,
but nowhere SO much as in his own
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-28

All readers of fiction will welcome the
temperance of ]. NJ. Barries "Senti-
mental Tommy" whose adventures
were broken off so abruptly three or
four years ago. The first installment
of the sequel appears in the current
number of Scribners. under the title
Tommy and Grizel" Mr.. Barrie's
slow and careful methods of work
might well be initiated by other novel
lists
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-28
THE WORCESTER SPY
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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-28

To go back to the purpose Of the dra-
ma, there is nothing better than Ham
let's directions to the players, said Miss
Merrington, and she recited those lines
about holding the mirror up to life, and
then went on to say the mission of the
drama is to tell the human story in the
changing garb of the ages; to put the
social aspects of life into rapport with
the eternal writers. This ethical bearing
of the stage upon the pulpit has been
lost sight of, yet the stage breaches to
far greater congregation than any
minister That which speaks direct to
the human heart, lifting up the ele-
mental portions, can never die. The
farce, melodrama, etc, are but so many
methods of speaking to the human
heart, or amusing people.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-28
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QUIT and About
. > , . > ~ 9SSS

Miss Marguerite Merrington of New
York, the author of Captain Letter
blair and Love finds way" enter
tanned the members Of the Womans
club yesterday afternoon with lee
ture on 1.-THE drama" Miss Warrington
said in effect:
1 am not going to tell you how to
write a play, but what seems to be the
distinctive divergences between the
drama and life as seen from the foot
light side of the stage. Let us begin
by answering that the drama is the
working chart of life. The first one
was enacted in the Garden Of Eden,
with man and a woman, serpent
and a God as dramatis personae and
these latter have remained the same
ever since. Like life, the drama is a
statement of the human case-man and
woman shadow and light, sorrow, joy,
hell, heaven. The one great impossible
difference that separates them, is that
they belong to two different worlds
one Is life, the other art, and all art
is life plus the work of the artist con-
ceived with inspiration.
But there is this difference between
the drama and the other arts they
are stationary, doing their work by
congealing, arresting life while the
drama does its by refreshing life in
action. The drama has but to rub its
wonderful lamp and all the other arts
rise to do it's bidding. In consequence,
some of you will say that it is the high
est of the arts; others, that it is the
lowest. Both are true. At it's highest,
the dramatic art is the finest flower of
it's race inspiration; at it's lowest, it
gives a sickening sense of the coarser
phases Of contemporary life.
All along the critics, impressed by
these phases, have been saying that
the drama is going to the dogs But is
it? See how it was crushed by the Pu-
ritans and clustered by Napoleon, but
the Puritans acted the tragedies they
did not write, and Napoleon found him
self the hero of innumerable plays,
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-28
Foresters' Election

Court Quinsigamond, F. of A., elect
ed these officers last night; Chief Ran
ger, James Halpin; sub-chief ranger
John Moran treasurer, John A. Bo-
land; financial secretary. Charles
Sweeney; recording secretary John
McCullagh; senior woodward. Edward
Valley; Junior woodward, Harry Tebo.
physician. DR.. r. II. Stapleton; trustee,
James Eaton.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-28

The Viscount of Belgrave, heir of the
late Duke of Westminster, will have
to pay death duties" amounting to
1900, 600, before he can come into his
fortune.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-28

The compilers of the naval almanac
have set their stamp of approval upon
1901 as the beginning of the goth CEN
fury, thereby rendering an official de-
cision on much vexed question.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-28

There will be an installation of the
of1icer1 OF Worcester Grange in Red
Mems hall, Monday evening. State Lee
turer George S. Ladd of Sturbridge and
Mrs: Lsdd will be in charge of the in
stailation ceremonies. Supper will be
served.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-28

Amid their present reverses, the
British are trying to take comfort .in
the dictum of one of their greatest
generals, Sir Charles Napier who
wrote: I'm the beginning of each war,
we have had to seek in blood the
knowledge necessary to ensure sue
cess" The English have been getting
so much knowledge of late, that they
should be very successful in the end.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-28

The speaker next turned her atten-
ton to the stage and the construction
OF play. She likened the stage to a
box and told about the rake fore and
aft of the stage, and the illusion of the
fourth wall. The stage, she said, is not
real, but it affects you with a sense
of reality; its secret is illusion. Solilo-
guy is considered old fashioned and
out of date, and as a fact, the mod
ern playwright shuns it as much as
possible, while the old writer never lost
a chance to put it in. In the
impatient, hustling day in which
we live, audiences do not want to hear
an actor talk about what he is going
to do-they want to see him do it, lit
erary work introduced for literary ends
is unpopular, yet it has its place, and
there are places from which we would
not omit it if we could. The great So
liloquy ITO be or not to be- in Hamlet
is an instance.
What purpose does this soliloquy
serve in the artistic effect of that piece?
The highest of purposes self-revela-
ton. What one would say aloud to no
living being, but only to God, that it
is the work of the soliloquoy to express,
for art has to do what life has not
find a voice for the soul. Prayer
communion with the most high-this is
the secret of the soliloquy.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-28

Why does not William Waldorf AS
tor enlist in the British ranks? All
his noble friends are doing so. His
patriotism must be getting lukewarm.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-28
Worcester Theatre

Little Red Riding Hood the new
and beautiful musical extravaganza by
b. E. Rice, now filling the Hollis
st. Theatre, Boston, to its utmost ca
pacity, will be presented with exactly
the same cast and appointments at the
Worcester theatre Tuesday, January. 2,
afternoon and evening. The new spec
tacie with its noted list of artists, head
ed py the incompatible Madge Leasing
as the Little Boy Blue. has capt,lred
all Boston, including the critics of all
the newspapers. At the Hollis st. thea
ire the demand was so great that each
day matinee was found necessary to
satisfy the demand to see the latest
success, being filled every day by chill
dren and their parents The sale of
seats for the engagement here will be-
gin Saturday at a. m.