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The Washington times., 1906-07-15

Cseorsie Cohan is not an egoust, He
-s1,z 50 himself I'm the birthday issue Of
the Spot Light wherein he celebrates MS
tu,ertv-eighth birthday. And If he's had
the pleasure of his own acquaintance
for tweuty-ight years he ought 10 know
StU he's a mighty good imitation OF
one-ands some people are that stupid
+bev can't tell an imitation from the
real article. Egotsts irritate them.
I-,,en imitation egousts irritate them
N-at Goodwin is one of these. He IS
foolish enough To take Cahan's CgOtism
seriously. Hence a change of plans.
Il mad been announced that Nat Good
min would appear during the cominS
sesso, under the management of Cohan
and Harris in a play 10 be called 'Popu-
aritv." which George NJ. was writing
tor II People were hoping the play
yvould be as good as its name tor peo-
,Is Iika Nat. and would be glad to see
him in a regular old time Nat Goodwin
success. again. But it's all on, or II seems
~ be-aII because George, in another
birthday issue of the Spot Lght-tthe
birthday OF the paper not OF Georsle)-
remarks that Nat Goodwin ray rem
nleton. Victor Moore, Thomas w. Ross
George NJ. Cohan, and Lulu GlaSet are
all running in one stable
And now it is told on the Riaito that
Goodwin wired ali the way from the
state Of Washington:
I am no horse. I want you TO under
stand. and 1 never ran for ANYBODY
and some more to the same effect, but
more directly to the point.
Resides a group picture including
Goodwin. Fay Templeton, Lulu Glaser
Bobby Barry, Victor Moore and Thomas
~. Ross. was published in the same IS
llue With the caption. These are 5omt
The Washington times., 1906-07-15
COhan. Goodwin and a Few Others

of the people under the business man
aoeuent of Cohan and Harris Good
win also objected TO this, as he is under
the management of George Applegtt te at
present
So now Cohan and Harris are announc-
ing that they have concluded TO star
Thomas W. Ross in George NJ. Cohan
new pIay, Popularity" which was IN
tended for Nat Goodwin, because. for
gooth Mr.. Cohan decided that the
character needed much younger man
than Mr.. Goodwin"
Which is adding insult to injury BE
sides-as between Ross and Goodwin
..much Younger" doesn't quite apply.
does IL? Goodwin is still on the sunny
side of fifty, and Ross is-well Ross
doesn't figure in who's Who, and the
writer wasn't there at the time-not by
q good many years. Still Ross Is not
so very far on the sunny side. is he, that
ne can afford to let any one hurl rocks
at the genial Nat on that score?
Popularity is to open in Rochester
on September 3. and Cohan and Harris
have engaged Frederic de Balleville TO
support Ross therein. That seems rather
like getting the cart before the horse,
however! As for Goodwin, Just whose
management he is to be under next year
depends upon just how mad he is OF
upon the persuasion powers of c. aud II.
George Cohan. by the way, has been
heard lamenting that he didn't see how
the Chicago bad meat proposition was
TO be dramatized. Georgie had better
keep his hands off. Hadn't he heard thst
Lulu Chaser. one of the aforesaid
horses" that run in his stable has
acquired the dramatic rights to ''The
The Washington times., 1906-07-15

known whether Mr.. Daily will revelve
Mrs. Warren's Profession next season
or not, as he is abroad and has not been
heard from on the subject.
Talk about being up to date, II IS
said that the Ihaw-W White tragedy b
to go on the road. New York hopes Il
viii die before IL gets there" Hear.
Heart
Last Tuesday Charlotte Walker signed
contracts with Edward A Braden 20
play the part Of Constance Pinckney IN
Louis Evan Shipman-s new comedy
"On Parole Mr. Braden states that
ION Parole is a play Of the civil war
CONTINUED on Thirteenth PageJ
The Washington times., 1906-07-15

new George Edwardes production. Bat
now they say that she VIII be back
shortly to begin rehearsais at the old
stand.
Query: Has Marie come 20 terms, or
has JUe2
Here IL something that promises well
for the patrons of, presumably. the
Academy, next season
'In the staging Of Wild Nell Charles
f. BIansy expects 10 present a unique
stage effect. This viii be The first time
that great blizzard scene has ever
The Washington times., 1906-07-15

