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New-York tribune., 1907-09-22
NICKEL CRAZE GROWS.
FiUe-Cent MoUing Picture Theatres
Pr0ue Exceedingly Popular.

Nickel madness is term applied 10 the amaz-
Ing popularity attained during the last year or
so by the five-cent moving picture theatre.
Tried experiment. this new form OF en-
tertainment is making fortune for its project
| ors. Crusades have been organized against
them, and they have been denounced vicious
and demoralizing yet they have flourished Won
derfully and continually Increasing
New York Is no exception to the rule. They
are 10 be found with pretentious fronts in
Broadway. In the BOwery and through the
East Side they almost omnipresent Doz-
ems Of them exceedingly popular in Brook
lyn. They are spriEBing up in the shady places
of Queens. and down on Staten Island they are
to be found in the most unexpected bosky dells.
rising in little rakish shacks the mos
quito flats They have even invaded nearby
Jersey cities. In the last year two hundred
licenses have been granted by the city authori-
ties for these amusement resorts in the Bor-
ough Of Manhattan alone and ii is said that
100000 people a day contribute to their sup
port through the city.
THE popularity OF those cheap amusement
places with the foreign born population"
says Barton w. Currie in a recent number OF
"Harper's Weekly" 'is not to be wondered at.
The newly arrived immigrant is appealed di-
rectly without any circumlocution The child
whose intelligence is just awakening and the
doddering old man seem to be on equal foot
Ing of enjoyment in the stuffy little boXike the
aires"
One reason for the popularity Of the moving
pictures shows is their oheapness. There is
nothing singularly novel In the idea. but for a
modest outlay the outfit be housed in a
narrow store, in a shack. and In the
rear yard OF a tenement. provided there is an
available hallway that be turned into a
front on a well used street. These shacks and
shops crowded with many chairs they
will hold and the populace is welcomed OF.
lurid placards The price of admission for a
fifteen or twenty minute show is only five cents
New-York tribune., 1907-09-22

popular of all nickel deriums- You may see
snatch purses burglars and infinite variety
OF criminals hunted by the police and the mob
in almost any one of the places you may visit.
New-York tribune., 1907-09-22
POPULAR WITH NURSE GIRLS.

Few of these modest show places, in Harlem
for instance tho author says, can be found
where the entrance is not encumberei with 60
carts and perambulators. Some mothers and oil
nurse girls say that the cinematograph has a
fant predisposed TO make the weIkin ring They
are also highly popular with the rising genera
ton in frocks and knickar0Ockers II is for this
reason that they have been condemned by the
morality crusader. Police Commissioner Bling
ham has denounced them perniCous demor-
alizing and direct menace the young but
the Commissioners denuncatIon Mr. ,Currie
thinks. is too sweeping. ProprietOrs are said to
work hand In glove with lawbreakers Some
are accused of having wanton designs on young
girls. Pickpockets. 1t has been said. find them
splendidly convenient. lights always
turned off when the picture machine is focused
on the canvas
While rogues and msCreants doubtless obtain
licenses and set up these littlesshow places mere
~ as snares and traps, Mr.. Currie points out
that the business in itself is sufficiently lucra-
tive to induce most proprietors to them
honestly for the profit that cen be made. Any
thing that would leave them open to action by
the police would destroy this business. AS for
the get-thrs-quick theatre being convenient
for the professional pickpocket, the writer
points to the kind of people who generally make
up the audience to prove that there Is seldom
ounce of plunder in sight
MANY moral lessons are to be had from these
brief moving picture performances" says the,
writer Most of the slides offer you a quick
fash OF melodrama in which the villain and the
criminal always getting the worst of it.
Pursuits Of ma!efactors are by far the most
New-York tribune., 1907-09-22
ALUMNE HALL READY.
Packer Institute Will Celebrate on
October Is.

In three weeks time the alumnse assocla'io-
of Packer Collegiate Institute will have reacheu
the goal toward which it has been striving loi
twenty years. for October 10 the ho
AIumnee Hall will be formally dedicated Alum
na Hall now forms the western wing OF the oiu
landmark and represents an outlay OF SlVV'OV0
The women to whose efforts the hall owes l's
existence founded their building fund with the
intention Of adding $1,000 TO 1t annually
and they have so we'll lived up to their IN
tentions that the deficit that still remains ana
which has been temporarily made up by the
trustees of the institute is so small that 1t VIII
undoubtedly be paid off entirely within the
year.
The site upon which the annex stands and the
house which formerly occupied 1t were pur-
chased by the alumnR about five years ago al
q cost of S265OO The old building was used
as a clubhouse by the women until year ago.
when it was torn down to permit the erection OF
New-York tribune., 1907-09-22

