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that would accentuate the mistakes OF the
architects. The ceilings were not high.
but that had not prevented the original
decorator from adding to each wall a dado
or wainscot and q frieze. which gave the
effect Of three stripes running around
each room. With ceilings already low and
the rooms not very large the effect pro-
duced made the ceilings seem not an inch
above the heads Of those in the room. or
course any such architectural proportions
asked the owner Of that house Il 1 was at
liberty to do what l wanted to make the
rooms loo their best. She told me to 60
as far az / wanted. She had lost all hope
Of ever having them modern n tasteful.
like the apartments she saw In her friends
newer homes.
@The first thing I did was to substitute
for the dark Eastake papers in the three
divisions O light dainty wall paper with
the narrow lowered stripes on a light
ground running up and down the wall, to
were no heavy mouldings allowed, but in
place Of the mahogany about the ~cornioes
the mouldings were finished In the color
Of the paper. That Immediately gave me
a sense OF space which the old decorations
had not possessed in the slightest degree.
sThe ceiling had been painted in q COM
bination OF peacock blue, dark brown and
old rose. which was just the thing calculated
TO make the room as dark as possible. My
painter with no thought OF what 1t may
have cost rubbed his brush numerically
over this daub, which had the effect Of max
ing the room darker with its three windows
opening INTO a broad lawn thar q room in
a New York fat lighted by a court. 1t was
this ceiling that illustrated 30 strikingly the
ignorance of one OF the first laws Of decora-
ton which sometimes exists even in the
handsomest houses. 1t Is a principle OF
correct decoration that the ceiling. which is
the darkest part OF the room, since the light
from the windows falls on the floor. should
be done in the lightest %colors. while the
floor, which receives most ofthe light, looks
best with a darker cover. They did not
seem to care much about that fact, how
ever, in the days OF late Victorian standards
In decoration. and in this house there was q
cream colored carpet on the floor with these
three lark colors in the ceiling.
There was one possible way OF arrang-
the carpet 30 as to aocentuate this
fault, and that had. Of course. been done.
II a CARPET in a comparatively small room
Is surrounded by a border 1t VIII look much
smaller and give that same effect to a room.
This purpose may also be accomplished
bv having a rug OF Just the size that shows
q border OF hardwood floor around it. The
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they represent, ] believe, the rapidly Er0zs
ing demand for the very best in musical
matters. .s,-N 80
in making up the park programmes
the question Of nationality plays q large
part. With so many people OF different
countries to take into account no usual
rule OF procedure can be followed, for the
bandmaster must have in mind the Wishes
Of the Germans. Of the Italians. Of the
Hebrews. Of the Americans, of all In fact
So many requests have come in. however.
In regard to the Wagner music that I intend
to give one Sunday afternoon programme
entirely devoted to his music. and the last
Sunday afternoon of the string orchestra
will be devoted to parts OF famous SYM
phonies, when / intend to render the New
World symphony Of Dvorak. 'Leonore.'
by Raff; part Of the fifth Of Beethoven,
sixth Of Tschaikowsky n eighth Of Bee.
thoven; the Wagner programme. including
selections from Lohengrin,' Meistersinger,'
'~Tannhauser.' 'Rheingold,' 'Walkure.' Par
sifal.' I intend also to give many Of tina
waltzes Of Strauss that I have never
been able to render satisfactorily before,
some OF the music Of 'ThaIs,' for which
there has been a constant demand, and to
repeat the ever popular Tales Of Hoffman
and the famous arias from 'Traviata' az
we'll as the Marta overture. which was
never. never intended for brass instru-
ments."
OF the $780, 900 appropriated annually for
the music in the different parks Of the city
a comparatively small amount goes to Gem
trail Park concerts. IS TO each Of the orches-
ira for each concert and SIS to the leader.
This is barely sufficient. some Of the players
refusing to play for that amount, and there
is besides the expense Of the carriage Of the
heavy instruments, extras willingly borne
by some of the mel themselves, including
Mr.. Franko. -S3'
Il believe" said he. in referring to the
subject Of future music. that the time will
come when some Of our rich people will
be more generous In this regard, and not
only have any possible deficit made up but
see as well that we have more music Think
what it would mean TO the people Of the
city to nave concerts here in the evening!
