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The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-10-13

Reginald De Koven, the composer
who has lived in Washington for the
past few years. has not abandoned his
plan for a New York city theater TO
be devoted to lyrical productions. and
the chances are bright that Gotham
will have a home for American light
opera before the beginning OF next sea-
son. Contracts have been signed which
give Mr. De Koven possession Of a de-
siTable plot Of ground adjoining the
new BeIasco playhouse on Forty second
Street The plans for the theater have
been accepted and Il is expected that
work will begin within the next two
months In discussing the matter yes
terday, Mr.. De Koven spoke enthusiast
tiCally. The house will probably be
opened about the first OF next OctO-
Der with a new composition Of my own,
ne said ia the future most Of my
works viii be given for the first time
at the new home Of opera. and. as far
as practical. the stage will be occupied
By American productions, all light
operas of the better class. I have been
carefully noting the trend of public in
terest in musical pieces during the past
few years, AMI am satisfied that there
is a large class of intelligent people
who will Datronize a movement 10 sup
ply good. clean, and spTightly perform
ances Of opera; not musical comedy Of
the sort American theater- goers have
been inur dated with Of late, but legiti-
mate comic opera. minus the cheap
buftconery and displays of undressed
feminfnity that have temporarily dis
placed sane comedy methods and artistic
costuming. am president OF the
American School of Opera, which will
have its home in the new theateT. and
the graduates OF the school viii be
prominent in our productions. The
Lyric will cost upward Of a quarter Of
a million Of dollars"
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-10-13

Maybe expulsion of Philadelphia
thought that American should
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-10-13

plentiful blackberries but
settlement grows hidden somewhere in No Nj
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-10-13

Republicans doubtless hold Grggs confidence as
being being
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-10
AN UNNECESSARY MEASURE.

General Grosvenors bill requiring all
manufacturers of goods made of wool 10
attach to each piece put upon the market
card declaring the materials of which it is
made is again talked of. This is a measure
of the Wool Growers Association and is
designed TO compel manufacturers to use
pure wool instead of shoddy. cotton and
other substitutes. The champions of the
bill attempt to create the impression that
more shoddy is used in American cloths
than ever before, and that IL is very bad
Shoddy as now manufactured contains
nothing unwholesome: II is simply wool
which has once been used being manipu-
lated and used again. Ii has been used for
years. The British manufacturer was the
first to use il in large quantities, and he
does so now. At the present time our tariff
so discriminates against shoddy for manu-
featuring purposes that II cannot be i'm
ported TO advantage. Cotton has always
been used more or less. else the phrase
"al wool and yard wide" would not be
nearly hundred years old. Those who ad-
vocate the bill are proceeding upon the as
sumption that II each piece Of goods offered
by tailor should be stamped with the pro-
portion or wool and the substitutes Gus
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-10
THE HOPEFUL OUTLOOK.

The bank clearings last week were con-
siderably less than they were for the cor
responding week OF last year, due chiefly
TO the falling or OF transactions in the
speculative stock market in New York.
upon which the unexpected and prolonged
anthracite coal strike has had very de-
pressing effect. The strike is already
affecting industries in the East which are
not able to obtain soft coal. but this trouble
will be obviated in short time, even If the
strike shall continue. For the present.
that Is the one threatening aspect in the
business and industrial outlook. Every
possible influence is being brought to bear
upon those responsible for the strike to put
an end to it and to have a great industry
which supplies power TO so many put into
operation again. For the rest the business
situation is full of hopefulness. The out
look for crops at this season of the year,
taking the whole list, could not be much
more favorable than IL is. The report that
the prospects for winter wheat have i'm
proved the last month is general, while the
reports from the spring wheat belt are
most optimistic There has been much rain
throughout the corn belt. too much. in
some localities. but the reports generally
indicate an excellent prospect for the
greatest crop of the country. The same is
true of cotton, which, like corn. was short
last year. Large crops of both corn and
cotton are needed to restore the level of
supply and to reduce prices, which are so
high as TO check consumption.
The most remarkable feature of the mar
ket is the continued scarcity of iron. For
four years the furnaces have been turning
out fabulous quantities. but. in spite of the
predictions that the demand would be filled
and dulness would fall upon the industry,
the call for iron and steel is more impera-
tive than IL was two or three years ago.
so that prices have been advanced slightly
and orders are in hand for months TO come.
The general industries of the country are
active and the distribution of merchandise
is quite without precedent. Jobbers in sea-
sonable goods report many second orders.
while recalled orders are few, indeed.
| Strikes are quite numerous. but the most of
them are settled without an interruption of
production. The one discouraging feature
in the outlook, as before stated, is the an
thracite coal strike, which continues be-
cause of the stubbornness of few railroad
and mine owners. One of the most hopeful
indications of the time is the appreciation
| of farming lands in the corn belt. 1t is safe
| to say that there is not a fairly good piece
| of land in those States which is not worth
considerably more than it was in 1896. Ii
may be added that the average man OF
sense is not going TO take any chance by
voting to change the existing con-
dition of unprecedented prosperity.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-10
TRYING TO AVOID STRIKES
CHICAGO To HAVE A PERMANENT
BOARD OF ARBITRATION.
Transfers and Employers Associa-
ton to Settle Disputes i'm an
AmicabIe Manner.

