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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-06-28

Next week she will appear in Glasgow.
after having made 2 big hit in Lon
don
For the revival OF 1.-THE Fortune
Teller" which the Aborns have in con-
temptation. Miss Grace orr Myers, and
Miss Edith Bradford will return TO the
cast. Miss Myers has i.een singing
with the Aborn Opera Company at
Providence and Rochester for nine
weeks.
Bruce McRae has been engaged as
leading man with Ethel Barrymore
Wren she opens her season in Lady
Frederick" one OF W. Somerset Maug-
HAMS new plays on WI ich Charles Froh-
man has obtained an option.
Charles Klein has written new play.
the theme Of which is said to deal with
the methods Of the police department IN
New York in administering the third
degree" The play is TO be called "TEc
Mischief Makers
Marjorie Ramey and Lenna DIR. the
two .Littleist Girls OF the Aborn
Opera Company, were photographed by
local photographer last Thursday
afternoon. and they have been busy
handing their pictures to many local
admirers.
The New National IS already in re-
ceipt OF nearly a dozen contracts for
next seasons attractions. Several new
plays will have their preUieres At this
theater, among them Frederic Thomp-
sons production Of "A Modern Cinder-
ella" with Mabel Taliafe-7o-
Several members Of the London Gaiety
Company including Gertie Miller and
James Blakeley, will be brought 10
America by Charles Frohman Cor the
production of The Girls OF Gotten
berg"
THE Girl Question" a new musical
play which has been heralded as one
of the successes of the season to come.
viii receive its premiere I'm New York
August g.
Sam Chip and Mary Marble. who were
the bright particular stars OF a summer
opera company at Chase's several sea
sons back. will begin a limited vaude-
Vile engagement at that house Septem-
her p.
Nine. Sembrich has purchased an
estate on Lake Geneva and, it is said.
VIII return there TO live permanently at
the end of her next opera season
The Aborns are said to be arranging
for a sumptuous revival Of THE
BIikado." with a noted New York CO.
median for the role OF Ko-ko.
Margaret Mayo's latest play. Com
meneement Days" viii have its Eastern
premiere at the Colonial Theater. Bos-
ton. August 81.
The interior decorations at the New
Academy are progressing during the
present month under the supervision Of
Manager Lyons.
Paul Gilmore. who will be the star in
THE Boys Of Company b. next season.
sailed for Europe last Thursday on the
Mauretania. He viii be gone six weeks.
George NJ. Cohen and the company
now supporting him in The Yankee
Prince" viii begin a long engagement
in Chicago September Z.
Edith Bradford will return to Wash
ington for the revival of Victor Her
bert's delightful opera, "The Serenade."
Walter Kelley. THE Virginia Judge"
will begin A iong engagement in Lon
don tomorrow night
The return OF Harold Blake TO the
Aborr cast will come as delight to hist
many matinee girl admirers.
Ala Nazimova paid her first visit to
Atlantic City's famous boardwalk last
week.
Paul Armstrong is writing play for
Klaw and ErIanger's use entitled IN
Time Of Peace"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-06-28
LOUISVILLE THEATER
FOR COLUMBIA co.

Not satisfied with handsome new
theaters IN Washington. Baltimore. and
Toronto the Columbia Amusement
Company has completed arrangements
for the erection Of a new burIesque
house IN Louisville, which. like the
others II controls. is TO be known as the
Gayety.
The Louisville Gayety viii cost $4,000.
McEifatTick is the architect. and the
George A Fuller Construction Company.
the contractors. The capacity Of me
house IS TO be J. $50 and IL viii be open
ed about October 60
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-06-28
THE BONDMAN' OUTFIT
PURCHASED BY BRADY

William a. Brady has purchased the
immense equipment Of settings, iTesses,
etc. made for the Drury Lane Theatcr
production OF Hall Gaines The Bond
man" Mr.. Brady imported the para
phernalia under bond last August and
renewed IT at the end OF six months.
Wilton L.ackaye. who has been staring
in the play, ended has our recently and
-ili not again appear 4 It. Mr.. Brady
will send The Bondmc - on tour again
with another actor in tie role OF. Jason.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-06-28

grade character work. and the Sawada
japanese Troupe has a juggling act that
IS remarkable as well as unique
There is no charge for the vaudeville
This afternoon and evening there will
be> the usual sacred concert, with in
strumentaI and vocal solos.
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Pupils Recital.

