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The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-16

accurately estimated. Her name is as
clearly identified with the old play as'Joe
Jefferson's with RIP Van Winkle' or
James ONein with Monte Cristo." Her
appearance in The Two Orphans" is
almost legendary. Miss Claxton is said
/ in her revival of the play to be as effec-
tive, as when she first essayed the role
She brings, it is said splendid stage &C.
/ cessions and strong supporting COM
pany. A matinee performance only will
be given.
At McDonald's Theatre Mabel Paige and
the Southern Stock Company will be the
attraction until Saturday. The winsone
little actress enjoys a wide popularity in
| tho South. Some of her warmest ad-
! mrers are among the patrons of the Bibb
, Street play house She has with them
grown in favor with each succeeding sea-
son. The little actress in suobrette roles
is winning and attractive and her special
ties are always clever. The Southern
Stock Company is said to be the best
! supporting company that she has ever
had. The company will give two matt
nee performances. Wednesday and Fri
day.
played at a matinee and night perform
ance The play is described as a laugha-
BILE farce and if press notices are to be
| believed it has met with much favor.
| Miss Marie Lamour, the leading woman
| has been described as "a charming little
comedienne. one who rises to all the
possibilities of the attraction and rollock-
| ing role of Honor Racket"
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-16
Mabel Paige at Mcponald,s.

Mabel Paige. the popular little actress.
will be the attraction at McDonalds all
the week with the exception OF the sat
uTIlay and matinee performance of a
Wise Woman" by Marie Lamone and
her company.
Miss Paige has wide circle of ad-
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-16
MUSIC AND SHAKESPEARE
AT THEATRE THIS WEEK
Drama Represented by Old FaVOrite Kate ClaxtOn in
"Ihe Two Orphans" ---Mabel Paige
at MCDOnald'S.

MONTGOMERY THEATRE-Monday "a Weddings
day Clifford Alexander Wiley Fri day. 1.-THE Saturday
Orphans"
THEATRE-Mabel al except Saturday
Wednesday and Friday Saturday Nght"A
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-16
Grace Cameron Opera Company.

The engagement of the Grace Cameron
Opera Company at the Montgomery The
atre Monday night promises to be one of
the musical events of the season. Re
ports from all over the country where
"A Normandy Wedding" has been heard.
are to the effect that it is. from every
point OF view. one of the brightest, wit
test and most tuneful comic operas seen
in the last ten years.
1t is the work of ]. CheeYer Goodwin.
who wrote Wang and William Furst.
the composer of 1.-The Isle Of Cham
payne" and is said to rank higher, both
book and music. than either of them. Be
sides Miss Grace Cameron the star Of
the orga nization. Manager Fred c. Whit
ney is said to have given the opera an
elaborate production and presents
splendid company including Joseph w.
Standish. stephen p. French, Jr., Sylvan
Langlois Genevieve Reynolds, Daisy
King and a large company OF pretty
chorus girls.
The music of "A Normany Wedding is
said to be of the popular catchy order,
and is largely responsible for the great
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-07

eaters Of America are being compelled 10 'uin
away from the half Wild steer of the open pi'iiiS
toward the traditional stalled OK"
The net result of this depends. as we ha'e
said upon the temper and the action OF those
whom il may concern 1t would seem TO hiahe
an suspicious opportunity for myriads OF 1arhi-
ers in the Eastern and Middle States who nave
hitherto lamented Western competition. Granteo
that such farmers were unable pr0htaDiy "
raise beev,s In competition with the COWBOYS
herds That competition is now waning ana
forever More and more the beef cattle or the
West are being kept in fenced fields. and are
being fed upon and other products or the
farmers toll We reason why the farm
ers of the East should rot he able to meet such
connection. Corn aud beets and what not VIII
grow here as well as in the West and VIII pro-
duce just as much and just as good meat Ihere
may be higher taxation to be paid upon ihu-
But then. there is the greater proximity 10
market. For years certain classes OF po"ih!
produced In the Eastern and Middle states nave
commanded profitable patronage in TINS marke'
over all Western stock. 1t is not unreaS9hapi"
to suppose that the same might he maze tfue
of beef and mutton. In that case, however.
would doubtless be necessary. to return 10 the
oldtine practice of using oxen as beasts ol
labor practice which is from all points oi
view heartily to be commended.
In such reimbursement of the sources OF meat
supply there may be some permanent increase
of price to the consumer. 1t is to he hoped IL
will not be great and such hope has reason
able basis in the fact that in these new condi-
lions there will he less opportunity than hifher-
to for the artificial Vaccinations Of trusts. but
the whole business will remain open to natural
and healthful competition. trust may con-
troll at will the output of single range of one
hundred thousand cattle. 1t cannot so easily
control the output Of one thousand separate
farms each with one hundred head. But IL
there be any permanent increase in meat prices
that will mean not increased dividends for some
huge corporation such as the present Increase
Is assumed to mean but rather increased prohts
and prosperity for a vast number of members
of the community. In whose gain there Will De
gain fer ALL
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-07
.JAPlf-S AMBITION.

