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The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-16
WAR BETWEEN THEATRICAL
MANAGERS AND NEWSPAPERS
Unless There is Compromise II Means Hard
Lines for the 200 Press Agents Of the Metropolis

New York. Oct. 14.--Last week the
years tendency among New York the
atrical managers was discussed in this
correspondence. This week I am able
to chronicle some details Of the newly
organized war which is now being
waged between the managers and the
newspapers.
1t began in a resolution passed by
the theatrical managers association
restricting the weekly advertising OF
each house to certain sum.
It is understood that this measure
was initiated and put through by some
one of the more important managers.
who feel so we'll entrenched in the af-
fections Of the amusement-loving pub
lie that they can get along under all
circumstances without making a
splurge i'm advertising.
1t is understood, also, that some of
the minor managers objected strenu-
ously to any such arrangement, be-
cause they need, every once I'm a while,
to bolster up their business by a more
liberal expenditure of printers ink.
They dared not oppose the move for
fear of some punitive action on the
part of the big managers but they
squirmed dreadfully.
They also predicted retaliation on the
part of the newspapers and, 1t appears,
the prediction has already come true
in the form OF a cooperative general
order to the Sunday supplement edit
ors in all the big newspaper shops,
forbidding any further spreads" on
theatrical matter or other free notices
Of stage favorites.
This means that the press agents
of the metropolis will presently be
out OF work unless a compromise rs
reached.
Now there are not for from 200
press agents walking up and down
Broadway at this time. Every theat-
rical manager has one-more than
one manager maintains staff OF press
agents-every important star has one.
every visiting company has one, and
many are In the service of minor
lights, especially chorus girls who are
famous for their beauty and have am
billions 20 become stars.
Some OF these press agents earn
good money" too. They are all
newspaper folk: a few being women,
but most Of them men, and. OF course,
those who are employed by the big
theatrical fish draw large salaries.
They are not the only ones, though,
who realize the good money" II
comes In many instances to those who
represent the minor lights exclusively.
One press agent OF the writer's
acquaintance looks after the public
ity interests" OF a bakers dozen OF
ambitious chorus girls, minor come
dams and the like, receiving from IS
TO $40 a week from each. Others are
paid by the number OF notices they
manage 20 get printed, and the sue
cess Of them all, as a matter Of course,
Is dependent wholly upon their in
genuity. The press agent who can
invent anecdotes about his principals
that are good enough 10 force their
way into print against a heavy pres
sure OF news, viii do well under any
circumstances, and II he likes that
sort OF thing VIII never think OF do
ing straight newspaper work. unless
exceedingly good pay Is offered.
Naturally the little army OF press
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-16

September and is planted at once in
the nursery. It comes up the follow
ing spring, and in four years time is
OF respectable size, ready to be trans
planted to some curb-line along the
street Among the countless varieties
of trees that flourish along both sides
of our city streets are Oriental plane
trees, Carolina poplars and what is
known as the Turkey oak. The last
named is really the willow-leaf oak.
Its branches droop from the tree after
the manner of willow branches and
its acorns hang on until late in the
fail and are said TO fatten turkeys bet
ter than corn. sad to say. Washing
ton has had considerable loss of trees
during the last few years.
700 Trees Cut Down.
Upwards of 700. many of them the
grandest in the District of Columbia,
have been cut down to make way for
the new Union Depot, and the line of
the railroad tracks. Others, magnifi-
cent landmarks of earlier times, were
sacrificed, along with other things,
which should have been held sacred, to
make way for the alleged Improve
ments" which have spoiled the White
House.
Washington's park-like appearance is
not due to bountiful Nature, as the
uninitiated may suppose. 1t is the d.
rect result of a public policy inaugu-
rated by the late Gov. Shepherd, then
called Boss" and for which i'm his day
he was bitterly assaied by the short
sighted. At his suggestion an unoffi-
cial board of three citizens was select
ed to attend to the trees of the dis
trict. This board exists to-day as an
organization which never meets, al
though one of its members holds, UNI
der the Commissioners of the District,
the office of superintendent of tree
planting.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-16
Cats and DOGS of the Market.