The annual recital by the pupils OF
Nine. B. @ Keith and Miss r Beatrice
Keith was given last Tuesday even
ing in Typographical Hall
The program was played delight
fully and the young students re-
ceived generous applause for their
work
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-06-28
Miss Wild Presents PuDils.

Miss Bessie y. Wild was among the
teachers who presented her pupils in
their annual recital las Thursday even
ing The entertainment took place at
Pythisn Temple, ~ was well attend
ed.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-06-28
MRS. WALDECKER PRESENTS PUPILS
IN CONCERT TOMORROW NIGHT
AT CARROLL INSTITUTE.

Miss Cecilia Hope. Miss Ethel Brock
man. Miss Mabel Louise VroOman. Miss
Emily EaltiEau. Miss Bessie HaItigan.
Miss Belle Tarshes. Miss Annie Cohen.
Miss Grace Sturgis. Harold Vermeule,
and Leo Mcdonald.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-06-28

One Of the features OF a lawn fete
given Wednesday AT the home Of Mr.
and Mrs. Lucius Randolph 20 aid the
Grand Army Of the Republic was a
musical program furnished by Miss
Sophia Hazard. Nine. J. EspUta DAILY,
Norman Esputa-Daly, and LUcius
Randolph.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-06-28
FROHMAN CHANGES PLAY.

Charles FrOhman has ecided that the
long run Of The Adm able Crichton"
at the Duke o. Yorks u eater. London.
viii be fO"owed BY q r,yivaI Of THE
Little Minister"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-06-28

The second evening OF the annual re-
cilaI by the pupils Of William J. Oates
was given Thursday, in Pythian
Temple.
Among the pupils who participated in
the program were Miss Lilly LOughery,
Miss Pauline Lax: ow, Miss Rose Pur-
nell. Miss Mildred EasterlinS Mss
Katherine O'Conneu. Miss Helen Belt
Miss Lillian WeisenburE, Miss Mary
Donnelly. Miss Grace Hutchinson. Miss
Edna Lerch. Miss VoIga HaywOrth,
Miss Helen Benzler- Miss Ethel Lyons
Miss Beanie Walter, Miss Ida Cohen,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-06-28
WILL PLAY "SQUAw MAN.

Dustin Farnum viii succeed William
Faversham IN the title role Of The
Squaw Man" The plays route mex
season viii include the middle West and
coast States.
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Dalvs Continue &C..

Nine. J. Esputa-Daly and her son
Norman viii remain IN Washington
and continue their classes through
July.
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n ISIS CHARLOTTE WALKERS
summer season in Washing
ton as the star Of the stock

Il ISIS CHARLOTTE WALKER'S
1 mn summer season in Washing
EN ton as the star Of the stock
company at the Beiasco
Hcame TO a close last night
Miss Walker returned to Washing
ton this summer after having ap-
fpeared in New York for a year I'M
'Oer the management OF David Be
lasco in THE Warrens Of Virginia"
She was heartily welcomed by her
many admirers here, and her season
of four weeks has been a source of
genuine pleasure 20 the patrons of
iIhe BelascO- The plays in which she
thas appeared have not made any
tgreRt demands upon her emotional
kpOwers. but the roles have been ad-
lmirably suited TO her, and her work
bias further endeared her to Wash
iington playgoers. Her repertoire
consisted of "a Country Mouse"
l'Candida." Arms and the Man." and
F~The Freedom of Suzanne" AS a
curtain raiser for Arms and the
Man" Miss Walker produced The
Vacuum" n one-act play by Preston
Gibson, Washington man, in which
the author evinced much dramatic
ability.
Miss Walker would doubtless have
extended her engagement in the Cap
itaI, which was originally for only
three weeks, had it not been Tor the
financial difficulties in which VIII
+ . Page, her manager, became in
Is -Olved through losses sustained in
-Cther cities.
VIII A. Page. who managed both the
Guy Standing and the Charlotte Walker
stock companies IN Washington this
summer. announces that he will make
"a third venture in this field when he
,brings his Baltimore company to the
columbia on August 3. Mr.. Page says
that he has engaged the Columbia for
1--WE weeks. His company is now ap-
lpearing in Baltimore. where 'Zaza'
was offered last week. Phis week the
bill is I'm the Bishops Carriage"
The repertoire for the Washington
season has not been announced
Miss Hallett Kershaw is the star of
the company
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-06-28

