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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-03
.D|X0N' s HOT REPLY
SAYS Foes Seek to Ruin
1.-The CIansman."
Refers to Attacks on it in Richmond
Papers. His Play Takes Winston
by Storm. A Crush
to See.
Especial to News and observer.)

Especial to News and Observer
Winston Salem, y. c.. Oct. 2.-To-
night Thomas Dixon. Jr.. began his
invasion of North Carolina with his
play. 1.-The Clansman," in the huge
auditorium here, which was packed to
the doors with the most eager audi
ence that ever assembled there. Moth
ing like the demand for seats has ever
been seen before.
When the box opened every reServ-
ed seat was taken in Il little over an
hour, and men fought madly for
choice seats. Tonight when the doors
We're opened il was a veritable crash.
Special police had to be detailed and
the precaution taken of extra sup
| plies Of fire hose. The play has just
| begun and it has the audience, as ii
were, by the hair.
Mr. Dixon is with the company, and
today a Sentinel reporter showed him
the symposium Of criticisms publish
ed in the Sunday supplement of the
News and Observer. Hse seemed very
much touched by them and gave Out
to the Sentinel a hot reply. Said he:
| '.You can say that as for the at
! tackS of the Richmond NewS-Leadel
they are based upon two things; First
my antagonism to the ogden move
| ment. and secondly, the fact that the
writer of the article has now a book
| in press attacking me with the hope
| Of gaining favor with the Wanamaker-
| ogden crowd. Both the Dispatch and
the News-Leader ar owned by the
same man, are by enemies because
will not follow the leader of such mer
as Robert G.. ogden, OF whom they
/ are devotees. They tried to ruin the
play before we reached Richmond, but
the Richmond people greeted US with
I two tremendous houses and newt day
| the little Italian Moroso. VINO wrote
the article was the laughing stock o1
the town. The play is an equal mix
I ture of laughter tears. and solic
! thought. The assertion that there i!
| 4 single scene which may not be wit
nessed is a malicious falsehood o.
| Mr.. MorosoS' invention"
/ When the News and Observer rep.
| resentative saw him this afternoon FOL
4 half hour. Mr.. Dixon was much or
| his metal. He seemed to be fired viii
the idea of arousing the country to tht
awful sense of it responsibility as Il
| the negro and boldly stated that ht
| was going to take the matter up n,
! his most serio'ss work. Asked as Il
! what kind of reception he expected il
| the North. he stated that he expected
| far greater crowds there: that tn,
] Northern people are really in earneS
at last and worried ovr the grea
mistakes Of reconstruction.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-03
Leads all North Carolina Daies i'm News and ~slatior

that press their claims, chief of which.
we believe. is Scientific Temperance
instruction in the public schools.
Twenty-siX years ago the idea of in
grating into text books our Physiology
and Hygiene, scientific truths that
would make pupils in the schools in
telligent as to the nature and effects
OF alcohol and other narcotics, was an
inspiration TO Mrs Mary II. Hunt, who
was appointed National superintend-
ent and very soon Scientific Temper
ance Education in the public schools
became an organized part of the work
of the Womans Christian Temperance
Union. During these years the idea
has been embodied i'm the laws of all
States and Territories also the District
of Columbia. Now twenty-five mil
lions of children of school age are un-
der these laws.
'It was a Herculean undertaking,
but Mrs. Hunt with the cooperation
of an advisory board composed Of
men eminent i'm their professions OF
medicine, and the ministry. and her
co-Workers i'm the w. G. T. y. proved
herself equal TO the task of dispelling
ignorance and prejudice. meeting ar
gument with reason, securing evidence
from the laboratories of the world
that alcohol is a food. and proved the
falsity of the charge of the commit
tee OF fifty.
''If North Carolina wants good citi-
zens she must educate her children
for the duties of good citizenship.
Temperance laws and other laws for
the promotion of good morals will
be ineffective unless the people are
educated so as To realize and appre-
ciate the wisdom and justic of their
enactment.
North Carolina's law providing for
CONTINUED on Page Five.)
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-03
NEW SYSTEM OF RAILROAD.
Sale OF Raleigh and Pamlico Connect
ed With Absorption of Norfolk
and Southern by Atlantic
and North Carolina
(Norfolk virginian- Pilot. }


