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The age-herald., 1899-01-13
HARBOR ENTRANCE BLOCKED
Channel Inaccessible to All Vessels EX-
 capt Small Launches.
AFFAIRS ARE CRITICAL AT MANILA
Pacifcation is Yet Possible, Notwith- standing the Unyielding Attitude of the Natives Business Has Been
 uspended-Tension Extreme.

Manila January 12-The situation at Ilo- flo is unchanged. The Filipinos are unceas- ingly active day and night. On Saturday they loaded some lighters with rock and sank them at the entrance of the river, blocking the channel for all vessels with the exception of launches. All the lights have been extinguished.
 Order, however is maintained, and of lenders are promptly shot. On Sunday one of the Arizona's boats, manned by soldiers was carried by the ebb tide to Qulmaraes island, and while attempting to land there armed natives assembled on the beach and compelled the Americans to retire.
 The Filipinos refuse to have any deal ings with the Americans, vegetables and fruits are not obtaina ble, business is sus- pended and the warehouses are full of rot ting sugar cane.
 Situation is Critical
 At Manila the situation is critical, but pacifcation is possible in spite of the un- yielding attitude of the Filipinos.
 It is reported that the rebel government at Malolos is willing that the Americans should establish protectorate on the con- dition that they promise to give the Filip- inos absolute independence at stated time It is also said that the F'ilipinos will de- mand official recognition.
 Efforts are being made to bring about another conference with the rebels. The educated Filipinos are anxious to avoid trouble, and it is hoped that the militant Filipinos will recede before wiser counsel In the meantime, the tension is extreme on both sides.
 silly Filipino Story
 Hong Kong, January 12.-The Filipinos here say that ten American volunteers jumped overheard from transports bound from Manila to Iloi,o, swam ashore and said they had not volunteered to fight the Flip mos. The report is not confirmed.
The age-herald., 1899-01-13
Wh skey Trust Formed

New York, January 12.-The merging of the largest spirit distributing interests in the country under one control occurred to- day when the Standard Distilling and Dis trbuting company, of New Jersey, with head offices in New York, at meeting of it's board of directors took over the con- tro of the Spirits Distributing company of New Jersey The Standard company al- ready owns substantially all the spirit dis tilleries in the United States and also many of the distributing plants. The captal of the absorbed company is $7,50O,0O0.
The age-herald., 1899-01-13
Chewing Gum Trust

New York, January R.-A com- bination of chewing gum manufacturers of the United States was practically consum- mated today, when the last contracts neces- sary to amalgama tion were executed in this city. The capital involved in this combi- nation amounts to about $15, 100000
The age-herald., 1899-01-13
Jan,wski Won the Match
&t.oAt . ' tonight

New York, January 12.-The chess match between Showalter and Janowski at the Manhattan Chess club was finished tonight, Janowski winning the thirteenth game. The stakes were s750 a side. The final score is; Janowski, '; Showalter, 2. Drawn, 4.
The age-herald., 1899-01-13
DINGLEX IMPROVED.
Favorable Change Has Occurred and
 the Statesman Grows Stronger.

Washington, January 12.-The favorable change in Representative Dingleys con- dition continues and tonight he is reported better with the heretofore dangerous symp- toms showing more abatement. At Il o'clock the following statement was made by one of his sons:
 'Mr. Dngley is resting quietly. Pulse good. If no complications arise he will continue to improve"
The age-herald., 1899-01-13

nounced tonight. The company will have s45OO 900 of per cent. preferred and s5,5O0,- 900 of common stock with no bonds. The company has absorbed nine carbon corpora tions located in Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Penn- sylvania and Missouri. w. H. Lawrence, of Cleveland, will probably be the presi- dent.
The age-herald., 1899-01-13
Discussed the Treaty