Take the band stand alone. That 10 old.
without proper sounding boaTds. and In
adequate to the present requifoments. We
should have open air music in Central Park
that will rival that of any city in the world.
and I belieye we. will in time,
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MUSIC LOVE RS.

Of the string band at the Plaza Hotel and
the rest from the Philharmonic and Sym
phony orchestras, engaged to make up
the requisite number
Others sit quietly Watching the benign
face Of Mendelssohn, whose monument
fronts the band stand: the fountain near by,
which rises, falls and FLASHES musically in
its pool; the forest of mighty trees rising
in the background. whose shadows are cool
and fresh.
One OF the newcomers is heard to say
to her companion: Il always like to sit
here for an hour or so and just look at the
trees and the fountain and hear the birds
sing. Some way all the cares and troubles
get lifted away and I'm in the mood to enjoy
the music then. It's all right to go to a
theatre or to a concert in a building just
on time. but here half the enjoyment Is in
the quiet open air preparation So, true
to her cult, having explained herself. she
sinks into a pleasant reverie.
The crowd, big and insistent as II Is,
is not difficult to keep In order. About
all I have to do is 10 return the lost chill
dren.' explains one Of the policemen pleas
antly. There seems to be something
about the music that sets them wandering
away but I match 'em up all rightat the end.
Never really lost one yet, for keeps Be-
sides this his duty seems to consis in keep
ing the long music line Of those who nave
no seats in some sort Of place 80 that it
does not preempt the whole territory there
abouts. Long before 4 o'clock every seat
near the band stand and along the Mall
has been taken and the line stretches
half a mile down the bypaths, up the wind
ing lane toward the arbor and along the
drives. Those who may not sit and will
not stand arrange themselves more or less
picturesquely on the grass. and the sward
is covered with groups, couples and stray
listeners. the bright dresses. p~arasols and
hats making it seem like a royal garden
party.
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decorator had been careful to surround
his rug with a border that took Of several
feet from the size Of the room.
The drawing room that ! have described
was typical of the whole house. and the
changes l made there were about the same
the border of that carpet, extended 1t to
the sides OF the room n relieved 1t with
a few rugs. The curtains. which were hung
with heavy, h~mbrequins n draped
lowness Of the ceiling by. their curves,
were made to hang In straight folds. which
gave an effect Of additional height, The
portieres were draped back and tied with a
silken cord, which contributed its share
to the squat look Of the rooms. By al
in simple straight lines there were moro
circumstances to supply the necessary
look Of altitude. .
when the rooms had been furnished
the object Of the decorator had been to
make every piece fit the room into which
1t was put. For the low ceilings there
were appropriately short and stocky pieces.
The only high ceiling in the room was in
an entrance hall. n there the furniture
was high.
There was a principle OF decoration here,
but it was only half developed. Low fur
niture for low ceilinged rooms. and the
reverse for the rooms that have high cell
ings Is all right, 80 far as 1t goes. but 1t
does not go far enough. The theory OF
broken heights is much more effective.
That means that there should be mixed
heights to give every piece its value So /
brought some of the high pieces out Of the
hall, mixed them with the low furniture
built for the drawing room and had twice as
good an effect as IL there had been but one
scale in the two different rooms
The old fashioned decorators Of a quarter
of a century ago loved blues, dark browns,
greens and the leather tints, and it
was difficult for them to get away from
them whether they were decorating a dining
room or a drawing room in a sunny country
house. The woman decorator. whose sense
of color ia, as even her rivals admit, better
than most men possess. went through the
same process of simplifying the arrange
ment Of the walls, abolishing the wainscot
or dado, frieze n the central band of
color. The patterns OF thisw wall paper were
in almost every case 10 large that II tended
to make the rooms lose much Of their size,
and in none OF the paper in the low ceiling
rooms had the stripes hat increase the
effect OF height been thought OF.
Il did not use the same colored papers
In every ROOM" she explained. although
increases the effect OF space when one
can zee from one room into another. but I
used analogue tints that made DO sharp
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Of work in ten or fifteen years. and it was
not until after January or February that
their families began to feel the pinch, and
not until now that they actually suffered.
