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Saturdays and Sundays via PENNSYLVANIA
Railroad Tickets good returning gIutii
Sunday night. All regular trains excepf
the Congressional Limited. ."-AdYt.
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Sz5.5o to Chicago, H., and Return,
Baltimore & Ohio R. r. July "A to 2s
valid for return until July 81. Consult
agents.-Advt,
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Baltimore and Return, sI.a5, Baltimore

& Ohio r. r. Every Saturday and sun
day. All trains both ways. both davs.
except Royal Limited. City Ofices. I4l7
c ST and 61S Penna. ave.-Advt.
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Salt Water Bathing at Chesapeake
Beach. Saturday p. m trains at 200.
500, and 5:40.-Adyt
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Not Procured According to Law.

Continuing the Comptroller says
II 90 not think il could be contended
that the mere sending Of a circular
proposal TO one dealer. as in the present
case, meets the requirements OF the
statute Such action is not calculated u
obtain any competJiC whatever. but
to shut out competition. I am Of she
opinion, therefore. that said supplies
were not procured AZ cOrding to law
u assume that the supplies in ques-
ton have been accept ID and used by the
Government Printing Office fer the o.Irz
roses intended such being the case II
YOU are satisfied as tc the reasOnab bIe-
ness Of the prices charge for the gnods
I think the voucher may be paid The
company evidently furnished the articles
Continued on Second PaEe1
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.STILLINGS CONTRACT
IS HELD INVALID
Leech Can Fix Value of
Supplies Purchased With
out Competition.

Public Printer Leech- in view OF the
statutes relating TO purchases and con
tracts for supplies for the departments.
IS puzzled In settling accounts Of manu-
faCturers and dealers with whom former
Public Printer SuIIngs transacted bus
mess There are q number of accounts
for purchases which were made witk5u.
competition, as provided for BY law. and
Mr. Leech is taking no chances.
Mr.. Leech has submitted two questions
TO the Comptroller Of the Treasury, ask
iEg that Official for advice as to the
payment Of two vouchers for rra-erseI
pun chased from a local firm In his
letter 10 the Comptroller the Public
Printer says that the records indicated
shat there was but one bidder. The
contracts show that the articles were
purchased by former Public Printer
Stillinss- In one Of tie contracts provfy-
ion IS made for a discount Of S per celt
II payment is made within ten days.
Decision Of Comptroller.
The Comptroller holds that the statute
places upon the officer charged with
making purchases for supplies for the
Government Printing Office the duty OF
advertising for proposals therefor q
sufficient time in advance with two e,-
CcptiOns-
First, when public exigency exists
which requires immediate delivery. and
will not permit delay incident to ad-
vertising, and
Second, for paper and materials for
the use Of the Government Printing Of
fee.
The voucher does not show that the
supplies were purchaStd q under an ext
gency, but IL does show that these ar
ucles Were procured under a formal pro
poS@i and acceptance, and that the cir
c"l@r letter inviting proposal was sent
to but one bidder"
The Comptroller then refers to a
former decision of his Office, which
states Section 500 was enacted for the
purpose OF giving publicity for free com
petition IN making contracts for Serv-
ices and supplies for the Government.
Accordingly, such steps must be taken
IS viii bring TO the individuals or cor
po.-Cons engaged in a particular kind
or business, and TO the pub &c generally
knowledge Of the intended purchase and
in such a manner as is designed % at
tract general attention
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The American team is disgusted with
the small attendance. and declare that
any small town in America would out
draw London with such an attraction.
The Yankees ind it uninSpiring to com
pete before 5000 silent and unresponsive
empty seats
The enormous admission prices are
blamed for the lack OF crowds rather
than the leather. The management,
the price.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-05-04

Possibility Of Big Era Of Road
Building.