G. B.. by the way, is rejoicing. audlbly.
in the decision handed down by Judge
Olmsted Of the court or special sessions,
New York, that Mrs. WGTren's Pro
fessiOn" Is not a public nuisance" and
that Arnold DAILY did nothing 10 offend
public taste IN presenting IL. II viii be
remembered that the run was cut short
after the first performance. It is not
The Washington times., 1906-07-15

and Gertrude Elliott tour in a roper
loire which is to Include c. 3. SIS
strange Egypto- Roman play, Caesar
and Cleopatra" and Hamlet and THE
Merchant OF Venice" by that other s.
superfiuous.
The Washington times., 1906-07-15

Pleasant prospect that ehc Reminds
one OF somebody's remark auent Mrs
Fiske's Tess" some years $50. Ihe
nerve OF people, asking a fellow to give
I'D two dollars real money, 10 sit for
two hours and ne narrowed. You don
catch this child doing that again-but
saw. wasn't II great2"
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puerile. Helas!'
e S. Willard is coming oVer-opens
IN Montreal October ]. and viii get
down here in tlme-and, glory be!
there's nothing shoclingly unpleasant
about him and nothing puerlle, either
And even il there We're about him.
there isn't about dear old Colonel New
come SO there Is at least one sweet,
wholesome character 10 he played by
oua strong. finished actor. II Is said
that Willard has been so busy with his
r,reparations FOR his American trip with
Colonel NeWcome," which has been
Reerbohm Trees great English success
this season, that he has had no time for
a vacation. He had promised himself
a restfully idle summer and has had
a very busy one However. as re
suit. he promises the public handsome
and elaborate production. ana com
pany necessarily the largest he has had
In many years. lie has made a num-
her OF special engagements to augment
the company already under contract.
and he viii also bring over with him
choir of Charter House boys.
The most promising purely American
roduction-American play. American
players American playwright. Amer
lean managers-ls the new Klein play
THE Daughters of Men," to be pro
duced in September by Henry y. Harris
A new play by the usan who wrote
The Washington times., 1906-07-15

jungle" ana that Margaret Mayo and
Upton Sinclair are doing the dramauz-
ing There is good deal OF curiosity
as to how they viii make the fearful
things tod Of IN the book fit to present
on the stage. Canned chicken and
sausages. especially such as those pro
duced in Packingtown, hardly lend
themselves TO stage presentation, and
some OF the human products, as exposed
I'm Mr. Slnclair's book. are not much
more savory than the canned products
To go a bit farther West-Florence|
Roberts, long popular on the coast
seems TO have definitely arrived on
Broadway. where she made a personal
hit, though her play. THE Strength of
the Weak" by Charlotte Thompson.
was not very well received. It is now
announced that Miss Roberts viii be
seen in "GiaConda" next season. She
has pIaved IL before-Out West; gave the
first English production of the Dan
nunzio play in San Francisco in 1901.
while Duse is the only other actress
who has ever played It IN this country
Meanwhile. though The Strength OF
the Weak was not very fGVOTably no.
ticed, all sorts of new plays by Char
| lotte Thompson are being announced on
the strength of that (NO; not guilty!
though it took great self-control TO re-
frain from that punD One of these,
| The Duke and the Dancer" has just
/ been tried out a Hartford. Conn, by
/ the Hunter Bradford players, with Julia
Dean in the leading part. Which goes
to show that the American manager
/ is not as shy where the American play
! wright is concerned as the pessimist
would have one believe. In fact, the
hope that springs eternal in the man
ageriaI breast seems in the present fail
ure Of the play crop ready to try out
most anything.
After keeping Broadway in suspense
all the time he was abroad as TO whom
he was going to bring home as his
leading woman. Lew Fields has gone
| and, engaged Edna Wallace Hopper for
that position. And she hasn't any for
eign labels about her at all. 1t is said
/ to accept the position she had to cancel
a forty weeks vaudeville tour for which
she was already booked next season.
! Mrs Hopper. after playing one season
with Lew Fields, is to be starred
under the Shubert management in a
now musical comedy which will be the
work of two well-known New York au-
| thOrS.
Joe Weber-the mention of Fields al
V,avs brings Weber to mind-has landed
William Norris in his net and proposes
to star him in The Strenuous Life
next season. Among others who have
been. egaged to support Norris are An
ME Yeamans and Scott Cooper.
? And. by the way. after all the talk
1t is now said that Marie Dressler will
be a member Of Joe Weber's company
next season as per usual. She is now
/ in Europe. and they did say she meant
10 break her contract with Joe and
} stay there to take q leading part in Z
The Washington times., 1906-07-15

