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and an extra" she says, after consult
ing a memorandum on the envelope
which holds the tickets, ct is evident
that there has been previous traffick-
ing in dances) my card is just
full"
"That is not much as a reward for
a whole evening"" the victim pouts.
I'll tell you what to do" she cries
with sudden inspiration, take Two
tickets and bring some nice girl who
does not know any of the crowd. Then
you'll have all your dances"
This brings matters to a head. Two
tickets and a grill One has visions of
a cab and flowers. Zone will be enough,
thank you," and the money is handed
over.
Perhaps no one is foolish enough to go
to that euchre hoping to enjoy the prom
ised aftermath dance. After waiting
until 11:30 in the gallery with score
of other sadly bored onlookers, the fat
man who is dealing out the prizes may
announce that the committee has de-
cided that it is too late for dancing,
and that the audience is at liberty to
dispense at any time.
AS one rushes out of the apartment
house on the way to business the jan
itor's wife is likely to execute hold
up.
Nov, Mr.. Brown, you're a generous
man." she begins. ''The Hungarian
Ladies, Society of New York Is going
to give a party, progressive euchre
party, and I've put you down for a
ticket"
1t is winter. The janitor and his
wife control the steam and the hot
water. Policy says buy ticket, and
the money is handed over.
The elevator man gets confidential
as he hauls one to the fourteenth floor,
and suggests a ticket to the euchre of
the Passenger Elevator Conductors
union. This touch" is only SO cents,
and with the ticket comes the informa-
ton: HAT checks will be extra, but
your lady gets in free"
The Office boy opens UP the prelim-
inaries for some sort of touch =
One decides that if the Office Boys
| union is going to have a euchre, the
member in the immediate presence goes
out the window head first. Fortu-
nately for him, he wants nothing more
than half holiday.
So are progressive euchre tickets
forced upon helpless mankind, and for
| them there is no redress.
But the reader must not fall into the
error that all purchasers of euchre
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13
BY GUY T. vIskNIskkI.

NR ENRICH CONRIED, as a boy,
dreamed Of being great actor;
today he is Americas leading
lmpresario, known to two continents
by reason Of his production of 'Parsi-
fall And, furthermore, he is an actor
Of no mean ability.
One day, away back in 1853, when
Mr.. Cohried was five years old, he was
taken by his parents on a visit TO an
aunt, who lived in the same town, Bic
litz, in Si1esia, where Mr.. Conried was
born and raised. With the aunt lived
the frau directorin Of the Bielitz the
alter. Somehow, as children will ges'
such ideas, young Heinrich had had it
in his head for some time to be an
actor in-the local playhouse. He had
become so determined on this point
that, soon after he was brought for
ward and introduced to the frau d.
reform, he conf1ded to her that he
wanted her to engage him on the spot
to act in her theater.
The frau directorin looked down at
the boy, smiled, then said, as she pat
ted him on the head:
mot now, little man, but you come
back in twenty years-twenty-then
maybe-we'll see."
Heinrich Conried came back at the
end of twenty years, almost to day,
in 1873. He came as an insignificant
member Of a German travelling COM
pany, but he was welcomed like
prince The town turned out to greet
him. the factory in which he had work.
ed as a weaver was gayly decorated
in his honor, all Bielitz suspended bus
mess to offer congratulations to him
and his parents, and all Bielitz went to
the theater and thunderously applaud
ed their fellow townsman whenever his
extremely minor part brought him on
to the stage
Heinrich Conried had become great
actor in the eyes of the people of his
boyhood; but Heinrich Conried's dream
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had always been more ambitious-he
longed to be a great actor before the
world at large; and so, his day of tr1-
umph over, he again took up the strug-
gle; for to be able to tread the boards
of the theater of his native town young
Conried had worked hard as well as
dreamed for twenty years.
AS a school boy he spent hours read
ing plays and other hours at the the
ater studying, in his boyish way, the
actors on the stage. His school days
over, his father, who took no stock in
his sons histrionic ambitions, appren-
ticed him to weaver. The son struck
a bargain with the father. Il will work
hard If you will let me go where l
please and do what / please when my
apprenticeship is over" he said; and
the father agreed.
