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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-04-01
SEMI-ANNUAL
MEETING OF
The W.C.T.U.

The semi annual convention and thank
offering OF the Rhode Island Temperance
union was held at the Peoples Free Bap-
fist church, Auburn. yesterday at 10
o'clock
The meeting was opened by the presl-
dent. Mrs. u. h. Livingstone, and after
the meeting was called to order devo-
tonal service. led by Mrs. +. r. Terry,
was held.
Reports were then received from Re
,,ordins Secretary Mrs. E. G. Welch' Cor
resnonding Secretary Miss NJ. r. Olney
and Treasurer Mrs. Erah II. Smith. A
thank offering service was then helu'
which was conducted by Mrs. ~. ). falhe'
This was followed by a noontide hour
service conducted by Mrs. j. X. Barney
From 1880 10 1:SO a basket lunch was
served The afternoon session was opened
by a devotional service under the dlrec-
ton OF Mrs. J. w. Little.
Mrs. u. Is. Livingstone mace an inter
esting address on women helbuon
TO Christian Citizenship.
''T'he Power OF Petition" was Mrs. NJ.
A. Babcocks subject, and she advised
the continuance OF presenting petitions as
a means Of gaining the ends of the union.
Miss Edna b. Hale spoke upon Present
Aspects OF Christian Temperance lnstruc-
ton" Her point was the importance of
pointing out TO the young the evils OF
alcohol and other narcotics
A general discussion on department
methods then took place. which was con-
Quoted by Mrs. u. X. Livingstone.
The meeting adjourned at 4:S0.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-04-01
STANDARD
OLD TRUST
Defended

New York. April 1.-sH. IT, Rogers. vice
president and director OF the Standard OH
company, yesterday made "A statement as
to the conduct OF the standard OIL com
pany, which was evidently prompted Sy
tho criticism OF tho prudential committee
OF tho American board OF foreign mis-
sions for accepting a gift OF 800 900 from
John d. Rockefeller. Mr. Rogers said:
ministers say queer things. DIR. Wash
ington GLADDEN. says that everybody
knows that John d. Rockefeller has OBJ
tanned his money dishonesty.
with as much reason could say that
everybody knows that Or. GLADDEN. would
not trust the Ten Commandments for 10
days with the deacons OF his church. be-
cause they would surely break some OF
them and bend tho rest.
Slavery In certain sections OF the
United States was legal until President
Lincoln's emancipation proclamation. Re-
bates on railroads were just as legal until
the passage OF the Interstate commerce
commission act. After an exhaustive
investigation by the Industrial commits
sion authorized by congress. June IS, 1898.
in a review OF evidence the commission
reported as follows:
Z" 1T has been charged as a matter
OF general belief on the part OF almost
all the opponents OF the Standard oil
company that these Determinations I'm
various forms have been continually re
ceived. even up 10 date
"'On the other hand. these charges
have been denied and most emphatically
by every representative OF the Standard
Oil company with reference TO all cases
excepting one, which they claim was a
mistake, the amount OF freight due being
promptly paid on discovery OF the error.
"'The Standard OH company. not mere
" challenged tho opponents 10 bring
forth proof OF any case. but produced
many letters from leading officials OF rail-
roads TO show that the company had IN
no case received any favors or asked FOR
them
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-04-01
W00ED BY
BLIND Man
WITH GUN