A little clique of smooth gentlemen
have been taking a good deal of money
out of the market in the manipulation
of inactive stocks-the cats and dogs
of the market. They have conducted
their operations with unfailing success
and there is seemingly no end to the
play. They are content with moderate
profits and jump from one stock to an
other with such cleverness that neith-
er the bucket shops nor the profess
SIGNALS on the exchange can keep up
with them. Their campaign since the
beginning Of summer has cost the
bucket shops $3.50, 900, and the profits
taken down through the regular COM
mission houses are said to be as much
more.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-16

MR. 10. A. IARNER a Of Louis
through thinking OF
He
and
blood flesh
and
A N. Street ILnnsA Inlv1
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-16

illustrate the press agents tales, are
clearly up a tree. Likewise the stage
favorites themselves-wh believes In
some instances that the press agents
stories have helped them to rise--are
greatly disgruntled. All of these
classes, In fact, believe that some-
thing should be done, but the sug-
gestlon that they should all get to-
gether In a convention of protest does
not seem TO meet with general APP
proval.
1t is only fair to state the probabili-
ties are bright for a readjustment.
Should this be effected everything will
go on as before and all the smaller
managers are working In this direc-
tion.
Mention of press agents brings TO
mind the case of young man who
came TO this town a year or two ago
from a city where he had been editing
a Sunday edition for $50 week.
He was a. clever chap, and had no
difficulty in getting work OH the local
newspapers. One day he was sent 10
interview a meteoric operator in cot
ton. He had so much difficulty in
reaching the operator that he wrote
out an interview without seeing him
and then sent the copy to him for
revision and possible Endorsement. IT
was so satisfactory to the operator
that he Endorsed II uneuuivocally,
sent for the young writer and offered
him place as publicity man at a
high wage.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-16

This was highly satisfactory for the
moment. but presently the cotton man
went broke; the youngster was out,
as he supposed permanently, and he
started out 20 hunt for newspaper
Job. For some time he had pretty
hard luck. He had begun to be blue,
in fact, when, one day he was met in
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-16
Hill Insists He's Right.

j. J, Hill still insists that he is right
and the government wrong in esti-
mates of the corn crop. Almost no corn
1ows in the Jim Hill railroad ter
lftory, but he continues to show the
1veliest kind of interest in the farm
products of the country through which
the roads of his rivals run, and the
strete is fortified thereby in its belief
that the old fellow is in the Hartman
net and that be has not been able to
cover his short line of Union Pacific
and other granger shares. His lugu-
brious comments on the unfortunate
condition of the West tend to tint the
Wall street atmosphere deep blue, but
for some reason nobody pays much at
tention to them. Wall sVeeters are
convinced that his outcries are mere
expressions of pain for hurts received,
and while his lamentations afford
amusement they do not have market
influence the way he would like.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-16
Wanted Parker as a Partner.

Wanted Parker as "a Partner.
A pervy member of the big low firm
headed by former Gov. Frank Black
(Black, Olcott, Gruber and Bonyngel,
approached Judge Parker the other day
with an offer of partnership in the con-
Germ in the event of an Esopian de-
feat in November. The mission failed
in its direct purpose, but it was re-
Vealed at the interview that the Judge
had already made tentative partner
ship arrangements. He did not state
the name of the firm with which he
would be allied in the event of cleo
ton disappointment, but it is well
known in the financial district that he
will join forces with w. f. Sheehan,
who has guaranteed him $4,000 a year
for four years. Mr.. Sheehan has a very
large corporation practice and is tied
up closely with Thomas f. Ryan, An
thony Brady, {. K. G.. Billings, p. A.
b. Widener and other gas and trac-
ton magnates. Mr.. Sheehan has be-
come very wealthy during the past few
years by reason of his connection with
these magnates and he is their chief
legal adviser. The late Mr.. Whitney
had great liking for Mr.. Sheehan
and had private entrance to his law
offices. Mr.. Sheehan's offer to Judge
Parker is just double the guarantee
offered Grover Cleveland on his retire
ment from the presidency the first
time.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-16

mat the bankers not only insure them
selves, but are also ahead 70 the
aIlIouht OF interest they obtain on the
cdsn and credits. Our banks could
very easily raise S10O,OOO,0OO additional
py the sale of sterling bills, but such
poicy is not deemed advisable. The
credlt is there, however, and can he
mace available should our money mar
Ket harden appreciably.
me Lie Given to Crop Experts.
Government reports have given the
lidt-looted lie to the market jobbing
crop estimates of hired experts employ
ed TO Kill (on paper wheat and corn.
1hey met their Waterloo when they
announced that the yield of corn would
De under 2,O00,00O,00O bushels. Official
estlmates raise the figure to almost .. :
ouo,OOO,OOO bushels. The gang of grain
pulis on the Chicago Board of Trade
ana down in Wall street, who were
employing these willing experts were
caught In their own net. After maxi
ing some money in wheat they started
70 run up the price of corn and in do
ing so took on 20, 600, 900 to 30 600 0O0
pushels. They are still struggling I'M
Ger part of the load and their losses
down to date are said to approximate
ABOUT $4,000 Jim" Hill indignant
~ denies that he had or has a. dollars
interest in corn. The chances are that
ne IS telling the truth this time and
that his interests lie on the short side
of the stock market.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-16
A Bower of Shade.