Grace Hazard, the clever little Wash
ington girl, who arranged her own act,
Five Feet of Comic OPERA" is fast
. becoming a favorite on the other side.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-06-28

Among The many kilograms for
bon voyage sent to Manager Harry
Rapley was one from the executive
stan Of the New National. 1t was
unique in itself and read: I'VE
wish you Just a little more than any
one else" II was sent to Pier IS. North
river, and reached Mr. Rapley just as
the Arabic was ready for the trip
across.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-01-04

homa becomes a state, Is the only repub-
lican in her delegation.
That he is seven-siXteenths Chickasaw
and Che rokee Indian and nine siXteenthS
Scotch-Irish is the boast of Charles u.
Carter, new member from the fourth
Oklahoma district. His paternal ances-
tor. Nathan Carter, ST.. was captured
when a small boy by Shawnee Indians
at the Lackawanna valley massacre, with
all of the other members of the family,
except one of Nathan's sisters. were
killed Nathan Carter was afterward
traded to the Cherokees. one of whose
ful-blooded squaws he married. Mr. Car
ters father a captain in the Confederate
army, added to this strain of Indian
blood by marrying a one-fourth breed
Chickasaw woman, a sister of Gov. Guy,
chief of the Chickasaws.
The new representative was born in a
little log cabin near Doggy depot, an old
fort of the Choctaw nation. thirtyeight
years ago. When seven years old he
was taken by his parents to Mill Creek.
stage stand and post office on the
western frontier of the Chickasaw ma
ton. When eleven he started to school
at a log schoolhouse nearby. When thir-
teen he entered the Chickasaw Manual
Labor Academy, where he finished when
eighteen. Two of these five years at the
academy he missed, in order to work an
cowboy on his fathers ranch.
AS cow puncher and broncho buster 10
began life for himself at Diamond II
ranch. where the city of sulphur now
stands. was then eighteen. When
twenty he accepted a position in a store.
where he advanced from clerk to book
keeper, cotton buyer and cotton weigher.
When twenty-three he was appointed
auditor of public accounts for the Chick.
asaw Nation, and three years later be-
came a member OF that nations council.
From this position he advanced to su
perintendent of schools and mining
trustee of Indian Territory. At the time
of his election to the new Congress he
was in the insurance business.
Such are the men of the Sixtieth Con.
gress who find themselves high up on the
ladder of success, not one of them as
the result of an Aladdin-like rise by virtue
of sudden fortune, but all of them as the
result of logged determination and the
courage to meet each obstacle in their
path of progress Out of such clay were
the fathers of our republic made. Such
careers offer an inspiration of encour-
agement to the American lad. be he ever
SO poor, ever so humble. ever so frie ndless.
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.
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and Denver and South Park divisions OF
the Union Pacific. He then served two
terms as mayor of Leadville and went into
mining. Two years ago he was elected
senior vice commander-in- chief of the
Grand Army of the Republic
Carpenter and Printers Devil.
Charles c. Carlin, who comes from the
Alexandria, Va, district, began as an err
rand boy in a china store at cents per
week. He also sold newspapers on the
streets, but later went to work for tele-
phone company and became superintend-
ent of construction. Having ambitions to
become a professional man, however. he
studied law at night, while erecting tele-
phone lines by day. and since practicing
law has served four years as postmaster
OF Alexandria. He is forty-one years old
Plow boy and mine boy were the first
TWO rungs of the ladder of success.
cnmbed by the bare feet of Samuel Nc
MILAN. from the twenty-frst New York