The letter from our Toxic correspondent
which we print elsewhere in to-day's paper
gives a most interesting and suggestive account
Of the ideals and ambitions of Japan concern
ing China and the whole Monaghan race. as dis
cerned by particularly shrewd and discrlminat-
ing observer. 1t may be that the picture is par
tial that there are other phases of the subject
which it does not portray. and that many men
of light and leading in Japan have entertained
far different ambitions. But at least may
take our correspondents account as an accu-
rate setting forth of the dominant aims of
large party in Japan. and certainly plain
tale of the salient incidents iii the campaign of
the last few years for the fulflment OF those
aims.
Japan. we are reminded aspires to the hege-
mony of the Monaghan world. That is quite
credible. and is not at all surprising. Indeed
it would be strange if such ambition We're not
cherished 1t is quite true that Japan is nu-
merically an insienifcantly small part OF that
race. and that in age or in the traditions of age
il is much outranked by China But leadership
is not always TO the large nor to the old. OF all
tie Monaghan race the Japanese were the first
10 get in line with modern civilization and TO
adopt the ways and means of the Occidental
world. They did this with eagerness and with
success while the Chinese stolidly resisted it.
They did IL not only in the art OF war, but in
commerce and industry. IN politics and society,"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-07
TILE PRICE OE REEE.

1t is ready and natural assumption that the
rise in the price of beef is due to the artificial
and selfish Vaccinations Of those who control
the major part of the trade in that commodity.
Such state of affairs Is, or would be. by no
means unprecedented. Speculation in the neces-
Saries of life is not uncommon, and the forma-
ton of corners for artifcially forcing up to
almost prohbtive figures the prices OF the peo
pies food has more than once or twice been
known in our strenuous markets story. 1t is
not at all surprising that the public should in
stinctively conclude that the same selfish and
oppressive trick Is again being played by the
Beef Trust" OF course the partial failure of
last years corn crop and the grOundless panic
which was thereby caused afford a nominal
pretext for the increase. though by no means
an adequate reason for It, and the public is
probably pretty close 10 the heart of the mat
ter in its estimate of the situation.
'Howsoe'er these things may be-" it may be
well to recognize frankly the fact that great
change Is ut this time being effected in this
country in the matter of beef production. 1t is
a natural and an inevitable change the effect
of which may be injurious or beneficial. accord
ing to the manner in which it is dealt with
That change consists in the breaking up and
disappearance Of the vast cattle ranges of the
West. and return to the older and perhaps
more expensive methods of raising stock. y
score of years ago. in the wild heyday of the
cowboys on the great plains, beef production
was ut what seemed the lowest limit of cost
But civilization has encroached upon the herd
ers' happy feeding grounds The plains have
been and are being taken up for farms and
are being cut UP with roads and fences. And
this transformation is inexornhly progressive
There will be no reaction. no return to the old
conditions Steadily and irreversibly the beef
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-07

