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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-24

According to the dispatches the. New
York 400" were trimmed out of some
millions of dollars during the recent
bear raids i'm Wall street. Think of the
misery that is going to entail on a lot
of innocent people. We shudder when
We endeavor to contemplate it, Dear
Gladys may have to get along with only
thirty or forty French gowns. Poor
mama may be obliged to give up that
100000 necklace she had counted on
buying. Harold will have to worry
through another season with the yacht
he used last year, and papa. well papa
viii have to sit up nights looking for
a chance to get even. Oh. the pity of it
all!
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-24

Renters of boxes in the Salt Lake
pOstoffice will now have a splendid OPP
pOrtunity to show their dissatisfaction
rentals. They can secure boxes in the
Murray postofice, where the rent has
been lowered. We always did think
Salt Lake was too close to Murray tc
ever make much of town
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-24

Our subterranean contemporary an
nounces that ii boosts" all the time.
cid 1t might go straight on to the center
of the earth.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-24

Has it occurred to you that the coun-
try is running along about the same as
usual? The knowledge will be a SAD
blow to ]. P. Morgan, Speaker Cannon
and Senator Aldrich. all of whom are
out of the United States just now. It
does beat all how our little old ship of
state manages to keep right on sailing,
no matter who goes overheard.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-24

The king of Siam has started on an
extended trip. Italy being his first stop
ping place. AS his majesty is accompa-
unl1ind enough to suggest that a dele
cation from Utah should meet the party
in New York, in the event that a deci-
sion to visit the United States is ar
rived at
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-24
Italian Actors Debut in New York
BY FRANKLIN FYLEs.

may have been a momentaTy shock
when, in a frock that transferred all
convexity from breast to back, an
apron with strings that made an ungfrt
walstline slope from front TO rear, her
hair smoothed down from center
parting, and Redeemed arms tapering
down TO begTimed hands. But a second
look found her face undisfigured. and
when she spoke it was with the SPELL
Dnndlng cadence of her own voice in
correct pronunciation. 1 can't tell you
that Ethel can't take on an English
charwoman's accent. or that she won't,
put l assure you that she doesn't [. First
ly, she is Ethel Barrymore, the PAM
pered actress, ana only secondly is she
Mrs Jones, the charwoman.
The play of THE Silver Box" by
John Galsworthy, is bald liberalism. 1t
might have been Photographed and
photographed from life, without a
heightening touch to disc or negative.
The son of a member of parliament
comes home drunk in the night, and
is helped in by the idle inebriate, wife
beating husband of the charwoman
employed in the same house. The young
profiigate maunders off to sleep on a
lounge. The older drunkard gets away
with silver cigarette box and a purse
tull OF money. The charwoman cleans
UP the room in the morning and, there
fore, Is suspected of the theft. A de-
tectiVe officer goes to her lodging and
hnds the box and the purse, for her
husband has brought them there. She
IS arrested as the thief. He accuses
himself to save her. In a magistrates
court she is acquitted, and he is con-
demned. That is all
Yet that is not all. The play exposes
London contrasts of privileged wealth
ana tortured poverty. The thief who goes
to Jail is man made brutally desperate
oy want of work. The young profligate
from whom he steals is a thief too, be-
cause he, for spite. stole the purse from a
the friendless thief got punishment while
the thief with a member of parliament
FOR a father went free
Ihis drama is lucid, explicit. utterly I'M
romdnuc-a strong piece Of writing to
show deplorable phases Of life with ruth
less truth No saving grace of love. pity
or any humane feeling Is more than faint
~ visible. Selfishness is kept dominant
" IN sight. and the pitiful char-wOman.
turned away by her employers thrashed
by her husband, bears the brUnt of all
the misconduct and mischances- Nor is
there any comforting suggestion of bet
terment for her or her pitiful kind. When
the curtain falls, an adjournment of the
court leaves her alone in the center of the
room, utterly helpless, and with no hope
of saving her children from being sent TO
a charity institution. I wonder if her
wretchedness. duplicated daily thousands
of times among the 1900, 900 of New York
ers. affects the appetites Of those who go
from this play directly to midnight sup
pers in the sybarite restaurants.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-24