district. He was brought over from Ire
land by his parents when an infant of
three, remained in New York city until
nine, when he got his first taste of work
upon farm at Niles, Ohio. He next
worked in a mine until sixteen, when he
went back to the metropolis and took up
hrst the trade of harness maker: then
that of carpenter. After putting down his
plane and saw for the day he studied ar
go into business when twenty. BY the
time he was twenty-four he had saved
money and had become a director of the
West Side Bank. He has been director
and vice president of several other New
York banks, member Of the board of
examiners of the New York building de-
partment, and president of the park COM
mission. He is now vice president of the
construction company which Is building
the new Manhattan Bridge over the East
river from New York to Brooklyn
Leaving school to make his own living
at the age of thirteen, George w. Fair
child, new member from the twenty
fourth New York district, started out as
farm boy. but when fourteen appren-
tieed himself a printers devil" thus
serving three years in the office of an
Oneonta newspaper. He then worked as a
printer in New York. but when twenty
two returned to Oneonta and got posi-
ton on the Herald. of which he became
part owner when twenty-eight By the
time he was thirty-six he had acquired
entire ownership. He has since attained
large real estate. manufacturing and
financial interests, and is president of two
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manufacturing companies. vice president
of two financial concerns, and a director
In several other big enterprises.
Lay Wounded Seven Days.
After lying wounded for seven days and
seven nights on the battlefield of Charles
City Cross Roads, Joseph G.. Beale. new
member from Leechburg. Pa. was ar
rested and sent to Libby prison. Later,
while released on parole, and while an
invalid from his wounds he improved his
time by studying law. But having begun
life as farm boy the sedentary confine-
ments of the law did not prove congenial;
so he went into mining and removed the
coal from beneath what are today some OF
the most aristocratic sections of Pitts
burg. He has since earned fortune not
only in coal, but in steel and banking. His
forefathers came to Pennsylvania with
William Penn.
What is most picturesque in our wild
west of the pioneer days colors the stories
of the early struggles of two of the rep
resentatves from the new state of Okla
homa Bird S. Mcguire was carried across
the plains from Illinois to Missouri when
an infant of two. He worked upon his
fathers farm until seventeen, when the
family moved on to Kansas. But shortly
after settling in the new home his father
met with reverseS and young Mcclure
started out alone to earn money with
which to educate himself. All of the pres
ent state of Oklahoma was then Indian
Territory and for two years the young
man herded cattle across the unbroken
and unsettled prairies of the very district
which he now represents. Once he went
nearly year without beholding a settle
ment of his fellow-men. But after selling
his cattle he found himself possessed OF
sufficient wealth to enter the Kansas Nor
NAL School, after which he taught school
until he saved enough to go through the
law department of the Kansas State Uni
versity. Then he returned home. and when
only twenty-six was elected county attor-
ney, being the youngest prosecutor In the
state But the lure of the wild west
caught him again and he returned to his
old haunts in what was by now Okla
homa. He had been there but two years
when he became a prosecutor for the gov
eminent. During his six years in this work
he came to excel as trial lawyer, fire.
quentlf being called out of his county to
conduct cases. In 1904 he was elected
delegate in Congress. and now that Okla
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IhEYMpoTE TO 6AMTA
AND in THEIR HRF1S THEY
TREASURE THE RESULT.