ef q nerra1taao Of the gross receipts 10
the Authors Society has been gTaItel
into the laws OF France. and am told
that when EaruUm q Bailey 3 circus ap-
peaTed in Franco IL war Obliged 70 pay
mis- customary percentage 10 the So
cirry Talk about American the2tr!gai
trusts Compared 10 conditions IN Eu-
rope the American syndicate Is Kin
dercpTten Of Innocence.
Mr.. Klau also says that Cle OF the
raost thoroughly satisfactory trusts ne
has vet encOuutcred-satis 10
itself. that is-was 10 OLD England ana
that that trusts name was George Der
nard Shaw. Presently 10 traugpired tas
our rto9FteFs love 10 ~1yJ that Mare
had been led ro form mis- opinion OF
George ny reason OF The latter ten
aritY az 20 terms
Rut I'm spite Of al this MI hiaW IS
looking forward with peaceful enJhu-
slagm 10 starting or a Forbes Robertson
The Washington times., 1906-07-15
The Celebrated English Actress, Who Is
Coming Over TO Play "The Shula-
mite" One of the Genuine Sensa-
mons of the London Season.

."rEe Music Master" and THE Lion and
the Mouse" the two biggest successes
Of the last two years IS bound 10 be an
event The cast is d biz one and a
good one. including Herbert Kelcey. Eff
he Shannon, Ralph Delmore, OTrln
Johnson. Dorothy DonneIly and a num-
Der OF other Well-l1nOWn people. Sounds
like the days of the old Lyceum, doesn't Z
f. with Kelcey and shannon in promi-
nent places on the program?
1.-THE Music Master" by the way, is
srendine his summer at his cottage in
seabright. y. j.. where he is finding
rest after his long season. He runs IN
to New York occasionally for consulta-
ton with Mr.. BeIasco over plans for the
next season and the more distant fu-
tlre. The run OF The Music Master
will be resumed at the Bijou Theater
On September 1. and the G00th perform
ance win occur on September Z. The
erea cement will be limited to four
weeks only. after which Mr.. Warfeld
win start on his first road tour in nearly
two years. and may in time reach
Washington
The Washington times., 1906-07-15

Klaw-of FQaw & Er1anger-has been
abroad discovering trusts. lie says;
'As a member Of the so-caned 'Theatri-
cal Trust 1 was greatly interested IN
the workings of the French Authors
Society. That society IS the finest cop
per-bottoned steel rIveted trust l ever
encountered. Every manager is oblig-
ed 10 nav a percentage OF his gross re
oeipts to this society whether the play
produced was written by q member Of
the society or not. A manager control
ling several theaters IS not allowed TO
nroduoe more than one play by the
same author at a time. This payment
The Washington times., 1906-07-15
PS|@
Y 9 WIIIAPn
Who Is Coming Over to Play Beerbohm
Trees Big Success, Colonel
NewcOme."