CHICAGO, June 9.-Employers of team
sters in Chicago are determined there
shall be no recurrence of conditions which
prevailed in the recent strike. Encour-
aged by the successful efforts of the State
Board of Arbitration in winding up the
strikes of last week, the owners of the
companies which give employment to driv-
ers and teamsters are forming a perma-
nent board of arbitration, to which may
be referred ali disputes between them and
their employees.
The first steps toward the formation of
the board were taken this afternoon. At a
meeting of the Employers Association a
committee was appointed to formulate a
plan for the formation of the board The
committee is composed of one representa-
tive from each of the interests represented
at the meeting, and is empowered to add
to its membership representatives OF other
interests. The committee is TO hold its
first meeting tomorrow. The meeting to-
night was presided over by John p Dris-
coll. secretary Of the Team Owners AS
ISOLATION. Seven lines of industry were
represented al to-day's meeting. The pack
ers sent word that they were in sympathy
with the move and one of their represent
atives was appointed member of the COM
mittee, which meets tomorrow.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-10
AN ALLEGED SWINDLE
HOW BANKING FIRM Is SAID TO
HAVE BEEN DEFRAUDED.
Clever Scheme That Is Reported TO
Have Melted 100000 Francs
Money Found I'm Chicago.

CHICAGO, June 9.-There was recovered
this evening from the vaults of the Era
Safety Deposit Company on South Halstead
street $4,000 francs or SIS. 400. nearly the en-
tire proceeds of an alleged swindle. The
whereabouts of Otto Jaehkel, for whom de-
tectives are seeking in connection with the
alleged swindle, is unknown, but his wife,
under the name of Louise Wernicke. is in
Chicago. She came from New York the LIST
of May. and it was by cleverly locating
and shadowing her that the funds were
finally located. Jaehkel was the corre-
colbert. Hardt & Co., OF Buenos Ayres,
which has branch houses in Berlin and
New York. He was a trusted employe and
had entire charge OF the transmission of
funds between the different branches of the
firm. BY means of representations as TO
certain business to be transacted in Ger
many he induced his firm to buy five drafts.
amounting TO 100000 marks, drawn on
Hamburg house in favor of the Buenos
Ayres firm 1t is alleged Jaehkel then in
duced the firm to indorse these drafts. and
by the aid of acid removed the name
tuted that CT H Newman. He
had pr viously written to the
International Bank of Brussels advising il
that H. Newman, representing the Buenos
Ayres firm, would soon be in Europe to con-
duct certain business of a most important
character and that large sums of money
would be deposited to his credit by the firm.
To this Jaehkel signed the name of his
firm and he also wrote letter, signing the
name OF the firm, highly commencing New
man, who. 1t is alleged, had no existence ex-
cept in JaehkelS plans. The letter in
structed the firm to give Newman absolute
control of the deposits which would be
placed to his credit. This was followed on
March II by sending the drafts to Brussels,
the letter requesting the firm TO place the
funds to Newman's credit. Jaehkel, with
his wife, left Buenos Ayres and went to
Brussels, secured the money and came to
this city and placed the money in vault
The Woernicke woman declares that she is
not the wife of Jaehkel and processes entire
ignorance as 10 his Nherea bouts.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-10
PEEPED INTO LA SOUFFRIERE.
Hazardous Expedition of American
Scientists-Danger Still Exists.

