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New-York tribune., 1908-12-04

my notice 10 show that these ancient curses laid
Upon former property OF the Church pass with the
lsnd 10 each of its new owr,ers matter how
many times the estate may have changed hands,
notable case being thst of Lord Leith of Fyvie,
married to Miss Marie Louise January. of ST.
Louis. and the loss of whose only son I'm South
Africa is ascribed by all superstitious people in
scotland To the ancient curse that rests Fyvie
castle. And non comes the from England
mat while Sir Weetman Pearson's workmen We're
engaged in repairing the mansion of Cowdray Park
II caught fire. and, the flames being fed by strong
"ino was almost entirely burned to the ground.
This Is not the original mansion Of Cowdray
Park, but the one which built about hundred
years ago 10 take the place Of the former house
after ii had fallen a prey TO the flames In those
oaNs there were no telegraphs and the messenger
sent TO announce 70 Its owner the seventh and the
iast Niscount Montasu that his home had been
burned down was met at Djon by another mes
senger on his way back to Cowdray Park from
switzerland. with the news that the very day
when the mar sion reduced ruins by the
flames Lord Montagu had been drowned in fool
hardy attempt to. cross the Rhine just above its
falls. Sir Weetman would do well under the cir
cumstanCes to take warning by the misfortunes
that have overtaken his recent acquisition, Cow
dray Park. and follow the example of the late
Marchioness Of Lothian. who perturbed by
the curse that rested the ancestral home Of the
lords Of Lothian. New Battle Abbey, In Midlothian.
BY reason OF its having been confscated from the
Church at the time of the Reformation. that she
proceeded to Rome and obtained from Plus IN his
written authorization for herself and for her fam
fly to live in peace and undisturbed at New Battle
Abbey. This document, bearing the Pope's sigma
ture is preserved of the most highly priced
possessions Of the lords of Lothian. among the
deeds. many hundreds Of years old. by which they
various peerages
MARQUIsE DE FONTENOY.
New-York tribune., 1908-12-04
NEW GERMAN THEATRE.
w olkenkratzer.'

A piece Of decidedly novel character for the
German stage in New York presented last
night at the new German Theatre. It
castle comedy entitled ''Wokenkratzer' CSlHy-
scrapers) and it pictured certain phases of Amer
lean life much exploited in the newspapers, instead
Of dealing with the oyer-the-weter experiences
with which German actors and audiences are more
familiar. The authors. Carl Rosser and Ludwig
Heller. have put together not too eXtravagant
burlesque on the domestic, social and financial com
pIications arising in the family of an American
multi millionaire, with wife who believes in
spirituasm four daughters married over-married
or unmarried and contingent Of foreign candi-
dates for matrimonial and financial allowances
The situations are amusing and not overdone. and
the acting was good as TO dispel the sense OF
unnatuTalness which tinges most presentments OF
American life seen throu~h foreign eyes.
M. NARROW excellent the mult-InlllIon-
aire. as was Carl Sauermann as the magnates In
innate body servant Mr.. Burg played an Austrian
baron taking service here temporarily a waiter
and getting mixed up in millionaire society. M
Steil had the role of an impressive Indian rajal
The womens parts were also all acceptably taken.
The piece gave much satisfaction last night and
ought to please. because Of its lightness and deft
ness Of touch.
New-York tribune., 1908-12-04
WHAT IS GOING ON TODAY.

