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The Washington times., 1908-11-17
Wood Still in Lead.

"No need to protect wood. This is the
day of freproof construction"
We shall hear that a-pIenty, just as
soon as Congress recOnvenes and the
forces of forest preservation renew their
siege against the Cannon mounted ram
parts. 1t is Just a well then, to in
quire in advance if freproof constTuc-
ton IL lessening the demand for lumber.
As a matter Of fact, cement, terra
Gotta, brick. and stone, with a frame
work of steel, have not lessened a whit
the demand for wood. There are in
teresting figures on the wider use OF
non-combustible material, but they are
far from indicating any decline in the
lumber market. The statistics cover
the forty-nine larger cities. They do
not reach the thousands of smaller mu-
inequalities and the country districts,
where wood is now and viii long con-
tinue to be the chief building material.
But in these forty-nine cities, approx
mately 81 per cent of all building per
mits were for wooden structures.
In the popular imagination wood has
ceased TO be a factor of first Importance
in city bmlding. Most large cities are
supposed to have general prohibitions
against the construction of frame"
buildings. But the general supposition
is not only too broad, but also it is
so far wrong that only 80 per cent of
building permits are for fire-resisting
material.
The prices of lumber have lately
fallen. But this has not been due %
any suppression of it in the building
market. It has been due, instead, to a
widespread falling away of the de-
mand, due in its turn to restricted
building operations the country over.
Now that the election has proven a re-
viving rather than a depressing factor
in our commercial life, it will hardly
be argued that the demand will con
tinue small or that the use o. lumber
will fall off In the whole field of coun-
tryside, small cities, and 50 per cent of
the building done by the cities of the
first class. There are no statistics to
reveal what percentage of the total sup
ply was consumed even in year of
financial depression. But this much Is
manifest-that it was a percentage large
enough, without prohibitory legislation,
to require the cutting of all first
growth timber within reach and second
growth as small as six inches in diam
eteT.
The Washington times., 1908-11-17

others throats The South. free of
entanEling alliances viii have the bal
ance OF power, can command peace OF
either belligeTent and on its own
terms.
OF course, the difficulty with carTy-
ing out this suggestion is practically
insurmomtable. 1t is the difficulty of
getting the consent of the voters to
impose this trust in the electors. 1t
was exactly the trust the trainers of
the Constitution intended to impose in
electors, but the people have taken it
away from them, and there is not
much chance that they will surrender
it. We do not know what argument
could be presented that would per
suade the people of the South to give
over this power and authority to the
electors, and it seems a visionary dream
more than anything else; but its dis
cussion in a leading Southern paper is
an indication that the leayen of unrest
is working.
If the political history of the South
ern States that have gone into the
doubtful column is criteriOn-Mary-
land, Missouri, and Kentucky, for in
stance-it would seem that Industrial
development Is the most potent force
in changing political conditions. In our
neighbor State there has grown up a
large independent vote, but immigration
has had much to do with equalizing
the parties. The same thing is true of
Missouri and Kentucky. And in the
South, wherever there is a vigorous de-
velopment, there seems TO be the greatest
aversion to settling down to the con
dition of a one-party State.
Unless the race question becomes
more acute in the next four years, thus
driving white men into one party, as
in the past, it will be more than inter
esting to note developments. With a
man like Mr.. Taft in the White House,
who seems to be animated not only by
the friendliest disposition toward the
South, but who appears TO wish to do
what he can to give it the stimulus
and vitalization that are needed to g,t
the best of its greatest resource - 20
not at all impossible that we n 4y wit
ness political changes of much impor-
lance IN that section.
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LYCEUM.