With the passage OF the Bosworth-
Wyatt bill at the last session OF the
legislature the proposition OF good
roads becomes possibility I'm Ken
lucky. No state or the pretensions OF
THIS commonwealth in all the Union
has such inaccessible roads. and in
some cases veritube canal OF mud
binds two important little hill or noun.
tain towns together To get from
Middlesboro to Harlan. in adjoining
counties. one has 10 take a railroad
train through Virginia and then scrain-
bic on horseback over the most pre-.
cipitous road in the south TO the seat
OF Harlan county
The bill provides constitutional
amendment to be voted on at the next
legislative election in 1909 Ii gives
each county power to assess per cent
or Its total valuation for road repair
and building I'm distinction to the pres
ent law. which provides only per
cent. In the case OF Shelby county.
which now has but $50. 800 for its 500
miles or highways and pixies, IL would
thus have $650,000. though for $500.
600 It's roads could he well kept up
The appropriation from Jefferson and
kenton would be enormous.
Nothing is more serious TO the
itinerant merchants or the immense
rural population OF Kentucky than
roads. Any politician who, like Gov
ernor Wilson. travelled 10000 miles on
roads during a campaign. knows that
the hardships TO be undergone are
really tremendous. Often Wilson was
so sore from the jolting on some noun.
tain cow path that he would fall from
his horse and. lying down on rock.
refuse TO ride step farther until his
aching back was at ease. Once in
coming down steep hillside in Letch-
er county. made uncomfortable even by
the sure footed horse because OF its
disrepair and roughness. the animal
stumbled.
Gosh" gasped Wilson, there near
ly went the whole - campaign!"
Sheer below ran u rock wall down to
a valley 500 feet.
Should the people ratify the Bos-
worthWyatt bill there will begin an
era Of road building such as the peo-
pie OF Kentucky have never known be-
fore. A state highway association
will be appointed and competent civil
engineers put in charge of the work
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-05-04

aimed al Dick Larbey young Lar
hey lodging and the bullet enter
ing the holy OF his father who was
standing behind him. Bow escaped
.mmediat ly after the killing and
while officers started in pursuit no
trace of him has yet been found.
"a was thc las, night OF the Nam
moth saloon and large crowd had
gathered an the place Dick Larbey
and Jam "a Bow began quarreling
over some trivial matter. Both were
Crunk ana it seemed that trouble
was brewing a. l.. I.arbcy came up
% where the mon were AMI tried
ana tried to stop them. but all TO
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-05-04
AFRICAN METHODIST MEET

NorfoIk. Va, May DELEGATES
form all parts Of the country repre-
senting the $4,000 members OF the
African Methodist Episcopal church
convened in Quadrennlal session In
So Johns A VI T. church today
All Of the twelve bishops Of the
church in this country are I'm atten-
dance and viii participate IN the de-
ioerations, which will last about .
month. Three sessions day will
be- held by the matters Of vital i'm
portance 10 the church al home and
ia foreign lands.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-05-04
JUDGE CRAY IS So

Wilmington. Del, May a.
Judge George Gray, Delaware's
most famous citizen, woh has been
forced by his friends to become a
candidate for the Democratic presl-
| dental nomination, is today the re-
| cipent of a flood of congratulations
| at having reached his 6Sth mile
stone. Judge Gray was born in
New Castle, Del, May 4, 1910. and
during his entire career as lawyer.
attorney-general OF Delaware, Unit
ed States senator, jurist. member of
the International Permanent Court
OF Arbitration and chairman of the
| anthracite coal strike commission.
has maintained his residence in his
native State.
Judge Gray Is a graduate of Prin-
ceton University and of the Harvard
Law School. He first attained ma
tional prominence in the Democratic
National convention of 1880, when,
in placing in nomination Thomas f.
Bayard for the presidency, he made
an eloquent address that attracted
almost as much attention as Colonel
Robert G. Ingersoll's famous plum
| ed knight" speech for Blain. These
addresses of Ingersoll and Gray, one
a Republican and the other a Demo
crat, have gone down in history as
the most notable oratorical efforts
ever made in American political
| conventions. although both failed of
their purpose.
| When Bayard went into the
| Cleveland cabinet Gray was given
his place in the United States SEN
ate. There it was, during the Har-
rison administration, that he sue
ceeded once more in arousing the
attention of the entire nation to his
wonderful ability as an orator and
debater. Although his party sup
porters were in a hopeless minority
he comprised the overthrow of the
famous force bill" by sheer intel
lectual effort.
From the first he has been a con
sistent unbeliever in the financia
theories which have been accepted
by the majority of his party, but h,
has antagoniZed no considerable In
iluence by his cougse in this matter
He has refraine1 from violent pub
lie criticism OF those who were of ;
Different opinion, and when he wa
offered the nomination for the presi
dency rendered by the so-callet
Gold Democrats who bolted the can
didacy OF Mr.. Bryan in 1896 ant
went into convention at Indianap
oils he declined to accept It.
Judge Gray's connection will
President Roosevelt's extraconstitu
tional arbitration commission {,
look into the causes OF the great
coal strike OF 1903 and to devils,
remedies for existing evils added tc
his reputation for probity and good
judgement. There is probably NJ
man in public life who is more pop
ular among the working people oil
The country certainly no one who
holds at the same time the conn.
dence of the caplistic class.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-05-04