Free admission American Museum ~ Natural His
AMI the ZooioSiCa Garden
Memorial exercises Cleveland annual meet
Association of zIie Insurance Presidents.
Metropolitan Building. morning.
Dog show Toy Spaniel club Waldorf Astoria, al
The Or EEwood Worcester on Habit and sleep,
-. Georges Memorial Building No 2"7 East 18th
II =. m
Bridge Of the hvrood waldorf Astoria,
Meeting or the Equal Suffrage League OF New York
Hotel Astor. =.
Congressman Mccall OF Massachusetts The Busi-
ness - Congress columbia University. $40 p.
Mass meeting Of lnterurbsn Woman Suffrage
ill. carnegie Han, evening
nrrIaI reunion Massachusetts Agricultural Col
lere club. 81 Denis Hotel. Z, m
r1.,-er df the Ncv York Homeopathic Medical college
Alumni Hotel Ast0r, 40
dinner of the Poly teChnc Alumni
Association. Hotel Astor. 1:3O = M
Dance Of the South Carolina Society. Waldorf Astoria
u.
Leslie Willis sprasue Forces Transforming Social
Ideals" Cooper Union. s =. m
rr. Pc Dr. El,vood Worcester The Cfurch's Duty
"s 7ir,.r,J the sick Mendessohn Han. $50 ?. IA.
New-York tribune., 1908-12-04
ON METROPOLTTAN BOARD
T.. D. Jordan, Of Boston Opera
House, Director Here.

Eben D. Jordan. the Boston drygoods mer-
chant and president of the company which has just
started build opera house I'm Huntington
avenue in that city. elected yesterday to the
directorate of the Metropolitan Opera Company.
This brings the membership of the \board up 70
sixteen. OF wh1m ALL with the exception of SIr.
Jordan and James Hazen Hyde, now living in Paris,
and formna with Henry V. Higgins, OF Covent
Garden, London. and Count San Martino. of Rome.
the foreign committee of the board, are residents
Of this city.
The action of the Metropolitan board in going
outside the city and adding Mr.. Jordan to its
membership is considered significant. in view Of
the beginning of the building of permanent home
for operatic productions in the Hub. Other con
sderations may also have Influenced the MetropOli-
tan directorate in making this radical departure
Not the least of these is the continued success
which has attended Mr.. Hammersten's invasion
of the Philadelphia operate field and his announced
intention to establish a chain Of opera houses in
the chief cities of the country. Boston would
rally. after Philadelphia. be the city to which Mr..
Hammerstein would direct his attention, its loca-
tion and the conditions existing there being most
favoraby adapted for the production of opera and
for the ready transportation of the company and
scenery to and from Mr.. Hammersteins chief
centre.
In electing the sad OF the new Boston Opera
Company to membership the Metropolitan, it is
said. is taking measures to protect itself against
any designs that Mr.. Hsmmerstein may have
field which has heretofore been restricted to the
Metropolitan company. When the Boston company
was formed several months ago, Henry Russell,
formerly manager of the San Carlo company, was
selected to take charge of the new house, and
shortly after Mr.. Russell announced that
raRsement had been entered into with the Metro
poiitan for the employment of the latters artists
and the use of the operas TO which the Metropoi-
itan had obtained exclusive rights.
Mr.. Jordan, the director is a member OF
the firm Of Jordan. Marsh & Co. and has long
been prominent as patron of opera and an ex-
hibitor of show horses. The cornerstone Of the
Boston Opera House laid only last Monday,
Governor Guild making the dedicatory speech. Al
though the building win not he ready for occu-
pancy for year, the conductor. stage director
and chorus master have already been selected.
Mr.. Jordan himself gave the land for the building.
which viii 100 persons and started the popu-
lar subscription toward its erection.
New-York tribune., 1908-12-04
BISHOP BREWSTER CHOSEN PRESIDENT
Missionary Council of First Department Of
Episcopal Church Organizes