Secretary Shaw is afraid calamity
will follow the agitation for the regula-
ton of corporations. Well. there isn't
going to be enough of the secretarys
boom for the presidential nomination
to warrant any thought of regulating it
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-24

The fact that the late Thomas Bailey
AIdrich, the poet, left a fortune must
tive TO others to engage in poetry as a
gainful occupation. Mr.. Aidrich inher-
tied his fortune. and he was lucky to
have kept it through his life.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-24

Trusts are for the peoples good, s.
DIR. Lyman Abbot is quoted as saying.
We move to amend by inserting after
the word good" the word money
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4

Are we coming to a point in the making
OF song and dance plays where a libret-
list with any originality worth mention
ing will be abolished. and his former
functions will be absorbed by a stage di-
rector, who will put together things de-
rived from various sOuTces2 And when
a portion of the show. being bad. has to
be eliminated. or, being good, gets worn
out, this patcher and mender will shop
around iii the vaudeville market for bar
gains and values in new material -Four
musical shows have stayed months in
Broadway theatres. | have taken a sec
Ond look at them. One las a RooseVeltan
Interpolation. You know that for two
seasons the Sammy stunt has gone It's
way from comic opera down to varieties.
The start of il was a sOubrette aiming her
amatOry solicitations at a. SAT- my, whom
she identified as a man in box to his
discomfort and the audiences diversion.
Late. a confederate was placed to re-
cSive the actress attentions with a spot
light focused on him. Still later, in the
purlieus of female burlesque. the SOU
brette sprang into a box and kissed the
occupant. That's a fact. | saw it lately
in a theatre within a thousand feet Of
Broadway. What | set out to tell. though,
is that Anna Held has revived the Sam
my idea in that street of dramatic re-
nOwn with a Teddy bear. She implores
some man in the parquet front, not to
COON and play weez me- as she used to-
but to COON and be my Teddy bear
the point of it being lido you catch itD
that a bear named after our strenuous
president should be more than an ordi-
naTilV heariSh huoger
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-24

! saw two boxes full of millionaire par
ties on the night that the Glorious Gren-
adiers were put into a current show
These mock soldiers are eight tall young
women of the English type, varying in
faces between prettiness and beauty, but
similarly symmetrical in forms. The
stage at their entrance is set for a mill
tary bivouac at night, with a campfire
Pickering its light on group of soldiers
in the uniforms of the British grenadier
guards. When they sing a song in the
dimness their voices betray their sex; and
then. when a sudden sunrise illumines
them. they are seen to wear uniforms
feminiZed in the usual toy soldier man.
ner of stage extravaganza. Their display
has four scenes, with set OF costumes
for each, ana they sing, march, go
through with sabre drill, become mil
itary band and are led throughout by a
very lively officer, who looks like one of
DuMaurier's tall young ladies IN Punch
who has kindly stepped out of ner skirts
TO let us see just how much of her length
is made OF legs. The ratio of limb to
body is quite as high as could have been
expected-something like 50 10 80. should
say. She keeps on sweet smile. an Eng
lish accent and a Belgravia drawing room
manner, and her suggestion OF aristocratic
gentility is so distinct that II by chance
she should glance down and see ner lack
of petticoats the spectators would expect
her to fly the stage in dismay- But she IS
totally oblivious of her state or tights;
and who would be impolite enough TO ten
her? But suppose a mouse should get
loose on that stage, and she with no
elr .rfa to oral
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-24

