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New-York tribune., 1908-11-08

wears ago one big scene was regarded as sufficient
10 make a play; to-day there is big scene IN each
of the three four, five acts. Some dramas have
twelve others as many as eighteen, scenes otaII9
of electricians cabinet makers carpenters, 1nOcel
,akerS and other special craftsmen are often en-
gagged for weeks in constructing the MASSIVE scenic
effects The cost of a new venture IS seldom less
than eight thousand dollars, sometimes as h1gh
as +yentv-four thousand. OF this sum- half usually
goes for photographic work, and a two years supply
IS often ordered at time, IN quantities SulI-
cient to permit the use OF ten InOuSdHu PICN09 q
week for eighty weeks.
From financial point, melodrama IS important
There are five firms in New York city whose lists
include about sixty melOdranaS; and the total
receiDts reach the neighbOrhOOd of five million dol
lars. One manager permitted me to take glance
at his confidential ledger, summing up last year
business, and this IS what saw; lotal IecelLs' lI
Sr6o6444; salaries, S36S,oo lithograPhlc work,
So2 900; railroad tickets $4,000; and many other
large items. The average weekly business was
Manv instances could be given showing the hold
relodrama has on the popular fancy he queen
Of the White Slaves" has been running tor tVe
years and has made a mint OF noneyi SIlIeI C
we'll known plays have done equally We'll some
of Mr.. Carters melOdramas now on the road hVe
and eight years, seem to bear the gift OF Peren-
NAL life.
The rewards of melodrama go likewise, in lesser
degree to the actors and the actresses. 10 supply
trained people for first rate parts, one manager mas
recently hit on the idea of opening melodramat1c
school, for free instruction OF likely aPPncan1S
who may later be called to fill places IN his Nir1-
Gus companies Leading players usually receive
forty to sixty dollars a week but occasionally, III
vaudeville to which they naturally gravltate, often
ten times that sum. For example, as the result OF
popularity in melodrama, Joe Welsh, who starred
in The Peddler' at hundred dollars week
is now receiving twelve hundred week as Hebrew
impersonator Charles T. Aldrich, once in " Secret
Service" at good but not high salary, draws
eight hundred a week as The Actor Magician
The practice of starring a good looking but ur-
skilled actress a common trick in called higher
theatrical circles has its counterpart in an amusing
and amiabe foible in melodramas OF a certain type
That a good actor can make" a bad play, just
as a first rate jockey can occasionally win on a
second class horse, is understood in melodrama
but good" actor is used in this case IN a special
sense The good actor is the good looking fellow
who can't act a little bit, maybe, but with whom
the girls all fall in love sight.
New-York tribune., 1908-11-08
Blaney a Great Producer

CHARLES E BLANEY already has forty melo-
- dramas his credit and is not vet forty years old
Sixteen years ago he ticket scalper In COlur-
bus Ohio Baneys Baggage Check made money
in 1y-by-night towns. In rapid succession followed
Girl and Female Drummer" The EleC-
trician" is a big scene play, VIII death dealing
triphammer; Across the Pacific" holds the audi
ence spellbound with genuine Gatling gun: " King
of the Opium Ring" for five profitable years
and IS still a favOrite, and the appeal is under
ground Chinatown" King of the Wild West
has thrilling rescue scene in a switch tower; Boy
Behind the Gun" has a big battleshp effect; Boy
Detective" has thrilling boat scene and fortune
chamber; ''Child of the Regiment" is made heart
stirring by the perils of the heroine in binding
whistling blizzard; Man Monkey" has awful
Jungle scene: Curse of Drink" has a real loco
motive twenty feet long and the drunken engineer
about to down his own daughter In all these
big scenes and in others of equal Importance Baney
IS supreme.
l asked him his receipt for a stirring melodrama,
and he told me promptly, Twenty per cent. music,
forty per cent. drama, and forty per cent comedy.
He takes professional pride in the fact that he was
first to introduce chorus in melOdrama. He has
also lntuitiVelY graSped what may be called the
young girl measure OF literature, the bugaboo
that foreign critics insist fixes the standard of taste
IN America. A play, says Blaney, Sc Is something
young lady can go to with her young gentleman
friend without the blush of shame on her cheeks"
BaneV has also found that 1t will not do 70 send
the villain to Sing Sing; the audience demands
that the bad must be punished with nothing
less than death, and the more terrifying the taking
off the louder Will the house applaud
Blaney, passed master of his craft, tears a sheet
out of a newspaper and remarks, That's a story
for meodrama." Next day he starts debating,
and the stenographer's pothooks follow fast and
faster desperate effort to keep up with the drama
fists hot pace. In a week it's done. When he
began his apprenticeship, years ago in Columbus it
took HIM two years to grind out his first drama
Blauey has kings income; but lavish as he is
he doesn't begin to live up to it. He owns a man
sion IN New York, and has a twenty-two-room
villa on Great South Bay. One of his hobbies is
TO- spin through five nearby States visiting his
New-York tribune., 1908-11-08

