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The daily Alaskan., 1906-07-06
Modest Claims Often Carry the Most
 Conviction

When Maxim. the famous gun iuven. tor, placed h,s gun before d committed of judges. he stated it's carrying power Co De much below what he felt sure the 2, D would accomplish. The result of the trial was Jher fore a great surprise, iusyesd of disappointment. lI IS the same with the mauufactrcrS of Chamber Iain's CoIic. Cholera aud DjarrhOea Remedy. They do not publicly boast of all this remeGy vii. accomplish, but prefer to let the users make the state meuts. What they to claim, ,s that 1t will pOsit vely cure diarrhOea, dys h. terv. pains in the stomach and bowels and hss never been known to fail. For Sa.e by Wm. Brit.
The daily Alaskan., 1906-07-06
Drivers Who Throw Their Horses,

Drivers Who Throw Their Horses.
 "There ought 10 be a license system or some scheme to prevent such a fel- low driving a horse" declared a lover of horses as a heavy truck horse fell in Broadway the other day. That ignorant blockhead made that horse fall. He turned the animal so quickly that he simply threw 1t off its feet Now several score of trucks will be blocked until the horse gets on Its feet and then the driver will take 1t out of the poor animal by jerking at the bit or beating it.
 "A man wouldn't trust an automO- bile to fellow who didn't know how to run the machine, and the law would not allow him to, but he will trust bis horse 10 boy who hasn't the first idea of handling a horse. Half the drivers of trucks and delivery wagons need sougr elementary lessons in how to drive. and most of the accidents on the streets are due 10 their ignoran ie and stupidity. New York Press.
The daily Alaskan., 1906-07-06
D. Rciency Warrants Called Iu

The following deficiency warrants are called iu for payment: Nos. 1910, 1912, 1913, l3l+, l3lJ, l6SI, I66S, and all unpaid warrants of the Town of Skag- way will 0e paid on presentation at the office of w. W. EDUCATION,
 Municipal Treasurer.
The daily Alaskan., 1906-07-06

Jenks-T've just given a hundred TOT this diamond ring for the missls. Jonks-It's a beauty. But isn't it rather-er-eNtravagant? Jenks-Not a bit Think what 1t will save in gloves.-LOndou Tatler.
The daily Alaskan., 1906-07-06
Now Open

The Railroad restaurant Is now open for business. Meals for $ cents andup, from 6 8. n. to < D. ID.
 John Williams, Proprietor
 Broadway, near Depot
The daily Alaskan., 1906-07-06
Principal Barbsr Shop Leads

The Principal Barbershop and Baths is the leading tOnSOrial establishment it. Alaska. Everything in all the de- partmentS is strictly modern. The baths are first class in all respects.
The daily Alaskan., 1906-07-06
Maniouring and Massagiug

Miss M. Ii. Martin will do manicur' ing and masSaging, also sewing by the day. State street, between Third and Fourth avenues. Phone l+T t-f
The daily Alaskan., 1906-07-06
Vented

An intelligent houSekeeper, white, 7:SO, 4th avenue. 2t
The daily Alaskan., 1906-07-06
Nonsense Reasoning.

Hes a conventional sort of fellow" Naturally"
 "Why sOE"
 He attends all the conventional Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-22
New Phase In the War

H URING the past four weeks there
has been a most significant de-
- velopment in the rivalry between
the two theatrical syndicates, the Klaw
& Erlanger and the Shubert. Hereto
fore Klaw & Erlanger, serene in their
undoubted great strength, have looked
have built theaters of all degrees of
consistency from paper to everlasting
granite and steel.
Suddenly Klaw & Erlanger have
changed their tactics. They have allied
with themselves the powerful Stair
Havlin syndicate and in Ohio and In
diana are going after the Shuberts
hard Strange to say, 1T is to be vau-
deville war. Anderson & Ziegler, vau-
deville managers, having a large cir
cult of houses in Cincinnati, Indian
apolis and other cities, have been lend
ing considerable aid to the Shuberts.
Now Klaw & Erlanger have made ar
rangements to have opposition vaude-
vile houses in every town where there
is an Anderson & Ziegler theater Stair
Havlin houses will be utilized when
possible, and when not, new theaters
will at once be built. John H. Havlin
made the assertion in Cincinnati last
week that it would be battle royal.
Thus the Shuberts have forced two
new features into the theatrical situa-
tion. The first is that Klaw & Erlanger
are now in the vaudeville business for
the first time in their history. The sec
ond is that there now exists far closer
alliance between Klaw & Erlanger and
Stair & Havlin than ever before.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-22
HoTcHKIss BEAUTIES IN "LITTLE TROOPER