The NavIgatOTs,' a musical travesty
I'm two acts and ten scenes, was present
ed 1t the Lyceum last evening by the
Miss New York, jr., company, The
company has been seen here before
and was well liked. Its production last
evening made q faiF-siZed hit with a
large audience. The piece comprises
the adventures Of a party Of Americans
on a tour Of the world showing scenes
in China, India. Russia, Spain, France,
Egypt and other countries. Comedy and
music alternate frequently and pleas
ingIy. In the oliO those who scored
were Perry and White, as the prtma
donna and the sport: Abe Reynolds, the
magnetic Hebrew; Dave Ferguson and
company in O1e-act playleti the
F,sterbr0Oks musical artists, Lila
Brennan, soubrette, and the Stin City
Quartet.
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The UnSOlid Solid South.

10 Is not an easy matter to tell what
Republican gains in the South mean,
but the strength generally shown by
Nh Taft in Southern States in the
last election has started discussion as
TO the probability of a breaking up of
the solidarity of that section.
Tt would be easy to dispose of the re-
turns by saving that the South is so
strongly Democratic, and that there
Is so little chance of its going Repub-
lican, that the people lose interest, and
do not come out to vote, because they
know the party is safe, anyway that
"a slump in the Democratic vote in
Texas, for instance, is no more sig
niiicant than the enormous slump which
the Taft vote showed In Pennsyl-
vania, as compared with that of
Roosevelt, his plurality being 100000
less. But this does not dispose of the
question at all, because results in
Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and last,
but not least, Maryland, prove that the
South is by no means impregnable in
a political sense, and that. with the
Republican party once firmly committed
to the policy of letting it work out
its own salvation on the negro ques-
tion, the time is not far off when States
that seeded from the Union will split
away at times from the Democratic
party.
Certain it Is that the South is be-
coming restless under conditions that
give it so little voice in the conduct of
the Government, and, indeed of the
conduct of the Democratic party's ma
tional policies. 1t Is tired of feeding
on husks, and many of its best citi-
zens are beginning 10 ask if it is not
time Tor parties to divide on some
thing other than racial lines. The
growth oil manufacturing industries has
done much to bring about the posi-
bility of a new alignment, and it is
certain that this contingency is being
debated now with more real interest
than has been the case hitherto.
One suggestion made for increasing
the South's influence in the councils
of the nation is unique, to say the
least. 1t is, in briefp
Form a Southern party. Elect our
electors by the Legislatures of the re-
spective Southern States. Put into the
Electoral College 100 sovereign cleo
tors absolutely without instruction.
Select men of high purpose, statesmen
imbued with patriotism, men with
constructive ideas and loyal 10 the
South first, last. and always.
The more one studies the suggestion
the more attractive il will become. II
is not novel. II Is perfectly feasible
/ am strongly inclined to the opinion
that 1t viii be effective.
Commercially, the East and the
West are natural enemies. The East
is the manufacturing section and cries
Justify for protection. The West is
the agricultural section. and 10 them
protective tariff is an imposition
II the South viii but withdraw from
the most unenviable position OF being
a target for both sections, it will not
be long before the East and the West
viii be lighting each other with ham
mer and tongS.
They viii come into the Electoral
College with their hands on each
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black messaline which makes even the
men rub their eyes.
Forrest Orr and Robert MacKay are
the bOys-falrly acceptable as sons Of
the Old Man but nothing more, There
are two keepers OF the society counter
sign who altogether miss the mark OF
elegance but yet do not interfere with
the enjoyment Of the audience-Misses
Belle Bohn and Isabel Garrison. Fur
thermore, attractive bits Of acting are
done by Scott Daley, Fred ". Sidney,
and Miss Adele Clarke That is the
total.
The wit Of Fables in Slang is fairly
In evidence in the dialogue. Some one
asks If the reigning leader Of society
is clever when "a woman gets past
forty" answers the wool broker, she
has to be clever A promoter Is de-
fined as one who ''capitalizes his CONVEX
satiOn." The good things are always a
long ways on observes the author
What do YOU think ] amp asks Mr..
Crane, when the others question him
about conduct at a dinner party. THE
Ladies Home JOurnal2' The old fell
low beuevolently invites the lady from
vaudeville 20 Join him Ia glass Of
milk and an apple. Mix; eXclaims
his companion. MIX ] didn't know
there was such a thing in New York. "
But this is not OF "a very nigh grade.
is III Nor Is the play remarkable FOR
fluenCy. cohesion or consistency. what
character II has is due to near-attaIu-
ments and Mr. Cranes brilliant acting
Of the two earlier acts Many Will go
to see IL and everyone who goes VIII
laugh. Perhaps that is enough. II 10
is. we will have TO revise that moral
TO our little imitation fable at the be
ginning of this review and make IL read
something like this.
MORALS LONG as you see the Runs
going up on the Scoreboard you needn {
mind If the Piker IN the Press Box gets
on TO the Signals from the Bench.
ALLEN d. ALBERT, JR
The Washington times., 1908-11-17
Miss Walker and Frank
keenan, at Belasco Add
to Triumph.
The Love Waltz, " a
ChaSe'S, Heads Strong
Vaudeville Bill.