Heinrich stuck to his part of the
agreement for two years; then, one
day he was able to report to his father
that he had become "meister;" his
'meisterschaft'' had been accepted-his
original design in fifteen colors of
Faust and Marguerite" had been de-
clared perfect in every thread. His
apprenticeship had not caused him to
be weaned from his ambition.
Not long afterwards the father full
filled his part of the bargain, and young
Conried started from Bielitz for vi
emma.
He went to the capital to become an
actor; he became instead mere clerk
in a commission house; he had to, or
starve. Then, when he had proved his
mettle, his brothers, who were well-to-
do. got him a position in bank.
Perhaps they thought the clink Of
gold would win the lad from his
hearts desire, but the new work SIM
ply gave him time to dream more and
money enough to enable him to get his
breakfasts at restaurant where an
actor was in the habit of taking his
meals.
Mr.. Conried confesses that he ate
at that restaurant with the sole pur-
pose of being near the actor; but in
the course of time he and the Thespian
became acquainted, and the latter
found out his new acquaintances hopes.
The result was a meeting with the
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Finally she tried it at small party at
the home of friend, beautiful vase
attracting her cupidity She was dis
covered by woman who had grudge
against her. This woman threw down
her cards and announced dramatically
that she would not play cards with a
cheat, pointing her finger at the un-
fortunate There was no denial pos
sible. and every one in the room knew
about it. The sisters withdrew from
the game, and are now doing penance
as "shut-ins'' until people forget.
Here Is an incident of a Harlem eu-
chre. The play was over and most OF
the prizes had been drawn. The great
hall was about empty.
Twill the holders of No. ID cards
please come forward for prizes?'
shouted the tired man, who had
Strengthened out all the -tangles con-
nected with fifty prizes.
Only two holders of the unlucky num-
Der appeared, bright, pretty girl OF
20, and a clean looking young man.,
but, seeing the way the prizes dwin-
died and considering the number I'M
lucky, anyway, they had gone home.
"There is only one prize left" said
the prize man hurriedly. Settle 1t
between you. I'm too dead tired to
manage another drawing" He handed
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over box, which might have contain
ed anything from revolver to a pow
der puff.
ooh, If there is only one left, why.
you take it," said the young man gen
erously.
mo; you have just as much right to
it," smiled the girl.
"'You take it, he insisted.
You'd better"
She was persuaded finally. ''Pll let
you see what you've missed" she said.
and they sat down on a bench while
she opened the mysterious box.
It was a shaving outfit!
"You take it," she cried, forcing 1t
on him, and he could not well refuse.
They returned to the room where
the playing had been. 1t was almost
deserted. She looked about for her
mother.
why, why, mother has left me be-
hind" she cried, half frightened. II
suppose she thought I went on with
the crowd. 1 forgot to tell her about
the prize"
Of course, he offered to be her es-
cort, and her mother was duly thank
full He was asked to call, and any
one can guess the rest of the story.
Eyes, indeed; fiat of four rooms Is
large enough to start with"
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THF USES AND ABUSES
OF PROGRESSIVE EUCHRE

tickets are unwilling ones. Nine
tenths of the women who take tickets
do so willingly enough. The remain
ing tenth are worked" by the slip
them on-you'' method. Mrs Jones is
interested in a church euchre, and takes
tickets to sell. She sends two of them
with her calling card to her friend
Mrs. Smith, who is not quite SO high
socially and for whom Mrs. Jones has
done several favors. The inference is
that Mrs. Smith can return the tickets
by mail if she does not care to go
But Mrs. Smith knows better than that
If the tickets go back she can ask no
more favorrs.
Some of the euchres-the small ones
given in private houses-create de-
mand for tickets which is astonishing.
Women resort to all sorts of schemes
to get hold of them. The small eu-
chres take on the nature of social
function" and are really in class by
themselves.
If one has never seen full-groWn
New York euchre, most interesting
evening can be spent looking on at
one. On busy or dangerous day the
Stock Exchange shows more pent up
excitement, perhaps, but no rush of
bulls to cover" is more strenuous than
Tie Struggle Ol SOiIic SuCuIC= pdi liCo
over the awarding of prizes. the crown
ing event of a euchre evening.