been attempted with a fun stage; it is
70 be a snowstorm such as the Dakota
indians call the white death. Miss
Prescott. who is to star I'm the pro-
ducrion. has been spending the summer
on her uncIe's ranch in Lookout. n ID,
where the scene of the piece is laid, she
has herself made the working models
for the scenes. which viii therefore be
strictly authentic
Manager Lyons certainly won't Yet any
thing as good as that get by him. And
IL r., could produce fl right now-"in the
h,a: of the heated term he'd earn the
plaudits OF a grateful people. and what
is more 10 the point. he'd fiji his house
from orchestra to gallery and back. il
makes one cool 10 think of IL.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-05-29
LOCAL POWER SITUATION.

There has been more or less discus
sion among the people of Yorkville or
late as to the electric power situation
i'm its relation to the contract between
the town and the Catawba Power COM
pany; but as there seems to be very
little general information on the sub
ject. it occurs to The Enquirer that
the publication of a. few facts will not
be out Of place just at this time.
The contract between the town of
Yorkville and the Catawba Power
company covers five typewriter
pages, and includes all the provisions
and conditions that properly belong to
such a paper; but the main and es-
sential features are embodied in few
sentences to this effect: The town
agrees to take and the power company
agrees to furnish not less than sixty
horsepower nor more than hundred
horse power. daily except Sunday, for
a period of five years, at the price OF
$50 per horsepower per annum. The
term horsepower does not appear In
the contract at all; but this is the
equivalent Of the contract and the
shape in which the average individual
will best understand it.
No matter how little power it may
use, the town must pay for sixty horse
power each month, or very nearly that
and the price for same is 1903. If it
should require more power 1t can get
as much as it want up TO 100-horse-
power at the same rate, or for a slight
fraction over $500.
KilOwatt is the unit designation of
the contract. A kilowatt is equal to
1000 watts. A watt is the power re-
quired to lift about three quarters of
a pound one foot i'm one second, and
TAG watts are equal to one -horsepow-
er. A kilowatt therefore, is equal to
very close to one and one-half horse
power.
This contract therefore, as stated. is
in kilowatts. and the town agrees to
take not less than 10000 kilowatts per
month nor more than $4,000 kilowatts
per month. at the uniform price of
cent per kilowatt per hour. To make
this clear to those not familiar with
the terms in use, it is probably worth
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-05-29
ABOUT PEOPLE.

Miss Marie Folger left Saturday
morning for her home in Pickens.
Miss Emma Kennedy arrived a
home this morning from Hardeeville
Miss Fannie Darby of Lowryville Is
the guest of Misses Carrie and Mary
Cartwright.
Miss Mary Williams of winthrop
college, spent Sunday and Monday ir
Yorkville.
Miss Lillian Massey of Rock Hill
was the guest of Mrs. ]. c. Wilborr
Saturday
Miss Marcelle Willis of winthrop
college is the guest of Mr.. NJ. C. vii.
lis's family.
Mr.. C. p. Couch of Durham. N. c..
is in Yorkville on a visit to his daugh.
ter, Mrs. ]. ]. Keller.
Misses Annie and Emma Neil have
returned to their home near Filbert
for the summer vacation.
Misses Marion Nicely and Mary Au.
gusta McFadden of Chester, are guests
of Miss Maggie McFadden.
Misses Kate and Ella Cody attended
the funeral of Mrs. Med. Arledge ir
Charlotte Sunday afternoon.
Miss Grace Stokes returned home
Saturday from Orangeburg county
where she has been teaching school.
Mr.. w. w. Willis of Barnwell coun-
ty, spent Sunday in YOrkville, the
guest of his brother. Mr. NJ. C.. Willis
Mr.. r. C. Caveny and family, of Rock
Hill No. /, attended the funeral cf Mr.
Bufort Matthews at Beersheba Satur-
day.
Mrs. M. B. Jennings returned yester-
day morning from a two weeks visit
to her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ratemar
in Columbia
Mrs. John Miller returned to hel
home in Lancaster yesterday, after
spending a few days in Yorkville with
her sister, Miss Susie May Cloyd.
Mr.. and Mrs Van Law, who have
been spending two weeks quite pleas"
antly with the family of Mr.. |. H. Nor
ris of Yorkville, left yesterday morn
ing on their return to their home al
Arlington, Ill.
Mrs. r. G. Allein left yesterday
morning for Washington on a visit tC
friends in that city and in Virginia
She was accompanied by her daugh-
ters, Misses Lula and Frances, and ex-
poets to be away about two weeks.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-05-29