theaters: riding like a millionaire in fifteen thou
sand-dOllar automobile, finished IN the luxurious
style of a Pullman palace car; and the japanese
valet always goes along. He IS keen money maker
and regards the meOdrama largely from the acute
angle of the box office. Starting with the trad1-
tional shoestring," he now owns eight theaters
and is a partner the BOu circuit. covering nearly
all the first class cities south of Washington; and
is also an associate OF E. D. Stair in the STAIR x
Havlin leasehold covering theaters in practically
all parts of the country.
New-York tribune., 1908-11-08

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for an instant. I thought YOU might have been
hurt when that ching fixed
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that | invented the devil Cart3 l eat o-e every
morning for breakfast I'm just having o. httle
vacation. resting here.
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something.
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New-York tribune., 1908-11-08

one EtGv q1tICRly GECt1s5 Esl e IN
excellent. clear C0icei GdcicS, Cr rt.a
S.sch suggestions as her i'ltHitiCE "ily
prompt
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ALICIA CauxioHsIy), What IS
TRENwAY. HIM; colo, l guess
III have to take a look
He slips OF lis c5It AID S..--.S
from tie tool box az assortment o. o. ?
cIiaHcsS.-G big ,irsrCd, q EIa-V-fr.
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are yOu-
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indeed TbiSII be good for en-.
Best thing in the world for q new
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New-York tribune., 1908-11-08
THE MOTOR CONSPIRES
By Arba Bio j g ct
Drawing by H. B. Lachman

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crCsIleW. clear c0tCed GdCicS. Cy Li.H
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-01
IN THE HOUSE.
Vigorous Applause from Both Sides
For Presidents Message.

Washington. Jan. 31.-An unusual and
almost unprecedented scene was enacted
IN the House of Representatives. today as
the result of the reading of 4 special mes
sage to Congress by the President urging
additional legislation in the matter of re-
lations of labor and capital and of cor
porations and the public. The vigorous
language of the document was vigorously
applauced, first on the Democratic side
of the House, then on the Republican.
eliminating in general demonstration
by the entire body.
AS if in anticipation that something out
of the ordinary was going TO happen.
there was a very full attendance OF
members. Long after the reading of the
message had been concluded it was al.
most the sole topic of conversation among
members on the floor and in the Hobbies.
After passing 2SS pension bills the In
dian appropriation bill was discussed. It's
consideration had not been completed
when the House adjourned until Monday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-01
One Life Lost In
Frat House Fire.