New York, April i.-Mary f. McCarroll.
n 17-year-old school girl. living at No. Z
East One Nundred and Fourteenth street.
Manhattan, told story in the city ma gis-
trate's court in Long Island City Thurs
day afternoon, OF being forced by fear
OF death or serious injury 70 marry So
basuan Bhrman, IS years old, a blind
man. living at No. 1o4 East one Hun
dred and Thirteenth street.
The girl related her tale TO Capt Peter
Mcclure. assistant clerk OF the court.
She says she has known Ehrman for
nearly three years, and during that time
lived in the game house with him.
"It was not long after moved in that
formed his acquaintance the girl said.
During the summer evenings no would
sit upon the front steps and await me.
1 felt pity for him and was kind TO him.
Finally he asked me to guide him in trips
in the neighborhood. out OF pity / did
SO. This continued for months, until
Ehrman finally proposed TO me. i told
him he must not speak OF love"
Miss NcCarroll said that on tho evening
OF oct. 81 last Ehrman asked her TO ac-
company him out. She said that when
they reached Long Island City Ehrman
declared:
"lf you don't marry me right now I
will kill you and you will live for no
other man"
Miss McCarroll says that Lnrman pulled
revolver, which he pressed against her
breast, saying that IF she did not go
with him TO a minister's he would kill
her on the spot
Trembling, she says she accompanied
him To St. Rta's church. in Ravens
wood l.. /. on the way he coached her
as TO what she should say
The Rev. Father Higgins asked the girl
II she had the consent OF her parents.
Ehrman. she says. took hold OF her hand
and squeezed IL hard and she answered
that her parents were dead and that she
desired TO marry Ehrman and 10 make a
home for him and 10 look after him in
his afflicted condition. Believing her
story the priest married them.
Directly after their marriage the couple
went 20 the house in East one Hundred
and Thirteenth street Miss McCarroll 10
her mothers apartment and Ehrman TO
his rooms on the ground floor The girl
cried all night and her mother was un-
able 10 learn what was the trouble.
Recently Ehrman has been pressing the
girl 20 live with him. and this action de-
termined her To tell the truth.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-04-01
EVIL SPIRITS
TO BLAME
FOR MURDER

Chicago, April DIR Carl A. Wickland
OF this city is the man who asserts that
insanity and other troubles are caused by
evil spirits. Il told Dr. I. X. Funk OF
my discoveries" said no.
"Whenever you read OF an unusual
suicide or an especially revolving murder
investigation will show I'm many OF the
cases that they resulted from the activity
Of discarnate spirits that completely took
possession OF tho suicide or OF tho muir
derer"
DR. Wickland's wife Is a sensitive" or
control" and IL Is through her that
he processes 20 have had communication
with the Inhabitants OF tho realms OF
ether. in which the spirits are supposed
TO live
lie declares that his Investigations have
proved 10 him that many persons sup
posed 10 be incurably insane were merely
possessed" and that by the information
thus gained he has been able 10 cast
out" the devils and restore the patients
TO sanity.
''The most important fact in society"
declares Dr. Wickland, "is the knowi-
edge or the fact that we have spirit
life, and that the spirit life lives after
us and has power 10 take possession OF
others. This applies TO evil spirits as
well as good ones, and unless we learn
the secrets OF the spirit world we are
easy prey for the ruthless spirits that
seek 20 carry out their evil designs
when we have thus fallen under the
control OF an evil spirit we will either
be insane, kill ourselves. some one else,
or be guilty OF some action that sane
people would not do
"A knowledge OF the secrets of the
spirit world will enable US TO guard
against this control by evil spirits, and
when the truths OF spiritualsm once be-
come common property the world will be
better and happier than IL has ever been
Then the evil minds. whether I'm tho flesh
or In the spirit. will gradually die and
disappear for want OF reproduction"
The doctor does not assert that ALL
cases OF insanity or all suicides or mur-
ders are traceable TO spirits and he does
not say how the distinction can be made.
There are good spirits too, which
seek TO influence people. Much OF the
good i'm life. charity, honesty and self
sacrifice is done by suggestion OF good
spirits"
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-04-01
naval
RESERVE
SMOKER

The third division. Naval Reserves
held its semi-annual netting and
smoker at tho Falstan club rooms, last
evening.
After the transaction OF business, Her
bort Tourtellot. as master ~ ceremo-
MES took charge.
The program included selections by the
Epiphany club orchestra. fencing by
Scott G. Burlngame and Charles II.
Cook; selections by the Pro Tenn quar-
tet, a monologue by Daniel Donoghue.
,osal solo by wallace l. Mathewson. illus
t-tiod songs by Lieut.. Fred J. Richards.
2d regiment; three-round boxing matches
James w Brady and =. Let's and kid"
Grover and Young Mech; monologue by
Bert Stamps and stories by Harry Pat
terson or the Falstaff club.
The officers Of the association are:
President. Asa Cushman. secretary,
Frederick Barnes; treasurer r. Chesbro
Tho committee were George 4 Town
send, Robert Sumner and II. l. Aldrich.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-04-01
Mr.. WILSON
LECTURED
ON RUSSIA

