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Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-26

ater goers have deserted the "audi-
torium beautiful" when the long tiers
of seats stretch back from the stage,
vacant and far away, the organ tuners
begin their work. The twinkle of a
little light at the keyboard seems to
make the surrounding darkness more
intense and forms a striking contrast
to the brightness of the scene earlier
In the evening. From the time the
lights of the theater go out till the
hustle of workmen disturbs them the
next morning the tuners busy them
selves getting the great instrument
ready for use. Because of the limited
time in which the men can work at it,
the tuning has taken much longer than
was at first thought, but soon the days
of waiting will be over.
Use Tuning Forks
The work of the tuner is of an in
teresting character. In the first place,
only two men can work at time. One
sits at the keyboard a hundred feet
away and obediently strikes &c" at
the command of his mate, High up
among the pipes. while the other listens
with keen ear for defects.
A standard is established by tuning
the flute pipes by means of tuning
forks and mechanical contrivances,
When once these are In tune the work
advances trifie more easily. For in
stance G is struck on the flute stops
while at the same time the correspond
ing key is struck on the reed stops.
The reed is then tuned down to the
flute note. The work is long and te-
dious and requires a perfect ear to
distinguish the slight variations in
tone. When the great reed pipes are
tuned the tuners have the most diff
cult part of their task finished.
The pipes are of two kinds--open and
closed. An open pipe is long tube
Of metal in which the air Vibrates and
the sound of dhe vibration comes out
at the slot in The lower end. The longer
and larger the pipe the deeper the tone;
and this principle is made use of in tun-
ing the pipe. If the tone is lower thar
the standard the pipe is either filed of
at the top or dropped little lower IN
its socket, thus making IT smaller ano
raising the tone higher.
The closed pipes are tuned IN differ-
ent way. The pipe is closed by an ad-
Unstable lid which fits inside the pipe
and can be pulled farther out OF
pushed in. The air column is shortened
or heightened at will, and the tone
changed as desired. AS the length o.
the pipe is considered as only the dis
tanee il is an absolutely perfect cylin'
der, unscrupulous tuners sometimes
! pinch the pipes, l. e., make an in
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-26
TUNING BIG ORGAN
IS DELICATE TASK
WORK ON AUDITORIUM INsTRu-
MENT AT NIGHT
Public VIII Have an Opportunity to
Hear First Music of the Monster
Pipes at the Opening Recital to Be
Given on the Night Of December IL

Few Of the opera enthusiasts at the
Auditorium who have been dazzled by
the soft glow of the proscenium arches
realize that behind those same arches
is an object of almost as much interest
as the Auditorium itself This is the
great pipe organ which is rapidly near
ing completion. When the same crowds
who wondered at the lace stucco work
Joining the arches come to the opening
recital December ~ they will see the
utility of this style of decoration. The
problem of how to dispose of the organ
pipes without interfering with the stage
was a serious one for the Auditorium
management till 1t conceived the idea
of having the pipes concealed behind
the proscenium arches.
Every night when the throngs OF the
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-26

In the presence of four wit
nesses the whiskey was opened,
and samples of each were taken
off into plain unlabe1ed bottles,
containing only one identification
number, and were then turned
over to E. H. Fosdick, analytical
and consulting chemist.
1t is behind the shield of the
rectiher's license that the worst
sins of liquor adulteration are
committed.
In the native wine business of
this city it is with the greatest
difficulty that pure wine can be
purchased.
Los Angeles Times.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-26

N Every woman covets .
shapely, pretty figure. and
] many Of them deplore the
loss of their girlish forms
after marriage. The bearing
of children is often destructive
to the mothers shapeliness.
All of this can be avoided,
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-26
AMATEURS WILL
PRESENT FARCE
HOTEL PRO tenn TO BE GIVEN
FRIDAY
Stundents of ST. Vincents Dramatic
Club Plan Series of Four Plays
to Be Put on During
the Season

"The Hotel Pro Tem," farce, will
be presented next Friday night by st.
Vincent's Dramatic club in the Father
Meyer hall of st. Vincents college.
This Will be the first of four plays to
be presented this season by the club,
and 1t is expected to be great success.
Rev. F.. X. McCabe, c. NJ, former
vice president of the college, was di-
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-26
Is a Superior Organ