Ithaca, n. Y, Jan. 31.-From the ruins
of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house
at Cornell University. which burned TO-
day. were taken the charred remains OF
j. S. Iliehle, a Junior in mechanical en-
gineerng. That any lives had been lost
in the fire was not known until = meet
ing OF the fraternity was held at B o'clock
this afternoon, when roll call showed
that Kiehle was missing. The ruins we're
promptly searched and his body was
found near the elevator shaft, where the
fire originated.
1t is supposed that Kiehle was on his
way to an upper floor to save Ted
Scelye of the Cornell cross-countly team,
Who was known to be an occupant of a
room there. Seclye, scan;ily affirmed. es-
cared through 4 second-story window TO
a balcony porch and down Il ladder.
kiehlc was from Minneapolis ond was
one of the squad tired out foi tie foot
ball team last fall. The loss is $1,000.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-01
ENGINE WRECKED.
Fly Wheel Bursts and Destroys Free
land Electric Light Plant.

F'ree!and. Jan. 30.-A disastrous
wreck occurred in the Freeland
Electric Light Station in which $4,000
worth of machinery was destroyed in q
twinkling. a key broke on the driving
shaft to which was attached n 49,
horse power engine making $500
revolutions per minute, causing the
latter to run away.
Engineer Krone. who, was close by at
the time, attempted 10 shut off the
main valve, but before he could do SO
the big fly wheel burst and huge
piece went through the wall where
Krone stood. A moment later the
engine broke into fragments flying iron
filling the room. A 250pound piece
which went out through the roof came
down upon the corner Of Douglass
Rutes house on another square, tear
ing away the side OF the building and
buryins itself in the frozen earth.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-01
Hughes COmmends
Pres. Roosevelt

New York, Jan. Ex-Governor Charles
f. Hughes, whose nomination for the
Presidency by the Republican national
convention in Chicago next June is being
urged by the New York county commit
tee and other Republican county commit
tees in New York state, made oren dec
laration of his views of national issues
and principles tonight.
Until tonight, when he was welcomed
by scores of weii-known Republicans at
n reception rendered him at the Republi-
can Club, Gov. Hughes has maintained
silerce on all questions affecting the
country, and the definition CT his position
on federal issues has consequently been
cxpectant.v awaited. Gov Hughes told
his hearers tonight that he did not come
before them III any spirit of rivalry or
spif-sceking and that there are many
Republicans who, by virtue OF their char
acter ard distinguished services. are wor-
thy of the highest honor tire party can
bestow"
The governor was given an ovation
when he concluded his speech. Gov.
Hughes in his speech commended the adj
minis,,atiOn of President Roosevelt.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-01
HELEN GOULD RAISES FUND.
More Than 100000 Given by Women
Who Heard Plea for COLLEGE,

New York, Jan. 30.-More than $780,
600 was subscribed in a few hours the
other day by prominent women of the
city at the home of Miss Helen Gould,
for the American College for Girls at
Constantinople. whose buildings were
burned two years ago. Miss Gould
visited the school last year and be-
came interested in the work.
SHE influenced DR.. Mary Mills
Patrick, president of the college, to
come to America to represent its
needs, and today invited one hundred
society and educational persons to her
home to listen to an illustrated lecture
by DIR. Patrick.
AS IL result a large sum was pro-
missed. Miss Gould contributed $4,000;
Mrs. Russell Sage, $4,000; Miss Grace
Fl. Dodge, $4,000; John II. Converse OF
Philadelphia, $4,000 while society
woman of Boston pledged $4,000. with
the understanding that her name was
not to be mentioned.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-01
HARVARD CLUB OF MAINE.
Annual Banquet Held at Cumberland
Club at Portland.

Portland, Me, Jan. 31.-The annual
banquet of the Harvard Club of Maine
was held at the Cumberland Club this
evening, about so being in attendance.
The following officers were elected:
President. Major Sidney w. Thax-
ter; vice presidents, DR.. James A.
Spaulding and Hon. Nathan Clifford;
Sec, c. d. Booth; Treas, Howard
Corning; executive committee, L. l..
Hight. Sidney st. F. Thaxter and c.
d. Booth; delegates to New England
convention of Harvard Clubs, Nath-
al, Clifford and Robert Treat White
house. William NJ. Bradley acted as
POSTMASTER and the speakers were
George Z. Bird, Nathan Clifford, John
Il. A. Merrill. Byron S. Hurlburt. dead
of Harvard University. Wallace C. Sa-
biae. dean of the Lawrence Scientific
School. and Right Rev. Robert Cod
man. bishop of the Episcopal diocese
of Maine
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-01
WOMEN DEFY ROBBERS.
Hold Two at Bay With Pistols Until
Help Arrives.