Discussed the Treaty
 Naturally too, the senate drifted into a discussion of the treaty in itself and the intention of this government towards the Filipnos, much being sad on the lines of Senator Forakers open session speech of yesterday. Senators Gray, Frye and Teller talked upon these matters and wh le the speeches were the same general lines as those made on the support of expansion in open session, they were more crisI5 as none of them had been prepared in advance Senator Gray announced himself as SUD- porter of the treaty, admitting however that at the beginning he had some misgiv- ings as to the policy involved Still, there could be no two opinions on the general question of surrendering the islands back to Spain and with this question disposed of in the negative, it only remained for the United States to take at least temporary control of the islands For the future. he had no doubt that the United States would deal fairly and in accordance with the die tates of honesty with the natives of the islands. Senator Teller's speech was a more pronounced declaration for American soy ereignty in the islands and was Jealous plea for the recognition of our right as a nation to make conquest and to hold the country taken. He, too, would award inc natives fair treatment but he would leave no doubt in their minds or the minds of any one else that they were subjects of the United States and that they were such bv the right of conquest-by the divine right or nationality which Is an inherent and integral part of our existence as people.
 General wheeler's Mission
 An interesting point bearing upon the treaty, but not connected directly with if was brought out in connection with the con hrmation of General Wherry. Senator Hawley asked for action upon the nomina tion saying that it was urgent because if was designed that General Wherry should go to the Philippines, and that he should proceed there as soon as practicable. This remark was seized upon by the opponents as text for criticism of the policy of send ing troops to those islands at present Sem ator Hale leading the onslaught They had supposed, they said, that this practice would cease with the signing of the proto- col. Some of the senators went so far as to intimate that the policy in connection with speeches made in the senate was calcu- lated, if not intended, to -incite the Fill ipinos to acts of hostility.
 Senators Hale and Hoar announced them- selves openly during the session as deter mined to vote against the treaty and while the discussion was in progress a num- Der of democratic senators held a confer ence for the purpose of deciding upon course of antagonism calculated to secure its defeat. While confessing that they are not able to count enough senators to insure this result, they profess to be very hopeful as result of the work so far done.
The age-herald., 1899-01-13
Clothiers Fall

Evansville, Ind, January 12.-L. Lowen- thai Sons & Co.,, wholesale clothers, failed today asa result of inability to collect out standing debts. Liabilities unknown.
The age-herald., 1899-01-13
National Carbon Company

Cleveland, O., January 12-The comple- tion of the organization of the National Carbon company of New Jersey was an-
The age-herald., 1899-01-13
FIRST CONTEST OVER
 THE PEACE TREATY
Continued From Page One.)

The circumstances led to renewal of the discussion of the wisdom and good policy of appointing senators as members of the peace commission and there was a gen eral passage at arms over this question.
The age-herald., 1899-01-13

R. L. Goued of Mobile, is in Birmingham
The age-herald., 1899-01-13
Choynski and Hall to Fight

Galveston, Tex, January 12.-Joe Choyn- ski arrived in the city tonight from Chica- go. He will fight Jim Hall at the opera house January 19.
The age-herald., 1899-01-13

J. D. Reindollar, of Baltimore, one of the best men lon the road,'' is in the city.
The age-herald., 1899-01-13
PERSONAL.

J. w. Weiss, of Mobile, is in town.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-12
PREPARATIONS FOR
e STAGE PRODUCTION.
What Goes on in the Mysterious Regions Behind the Scenes
Prior to the First Performance.

much vigor that she is never going to
face an audience with her erstwhile rose
like complexion bathed in any u uni
versal v~erdancy. So the master of the
lights has to begin all over again and find
some more acceptable hue TO represent
his moonlight, or have the heavens shed
a Special beam of more acceptable color
ing over the unrelenting leading lady.
Unless the visitor has wandered into an
exceptionally we'll conducted playhouse
he will discover that the different dress
ing rooms allotted TO the leading lady and
her colleagues are by no means such lux
urious apartments as the outside world
dreams. In these rooms will be seen rows
and rows of gorgeous looking gowns, but
far from being as gorgeous looking as
they seem when draped on the heroine
while she is being pursued by the villain
before the footlights for the amusement of
her Unsuitable audience. Wigs, cosmetics,
slippers, shoes. crowns richly digit with
glass diamonds, turbans and a theatrical
trunk or two will be found scattered pro-
m~iscuously about.
The bare and dingy rooms in which the
ever fascinating chorus girls are made to
dress will be viewed with q gentle shock
by the visitor, to whom it VIII seem out
rageous that such visions Of pink lighted
livelincss should have TO adorn themselves
in a. grotto of such dismal ~hideousness.
When the actual rehearsal starts and
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-12