The organ at the Auditorium has
been put in under the direction of Mr.
Grove who installed the big organ at
the ST. Louis fair. Mr. Grove declares
the Los Angeles instrument to be the
superior of the st. Louis organ in every
way, and his association with both in
struments makes him especially COM
petent to judge.
Los Angeles musicians will hear the
now organ for the first time Wednesday
night, December 12, when Professor
Bruce Gordan Kingsley, organist for
the Auditorium company, will offer the
first of a series of recitals.
The program for the evening Will be
calculated to display every feature of
the huge instrument. A magnificent
operatic overture will be included, as
will a wedding march and a touching
little cradle song. The principal selec-
tion will represent the coming of a
storm. AS it approaches nearer and
nearer the rolling thunder will be
heard and the confusion of the ele-
ments will be introduced. Gradually the
storm will subside and the glad thanks
giving song of the harvesters will rise
triumphant aboYe the winds.
The ripping of mountain streams, the
roaring of the elements, the gentle
zephyrs blowing through the trees-all
massive and dainty effects possible in
so complete an instrument-will be in
troduced to show the full beauties of
this, one of the finest organs in the
country.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-26
$l:25 Old Platonic Whiskey S. 25
For an
Honest Quart

This wonderful pure whiskey was analysed
by Chemist FOsdick with other known
brands, for the Los Angeles Times and
proved to contain less fusel Oil than any Of
them-establishing it's right as Americas
greatest and grandest whiskey. We here re-
produce the cut and the analysis SO gener-
Ously donated to us without charge proving
that if all whiskeys contain some fusel Oil
then purchase that which contains the least.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-26
WOMAN THINKS
NJ CAREY IS NICE
CHANGES HER MIND ABOUT
FIGHT PROMOTER
Is Delighted When She Learns That
Manager of the Maud Junction
Pavilion Goes to Church
Every Sunday

'"Prize fighters are not as black as
they are painted" says clever little
woman who has taken the Los Angeles
sporting world by storm.
She is Miss Frances Butz, assistant
manager of the New York office OF
Miles Bros, manufacturers of moving
pictures.
Miles Bros. make the views or
all the big prize fights and though Miss
Butz has never seen a prize fight she
has come in contact with many Tight
ers and their managers during the last
two years.
Miss Butz is Harry Miles right
hand man on this trip to the coast
and she pays all the bills of the firm,
hustles up the carpenters and smooths
the path generally for Mr.. Miles. Sat
urday afternoon she was down at the
pavilion with the Cooper Hewitt eX-
pert who was installing the lights for
the pictures of the Burns-O' Brlen
fight Wednesday night.
While there giving orders to a corps
of carpenters and other workers, Tom
McCarey walked in. He had not met
Miss Butz, but her fame had preceded
her. He expected to see a remark
ably clever business woman but he
was hardly prepared for the bright
faced young person dressed I'm the
heighth of fashion.
Likes Mecarey
Neither was Miss Butz quite pre-
pared for Tom McCarey She had
heard OF Mr.. McCarey as the presiding
genius at Maud Junction and some
one had told her Of the, nice pink
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-26

denton of some kind near the top to
avoid filing off, thus shortening the vi
bration.
The San Francisco call., 1906-03-25

Miss Mccormick cared nothing about
the society life her sisters ind pleas
ant. but she cared q great deal about
painting pictures; SO she studied ~
Hopkins while they learned new CO.
tillon figures; she went to Paris and
painted in Benjamin Constants atelier
and had the honor Of exhibiting in the
Salon while they very fttingly and
naturally gave their attention 70 the
Partisan variations in frocks. And
now she has a studio at old Monterey
and she spends the best part OF her
time trying TO catch upon canvas the
dreamy, evanescent charm OF that
lovely spot. She has succeeded won
derfully well, and her pictures are
being bought and carried away by ap-
preciative Eastern visitors almost be-
fore Californians get a fair chance TO
look at them.
Miss Betty Ashe, in spite OF the pres
tige of belonging TO the Southern set,
thought il not nearly so well worth
while 10 live a society life as 70 do
something toward softentng the con-
ditions OF life and healing the ills OF
the very poor. To thoroughly equip
herself and bring not only sympathy
but efficiency TO her work. she went
East and took the course in nursing at
Belleyue-the severest. perhaps, IN this
country. Then she came back 10 work
among the people she thought needed
her most-the poor on Telegraph Hill,
and formed for their benefit the Tele-
graph Hill Neighborhood Association.
setting up a dispensary and a model
cottage and clubs for boys and girls
and setting society to work for them
The most successful, and believe the
largest, violet grower In this State, IA
nous for its violets. is society woman
Mrs. Timothy Hopkins Of Menlo. One
of the sights OF the State that no tour
ist, whether of the private car or per-
sonally conducted variety, feels he can
AFFORD to miss is the acres and acres OF
vfolets that Mrs. Timothy Hopkins grows
for the market
That soclery is not altogether salts
flying even when its highest possioilt-
The San Francisco call., 1906-03-25