The announcement from New York
of the election of four new directors
OF the Norfolk and Southern Railway.
made a few days ago, develops the
fact that the road has passed into the
hands of the same interests that con-
troll the Atlantic and North Carolina
Railroad, exending from Morehead
Cit'' to Goldsboro, Q distance of SO
miles.
President Marsden j. Perry. OF
Providence: President Frank S.
Ganonn, of New York, and Director
Samuel H. Colt, of Providence, are
Carolina, and are three of the four
members of the new directorate Of
the Norfolk and Southern.
As the same capitalists control the
New Bern, Pamlico and Oriental Rail-
road, being run northward from New
Bern, late developments now indicate
a consolidation of all the small rail-
way systems of eastern North Carolina
into one system. After the construc-
tion of the extension of the y. p. and
o., from New Bern to the southern
extension of the y. and S., Norfolk
will have a new and complete line
to Goldsboro and Morehead City.
Additional strength is given the con-
solidation plan by the recent sale of
the Raleigh and Pamlieo Sound Rail-
way, being constructed from Raleigh
to Washington. y. c.. which is said
to have been acquired by parties I'm
sympathy with Mr.. Perry and his
friends. If this report is correct the
completion of this line may give Nor
folk an entire new railway TO Raleigh.
as it would be undoubtedly the pur-
poses OF the new owners to connect
all their properties.
The Virginian- Pilot learns by an
other dispatch from Raleigh that
most positive denial is made that the
Atlantic Coast Line or the Standard
Oil Company have anything to do
with the new road and that il is the
intention OF the new management To
have an independent line in Eastern
Carolina.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-03
RUN OVER AND KILLED.
Boney Nelson Terribly Mutilated-
Asheville May Get Next Quad
rennial Conference Southern
Methods; Church.
Especial to News and Observer.)

Asheville y. c.. Oct 2.-Boney Mel.
SON a native of Asheville. was run
over and Instantly killed by a freight
train on the Southern Railway near
Waynesville Saturday night Nelson
had been drinking. it is stated, and
had gone TO sleep lying on the rail-
way track. He was terribly mutilated.
Maj. Millsaps, chairman of the COM
mittee on the place of meeting of
next quadrennial conference OF the Nj.
f.. Church, South. has called a meet
ing of the committee to be held at
this place October 10 to consider
Asheville's inducements as a place for
holding the conference. When ques-
toned. Rev. Frank Siler, pastor of
Central Methodist church. stated that
while he is not certain that Asheville
will get the conference. he thinks this
|ae 4 favorable sign.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-03
SMOKED EN- OUT
Rollins Has Gotten Very
Wrathy About 1t.
1t is PetIigrew's Bond Business. ROI-
Iins Says the Radical Organs
Will Oppose the Payment of
These Eonds.
Especial to News and Observer


Waynesville. " c.. Oct. 2.-Your
article in Sundays paper about the
Industrial News is false and without
foundation. Neither Senator Petit
grew. nor any of the holders of the
old State tax bonds have contributed
a single cent directly or indirectly. to
our paper nor have they been asked
to do so. Your charge or insinuation
is not only false but ridiculously alb
surd. Our paper shall oppose the
payment of those bonds.
THOS. S. ROLLINS.
President of The Industrial News.
The News and Observers story about
Pettigrew and Butler and the press
was correct in every particular, and
Chairman Rollins is careful not to
deny a word of it. Instead, he goes
off denying something that never ap-
peared in these columns. II Senator
Pettigrew is to have nothing to do
with the Industrial News" why does
he travel all the way from Washing
ton City to Eliza beth, New Jersey,
in company with Senator Butler to
examine press that a manufacturer
wanted to sell to the industrial
News" Is Pettigrew in the business
of travelling over the country TO see
how fast a press will run to print
papers in which he has no interest or
concern? Nobody has said he owned
stock in the company. The story was
told of his connection with testing the
capacity of a press that was being
considered with reference to the
Greensboro paper, and people were
left toi draw their own conclusions.
Crtainly Chairman Rollins hasn't de-
MED that Butler is the whole thing
50 far as buying press and hiring
editors except when advised by Petit
grew or some other Radical or bond
lawyer.
Didn't Butler and Pettigrew and
Russell get up the scheme by which
North Carolina paid a large sum to
them and their associates Are ont
Russell and Pettigrew and Butler en-
ployed by a syndicate that will begin
action against Southern States on re-
pudiated bonds? If not, when did they
resign and leave the syndicate 2s The
1 last heard from they admitted they
We're going 10 try to make the State
pay bonds repudiated or scaled. Have
/ they retired from the bond syndicate
since taking SO much interest in the
industrial News?
| With Butler and Pettigrew inspect
I ing presses for the new paper, the
public will wish TO have proof that
they have withdrawn from threatened
| bond litigation.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-03
\ STEADY IMPROVEMENT.
Only Nineteen New Cases and Two
Deaths at New Orleans Yes
terday
(By the Associated Press.