There have been times when we could
force responsibility on applicants by de-
claring: You must work at something,
anything, till times are better But we can't
do that now for the reason that in every
one Of the new cases the man or woman
Is perfectly willing to work at anything at
all that will bring in a dollar.
in spite Of what some persons think
to the contrary. there IL not among certain
classes OF workmen a noticeable decrease
In the number Of idle men. Seldom since
January have we had fewer than 900 men
out Of work represented in the families
We have helped. and the majority Of these
are married men.
THE opening Of the summer resorts pro-
vides some extra work. but the men who get
these jobs are mostly unmarried.
Enthusiastically industrial conditions are
far brighter now than three months ago, for
the reason that many factories and shops
which shut down last fall or dropped to a
half time schedule have opened up on half
time or gone back to full time, and that some
other lines Of work have taken a new start;
but after all these only reach a certain class
Of labor.
Things are very slow yet in the building
trades, which now employ dozens where one
year & they employed thousands. and
until after the election there will not b.
UGH change, 1 I'm told. The number Of
painters out Of a job is phenomenal. the rea-
son given being that owners OF private
houses are chary just yet about spending
money for repairs.
'Laborers and porters and walters and
the kind Of man who says, I amt got no
trade; III do anything, lady are not much
better on now than they were three months
ago or before the factories started up.
Jewellers helpers. among the first to feel
the hard times. are not yet getting work
fast. The manufacture Of anything In the
luxury class and mostly ornamental is not
making much Roadway as yet. Piano
workers-hosts Of them-have been forced
to the edge Of restitution for the reason that
whole buildings at one time given over to the
manufacture Of pianos have been as quiet
as q church for months. Pianos are bulky
things to store. one manufacturer reminded
me. and neither he nor his competitors felt
like loading up with them since the demand
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TIMESBEHTER;M OREH HARDSHIP
CONTRADICTORY BUT TRUE, SAY
THE CHARITY WORKERS.

Families VINO Are Notin the Regularly Desti.
tute Class Are Now Beginning to Feel
the Pinch-Ranks Of UnskflIed Labor
Crowded by Once Big wage Earners.
1t Is not the repeaters but the twenty
or thirty new families a day which now
harrow up the feelings Of some Of the Of
fcials Of the New York Association for I'm
proving the Condition Of the Poor.
Mrs. Ingram, superintendent Of relief,
old a Sun reporter that the association re-
ceived In June Of this year nearly three
times as many applications for relief as
In June. 1907. and that the comparison be-
tween July, 1907. and July. 1908. would be
about the same.
To meet this increase even partially the
association has been obliged to draw heav-
lily on its reserve fund, heretofore dedicated
solely to contingencies growing out Of sea-
sons Of general illness or Of an unusual num-
Der Of casualties or deaths, none Of which
have been prominent Of late. :.
The desti tuition which is making such an
unusual draft on the society's treasury re-
suits almost solely from lack OF work.
Thousands of the well to do classes who left
town on a & miner vacation, believing that
times were now q good deal easier for the
laboring classes than they were three months
ago will probably be surprised at this.
THE genuineness OF the cases 10 what
smpresses US most said Mrs. Ingram.
almost always III visitors find that the
stories told by applicants are not In the
slightest degree exaggerated. Almost with
out exception the twenty. or thirty new
cases a day represent a self-respecting
class which usually has some savings in
the bank. For the last half dozen months
many OF these nave been drawing these
band md father worked on half time or
only two days a week or something like
that. and knew that he was lucky to get
even that much.
Some Of the later applicants for aid
ere mon who previously had not been out
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contrast. In the high entrance hall. nearly
as large as one OF the drawing rooms and
running to a height Of two floors. was the
only striped paper. There. in a space
already 30 high that no emphasis Of the
height was needed, and where there was an
large and decorative pattern, the walls
were covered with panels OF thin striped
brown and green paper In alternate imita-
ton satin and rough finish. Those stripes
seemed to soar up the walls until the top OF
the hall looked as Ear up In the air as the
top Of the Singer Building.
Here wa a legitimate chance to plunge
q bit on decoration and use some Of the
wonderful big figured cretonnes and WALL
papers which are always a temptation to
beautiful, but cannot often be appropriately
used in city houses. The big figures would
diminish the effect Of extreme height,
and as there was little furniture in the
hallway and half the high pieces had been
moved into the drawing room, there was
no danger of producing an effect Of over
crowding.