q life OF many qualifications and much
sorrow she is still active. alert and
sharing the interests of today.
Indeed we do not need TO go SO far
from home as Washington or New
York to find women who need more
serious, satisfying work than society
offers
In Chicago few weeks ago. young
woman by the name OF Edna Dickerson
came into an Inheritance Of s1,0oo,o00
from an uncle's estate in Minneapolis.
She had been supporting herself by
stenography and typewriting and in
the process she had learned something
OF the value of work.
Did she hail the Inheritance as an
escape from drudgery or key to par
adise?
Not bit of it.
She said she didn't want TO share the
drudgery of pink teas and other social
functions. She didn't want TO be slave TO
a retinue OF servants or be chained down
by town and country houses She
wanted an interest in life and so she
incorporated q company for court re-
porting, and has become the employer
of other girl stenographers and type
writers and is playing the business
game with the same zest that other
women are playing the society game
We need not have stopped over even
at Chicago for examples. San Fran
cisco has her own
She has among the distinguished
women artists OF America her own
Native Daughter. Miss Evelyn McCor-
mick, whose paintings Of the adobes
and the drives and the waters of Mon
terey are making both herself and old
Nonterev famous
Miss Evelyn Mccormick is the
daughter of William Mccormick, re-
tired capitalist. the sister of three
pretty women well known In local So
ciety: but q great many people know
the name of Evelyn Mccormick in the
corner Of a canvas who do not know
that.
The San Francisco call., 1906-03-25

three shops in London where the prod
ucts or women's work in England.
Scotland and Ireland and Wales are
sold for the benefit of the women
workers. She has. apparently casually.
on her coaching. trips when she han
died the reins, formed guilds of these
working women in villages and coun-
trysides and had them trained and in
duced to work She has founded club
in London. She has established a farm
in Warwickshire. She has written as
many articles on politics, economics.
sociology and trihes like that as many
another woman who has to make her
daily bread and bonnets by working.
And she has taken as active an inter-
est In politics-aiong the Liberal and
Socialistic lines-as an American Con-
gresham mending his fences. During
the last election she was reported and
snapshotted as one OF the sensations of
the campaign when she went about
speaking from the tails of carts to the
for John Burns.
Yet IN a political way she has done
no more than Lady Randolph Churchill,
who is now Mrs. West, did for her hus-
band. That she was the better poll
tician of the two and that Lord
Randy" owed more to the tact OF his
handsome American wife than. to his
own popularity is no secret Lady Ran
dolph Churchill stepped out OF the limi-
ations OF a purely society life for her
son as well as her husband. and it was
her campaigning. her speechmaking
and buttonholing and soup and blanket
and smile distributing that launched
that young man upon his career.
Lady Henry Somerset, like the Coun-
tess OF Warwick, is one of the for
tunately placed English women who
cannot sit In idleness- No poor, lone
The San Francisco call., 1906-03-25

ties have been realized. Mrs- Hermann
Oelrichs has been making evident OF
late.
Mrs. OeIrichs has nothing left % con-
Quer in New York's smart set Even
az Newport she has q voice IN saying
who's who. and yet she seems worried.
and Is seeking for larger interests
Neither art nor philanthropy appeal
70 her very strongly. but the held OF
finance has its fascination for her ap-
parently. More and more In the past
two years she has shown a disposition
to look very closely into the big deals
her large fortune involves. and TO have
a personal voice OF more than assent in
them She Is not satisfied with signing
her name to papers IN the places that
the lawyers and business agents point
out and politely Ill the pan for She
finds II vastly more interesting 70 look
into the values and possibilities OF In
vestment and speculation herself ana
get some OF the thrills OF the game
that her money entities her TO-
During her recent visit here she wa
more attention 10 ths business matters
that brought her hare than 70 the social
functions arranged ~ her honor II n
not unlikely, when she agitatsd local
society by dining with her gloves on.
that she was so absorbed IA figuring
out how she could make her Bon rich
enough TO hold his own with the ethsr
rich boys in New York that she msrsiy
forgot to take them on. and wns not
engaged in setting new fashion
However that may be. Ms. OelrichB
has found after giving IL a fair trial,
that she. too. along with many other
women. needs an interest In life more
satisfying than society can give
Just what II is that has brought about
this change. whether II Is due TO some
subtle difference in woman herself or
10 the altered conditions OF our modern
life that have taken her old duties and
occupations from her and given her no
new and wel1-dsnned ones In THAR
stead. n q question for some philsssphis
mind 20 BelrA
The San Francisco call., 1906-03-25