pany will present for the opening bill
a humorous musical comedy entitled
THE King of Catalina Island" which
is full of that delightful nonsense that
the amusement seekers love so well.
Messrs. O'Brien and West, who have
been so popular with patrons of Fisch-
er's, have been re-engaged and will be
seen as the king and prince. Miss
Bonnie May will be the leading lady of
the new company. Miss Beatrice Cold
en- will be the new soubrette. James
Diamond, famous for his acrobatic
dancing, will also be seen in comedy
roles. e.t
NSON'S-Tomorrow evening at
Dobinson'S auditorium the Shakes
peare club of this city and friends
will assemble to do homage to Con-
stance Crawley and her English COM
pany and assist in celebrating Shakes
peare's birthday. The program select
ed by Miss Crawley and her players
will be divided into two parts-the first
half of the evening being devoted to
AN Episode from Hamlet" in which
Miss Crawley plays the part of the
Moody Dane, with Margaret Bucklin as
the queen and Arthur Maude as the
king. For the latter part of the even
ing The Tragedy of Juliet" with Miss
Crawley as Juliet, will be considered.
Allen Leiber will be seen as Romeo.
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA - Next
Friday afternoon at the Mason theater
the symphony orchestra will present
the sixth and last concert of this years
symphony season. The program in
cludes Mendelssohn's famed "Reforma-
| tion Symphony" and Wieniawski's well
known Second Concerto in D Minor"
and Elgars march, "Pomp and Circum-
stance" A feature will be a compost
ton by M. F. Mason. one of the SYM
phony bassoon players, the subject be-
ing a symphony Overture in D
Minor" The soloist will be the concert
master of the organization, Arnold
| KrausS.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-22
Bernhardf to Come

TT Is now an assured fact that
Madame Sarah Bernhardt will give
three performances in Southern
California, opening on Thursday night,
May "a, in Victorien Sardou's great
drama in five acts, La Sorciere." The
stage music which runs through this
entire production is written by M.
Xavier Leroux. angelo" a drama in
five acts by Victor Hugo, with "Payane
and Madrigal," by Reynando Hahn, had
been selected, but many requests have
been sent in to the various editors of
the local press for Alexander Dumas
famous LA Dame aux Camelias." For
the Friday night performance "Phe-
dre," tragedy in five acts. by Racine,
has been scheduled. The price of re-
served seats will be 50 to SIS, according
to location, and a round trip ticket on
the various roads will be included in
this price, so that the transportation
really becomes nothing to the person
purchasing his admission ticket.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-22
Coming Attractions

MASON OPERA HOUSE-Beginning
tomorrow night at the Mason opera
house will be presented Charles Klein's
clay of American life 1.-The Lion and
the Mouse" Mr.. Klein, who is also
the author of THE Music Master" has
in "The Lion and the Mouse written
play that has been everywhere ac-
cepted as the nearest like to the great
American play for which we have all
been waiting. John Ryder is the real
power behind a railroad trust men,
aced by hostile legislation. One man
alone, Judge Rossmore, is incorruptible
This public servant Ryder has sworn
to ruin. Judge Rossmore is impeached
and about to be tried The judge has
daughter named Shirley, who writes
books. One just published has made
sensation. In the form of autobiog-
raphy 1t is scathing attack on the big
gest figure in modern finance. Recog-
nizing in 1t an un1attering but true
portrait Of himself, Ryder sends for the
anonymous author, who, realizing she
may thus find some way to help her
father, obeys the summons. From this
point on the story of the play is alb
sorbingly dramatic and intensely inter-
esting. 1t will be enacted by a COM
pany which comprises Gertrude Cogh-
Ian, Arthur Byron, George Parsons
Joseph Kilgour, Grace Thorne. Flora
Juliet Bowley A. S. Lipman, Edith
Shayne, Edward See. Florence Gerald
w. H. Burton, P. S. Barrett, Lillian
Dix and Ada Curry.
BELASCO-Margaret Langham will
fall heir to another of Maude Adams
fayorite roles at the Belasco theater
this week when the stock company
will play Mrs. Frances Hodgson Bur-
nett's delightful romance of Spain,
fThe Pretty Sister of Jose" Miss
Adams personally selected this play
Tor her re-entry into active theatrical
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-22
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS '.'.'1a1! Observation-Disclosures
NOTES BY THE
MATINEE MAN