,acts as have outlined them that 1.-The ex-
IRENE of the law is the extreme OF ln1asuee
That Is a promise to do two things SO far as
they can be done together. not two promises
each 10 be performed independently as those
who are putting emphasis on one part OF me
other OF his statement assume EVeFEpous
knows that when Mayor Low took ONCE his
Police Commissioner WAS ut the head OF Hos
tile department. The only orders issued were
to enforce the laws. and no intima'lon was
given that any sort Of blindness was deSlred
The captains did not like this. Iney COLI
nIained that they did not know what was
wanted Of them. They would have been pleaSeu
with some definite instructions which they could
have 50 enforced in the name Of reform as "
make trouble for the administration. Instead
they had 70 act on their own responsibility anu
take the choice between breaking down their
own Matchmaking system by arresting those
who paid them for protection and hanging
themselves as they did by their instructions 10
THO uatromcn The Mayor did not create
Juror over enforcing the law. He instead al
r,jnistar,d il in the best practicable manner.
taking into account his instruments and the de
STABILITY of breaking down the system rs
the happy results show
Now il is said he has changed his policy. ana
under the lead of the patrolmen Is out for en-
IRENE enforcement But is he? Is he dong
ANYTHING more than taking advantage OF an OPP
portunity through enforcement of the excise
law TO free the liquor dealers from the levy OF
blackman? He is bound not only to enforce tue
excise law reasonably. but to root ont corrup-
tiop. and if the way 10 achieve the latter OBJECT
is to he unusually emphatic in enforcing fhe
excise law such emphasis ought not 10 ne taken
rs violation OF the principle that the extreme
If tha law is the extreme Of injustice the
Mayor IS right in thinking his first du'! III 'ie
Police DEPARTMENT is not to adopt pellcy coli
corning Unuor law enforcement. but TO use MS
movers 10 put down police corruption he mas
not been spectacular. end be has not been nasty
but he has the hlsckmailerS on the run ne Il
enforcing tie LAW lin the hest practicable man
ner~ considering tho condition of the force
When the force is purified he may ind some
thing else more practicable. Meanwhile nobody
need get worried if the enforcement Is eltiiel
FOO lax or too strict to suit him. The Mayors
+osl, is q large one The task of the critics who
see only one item in the account is easy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-07
4 CONSISTENT POLICY.

The mischief makers of municipal politics are
grieving rejoicing-according their Gs-
position is merely bilious or positively ma
licous-over the police situation. which they
seem to think has put the Mayor lin hole"
At or minute the Mayor is blamed for not
having shut I'D all the saloons as tight as a
drum and he is assailed with the taunt that
the administration. instead of reforming the
police is being reformed by the police. AT the
next minute he is being denounced for support
ing the patrolmen in the enforcement of the
law, and charged with breaking his ante-elec-
ton promise to deal with the liquor problem
In liberal spirit. Now, these two complaints
are not reconcilable Mayor Low cannot justly
be blamed for not having enforced the liquor
law strictly enough and also for having en-
forced 1t too strictly. 1t is not right TO COM
plain that he did not quickly enough break
down 1.-The system and extirpate blackmail and
at the same time complain Of his having taken
advantage of the first rift in the system" and
encouraged the patrolmen TO strict enforcement
Of the law when that enforcement could be
made an instrument for cutting off blackmail
instead of club for further extortion.
Ii the impatient critics-both those who before
the reform administration took office went far
beyond Mr.. Low I'm commenting the Brooklyn
plan of liberal enforcement. and have since
urged that good morals required the strictest
enforcement regardless of practica biity and
those who while demanding the stoppage of
Matchmaking denounce as violation of pledges
a policy which stops payments 10 captains by
making them ineffective-will consider the stu
alton reasonably they viii find that Mayor Low
has not only kept his promises but has also
done his duty under extremely difficult and try
ing circumstances. IT they will study not
merely one phrase from his ante-election decla-
-afloris but their general tenor. they viii easily
sec the consistency of his present policy. Ia his
letter OF acceptance TO the various fusion bodies
last fall Mr.. Low promised TO use all efforts TO
break up the matchmaking system and com
mented n, length on what he regarded the
defects of the excise law and the difficulties to
be encountered in purifying the police under If.
t1e promised TO support the self-respectiDg MEM
Acr OF the force in revolving against the corrupt
45Gnences above them. Summing up. he said:
AIN the mean while the law as il stands while
A,remairs unatered. must be administered In
The best practicable manner. / should spare no
effort 70 put stop. during my term. 10 the
bribery and corruption at present traceable 90
IL not forgetting again, In the presence OF the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-07

in education and literature. To-day they are
as much advanced beyond the rest OF their race
as though they belonged to some other woria'
Why should not the bit OF leaven seek the mcgee
mony of the whole lump?
The attitude of the Chinese toward the Jap
anese az described by our correspondent. IS
characteristic. 1t does not prove that the ,hl-
nese are right that the Japanese are ei'her
wrong or impractical. Rather does 1t Indicate
the radical defect and weakness of the Chinese
which they and Russia possess alone OF all the
nations of the world They are inert Inc!
are unwilling to accept light and leading. Ihey
scorn the thought of becoming like the rest OF
the world. National pride may be an adili-
rabe thing but not when IL is pride In ignorance
and persistence in backwardness. We may per
hans be glad that China is so stubborn; giad loI
our OWE sakes. For if the millions OF emma
under japanese leadership. should SUDDEN!
start into life as Japan has done, there might
indeed be a yellow peril" from which all the
rest of the world would shrink. But II emma
does not do this the alternative is lncvitaple
1t is to open or to be broken.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-07
STEEL FRAME BUILDINGS.
stopped.