widow with seven small children to
support works longer hours or more
arduously than does Lady Henry Som
erset for the cause of temperance.
What with her public speaking. her
writing, her executive duties, her trav-
cling. her secretaries. her attention to
the million details Of a great organiza-
tion she. leads as busy and impersonal
a life as did our own Susan B. Anthony.
She has beautiful estates. big income.
a hereditary social position, all that
foolish girls dream OF and ambitious
girls marry for. and she puts all aside
except the income, which for the
most part she gives away-and works
like a non-union factory girl for the
realization of an ideal.
An English woman who is a worker
of another sort Is the Marchioness Of
CRANKY. who is an artist from her soul
to her finger tips. who puts before the
public only a very little OF her work.
and that little only now and then. But
it is work so exquisite that she is not
forgotten in the intervals of retire.
ment. Her portrait Of Paderewski alone
is enough to rest reputation on and
remains without rival among the many
that artists have been moved TO make
of him.
But we don't have to go away from
home to find women who turn from So
ciety to work for works sake.
There is a white haired. grim visaged
old woman in Washington who makes
a religion of 1t that she both practices
and breaches. She is Mrs. John A. Lo-
gan. Her long life has been one Of
activity. While General Logan was
alive she was unanimously voted the
best politician in the Logan family and
her tact and far-sightedness retrieved
many a blunder that the soldier-hus-
bands brusqueness led him into. After
The San Francisco call., 1906-03-25

AN Il be that the TIL
umphs OF society are
but phantom victo-
ries?
Or is X that women
are taking e more
adult view OF life?
Whatever IL is. we
have before US the
very curious and in
teresting spectacle OF
women OF the very
highest and most en-
visble and unoues-
toned social position.
women upon whom
all the gifts OF fortune
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-06-03
vy,c ,,i~.ls and the Wires.

Many young persons wonder WhS bjvtiS can with perfect safety perch on live electric wires, to merely toueh whic4 would give a man fatal shock But those persons do not stop to thihA of the different conditions under Winch the contact ls made.
 Of course you know that no shock k felt when tne body is insulated. There must be contact with the ground, either directly or ty means of some medillli' so as to make circuit It is the pas sage of the current through the boay and into ,he ground that causes the shock.
 Bu. there cannot be circuit When the body l. in contact with the NIEe and with rothing else, and therefore birds may perch on live wires without the slightest electric sensation. Hu man beings might Go the same thing not quite SD conveniently as the birds but with equal satety, 50 far as tht electricity is concerned
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-06-03

MO sticks and perform in Tar'ouS ways is very $; .lple.' said snowman. Ivory 'em.
 Suppose you want mouse 10 calhlo q stick. pick up little flag that you have nut th re and bring it down. You fake tic mouse when he's hungry to begin with gou tie gram or TWO oi oats to the lag. and you put the mouse at the foot sf the stick. He won [ go up. Of course.
 ..Well. when he turns around 10 run away you set him back again, with hls nose to the stick. If he runs away fifty times set him back tifty-one times. That worries him. Hold him up lit- tie: give him start.
 "Hs soon sees what you want, ana un he goes. When he finds the oats he is satisfied and comes down to eat then,. \ex, time he will do Ii Wltn half the trouble and. after awhile he will run ul, and get the flag whenever you put him at the foot of the stick
 .la Il short time he will take up any thinn you wish. whether il is flag ei q ljJs!e icy Hail-an> thing he can lit. -E,xrhaH@a.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-06-03
NAILED SLAVE
 BOY TO FLOOR
(,enns ylyaaia Farmer Held on Charges of Eierdish Cruelty to Boy
 ile Adopted.

