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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-08
With Disaster I'M
pending, He Has
Snatched Victory
From the Jaws
of Defeat. -

interesting state Of affairs, noneyeS
circles became somewhat angular IN
their dealings and demesnor toward ma
this once good man who had gons
| into grand opeTa-caUSing one Of my
first teuoTs to blUntly demand the sum
Of 10000 in cash as an evidence Of
operate longevity on my part before
he would even deign to come to a re-
hearsaI
Il had invested over a million and
half in the ground and building. tn
quench the thirst of opera in this sup
posed to be-musfc starving public I
disentangled an additional half mill
lion dollars for costumes and scenery.
And when, in addition to all this. I now
calmly mention that I shOuldered a re-
spOnsibility of nearly a million dollars
in season contracts with small army
Of great artists and others. I. in duty TO
myself, am bound to add that I am
neither drinking man nor addicted ia
the use Of narcotics
ITO drive away any possible detec-
ton on my part ] held meeting with
myself in my office, elected myself
president and vice president and re-
spectfully rendered myself a unanimous
vote of admiration and confidence"
For Pleasure, Not Profit
The receipts for that first season
reached the gratifying total Of more
than three-qUarters Of a million dol.
lars More than that, It proved 10 be
an artistic triumph OF the most unnis-
taxable kind. and the plUCky little Ope
cratic Napoleon who had snatched vios
tory from the very Jaws of defeat was
more eIated over that feature Of the
experiment than over the financial 81
turn
For MI Hammerstein maintains
stOuly that he IS an inpresario only
for the pleasure OF It and not at al
pressed himself as follows on this
point:
Il want the great mass OF music
lovers to know that I am not in tbs
opera business This giving Of opera
IS a vocation which I have chosen at
the conclusion Of a busy life II is
vocation an aim, probably a mission
not =. business II ] rega rded IL for
a single moment as a business 7
would get out Of II fast enough. I am.
n ny way. a wealthy man, and hsvs
made all ! have during the last ming
zears- I have provided for my family.
Ny tastes are Of the simpIest-an
,yster stew and a cigar.
What do possibly can be called
musical phiis1fhropy-tha OF giving
America operate novelties, out Of
which there IL not possibly a dollar to
e made ! contribute my opera house
ma l slave for the cause OF opera
ere And in return 1 want the public
0 support me in the new operas a. 4
Imported me last year in the old
res" GEORGE II PICARD
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-08

undertaking, and / had the satisfaction
of feeling that 1 was the most avoided
impresario in Europe
Finally I opened my subscription list
ana announced the engagement by con-
tract of an imposing array Of singers.
The most notable feature Of the OPEN
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-08

Olympia, where, three performances
were presented for one admission. and
then came the crash. but with all my
money gone and with all my patents
sold l still had my dreams / dreamed
that built the Victoria theater. and
my dream came true. And / dreamed
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-08
@ SS-he NAPOLEON OPERA FIFTl

dreams. And pretty soon I had the
chance to edit tobacco journal, and
did that so that could have more time
for the dreams. The dreams? All
yes, to be sure. The first was a ma
chine for making cigars 1t looked
good to me, but 1t was not good, for
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-08

here to conduct the German theater?
After that I built the Harlem Opera
House and the Columbus theater. now
Proctor's One Hundred and Twenty
fifth Street theater, and the Harlem
Music hall, now Hurtig & Seamon's,
and Roster & Balls and then the
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-08

the water ran. And / punched a hole
in the sink and had a plumber fix a
design for me so that the water could
never run over again
Who told you about that? asked
the plumber.
81 dreamed it, 1 said.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-08
A PRIZE DANCE.

A prize dance will be given Thurs
day night at the c. X. of A. hall by
Francis Pyritz. Admission 25 cents.
BarTiOS orchestra.
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PROPOSITION TO
CONNECT ESCAMBIA
WITH BALDWIN

.ltInued Frorn FIrst Paae)
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A Dreamer Of Am
bilious Dreams
Which Have New
er Failed to Come
True. * * *

dONG all the men now
living who have exhibit
ed qualities suggestive
of the great Napoleon.
Oscar Hamm erstein
would be first TO dissent
from a personal appli-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-08
THE HOUR BEFORE
THE GAVEL STRUCK

Continued From First Page)
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-06
THE BURGLAR WHO KILLS.