Beverley, n. j., Jan. 30.-A hurry call
was received at central Telephone sta
ton the other night from the home OF
Mrs. Roberts, who resides with her TWO
daughters lear Cooperstown.T The opef-
ator communicated with a local cigar
store, where there We're n NUMBER 81
men conSregatcd. watching q poor
tournament. The officer was on MS
rounds nj the other end OF the TOWN..
Not tn waste time Il number ~ men,
headed Ivy Councilman Walter ~. FISH
and former Councilman George w. Al
dis. made a record breaking sprint OF
a mile and q half.
When they reached the house, they
saw two men running away. VINO were
soon lost in the clump of woods. But
the posse of citizens were too fatiGued
to give further chase.
With pistol between them the
women stood at the head of the stairs
and held the robbers at bay. When the
nurriee: pattering Of feet was heard the
burglars le4ped through open windows
and made their escape.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-01
HEAVY SENTENCE
imposed by Judge Peabody In York
County Liquor Case.

Biddeford, Me-, Jan. 31.-The heav-
lest sentence pronounced in a York
county court in liquor case in many
years was imposed today by Judge
Peabody in the superior court sitting
at Saco in the case of Marcel Metayer
of Biddeford. Metayer was found guilty
after a trial on an appealed search and
seizure case from the lower court and
on a nuisaiice indictment found by the
grand jury at the present term of the
superior court.
On the nuisance case the judge or
dcred him to pay a fine of 5000 and
costs and serve 60 days in the county
Jail. In default of payment of the tine
he is to serve three additional months
in Jail. On the search and seizure
charge the sentence of the lower court
Of a fine of $100 and costs or 80 days in
Jail was affirmed.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-01
IN SUSPENSE.
Continued from Page One.)

case to report, Justice Downing, shortly
after II O'Clock tonight ordered the doors
of the jury room locked for the night
and adjourned court until 1870 A. NJ,
when he will hear any report they have
TO make.
The rumor persisted throughout the
evening that the jurors We're hopelessly
divided-eicht to four. Mr.. Littleton of
the defence expressed the belief that the
majority favored a verdict of not guilty
on the ground of insanity. and when he
left for his home was still hopeful that
a decision eventually would he reached.
District Attorney Jerome said: No
body can tel what jury will do, so
what is the use Of 2peculatirg?"
Thaw expressed the fear that third
trial would be necessary.
This was the general opinion held by
the court attaches. The attorneys in the
case all We're deeply disappointed by the
trend of affairs, as everyone had hoped
that some definite conclusion might this
time be reached. Mr.. Jerome would not
discuss the probability of a third trial.
but said if there was one It might be in
some other jurisdiction of the state than
New York county.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-01
HAN DSOME FACES.

If you want a clear complexion.
avoid medicines containing poisonous
drugs. A physician of % years
practice says that the reason people
have skin eruptions is because they
use remedies containing active
mineral poisons. He states further
that if non-poisonous vegetable
medicines We're used to cleanse the
blood of impurities at this time Of the
year, there would be more healthy,
clear compilations. Here is a
prescription he recommends. 1t can
be filled at trif1ing expense at any
good drug store or be mixed at home
Fluid extract of burdock seed, one
half ounce. Fluid extract of yellow
dock, one-half ounce. Concentrated
Lecto compound. one ounce Syrup
of ginger. two ounces. Take teas
poonful in one-half glass of water be-
fore each meal and at bedtime.
The ingredients are vegetable and
poisonous, and it is worth trying
if one has pimples. burning or itching
skin, or any blood disease. such as
rheumatism, eczema, scrofula, ulcers
or any blood trouble.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-01
Speaker Cole
Is Indicted.