part OF Some apparently awkward and
very eE~nbaGrassed French waiter. It +
these supers who seem to AVE entered
into a conspiracy since time immemOriaf
to drive every stage manager In b world
into the Geadliest throes of stark and
staring madness. If the supers are to
carry martial spears and banners, they
do so in a manner that at once suggests
a gang of weary boys sneaking home after
a days truant fishing. If they are to rep
resent the enraged and long oppressed
populace giving vent to their just feelings
in mutinouS cheers, their bowls of anger
and rage sound more like the mufhed
wailing of two or three newborn kittens
han like the cries of a hundred lusty
Roman citizens pouring forth the walls OF
their wrath. But the indefat.gable stage
manager sticks to them, DULLES them,
roars at them, drives them about the
stage like a lot of frightened sheep and
shows them how to carry a tin spear
without giving the impression that this
same spear is an attenuated Internal ma
chine.
But few of US ever dream of the In
finite toll and labor that has taken place
behind the curtain before that new PLAY
is presented to it's first audience.
EVANS COOK.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-12

he will distinguish perhaps the sawuill
used in "Blue Jeans and the great grfst-
mill from The Man Without a Country"
a luxurious parlor chair or TWO piled in
congrouously on a plain kitchen table,
firearms and swords and piles of tin arInor
for the Roman soldiery, false faces OF all
sizes and descriptions, rustic looking tree
trunks made of boards with painted rags
glued TO them and a hundred and one
outlandish looking pieces of stage furni-
ture. The golden goblets from which the
Alphabetically inclined chorus drink their
eoaming beverage are, alas, found TO De
nothing more substantial han paper, and
the deIectable young chicken over wh1rh
the theatrical lunch party smacks its col
Elective lips is found to be a mere creation
of stuffed kid or cloth. This same stage
electrician, by the way, is a very import
ant man behind the scenes, playing q far
greater part in the mounting of a drama
than the unthinking spectator ever
dreams. The master OF the lights spends
many an hour OF study and experiment
in trying the effect of different hues
md shades on the different scenes of the
play under production. Sometimes it is
found that a sickly green light Will pro-
7uce a beautiful enough moonlight effect,
but the leading lady protests with
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-12

the bis curtain is runs up before the
darkened or dimly lighted house, the
really interesting moments of the visit
begin. The orchestra at such renearsals
IS usually represented by merely the
leader of hat organization, who presides
at the piano and thumps the keyboard
and calls out. non too gently, directions
to the chorus or the soloist at the same
time. If the rehearsal one of an opera,
the revilings and the lecturings to which
that poor chorus is subjected are wonder
full and terrible to behold. Stage man
ayers, as d rule. are not the best tenn
pered beings in the world, and the rea-
son for it is soon understood. Some I'M
fortunate player will insist on standing
in the wrong place. She is shifted and
shufied about for the twentieth time and
is at last mad to cover her own APP
pointed ground only after a big chalk
mark has been made showing where she
is supposed to stand. Then wrong en-
frances and exits are made, and once
more the manager wakes wrathy and Or
ders the scene done over again. Then per-
haps some actor or actress has forgotten
his or her lines. and there is a sudden
pause IN the action, and the even tenor of
theatrical l.fe is once more broken into
by a calling down from the stage man.
ager. Then it is suddenly discovered that
there is something wrong with the seem
cry, and a new grouping OF vile looking
c~anvases is struck"
Things are once more in apparent
smooth running order and the lines are
being read along very nicely when it is
found that some quite essential piece of
stage property is missing and cannot be
found. The property man is first called
up and then called down." the article
is produced, and still once more the
scattered threads of comedy or tragedy,
as the case may be, are taken up.
In most performances of any p%retensions
there are always a certain number of
supers engaged. Supers are those gentle
men of theatrical inclinations and evil
intentions who usually so to make up the
Roman populace. or me enraged mob. or
the courtiers, gentlemen and others used
for filing up the back of the stage In GER
tain dramatic performances. Sometimes
they ever venture to o. knightly armor
and appear very limp legged and Ill at
ease as standard bearers. Sometimes,
again, one of them win array himself IL
a we'll worn dress suit long since DIS
carded by the leading man and essay the
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-12
dCooyright, 1891