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Dr. M. w. White-Wants a few shares
of First National Bank stock at 112
]. b. Bigger, Admr.-Gives notice tC
debtors and creditors of Fannie V
Bigger deceased, to make settlement
with him.
First National Bank-Advises you to
diversity your crops and deposit
your money with it to insure pros
perity.
]. D. Mcdowell, Chairman-Gives no.
tice of annual school meeting to be
held i'm the court house. June 14th.
Miller Drakeford, Agent-Solicits youl
laundry business for the Snowflake
laundry on the merits of it's work.
Star Drug Store-Announces that un-
til June I'd, DR.. A. Littman will test
the sight and fit glasses. Examina-
tions are free.
j. j. Keller & Co.-Ask you to see
them about builders hardware be-
fore buying.
York Drug Store-Asks you to remem-
Der that it's phone Is No. "a, and tells
you to use it when you have wants.
Sam NJ. Grist, Special Agent-Says
that the best life insurance contract
is written by the Mutual Benefit Life
Insurance company.
Thomson Co.-CallS attention to va
rious grades of English long Goth
Egyptian and diamond dimity, white
oXfords, etc.
Loan and Savings Bank-Sets forth
the advantages Of managing house
hold finances with the aid of a bank
account.
Strauss Smith Co.-Invites you to SEE
its stock of spring and summer
clothing. 1t promises best values
for your money.
J. Q. Wray, The Leader-Reminds his
customers that he is constantly re-
ceiving new goods, and calls atten-
tion to seasonable articles.
York Supply Co.-Sets forth the mer-
it's of the Sanders disc plow. 1t is
guaranteed to do good work with two
mules to pull 1t.
Victor Cotton Oil Co.-Wants to buy
200 good heart cedar posts.
Foushee Cash Store-Calls attention tc
it's neckwear sale and dress making
department.
l. w. Johnson-Reminds you of his
having Tetley's teas. Chase & San
born's coffees, crackers, waters, and
Swift's hams and breakfast strips.
Withers Adickes-Invites attention tC
seasonable goods at competitive
prices. He has glassware, crockery
flavoring extracts, pineapples, lem
onS, etc.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-05-29
WITHIN THE TOWN.

Prof ]. c. Allen has purchased a
part of the Snider lot on Jefferson
street and is arranging to build home
thereon.
- The work of overhauling the Ma
sonic lodge room Is nearing compile
ton, and when 1t is done it will be
highly creditable to all concerned, es-
pecially to Mr.. A. B. Gaines, Who had
an opportunity to give some small ex-
hibition of his artistic ability. The
room has been papered with a very
pretty pattern of blush tinted paper
carrying Masonic emblems, and the
various stands have been beautifully
upholstered, while other articles ol
furniture have been freshened up with
paint and gilt. 1t is a handsome jot
throughout. Along with the lodge
room, Mr.. Witherspoon is completing
the whole upper story of the building.
Policemen Sanders and Love, ac-
companied by Deputy Sheriff Quinn
arrested a negro bling tiger in the
western part OF TOWN. last SATURDAY al
ternoon. They had gotten information
of two negroes having gotten jugs
through the express office, and on fol-
lowing the matter UP found the ne
groes retailing whisky to thirsty GUS
toners. Upon the approach of the Of
ficers, the negroes broke for the woods
Mr.. Quinn. who is quite a sprinter, fol-
lowed at a long start behind and
caught Dan Jones. The other got
away. Mayor Hart gave Jones thirty
days or $50. He took the days. A
negro woman named Milly Ward was
recently sentenced to pay fine of $5(
or go to Jail for thirty days for SELL
ing whisky. She is now in Jail.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-05-29
LITTLE NEGRO PISTOL FIEND.