BOWer of Shade.
Massachusetts avenue, the longest
and most fashionable of all the resi-
dence streets in the city, is a veritable
bower of shade by reason of the Amer
lean lindens that line both sides for
five miles or more. Several other
streets are similarly shaded for long dis
tances. The linden is most salts
factory tree, not only on account of
its dence shade and the fragrance of
its blossoms in springtime, but because
so easily propoagated. For new shoots
the seed is gathered during the first Of
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-16

edged bonds and the like. He Inherit
ed more than $50 900, 600 from his &c
centric uncle. George Smith of London,
and his holdings have greatly increased
in value since. 4 funny thing about
silent" is that until the will was read
very few people knew that old George
Smith had a nephew.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-16

1t is customary for banks to loan
money on stocks to within 20 points of
the quoted market value. The average
of prices on active stocks is 20 to 80
points higher than at the beginning of
The upward movement. Consequently
banks are to-day lending on the aggre-
gate mass of stocks as much money as
The securities could have been bought
for outright four months ago. The
market, therefore, rests directly on the
funds of the public. The profit that
has been made on the advance runs
TO the banking interests which have
had the handling of the public's sur
plus. The owners of the money are
not participants in the boom. 1t is
altogether probable that an attempt
to realize these profits, which are as
Yet largely in paper, would put prices
off Indications are, however, that the
banking interests will strive to main
tain prices around current levels I'M
I'll the public becomes accustomed to
the new figures. The theory is that
when speculation begins it might as
we'll start from this standard as lower
down, and unless there should be some
violent upheaval or international disas-
ter the carrying out of the programme
seems an easy matter.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-16
Three vistas of Trees.

Inree NAStus OF Trees,
Three having the prettiest vistas of
trees in Washington are located in
parts of the city which the average
tourist and citizen do not often see.
The first is along Pennsylvania ave-
nue., east, from the Capitol away out
to the Eastern Branch of the Potomac
Here are four rows of pin oak. The
outer row stands just inside the curb
line of the street, the inner one
inside the parking that borders
the track. Standing in the CEN
ter of the car tracks and looking to-
ward the city one sees the great white
Capitol building looming up at the
end of the vista.
On Twelfth street, running south
from the avenue between the Smith
sonian and the Agricultural grounds,
as far as possible from the fashion
able center, is a beautiful row of
red oaks. planted only sixteen years
ago, Already the individual members
of this row have outgrown the spaces
allotted to them, and are Veritable
giants. The third vista is in another
comparatively unpopular part of town
1t is in a short street between Four
tenth and Fifteenth streets, where the
houses are dingy and built directly on
the street line and the roadway be-
tween is narrow. But the trees! They
are an importation from Japan and
are called the GinclSo, the leaf of which
resembles in shape the outline of n
pear. In autumn the leaves turn a
bright yellow, and a very light frost
is sufficient to bring a shower of bright
gold to the ground.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-16
s5,OOO,OOO,OOO of Stocks.


The speculative stocks in which the
big advance has taken place aggregate
in volume about $4,000, 600, 000 Twenty
per cent. of that amount would be ST.
oOO,OOO,0OO, and that figure very nearly
represents the actual paper profits Gre
ated by the manipulated rise in the
stock market engineered by the bank
ing and promotion interests. OF this
huge sum the public is gamer COM
paratiVely nothing, although it's capt.
tai has been employed in the making.
The market experience of the past few
months afford fragrant Illustration of
how vast fortunes can be coined out of
atmosphere-be created on a founda-
ton of credit.
Banks and trust companies com
plain that they have made no money
during the past year and a half. The
institutions themselves may have gone
through lean period, but the men
who run them have done fairly well.
Banks have had more money through
the entire calendar year than they
could conveniently use in legitimate
way, and theoutlook is for continued
ease in that respect. Four of the lead
ing banks are so easy that they have
in combination about $25, 000,0 900 on de-
posit in London. A good many other
banks have taken advantage of the
foreign situation to float their ex-
change bills in order to provide a sur
plus at home with which to meet drafts
for crop moving purposes. These bills
are sold against future cotton, grain
and provision exports, the result being
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-16

Naturally the little army OF press
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-07-22
The Vermont Brand of Democrats.

[Charleston, S. c., News.l
Campaign after campaign the YER
mont democrats have been true to
themselves and true to their political
ideas. Without reward or hope of re-
ward they have stood up for principle
and their example is worthy of imita-
tion in both the doubtful and surely
democratic states Living in a section
which has been built up by the pro-
tective tariff they yet have declared
always against the iniquity of sys
TEN which has been built up in the
interest of a particular section and
special industries. How much better
is the Vermont sort of democrat, who
believes in something and sticks TO it,
than the democrats of other states,
nameless here for obvious reasons,
who have at times flirted with the
enemy in the hope of saving possible
appropriations or keeping in with the
powers that be. A good many years
ago a certain people were proud to
say that they were Roman citizens.
That was a distinction that entitled
them at once to high consideration.
At this time the man who is able TO
say. Il am a Vermont democrat" is
not less deserving Of honor than the
ancients who were proud TO say, 4 am
a Roman citizen
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-07-22