The big euchres are given in a pub
| lie hall, generally, and the floor of the
hall is packed with tables and chairs.
! The tables are in long rows and at each
| are four chairs. The players appear
all at once, and are assigned by lot
| to their row and table. Eight out Of
| ten of the players are women, the
| younger ones in light colored gowns,
Nile green, pale blue, pink and white,
and the older ones in more sedatte col
| ors-many even in mourning. Half of
them wear stylish hats, and the bare
| headed half have aigrettes which nod
and flash as they move about. An I'M
| Ineligible roar of chatter in feminine
key rises to the gallery along with the
| doors of crushed flowers, of sachet and
| other perfume.
Suddenly a bell sounds or gong
| clangs. The effect is magical. In
| stantly there is quiet, then a scraping
of chairs as players edge up to the ta-
BILE. Every one is seated except one
or two women at the end of each line
the inspectors and scorers of progress
sions-and for the inspectors the need
is surprising at some euchres. Then
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sounds another bell, and at every ia
BILE the game begins.
Not a difficult game is euchre. A
person of ordinary intelligence can
learn it in an hour. 1t requires little
skill from the players, and depends
great deal on luck in holding cards.
Nevertheless, there are many costly err
rors which the inattentive can make
and bring disaster on their partners
and themselves If the partner has once
won a prize a mistake is no laughing
matter.
The play continues until the players
at certain table have played so many
sets. Then another bell rings and play
stops. Two progress from each table,
the partners who have won the most
hands. The progression is credited by
a punch mark by the official scorer for
that line of tables. The losing couples
change seats so that they do not have
to play together a second time. The
bell rings again, and the players are
off on the second lap.
The prizes are usually stored in
separate room. They range in value
from an automobile to cheap sofa
pillow, and number twenty-five, fifty
and over one hundred at times. 1t is
often thought advisable to have many
prizes to attract the crowd in the first
second. UusuaEy several prizes, the
number depending on the whole number
of prizes, are set aside for the men, but
as rule the prizes are designed for
women.
Playing for the evening usually ends
when twenty or thirty progresSions
have been made. In case twenty ruled
that number would represent the high
est score, and the holder of the card
with twenty punches would be entitled
to the automobile or the piano or the
gold watch, or whatever the prize hap
pened to be. 1t Is entirely possible in
crowd of thousand that two or
three persons have won every game
played and have a twenty card. This
means a tie which is not easily settled.
Of course, the three have to draw for
| it. Meantime they glare at each other
sometimes, and their friends are likely
| to whisper determinations, sometimes
even to charge cheating at play, con-
| nivance of scorers and the like. The
| losers in the drawing contest take sec
ond and third prizes, which does not
| please those who have scored nineteen
! The fighting at some euchres over the
| prizes is the most interesting part OF
/ the evening to the onlooker in the gal
| lery, and it continues to the very end
| A greed, selfishness, fighting for
self-spirit is sometimes shown greater
| even than that which the greatest bar
| gain counter struggle develops. 1t is
| sordid at times and disgusting, blot
| on the charities that are helped by its
means. On the other hand. many eu-
chres are wholly devoid Of these objec-
| tionable features.
| As a usual thing, progressive eu-
chres are all profit after the rent of the
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Mo CITY in the world has as many
! euchre parties each winter as has
New York, and nowhere do they APP
proach the number of players. Several
euchres are given each year in which
1900 persons play for prizes under the
same roof There are number of
halls capable of holding 1000 comfort
ably, and euchres with 500 players
are common
In spite of all mora1ists have written
about these progressive card games as a
means of raising money for religious
purposes, there is no falling off in their
number or size. The euchre season
opened this winter brisl1ly, and will
hold sway until spring, with more priz-
es than ever for those who like the
struggle.
Churches, sanatorium societies, char
ity guilds, homes for old women, old
men, little children, hospitals, clubs
in fact, what sort of an organization
is not included in the progressive eu
chre party list? A Harlem woman
boosted during the summer that she
attended seventy-five euchres last win
ter. From present appearances it
would seem that she could raise her
record to 100 this year without any
trouble. Tickets come from every di-
rection. They are put upon one by
force, by stealth and by insinuation.