New Orleans La. Oct. 2.-Ihe ON
cial report of the yellow fever SITUATION
in New Orleans UP to six o'clock this
afternoon follows:
New cases, 19; total to date, 3,o4Z;
deaths. 2: total, 394; new foci. 8; un-
der treatment 204 discharged, 2,444
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-03
TO WREsTLE ON THE TWENTIETH
Contract Signed For a Meeting Be-
tween Olsen and Leonhardt.

Especial to News and Observer
Spencer y. c.. Oct. "A contract
was signed here tonight with Chas.
Olsen. the winner of the noted wrest-
ling contest with Schoenfield and one
recently pulled off at Asheville to
met Chas Leonhardt in a contest in
Spencer on the goth instant. Prof.
Leonhardt will spend ten days here in
training and expects to meet Olsen in
good trim. Olsen is training at Ashe-
vile for the contest.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-03
Game Warden.

A the request of the State Secre-
tary of the Audubon Society. NJ. T.
Gilbert Jearson, of Greensboro Gov
ernor Glenn has appointed the fol-
lowing gentlemen as game wardens:
r. E. Booth. oxford; B. T. Perkins,
tHeaufort; n. V. Brooks, Roxboro
game wardenS.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-03
postmaster at Tuskgee. Grahar

James w. Gilliken has been ap-
pointed assistant keeper at Cape Look
out light house to succeed w. ). Har-
riSon who ges TO Hatteras inlet light
station.
James Britt, of North Carolina, has
been transferred from the PoStotfice
Department 10 the office of the Comp
troller of the Treasury. at a salary of
$1,000.
Hcary c. Shook of North Carolina
has been promoted in tthe Bureau of
internal Revenue from a 81 600 clerk
ship TO a $1,000 position in the same.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-03

Her-Do you think this photograph
looks like me?
Him-Yes.
Her-Then al is over between us.
know now that you are IN love with
me for my money alone.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-03

A Tnrner widow of David Turner.
a CON fadarate veteran. is dead.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-03
Death of MIR. Burwen Canady.

Kinston, n c.. Oct. 2.-Burwell w
Canady, one Of the wealthiest and
most prominent citizens Of Lenoir
county died at his home here. after a
lingering illness.
Mr. Canady was but little over fifty
years of age and his death is a sad
loss to the section in which he made
his home Nearly every enterprise OF
an note in Kinston received substan-
tial encouragement from p. w.
Canady.
In private life Mr. Canady was
kind, liberal with his means and en-
joyed the widest popularity. perhaps
of any other man in Lenoir county.
You would advise a young man in
politics to start out boldly as re-
former 80
"Crtainly," answered Senator Sor-
ghum. 1T is getting SO that the pub
lie won't give anybody chance at the
plum tree unless he claims to be re-
former. er."-Washington Star.
When two feather-weight pugilists
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-03

When two feather-weight pugilists
get together it's only pound of feath-
ers.
The Washington times., 1905-10-15