Boston Dec. 3.-The bishops. clergy and lay dele
gates 10 the first meeting of the newly organized
missionary council of the first department of the
Episcopal Church organized to-day by adopting a
constitution and electing Bishop Chauncey b.
Brewster. of Connecticut. president The constiiu-
ZION desienates the organization the Missionary
Council Of the Department of New England The
Rev. T. r. Davis, Of Worcester was elected clerk;
Ex-Governor Frank W. Rollins of New Hampshire,
treasurer and Charles 6 Saunders Of Boston,
representative 10 the Board OF Missions.
Bishop CoadjUtor Parker, of New Hampshire. was
made chairman Of a committee 10 report at the
next cou.cii on the needs Of the members Of the
Oriental churches and the ways OF helping them
Bishop McVickar- OF Rhode Island, was made
chairman Of the committee local conferences,
and Bishop Hall. of Vermont. of the committee on
vocation to the ministry. The three committees
met during the afternoon for organization, after
which the council finally adjourned
New-York tribune., 1908-12-04
rAsr OF CHARACTERS.
THEATRE MANAGERS TO PUSH FIGHT.
Discuss Campaign Against Ticket Spectators
at Association Meeting

The Theatre Managers Association met yester-
dav AZ the Hotel Astor. Among the business trans
acted was the further consideration Of the cam
paien against theatre ticket spectators. The man
ayers showed a determination to push their Oppo-
sition to the speculation i'm tickets to the limit
They mean also. it said to abolish or reform
.ba tfIIboard pIrvilege abuses and will exercise
in the future more in the distribution Of
passes and free tickets Some of these and many
of the billboard tickets find their way to the little
uptown stores that do business in cut rate tickets
Resolutions were adopted thanking the man
asora constituting the committee that had charge
of the fight on the spectators and the Board of
Aldermen for their part in the passage Of the anti
speculator ordinance.
Among the managers at the meeting were Marc
Klaw Charles Dillingham;. Lee Shubert, George
TYLER George Brooks and All" Hayman.
New-York tribune., 1908-12-04
LITTLE ITALY HoNoRs DEAD SEXTON,
Thousands Attend Funeral Of Charles Bacl-
galupo. East Side Undertaken.

The largest funeral that Little Italy" has seen
for many years that of Charles Bacisalupo the
wealthy italian undertakes Of the East Side which
Was held Yesterday. There were several bands.
number of Itaran-American societies and go car
riages in the procession.
Several thousand persons gathered in and about
the home at No. IS Second Place. BROOKLYN and
followed the body TO the Church of Our Most
Precious Blood in Baxter street. where requiem
high mass was celebrated. the Rev. Father simone
being the celebrant- Masses were also said in the
Church Of the TRANSPORTATION in Mott street. st.
Joachim's Church in Roosevelt street and St An
thongs Church in Sullivan street. for all of which
Mr.. Bacigalupo had been the sexton.
The procession from the home to Manhattan was
held up nearly half an hour because the pole Of
the hearse was broken ny coming in contact with
an iron railing the Brooklyn Bridge. Outside the
church fifty policemen had their hands full keeping
hack the crowds eager TO get inside The cnurch
was packed with friends of the sexton. The Min
cola Club. of which he had been a member, pre-
sented arms as he coffin carried to the altar.
The Rev. Father Michael Angelo Draghetu
preached the funeral sermon.
After the services in the church the funeral cor
tege escorted by a squad of mounted police made
tour of Little Italy and then went to calvary
Cemetery.
New-York tribune., 1908-12-04
~cAvALLgRIA RusTIcANA" ON SUNDAY.

Instead OF the performance OF Samson ct
DaIila" in concert form. which was originally
announced as the bill at the Manhattan Opera
House next Sunday evening. 'CavaIIerta Rustf-
cana" il concert form, with variety of other
solo numbers. has been substituted. The entire
chorus and orchestra of the opera house WILL how
ever be utilized in the presentation OF MascagnIs
opera which Mr.. Campanini will himself conduct
The chief parts in the Sabbathized version Will bs
taken by Mines Agostinei. Marska-Aldrtch and
Severina and Messrs. Parola and Crabbe.
Besides the rendition of the MaScagni masterpiece
in concert form, Mr.. Hammerstein will present
miscellaneous programme which will enlist the
services of Miles Gervlle-Reache and Zeppili.
Nine Doria and Messrs. de Segurola. ATinOndi
and Csnol-CIaIletti For the orchestra alone under
Mr. Campaninis beat there will he in the pro-
gramme Debussy's "Apres-midi dun Faune.'
Anftra's Dance" from Grieg's Peer Ciynt
Suite" and the overture to Nerdis La Forza del
Destino."
New-York tribune., 1908-12-04
ART LOVERS GATHER AT SALE.
Collections of Lord Philip Currie and of
Prince Centurione offered.