Harrison King, leading man of the
Ulrich stock company at the Grand
opera house, is the latest matinee hero
in Los Angeles, and reigning favorites
will have to look to their laurels with
this new aspirant in the field. King is
one of the few leading men who needs
absolutely no makeup in order to play
the average leading roles, and his
dressing room is unique in the absence
of grease paint, powder and that black
concoction used to make heavy eye
brows and long lashes where they
aren't He is striking figure always,
and melodrama in his hands receives
new Interpretation.
1t is hard to record it but it is true
that Miss May Irwin may appear in a
comedy of the better sort next season.
Ever since the comedienne left Daly's,
year ago, many of her admirers have
been urging her to abandon the frivo-
lous farce and create a worthy part.
Miss Irwin has now under considera-
ton a comedy by a new English play
wright, Reginald w. B. Pinero, rel
ative of the illustrious Arthur Wing.
Miss Irwin regards young Pinero's play
highly, and it is possible she will ap-
pear in 1t next season--if she decides
on another season of stage work.
"The gentle art of being clown
have you noticed that it has almost dis
appeared? Ferry Convey, the musical
clown at the Orpheum, is notably the
only performer there is in many months
who has suggested the quaint panto-
mimic gyrations of the old time PAN
taloon."
Manager Blackwood of the Belasco
oIi VeSter-
day:
.'Dayid Belasco said this very true
thing the other day:
Managers who find fault with ad-
verse vriticism are usually the ones
who look through several columns OF
report, fasten on one unfavorable aa-
| iectiye and completely ignore the col
umns of praise in which it forms a SIN
gle remonstrative note. The criticism
may contain paragraph after para
graph of clear commendation; then
comes a sentence asking whether sucn
and such a feature might not be bet
| tered, and instantly the manager is up
! in arms because every word and phrase
fails to ring with acclaim. The mo-
ment he does this he loses his dignity
| and makes himself fair game for rldl-
cule.'"
And now they say that Senator Clark,
officially of Montana, socially OF New
York, is a sponsoring angel for Ruth
st. Denis, bare waist and bare-leg
dancer of the stage. Here is the way
it happened according to Len Behymer's
version of 1t:
Miss st. Denis was announced for a
Sunday vaudeville entertainment six
weeks ago and at the last hour was
withdrawn because an unexpected agi-
| tation Of the Sabbath law made 1t like
| ly that the nature of her performance
would bring on police raid. She next
tried to introduce herself to the public
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-22
Z CONSTANCE cRAWLEY-siMPsoN

sophisticated. These audiences want
novelties all the time and the men
in the business who have money are
willing to spend it in large sums in
order that they may give the public
what it wants. sd
by listing the things that are now
done in vaudeville it will be possible
features, many of which draw hand
somely, but which lack the quality of
Eewness. While these are always in
demand to a certain extent, they do
not fall into the province of the nov
elites for which the managers q are
seeking.
"Monologists are a staple in vaude-
Vile. Men like Charley Case, Ezra
Kendall, Marshall p. Wilder and some
others, get big money. A brand new
monologist might make the biggest kind
of hit but he would be a monologist
still and would not be a distinct novelty.
There are any number of singing acts,
tenors, sopranos, sister acts, duets,
quartets and choruses. Therefore a
singing act would not have the re-
quisite newness. Acrobats are plentiful
and so are magicians. Some magic
acts like Herrman's, for instance, are
so mounted and presented that they
are far more attractive than an
ordinary exhibition of magic could be.
Still, magic Is the base of the act, and
the man or woman who wants to get
rich at the expense of the vaudeville
managers will have to look elsewhere.
sketches are plentiful too. Will M.
Cressy of the team of Cressy & Dane
is one of the best sketch writer's in
America. Edmund Day, who write his
sketches as we'll as acts them, is APP
other leader. Ezra Kendall has written
several sketches so for novelty the
sketch must be dismissed.
animal acts fill the woods. Trained
horses like Jim Key and trained
troupes like Merians dogs all get big
money and as they are filling the field
an animal act would have to be a won
der to gain audience on the ground of
novelty.
Dare devil acts, like looping the
loop on a bicycle or riding motor cycles
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-22
Wanted: New Stunts