RedOlent Of a Virginia flower garden
and pOTtraying the characteristics OF
the Old-time Southern family. without
the cxaggeratiOns so common in sec
tional plays, The Warrens )f Virginia"
for the first time delighted a Washing
ton audience last night at the BelasCO.
Fresh from New York, this dramatic
success proved all that had been prom
Used, and Miss Charlotte Walker, so
well known by Washington theatergoers,
as Agatha Warren, again showed what
a thoroughly charming Southern girl
she is, while Frank keenan,, as her
father. was even more Of success than
as the gambler in The Girl OF the
Golden West in which he scored so
heavily iH the past
The play is a war play, despite All TO
the contrary, but minus many Of the fea-
lures that usually are Objectionable ia
plays OF the kind. Dainty and winsome,
and looking every inch the part Of the
young Virginia girl. loving ardenuy yet
bound by family traditions and love OF
the Southland. Miss Walker, never for
getting for an instant her soft Southern
drawl, gave a delightful presentation
of the daughter of a Confederate gen
eraI- AS her father, a hard-hghting
soldier. a typical SOutherner, but above
all a Warren. Frank keenan, left little
10 be asked for. Never overlooking the
courtesy and hospitality for which Vir-
ginians are famous. yet always ready
for a fight. Mr.. keenan, was superb in
his role, and he and Miss Walker shared
the liberal applause OF the audience.
The rest Of the cast is well balanced,
part OF it being exceptionally strong.
Mr.. Charles ID. WaldrOu, as Lieutenant
Burton. the Yankee officer 10 whom
Agatha has given her heart, makes the
most OF a character with whom the
audience has a hard time 10 sympathize
Almost the only jarrinE note in the
play lis the fact that a girl such as
Agatha is pictured as being could love
man who put his duty as a soldier
above all things, in so distinctly ridicu-
l0us a manner. OF course the play
wright, not the company, IS to blame.
Miss Mary PickfOrd as Agatha s
younger sister. is a very loyabIe little
girl. and Miss Emma Dunn, as tie gen
erals wife, gives a typical characterize
ton OF a wife and mother Of the South
land during the civil war.
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COLUMBIA