The confession to the police by the
italian youth who wantonly shot and
killed George H. Fischer last Wednes-
day. clears up that murder mystery.
The murderer belongs to the young
hoodlum class and has made a pro-
fession of robbery. He was armed to
kill when his victim saw him and his
accomplish breaking into a store. and
he fired directly at Fischer, else the
latter would not have been hit.
This appears to be a clear east of
murder, and it recalls the murder of
Policeman Brock years ago by Ryan
and Oschwald, both young men. who
were engaged in robbing a house when
the policeman appeared. Ryan COM
mitted suicide in Jail and Oschwald suf-
fered on the gallows. 1t is assumed
that when a criminal goes armed it is
with intent to kill, if necessary, to pre-
vent detection. When he kills there
can be no plea of self-defense and none
in extenuation. His crime is murder.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-06
SOME WIRELESS MARvELs.

People have been called upon so fire.
quently of late to contemplate the
miracles of science, one remarkable
discovery following close upon another,
that they are growing accustomed to
accept them with little show of as
constituent. Yet the things that are
being lone by wireless transmission of
power may well excite wonder. A few
days ago a youth in a Massachusetts
town found out a way to operate cleo
trio lights and motors by electro-mag-
netic waves at a distance of 300 feet.
There comes the announcement from
Paris that a telephotographic appa-
ratus has been completed which can
be adapted to the wireless system.
Experiments at short distances have
been perfectly performed, and the in
ventor claims that, by his method,
photographs can be sent between New
York and Paris. Now that it is pos
sible to telegraph, telephone, transmit
power and reproduce photographs by
wireless, one has difficulty in imagin-
ing what will come next. And it is
less thar a decade since the wireless
age beganl
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-06
THE AMERICAN SOLDIERS PAY.

BY an interesting and instructive
comparison with the British army,
Major John II. Beacon, in a report to
the Wa Department, refutes the stand
ing boast that the American soldier is
"the best paid soldier in the world"
Major Beacon was our military attache
In London and had ample facilities for
collecting his facts. He shows that the
British private in his first year received
$12.95 to the Americans $13, but as rank
and length of service increase the pros
portion is reversed, so that the British
regimental sergeant-major gets S71.35 a
month against $40 paid to the American
of like rank. A British private in his
third year receives $1S.S5 and the Amer
lean but $14. Taking into consideration
the difference in the cost of living and
the earning power of the British un-
skilled laborer, the British soldier is
much better off than the American.
Furthermore, the greater earning ca
pacity of the American laborer. skilled
or unskilled, than Of the American sol
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-06
STATE GUARANTEE FOR BANKS.

A plan of State guarantee of bank
deposits by means of a fund con-
tributed by the banks has been put in
operation in Oklahoma, and is likely
of adoption in neighboring Western
States. The plan requires all Okla
homa State banks to pay into a fund
in the custody of a State banking COM
mission l per cen of their deposits
averaged apparently for the first year
under the law. and when a bank fails
the State commission will pay de-
p~ositors from this fund and TAXI
charge of the banks assets. If they
are not sufficient to replenish the fund
the other banks will be assessed.
The action taken in Oklahoma has
caused an agitation in Kansas for the
adoption of the plan. Many people in
Oklahoma, distrusting the territorial
banks, have beer carrying deposits in
the banks of Wichita and other Kansas
IOWnS. lney are now Wltllui dWih6
these deposits, and Kansas bankers are
accordingly demanding a special legis-
lative session to enact a similar law
for that State. This in turn disturbs
the Kansas City (Mo.) bankers, who
fear that their deposit accounts will
suffer from Withdrawals in favor of
Kansas banks just over the State line.
Missouri is, therefore, likely to be
forced to adopt the plan, too, and, in
fact, it may capture State after State
in the same way.
The plan relates, of course, only to
banks chartered by the State, and not
to the national banks. But with the
lack of a government guarantee fund
for national bank deposits, the plan, If
adopted in a State like New Jersey,
would be greatly to the advantage of
the State banks and trust companies,
and might restore the prestige of the
State bank system, which a been so
largely supplanted by the national
bank system.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-06
CHARITY ORGANIZATIONS.

