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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-01-21
SEEDLESS ORANGE
ENRICHES A STATE
CALIFORNIA WORTH $6o,ooo,ooo
MORE BECAUSE OF LUSCIOUS
FRUIT WHICH GROWS ABUND-
ANTLY IN HER GROVES.

San F'raneisco.-The introduction of the
seedless navel orange has revolutionized
the orange industry of the United States.
II has drawn 1900 men from other pur-
suits and transformed vast areas of sun
baked land in California into orange
groves. 1t has been the prime factor in
the growth of a dozen towns of 5000 and
10000 persons in Southern California and
has added directly more than $43,000.000
and indirectly $6O,OO0OOO more to the tax
able wealth of the state.
The first seedless orange trees we're ap-
parently freaks of nature and their coun-
terparts have never been found Early
in the seventies William Judson. United
States consul at Bahia. Brazil. heard an
account from natives of few trees in the
swamps on the banks of the Amazon,
some sixty miles away. He sent a native
up the river to get some of the fruit and
to bring him some of the shoots of the
tree.
When the native returned the consul
was delighted with the specimens and
sent six of the shoots carefully packed
in moss and clay, to the department of
agriculture. The trees did not excite
much interest at the department.. Two
which were planted in the department
grounds died for lack of care and the
others were forgotten for months.
Four cuttings were planted again In
December of 1878 in Southern California.
One of the shoots died from neglect, one
was broken and chewed by a COW. Five
years passed and the two remaining
shoots came into bearing. These sixteen
seedless oranges were the first ever grown
in the United States. The specimens We're
carried about Southern California and
shown to ranchmen and fruit growers.
The second crop was awaited with great
curiosity. for it was feared that in a few
years the fruit would become hard and
tough There were about box of oranges
In the second yield and they were even
better than the first crop.
The planting Of groves of seedless
oranges propagated from the buds from
the two original trees began in earnest
in 1882. The following year the demand
for buds from the Tibbett trees was so
large that a dozen buds sold frequently
for IS, and some growers paid even as
high as 81 apiece for them.
In 1889 the two Tbbett trees furnished
buds which sold for $15,000 and a tall
fence was built around them to keep peo-
pie from stealing the buds. A year or
been propagated from the Tibbett trees
began to bear and they themselves fur
nished tens of thousands of navel buds
as good as from the original trees. Then
the first navel orange trees began to bear
fruit and from that time the boom in
navel oranges was assured.
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"checkers.v

Why are racing plays so popular? The
question Is an old one 1t Is brought
forth every time a racing play comes to
town, and the coming of Checkers" to
the Jefferson theatre next Monday and
Tuesday. with Tuesday matinee. has
brought it forth once more. Since
Checkers" left New York to fill con-
tracts elsewhere it has been winning like
triumphs in Chicago, Philadelphia, Bos-
ton and St. Louis. One of the highest
authorities of the American turf has said:
Checkers is the finest racing play that
have ever seen" And Dan Smith, the
sporting writer of the New York Herald.
has written: Checkers is the greatest
show that ever struck New York"
So much for Checkers But other
racing plays have been very popular?
Look at In Old Kentucky" For over
ten years it has been on the road, playing
season after season to crowded houses.
All good racing plays since the days of
that famous one, The Flying scud,' the
like of which," wrote William Winter of
the New York Tribune. had not been
seen till Checkers came to town. have
played 70 large audiences. The present
generation recalls ''The Sporting Ouch
ess," 1.-THE County Fair and The Sub
URBAN And, though Ben Hur' can
hardly be called racing pay, yet what
is applauded so heartily, what picture of
the play is displayed SO conspcuously on
the billboards, in the windows and the
public prints as the chariot races?
The managing editor of newspaper
possessing the largest circulation in the
world, and who is paid $4,000 year for
keeping his finger on the public pulse and
printing what he thereby learns the peo-
pie want was asked the other day what
sort of news gave his paper the greatest
circulation. His reply is pat to the pres
ent question: why are racing plays so
popular?" He said;
First, a championship prize fight; sec
ond, a great horse race; third, national
political convention. OF course great bat
tie in which American troops are engaged
is the greatest promoter of circulation,
or, as we cali it, seller But such news
events are SO rare as to be unnecessary
to consider. A. prize fight of heavy
weights will jump our circulation a full
hundred and fifty thousand to two hun
dred thousand. Look at the crowds which
have hung around our office during the
recent fights in San Francisco. The
weather was of the zero quality. And
as the fights didn't begin in Frisco till
or 10 O'clock which was II and l O'Clock
here. you can understand that the pro-
ceedings must have been interesting to
keep that crowd there watching the bull
letins. But even those big fights are so
rare as almost to put in the category of
battles, and therefore possibly first place
should be given to racing. That's sport
which is going on all the year in one
place and another. There seems to be
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something in the peoples blood which
racing news alone satisfies. l know an
old gentleman of Wall street who at rare
intervals goes to see a race and yet waits
in our counting room daily. and some
times for half an hour, in order to get
the first extra announcing the result of
the races. And doubtless there are many
like him. Yet he could get the paper a
half hour later at his club. Whenever
there is big race our circulation will be
from seventy-five thousand to one hum
dred and twenty-five thousand greater
than the average. And as there is, gem
orally speaking, at least one important
race a week during the northern racing
season l should say that our season
circulation is increased thereby at least
two and one-half millions in five months.
And during the ordinary race days the
circulation is about thirty thousand great
er than when the northern racing season
ends.
"a national convention comes next. But
that is chiefly interesting in a circulation
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aThe RoIIIokIna eIrI.n