Mrs. Wigs Of the Cabbage Patch"
returned. 10 the Columbia last night
and received "a hearty welcome from a
well filled house. In her usual way
Mrs. Wigs spread sunshine and nap
uiness wherever she went and was al
WAYS ready 20 turn some ones tears
into a happy laugh. Mrs. Wigs can
truly be called Queen of Oplmists.
Ready wit Is one of Mrs. Wisgs cniet
characteristics, and her optimism,
coupled with this. could but make "a
dryp impression upon her audience.
TIE characters, which are familiar 10
D.. were warmly greeted last night
Mrs. Wigs, cheerful and loving,
rules over her little sphere as ever,
Miss Hay, the sad and mournfui
bride, and Mr.. Stu6blus. the tall and
handsome Bridegroom. somewhat intoN-
iCated were the chief characters In the
cast. L0vey Mary and Tommy, two
loving comrades, EurOpeua, ASIA AUS
tTalia, Cubby and Billy comprising the
household Of Mrs. NlEg s, desc rye
much credit for their acting Mrs.
Schulz, a very stout lady. who is a
side-partuer of Mrs. Eichorn, an elOn-
gated and slender lady who is more or
less inclined 10 dabble in other peoples
affairs, received well merited applause.
Miss Lucy and Mr.. Bob made the best
OF inferior roles.
In civil life Mrs Wigs is known as
Blanche Chapman, Miss HaZy as Viva
Ogden. Mr.. Stubbins as Charles Car
ter. Mrs. EiChOm as Gladys Fairbanks
Murray. Billy Wigs as Frank Ford.
and LOVey Mary as May MoTnaDus.
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ACADEMY.

Buster Brown" joyful. rolliCking,
dimiHutive Buster. accompanied by Tige,
Mary Jane. and the rest of them, drew
q capacity audience at the Academy
last night on the first performance Of
the return engagement Buster Brown
as interpreted by Master Reed, IS
sCreamingly funny. and he had the audi
ence going some" the entire evening.
Scarcely less intelligent. and equally
funny and misChieviOus is Tige. Buster s
faithful dog friend and cO-COnspiratOr, a
part ably taken by Al Davis.
Mary Jane. Busters sweetheart, a
part taken by Master Harold West, is
well played for one 50 small. Master
Vests singing was a distinct feature
Of the show. A ballet Of pretty girls
add greatly TO the success Of the pro
ductlon. the Bobby Burns drill being
especially Well rendered.
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CHASES

The Love Waltz" Nienuese
operetta, presented with a large cast
and beautifully costumed and staged,
is the premier at Chase's this week.
IT is by far the best Of Jesse L. LaslSy's
productions seen here this season
Featured in the leading roles are Alfred
Kappeier and Audrey Maple Mr. Kap-
peler is a Washington man and met
with a warm reception from many local
friends. AS the Crown Prince Fernand
be displays dramatic ability. and an
excellent voice. In the duet with Miss
Maple, all tire features OF the famous
Merry widow are portrayed. in
Guiding the Love Watz" Both are
excellent singers and were repeatedly
encored A capable chorus adds much
10 the production. Others in the cast
are Bert -. Harris, as Lieutenant Ker-
thod, Miss Lillian Lipyeat as Brenda;
Miss Celia Valerius. as Baroness Won
KnobeIsdOrff. and Ben J.. MuIvey. as
Otto Won MarbuTg.
Laddie Cliff the ingenious little Lon
dOuer. VINO appeared here earlier IN the
GvasOn, was warmly welcomed and was
The second bright shining star on the
bill. VIII H. Fox appears in his favor
lite pIanolOgue, which is interspersed
with wit
A clever club swinging stunt By the
Five Jordans, Matte Borum and the
Young American Five in a singing and
dancing sketch entitled Molly Malone S
Fathers Birthday" Kelly and Barrett
in a military sketch, The Battle Of
Too SOON and Vitagraph pictures %
a crank on the National game. who at
tends a contest between the White SOx
and the uighlandeTs, complete the Of
feTing.
Orchestral numbers this week include
LeThieTe's Descriptive Fantasia. "Gyp-
sy Life" and an intermezzO, Hawaii
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GAYETY.