When listening to the repetition of
the old stock arguments that charity
organization societies spend more on
administration han on charity itself,
sight is lost of the fact tbs charity is
not comprised in the giving of aims
and that this is not the main object of
charity organizations, but only the
minor function. Charity attacks poverty
al the root by helping the poor to be self
supporting and effecting the improve
ment of conditions that cause poverty.
Where immediate material relief is
needed it is provided, but the purpose of
the charity organization movement is to
search out the worthy poor and to sub
stitute for mere alms-giving the help
that puts them in the way of helping
themselves. That such service is costly
It is true, but that it is of infinitely more
lasting benefit to those for whom it is
performed than indiscriminate giving,
needs no argument. The latter sort Of
giving is not only merely temporary.
but tends to pauperize rather than 10
raise the unfortunate from a condition
Of poverty.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-06
R SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT.

New Jerseys lone State Normal
School shows satisfactory results as far
as they can go. There were 242 new
students entered last year. 1t is re-
marked that of these 100 were grad
yates of the high schools, while fifty
n were within one year of high school
graduation. Principal Green say in his
annual report just issued:
THE phenomenal growth and de-
velopment of the high schools in the
State has reflected it's influence on the
Normal School, both in the increase in
the number of Students that has come
to us, and in the general improvement
in their qualifications. There is a con-
stantly increasing spirit of cooperation
with us on the part of the high schools"
A system of student teaching, estab-
lished By a legislative appropriation
this year, is now in vogue. Student
teaching centres have been established
in a number of places in the State, and
members of the graduating class arr
assigned to these centres to undergo
practical tuition by well-trained local
teachers. Besides the experience thus
given to the students OF teaching, the
Normal School is thus brought into
closer relations with the municipal
school establishments.
After the new State Normal School
at Upper Montclair shall have been
opened, Normal School training will
enter upon a larger development, and
there will be a more intimate relation
ship between the Normal School and
the school district, the one cooperating
with the. other. Our public school sys-
tenn in New Jersey is really a unit.
The State assesses the tax for its sup
port and makes the laws for its gov
eminent. The district is only a cog
in the State educational wheel. The
general idea of the school is that of a
municipal institution only. The State
Normal School is at present the apex
of the State school system, but it will
not be long before there will be estab-
lished a free State college.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-06
Books.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
VIII YOU kindly give me some appro-
priate quotations from famous authors
about books and their value? READER.
Here is one from Wordsworth:
And books. we know,
Are a substantial world, both pure n
good.
Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh
and blood.
Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
Milton said: "a good book is the precious
life-blood of a master-spirlt, embalmed and
treasured up on purpose to a life beyond
a life"
According to Douglas Jerrold, "a blessed
companion is a book-a book that htly
chosen is a lifelong friend"
This is from Hamilton w. Mabie: ITO
give a book is to enrich the receiver per-
manently: to put into his or her possession
something which leaves a residuum of
pleasure long after the particular day on
which it was received has been forgotten.
William Makepeace Thackeray expressed
his feelings towards novels thus: Novels
are sweets. All people with healthy liter
airy appetites love them-almost all wom-
en-: a vast number of clear, h~ard-headed
men, Judges, bishops, chancellors, mathe-
matieians. are notorious novel-readers, as
well as young boys and sweet girls, and
their kind. tender mothers"
Henry Ward Beecher spoke of the value
of building up a library of ones own: "A
little library. growing larger every year.
is an honorable part of a mans history.
1t is a mans duty to ave books. A library
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-06
IN VEIN.
A SPORTS Discovery.