A third exhibition of singing girls is
contrastingly American in design ana eX-
ecutiOn. 1t begins with ounco Joke on
the audience. The program says that the
scene will be theatres dressing ROOM
with the company making up for per-
Torrance; and the promise is kept, put IN
way that suggests green goods ana golo
bricks A dozen choTisters are there, out
only their hands and arms are visible oy
being thrust through holes in curtain;
and the making up consists OF painting
their visages to represent Inc uos-laceu
boy. tattooed man. bearded LADY, missing
link and other freaks of sideshow-in
which guises they afterward appear fuli
length to go through with appropriate
antics. Having thus disfigured themselves
for fun. they are permitted 10 tahe OH
their grotesqueries and look the pest tney
are able to in seashore bathlng sults
Thus unencumbered. they sing and dance
awhile in a lightweight style. But the
display Of them ends in derormlty. iheS
back up against the canvas surf ana rap-
Der tubes are attached to valves in their
alright costumes. which by initiation rat
ten them to rotundity-not their oodles
only, but their legs and arms as Wen
and they blow out their cheeks 10 COM
plete the phenomena of fatty degsnera-
ton in show girls. displayed in ballet
of obesity.
play upon a word. dramatization Of
a pun. a stage entertainment evolved from
a Joke is The Shoemaker. A copbisr
shop in the Bowery has for years pla-
carded in its window the adage, ITS new
er too late to mend" Joe WEIGH is an
actor of Jewish eccentric character who
desired to lift his work. like David War
field. from vaudeville into drama. he
saw that members bid for jobs, and
said to himself that night there was the
password for his entrance to the iegiu-
mate theatre. He would make his Jew
a shoemaker in a play keynoted to the
oueer-ouoted proverb. '.It's never too late
to mend" He took the idea to Hal Reid,
a writer of many dramas, and The Shoe
maker Is the outcome. II begins in
cobbler's Bowery basement shop with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-12
IS NOW PLANNING
 TO GET HIM ONE.
Young Man Changes Ills Tune After Chatting With Some old
 Friends.

You'll never catch me getting that way over a woman." rema ked a young man yesterday afternoon in speaking about how fond a certain young hus- band was of his wife. No, you will never find me tied up to one of them"
 Early last night this same young man was walking down the street wh en he met a young couple who had just returned from their honeymoon. He stopped and chatted for while, and as he moved off turned and look ed back at the happy pair with a wistful look In his eyes.
 He walked on and In the next block met up with another young couple who had not been married much over a month. He stopped and chatted a while, then moved off and, as he had done before, turned and gave them a real sure enough wistful look.
 He went on to the end of the block and as he was crossing the street met another young couple who had Just re- turned from heir honeymoon one sh ort week ago. He also stopped this pair and chatted a while, then walked on.
 AS before, he turned and looked after them with q very longing look in his eyes and muttered to himself, "durned if I don't get me one."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-12
DRAKE INSTALLED
 HEAD OF COUNCIL
TRADE ORGANIZATION PLEDGES ITSELF TO Do ALL IN ITS POW FER FOR PUBLIC LIBRARY-lN- TEREsTlNG MEETING HELD.