Andy Lewis and his Marti Gras
Beauties at the Gayety this week pre-
sent the best entertainment offered at
that popular theater this season The
opening and closing burIettas are full
Of original songs and comedy that kept
the audience in an uprOar Of laughter
During the clio Lewis and company pre-
sent a sketch entitled "rOn at the
Wire which was very well received.
The remainder of the oliO is composed
of Miss Beatrice Cook, with Illustrated
songs: the AlrOna-ZOelleT Trio IN
comic acrobatic novelty, and Groves and
Doyle in a witty talkfeSt.
Virginia ROyden as Fluffy Rufties'
won great applause.
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Seeing Washington With The Times Guide

ley, wife Of the Rev.
H O W ard Chesley,
owned the house,
and lived in it un-
til her death. when
It was sold 10 its
present owner, Eu-
gene y. Arnold.
After it's purchase
by the ArnOIds the
house was changed
considerably. espe-
cially the interior ;
the skeleton alone
is left intact.
You see today a
thTee-stOry, frame
building over the
gable roof of which
two enormous elms
strefch their arms
The Washington times., 1908-11-17
MISS ROOSEVELT RETURNS
FROM NEW YORK VISIT
Has Been Guest of MIR. and Mrs Henry WadSworth
Representative and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth At
tend Opening Of Opera Season.

Miss Ethel Roosevelt, who has been
the guest Of Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert
Vadsworth at Ashantee. their estate
at Avon, n Y, for the last fortnight.
returned TO the White House this
morning.
Representative and Mrs Nicholas
Longworth. who have been guests at
the White House for the last few
days, while their house on Eighteenth
street was beng put in readiness for
occupancy, went over 20 New York
yesterday.
Last evening they attended the
opening performance Of the grand
opera season as the guests Of Mr. and
Mrs Robert Goelet Mrs. Longworth
wore a handsome toilette Of mauve
satin heavily embroidered ing gold, and
Mrs GoeIet wore a beautiful gown OF
pale blue satin with white net dra-
peries spangled with silver.
The Washington times., 1908-11-17
Father and Tie Boys" Insure an Eyening of Fun;
FaUorHes Score in 1.-THE Warrens of Hrq1ia"
WEEKS ATTRACTIONS
AT LOCAL THEATERS

NATIONAL-WiIliam II. Crane I'm
Father ANA lAe Boys"
BELASCO-Char.Otte Walker and
Frank keenan, IN 4'Phe Warrens
of Virginia."
COLUMBIA-BIanch Chapman In
"Mrs. Wtggs OF the Cabbage
Patch"
CHASE'S-"The Love Waltz and
Vaudeville.
ACADEMY-Master Reed In Buster
Brown
GAYETY-''The MardI Gras Beap-
ties"
INGENUITY NayigatOrs."
MAJESTIC-"Liye Vaudeville" and
Moving Pictures.
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Hall-Kreh

Miss Mary Adele Han, daughter OF
MI and Mrs. Philip T. Hall, was mar
ried at noon today - Arthur Theodore
Kreh, of Frederick. Md, in the home
of her parents. 24SS Wisconsin avenue
the Rev. John Paul Tyler of FREDERICK
No, officiating.
The house was beautifully adorned
with quantities Of palms and white
chrysanthemums.
Tbe bride. who was given in marriage
The Washington times., 1908-11-17

80 T 1898 Thir-
a ty-hrst St.
ladies and
gentlemen, h alt
buried in the side of
an Q IN b a nkmenJ
and facing the broad
and wooded park
which $ u + rounds
Tudor place, you
see another of the
3 G q Il residences.
known as the Old
Beall House.
This frame struc-
ture was built in
1761 by Is TO oke
Beall. one Of tie
founders Of George
town, and the son
of Col. S a m uRl
Beall, a member of
ll-a IA miami .nn-
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MAJESTIC.

Live vaudeville" of a quality consid-
erably higher than might be expected
at one of the moving picture theaters
was given at the Majestic yesterday
afternoon and last evening. The num-
bers were presented by Erie and Leo,
IN an eccentric novelty singing sketch,
and CIyO and Rochelle, singers and dan
GERS. The Cameraphone furnished re-
productions of acts of Stella Mayhem,
the Terry Twins, and other artists. The
moving pictures included COmical as
well as Instructive scenes
The Washington times., 1908-11-17
Give Dinner.