THE Rollieking Girl" after its most
successful run of more than half year
in New York City, comes to the Jeffer-
son theatre next Wednesday,,
This is the play in which Sam Bernard
has made the hit of his life in the char
acter Of Schmaltz, a theatrical wig maker,
whose main business is .boseing the SOU
bIettes." Schnaltz is a quaint character,
and in this role Mr.. Bernard has an es-
peeially good opportunity to display his
own comedy methods. 1t is not alone
that Schmaltz tangles his sentences that
makes him humorous. There is a much
deeper human interest beneath that SUI
perficial side of the character. He is
honest and loyal and possessed with
stock of quaint philosophy that endears
him at once to the audience, while his
pupil. Iona 6Hatue Wlllams), wins her
hearers by her charming personality and
sweet voice incidentally Miss Williams
wears some most stunning gowns. She
has five songs and a new gown for each.
to say nothing of a few other incidental
changes of costumes. Her great song
hits are Friends That Are Good and
True Tricks" My Cabin Door" and
THE Girl From My Own Town" Sam
Bernard participates in the singing of
''Ioyey-Dovey' and Indians on Broad
way and whatever his share of contri-
button to the melody of these songs may
or may not be, he certainly makes them
funny by his acting. Besides Mr.. Ber-
nard and Miss Williams, there are some
other men and women who contribute to
a delightful production.
The story Is that of Ilona Miss VIII
liams), who runs away on the eve of her
marriage to become a famous actress.
Good fortune sends her to the home of
Schmaltz (Bernard), the theatrical wig
maker, and his wife (Binio Galy). Ilona
amazes Schmaltz by weird bit of stage
tragedy and is hustled to the theatre just
in time to take the place of leading
lady, who has refused to attend the final
rehearsal. Her success is immediate.
Schmaltz is kept busy throwing the
"Johnnies'' out of her waiting room,
while the former leading lady, frantic
with envy, invites the young actress to
a duel and wounds her. Iona recovers
from her wound. returns to her home
and is happily married, receiving the
blessings of Schmaltz who has Travelled
far from the city to wish his protege
good luck.
The curtain will rise promptly at s
clock.
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Cranes New Play.

1.-THE American Lord" is the title of
William H. Cranes new play this sea-
son, and according to report it is one of
the really good things of the year. The
play is by George II. Broadhurst. and
Charles T. Darcy, and its success in Mr..
Cranes hands has been something OF
which every one connected with the work
is proud. In some of its scenes the play
is decidedly farcical, and the comedian
is happy in the possession of part that
enables him to make many bids for
laughter. Throughout the west the play
made a hit. and 1t looks as If 1t Is going
to last the comedian for some time TO
come The idea upon which the play is
built is humorous in itself. 1t is the taxi
ing of a lingo American from Dakota
and making him the descendant OF an
English lord and heir to the title and
vast properties In England. Once the
American reaches England he tries to
put In force his American notions of
progress, and trouble is a resultant fac
tor Mr.. E'rohman has surrounded Mr..
Crane with strong company
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-01-21
sousa,s Japanese Anthem.