Il revelled In being able to use that wall
paper. which with Its brilliant blush green
and yellow parrots among wonderful trees
in shades OF green and blue had c~retonne
high ceiling down to the floor I ran panels Of
the paper against q coo sage green back
ground Of soft finished cartridge paper. In
the side doors n In the two windows /
hung long curtains OF the cretonne, broken
In the case OF the doors by deep lambre-
quins In order not to give too great an
effect Of height. The woodwork Of the
hall, which had black walnut, was painted
In a tone Of the sage green background.
Two tall palms added variety to the heights
OF the furniture. I had only a narrow
frieze about the top made OF the same sage
green wall paper
The decorative beauty doctor wiped the
perspiration from her brow after this en-
thusiastio description.
See that house now she concluded,
aand then remember the stuffy, morguelike
place the first floor was before l began
to work on 1t. The change has delighted
the woman who lives In IL. and her friends
are just as pleased. I do not attempt to
take houses and decorate them from the
beginning and from top to bottom. That
would be too much for me, and ~ouriously
enough / have never found it 30 interesting
as what I do. Many decorators hate to
have to come In and correct the mistakes
of their predecessors or the employees OF
their predecessors. I have no such feeling,
for ! like best to 60 over somebody else's
ground and straighten II out. So by
making this speciality my own / have
found plenty 70 do
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ABEAUTY DOCTOR FOR HOUSES
WOMAN WHO RESTORES THE
I'LL FASHIONED HOME.

wakes This Her Only Work and Finds Plenty
to Do-A House In the Berkshires Re-
made From Its Victorian UgIiness Into
4 Modern and Well Lighted Place.
One OF the women decorators who have
succeeded especially well attributes some
part OF her prosperity to the fact that she
selected a specially and confined herself
70 1t. The field that she picked out was
not nearly so crowded as that Of general
deoora ton.
l knew that my chance OF success she
tod a SrN reporter the other morning,
was TO strike out in some new field. call
myself a beauty doctor for country houses,
ana there seem to be enough people who
axe me at that valuation to keep me busy.
lutell you what I've been doing for the last
month and you will sec how / work.
As a specialist SIX illed in supplying
nfst aid to the house that has been estheti-
'aiiy injured ] went up to the Berkshires
iat spring to look over a house. / have
just seen it again and ! don't hesitate to
M ny mat It would scarcely be recognized.
me happy hostess who brought me down
" the train in her motor was as decided
a contrast to the woman who came to me
III March and said:
My house has absolutely no character,
a''nough II cost enough when il was built
V De beautiful. AS it is. everything is
.feHs' low | wan you to come up and
"os at II and see what oan be done
~ looked very Encouraging. 1t had
oWm put up about a quarter Of a century
ego when the Walter Crane Eastlake craze
.as al It's height and Fifth avenue deoora-
~Fs got very high prices for applying IL
" houses. That period knew nothing
S'ou' The ~lightness and beauty OF French
u'ota'on. That was the period in which
", ~, uado and the frieze were regarded az
w Ast word in household decoration
oa were applied independently Of all
- LOT the proportions Of the room.
% every room Of the salon floor OF
N"' mouse had been treated in Just the way |
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The tea room crowds to whom I played
last winter represented the other end Of
the social scale from these people, but
their musical taste is the came. I soon
found that the classical selections I gave
were highly appreciated by the people
who went frequently to the opera and the
symphony and philharmonic concerts. and
that they were just as averse to cheap,
popular airs as is this multitude OF en-
thusiasts. They are the two extremes, and
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of
Contest

The winners of capital prizes will not
be permitted to also participate in the
distribution of grand prizes.
Any woman or man of good standing
and residing In the territory described
as comprising the districts is eligible as
a candidate in this contest when duly
nominated, except as hereinafter provided.
No employe OF The Hcrai1 or member
of his or her family. will be permitted
to participate in this contest as a candi-
date for capital or grand prize.
The Herald management reserves the
right to exclude any candidate from this
contest, when within its judgment such
is proper to do.