Salem. Mass, Jan 3l.-Speaker John y.
Cole of the Massachusetts House of Rep
resentaiives, whose home is at Andover,
and WHO has represented the eiShth Es-
sex district for seven wears. was inGict-
ell today by the Essex county grand Jury
on charge, of violating the pubic stat
utcs in requesting reduced rate OF fare
on the Boston d Maine Railroad for a
large numpeI of people. the indictment
is in 123 counts end the statute prov
a penalty in each case OF Il fine of not
less than 800 nor more than $1,000.
When the news of the Indictment
reached the State House at Boston this
afternoon Speaker Cole gave out the fol-
lowing statement:
"A prosecution originating with politi-
cal opponents. inspired by political mo-
tivcs ard conducted to Il considerable eX-
tent at private expense, has been 1nsti-
tuted charging me with having violated
certain statutes which pronibit menu
Der Of the Legislature from asking for
himself OF another special privileges by
way of passes or tickets at lower rates
than those charged other persons of the
same class.
i'tN' h'''i' ioi my id'''''' Va '''' 80 -
or any otEer person, requested, accepted.
or made use CT, amy such pass or ticket.
and no clJim is made that | have. The
sum and Substance of the charge against
me is that I have recommended students
worthy of receiving regular students
tickets ut lower rate than that accorded
the public generally. students over Is
years Of age.
II shall ask the court to give me trial
at the earliest possible opportunity with
confidence that not even the technical
n.itted." MI sEN38
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-01
PooRHoUsE INMATE RICH.
Woman Believed to Be Mother Of Man
Who Left SIS, 900.

Detroit, Mich, Jan. 30.-Mrs. Mary
McGlSnn, who has been an inmate of
the Wayne County poorhouse. at
Eloise, since last summer, has a pro-
spect of receiving a legacy of $4,000 If
she can identify herself as the mother
Of Edward McGlynn, who died in
Louisville, Ky.
According to Mrs. McGlynn. her son.
Edward, a wireworker, left here sew
eral months ago for Louisville. and she
has never heard from him since. l..
D. Baxter, an undertaken. is admin
stratur Of the estate of a man named
Edward McGlynn. who shortly before
his death received damages of SOS, 900
as {, result of injuries. Baxter writes
he is positive the dead man was the
son of Mrs. McGlynn at Eloise.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-01
CARNEGIE PEACE MONUMENT.
Philanthropist's Work to be Com.
memorated by Shaft at PittsburJ.

Pittsburg. Jan. 30.-Andrcw Car
nagie's labors in behalf of universal
peace will be recognized in Il design
fo- = Peace Monument, which is t.
occupy a spacious plaza in front of tbs
rev Allegheny County Soldiers Me-
mortal Hall, opposite Carnegie Insti-
tute.
The details for the plan for the new
peacc si.aft were worked Dat recently,
when the county accepted the site for
a plaza in front of the Memorial Hall
site. In the center of this the mOnu-
ment will be reared.
The funds have already been pro-
yided in the subscriptions for the Me-
mortal Hall, to which the county is
contributing $I,2J0,000.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-01
PANTRY CLEANED.
A Way Some People Have.
A doctor said:

A doctor said:
Before marriage my wife observed
in summer and country homes, coming
in touch with families of varied means,
culture. tastes and discriminating ten
denotes, that the families using Pos
tum seemed to average better than
these using coffee.
when we were married two years
ago. Postum was among our first order
of groceries. We also put in some
coffee and tea for guests. but AFTER
both had stood around the pantry
about a year untouched. they were
thrown away. and Postum used only.
TIP to the age of rs | had been ac-
customed to drink coffee as routine
habit and suffered constantly from IN
digestion and all its relative disorders.
Since using Postum all the Old COM
plants have completely left me and l
sometimes wonder if I ever had them.
Name given by Postum Co, Battie
Creek, Mich. Read .The Road 10
wellville," in pkgs. There's Rea-
SON."