II is nossilhn that tho statements of General
SoovSn,ith concerning tie security of steel frhihe
buildings. which Mr. Huss discusses in another
column have not attracted the notice which
they deserve The type of construction about
which the Chicago engineer was talking Tort
night ago has developed an immense popularity
of late years. Both the rapidity with WHEN a
huiIdinr can he erected and the otherwise urat-
tainable heights which can thereby he renched
commend It strongly to the real estate owner. IL
TO no one else. The proportions to when III
consequence this architectural practice has
grown lend 10 General SooysInith's criticisms
an Importance which they might not otherwise
possess.
The vital question is not whether steel VIII
rust If not properly protected, but what const-
tIltes proper protection. The first OF these may
he answered afirmatively without much hesi-
tafion As TO the second, however, there IS
apparently some difference of opinion. Expert
onre with s,Ich structures as the Brooklyn
Bridge proves that IL fresh paint of good quality
he mt on 10 steel Orders and cables n suitable
intervals It Will preserve them almost indeh-
nitely. But the metal Is inaccessible in steel
frame building after the latter is completed
and the paint cannot be renewed. IL the coat
first applied eventually loses its virtue. then
some other means must be employed to avert
rust General Sooysmith places more confidence
in concrete and perhaps he is right. The incon-
sstency between his utterances On this point
which Mr.. Huss points out. may be apparent
rather than real. Concret" may be mixed III
several different ways Ashes are not an essen
tiaI ingredient, ana solle Of the compounds into
which the cement enters may he less hycro-
scopic than others. It Is on the hypothesis that
n perfectly dry concrete can be made doubtless
that the Chicago expert bases his argument.
The attitude assumed by Mr.. 11uss III his let
ter TO The Tribune is natural and creditable.
He ventures to express no opinion oil the main
issue He merely wants to learn the truth. The
fact that no steel frame buildings have thus far
COLLAPSED because of corrosiOn is not n complete
and satisfactory answer to General Sooysnith.
What architects want to know Is whether such
an event is possible In the future This, Of
course depends on whether the metal In such
edifices is detariorating or not. Perhaps the
easiest way to settle the point is that suggested
by The American Architect" II one column
after another were exposed for inspection the
precise Situation would soon be known. The
investigation might be conducted either by the
owners OF the municipal authorities. but in
either case the publication of the result would
be highly instructive.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-07
PERSONAL.

.'Dur,us the next few weeks says The Lonooh
Chronicle" Mr. Choate the American Ampas-
sador will do of his work at MS resldeiice !"
Carlton House Terrace. The embassy III NlC''Iih-
ct will he for some time in the hands OIL the det-
orator and among the improvements to be effected
IN view of the coronation will be an installation
~ tho electric light Patriotic Americans gener-
att,. rr,1mbie when they come here. about Ine
way in which their countrys representa- ,-,ar
honsed They think naturally enough tnAt MI "
ia In this as in other respects, should cornIif,
favorabIy with France. Germany or Russi a. ro, AS
Is the American Ambassador has hnlsenI W I'm
ma nsion to live in. which means no small eNpeHs
A b-onzs statue Of the late B!shc? Mstthe"
s,nop.on was Unveiled and dedicated on Wednesday,
in the presence OF about five hundred persons ON
the grounds Of the Methodist Episcopal Home fo'
,he Aged In Philadelphia. The statue which IL
nine feet In height. is mounted upon granite
.,aaos,,t of tho same height The stetue Is pert
~ a massive monument which had been deter
mined upon in 1854 to commemorate the war Oh
the Rebellion Bishop Simpson was one of the trust
cd advisers Of President Lincoln during the ,lvi
Of number OF TepTesIn Iart Mills was employed
bishop simpson and other. when the as91ssnS-
ton Of the President put an end 20 tSS pro1eo ,,r
chased the model of her husband and had 1t re-
moved to Philadelphia and cast In bronze
General J. B. Vinet who has Just died in New
Orleans on the eve Of his departure for tho Dallas
Confederate reunion. on the staff OF every
Governor OF Louisiana since 1876
Robert B. Armstrong. who has been appointed
prIyate secretary TO Secretary Shaw. is an Iowa
man. who had been in the newspaper business IN
that State for several years prior TO 1896. when ne
went TO Chicago as political writer on The chi
cago Record In 1855 he was sent East as the
New-York representative OF that paper, and a
Sgenied his present position Mr. Armstrong had
known Governor Shaw. and has been in a measure
Identified with the Governors political fortunes
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-07
MATER ENOUGH IF WISELY USED.