big cities and points all over the Union
only too eager to assist. 1t takes little
capital to please the child. An expendl-
ture that would satisfy one adult Is
enough to bring ioy to a dozen kids and
the obligation ofSnaking children happy is
one that all share on what ought to be the
greatest day in the year.
Bachelors Busy.
Miss Phillips was surprised at the
heartiness of the response. Even grumpy
old bachelors got busy. The Rev. DR..
Herman l.. Duhring of Philadelphia, pas
tor of an aristocratic congregation, or
ganized the men of his church to help. He
expected the married ones to aid gladly,
but was surprised to see how willingly
the bachelors. those who might have been
expected to be out of sympathy with
children's wants, got into line.
Many who did not personally have time
to receive letters and make purchases of
presents gave of their means to Miss
Phillips to help her make her purchases.
Merchants made contributions of dolls
and toys children. of tie rich gave old
TOYS that had lost their charm, but which
were still good enough to be hailed as
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of branches all over the United States.
Some of our critics argue that we may
he imposed upon" and Miss Phillips, "and
l am not prepared to deny that a minor
percentage of our gifts may not have
reached entirely deserving hands.
But the proportion is bound to ba
small, for the baby mind has not enough
guile to cheat, and our Investigations
were of a character that enabled US to
ascertain almost to a certainty who had
a right and who not to our hep.
ITO me it seems that 1t is far better
that some few should get who did not de-
serve rather than that any child should
undergo the tragedy of facing a Christ
mas without any of the joys that make
it dear to other children. Children feel
deeply. Adults do not often enough re-
call this fact, and mature years have no
more poignant griefs than many of the
woes of childhood that we dismiss as too
trivial to need consolation.
'Tn implicit faith these letters are sent
to Santa. We who have hearts that beat
in tenderness for babyhood should exert
our utmost to see that these hopes are
not disappointed
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the best educated of its officials. He is
now but thirty-seven.
From cash boy to Congress was the
hard climb of William J. Carey. new
member from Milwaukee. At thirteen
he was left an orphan, with four younger
sisters and younger brother, who were
placed in an orphan asylum when he
got his first position in department
| store. Two years later he became a
telegraph, me ssenger boy, but within a
few months had learned to handle the
key we'll that the company promoted
him to operator. Within year he saved
enough money to take his sisters and
brother out of the orphan asylum and
telegraph operator until thirty-fve,
when he was elected alderman. After
serving two terms in this Office he ran
5000 ahead of his ticket for sheriff. and
before finishing his term in this county
office.
Began in Telegraphy.
AS messenger boy James T. McDer-
mott, new member from Chicago, began
his career. He was then living in De-
troit. But, like Representative Carey,
he was not Of the dime-novel-reading
kind of telegraph Mercury. Between de-
liveries he soon learned the code, and
when seventeen was working as a skilled
operator. He was now transferred to
Chicago. where until his election to this
Congress he handled the key, not only
for the telegraph companies, but for sew
eral newspapers, and finally for one of
the large packing concerns in the stock
yards.
Telegraphy was the first stepping stone
also in the congressman career of George
w. Cook of Denver, new representative
at-large from Colorado. >,He learned to
use the key at the age Of eleven. but when
twelve, at the outbreak of the civil war.
he ran away from home and enlisted as
drummerboy to the Indiana regiments in
the Army of the Cumberland. He thus
served until the last eight months of the
war. when he became chief regimental
clerk.
He was then but fourteen and the young
est boy to thus serve in the history of the
army. After the war he went to school,
and having received an academic educa-
ton began railroading in Chicago when
twenty-one. He rose to be general agent
of the Monon system before he was thirty,
and when thirty-six was division superin-
tendent of the Denver and Rio Grande
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treasures by children, many of whom
had never known what it was to be in
possession of anything meant for pleas
ure.
AS in all cases addresses had to be
tination of the presents. it was not diff
served and who did not. In cases whera
it was found that the parents had ample
means to buy gifts, naturally the charity
was withheld, but perhaps in many of
these cases close-fisted mothers and
fathers were shamed into gifts that might
never have come had not some pleading
letter exposed to them the tragedy of
childhood the pleasures or other children
denied by a policy of overstringent econ
omy. .....
mother instinct of the American girl was
shown in the request for dolls. Fifty per
cent of the letters called for babies.
Those that were sent were not the great
big ones that cause wonderment when
displayed in the show windows. but they
were pretty enough to accomplish their
mission of giving Joy.
The Teddy Bear was also a popular
form of request The boys wanted sIeds
and penknives, foot balls, base balls, toy
guns, etc.
Plans for the Future.
Next Christmas will see the project
tried on still larger scale. Miss Phil
lips and her associates think it succeeded
we'll enough to warrant the organization