TITS always so. Let noble, high
minded woman pass through a res
taurant where a number of other
charming women are gathered. II
some one whispers: That's Mrs.
So-and-So, who has done so much
for charity or something like that.
the assembled women exclain lam
guidly, 'Ah, indeed and it's doubt
ful if they can be induced to turn
their heads. But let another woman
of different character walk through.
and notice the difference. Some one
whispers, Look lookI there goes
that dreadful Mrs. So-and-So-deay.
dear, isn't that terrible scandal
Immediately every good woman In
the room turns around to look at her
and those who do not know the par
ticulars eagerly seek enlightenment.
"And there you are. You can't
expect to get an audience wildly ex-
cited about a good, bluff character
like the Senator or John Breuster.
but it's what the people want from
me and they won't let me play any
other kind If gave a highly artis-
tic performance in strong role that
differed from the established Crane
character they might applaud it and
say it was excellent. But they would
be sure to add: Isn't it too bad
that Crane is getting away from the
kind of a play in which he is at his
best -
We'll, if the critics and public
change their minds and permit you
TO get away from the established
Crane style af acting" l said. rising
to bring the interview to an end. sat
least let me express the hope that
nothing can get you away from the
Crane style of talking
whereupon William H. Crane
made one of his ready replies to
such a sentiment which my over
powering modesty forbids me to
quote. FRANK MORSE
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The epigram obliged me to break
the sphynx-like silence was try
ing to maintain
Doesn't That last sentence come
dangerously near being clever?" /
inquired anxiously.
Mr.. Crane lodged the issue.
DO you happen to know" asked
Mr.. Crane, relighting his cigar with
one of the matches l had formerly
owned and returning the box to the
table, how An American Lord
came to be written?"
l reluctantly admitted my ignor-
ance.
The idea occurred to me several
years ago at the Lambs Club. At
the time William Waldorf Astor had
just become a naturalized English
man in the hope of buying a title
becoming Lord Waldorf, or some
thing of that sort. 1t was a new de-
parture in American history and I
was discussing the affair with
Charles IT. Dazey. 1t occurred to me
that 1t would create an interesting
situation If a patriotic American
should wake up some morning and
discover himself to be the owner of
a title-become a lord in spite of
himself. Dazey caught at the idea
and declared that the phrase, "A
Lord In Spite of HIMSELF was a good
title for the play. l objected to the
title on the ground that il was mis-
leading. We discussed the different
phases Of such a situation and the
play evolved itself. Dazey took it
to Broadhurst, who wrote many of
the clever lines that sparkle through
the comedy"
II was quite apparent to me that
1t was written around your person
atty" l observed.
"Of course All / try to do is to
be myself. Why in the second act
when l smoke a cigar l try to for
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get that I am doing that as part
Of the stage business and endeavor
to enjoy my stage smoke as much
as l am enjoying this And 1 want
you TO notice that every character
is played by logical actor of the
part. The Englishmen are played
by Englishmen, and the Scotch but
Ter is a Scotchman. The old darky
body servant was born and raised
in Southern State"
Your present play recalls in some
respects one of your former sue
cesses-'The Senator" 1 comment
ed
Because" he explained, 'it gives
me-the character Of plain, straight
forward, honest old fellow, which is
just what the Senator was. And I
wonder if you understand how diff
NuAt II ID W ulethC SuCu q CudTdCl6E
effective,"
l tried to assume an appropriately
intelligent expression, but stuck dog
gedly to my policy of discreet si-
lence.
Let me illustrate my meaning
with an incident that occurred at a
banquet given some time since in
New England Paul Bourget was
one of the guests and was called on
for a speech. He made a very in
teresting one, too. by the way. AS
he concluded white-haired old GEN
tleman, whose name did not appear
on the list of speakers, arose and
said: Mr.. Bourget, we have all read
your stories and admired them. We
enjoy your forceful language and
graphic descriptions of dramatic sit
uations. But why, let me ask, do
you always write about a woman
with a past? Why not occasionally
select respectable woman?' There
was silence for a moment and then
Bourget quietly replied: Because
there is nothing to write cf such a
woman
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the show. but that he was killing
himself. 4 am not theorizing.' I
told him. L know what am talk
ing about. Can't you take advan-
tage of my twenty-eight years ex-
perience?
He went through the rehearsal as
directed and l told him If he would
only repeat his performance that
night he was bound to catch on
He did so and you saw last night
how it took with the audience. T
have the same trouble year after
year trying to make my players m
derstand the artistic value of sim
plicity."
"A single daisy against a back
ground of nothing at ALL" I mutter-
ed, but fortunately Mr.. Crane did
not hear me.
r get no credit for ii, of course"
continued Mr.. Crane, but without
bitterness. People say to me re-
garding players I have cured of
overacting, Where did you get
that clever actor? AS a matter of
fact | employ actors to act and then
work hard to keep them from act
ing"