Art lovers from all parts Of this borough and
from other cities filed Fifth Avenue Art Gal
leries at No. 54s Fifth avenue. yesterday. to BID
on the collections of Lord Philip Currie and OF
Prince Centurione The total realized from the al
ternoon sale Of French. English and Italian cabi-
nefrv decorative objects and Italian faTences was
S794S 50. Philip James Carney was both the nigh
est and the lowest bidder paying 81 for French
engraving and $3.50 for Louis XIV salon suite.
I. De Young the purchaser Of a pair OF
Louis XVI Seyres vases and Mrs. Martin w. Lit
tleton obtained for S240 Chippendale aTmchairs
and six others to match Daniel Chester French
bought for the Metropolitan Museum of Art a pair
Of antique Italian armchairs Of the sixteenth cen
tur,. Mrs A f Neale paid s5o5 for Louis XIV
salon suite in tapestry. and S60 for six Jacobean
chairs Seven Chippendale chairs were bought by
Irving T Bush for 500 and George c. Boldt paid
$50 for a pair Of Louis XVI vases. The sale con
sale viii begin
New-York tribune., 1908-12-04
OBITUARY NOTES.

MRS KATHARINE CELIA WELLING. widow
Of Charles Hunt WellinE. died yesterday at her
home No 46 Park She a grand
daugbter of Perry Greene, brother Of General Ma
tbanie Greene She leaves two sons. William
Rrenton yelling and Richard yelling and four
daughters Katharine Greene yelling, Mrs. J.
Noble Hayes Mrs Heinrich Rudolf Baltz and Mrs
Charles Edward Manierre.
MRS RACHEL. NJ PRAIL. widow Of Edwin
Theodore PraIl WHO Mayor Of Paterson from
1870 10 1862 and colonel the 2d Regiment OF the
New Jersey National Guard, died on "Wednesday at
t-Iorance Itaiv She was the mother Of William
praI lau-ver and clergyman who obtained the
enactment under which all the public libraries IN
New Jersey have been established
New-York tribune., 1908-12-04
THE DRAMA
Mr.. DIXEY IN A NEW CHARACTER.
GARDEN THEATRE,

Mr. Dxey who appeared at the Garden Theatre
last night. acting a serio-comc part in a domestic
play Gf play be called. which is without form
and void of sensel by Edith Ellis entitled Mary
James Pa" possesses. among contemporary CO.
medans the signal advantage of being intrinsicaHy
drol. II would be difficult TO define the attribute
that makes him so, but perhaps it is the union Oh
a bthe temperament with quizzical habit OF
mind and demeanor Of demure gravity de-
that wells. without concealing, an involun-
tary custom Of turning everything TO mirth 1he
play in which he acts is farcical-its plot ben6
predicated a ridiculous extravaganza, not to say
absurdity. husband who has dritted away
from nome. practically and shanlefully desertng his
wife and children returns to that home. after an
absence Of eleven years. and then Is employed ny
the wife as a servant of all work. The wife, mean
while maintained herself. and is the editor OF
a newspaper in a town Of the West. No arrange
ment Of domestic affairs could easily be devised
that would seem more preposterous, assumed as
fact. The license OF farce however, admits OF
considerable deviation from the strict line Of prom
ability and in this play, which at least Is CIea"'
elements of truth and phases of feeling are ooca-
sionally commingled with the ingredients OF comic
extravagance. Recital Of the details would be
waste Of words The climax is the regeneration OF
a scamp. The character Hiram Perkins by name
not and does not. for even moment, AWAKEN
awaken sympathy; the actor, the contrary, con
tinuaIly pleases. 1t is a matter of personality
Hiram and his little girl who does not know that
Hiram is her father, have coIoquy that MI
DIxey makes peculiarly tender and touching anu
the child. Gretchen Hartman, shows precoclouS
talent The part Of the wife, Portia Perkins, Is
earnestly and sincerely mpersonated by Miss Ann
Sutherland, and in such way as to make lmpreS-
'siyey actual IN ideal of true brave, energetic
and sweet woman. Everything that zeal could 90
Gone for the play. but il is such hopeless
tangle of trivialites that the mind shrinks, be
wildered. from the effort to grasp and reproduce
its substance. Enough here tn say that the in
fusion OF farce partially redeeTns the ahsurdity OF
the domestic story and that all along the line OF
the. representation Mr.. DiXeys unaffected humor
softlr sparhles and constantly charms. The thea
well filed and there frequent laugh
ter and applause. The gratitude of the public Is
due Colonel Savage for having provided neat
ard simple ulav-bul W. ".
New-York tribune., 1908-12-04
MUSIC
II Ne5c Carmen at the metropolitan.