% Halsey street. have announced the engage
ment of their daughter, Miss Edith Lawrence
Finn to James Lawton Taylor. also of Brook
lvn.
Tuesday. October 90 is the date set for the
wedding Of Miss Annetta Heissenbuttel and
Howell Carnaghan Cooper. son of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles E. Cooper. of OIL City, Penn The
ceremony will take place at Z o'clock at No
3lS Park Place. the home of the brides sister
Mrs. J. H. Ernst, with whom she has lived for
several years. Invitations to the ceremony have
been limited to relatives, but large reception
Is TO follow.
The engagement is announced of Miss Kath-
leen de Forest Montgomery to DR.. Keith Sears
Miss Montgomery is the daughter Of Archibald
Montgomery, Jr.. formerly of No 80 Mont
gomery Place, but since the death of her
mother. a little over year ago. she has lived
with her grandfather John p. Rider. of Fish
kill. DIR. Sears is attached to the Matteawan
State Hospital for the Criminal Insane
Mrs. Henry G. Hill. formerly of Brooklyn. but
now of East Orange N. J.. has announced the
engagement Of her daughter. Miss Alice Gilbert
HILL to Charles Tainter Abel, Of Morristown.
Miss Hill is q graduate OF Adelphi
The engagement recently announced of
Miss Gertrude Baldwin. daughter of Mrs.
Stephen Livingston Baldwin, of No. 1918 Pa
ciflc street, and John Walter Prince, Of Kansas
City. The formal announcement made at
a luncheon given at the Waldorf-Astoria by
Mrs Martin Onslow Foster. nee Madeline
Nichols. on Tuesday September 10. Mrs. Fos-
Ter expects to leave for her home in London
Pink carnations and ferns were used in
the decorations. Among her guests were her
mother Mrs. William H. Nichols: Mrs. Baldwin,
Mrs. Laurens Reeve Bowden. Mrs. Philip Lee
Gill, Mrs Richard Ferdinand Williams. Mrs.
Watson Gerould Clark, Miss Katherine Wester-
welt, Miss Maud McCord and Miss Anna
Wickle.
Next Tuesday evening. September "a, Miss
Josephine r Baker daughter OF Mrs. Aletta J.
Baker. of No. 1872 Park Place is TO be married
to Godfrey TreadweH Firth. The only attend
ant will be Miss Grace II. Baker.
Cards have been issued for the wedding of
Miss Katharine Wood Edwards. daughter Of
Mrs. Jonathan B. Edwards, OF Chatham. N. j.,
and Thomas Hall Wyatt. Of Mrs. Thomas
Moody Wyatt, of No. PA Hancock street 1t
viii be a home ceremony at noon, Monday.
September 80 followed by a small wedding
breakfast Miss Harriet Edwards will be the
Walter Lugren is to be the best man. The
hride-elect is granddaughter of the late Jona-
than Edwards. prominent clergyman of Con-
necticut and Massachusetts. and later president
of Princeton. Mr.. Wyatt is graduate of Cor
nell He and his bride to make their home
in Boston.
Mrs Frederick ". Tuttle. who is still at her
summer place at Sound Beach. Conn, gave a
large bridge whist on Monday. The prizes were
New-York tribune., 1907-09-22
RUN WITH MARVELLOUS SPEED.

The speed with which pursuer and pursued
run is marvellous. Never you cheated by a
mere sprint a straightaway flight of few
blocks. The men who fake these moving pictures
seem impeed by a moral obligation to give
their patrons their full nlckels worth. Dozens
of these kinetoscope fugitives run at least forty
miles before they collide with fat woman car
and holds them until the putting constabulary
comes up.
1T is in such climaxes as these that the nickel
delirium rises to its full height. Young and old
prit breathlessly. They have seen him strike
a pretty young woman and tear a chain purse
from her hand. OF course 1t Ia in broad day
light and in full view of the populace. Then in
wind, the mob at his heels. In quarter of a
second half dozen policemen have Joined In
the precipitous rush. Is it any wonder that
lovers of melodrama delighted?
THE hunted travels the first hundred
yards in less than six seconds; so he must be an
unusually well trained athlete A stout uni
formed officer covers the distance In eight sec
onds But II is in going over fences and stone
walls, swimming rivers and climbing mountains
that you mount the heights of realism. You
led out into tangled underbrush, through Il
dense forest, up the face of Jagged cliff
Whired through a maze of wild scenery and
then brought back to the city. Again you are
by the same tireless pack of pursuers. until
finally there looms UP the stout woman with
the umbrella
In some of the crowded quarters of the city
the nickelet shops. they are called crop
ping up almost thickly as the saloons.
cording to Mr.. Currie. and if the nickel de-
lirium continues to maintain its hold there Will
be in few years moreo of these cheap amuse
ment places than saloons. Even now some of
the saloonkeepers complaining that they
injure their trade.
New-York tribune., 1907-09-22
JAPANESE DETECTIVE METHODS.