A little negro boy. aged about fif-
teen, and named Frank Wilson has
been a source Of more or less uneasi-
ness to the people Of the Chapel
neighborhood Of Kings Mountain
township for some time past on ac-
count of the vicious use he has been
making of a pistol that is in his pos
session, and Sheriff Brown is anxious
to get him in custody. The boy has
been making himself a menace to the
community for some months and there
has been a warrant out for his arrest
since last fall.
The complaint Is that the boy is
in the habit of holding people up on
the road, abusing them and without
provocation firing at them. He has fir
ed his pistol at no less than three diff
ferent negroes at different times and
has drawn the weapon on several
more. When some Of his victims
complained to the authorities and
swore out a warrant he went into hid
ing and the officers have been finding
it difficult to get within sight Of him.
Learning yesterday afternoon that
the boy was on a plantation in the
Chapel neighborhood, Sheriff Brown
took Depuy Sheriff Quinn and pro-
ceeded to the place indicated, gather
ing up on the way Messrs S. c. Smith.
j. B. Parrott and ]. @. Hall, all eager
to assist in the capture of the little
imp.
Arrived in the neighborhood, the
sheriff and his posse held conference
and decided to attempt to surround
the negro. Messrs. Parrott, Hall and
Smith started on the necessary de-
tours, leaving the sheriff to hold his
position at the starting point; but be-
fore the plan was carried out fully
the little negro got on to something
doing. and broke to run. His course
was in the direction of Messrs. Hall
and Parrott; but they had not come
quite into position, and they were un-
able to get closer than fifty Of sixty
yards. Mr.. Parrott fired at the boy
twice with a shot gun and sprinkled
him with No. shot, knocking his hat
out of his hand. The others fired with
pistols but it was to intimidate rather
than to hit. The boy kept running
and the posse followed him about
three miles, catching occasional
glimpses as he passed from thicket to
thicket until he was finally lost.
Before the officers went on the boy
they had been reliably informed that
he had boasted of having two good
pistols and that he intended to die
before he would be arrested. He also
threatened that if he should be killed
somebody would go along with him.
The members OF the posse do not
think that the little negro could have
been very badly hurt by the birdshot
with which he was hit; but at the
same time they think he may find 1t
necessary to get somebody to help him
pick the shot out of his skin, and the
sheriff will be very glad to receive
further information as to his where-
abouts.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-05-29
Revolution In Russia.

The political troubles that have so
long been brewing in Russia and
which have been growing more and
more acute during the past few years
have about reached a crisis, and from
the developments of the past few days
it seems that the beginning of the end
is now i'm sight. Within the next few
weeks the rule of the people will have
virtually been established or blood will
be flowing throughout the empire un-
der conditions. the like of which have
not been witnessed in the world since
the days of the French revolution.
1t is now a question of liberty or
revolution.
To inquire when the present move
ment started would be more or less idle
for the inquiry would take us back in
to the ShadOwy ages when the spirit
of liberty first began to take root in
the soul of man; but during the past
few years, helped along by the recent
war. events have been moving forward
the reach of ordinary conception.
The movement for representative
form of government has taken shape
during the past year or two. The car
has granted concession after conces-
sion without realizing their signifi-
cance. 1t looks as if he has had an
idea that he could give to the people
anything he chose and take it back as
he saw proper; but the people have
been holding on to every concession,
and while it is apparent that the czar
and his advisers are now becoming
thoroughly alarmed it does not appear
that they yet fully appreciate the sit
uatiOn.
The idea of the Russian people has
been to reorganiZe the government