JAMESTOWN, st. Vincent, June T.
During the great eruption of Mont Pelee,
Island of Martinique. yesterday morning.
the detonations were heard in the neigh
boring islands and heavy clouds of smoke
issued simultaneously from the Souffriere
on this island, which alarmed the inhab-
itants The Island OF st. Lucia was OBJ
scured by. dust to a distance of three miles,
and a steamship experienced difficulty in
finding the harbor of Castries At 2 o'clock
in the afternoon of Friday pitch darkness
prevailed here.
The three observation-disclosures Jaeger
HoVey, assistant curator of the Museum of
Natural History, New York, and George c.
CurtiS-who assembled the Souffriere on May
81, made another ascent on Thursday. They
entered a dense, dusty fog, which impeded
their progress as they made their way up
the precipitous trail around the awful cliffs
with extraordinary courage and perSeVer-
ance and once more reached the edge of the
crater on the east side. reaching an ati-
tude of 800 feet above the sea, carrying
with them an aneroid barometer. They
heard water boiling and suffering in the
depths of the crater but nothing could be
seen through the fog, though the party
waited a considerable time The ascent oc-
to the devastated area is discouraged by
Professor Jaeger, who is of opinion that
the crater In continuing active may emit
poisonous gases at any moment without
warning and cause the death of many peo-
pie from asphyXia.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-10
DANGER OF ovERCONFIDENCE.

A well-known Republican has expressed
the fear that the apparent hopelessness of
the Democrats in this State would prove a
them to conclude they can carry the State
without vigorous campaign. The point is
well taken. Whatever the situation may be
in other States in Indiana the Republicans
must count upon a canvass so close and so
thorough that every man who will vote a
Republican ticket must be got to the polls.
That is a fact which must not be lost sight
of every year, whether presidential or "off. >"
Should ii be, defeat would be quite likely in
a State in which $4,000 is a large plurality
in an aggregate vote of CO.. 652. the vote for
President in 1900. Indiana has been Re-
publican State since 1894. With good nomi-
nations and such an administration of
State affairs and such legislation as Re-
publican Legislatures have given since 1894
1t will be a Republican State so long as
the Republicans continue the efforts OF the
past eight years to bring out full vote.
The Democratic managers when they held
their State convention counted upon the
RepuDliCan ACTIVITY ana organization OF
past campaigns, and were aware that few
men known to the party as able and in
fuential leaders would take the nominal
tions. There is nothing in the situation to
inspire them to put forth vigorous eff
fort and men who had noted the experience
of the past few years did not consent to
make the race" But if the leaders should
discover Republican inactivity or over
confidence. which is quite as fatal as in
difference, they would take heart and bring
every Democrat to the polls, as they usually
do. Usually they can do this more easily
/ than can the Republicans, and they GER
\ tainly can If the Republicans do not keep
up their close organization of the past few
/ years. There is nothing in the situation
/ which can affect the minds of intelligent
/ voters to the detriment of the Republican
/ party The country is prosperous; indus
/ tries are expanding; conditions in the Phil
/ ippines are improving. and the Republican
/ attitude toward all economic questions is
sound. National and State administration
\ enjoy public confidence. Thus the only dan
ger is in OvercOnfidence
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-10