no avail THE quarrel BECAME more
heated and s,ddenly Bow drew his
gun and f.rd iir SLY at young
Larbey. who lodged. the bullet
piercing his fathers heart. killing
HIM instantly.
Immediately after the footing
Bow made his escape and before the
daze1 crowd could start in pursuit.
Men were soon on the trail but as
yet nothing has been heard OF him.
The funeral OF Larbey took place
yesterday in Lock Six. The old man
lived with his daughter at Mann
moth and was a respected citizen
i'm that community.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-05-04
NOTICE.

To the Patrons OF the Bluestone
Traction Company:
At a recent meeting OF the com
pany the stockholders decided to al.
low all patrons OF light and power
a discount OF five go per cent. on
all bills paid at their ofilce at No.
% Blueheld avenue. on or before
the 10th OF each month Positively
no discount allowed after the 10th
" the month.
BLUESTONE TRACTION co.
BY p. NJ. Waller, Manager.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-02

is a good-minded chap. He never en-
joyed being Kissed and he never en-
joyed playing "heavies" though he
made a success of that sort of roles.
Now he is going to try the other end
of the game.
Florence Barker will return to fhe
company as its leading woman, which
will be good news for her many Los
Angeles friends. Both Miss Barker
and Mr.. Van Meter are now members
of the Ferris stock company at the
Auditorium.
Lillian Aibertson, formerly leading
woman at the Belasco, and who has
many friends in Los Angeles, is to
have her big opportunity at Chicago
tomorrow night, where she will ap-
pear in the leading role in paid in
author of THE Undertow" and 1.-The
Wolf" 1t will be remembered that
Miss Albertson created role In 1.-THE
Undertow" when 1t was produced here
last season.
After leaving the Belasco she went
to New. York, where she appeared in
1.-THE Silver Girl" with George Fawcett.
Her role was not of first Importance,
and the play failed. Miss Albertson
however did not. The New York
critics agreed that her work was the
bright spot in the drama, and it was
not long before she was selected for
the new Walter piece.
The play has q cast of only six
characters, and in the company in adj.
dition to Miss Albertson are Frank
Sheridan. Henry i. Dixey, Tully
Marshall, who also is we'll known in
Los Angeles, Viola Adams and Hattie
Russell. paid in Full" rather leans
toward Socialism in it's theme. It is a
somber drama Of remarkable power
1t was tried out a few months ago in
Toronto and Is said to have created a
strong impression. The opinions of
Chicago reviewers will be awaited
with interest.
Unless the unexpected happens a
second company will be organized later
with Miss Annie Russell at it's head.
Oliver Morosco has written the verse
and Joe Montrose has composed the
music of a new patriotic song which
will be introduced In the third act of
"A Milk White Flag" when that skit
is presented at the Burbank The
continuance of Are You Mason?" for
a second week will again postpone the
presentation of the Hoyt piece, but
when it comes it will be staged with
largely augmented cast. including a
chorus of sixteen young women and
eight young men. Most of the girls
are amateurs with good voices and
comely figures whom Mr.. Morosco
found right here in Los Angeles. There
may be a future prima donna in the
bunch. You never can tell.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-02