The Birmingham Trades Council met in regular session at 2:SO p. m. in the council hall on Twentieth street yes terday. J. o. Jacobs, the retiring presi- dent, called the meeting to order, and after the roll call of officers and dele gates obligated delegations from the local unions of horseshoers, bartenders' local No. PAS, and plumbers union No. 91.
 The newly elected president, James B. Drake was then installed. Upon assuming the chair President Drake made graceful little speech thanking the council for the honor conferred upon him and assuring the delegates from the many different organizations represented that no effort on his part would be spared to further the in terests of the different crafts who by their industrial pursuits have, in fact, created this Greater Birmin gham.
 Doctor Parke of the Birmingham Library association was admitted to the hall and gave some interesting data in regard to the proposed establish . ment of this valuable institution. The library proposition was enthusiastically received and discussed with earnestness by number of delegates. The council pledged all the financial support in it's power and delegates from several lotll unions voluntarily offered to advocate liberal donations from their organiza- tions to finance the project.
 President Drake announced the ap- nO1nf Of folI Lee Dulion of the plumbers union, chairman; J. W. McCarty of the retail clerks and A. F. Lindeman of the horse shoers, constituting the grievance com mittee.
 Agitating committee w. G. Dortic of the baBbers, chairman; o. E. Barlow of the Typographical union and o. Sand quist Of the Journeymen tailors.
 Legislation committee: Will H. Winn of the Typographical union, chairma n i; Lawrence P. Scantling of the plumbers bers.
 James B. Drake was elected as a dele gate to the conference of textile work CTS which has been called by Governor Patterson to meet in Nashville on the 14th of October.
 l.. E. Dulion of the plumbers union was unanimously elected as delegate from the Birmingham Trades Council to the American Federation of Labor. MT. Dulion is business agent for the plumbers and man of more than or dinary ability. Harry L. White of 1he auditing committee reported that the books of Treasurer John A. Dearing had been examined, that the duties of the office had been well performed. and that the "wampium" had been proper ly appropriated. kept or disbursed Al together the meeting was one of the best and most interesting held in a long time and the new president acted with dignity and absolute fairness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-12
NEGROES GAMING
 AT THE HOSPITAL
Found in Basement of Hillman by Officers-Whee of Fortune
 at Traction Park.

! If it's not one place it's another, the negro must shoot craps. The authorities are just about convinced that 1t is i'm possible to shut off this form of gambling among the men of the darker hue. They have been found al 1t in all sorts of unseemly places-box cars, stables and the like-but it is considered that the limit has been reached. A big healthy game was discovered in one of the rooms in the basement of the Hillman hospital early yesterday morning, even before the sun got up
 The jailer at the county jail declined to give the name of the one who turned the gamblers up, but it is generally conceded that a little English sparrow, out scout ing, saw them with his little eye. This seems probable, too, as few people are out with the dawn.
 However 1t be, someone whispered 1t to the officers and Deputies Courson, Curl and Dean went out to investigate, and consequently had to hall eight negroes The gamers were caught in the act. and all they could do was to surrender.
 Charges of Sunday gaming were dock eted against the eight men.
 E. Attlesey, white man, and Horace Murphy, a negro, were arrested yester- day by Deputies Hilton and Dean on a charge of operating a wheel of fortune. The two men were arrested at Traction park, the negro place of amusement in Birmingham. and 1t is supposed that they were feecing the negroes there with some unlawful gambling machine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-12
ASHFORD TAKEN HOME.
Friends Glad to Know He Is on Road
 to Recovery.

Thomas T. Ashford, president of ths Birmingham Paint and Glass company who was seriously injured in an auto mobile accident near Boyles about ten days ago, was removed from St, Vim cents hospital to his home, 1910 Tenth avenue, south, yesterday afternoon in an ambulance of the Green Undertak ing company.
 MT. Ashford, it will be remembered. was thrown against a telephone pole just beyond Boyles, while out riding with several other prominent business men, and badly injured about the head and shoulders. It was first believed that the acident would prove fatal. MT. Ashford, however, Is now on the road to rapid recovery and his friends are glad to know that he will be out In a few days
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-12
FURTHER PLEDGES
 MADE TO LIBRARY
OVER THOUSAND LETTERS ARE BEING SENT OUT TO WOMEN OF CITY WHOSE AID IS SOUGHT IN UNDERTAKING.