You talk about excitement and the luxc-
ries of life,
I guess I've tried most everything from
pistol, gloves and knife
To champagne, on the half shell and ter
rapin on toast;
And I've struck the combination that's
dead sure and pays the most.
So run along and roll your hoops and sell
your papers, boys,
try and think you're happy cause
you're out to make a noise.
I'd like to stop and tell o only time
and space forblds,
The fun I've had jes' stayin' home aud
playing with the kids.
The boys and me was playing horse. We
turned our happy home
In less than thirty seconds to a bowling
hippodrome!
For real entertainment the laughs they
hand you out
Beat any burlesque show that's had the
nerve to book a route.
And there's something serious in it wher
you get to thinking, too,
How you was once like them and they
may grow up tough, like you.
You watch the laughter In their eyes tn
sleep weighs Town their lids,
And thank the good Lord for the chanc
of playing with the kids.
Washington Star.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-06
TEN YEARS IN WOODS
MAKES MAN LIKE APE

BRUSSELS, Jan. GA remarkable
mystery, which has filled a large num-
Der of Belgians with stupefaction, and
even with awe, has been discovered in
the forest of Soignies, near Brussels. A
few mornings ago the forest guards
were not a little taken aback when
they met in the midst of the woods an
unknown being. looking and behaving
as much like a monkey as like a man.
The police opened al inquiry and a trap
was set. The policemen hid them
selves behind trees to catch the mon
ster, but the latter made his escape by
climbing up the trees and running
through the thicket.
Last week the mystery was solved,
when the strange being was found in
a starving condition at the foot of a
tree. 1t is reallyaa man, but his aspect
is most terrifying. His hair, and his
beard are those of a savage, he cannot
answer questions put to him except by
terrible shrieks, his eyes are those of a
mailman, he is frightfully thin and
dirty, and he wear nothing but a piece
of cloth tied around his chest.
As he was lying under a tree several
doctors were called to examine him, and
the first idea was that the man was a
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-06

lunatic. After further examination he
was found to be wearing round his neck
a chain with a silver medal attached
to it bearing the word "Mygraen." My
graen is the name Of a Norwegian
barque which ran aground on the
French coast more than ten years ago,
and at the time no survivors of the
catastrophe could be traced. 1t was
surmised that the man, who is referred
to in Brussels as "Phomme salvage,
might be one of the survivors OF the
wreck.
A Norwegian philanthropist, Baron
Gryndsael, has taken the necessary
steps to have the man sen back to
Norway. He was sent to Antwerp, and
was Immediately placed on board the
steamer Gumar. On board the ship an
extraordinary scene occurred. The
ships captain tried to chat with the
man and addressed him in Norwegian.
On hearing at last his mother-tongue
the man burst into tears and began to
talk with much lucidity. From what he
said it appears that he really is a mem
Der of the Mygraen's crew, and that he
has peer living ever since the ship
wreck in the French and Belgian for
ests like a wild man.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-06

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 6-Gradually
Uncle Sam is beginning to put the
stamp of his approval upon social GUS
toms which some hold to be pernicious.
1t was not long s that he recognized
tipping by allowing officials to include
largesse for walters and Pullman por-
tiers in their travelling expenses. Now
he recognizes the fact that women
smoke, and accordingly has removed a
burdensome duty hat has hitherto been
imposed upon members of the fair sex
who have brought favorite brands of
cigarettes from abroad.
Heretofore the regulations regarding
bringing in of tobacco by citizens has
eliminated by providing that the
citizen must swear that the tobacco was
for his own personal consumption.
Obviously. that personal pronoun could
not be used by women in this onnec
ton. But the new regulations contain
in effect a ''her." as they provide that
any citizen of the United States may
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-06
The Oboe.