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the principle that there is latent in
me some deep sinister thought on
particular topic which he tries to
force from me by pinning me down
with absurd questions, / get angry
and will not talk. Many of the
youthful interviewers are more in
terested in making themselves ap-
pear smart in their story than in
quoting their subjects real thoughts.
When man like yourself allows me
to talk and does not interrupt, me
with foolish questions l can usually
chat with ease as l am doing gow."
tried to blush modestly but fail
ed.
Il remember one newspaper wo-
man in large Western city," con-
tinued Mr.. Crane, who is given to
asking impertinent questions. When
she seeks an interview she manages
to place herself before a good sized
mirror and proceeds on the princi-
pie that her first duty is to herself.
That woman cannot get a talk from
me- / don't fear her, but she is
like a single mosquito that keeps
you awake at night with its buzzing.
feel that l do not have to be an
noyed by such a pest
Il observe" said Mr.. Crane, chang
ing the subject, that your critics
have commented favorably on my re-
turn to an old-fashioned Crane role"
Washington prefers you in that
kind of a play" 1 admitted 1--WE
like the Crane we know. 1t is a
tribute to your personality"
"But humiliating to my ambition
as an actor" he retorted. why, 1
was acting Shakespearean roles be-
fore many of the present generation
of critics was born. They talk
fiuently of my particular line and
most of them are ignorant of the
fact that have run the gamut from
burlesque to tragedy. But / will
admit that the theatergoers are like
the critics on that point"
''It's one of the few 1 said, but
Mr.. Crane ignored my attempted
cynicism.
When l go abroad" he continued,
II constantly meet Americans whom
have never seen before. but who
know me. At Carlsbad, on my last
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III
w '1@'sa '.'sss :. = n. light. sa-'s IN
his dressing. room az
the National Theater
a few mornings ago.
motioned me to a chair
and lighted a match. Mr.. Crane
had borrowed my visible supply and
had tossed the box on his dressing
table Fortunately I had a second
box concealed about my person, so
mentally presented him with the
nrst.
was anxious to secure an
opinion from Mr.. Crane on the sub
ject of interviewing. He has been
made the victim of more hold-ups
Of this character than any living
actor.
HAS the interviewed any rights
that the interviewer is bound to
respect?'' / asked.
Mr.. Crane avoided a direct reply.
THE trouble is" he explained.
'fhat many of the extremely youth
full reporters who are sent to talk
to me have made up their minds In
advance what am going to say"
/ shifted nervously in my chair.
There could be no doubt that my ap-
pearance was against me.
when / was playing in San Fran
cisco several years ago." continued
Mr.. Crane, apparently oblivious to
my agitation, Il was quoted as hav-
ing made a reflection on the climate
of California. For your information
let me tell you that out in the Cold
en- State 1t is far safer to haul down
the American flag or call the Presi-
dent of the United States a traitor
than to say anything uncomplimen-
tary about the climate of that favor
ed section.
when / returned to the coast a
year later they were still talking
about my crime. A number of men
came to me and insisted | should
announce publicly that 1 did not
mean what / had said. One of the
local papers came out with an an
nouncement that on the opening
night 1 would apologize to the peo-
pie Of San Francisco.
AFTER the first act I was called
before the curtain and every one
leaned back to hear me properly
humble myself. l told the audience
did not remember what 1 had said
about the climate of California-that
] was quite ill at the time and pos
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sibly looked at the world through
clouded spectacles. In conclusion /
said: Ladies and gentlemen, apollo
gize most humbly for having been i'll
and I solemnly promise you that
| will never be Ill again If l can pos
sibly avoid it,"
The artist sitting IN the corner,
busily sketching Mr.. Crane, hap
pens to be San Franciscan and ap-
parently did not appreciate this re-
miniscence as much as myself. I
avoided questions. They were un-
necessary. Mr.. Crane is the best
talker I ever interviewed. I mem
toned the fact.
That depends" said the eminent
comedian. when an interviewer
comes to me with a carefully pre-
pared list Of questions framed upon
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trip, number of felIow-countrymen
came up and claimed me as an old
friend. You see there is really no
difference between Crane the actor
and Crane the man.
isn't that the highest art?"
asked.
Unquestionably," he agreed. '.It
is what | am always preaching to
members of my company. One Of
the present cast came to me with
an established reputation as an actor
At the first rehearsal 1 took him
aside and said: MY boy, you are
running your part by overacting. Be
natural. He tried it, but could not
get away from the fact that he was
acting. The two nights we played
in Syracuse he made the same mis-
take. AT the rehearsal on Monday
for what was practically our first
night, although the third perform
ance, I made final appeal. I told
him mis- part was too small to kill
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07

who opened the chapel for the marriage
ceremony took care to be numerous and
well supplied with lights; nor were they
too anxious to enter the gloomy galleries
or examine the ruined chambers of the
neighboring castle, even if such precau-
tons were deemed necessary.