toners would demand an unadulterated ar
ticle. II the unadulterated should cost
much more they would not. Besides,
large part of the American people. and, by
the way, the best clothed people in the
world. purchase ready-made clothing;
would the authors OF this bill compel the
manufacturers of such clothing to attach
an affidavit to each suit. stating the pro-
portions of wool. cotton and shoddy which
the material may contain? If So how
many inspectors would it take to make GER
tain that the tag gives the proportions cor
rectIy?
During the brief existence of the German
Wilson tariff law. in which the wooden in
dustry suffered most, our markets were
filed with the cheap woolens or alleged
woolens of Europe, and particularly of
Great Britain, whose manufacturers were
past masters in the use of shoddy and other
adulterants in the manufacture of woolens
before we had begun wooden manufacture
In this country on a large scale. Having
the notion that whatever was British was
the best, we were more nearly being
clothed with shoddy and other substitutes
for wool than ever before or since. To tag
every piece of American-made goods to
show the materials of which it is made,
and allow the wooden goods of Europe to
come in without such labels. might so in
terfere with the use of shoddy and cotton
by home manufacturers as to give our mar
ket for the cheaper cloths to foreign COM
petitOrS
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-10

The New York World urges the President
to hold UP the river and harbor appropria-
ton bill and the omnibus building appro-
priation bill until Congress shall agree 20
pass a Cuban reciprocity bill reducing the
duty on Cuban sugar 40 per cent. This
recommendation is a rare combination Of
ignorance and lack of moral consideration.
If the President should hold back either
of these bills without signing them or veto
ing them at the end of ten days they would
become laws. If both these bills are little
better than steals, as the World has been
declaring, there could be no possible condi-
ton under which 1t should advise the Presi-
BILE and the appropriations are needed, as
nearly all members of the Senate and House
of both parties affirm, the President would
not be warranted in vetoing them. What
an instructive spectacle it would be for the
President to call upon prominent men in
the Senate and House and declare to them
that if the Congress did not pass just such
a Cuban reciprocity bill as he desires he
would veto two bills in which Congress
seems much interested! If the President
should do such thing he would be open to
the charge of an attempt to bride Congress.
and if Congress should do it it would con-
Wet itself of being bribed, and both would
be proper objects for the contempt of
all decent people. The World should keep
to it's speciality of manufacturing sensa-
tiOnS
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-10

The kissing of an actor by an audience of
women because they did not approve of a
sentiment in the play derogatory to women
is event opening an alarming prospect
TO stage favorites. If the new woman idea
prevails to such extent that time-hon-
ored gibes and jokes at feminine expense
are no longer to be permitted the lot of
the legitimate well as of the vaudeville
star is likely to be unhappy one until
a new stock of plays and witticisms is fur
nished. While he continues to appear in the
old parts his only safe course will be to
explain to the audience in advance that the
offending sentiments are not his senti-
ments, and that for his part he loves the
ladies.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-10

The suggestion OF speaker in the Ma
tlonal Conference Of Charities that il would
be much better II some of those generously
disposed men who are giving so much
money TO establish libraries and to endow
colleges would devote some of it to the
building OF model tenement houses is both
timely and wise. Colleges and libraries are
useful but in the growing towns the need
of comfortable houses or cottages is great
particularly for families OF the smallest in
comes. The forbidding places in which
many people who toll are compelled TO live,
usually two or three rooms into which
about All the discomforts are crowded. are
responsible for much Of the Indebtedness
which comes 10 the surface now and then.
II the people who do the rough work could
have better places II which 10 live the
first step would be taken toward better
things
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-10
ROSTAND QUITE FRANK
FRENCH DRAMATIST CONFESSES
STEALING FROM AMERICANS.
PurIoined from EberIe Gross and Has
just Taken n Great Piece of "Joan
of Arc" from Louisianian.