There is possibility for every singer who essays
the part of Carmen to make a revelation. as
the ordinary phrase has IT. in IL. 1t Is mpossioie
to sing and act the role without putting some in
dviduaty into IT, be II much or little. interesting
or unlntsresting nluminative the opposite The
novelist Who created the character cared for that
in the first instance. the opera hbrettist In the
next, and finally the composer. Fer thirty years
the opera has been with us, and for thirty years
Carmens have come and gone. leaving sometimes
a beautiful musical impression. sometimes ORA
matic-seldom one that was both As great
vocalist as Patti has essayed the part and received
little else than commiserating smiles; as great a
dramatic singer Lehman. and caused little else
than amazement-at her miIitarisrn. which seemed
TO reflect much OF the Berlin from which she
came to Once II thought that Minnie
Hauk was ideal gypsy. and the audience was
ravished by her wanton destruction of porcelain
and her OF the potsherds castanets- Ihen
we had Clara Louise Kellogg. in amusing ten
tative effort. dozen others II made little
difference to the opera for the simple reason that
nothing that actor singer could do could rob 1t
of its marvellous charm-neither excess OF ideal
ism of realism. At the Metropolitan
Opera there was new representative Of the prin-
cipal character in the person Of Maria Gay, VINO
had caused some commotion by he- performance
In London and who said to be peculiarly and
especially equipped for IL by reason Of the fact
that she came from the land CT the Spanish gypsy
There unquestonable personal note in her
impersonationi not pleasant one musicaHy tor
she had plainly failed at the outset to have an
understanding with the conductor and orchestra
to the key which should be maintaned), but
strenuous and feshly dramatically She
placed herself. however. most Enthusiastically in the
large gallery Of Carmens of which New Workers
will think for a long time with feelings which il
would not wise 10 attempt describe in detail.
The performance Of the opera was not particu-
larIy distinguished for excellence in any respect.
though IL enlisted some Of the best talent Of the
Metropolitan Opera HoUse-Miss Farrar as Nj
caels lovely and sympathetic impersOnation).
Mr.. Caruso Don Jose, Mr.. Note as EscamilIo
and Mr.. Toscanini as conductor-much beautiful
talent not all Of it put to as good use as it might
have baen.
New-York tribune., 1908-12-04
FRITZ scHEFF DID NOT SING.