Tho average sheater goer, as he sits
comfor. sably in his reserved seat and
watches the first performance CT some
treat d fanatic work, often wonders in
= vague sort Of way how sucn smooth
ness an d nicely of action were ever at
tanned by mortal man. From the first rise
of the GU rtain to the fall of the drop every
line has i,een spoken and every movement
has been ordered with the accuracy and
precisfo yraof a double jeweled chromoneter
Never aNllitch is there from first to last.
But as tMr complacent theater goer sits
and watc hes the play for which he has
paid his d. sllar or two he has indeed very
little idea " the weeks and weeks of toll
and study smd worry and revising WHICH
add his hast tittle quota to the gayety of
nations.
But the act or himself knows only too
we'll the amou.a ut of work that was neces-
sary before he could so airily tear a pas
sion to pieces l'or the declaration of his
light hearted au aience.
Theatrical peol le. fortunately, make it
q point to see that Only those persons who
have some particular reason for doing so
shall witness tina laborious and painful
PREPARATORY WOIh RAiHCA iICSCoSdlI NY pre-
cedes the productions OF a new play. For
this reason a glimpse behind the scenes
will be of especial interest to those
have never known the use of rouge and
wig.
In the first place, a visit behind the
scenes of a. big theater IS invariably dis
3llus.oning, interesting as the initial incur
sion into that once considered realm of
~enchantment may prove. II the dress re-
hearsal for some big performance chances
to be taking place during the first visit,
the intruder will find everything behind
the foothights in a state of confusion and
activity.
The first thing which will strike the
visitor is the surprisingly shabby appear
ance of the stage scenery Wnen viewed at
short range. The lordly mansion of the
Capulets will be nothing more than a
crudely daubed piece of canvas, and the
white swan on which the departing
Lohengrfn floats so mysteriously away is
nothing more than q ridiculous 1.-the
necked box on wheels, we'll decorated with
very earthly goose feathers. The visitor
will venture into the property room with
expectant heart, for there, he Knows, he
will be sure to find the bloody dagger
with which Lady MACBETH Goes Her night
ly deed of horror, and the Venetian four
poster on which the irate Othello
strangles the p~erjured Desdemona- and
the anvil that rings so merrily in ROBIN
Hood and the great golden goblets from
which the Pirates of Penzance have al
ways taken such liberal and yet strangely
Misunderstanding potions.
What the visitor really sees will be in
all probability a great, confused. hetero-
geneous mass of lumber, among which
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-12
BLIND WITH ECZEMA
Three Children Afflicted 20 Months.
CURED BY CUTlCURA.

NV second child got eczema when seven
months old. Three months later my firstch1d
ppt it, and following him, the last one, two
wears old. For twenty months they suffered
fearful agony. Their whole bodies, especially
their faces, were so sore and raw that they
were blind half the time. Nc words can
describe the suffering of my second child,
whose whole body was one bloody mass. He
was constantly crying. could get no sleep, and
he actually did not look human. Itried doctor
after doctor without the slightest relief. The
first application of CUTICURA brought relief
In each case, and after fourteen days treat
ment with CUTICURA SOAP and CUTIcURA
(ointment), the worst case was cured.
MRs. ANNIE RING, 5l5 f.. 18th ST., NY. City.
sLsrr yoH sxu-ToRruRED BABIES and rest for tired
mothers In . warm bath with CUrIcURA SOAP, and .
single application Of CurIcuRA ~(ointmenth greatest of
s~nolisuts and skin cures.
GA throughout the world Po1rER D. AND c. CoRr.s
oo1e rfopA, BOSTON. a How to Cure Eczems,' nee.
bkByS SKIN s'41r e ssr' nsaa s ss.s :,
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-12