PARIS, June 9.-Edmond Rostand, VINO
had hitherto not made any statement re-
garding the judgment of the United States
District Court of Chicago granting Samuel
Eberle Gross, the author of THE Merchant
Prince of Cornville," an injunction against
further performances of "Cyrano de Ber-
gerac," on the ground that NJ. Rostand' S
play plagiarized situations in Mr.. Gross
work, writes to-day from a watering place
a reply to the theatrical critics of the
Temps, who sent him a copy of Judge Kohl
saat's decision. NJ. Rostand, after saying
that he has always refused to take the af-
fair seriously, but that some day, perhaps.
he may recount the serio-comic incidents of
the suit against him, though actually
brought against another person, adds:
THE Gross manuscript was twice in Paris.
first in 1879, when 1 was eleven years old;
secondly in 1897, when Cyrano was known
my hands a translation of the Chicagoan's
piece. / have written TO my editor to strive
and procure and publish it.
I'm the meantime | am ready to admit l
took from 'Cyrano de Bergerac' his name
and the Panache Hotel from Burgundy.
Rogueneaus from a cookshop. Roxane kiss
ing Cyrano's words on Christians lips from
A Voyage to the Moon and the siege of
Arras and the cadets of Gascony in fact
all our seventeenth century history, from
Eberle Gross, of Chicago, and, in order to
end the matter once for all, L confess
stole Les Romanesques from Smithson, of
Jefferson City, Mo-; La Princess Loin-
tame from Giles Trumbull, Of Columbus.
o.; L'Aiglon,' from Tom Sambo, OF
Springfield H.. and that l drew the idea OF
La Samaritaine' from the apocryphal gos-
pei of the Rev. Hon. Augustus Wonnacot
OF Hartford, Conn.
Il add that l am negotiating at the pres
ent moment with a Virginian planter for
the purchase Of manuscript, and that
have just purloined from the house of a
Louisiana shipowner a great piece on
Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orleans "
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-10
SARToUT OF ST. PIERRE.
Hideous Experience of the One Survf-
vor of the City's Overthrow.

Boston Journal.
A good many people, we suppose, have
been impatient to hear more OF the lone
survivor of Pelees fury-the man who was
not in the street or in shop or kitchen
or parlor or tavern, but in a dungeon under
ground.
This sole mourner Of his fellow-citizens
is Raoul Sartout, "a coarse, jet-black ma
tive, who had been arrested for some triv-
ial offense the week before" Now he Is in
a hospital in Fort de France.
But although Sartout is the survivor, he
was not a witness. In his cell he felt the
earth tremble; he heard, to quote the i'm
passioned language of the correspondent.
1.-THE deep rumble and cyclonic tearing or
the hail of death through the city i'm which
he had lived all his life" Naturally great
fear came over the prisoner. After time
he managed To enter another cell over
which there was an iron grating looking up
through the sidewalk. Then came the aW-
full silence" and so forth, ad libitum.
Ii is a tragedy without words. We can
imagine the terrified wretch in that hole
in the ground, straining his eyes TO catch
sight of someone who would tell him what
had happened and listening for a step or
word amidst a wonderful silence The FEW
survivors whom the French ship Suchet
picked up in the harbor and took away had
left the city desolate- The scientists re-
port that every living thing In and near st.
Pierre was destroyed. Yet, apparently,
this man Sartout was imprisoned In this
city of the dead for four days. The subject
is worthy of the pen OF Kiping or or the
brush of Neretschagin.
The present moment is surcharged with
excitement. IL may be that there are 9TH
er survivors besides Sartout But ms ex-
perience is alone in its sublime horrible
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-10
MOB VIOLENCE FEARED.


CARBONDALE, H., June 9.-Ths board
Of trustees of the Eldorado. CID Normal
and Industrial Institute. colored school
modelled after the Tuskegee (Ala.) Nor
NAL School of which Booker Washington is
mOval of the institute owing TO a bitter
warfare now going on. The pupils and
teachers have fed from the place. fearing
mob violence. Tomorrow the first COM
mencement exercises were to be held, but
the buildings have been deserted, the WIN
dows smashed in and other damage to the
building and growing crops inflicted.
President Alstone and family are supposed
TO be in Cairo. The school was recently or
ganized by popular subscription and started
out under favorable auspices. Intense feel
ing exists over the affair.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-10

heard OF The matter 1t was too late, and
further. that Mr.. Burton did not hold the
senator responsible for the election Of the
member OF the committee 10 whom he OBJ
declare. Mr.. Burton will not accept re-
nomination and will enter the field as a
senatorial candidate against Mr.. Hanna.
The latest Is that Senator Hanna will ad-
just the matter to the satisfaction of Mr..
Burton. In other words. very great deal
little