Louis n. Wilson. librarian OF Clark uni
versity, Worcester, gave an interesting
lecture last evening At the Bell Street
chapel 1.-The Russian Official and
Peasant Glass" was the title of his lee
ture.
Mr.. Wilson has lived in Russia for over
IL years and received his early education
there. He told many interesting things
about Russian life not found I'm books Of
travel In part he said
THE government OF Russia Is a result
OF steady growth. Peter the Great at
tempted TO break down the local authori-
ties and establish a central bureaucracy.
Today IL seems an imposing government
The emperor stands at the top next
comes the council OF state. and these to-
gether represent the administrative 1u-
dicial and executive. linn mediately be-
low the above are the 10 ministers"
Mr. Wilson then described life in sew
eral cotton mills owned by Americans
Work begins at n m. and continues
until l p. M, with a short period for
breakfast between and O'clock The
men usually earn about 81 a month after
paying living expenses.
Mr. Wilson said that Russia has some
OF the very best schools. especially I'm the
professional schools where medicine is
taught The board OF education was
given last year 100000 TO expend for
educational purposes. and OF this IL re-
turned one-third to the government. He
said this IL not specially encouraging
when II is known that IS per cent OF the
people are uneducated.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-04-01
WAS FOUND
DEAD, AS
NOTE SAID

New York. April is-For no known
cause. Hugo Jacobson. a well-to-do young
Freedman. committed suicide by shoot
the Hotel Breslin early Thursday morn
Ing. lie had mailed a letter TO n friend
at e:0 Wednesday night. announcing that
when II was received he would be dead.
Jacobson had for five years Travelled in
THIS country as the representative OF a
steel manufacturing firm in France.
lie was always we'll provided with mon
ey and made his home at tho best hotels.
lie was big. athletic man, apparently in
the best OF health. only twenty-seven
years old, and unmarried.
ON Sunday last jacobson registered al
the Hotel Breslin, giving his address as
Paris On "wednesday he visited a friend,
Maurice Sloog, an importer OF art engrav-
inss, at No. SIG Firth avenue. He seemed
somewhat despondcnt. but gave no hint OF
the cause
Mr.. Sloog was shocked 10 receive
letter from jacobson. by mail briefly an.
nouncing his intention 10 kin himself.
The note, which was written IN French,
said I'm effect:
when you receive this shall he dead.
| am sorry. but I cannot live any long
er"
Mr.. Sloos made all haste to the hotel.
When Jacobson's door was forced ne was
found sitting I'm a chair with his feet on
another. lie was fully dressed There
was bullet wound in his right temple.
ana "a revolver with one chamber empty
lay on the floor
Coroner Brown found I'm the suicides
room a sealed letter addressed 10 his
brother, Max Jacobson, OF No Ia Rue
Franklin. Paris, and an open note saying
that his friends. julius and Hugo Rosen-
berg. Of No. 130 Fifth avenue. would
take care OF his body. The Rosenbergs
are dealers IN millinery goods at that ad-
dress. They have made arrangements
for the funeral.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-04-01
HELD ANNUAL INSPECTION
Company c, First Regiment, Made Crsdlta-
Showing Last Night

Company c. First regiment. Capt.
Charles F. Tillinghast commanding, had
its annual inspection in the armory, In
| fantry hail, last evening Major Charles
w. Abbott, Jr.. L. S. A., retired. made
the official government inspection, and
Brig. Gen. II. s. Tanner and Lieut.. Col
Arthur V. War1ed, assistant adjutant
general. represented the state.
Gen. Tanner was accompanied by Capt.
Horace +. Marshal, provost marshal and
Capt. Henry G. Cram, Judge advocate OF
his staff. Adjt. Gen. Frederick NJ Sack
EFT was also present a. well as a number
Of officers OF the First regiment.
After the First regiment stan and non
commissioned staff were inspected Com
pany c took the floor with three officers
and 33 enlisted men. The inspection and
muster were first in order. being followed
by the setting up" exercises under Sergt
Bennett.
The inspection was brought TO a close
by the ceremony OF guard mount with
Capt. TNlinghast as officer OF the day
and Lieut.. Martin as officer Of the guard
In both guard mount and sentry duty
the company acquitted itself in a credit
able manner
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-04-01

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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-04-01
THE GREAT WELSH REVIVAL