GRAND OPERA HOUSE Monday.
Tuesday II Wednesday, Remember the
Maine"
OPERA HOUsE-Thursday. matinee and
night, Banda Rosa.
The Lenten period has made little
appreciate effect upon the attendance
at local theatres this season. Good at
fractions have. with very few excep-
tons, been literally pa~tronized, and the
cas- was better from a financial
standpoint, than its immediate prede-
cessor. With the close of the season.
there will come a change in the man
agement of the Opera House, and Chas.
A. Feinler will assu1ne control of both
theatres. Some improvements will be
made, but a new play house appears to
be as far distant as at any time in re-
cent years. Mr.. Feinler has proven his
capacity as a theatrical manager, and
tie public realizes that with both
houses under n head, the best COM
panies will be seer here, and at the
proper prices. There will be no con-
fict between similar attractions, such
as divide the patronage on the same
nights, and the new arrangement will
result obviously to the mutual benefit
OF the theatres and the public.
While everybody agrees that Wheel
ing is behind the times in its theatres,
it is extremely difficult to find a man
with the necessary capital and the
disposition to invest it in a modern
structural There was . big theatre
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-12

project not many months ego,
which was carried to the stage OF
drawing up the plans, but the capital
lists behind the venture we're timid, and
declined to go into the enterprise until
they had rented their playhouse at a
satisfactory price. There are few
cities of any ~pretensions in West Vir-
GINA that do not boast of more up-to-
date theatres than Wheeling. Ciarks-
burg, Parkersburg, Huntington and
Charleston all have play houses which
are creditable to the respective COM
munities.
Wheeling is a growing city. Not
only in her theatres, but in her hotels
as we'll, she is not keeping up with the
procession. The necessity for better
and larger hotel accommodations was
manifested in a striking manner during
the past week. A prominent citizen.
but one who is unfortunately possessed
of more mental than financial re-
sources, has a project for a happy COM
bination to meet both the modern re-
quirements referred to-. His plan is for
a new hotel, to contain also a modern
theatre. Whether or not anything tan
gible will result from his scheme de-
ponds largely upon his ability to IN
duce people who have the means to look
at the matter through his W glasses.
The amount of money distributed here
through the sale of local industrial
| plants to the steel trust has impressed
him with the idea that the time is OPP
| perfume for formulating a scheme
| which he regards as "a sure winner.
Under the direction of Paris r.. Myers
the rehearsals have already started LOT
the production of "The Three Nantes"
a comic opera, during the last week IN
April in the local opera house. The
opera has already been cast, n the
! prominent parts will be sustained by
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-12
waves Company. is to st.r next sea-

Waves" Company, is to st.r next sea-
son.
Lii Lehman has begun a crusade
against vivisection.
Will S. Rising is the star Of a roper
toire opera company.
Mathilde Cottrelly is a member oil
"'That Man" Company.
Lincoln Carriers play, "The Tornado,s
is being acted in London.
1.-THE Man in the Iron Mask" was re-
vived in London last night.
Reginald Dekoyen and Harry a
Continued on Ninth Page.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-12

Efie Ellsler is in New York trying to
make arrangements to return to the
stage next season, either as a star Or
leading feature of an organization. she
and her husband, Frank Weston, re-
tired from the profession several years
ago, Mr.. Weston to devote himself to
some mining interests in the West.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-12
GOSSIP OF THE FQOTL|QAIS.
The Theatrical Season is Drawing t
a Close in Wheeling.

BUT THERE ARE STILL MANY
STRONG ATTRACTIONS INCLUD-
ED IN THE BOOKINGS FOR THE
TWO LOCAL THEATERS-THE
OFFERINGS OF MANAGERS DUR
ING THE PAST OVERLOOKING
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Cos
SIP ABOUT THE STAGE-THE-
ATRICAL ADJUSTMENTS.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-12

Henry Miller is to play ten consecu-
tive weeks in Frisco this spring, and
his repertoire will include Lord and
Lady Algy," current at the Empire the
atre, New York.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-12

the show for the year in England was
$4,000.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-03-26

pity, when the causes OF such epidemics are
so well known and might be so easily
guarded against. that city officials on whom
rests the responsibility of protecting the
public cannot be held criminally liable for
neglect Of duty. In time. perhaps, this will
be possible. In connection with this Phila-
delphia fever scare ii is curious fact that
the weekly death report of that city shows
a greater number OF deaths from consump-
ton and kindred diseases than from typhoid
fever, yet there is no indication that the
people there are at all concerned about the
prevalence of those maladies. Consumption
can be prevented. too. medical scientists
say, but the public still persists in regarding
it as visitation of God" and takes no
pains to check its ravages. Perhaps the
doing away with this modern scourge will
be one of the accomplishments of the twen-
tieth century.