NEW ideas are more valuable in
v vaudeville. perhaps than in any
other line of work, according to
Manager Clarence Drown of the
Orpheum theater.
If anyone has a new idea, the place
to market it is with the vaudeville
managers and booking agents. With
them new idea is worth its weight
in gold.
Anyone who can produce novelty
that will thrill, amuse, enlighten or
otherwise interest an audience for q
period of from twelve to thirty min
utes can find ready buyer" said Mr..
Drown. 1T is worthy of note that
some of the biggest money-making acts
in vaudeville have been invented by
persons who had no previous knowledge
of the stage or its requirements.
This should be an incentive to any
body who thinks that he has struck
a new ddea in entertainment. The
great singers Of the day have all re-
ceived flattering offers from vaudeville
booking agents. But the great market
value of celebrities is not the oldest
thing about this business nor Is II
the high salaries that are paid to heal
liners in vaudeville. The most curious
thing is the dearth of new material
which the booking agent of vaudeville
circuit has confronting him. The op-
portunities that exist for those persons
who can originate something out of the
ordinary, whether they are at present
connected with the stage or not, are
wonderful. Brand new sensations are
what are demanded and for those any
manager is willing to pay we'll
Here at the Orpheum our audiences
are made up for the most part of men
and women who are regular patrons
thoroughly familiar with all that has
been done in vaudeville, and absolutely
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-22
THERE will be no grand opera sea

son in Los Angeles this year
there is no grand opera company
to give it. The Conreid organization was
in the San Francisco disaster, and Is
scattered to the four winds. Caruso, he
of the golden voice, Sembrich, Melba--
all these are in the lists of the unac-
counted for; the remnants have been
packed on a train and sent back east.
The scenery, properties and costumes
are burned. The San Francisco re-
ceipts are in bank under tons of de-
bris. and none knows who Will get
them, when, nor where.
AS to the sales in Los Angeles, our
own Jack Blackwood has a hand In
them, and at the proper time, due an
nouncement of a disposition of the
ynoney will he made. In the meanwhile
it has been suggested that the fund go
to the relief of the San Francisco suf-
ferers, and the idea is fine one. What
say the ticket purchasers?
The Mason announces THE Lion and
the Mouse" for tomorrow night, and has
not cancelled the booking. Tomorrow it
t0ined whether or not 1t
can be given.
The San Francisco cataclysm has
been little less than haru Dlow to the
local playhouses; they have been al
most deserted. People are in no mood
for gayety during such times of afflic-
tion. But the plans of the house will
be carried out as announced. Possibly
the Orpheum will have to make a few
changes, but none is announced.
Nothing now is known regarding the
Bernhardt engagement at Venice. She
was to have played San Francisco, but
of course this is out of the question. 1t
is doubtful if she will come to the coast
without San Francisco dates.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-22
Hard on Maxine

Az AxINE ELLIOTT was victim
V of the bill posters revenge in
Pittsburg.
She was Mortified on Monday. when
she reached the Smoky City, to see her
paper ruthlessly mixed up with that of
an organization of which Sydney Toler
is the star. AS laid over the billboards
and dead walls of the town where the
steel comes from, the bills read:
Miss Maxine Elliott
In Clyde Fitch's greatest comedy,
How Baxter Butted In"
Even the beautiful have their trou-
bles.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-22

around a ball on the stage have been
done for several years. OF trick wheel
riders there are scores. Hoop rollers,
too, are numerous and handcuff kings,
men who can get out of any lock-, are
numerous too.
Science has contributed largely to
vaudeville. There have been exhibit
tions of wireless telegraphy, liquid air
and of the other phenomena recently
discovered by scientists. So unless the
aspirant for vaudeville fame and for
tune can think of an entirely novel
scientific act, he will have his trouble
for nothing.
1.-The illustrated song sheet, the acts
in which young women work with
pickaiinnies, (known in the vernacular
as 'picksO artistic art poses, which
are a development of the old style
living picture, acts in which the singer
is helped by a chorus and acts which
require the services of entire choirs and
orchestras, none of them are new.
Still the vaudeville managers, ever
alert for an act that will bring money
to their houses, are searching for
new acts that. will replace the
barefoot dancers, the girl with the
red domino, that has aroused such in-
terest in New York in the past few
months, the man with the magic ket-
Tie anu olHerS tHdt are NOW OH Vne tcL
crest of popularity. The only passport
to a managers attention and the chance
to have the act tried out, is a new idea. u
----S~
In an Indian newspaper appeared an
advertisement: How to cure red noses
permanently; absolute secrecy; send rs
Cd and stamped envelope" Many
ladies, thinking their noses pinker thar
was becoming, wrote, and on opening
their stamped envelope read: 60 or
drinking until it becomes purple"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-22