James Kelly, q farmer on the ifahk- ford pa.l estate Of John NJ. MacN, tue multimillionaire contractor and poll tician. is in Moyamensing prison. m Philadelphia. held in default oI ball 10 answer charges of henuiSh cruelty to John Carroll aged nine years whom he adoptel last February from St Nln- cents orphana%o
 Before Magistrate ol)ohuell lhe iaa testified that when he had attempted to run away ta escape repH1iHd horsN7 whippings kcHy had driven haS through his aee,s jaja tie Aaar
 Young Carroll Jat! ! noighhae, i't4h& Danaeaapsr and tbe l#ter notified t!'a police. 4Ae lad a@iaed t2 AieuteA3 fl Kenny t,..s5 H.s fife tt the #fdfmhotse had been 0ae=o. aetaal slaNefE.
 When Kelly azu hts wife learned ti1at warrants aaa seen issued far thsir a'= rest they packed a feW=ef tAe'e ee.ea& lngs into . isssg.s.ze ;8oi= took a= 'si'. ' Philadelphia Jgseah Mack, sen oi John NJ. A4.l,. hea@Gof A'= =1As'i,@e- and fol1wel n Hu aui9aa'a.la-
 The vhaec er3ea 1t He'-e=' f-f'-5. suburb, vhere Naae'l eaa2.a H.A 9s.s5 the ear. ~a,! | ,, P 2A..'4} ..i'5s f'''s'' thelarrest os j&2 es...As @a"HsA
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-06-03
SENATORIAL. PRIMARIES.

While state conventions of both pc litical parties have been meeting from time to time and resolving Tn favor of an amendment to the conStl- tuition providing for election of Unit eel States senators by popular vote, few states have gone directly to the desired end in the only practical way by means of the primary election.
 There is no suler way of not doing a thing than to attempt it by means Qf an amendment to the constitution of tue United States. That instru- men has been changed but in two important particulars ill a hundred Nears and those changes We're the re- suit of war It is almost certain that it will never be changed again.
 Supreme court decisions have p'ac
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-06-03

honds upen his knees and holding i'll eoch of them d large piece of bread. This he cid for an hour at a 'lihe' 'ah- ing care to moNe as little as posSiole. Al last some of the younger hsh Nep turcd to nibble the bread, growing daily more poaliaent, and eVehtual'H tl,e older fish followed their eNampie. Before the experiment. came to an ela the doctor could move freely and even handle his strange pets ws'aout irls'f ening them away.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-06-03
The JInst side,

"A city's sIums, said Il globe trotter, ''are always ill it's eastern quarter. l wonder why? Take New York. It's east side is its slum side. So 1t IS With London. The east end is the >luln end. Of Philadelphia Chicago Canton and Madrid the same thing holds good as know from personal experience. fife only possible ground 1 can giTe for q city's slums being inva'iably in its eastern quarter is that this quarter is the one that is exposed to the harsh and unpleasant ri@ors of the east wind
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-06-03

ed interpretations upon certain parts of the instrument, different from these long previously accepted, there by practically amending it. The same body may do so again, put when it comes submitting change or addition to the country and secllfz inc it's ratification by three-fourths oi the state. it may as we'll be left out of the question.
 Even ,le W. amendments never would have been secured except for the fact that part of the states were disfranchised and those which were not were more nearly of the same mind on the matter al issue than they eyer were before or ever Will be aeain.
 Ii the people of any state really de. s:re a voice in the election of their
 niffsd States senator's lei them sA about as number Of the states of
 the south have done. Roth Tennessee and Arkansas haze recently chosen se0afors hy popular vote by means e the primary The only thing that can prevent their election is the ac- cession to bower of the minority party in November and il could Ga accom- plished only by popular vote. says an nNchan@e
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-06-03
SnHn Bubble Race.

A soap bubble race makes excellent fun. Lay $ long stick on the floor to serve as d goal and provide each play CT with fan, which can be made of stiff paper. with which to drive the bubbles from the starting point. At a given signal the bubbles are blown and the fans brought into use. If bubble bursts before any player has reached the goal the player may return to blow second one.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-06-03
Explicit.

"Tell me- requests tie young per son. entering the study of the gray bearded philosopher, what is the dir, ference between Friendship and love-:
 The gray hearded philosopher studies the table thouGhtfully for moment or two. then replies: "I51ieodship, my son, is a mutual understanding; love Is a mutual misunderstanding -l fife.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-06-03
NNS.tirrHtc. q.

Nell-That ho"rtd Mr. lIansom insist ed ,non Kissing me last ntght Eelle- Why ,Gan,t you sereAm:=NeH= ! dlan ' want to scare the poor fellow, h''a- delphia Let!@er.