Next Monday the Rev. Richard Hart
ley OF the Hope Baptist church. New
York city. will speak in the First Bap-
tist church upon. Personal Observations
OF tho Great Revival I'm Wales" Ie will
adress the ministers I'm the morning and
a public gathering in the same place n
ing or Monday afternoon
This is a rare opportunity FOR tho peo-
pie Of Providence TO hear from an eve
witness about tho unusual quickening.
which has resulted already IN the CON
version of more than 10000 souls.
The public is invited TO attend the meet
ingg on Monday afternoon.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-04-01
SAYS SHE
Threw BOY
ON TRACK

New York April 1,-Carmetta Trefoni,
twenty-eight years old, OF s06 East One
Hundred and Eleventh street, was charg-
ed in the Yorkville court befors Magis-
trate Crane yesterday with an attempt
TO Kill her son Frank, seven years old
by throwing the child IN front OF a sur
face car opposite the Children's court at
Eleventh street and Third avenue But
for Patrolman Steppe the child would
probably have been killed. Stoppe ran
and picked the child up just I'm time.
The woman has two other children,
Louis, twelve. and Camella sixteen. Her
husband. Joseph, plasterer. died several
months ago.
She told Magistrate Crane that she
was starving. She said she had been 10 a
branch OF the Charity Organization soci-
ety I'm the Children's court building 10
arrange for send Frank TO an institution.
She was told 10 come tomorrow" Some
person gave her 81. She sat Non the steps
OF the court crying before she tried TO
kill the boy.
The Rev Albert Bruchlos. pastor OF
Hope Street chapel at 800 East Fourth
street. an eye witness. said the wom-
an only let the child fall accident
ally. Stoppe had witnesses who bore
out his testimony. and Magistrate Crane
held the woman for trial.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-30


rivet falling one story. or a hammer, or q
pulley from a block and tackle may mean
death as surely as could q fall OF the victim
from the highest pinnacle Of the building.
Ordinarily most OF the workmen engaged
in raising the steel are at work above the
rivet1ng gang. yet there are enough rivets at
white heat tossed from the forge to the
riveter and caught in the half OF a nall key
to menace handful OF men with death in an
awful form. If u III s5
& One Of the narrowest escapes chrontc!ed
In recent years in Chicago came to work
man several years ago at the foot OF a Madi-
son street building. The man was on the
Sidewalk, close to the building line, when a
rivet catcher ten floors UP missed the hot
missile At almost white heat 1t struck @
Rirder ON the ninth floor and spun outward
Into the street. striking tho workman just
behind the right shoulder and cutting and
burning down through blouse and trouserl
leg to the pavement without leaving scratch
on the skin. An inch farther out into the
street would have meant death in horrible
form.
While building In It's skeleton structure
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farce, and finally making flyer into Shaks- \
peare. All the time no must keep his hand
on the pulse of his public. He learns large
tly by bitter experience, "
while he Is worrying about these weighty
matters he maybe called upon to palliate
the leading man, who demands better
dressing room. or more light. or who In
slsts that he must have the stage alone IN
a certain scene In the play then being pre-
scented. There may be q quarrel between
the ingenue and the woman who shares the
same dressing room with her, The character
woman may be late at rehearsal and threaten
to quit because the stage director has read
her q lecture, The villain may have spoiled
the first old mans scene by coming on the
stage too soon. and the manager may have
to pour oil on, the troubled waters to keep
the company intact. At tho last minute tho
leading lady may telephone that she has been
taken suddenly ILL., Then some one has to
go on and play her part That situation Is
enough to give any one heart disease,
5"Angel" May Make Much Trouble.
3 on top of all his other troubles, the nlan'
ager meets the man who owns the theater
and Is told that the play Is :" rotten that
the actors oughtsto be digging sewers and
that the scenery looks as II 1t had been
painted In a saloon. The angel = is mad
clear through, lie threatens to employ an
other manager, NJ a}si Is
Why isn't your leading man wearing
gloves with his evening suit?" asks the
q angel" who thinks he knows something
about the manners of good society. .There
Is your stage manager; he ought to know
that white gloves go with full evening dress
at state function. Fire him.
4 Finally, everything is Strengthened out, the
performance is going along smoothly, the
box office receipts are good. and the manager
thinks he will take 81 day, off and visit the
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Il ~
In most cases. Only one man dropped
through to the water uninjured. I'd
I smokestack building and alterations are
among the picturesque risks OF the builders,
but here. as in the structural steel work, the
element OF height Is forgot by the workers.,
and tn Q maso or ironworker hangs over the
rim OF the stack 100 feet from the ground
with all the certainty that could come to him
at the level OF a cottage roof. The steeplei
Jacks calling brings chills to the spines OF
those who from the street levels watch his
200 feet above the EARTH but he
is unconscious Of space below him; his at
.tentions are. on the work at his hand. and and
all else below him is out OF focus to his eyes
and un4nea ming. And then in his philosophy
the carpenter who falls fifteen feet from
cottage roof may be picked up quite as dead
as he could be after falling ten times as Tar.
x And even the ay1nan, who walks every day
under the frowning fronts OF unfinished sky
orapers, is growing to wonder II he may not
be taking quite as much risk as Is q the
average 5ironworker moving like a spider IN
his steel webs Just under a passing cloud.
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BY w. j. Etten.