around the corner, friends told him he
was crazy.
you can't do it," they said. ''You
won't have time
"Can't?" repeated Dick. "I'll show
you. I've got a play called way Out
West" in which / play twin brothers.
Can't play one part, Ell? I'll show you
/ can play two; and the circus will go
on just the same
Probably it will. At any rate it had
an suspicious opening last night, and
it looks good for a protracted season.
However, you needn't be surprised If
you hear Dick interpolating strange
lines in his part. If he talks about
camels and elephants and Royal Ben
gals--not cigarettes, but tigers-you
will known that he's thinking about
the Dick Ferris circus instead of the
Dick Ferris stock company. Then, too,
there's that Dick Ferris theater, Of
which we have heard little of late; and
the Dick Ferris hotel, which is to be
built somewhere in Porto Rico.
Some day or other Ferris will branch
out. His present field is too restricted
for any man of ambitions. Perhaps
he will acquire the formula for some
patent medicine guaranteed to cure
everything from bunions to a cold in
the head, and then Dick will become a
captain of industry which. as you
probably know, is merely euphemism
for millionaire"
Last night marked the final appear
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-02
OBSERVATIONS BY
A FIRST NIGHTER

THERE have been more theatrical
managers, playbrokers and play
II wrights around the Belasco this
week than the city ever before har-
bored at one time. Moreover the po-
lice records show no increase in crime,
which speaks well for the profession
as a whole. The returns are not all in
yet John Cort and Calvin Heilig are
expected to arrive today. and there
are a few more coming from the east.
Already on the ground are Archi-
bald Selwyn, AL Woods, Paul Potter,
Miss Margaret Mayo and few more.
Selwyn is known to his friends as
arch" and his mail comes so adj
dressed. That's his New York handle,
but if you look him UP in the. cable
code you will find still another alias.
Potter is the man who dramatized
other successes. Miss Mayo likewise is
a dramatist and playwright.
They are here and the others are
cominEato see the try-outs of the five
new pays the Belasco Is to give u.s.
The first of these, Commencement
Days." WIFI have its final performance,
so far as the local presentation is con-
cerned. tonight. Tomorrow night
comes Miss Mayo's adaptation of Lit
tie Dorrit."
After that we are to see 1.-THE Ener-
getic Mr.. West" by Edgar Selwyn,
who Is starring this year as Strong
heart" Edgar is a brother of Archi-
bald Selwyn and an actor of long ex-
perience. This is not his first VEN
ture as a playwright, but it is said to
be his most ambitious play.
Then win come THE Education of
Elizabeth by Roy Herman, which
has a record of one year in London,
its Americanized form. And after
French Canadian country, by Eugene
Walter, whose play, 1.-THE Undertow,"
was produced at the Belasco last sea-
SON
All of these plays are held under
contract by eastern producing mana
gers. They are being tried out here
experimentally and will be seen in the
east later. Commencement Days"
for instance, is held by Charles Dill
bingham, though John Cort is credited
with a desire to take it off Mr.. Dill
lingham's hands for the use of his
star, Miss Maude Fealy.
When 1t comes to matter of versa
tility there is only one Dick Ferris.
Dick proposes to act again this week.
Incidentally he is managing big in
door circus-it opened last night; per-
hpas you were there-but little thing
like that doesn't bother him any.
When he announced that he was 60
ing to play at the Auditorium the
opening week of his sawdust show
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-02