John Philip Sousa is an inveterate wag,
as his close friends know, and tale is
going the rounds which reveals in a char
acteristic manner the great composer
conductors love of a good joke on his
fellows.
At brilliant soree given for Sousa by
the Lord Mayor of Liverpool the talk
turned on the national airs of all coun-
tries, and some one recalled that Sousa
had compiled the best existing collection
of such airs. What is the japanese ma
tional anthem, Mr.. Sousa?" inquired one
of the ladies present. Il would play 1t
for you on the piano If there were some
one here who could sing the vocal part.
An amateur tenor volunteered, and as he
made his way to where Sousa sat the
latter leaned over and whispered some
thing to the Lord Mayor and the Lady
Mayoress which seemed literally to con-
vulse them with laughter. Sousa wrote
the words of the text on a piece of paper
and explained aloud that the tune of the
japanese anthem was the same as that
of the English God Save the King"
and that all the singer had to do was
to sing that melody and pronounce the
Japanese words precisely as they We're
spelled Accordingly up rose the willing
warbler and burst out with the follow
ing lyric, 20 wa ia ma syam an sy-a-
am" He was only stopped by roars of
delightful laughter, led by that of the
Lord Mayor, for. of course the luckless
tenor had been singing, "Oh, what an ass
l am"
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PLAYS AND PLAYERS


sense when the nomination for President
Is being made. That Is but once IN four
years So that, all things considered, l
should say that racing news In the long
run is the greatest circulation boomer
known. And that is because such ire
mendously large number of peple are In
terested in that kind Of news. Personally
I don't care for it. But the people want
It. We want the people, and that's the
way we get them-by giving them what
they want
rs that the reason that racing plays
are so popular?'
Il am not theatrical man." the man
aging editor replied But l should say
that racing plays, like racing news, are
popular, because they are what the peo-
pie want
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aThe Ninety and Nine"

Ramsey Morris stage story of the In
diana prairies, under the title of 1.-The
Ninety and Nine" will be the Offering
at the Bijou ali this week. and the selec-
ton of the leading man for the part of
Tom Singleton was one f the difficulties
that confronted the management in the
endeavor to offer a company that would
assure the proper presentation of the
play The part is strong and requires a
man of histrionic ability to interpret it.
While the field was large one to choose
fro mthe selection of Frederick Montague
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oIcott's Story.

Chauncey Olcott tells this good story:
"An Irish soldier on sentry duty had or
ders to allow no one TO smoke near his
post An officer with lighted cigar APP
preached, whereupon Pat boldly chal-
lenged him and ordered him to put 1t out
at once. The officer with a gesture Of
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-01-21
At THE JEFFERSON.

Monday and Tuesday, with Tues
day matinee-eCheeker
Wednesday night-Sam Bernard
and Hattie Williams in THE Roll
licking Girl" Curtain rises at 8
d. m.
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PLAYS AND PLAYERS.

An entertainment unlike any previous
| offering of the season is promised with
the advent of Mcintyre and Heath as
the stars of one of Klaw Erlanger
companies. with many principals and a
chorus, said to be worth Dragging about,
in a whirling musical novelty. "The Ham
Tree was made to cause laughter. and
it's appeals are through plenty of COM
tidy of the Mcintyre and Heath brand.
a. long list of songs, a choice variety OF
dances and specially work to switch in
at frequent intervals.
II is no small task to organize a COM
pany like that appearing in the Drury
Lane spectacle, Humpty Dumpty" when
the chorus and ballet alone number more
young women than could be easily count
ed. and the drilling of such a body in
wolves much hard work in the way of
LAYING out the production. First OF all.
the COMPANY is recruited up to the num-
Der required by the stage manager, or
"producer," as he is known. to present
the different scenes and musical numbers
properly in order to get costume, vocal
and .business'' effects Of striking origi-
nality Each member of the chorus Is
Obliged 70 undergo a voice trial in order
TO he classified at the very first as So
prano contralto, tenor or bass. after
which the height, weight. bust and waist
measurement of each individual Is taken,
when they are divided according to height
and appearance. Then the girls are d.
yided into three casses-vocalists, spe-
ciaIty girls and ballet girls. The duties
of the vocalists are to sing and look well,
while the speciality girls have to bear
the brunt of the performance. singing,
dancing and looking to the best OF
their abilities. All the ballet girls have
to do is to dance and help make pictures
in ensemble posing. Most of them are re-
cruited from the English style of dancers,
but the so-called speciality girl IS dis-
tinctlv the typical American chorus girl.
These young ladies are in constant de-
mand, and are better paid than the ordi-
nary yocalista or ballet dapcers. The
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disgust threw away his cigar but no
sooner was his back turned than Pat
picked it up and quietly retired to the
sentry box.
The officer, happening to look around
observed a cloud of smoke issuing from
the box. He at once challenged Pat for
smoking on duty.
Smoking is it, sur? Bedad, and I'm
only keeping 1t lit to show to the cor
poral when he comes as evidence agin
YOU "
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AT THE BIJoU.