Thousands of years ago the Assyrians anu
other Asiatics made immense reservoirs Tor the
imponnding of the waters of the rainy seasons,
and stored supplies sufficient to afford them Il
p]entiful provision in the years of seVerest
drouth In this twentieth century we seem u
have been less provident than were those ah-
ticue Orientals The floods in this country IN
recent weeks destroyed property worth mill
ions of dollars and drowned considerable
number of victims; and in the very regions IN
which the freshets of the spring were biggest
i; is probable that an inadequate quantity OF
water in reservoirs will cause discomfort anu
distress in July or August
The modern world has not rivalled the mag
nificent bounty of the old empires and the city
of the Caesars in the storage and Distribution OF
water The Roman adueducts and baths nave
never been approached in these times. although
this is an era Of wonderful achievements ID
engineering. For centuries the chief cities
which were under the sway of Augustus ana
his successors had all the water they wanted at
all times But at this period of the world 5
progress. when thirsty Brooklyn turns Win
marched Iins to the eastward churlish SUFFOLK
refuses the use OF copious springs. When the
Pororcl, of The Bronx pants like hart AFTER
the water brooks in the hottest of dog days her
need is often deuied But there is water enough
within easy reach and of every part or
Gotham If only the wastes and leaks are
et0nDpd
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-07
Amusrmeufe.

ACADEMY or MUsrc-s:I5--Under Two Flags
AMf7RlrAN THEATRfS-5il5-The Sporting Duchess
r1JoT-S-A Modern Nezdalfn - -. .Aa
r{rokDyAT TfIHATRE-s-Ghe Sleeping Beauty ana ne
cseIN,,-s:is-The Mons Bride.
CRITERION THEATRE-*-iu Barry
ptI.Y'S THFATRE,-s-Ssn Toy,
F-Isfsx MI-SEFL-Day and Ererling-Norld n Wax
TaNPIrsE ri HEATERS. 2a-gfe Twin Sister. -,
TSpir RT E5IsNTIf STREET THEATRE - 81" - foNS
0rsndpa.
gsRslIcK THEATRs-s -2e-Sky Farm. 81.
HARLEM OPERA HOUSES :I5-Nhen Knshthoed WIS
IN Flower
lfEsfl AID SQUARE THEATRES :15-Doly Narien. -
IRVING PLACE TEFATRE5-ne Der oieige!HacHer, va .I
c'.eunona aud Atsceied Regiment and Der ftaesi
T,FITH's-l 10 80 - io:80--Continuogs perforInenoe
KNICKER3Of f:E THEATRES: l@-The ToTeador-
MADISON SQUARE GABfpEN-2-S ircis
MADISON SQUARE THEAI RES :33-The Dl.orla'.
MANHATTAN TEEGaTRE-S :2e--lser LORD ana master
MURRAY EIIIs TIfFATPh>-2-S-Plnk DoTalfcs
NEW SAVOY THEATRE-s:iG -Sodters q Fortune
NETWORK TgIEATKE-s-Iiall y Fame. 80,
MEN YORK WINTER sEEIDEN-s -ls--N au0eN44-e-
PASTOR S-f-aati.aous Performance
PROCTOR rfTTE AVENUES 80 to 1o;Se-tsElA1on
pRoSTS5R's TWE5Try--TiIRD sTREET-I:So TO 1920
rRct-sJRs l2sTH srrREET-1:so lo:8o-our Boarding
prsocTs9Rs FfFTY-GGGHT sTREET-i:So T. 1o:so-A
rortensed Woman and Varieties.
Rt5pr IsIsC-s:ls-As You Like Il.
FffrGRTh-S:l5-French Opera foHicue-
wsIIsArK-S TEEATRE-S;IS-A Gentleman q France