Recently in the village Of Tahara-mura. Japan
all the male inhabitants above the age OF ffteen
years were assembled in front of the local Shinfo
shrine at the call OF the village chief tnieE
had been making depredations I'm the Local To-
bacco plantations and the chief sought TO dlS-
him. Outlines of the feet Of all the Viiias"
taken sheets OF paper and then tnsSe lss
were compared with the tracks left by tne tutS-
in the tobacco fields. Nothing resulted Uon tIlaS
experiment. The next day the inhabitants "eso
called together again great hole was aug ~. ~.
the ground and raging charcoal nre was aTt Deu<
In n All persons present were ordered 10 walk
through the fire barefooted, IL being decid,su
that no person would be burned except tne su4.-y.
one. All advanced 10 undergo the ordeai eAceps
one Shukichi Shibata a man of evil reputation
He declined TO trust his feet to the RED not coa-s
Accordingly he was arrested and soon conless~
his guilt.-Chicago News.
New-York tribune., 1907-09-22
HOW MoNARcHs LEARN THE NEWS.

The Emperor Of Austria saves HIS valuable time
by having book Of cuttings prepared for him
every morning by his secretary. These cuttings
represent all the principal Of the day and
the Emperor Is thus able acquaint himself with
al the most important news without wading
throngn page after page Of the newspapers. II is
the duty OF his maJestys secretary to sim the col
unlns OF cuttings into a dantily. bound leather
case. and the Emperor peruses this little volume
his breakfast table.
In the event Of any OF the articles being very
long, however the secretary has 10 condense them
sna present them to his majesty in typewritten
The Princess OF Wales possesses a rnjoue scran
alonln IN which al sorts OF cuttings from the
soe1etg papers relating herself and her ro,-aI
relatives are preserved The title OF thfs hoot "a
suggestive, for her witty royel hiRhnees has Ia >
Never DID, ' A4iiiisS '" .
The majority Of European rulers subscribe 70
press cGttin agencies, and great IS fheir dasre
for information that they insist on reading eve-v
flirs which IS written about vVhetf7a,
able or OtherYise.-Tft Riss iaFoi-
New-York tribune., 1907-09-22
BROOKLYN SOCIAL CHAT
Weddings, Engagements and An-
nouncements of the Borough.

The marriage of Miss Elizabeth Brunoaee
Mead daughter of the late George w Mead oi
Monroe Place, and Richard Mott Cahoone was
solemnized on Wednesday afternoon in the flrs'
Presbyterian Church in the quietest possiple
manner, owing to the death the week oeIoIe "
John Studwell Mead, brother of the orlde.
The Rev Dr. L. Mason Clark performed tlIe
ceremony. and only the members or the lil!ie !I
diate families We're present. Mr.. Cahoone IS 80 tlIe
son of Andrew NJ. Cahoone. On returning mn, ii,
their wedding trip he and Mrs Cehoone VIII
New-York tribune., 1907-09-22
Sterling

Copany ~ when the
force highest genius Of the equipment of
selling
New-York tribune., 1907-09-22
BENEFIT FOR GERMAN HOSPITAL.

The special arrangements committee in charge Of
the theatre performances 10 be given this year for
the benefit Of the German Hospital Of Brooklyn
IS already working hard make success Of its
work The Majestic Theatre has been engaged for
the week beginning November !. The hospital is
sn great need Of funds owing 10 the large and in
creased number of cases
New-York tribune., 1907-09-22
FIVE SHOWS TO A BLOCK.