All the week. with matinees Tues
day, Thursday and Saturday-''The
Ninety and Nine.'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-14

Noble Mobile world las, Tuesfdsy when The {
his big garage az aaths} and 7fhte TIE FrayGr
Miller company will enter its new home Just as
Broadav rc3 y rea [" i5 he cola we aRs
and deep snow, the enthusiasts with air cooled
con on questions Of cooling become more general.
mere Is notceabie picking up 81 interest In the
Frayer-MiIler 25-horsepower car.
with the announcement made unof1cially. that
he will retire with the present year from the
| Craftsmanship Of the American Automobile Associi-
storm OF protest all over the country Ills friends.
| and they are legion. demanding that he con
men smiled ana predicteG dire c"nseGuences YET
| Mr.. MorreH made good In every and the
| question Of his successor has been far too hard
Importers Of the Hotchktss. the car made by
the famous gun manufacturers Of Franc. and ~
nud have advertised literally years absolute
guarantee unon their cars This may induce
Archer & Co. agents IN America for the Hotchliss
HotCbkiss car awarded the gold medal the
Paris Exposition FOR us mechanical features and
kiss caused a stir in the Archer camp md will
give the Hotchkiss a boom the world over
r e Jackson az the Chadwick Motor Car Com
pany. has brought 10 New-Yofk the first of the
SO" Chadwick cars To De handled by this COM
COMPANY II philadelphia The Chadwick company
will handle the entire out9ut OF this company from
be determined upon in Few DAYS
There is one car At the NewYork shows which
not an imitation IN any way of European cars
The Prayer Miller is lifted with an air cooled en-
CINE. marking an epoch in automobile engineering
This form or air cooling IS different from any
other form OF cooling ever known The air IS
forced by q rotary fan through fue "a the
jackets which surround the cylinders. This form
OF cooling positive. and in the tough tests
OF the last year has never been known 10 fail
The Wayne Motor Car Company and A L. Kuu
have entered for the middle distance class at Or
mond. and a lot is expected of the Wayne for IL
has been constructed with an idea OF lightness and
speed. Deacon Holmes viii drive the Wayne Man
ager A l. Kul OF the Wayne Company OF New
York. is than pleased with tho reports from
Deacon Holmes. in Detroit. with regard 10 the
Wayne middle distance Mr.. Holmes believes
firmly that this will walk away from the field
so fast is IL Mr. Kul believes now that he made
error in entering the lists for the heavy
weight well the middleweight class The
Wayne IS q car constructed of stock parts and
light for its power Mr.. Kull. with his New-York
friends. will travel south in the Wayne special car
10 the little flyer against the Flat, Jr the
REQ Bird driven by Dan Wurgis. and the others
The Napier Motor Car Company. OF No 743 Bowl
ston-st-. Boston, is preparing turn more cars
from the American factory at jamaica Plain and
addition costing Slo0eo0 has been made to the
factory there The New-Io agency has been
fitted up anew. after lying idle for long time
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-14

and there will be cars for the American field this
year. according TO Manager Woods. billiard. driver
of the Napier so horsepower car at OrmOnd, Will
hold the wheel of the celebrated So horsepower Ma
pie3 which the English elimination trials
last year and which later competed IN the Gordon
Bennett race billiard will compete at Ormond and
then go TO Havana for the great Havana road race.
Manager Wood. OF the New-York branch OF the
Napier Just opened at 4ath-st and Broadway. said
yesterday that Walter Clifford carp had started
from Boston and passed through New-York. He
will devote his time to preparing on the Ormond
beach. carp may also go Cuba.
The Renault Freres agency has obtained great
number OF Renault cars for this country Many
orders were especially Allied for customers who
wise enough TO place the orders prior 10 the de-
parture OF Mr. Tflleston for Europe
One OF tho interesting features Of the Garden
show. which appeals 10 The sportsman as well as to
the ordinary motorist is the Locomobile racing
car which finished third In the Vanderbilt race
last OCTOBER beating fourteen out OF sixteen racing
cars. ana being the only American product TO finish
among the prize winners The car IS the property
OF pr harold T. Thomas, OF Chicago. who paid
Ss"o for the machine, and through whose courtesy
the company waS enabled to include II among the
9ardan 80 - N"a0~1"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-14
FOR AUTO" BUYERS.
Continued from eighth page.