The usual price is 81, and some of the
importunings cannot be resisted.
You must take a ticket to the pro-
gressive euchre the Loyal band is Civ
ing next week. says the young wom-
an on whom one is calling.
She has been most gracious, and it
is hard to refuse. Then one thinks of
an excuse.
But never play cards. You see
my father did not believe in card play
ing-foolish of him, of course-but he's
dead, and I've always kept the prom
Use made him not to play"
ooh, that will not matter at ALL" de-
clares the young woman, not to be put
off by any deceased father excuse
you need not play. Not half the men
do. They wait for the dance"
That will not be so bad if they have
have dance, one thinks, and then:
How many dances can 1 have with
your"
Il can only promise you one dance
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great Forester of the Burg theater.
Forester took to young Conried at
once. Conried had no time to attend
Forester's classes-he mad to earn a
livelihood by day in the bank-so
Forester instructed him in the early
morning while taking his recreation
and the waters.
The new pupil proved apt; in a few
weeks he was told to attend test re-
hearsaI at the theater. He did so
with fear and trembling; he was
chosen for an engagement out Of
possible two score of contestants. He
was at last a member of the Burg the
ater the goal of all Australian actors,
and ightaway he gave up his po-
sition in the bank.
But his troubles were not yet over.
He had left his clerical position; he
was penniless; on the third day of his
engagement he appeared hungry and
weak at the theater.
Forester noticed his pupils pale
ness and inquired as to its cause.
Young Conried protested that he was
all right, but half an hour later, as he
sat at the breakfast table as the guest
of Forester, the latter found out what
was the matter. with the new member
Of his company, and advanced him
money so that he would not have TO go
hungry again. ...
After that Conried's affairs ran more
smoothly. He applied himself dill
gently, and what time he did not put
in study on his own parts he spent In
acquainting himself with Foersters
methods as an actor and as manager,
as. he revealed them atgs the Burg
theater. Thus, he early Became an
opponent of the star system and an un-
wavering believer in Fpepster's sys-
tem-all around excellence and the
suppression of even the greatest actor
whenever necessary for the general re-
suit And, among many other les
sons taught him by his henefactor, ne
learned how complicated plays could
be staged with facility, if the problem
is approached in the right way and
the plans clearly thought out before
hand.
Such, in brief, were Mr.. Conried's
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struggles from the day he left Bielitz
until his triumphal return. And after
that, too, there came more hard work,
for he was determined to lead in his
profession and show his family, who
detested the idea of having a member
an actor, that he was right when he
entered it. So, while playing with
travelling companies in Austria and
Germany he studied as well, and seized
every opportunity to appear in tragedy
and comedy and to supplement further
his knowledge of the managerial end
of the business.
Gradually. his application told. He
was given better and better parts; he
was permitted in Berlin to create the
role Of CDR. Klaus which he still
plays whenever the spirit moves him
at the Irving Place theater, New York;
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and then, his ability at last proven, he
was given the leading parts in the
classic comedies of Schiller and Goethe,
thereby gaining considerable fame
throughout Germany as a comedian.
Thus Herr Conried's affairs progress
sed until 1878, when DR.. Adolph Neu-
endorff, of the Germania theater in
New York, found him in Dresden as
stage manager Of a theater there. DR..
Neuendorff was in Germany looking
for a stage manager; he studied Herr
Conried's way of doing things for Il
while, then went to him and offered
him similar position at the Ger
mania.
Mr.. Conried at first was adverse to
leaving Dresden. But DR.. Neuendorff
pressed him so hard that eventually
he said:
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swell, If you can get my fathers
permission to my going to America,
all right; I'll take the position"
tI did not think the doctor could
get such a permission" says Mr.. Con-
ried, in telling the incident, because
my father was old, and I felt that he
would not want me to be so far away
from him. So 1 thought it good
way to turn DR.. Neuendorff aside. But
imagine my surprise some days later
when he stood before me and said:
"'Herr Conried, have been to Bic
litz. 1 have talked with your father.
have told him of the splendid oppor-
tunities that await you in America;
and he gives you his permission to go
with me-and his blessing
There was nothing else for Mr.. Con-
ried to do except to come to America,
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