In one street in Harlem the writer counted as
many five to block. and each of them
capable of showing to thousand people
an hour. That is, they have a seating capacity
of about two hundred and fifty, and give four
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and the second of John and Mary
Shakespeare were girls who died while
infants; the third--their first-born son
was to live In spite of the plague
which desolated Stratford during the
year OF his birth, and was to write
the plays and poems that have made
him famous. Other children followed
a daughter, who survived William
Shakespeare, and Is remembered In his
will; another daughter, who died early,
and two sons-Glbert, who is said to
have lived until the Restoration, and
Edmund. who became an actor, am
died in London In the year 1907. VIII
liam Shakespeare wag sent to the free
Grammar School of Stratford. to learn
what neither his father nor his mother
could teach. There he was taught not
only English, but some Latin. and per-
haps little Greek. In consequence of
his fathers difficulties. 1t is likely that
William Shakespeare was withdrawn
from school. and either assisted John
Shakespeare IN his trade, or was set
10 earn a living In some way for hiin.
self Some people say he was appren-
ticed TO n butcher. Other people say
he was schoolmaster in the country.
In 1852, in his nineteenth year. he
married Anne Hathaway. Their first
child, Susanna, was baptized May &c.
1888. Anne was the daughter of Rich
ard Hathaway She was eight years
older than her boy husband. For four
or five years he lived in Stratford. He
had three MISUNDERSTANDING ttamnet
and Judith He wrote about twenty
plays and sonnets. His best-known
plays are Romeo and Juliet" Ham
let Lear" and Macbeth Shakes
pcarc acted in some of his plays. Will
liam Shakespeare died in 1916. Shakes
peare's younger daughter, Judith, now
aged thirty-one. was married to
Thomas Quincy, vintncr of Stratford.
shakespeare was buried in the parish
church at Stratford.
VIRGINIA STUART MORTON.
(Aged 1o.l
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st. George is the patron saint OF
England. His history is surrounded
by legends. The most probable story
is that he was born OF noble Christian
parents in Cappadocia, became dis
tinguished as a soldier, and after tes-
tifyinG to his faith before the En-
peror Diocletian, was tortured and put
TO death at Nicomedia April %. 3O3.
Reverence for the sufferer spread
through Phoenicia. Palestine and the
whole East. Churches We're built in
his honor, and the narrow channel sep
arating Europe from Asia and uniting
the Sea Of Marmora with the Archi-
pelago was called st. Georges Arm.
"A legend describes st. George as
Staying a dragon.
In 1850 Frederick of Austria founded
an order of knighthood called after
him. He was much worshiped during
the Crusades and was adopted as SOL
der saint, who led his votaries to VIC
tory. He is also the patron saint Of
Russia. TERESA DOMINICA.
513 n. Twcntytirst Street, city.
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OUR SPORTS.

One of my sports is horse racing with
my brother. We have two very fine
horses. Our ruce-track is one-hnlf
mile long. MY favortc horse Is named
Lightfoot She is black, with white
feet, and her tail is locked. My broth
.er's horse is Very handsome roam,
to say which is the best runner. My
brother thinks Dandelion is the finest.
and, of course, | think Lightfoot is. 4
really think my brothers horse would
gets hot very easily. One day last
winter ait n most exciting part Of Il
race, Just as my brothers roam was
about head In front OF my horse,
LightfoQt took fright at some work
men on the side Of the track She
SHE'D very suddenly, and threw mo. My
brother stopped as quickly as possible
and helped me mount. and as was not
at all hurt, we resumed our race, In
which Lightfoot won They are also
good jumpers. | have never gotten a
fall jumping, though my brother has
once, when his horse suddenly refused
to take the leap. He fell across the
bars which shook him up u good deal
Dundellon allows my brother TO shoot
off of his back without ilinching, and
he takes as much pleasure In a hunt
as the dogs,
The dogs are named Buck ana
Scott" They are splendid bird dogs
I must stop now. i vii, write another.
time. and tell more about our dogs
ANN4ABELLE BUCHANAN TRENT.
MuXWelton, Va,
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dom greatly that Afternoon and return
cd to the schoolhouse by o'clock to
prepare for our Rotations. l wore
pure white with white ribbons, as had
to recite and all the rest of the girls
wore white.
The people all arrived. but I did
not feel at all excited. but my chum
N1aysie got very excited ut first. but
she soon got I'll right. We said all
OF our pieces and were complimentcd
on every one. Then all OF the crowd,
headed by the scholars" went to an
old house belonging to our neiEhbor
by the. name of Mr.. Turner, short
distance from the schoolhouse, where
we had also decorated. We played
games and danced. had n plenty of nice
candy to eat. and when we We're tired
OF our festivities we bade our teacher
good by and gave her our best wishes.
then returned home for our long vaca-
ton and to get ready to go back ut
sion. VIRGINIA RUTH DANIEL.
r. Il. d. No. 1. Louisa, Va.
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"a Prize Stow