secures a character woman, who can play
grand danes and old dowagers. And so he
secures his company, When the company be-
gins rehearsals no may find that they do
not work together. Then he has to begin to
change.
OF course the manager is above everybody.
In addition to watching all the actors he has
supervision Of the box office, of the adyer-
Using man and his Ave to ten aids; OF the
doorkeepers, the eight TO a dozen ushers, the
house officer, the back door man, the extra
people, the small army Of janitresses, Then
he comes into constant contact, and often
conflict, with the stage hands. IIemust have
property man, assistant property man, a
(" clearer or two, a stage carpenter and
two assistants, an electrician and his assist-
ant, two or three scene shutters, one fly man.,
the scenic artist and his assistant, and tho
orchestra, with It's eight to twelve or fifteen
members, Every department on the stage
has Its union, and the union rules must be
respected. or there will be no performance,
3ff 5
Play Brokers Supply Dramas.
j Then there Is the matter OF plays. The
manager has the final voice In deciding what
plays shall be presented. He must studythea
desires and tastes Of his audience, keep In
communication with the play brokers In
New York, and secure for his company the
latest dramas that are available for stock
houses An. unwise manager can waste all
his profits paying royalties for new plays
that will not draw sufficient money as CONF
pared with an old play with little or no roy
atty and more popularity. 4
The manager must keep constantly chang
Ing his play, producing one week a strong
drama, the next a comedy. then mela-
drama. then q romantic drama, then a
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Manager Dramatic Stock Company Has

other theaters. Then he receives word that
his leading man Is going to quit and take the
juvenile along, That necessitates quick
work on the wires. probably q visit to Broad
way. with tho accompanying hurrying OF
work.
Pestered bygW ould-Be Actors.
4 And the poor manager IS always peing pes
tered by men and women that want 70 JON
the company Each applicant knows he or
she Is just the person needed to make the
company the best on EARTH and II Is hard to
get rid Of them in less than half an hour.
And such people as apply for work! some
\ OF them have no more intelligence than a
piece Of wood. others arc good thespians, nut
are In tla rd luck. Ofthese the manager keeps
track. for there may come a week when tho
cast OF players will DO too big Cor the limited
number Of people In his company. Then he
engages extra people for the work.
The manager Is also constantly In receipt
of many letters of complaint. Some patrons
think 1t Is absurd to let the actors respond to
curtain call after they have died IN the
play, Others conlplain that people that sat
In front of them the night before began to
put on their wraps before tho last act WAS
half over Still others think 1t Is a shame
that patrons who happened to see the play
when ID was first brought to town BY the
/" original company compare the orig-i
inal (" company with the stock company; and
to the detriment OF the latter.
The managers life is one OF constant ac-
ton. There 10 always a new problem to
solve, a new situation to face, The success
full manager solves each problem and faces
each situation successfully. And there Is
the greatest satisfaction In the world In
doing that. So the manager works on and
on and gets his compensation more In the
satisfaction of difficulties overcome and
something achieved than In the mere money
remuneration.
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Many Lost on Thebes Bridge.

In the three years in which the great can
tilever bridge atThebes over the Mississippi
river has been growing to Its four mile
length sixteen men have beenylost. nearly
every man OF them falling from the super
structure In one way or another. On one
occasion gale ofswnd swept down upon
the structure. driving travelling crane Off
its track into the river. There were three
builders on the crane. and they were taken
from the water dead, The bridge is about
seventy five feet clear OF the water, and the
fall, even In striking the water. is fatal