Miss FRITZ Scheff did not appear last night in
The Prima Donna" at the lnickerhocker Theatre
Fer place was taken by an undersudy. MISS
scneff reached the theatre the regular time. but
became i'll. It said and was taken 10 her
hotel There we're two rumors abroad-the hrst
that she bad q misunderstanding with her man
aeer Charles Dillingham;; the second that she ana
Iohn Fox tr had been married. The first was
denied for Mr Dillingham;. and Miss schen herself
sent word from her apartments AZ the Hotel Plaza
that she had not get been married 10 MI FOX
She said she was I'll and wss advised to rest for
one night She is expected back in the cast to-
night
New-York tribune., 1908-12-04
THEATRE TO BE BUILT IN SIXTH AVE.
Will Cost 100000 and Be Ready for Use
Next Fall

4 800 go theatre is to he built At the southeast
corner of SD street and Sixth avenue. from plans
bv George Keister architect, by the John T. Olson
c lmpany owner Of the property This site IS
somewhat remote from the principal theatre zone
of Manhattan Island.
The building will have frontage Of sixty-four
feet and depth of seventy feet. and will be con-
strllcted Of brick with terra Gotta trimmings It's
design will be classic There will be tall Ionic
piIIars supporting a pediment, and an ornamental
ccrntce The height in the auditorium part Of the
building from the orchestra to the ceiling will be
dttv-tbree feet There will be two balconies. The
height Of the stage will be seventy feet.
II is expected the theatre will be ready for use
early next fall at which time the two theatres
heing built in 41st street, just of Sixth avenue
will be opened.
New-York tribune., 1908-12-04
REFUSED KoTow TO THE EMPEROR,

When he reached Germany however. the situa-
Ton changed entirely The Kaiser had heard Of his
tr5u-yhal u7ogress and thought Il necessary 10
recall 10 the prince the fact that his mission vas
che or apology and humiliation. As soon as he
arrived or German territory he was officially re-
c.fvsd bat with the scantest courtesy, and with
complete absence Of cordiality. The arrangements
maze fo-s the conveyance Of the prince and Of his
s.le H- rail and for their accommodation at the
hotels which they stopped route, We're not in
snr way appropriate the rank and station of
Esupe-o- Kwang-Su's only brother, and already
greatly put out by this. the prince baked alto
ss,-e- when he discovered that the German gov
e---sr- vas disposed 10 insist that he should ap
F-osch the German Emperor with the same Oriental
e7-rs u prostration and self-abasement that are
szscted by the Emperor Of China from all his sub
7scrs no approach him no matter what their rank
Nov V hile Prince ChUn quite prepared 70
--rte- n his own brother the ceremonial kotoU,
which consists IN kneeing thrice and knocking the
head nine times upon the grOURd-tokens Of venera-
tr1 conceded 70 the Emperor OF China by reason
- his divine attributes-the prince would not hear
n k.rovinE TO the Kaiser. He pointed out with
sore degree Of Justice that since 1874 foreign
VOWS a PekInE had oeen dispensed from The oblisa
tlCr previously imposed upon them Of kotoWinS 10
r-e chinese Emperor, and that tnere was no rea-
so- -.s-efore WHY Chinese envOys should be
~ ID UPON 20 kotow TO foreign rulers Having
meanwhile arrived at Frankfort. he declined to
proceed step furrne- until the matter was DEF
rs.elg settled and finding that the German author
ties were obstinate about the matter ne withdrew
WITH his mission 20 Switzerland and announced his
intention o., returning 10 China without visiting the
hs5Ser all
New-York tribune., 1908-12-04
PHILLIP GEYER, SR.

IeIegTaph tribune
Paterson. y. j.. Dec. 3.-Phillip Geyer. ST. died
at his home here to-day from Brghts disease
He was born in Pfaferhafen. AlsaCe. siXty-fve
years ago. In 1902 Mr.. Geyer went on the bond Of
the late William Mcqueen. the English anarchist
who recently died Leeds. England and Rudo PIN
Grossman for S13.co0. Mcqueen and Grossman fed
the former being induced return to this country
and serve the sentence imposed him for par
ticipating in the silk riots. Grossman did not re-
turn and Geyer had to forfeit S6500.