To the Editor Of the Evening Star:
What is the particular office OF the
oboe in an orchestra? b. H. X.
1.-THE obee is a treble reed musical In
strument, to which the bassoon may be
said to be the bass. Its reed is double,
like that of the bassoon and the character
of the bagpipe, and consists OF TWO thln
blades of cane attached by silk thread to
a short metal tube. A similar instrument
may be traced from the earliest times OF
Egyptian and Greek sculpture and paint
ings. The modern instrument, however
from successive improvements and addi-
lions, bears little resemblance to Its an
cient prototype, and Is one of the most
complicated and intricate of wind instru-
ments. 1t is made variously of lockwood,
ebony, cocoawood and silver, having
holes for the fingers and usually fifteen
keys, beside two automatic octave Keys
to assist the higher notes. 1t is an octave
instrument like the flute, and its usual
compass is from B below the stave to f
in alto, although several semitones higher
can be produced. For orchestral purposes
it is pitched in the key of c, but in
military bands a B-lat instrument is
sometimes used, and its music is written
in the G clef. The tone of the oboe, is
rich, and, from its great power in swell
ing and diminishing the sound, 1t Is capa-
BILE Of every variety of expression. The
oboe has the privilege of giving the pitch
to the violin in the orchestra. Beethoven,
Mozart, Bach and nearly all the composers
make extensive use of the oboe in theiI
compositions.-Ed.1A
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-06
UNCLE SAM RECOGNIZES
SMOKING AS WOMAN'S FAD

bring in duty free 1000 cigars or ciga-
rettes upon swearing that they are for
personal consumption.
A copy of the new regulations was
received at the Custom House Satur-
day, and a great burden has been lifted
from the shoulders of the inspectors.
Often they have been forced to witness
fearful scenes when ONE have been
detected in tn act of trying to smuggle
in a few boxes of fancy imported cigar
cites, and have been forced to pay
duty on them.
There is to be no more of t~hat-unIess
the lady does not wish to swear hat
she intends to smoke them. But the in-
spectors feel that there will be little
trouble on that score. The admission is
preferable to the heavy duty. Besides.
government inspectors are gallant me-
and may be depended upon to guard
carefully the secret of the lady who IS
addicted to the soothing influence OF
nicotine.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-06

There was a sound of prosperity in
the report commented on the other day
that eighteen New Bedford cotton
mills paid, in the yea just closing,
dividends of more than 13 per cent.
But some paid "a great deal more.
Two paid 66 per cent, one paid 40.
one 381a and n 32. The average for
thirteen mills was 1875, in every indi-
vidual case the gain over the previous
year being large and the average near
ly double. With such gains there
doesn't seem to be much the matter
with the cotton mills in New England.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-06
THE TROLLEY REAR PLATFORM.

Smokers have their rights, although
there are some people who will deny
hat assertion. but one of the rights
of a smoker is not that of o~bstructing
the rear platform of a trolley car and
imperiling life and limb for others in
getting on and off cars. In the busy
hours of street travel it is essential
that the entrance to the car at the
real platform should be kept open and
unobstructed Conductors are fully &C.
cupied in collecting fares and in stop
ping and starting the car, and it is
not always possible for them to police
the rear platform to keep the entrance
clear.
There are men who board a car and
stand obstinately in the entrance way,
even when requested by the conductor
to enter the car or step aside. AS a
rule, 1t is the smoker who haunts the
rear platform and creates the nuisance.
The Public Service Corporation cannot
always enforce it's rules against pas
sengers, but the police can enforce the
city ordinances, whether on the streets
or on the trolley cars, and as the
nuisance complained of concerns the
public convenience and the public
safety, the police cannot be better en-
ployed than in keeping an eye or the
trolley rear platforms to see that they
are not INSTRUCTED for passengers.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-06
Gratitude.

Smith. the railroad agent at a suburban
station in a Western city, saved the life
Of a dignifed gentleman waiting for a
train, by pulling him from in front of a
through train on another track. The
dignihed gentleman lost all his dignity for
the moment and was much confused, but
not SO much so as to forget that m
thing was due to the agent. Following a
grateful impulse, he thrust his hand into
his pocket, and, drawing 1t forth, ex-
claimed:
Man, you've saved my life; here's half
a dollar.
ooh. 1 never take payment for a thing
like that were Smith. as he turned
60 attend 10 the duties of the moment.
But, man, you must; you saved my life.
Have a cigar, anyway. "-Harper's Weekly.