The Rutland Herald points out as a
warning to its party against over-con-
fidence in the coming presidential
campaign, that the democrats have
got a better start than they usually
do in presidential races; that, owing
to the Davis influence, republicans
have little chance of carrying West
Virginia, Maryland and Delaware,
which have a vote in the electoral COL
lege of II, and that in the state of New
York, where local pride is divided, the
democratic cause has taken a sharp
upward turn through general admira-
ton for "Parker's strength exhibited
in lacking up a Weakened conven-
ton" The Herald allows that it viii
be mo summer afternoons job" but
viii require the hardest kind of a
campaign on the part of the republic
cans to rescue these SO electoral votes
which may almost be said to have
fallen at the feet of Parker" If these
facts and deductions may serve as a
check to over-confidence on the part
Of republicans they may also work
benehciasly the other way on the DEM
ocrats and supply the stimulus of en-
enlargement and cooperation needed
to make the coming presidential cam
paign a close, vigorous and stirring
contest.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-07-22

Col. John S. Mosby has a wonderful
nerve if he really expects to make
people believe that the so-called me
gro plank" in the republican national
platform is not aimed at conditions in
the southern states but is intended to
give the supreme court an opportunity
to pass on the constitutionality of re-
strictions in the northern states. To
be sure, the plank does not mention
the negro or specify the south, but
the facts are a matter of common
knowledge. Col Mosby has read an
editorial in a southern paper stating
that more illiterates are DISTINGUISHED
in New England than in the south.
That is all poppy-cock 1t is a con-
dition and not a theory that confronts
the nation and what that condition is
is made perfectly plain by a compar-
ison Of the actual vote cast in north
ern and southern states in proportion
to population. The result in the south
is minority representation. If the
south doesn't worry about unconstitu-
tional Acknowledgement depriving it of
congressional representation, the peo-
pie of the north scarcely need to- In
which event the plank is of no mo-
ment anyway.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-07-22
Particular About Theirs.
[IInrner's Weekly.l


Local option in Vermont, following
half a century Of prohibition, has
proved at first somewhat too indul-
gent. Apparently rum has not
been making itself entirely agreeable
IN Vermont, but there is no sign that
the state is dissatisfied with its new
law. or wants TO go back to prohibi-
ton. On the contrary, the way the new
law enables local communities TO eX-
press their mind and to change them
annually if they like, seems to be
much appreciated. The law works
with easy feVbiity, and the Yer
monters lock or unlock the saloon
doors according to the impressions the
saloons make on the voters, The
voters are experimenting. The
Vermonters want just the right law
"A law that win provide just the
right amount of the right kind of
liquor TO the right man at the right
time, and they are disposed to ex-
pertinent until they come nearer TO it
than they have come yet.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-07-22
POSITIVE PROOF.
Should Convince the Greatest Skep.
tic in Brattleboro.

Because it's the evidence of Brat
tleboro citizen.
Testimony easily investigated.
The strongest endorsement of merit
The best of proof. Read it,
A. d. Fessenden of IS Main street
employed with S. A. Smith & Co.
saws: Il just as emphatically endorse
to-day what l first said about Doan's
Kidney Pills in the winter of 1897
through our Brattleboro papers as
did when l originally made the state
.ment. In substance it was as follows:
AS time went by pain across my
back and hips became very severe and
finally extended up my back. | had
to be careful in stopping, lifting or
making any quick movement used
well known medicines but received
little if any benefit. While suffering
as above / read a statement in a
Springfield. Mass. paper about some
one recommending Doan's Kidney
pills. This induced me to go 10
George L. Greene's drug store for a
box and commence the treatment.
continued it until that particular at
tack stopped. l can add to my own
personal experience at that time OBJ
servation about the experience of
others with whom I have conversed
all of whom positively declare that
Doan's Kidney Pills act as represent
ed"
For sale by all dealers. Price, so
cents. Foster Mflburn Co, Buffalo.
New York. sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan's-and
take no other.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-07-22
Bryan PrOnounoes It Good.
CThe Commoner.l

on the whole. the platform is good,
From a western standpoint its great
est defect is that it makes no mention
Of the money question. An attempt
was made to secure a plank opposing
the melting of the silver dollar, OPP
posing the asset currency and branch
banks, and expressing a preference
for the United States note, Ordinarily
known as the greenback over the
bank note but having refused to put
in a gold plank, the committee was
not willing to have any phase of the
money question alluded to, While the
motion to reaffirm the Kansas city
platform was voted down, there was a
considerable vote in favor of it reaf-
hrmation, and the western members
of the committee, together with a few
from the SOUTH stood together and
secured enough changes in the plat
form to make it a presentable docu-
ment and worthy of the support OF
the party