and Loconohile. II IS patented device that
makes riding over rough roads easy Increases speed
and saves damage 10 mechanism. Thousands OF
sets were applied last year. Tie suspension Will
be exhibited az both shows. and in attendance viii
abroad on "Wednesday with three 5obIor- Isille cars
esent; A q. Hoffman, J. 4. Earford. ana Messrs
Burnett and Stevens, OF the selling stan
The arTnory exhibit from Ha gerstown. Ma, OF
automobiles built by the inventor Of Crawford -:
cycles IS not only interesting IN introducing 1885
shows that tho talent OF r. S. Crawford has pro-
duoed a motor eQUalllng in al respects the
high reputation long enjoyed by him as an inventor
Nowadays dealers snip cars under iheir own
power over the road 10 the automobile shows send
Ing entire exhibits in that way-a good commentary
made to-day. The Knox Automobile Company OF
Springfield. sent as Shipment Of eleven cars under
their own power 10 Madison Square Garden from
Springfield Mass. The came through prac-
tioslly IN body. few coming on Saturday 10 tart
tho exhibit That they came through successfully
without incident in the present state Of the
weather caused much favorable comment yeSter-
Knox four cylinder cars. brought on three ton
trucks; limousine on truck. one King OF Bel
Jour oyiinder. and Model F tonneau There were
also two cylinder runabout, two cylinder surrey
and three ton truck for the West Indies Trans
porfation Company, 10 be exhibited the Garden,
and four cylinder demonstrating car under It's
The waltharn Manufacturing Company has on
display IN the Breslin Hotel lobby one Of fits 20
Horsepower Swell Special touring cars fully
eouipped with TOP and lamps. Any one Interested
81: high grade automobile manufacture OF the latest
cir oe1lea ps % en0y an hspeSon al ms
pioneer in air cooled construction. and the excel
lent product IL is presenting 20 the pubiio THIS year
Jts EXHIBIT az the Madison Square Garden show will
be an exceptional one. eEnbrscins one model each
Elliott F. Shepard. the nephew Of William X
Vanderbilt, arrived IN this city on the BALTIC last
s Mn s 81 Is 10 dive Law Ss hOtess car
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-14
ORMOND-DAYTONA OFFICIALS

Inc following officials have been announced for
the automobile race meet on the Ormond-Daytona
beach. Florida. on January y TO q:
Referee-Robert Lao Moryell of Nev-York
Associate referscs-H. !. Bovden OF Boston.
eric r. Pratt, OF Newark, N. J.
JtGasss-Eliots shsppsrd OF Paris France; A O.
York; Charles H Hyde OF New-York; e l. Potter. OF
Sea breeze. Fla. and Janes Cornell OF Ormond. Fla
Board Of riners-S. ~ Butler. OF Ne1-York: John c.
kerrson. Of Boston; 4. Miles, Chicago; Alden L.
and Charles J. Dieges OF Nsw-York
Assistant timerS-A- w. Church. of Nsw-York ana T.
e De Mar. OF London Engiand.
Clerk of course-Frank O. Webb. Of Brooklyn
Assistant clerks OF Andrews Brook
Ign. and Joseph Tracy, OF New-York-
Starter-D. H LSwts of Buffalo.
Assistan. stsTtsrIf 8 steenstrup Of Newark. " J.
scorers-Louis r. Smith. OF New-York; j. b Parkin-
Of Daytona. Fla. and George Arsnts Jr OF New
Race committees y o. - 49, y. 4 LssA
George Il. Sebrin0. Jo2Ao cornell. j. E Bostrurl ana
s.. Francis
TournanArA executive ocsnMattee-Ass Pima CHAIR
RohAEt LDo Norrau. II. Il Bowdeu, W. J.