Votes win not be counted on accounts
paid by news dealers. agents or news
boys.
Candidates and their friends are not
confined. to the districts in which they
reside in securing votes. They may poll
or territory of the United States.
The Herald management reserves the
right to be the final arbiter in settling
any questions that may arise during and
concerning this contest.
The votes and remittances must be
mailed or delivered to the office of The
Herald.
Other conditions of Importance will be
published from time 10 time Watch for
them.
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DISTRICT F-Northern part OF Utah.
comprising the counties of Summit. Nor
gan, Davis, Rich. Weber. Cache and Box
Elder.
DISTRICT G-That part of Utah COM
prising the counties of Salt Lake (outside
OF Salt Lake City,, Tooele, Juab, Willard.
Beaver and Iron.
DISTRICT H-That part of Utah COM
prising the counties of Wasatch. Utah.
Cintah, Sanpete, Carbon, Emery, Grand.
Sewer, Piute and other counties in south
ern Utah not mentioned herein.
In each of the above districts two
grand prizes will be awarded. one TO the
woman candidate polling more votes than
any other woman in the same district
and one TO the man candidate polling
more votes than any other man candi-
date in the same district The capital
prizes will be awarded Irrespective Of dis
tricts. two in the city and two in the ter
ritory outside of Salt Lake One-half of
the capital prizes will be awarded to men
and one-haf OF them to women
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CHOLERA IN PHILIPPINES
Death of American Soldier From the
Disease Announced-Yellow
Fever at Havana.

Washington. Sept. 15.-The adjutant
generals office today was advised of The
death from Asatic cholera in the Philip
pines, of Bert T. Christian. company /.
Twenty-sixth regiment of infantry. This
Is the first information which has reached
the department for some days regarding
any case of cholera in the islands, the re-
sponsible officers about three weeks ago
in response 70 inquiries from Washington
having reported that the outbreak at
Pangasinan was under control. 1t was
there that an army officer and several
members of the Twenty-fifth regiment OF
infantry negro died of the disease. At
the surgeon generals office no fear is
felt of the disease spreading 10 any ex-
tent and much less that the army would
suffer seriously II il did. The disease,
the officers say, is easily prevented by
the adoption of proper sanitary precau-
lions.
A dispatch received at the war depart
ment from Havana says there. is one
real and one suspected case of yellow
fever there
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Grand Prizes

GRAND PRIZE NO. symphony
Grand Graphophone and choice selec-
ton of records. Must be seen to be ap-
preciated. Purchased of the Columbia
Photograph company az Salt Lake
City. 1t is on exhibition at their store
Cost $3.50.
GRAND PRIZE NO. 6-Beautiful
seven-piece Mahogany Parlor Suite
Purchased of Freed Furniture & Carpet
company, Salt Lake City, where it may
be seen on exhibition. Cost 1927.
GRAND PRIZE NO. Highest
grade Travelling Outfit, consisting of
trunk, suit case and bag. Purchased of
Hulberts Trunk Factory of Salt Lake
City. Cost SIPS.
GRAND PRIZE NO. s-Beautiful
Diamond Ring. woman's or mans size.
Purchased of Leyson & Co. Cost $780,
GRAND PRIZE NO. 9-Drawing
room Mission style Mahogany Singer
Sewing Machine Purchased of the
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The Eight
Districts

DISTRICT A-That part of Salt Lake
City east of Main street and south of Sec
ond South
City west of Main street and south of
Second South.
DISTRICT C-That part of Salt Lake
City west of Main street and Canyon
road and north of Second South.
DISTRICT D-That part of Salt Lake
City east of Main street and Canyon road
and north of Second South-including
Fort Douglas
DISTRICT E-All of southern Idaho and
southwestern Wyoming.
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uHOW YOU COULD WIN
E SOMETHING WORTH WHILE.

This is the nomination period of The Heralds Voting
Campaign. Over $12,5OO worth of valuable luxures
to be given absolutely away to and who
have the courage go and try for them There
all to gain and nothing to lose and to the determined
belong the good things of life By just little effort you
easily win q Single prizes worth thousands of
dollars will be by popular and energetic and
during this Fall 1t is frequently easier to win
something worth while than just the small prizes of
every day transaction. To win in this election contest,