ance of Aida Hemmi with the san
Francisco opera company. rms AFTER
noon Miss Pearl Girard, Miss Hemml $
successor. will make her first bow 10
a Los Angeles audience in 'Fantana:
other newcomers who Will appear III
this musical comedy are sTeddy WepD
and Amy Leicester. 1900
The last time Teddy Webb stepped
upon a Eos Angeles stage he was
lyric tenor Since then he has ac-
ouired avoirdupois and has become a
comedian. When ] knew him he was
singing tenor roles with the Dorothy
Morton opera company. The fair Dor
othv was rather a ponderous prima
donna, and little Teddy Webb otten-
times was unconsciously funny, par
ticularly when he was required py
the libretto to make passionate love 10
the star.
Webb was a fairly good tenor. He
is said to be more than a fairly good
comedian. With him fat has resulted
i'm an Increase of salary, for Teddy
Webb as a laugh-smith is worth con-
siderably more per week than leoqy
Webb caroling soft nothings into the
ear of some golden voiced soprano VINO
looked as though she might readily
have been the tenor's mother.
Amy Leicester was member OF that
She is an unusually pretty girl and she
can act. More, she can also sing, as
doubtless you will discover for your
self before the week is over
There is a probability that Arthur
Cunningham may rejoin the San Fran
cisco company for the Seattle engage
ment. He, too. completed his engage
ment last night, and is under contract
to sing six weeks at the Princess thea
ter, San Francisco. After that he may
return to the Healy fold for bass roles.
His successor will be ]. Albert wal
lerstedt, who was with Lulu CHASER In
dolly Warden" ana who succeeded
Cunningham once before, at the San
Francisco Tivoli. He will sing the BARI
tone roles.
The whirligig of time plays jokes in
the theatrical as well as in other pro-
fessions. When Frank Healy first met
Teddy Webb that comedian was one of
the principals in the Tivon company,
and Healy had just 'got a job" to sing
in the chorus. Incidentally he under
studied the Webb roles, though he
never was called upon to sing any of
them, which probably is a fortunate
thing for all parties concerned. Now
Healy is Webb's employer, and he has
put from him all ambition to become a
stage favorite.
The reorganization of the San Fran
cisco company will be completed this
week. Daphne Pollard will play in
"Fantana," but after next Saturday
night her roles win be allotted to Miss
Genie Ormonde, and little Miss Pollard
will sever her connection with the COM
pany OF the principals who came here
a month ago, only Miss Maude Beatty
has been re-engaged.
Neither the rain nor strong counter
attractions at other houses had any
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-02

effect upon the size of Burbank au-
dlences last week. The theater was
filed even on those nights when 1t
poured the hardest. AS a result Are
You Mason" will continue another
week. 1t isn't often that the Burbank
players essay farce, but their success
with this piece may be expected to re-
suit in change of policy. Ordinarily
farce doesn't require much in the mat
ter of stage mounting, and If Burbank
patrons want it there seems to be no
reason why Manager Morosco should
not give 1t to them, especially when
the company appears to such marked
advantage as it does in the current
offering.
Upon the very stage where two
years ago he appeared as the perse-
cutor of defenseless womanhood, the
oppressor of the poor and helpless and
the living incarnation of evil, Harry
Van Meter within a few weeks Will
draw his shining revolver and COM
rland:
Take your band off that woman,
you dogl Yhe man who strikes
woman is a coward and a brute!"
In other. words, Van Meter is about
to achieve his ambition. He has been
engaged as leading man of the Ulrlch
stock company at the Grand opera
house, and he Will now be able 20
champion virtue and to listen delight
edly to the audiences applause.
Despite his past record, van meter
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-02

ward E. Rose, Theodore Burt Sayre
and Annie Crawford Flexner.
Among the leading English play
wrights who will be the clients of the
company are Henry Arthur Jones, Ar
thur Wing Pinero, George Bernard
Shaw, Alfred Sutro, H. V. Esmond
Cosmo Gordon LenoX, Louis n. Parker,
Sydney Grundy. Arthur Law, Richard
Ganthony. Haddon Chambers. Brandon
Thomas, Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Jerome
X. Jerome, Hubert Henry Davies. Hail
Game, C. M. S. Mcclellan and Anthony
Hope.
Among the French, German and Aus
trian clients are Victorien Sardou.
Henri Bernstein, Jean Richepin, and
members Of the Society of Dramatic
Authors of France.
The Local Situation
Asked to what extent the company is
prepared to supply to local managers
plays that have not previously been
presented in Los Angeles, Mr.. Selwyn,
after hurried calculation, said his
company now controls about $40 plays
available FOR stock use OF these, he
estimated that probably $50 have been
presented here some time in the past,
either in stock or by road companies.
Moreover he said that probably 20 or
so plays are being released to the COM
pany, for the use of its stock clients,
each year; and all this, of course, fails
to take into account the new plays
which will be tried out in stock houses.
'There is always market for new
plays that have merit" said Mr.. Sell
wyn in conclusion. Heretofore the
difficulty has been the reluctance of
old established managers to take up
new and untried dramatists because of
the heavy expense involved. We are
in a position 10 stage these new plays
without going to the expense of a big
New York production. In large de-
gree we minimize the risk and we per-
nit the unknown playwright of ability
to compete on more nearly even terms
with the men who already have made
a name for themselves in this line of
work"