/ a. y Z j
Shakespeare was born on April %, 1864,
at Stratford. on the Avon. He was the
second of eight children. When eighteen
he married Anne Hathaway, Of Shottery.
His eldest child was named Susanna, and
his twins lamnet and judith. He had no
grandchildren, He lived In the reign of
Queen Elizabeth, When he was twenty
two, he went to London and entered q
theatre as an actor in his own plays. He
remained until no had made n comfort
able fortune; but he retired early 10 live
at ease and In retirement, residing at
Stratford, Flo wrote most of his plays
there There nre thirty-one. The fuvor-
lite Is Romeo and Juliet. His works are
said to be quoted more than any other
book except the Bible, and are as popu-
lar now as when they We're written, so
that he Is considered the. greatest OF
poets, Shakespeare died on the ami
versary of his birthday April %. 1916,
his age bsing nfty-tWn. lie was Inferred
In Stratford Church,
MILDRED LEWIS.
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Lessons Drawn From
Shakespeare Life
Dear Children Of the Club:

Dear Children of the Club:
4. Day after o-morrow-April 23d-is one
of the dates we ought all TO try to fix
In the memory. for II marks the birth
Of two men who. each in his own way.
have served to make the world better and
their felowmen in that way they de-
serve to be remembered forever.
So have asked you to-day to remem-
Der that William Shakespeare. the poet.
was born on April %. 1854 and that
George. patron saint OF England. is to
death as Il martyr occurred on April %.
sos A. ID.
/ asked you why Shakespeare was the
greatest poet in English literary history.
j want to tell you why l think he Is to
be read and studied and admired above
all others II is because he understands
and sympathizcS with all kinds OF people.
His characters act like real people always.
Perhaps you do not understand Just what
l mean. but one day when you are oicer,
and can read Shakespeare with apprecia-
ton. you will see that what say is true.
Shakespeare was a poor boy. but he was
born with genius, and by hard work he
rose. step by stem to be the foremost ORA,
n,atist OF his day. He loved the birds and
the flowers, and he studied nature at first
hand. so that his plays show wide
knowledge OF all natures moods.
ST. George was a great man, because
he led n pure and holy life. and was
thus enabled to overcome evil. We are
land. our mother country. honors his
name. His cross forms a part of the
English flag. and his day Is still ccle-
brated in some parts Of England.
! hope you will learn more about these
two men than / can tell you here. ard
THE EDITOR.
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SHAKESPEARE.

William Shakespeare was born at
Stratford -upon-Avon in 1864, and died
in 1916 He lived during Queen Eliza
beth's reign, but she died before lie
did. Shakespeare is regarded as the
less is known Of his life and personal
character than is known of any other
man in history.
He married Miss Anne Hathaway, a
woman eight years older than he was.
At STAFFORD Church, where he was
buried. a monument has been erected
to his memory, and also one at Poets
Corner of Westminster Abbey.
From all we can learn, he seems to
have been highly respected by the peo-
pie who knew him. l have read "An-
tony Over Caesars Dead Body" and
several plays which Shakespeare wrote
JUDITH in GRAM!
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How I Spent Easter.

had very nice time Easter. We
had an egg hunt. 1t was down at
Georges Tavern schoolhousc. We
started at o'clock. 1t was windy and
cold all day, SO we didn't have such
Il good time as we expected to have.
There We're q lot of people at the hunt.
Mrs. Ellie Dunn. Robert Dunn and my
sister, Margaret Haden, hid the eggs.
They hid them about n llalf-dozen
times In all. Ada Ransone won the
first prize, Pattie Ransone won the sec
ond prize and Myrtle Duvall got BOBBY
prize Ada found eighteen eggs, Patio
found sixteen, and Myrtle didn't find
any. All the rest got n postal card
apiece; but they didn't get any prize,
though. We all had real nice time.
After the hunt was over we played
games. Then we went home and got
our Lessons and went to bed. Next
morning We went to school. I never
shall forget that Easter.
SALI4IE ALICE HADEN.
: Fife p. O., GoOchland county, Va.
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Contributions From
Our Goochland Club
A Snowstorm.

Last evening in binding snow
storm some one rang the door OF our
large handsome house. The housemaid
came and opened the door. She was
astonished when she saw an old man
with a hand-organ strapped on his back
and little girl with him. She told
them to come in to the fire. The little
girl had on hardly any clothes. and the
came in and sat down at the fire. Then
they played for us. They stayed with
us all night. In the morning the snow
had ceased to fall. / gave the little
girl pair OF shoes and cloak, and
papa gave the old man an overcoat.
Papa gave them five dollars. l gave the
little girl some candy. They left and
went to the next house. I told my
mother that II 1t was Christmas night
would write Santa Claus to bring more
things for the little girl than any one
else.
Fife, Va. HALLIE JENNINGS.