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Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-22
The Weeks Bills

Mason-"The Lion and the Mouse.
Belasco-"Pretty Sister of Jose
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. F'rietchie.
Hotchkiss-"A Little Trooper"
Orpheum-Vaudev
Fischer's-Vaudev
Grand-"The Sign of the Four"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-14
AN UMBRELLA SHED
MODERN INVENTION FOR USE AT
RAILWAY STATIONS.

For the benefit of those who do not know
what an umbrella she'd Island they prob
ably include every one except a few archi-
tects and railway men-The Star obtained q
description Of one of the modern sheds that
was put UP as q demonstration by the
architects. The umbrella shed looks like no
sort OF an umbrella, unless II might be one
that had been caught in a March zephyr
and turned partially wrong side out.
The sheds are built in pairs and stand
either between the tracks or in the middle
of the platforms. There are all sorts and
varieties of Them but the principle is the
same In all-two sheds built on opposite
sides of the train. with their uptilted roofs
nearly touching over the top of the cars
Rain and snow drain down the sloping
sides of the shed and are carried off by
gutter in the middle and pipes that run
down through the hollow supporting pillars
OF course, the shed may be as long as the
case requires, and If there is to be a new
track added, one more shed can be tackled
on TO the side and thus take In the new
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-14

track 1t is a sort of elastic book case
system applied to railway sheds
Roof Construction.
The roof OF the shed may be built as
nearly of glass as the exigencies Of the
case demand and the slit in the roof be-
tween each pair OF sheds carries off the
smoke and gases. The railways admit that
the umbrella shed is much cheaper to build
than the old glass-covered train shed But
they claim also with considerable SHOW OF
reason, that it is at the same time more
sanitary ard satisfactory in every way, The
theory seems TO be all right, and If that
type of shed could manage to get dirtier
and stay dirtier than the old railway sta
ton il must be possessed of hidden posi-
bilities that do not appear on the surface.
The umbrella shed is built but little higher
al its highest point than the maximum
train height that 1t is intended to cover.
Consequently it can be reached to clean
from the inside and out. On the other
hand, the immense old classified steel
truss roof, which was much more expensive
was practical impossibility ever to clean
1t. Usually 1t was built good and high.
with a certain number of openings for ven
tiIation and the smoke and SCOT was al
lowed to accumulate from year to year and
fall down on the passengers when. it could
stick to the roof no longer.
This type of shed is new thing, and about
the only road In the country that is actually
putting them in is the Lackawanna at Ho-
boken. They have been adopted for new
construction work by the Northwestern
and they are to be used at Cleveland and
Chicago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-14
Down River Grade Changes.

The gasoline power launch Edward, Capt.
Alec Ashton, and the tug d. VI. Key. Capt.
Frank KNIT, has towed from Piscat-
away creek. below Fort Washington.
into Little Hunting creek a big raft CT
pine piling. which is 10 be used in the con-
struction OF a new trestle across that
stream for the Mt. Vernon division OF the
railway line. Within the past six or eight
months the entire railway track OF the
Mt. Vernon road from Riverside Park %
Mt. Vernon has been rebuilt and a steep
grade has been eliminated on what was
known as the Mt. Vernon hill. In order
to do this II was necessary TO raise the
grade of the road from Riverside TO beyond
Little Hunting creek. and 10 lower the
road bed at Mt. Vernon. The new treSue
across the creek is said to be about efgh-
teen feet higher than the one formerly
used, and the grade of the Mt. Vernon mn
has been changed from one that was very
difficult for the cars TO climb 10 mod
crate one that the cars go up without diff
fculty and without strain upon the motors.