The Chief Of the General Staff OF
the Army and Mrs. J. Franklin Bell
were dinner hosts last evening in
compliment TO the Secretary Of War
aVd Mrs. Luke +. Wright. The COM
pauy invited TO meet them included
the Secretary Of tie Interior and Mrs.
Garfield. the Secretary Of Commerce and
Labor and Mrs. Straus, the Assistant
Secretary OF state and Mrs. Robert
Bacon. the Assistant Secretary Of War
and Mrs. Robert Shaw oliver. and the
Assistant Secretary OF the Navy and
Mrs. Truman II. New berry
Mrs Charles i. HOWTy has issued
cards for d tea the afternoon Of sat
urday, December 5. 20 present her
daughter. Miss Elizabeth HOwry, and
Miss Davidson, her niece, at lllO j
street.
The Washington times., 1908-11-17

vention which ordered the signing Of
the Declaration of Independence, ana Is
today spoken of as one of the Immortal
Twelve, because of his activity in re
pudiating the stamp act. Brooke Beall
was an importing merchant and clerk
Of the Montgomery court.
when the colonial structure was
erected at Mackall Square, a large part
of the old frame structure was moved
down the Hill to it's present location IN
Thirty-frst street, at that tine known
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White House Callers

Senator McCumber Of North Dakota.
Representative Alexander Of New York.
Assistant Secretary of the Navy New.
berry.
Z. R. u Mailey, Of New York.
Fred Greiner. OF Brooklyn.
l. II. Bailey, chairman of County Life
Commission
Robert Bell, of New York.
The Washington times., 1908-11-17
Warders Return.

Mrs. 3. H. Wander and her daughter,
Miss Alice Warder. vino are now in
Berlin. will sail for New York about
December T.. arriving in Washington
I'm time for Christmas
The engagement C Miss Wander to
John w. Garrett, or Baltimore, secre-
tary of the American embassy at Rome,
was recently announced abroad, the
wedding 10 take place in the Warder
home. In Washington, early in January
il Will he "a strictly private affair, only
the members Of the two families being
present. Mrs Warder and her daugh-
ters have always attended ST. johns
Episcopal Church, and the rector, the
Rev. Roland Cotton Smith viii un-
doubleday be the officiating clergyman.
The Washington times., 1908-11-17

Won Buelow has a real job on his
hands telling the Kaiser the plain truth,
if the reports of petticOat influence have
any foundation in fact. The gentler sex
Is hardly likely to pay any attention to
mere facts when It has got to the point
of disregarding what they say"
The Washington times., 1908-11-17

Tie first, or ground floor. las an exit
directly onto ThiTty-fiTst street, while
wooden stairs with ratings lead TO two
veranda's which stand before the front
and side doors. A low, picket fence on
one side, contrasts very strongly with
a rickety wire fence, which clingS to
the edge Of an embankment on the Op-
posite side. and is covered with vines
and flowers, which have sprung up al!
over the slope. and Hooded ii in an tr-
resistible sea of fragrance.
The Washington times., 1908-11-17

II there was any chance that Salome
would fade into the dark and hazy il
is all over now. The ministers Of Phila-
delphia have united in a protest against
The Washington times., 1908-11-17
Murray-Berger.

Miss Cecile H Murray, daughter OF
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph II. ROken. and
David J. Berger will be married this
afternoon at 4 o'clock in St. Marys
Catholic Church. the Rev Il. A. b.
Wuunenberg performing the ceremony.
The bride will wear a mOdish trav-
cling suit of dark blue broadclOth with
"a gray hat. shoes and gloves. and the
bridal bouquet will be a shower Of
garGenias and lilies of the valley
Both bride and bridegroom will be-
unattended and only a small company
OF relatives and a few intimate friends
will attend the ceremony. Immediately
afteTward Mr.. and Mrs. Berger will
leave Washington for a Southern bridal
trip. After December 1 they Will bs
al home at so SeatOn place.