The public library movement is quietly but steadily moving along. People are beginning to send in their applications and subscriptions, and at meeting of the Trades Council yesterday it was unani- mously voted that the organization con- tribute to the library fund. This amount was not decided on, but will be sub stantial sum.
 One of the membership committee in discussing the matter yesterday. said;
 While but little has been published in regard to the movement, the interest has been developing well, considering the hot weather. We are receiving contrlpu : tions and a large number of applications for membership. There are several nun dred people who have signified their willingness to contribute, but who are waiting to send in their donations. It will De very much appreciated II these people will send In their donations to w. IL Manly at the Birmingham Trust ana Savings company or to Dr. J. H. Phillips at the high school.
 "rhe women are very much interested In the library. and over 1900 letters are be- ing sent out to the lauies ol ''i requesting their cooperation.
 "A great many people think that ehe Free Public Library association as now in existence will have control or the IT. brary when erected This Is not the case. The object of this association IS 10 erect a suitable building, and place the VOL umes therein necessary for hrst-ciass library. After this is done the Iprary is to be turned over to the city ana run as the people wish. This association uleh will go out of existence
 "Those interested are far from oein5 discouraged in fact. their enthusiasm is greater than ever as the prospects are snIendid. The effort is being made to get every man, woman and child in the city interested, and then the library Will be a certainty"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-12

The matter of securing this hospital for Birmingham was taken up by the Commercial club and a committee was appointed to endeavor to locate 1t here. The chairman of this committee is F. M. Jackson The Jefferson County Med lcal association has also taken the mat ter up and appointed a committee to worK in conjunction with the Commercial club committee.
 Wherever this hospital is erected it will undoubtedly be one of the finest in the south for every large city in the state is mentioned Is after 1t, and this com petition will result in large amounts be- Ing guaranteed by them.
 No effort will be spared on the part of the Commercial club towards getting this hospital. It is absolutely needed in Bir- mingham, as the hospitals here are badly overcrowded. Just what sum must be guaranteed by the city is not known, but 1t is believed 1t will go to the highest bidder
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-12
Call Jor Pledges fo1
 Weh NethOd1St Hospital

ane location for the Methodist hospital which is to be located in either Arkansas Tennessee, Mississippi or Alabama will be decided on this fall and the chair man of the committee on location is call ing for applications and has sent The Age-Herald the following letter: To Secretary Business Mems Clubs of Hot Springs, Little Rock, Jackson Memphis, Birmingham. Huntsville, and Others:
 Dear Sirs-As chairman of committee on location of the Methodist hospital, to be located in the bounds of Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee or Alabama, I beg to call your attention to the fact that the hospital will be located this fall, ar l if you, as city, are interested, we would be glad to know to what extent. If you care for the institution to go to your city, would be glad to have you take the matter up and advise the committed
 JOHN H. SHERARD.
 Chairman Committee on Location. Sherard. Miss, August 1O 1907.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-12

justed in New York and Washington"
 Another official of local 26 stated yester- day afternoon:
 Photographers of the Birmingham dis trict are of course anxious for an early settlement of the present trouble. The late investigation in Birmingham as to the cost of living for a policeman, brought forth the fact that $S7 was a conservative estimate for the family man. The highest wage paid a Birmingham commercial operator is Ss2.50 and he must furnish his own typewriter at cost of from s3 to 80 a month rental or buy 1t outright.
 The companies also say we were too sudden in this strike. To this we can only reply that they were too slow They rather inconslstent1y admit that the trouble was inevitable
 VIII Formulate Demands.
 The operators will hold a meeting this morning at 10 o'clock In the hall at 1121a North Twentieth street. and they will draw up their demands at this meeting. Official information is to the effect that the men will demand 10 per cent in- crease in salaries, together with shorter hours, and that the companies furnish the men with typewriters and utensils
 This demand of the local will not nec- essarily be granted if the strike is set tied. There are locals all over the Unit ed States and the demands of all will have to be considered
 I ne present strike of the telepgraphers has not effected the business of the long distance telephone company to any great extent. When asked concerning the mat ter last night, Assistant Manager Robert L. Wright of the Bell Telephone and Telegraph company said There has been no appreciable increase In the amount of business over our lines so far The day being Sunday perhaps effects this some. however We expect to be some what rushed tomorrow"