The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-06-19
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Authorship of The Sultan of SuIu" Disputed.
Separating the Sexes---President's Big
Chair--Twain May Settle Abroad.

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tan of Sulu" are disputed. Harrison
| Graves. press agent of the Empire
Theater, in Cleveland, o., asserts that
AIDES version of the comic opera close
~ resembles in structure and episodes
the opera which Graves says he him
self wrote soon after the Spanish
American war and submitted to the
Bostonians.
That company took il to Chicago and
then on a Western tour, but finally re-
| turned it TO Graves. Shortly afterward
AIDES opera came out, bearing the same
name and with a number of features
alleged to tally exactly with the Graves
article. The Cleveland man declares
that several managers to whom he first
submitted the opera will bear him out
in his assertions.
AIDE could not be reached tonight,
but John T. McCutcheon, the cartoon
list. and AIDES bosom friend, stamps
the claims of the Cleveland man as
| silly. McCutcheon was at the battle
of Manila bay and spent two years in
the Philippines. and AIDE went out to
join and come home with him. Nc
Cutcheon says AIDE conceived the plot
of THE Sultan of Sulu' while in the
Philippines.
SEPARATING THE SEXES.
NEW YORK. June IA special TO
the Sun from Syracuse says Chancel-
lor James r. Day of Syracuse Univer-
sity has issued a circular to college
! OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES in which he
saws the authorities have decided not
to allow men and women students to
board in the same house. Hereafter.
says the circular, our friends who
take student borders will kindly re-
strict them to one sex. OF course, it is
for you to determine which you pre-
fer to have in your house, but we shall
not be able to permit you to have both.
I'VE wish to urge upon you that our
women students will not be allowed TO
retain rooms in any house if they are
permitted to receive young men callers
in their rooms. Will you permit me
to urge upon you the Importance of
affording young women roomers rea-
sonabIe use of your parlors for such
interviews as naturally come in the as
ISOLATION of students?''
Some of the students are indignant
over the circular. while most of them
are highly amused.
PRESIDENTS BIG CHAIR.
TACOMA Cwash.). June s.-The box
ing up of an eIkhorn chair made here
and presented to President Roosevelt
revealed an unexpected dilemma, the
box being too large Ito pass through
the door of any ordinary express car.
The express agent was the first to
solve the difficulty without mutilating
the beautiful horns. He had heard
somewhere that one of the Northern
Pacific express cars had very large |
door. The records were looked up and |
this was found to be true. 1t was also !
discovered that the door of this car |
was ample to admit the Presidential /
chair. Then a tracer was sent out |
after the car and information came |
back that the car would pass through |
Tacoma today. The chair was accord
ingIy expressed tonight to the Presi-
dent at Washington.
Accompanying the box was a letter to
the President acquainting him fully
with the interesting particulars of the
chair, how the deer bearing the horns
was raised in Tacoma from a bottle,
the species was named Roosevelt by a
naturalist, William 7.
Hornday. president and director of the
Bronz Park, New York. the name hav-
ing been chosen five years ago after
the battle of san Juan. The particu-
lar deer bearing the horns from which
the chair is made was himself named
Roosevelt"
TWAIN MAY SETTLE ABROAD.
HARTFORD Comm, June Sam
uel l. Clemens and his wife will sail
in September for Italy, taking with
them their two daughters, and it is
probable they will make their home
there in the future. Clemens was in
Hartford last week visiting old friends.
Mr.. Clemens health is now much bet
ter than it was. and there is good pros
meet of her full recovery, but she Is stil ;
,eIicate and needs to be in milder-cI- :
nate than is afforded by the Clemens
,omA at Observation-Disclosures
Tba1- contemplate buying villa in
ETorence and settling down there.
clemens seems to be recovered from
he attack Of sickness he recently had
WROTE TO PRESIDENTS DAUGH-
TER.
TACOMA Cwash.), June because
he wrote a letter to the Presidents
daughter, and had other hallucinations,
p Rerto was last night committed to